Schedule

Lucasfilm, San Francisco, CA, USA
13-15 May 2026

The conference will run from Wednesday 13th of May to Friday 15th of May 2026, in San Francisco, CA, USA.

All times are United States Pacific Daylight Savings Time (PDT, or UTC-7).

Wednesday, 13 May 2026

8:30 to 19:00 PDT

8:30 Breakfast + Signup
9:30 Welcome 
9:45 Papers 1: VR in Hard Places 
11:10 break
11:25 Posters Fast Forward 
11:50 Keynote: Blake Taylor 
12:50 Lunch + Posters 1
14:10 Papers 2: Making Characters Behave 
17:00 Reception

Thursday, 14 May 2026

8:00 to 21:00 PDT

8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Intro 
9:10 Papers 3: Model Glow-Ups 
10:50 break
11:00 Keynote: Dor Verbin 
12:00 Lunch + Posters 2
13:30 Papers 4: Shapes on Track 
14:50 break
15:00 Keynote: Kayvon Fatahalian (Stanford / Roblox) 
18:00 Banquet

Friday, 15 May 2026

8:00 to 16:45 PDT

8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Invited Talk: Game Artists and Game Companies: A New Model for Creative Collaboration with AI 
10:00 Papers 5: STIRRing Up the Splatmosphere 
11:20 break
11:30 Session 6: My Game is All-A-Stutter 
12:50 Lunch
13:45 Keynote: Naty Hoffman 
14:45 Forum 
15:45 break
15:55 Closing & Awards 
16:15 Town Hall 

Send questions to general@i3dsymposium.org for general inquiries, registration, and sponsorship.

Direct queries about paper submissions to papers@i3dsymposium.org and poster submissions to posters@i3dsymposium.org.