Entertainment Technology Summit and Exhibition (ET Summit)

Dates: September 25 – September 26, 2017
Location: Concordia University, Montreal

The Entertainment Technology Summit is a crucial media for constructing a platform of mutual academic learning and communication about entertainment technology and everything that surrounds it. ET specialists and peers will discuss multimedia technology, HCI, AR/VR, post-production tools and techniques, and speculate on the future cinema and its convergence with CG, AI, serious games, and other domains. At the same time, we present both historical accounts of ET as well a state of the art.

In 2017 we introduce formal proceedings to be published for both industrial and academic works in the form of full articles, demos, exhibition items, installations, VR/AR screenings, storage, API, graphics technology and related. See the detailed CFP below.


PAPERS, DEMOS, EXHIBITIONS, NEW MEDIA SCREENINGS

Call for Submissions: Entertainment Technology Summit and Exhibition 2017 at CCIFF
ET Summit and Exhibition 2017 + Women’s Voice in Film, TV, and Technology

Following the success of talks of the fist ET Summit and Exhibition in 2016, we are organizing the 2nd edition of 2017, also affiliated with the Canada China International Film Festival (CCIFF) — a cinematographic art- and technology-driven international festival. To see the previous speakers and exhibitors:

- http://cciff.ca/en/festival/ets/
- http://cciff.ca/en/festival/film-technology-exhibition/
- http://cciff.ca/en/festival/womens-voice/

This year we adjust the format to include formal proceedings, pending approval, to publish with the ACM.

We call for the following contribution types from Academia and Industry:

- full papers (minimum 5 to maximum 10 pages in the ACM format) from both, industry and academia
- talks, posters, demos, exhibitions, installation, VR/AR screenings (2 pages in the ACM format)

Full papers, talks, and posters are encouraged to submit a corresponding demo/exhibition item(s).

Full papers should not have been published before or being concurrently under review at another peer-reviewed conference or journal. There will be a peer review for full papers by the technical program committee. Talks, posters, demos and exhibition items will be juried.

Topics

Topics cover entertainment technology and aspects related to it, including but not limited to:

Topics cover entertainment technology and aspects related to it, including but not limited to:

- CG, HCI, film, production, AR/VR/MR, projection (small and large scale), interactive storytelling, serious games, computation art, elastic and cloud storage, streaming, broadcasting, and related libraries and middleware technologies.
- Entertainment computing, software engineering processes and methodologies, distributed systems and web services, APIs, big data, and AI techniques that support ET.
- Wearable ET, drone-based technology, 3D printing, gadgets.
- Cyber- and physical security, privacy, ethics, and trust issues of ET.
- Business processes, co-production issues, and industrial challenges in ET.
- We also look for interactive works, AR/VR films, installations, and technology demonstration.

Keynote Speakers

- Dr. Brian A. Barsky, Berkeley University
- Jean-François Larouche, Moment Factory
- Dr. Ching Y. Suen, CENPARMI, Concordia University, tentatively, topic: “Computerized Beauty Contest“

Committees

Technical Program Committee

Dr. Abdessamad Ben Hamza, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Nizar Bouguila, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Thomas Fevens, 3D Graphics Group, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Peter Grogono, Concordia University, Montreal
Genevieve Lord, Champlain College of Vermont, Montreal Campus
Dr. Martha Kersten-Oertel, 3D Graphics Group, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Serguei A. Mokhov, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Sudhir P. Mudur, 3D Graphics Group, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Joey Paquet, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Charalambos [Charis] Poullis, Immersive and Creative Technologies Lab, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Tiberiu Popa, 3D Graphics Group, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Yingying She, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Dr. Miao Song, mDreams Stage, 3D Graphics Group, Concordia University, CCIFF, Montreal
Prof. Leila Sujir, Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal
… (the is list being updated)Jury

Jury

Dr. Peter Grogono, Concordia University, Montreal
Genevieve Lord, Champlain College of Vermont, Montreal Campus
Dr. Serguei A. Mokhov, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Sudhir P. Mudur, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Charalambos [Charis] Poullis, Immersive and Creative Technologies Lab, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Tiberiu Popa, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Miao Song, Concordia University, Montreal
Prof. Leila Sujir, Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Yingying She, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Chairs

Dr. Serguei Mokhov, Concordia University, Montreal (general chair)
Dr. Miao Song, Concordia University, Montreal
Dr. Sudhir P. Mudur, Concordia University, Montreal

Logistics and Local Arrangements

Dr. Serguei Mokhov, Concordia University, Montreal
Zihao Song, CCIFF
Maggie Jie Zhang, CCIFF, zhangjie AT cciff.net
Amy Jiajun Shao, CCIFF (Industry Tour)
Erica Eunji Song, CCIFF (Women’s Voice), McGill University

Submission

Contact for any inquires or proposals: et AT encs.concordia.ca
Submission URL: https://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/ET
Indicate submission type in the title (for talks, exhibition, women’s voice, etc.)

Important Dates

Submission:
Full Papers: July 26, 2017 (AoE) June 26, 2017 (AoE)
Other Content: August 15, 2016 (AoE) July 15, 2017 (AoE)
Review results: August 26, 2017 (AoE) July 26, 2017 (AoE)
Pre-proceedings version: September 15, 2017 (AoE) August 26, 2017 (AoE)
Summit: September 25-26, 2017
Post-proceedings: November-December 2017, TBD
AoE = Anywhere on Earth

Sponsors and Partners

CCIFF
Computer Science and Software Engineering Department, ENCS, Concordia University
Concordia 3D Graphics Group
ConfSys.org