Symposium Schedule

Schedule subject to change. All sessions and meals will be located on the lower level of the DoubleTree in the Serling Room.

Location: DoubleTree - 225 Water Street - Binghamton, NY 13901

 

Thursday, Sept. 8

• 5-5:45 pm: Introduction to Symposium Opening Remarks, schedule overview

  • Geoffrey Platt | 7thSense Sr. Product Manager – Innovative technology solutions

• 6-8 pm: 205 Dry | 205 State St. Binghamton

• 8-10 pm: Tech/Pub crawl around installations (drinks not included)

Friday, Sept. 9

• 7:30 am: Breakfast (provided)

• 9 - 9:45 am: Keynote Address

  • John Colette | Digital Artist and Curator & Professor of Motion Media Professor at SCAD

• 9:50 - 10:50 am: Concepts and techniques 

  • Zachary Borovary | Director of Media Design, Visual Terrain

• 10:50 - 11:05 am: Break

• 11:10 am - 12:10 pm:  Adapting and change in creative direction

  • Kerstin Hovland | Co-Founder / Partner at Electronic Countermeasures, LLC

• 12:10 - 1:15 pm: Lunch (provided)

• 1:15 - 2:15 pm: Darts at the dart board – an abstract adventure through producing event

  • AJ Freysteinson | CEO – Creative Director, Rabcup  www.Rabcup.com

• 2:30 - 3 pm: Coffee/beverage break

• 4 - 5 pm: Designing for Live Events 

  •  Marc Cloutier | ETP Brainhub Design Services Manager

• 5 - 6:45 pm: Cocktail reception – Sun Briar Court & Garden Terrace (weather permitting)

• 7 pm: Dinner on own

• 8:30 pm: Enjoy the LUMA Festival

Saturday, Sept. 10

• 7:30 am: Breakfast (provided)

• 9 - 10 am: You Can’t Learn it all, so what should you learn?

  • Michael Bateman | Pixera 

• 10:05 - 10:50 am: The LUME: A Behind the Scenes Look at an Immersive Art Experience

  • Jim Testa | Owner of Show Sage  

• 11:15 am - 12:05 pm: Evolving with the Canvas

  • Dan Ribaudo | System Designer at Quince Imaging

• 12:10 - 1:10 pm: Lunch (provided)

• 1:15 - 2:05 pm: The nuts and bolts of media server and projection engineering

  • Cory Froke | Senior Director of A/V Integration at 4Wall

• 2:10 - 3 pm:

  • Eric Ludacer | Ventuz

• 3 - 3:30 pm: Coffee/beverage break

• 3:35 - 4:30 pm: Pulling it together – the bridge between creative and technology

  • Geoffrey Platt - 7thSense Sr. Product Manager – Innovative technology solutions

• 4:30 - 5:45 pm: #2 A LUMA participants’ panel - Conversation between the festivals’ global roster of talent and attendees.

• 5:45 pm: Closing Remarks

  • John Colette

• 6 pm: Dinner on own

• 8:30 pm: LUMA Festival

 

What’s Included?

All the above events, sessions, access to speakers, as well as breakfast and lunch each day at the following price point:

USITT Member - $550

USITT Student Member - $400

Non-member - $650

*Registration is capped at 50 and is set to close on September 4th*

 

Hotel Accommodations

The USITT room block for our event has expired. Since not all rooms were booked when we reached our housing deadline, you may still be able to find a room at the :

Holiday Inn – Binghamton
2-8 Gawley rd.

We do not know how long rooms will be available at the Holiday Inn. This hotel is popular with LUMA Festival attendees, we suggest you make your housing arrangements as soon as possible.

For alternate suggestions to the above, please see which hotels the producers of the festival recommend. https://lumafestival.com/hotels/

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