Pioneers: Featured Speaker

The Siggraph Pioneers are a community group of ACM/SIGGRAPH who have been involved professionally as developers, artists, educators or entrepreneurs for at least 20 years in the fields of Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. They have gotten together for a reception each year at the conference to socialize and hear career retrospectives from legendary industry leaders. There have been a pantheon of distinguished Pioneers Featured Speakers which includes Ed Catmull, Jim Blinn, Alvy Ray Smith, Ken Perlin, Doug Trumbull, David Em, Mary Whitton, Nick England, Jeff Kleiser, Donna Cox, Jim Foley and Andy van Dam.