We are one week out from SIGGRAPH 2026! Are you joining us? Here is the physical AI programming you won’t want to miss:
📅 Monday, July 20
☕ USD Certification Coffee Meetup
Have questions about USD or the USD certification exam? Meet with USD certification experts, get your questions answered, and receive a free certification exam voucher!
📩 RSVP: here
🕗 Time:** 8:00 a.m. PT**
📍 Location:** Cafe Fig | 939 S Figueroa St, Unit 300, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Join NVIDIA AI research and engineering leaders Neil Ashton, Edward Liu, and Ming-Yu Liu to experience the latest advances shaping computer graphics and simulation.
🕗 Time:** 3:45–4:45 p.m. PT
Join the NVIDIA Developer Meetup at SIGGRAPH for a happy hour with the SIGGRAPH community, shaping how AI, simulation, and graphics move from research into real-world production. Meet NVIDIA experts, connect with peers, share what you’re building, and find practical ideas you can take back to your own workflows.
Light snacks and refreshments will be provided, as well as a chance to win prizes including an NVIDIA DGX Spark™
📩RSVP: here
🕗 Time:** 5:30–7:30 p.m
📍 Location:** La Lo La Rooftop
📅 Tuesday, July 21 — Physical AI Day
- 9:00 AM - World Models: The Frontier of Physical AI, Unlocked By Graphics
- 10:00 AM - OpenUSD for AI Agents, Model-Driven Workflows, and 3D Graphics Pipelines
- 10:30 AM - Building SimReady 3D Worlds for Physical AI
- 11:30 AM - How to Develop a Real-Time 3D Digital Twin for Rapid Engineering Design
- 1:00 PM - Career Growth in Physical AI: Bringing 3D Graphics Skills into Robotics and Digital Twins
- 2:00 PM - Building Physics-Aware, RTX-Enabled Apps with NVIDIA Omniverse Libraries and AI Agents
- 3:00 PM - Autonomous Vehicle Simulation Technologies with NuRec, OmniDreams, 3D Gaussian
- 4:00 PM - Introduction to Newton: Open-Source GPU Physics for Robotics
📅 Wednesday, July 22 — NVIDIA Physical AI Agent Bootcamp
Discover four hands-on labs that cover OpenUSD rendering, physics simulation, Blender with NVIDIA RTX, and robot pick-and-place in Isaac Sim. Come for one session or stay for the day.
- 9:00 AM - Orchestrate with an AI agent to build a browser-streamed RTX viewer for OpenUSD scenes
- 10:30 AM - Make assets simulation-ready and bring physics to life
- 1:45 PM - Extend Blender with modular Omniverse libraries such as ovrtx and ovphysx
- 3:30 PM - Dive into Isaac Sim and use skills to help a robot to pick things up
Still not registered? Use NVIDIA’s complimentary Discover Guest Pass code: NVID9755
This pass allows access to keynote and NVIDIA business suites (sessions and labs) + Computer Animation