Vulkanised! Experience from game devs pioneering with Vulkan

Come hear game developers share their first-hand experience of pioneering development with Vulkan.

In this full-day of technical sessions we aim to provide 3D developers a wealth of best practice (and worst practice!) to help you learn how to get the most out of Vulkan in your engine, application or title.

We're delighted that ARM are hosting us for the day, and also inviting us to join them for a drink after at the Cambridge Beer Festival (https://www.meetup.com/KhronosUK/events/239536784/)!

Vulkan is an open standard graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs (see Khronos.org/Vulkan (https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/))

Prior Knowledge:

The sessions are aimed at 3D graphics developers who have hands-on experience of programming with APIs such as OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Direct3D or Metal.

Agenda:

09:00 – Registration, coffee, demos

10:00 – Welcome and introduction – Tom Olson, ARM

10:15 – Driving Change: Vulkanising Mad Max – Alex Smith & Marc Di Luzio, Feral Interactive

11:00 – Vulkan Multipass case study – Hans-Kristian Arntzen & Marius Bjørge, ARM

11:45 – How to keep your GPU fed without being bitten – Tobias Hector, Imagination Technologies

12:30 – Lunch break

13:30 – Getting Serious with Vulkan – Dean Sekulić, Croteam

14:30 – Bringing Vainglory to Vulkan – Fred Garnier, Samsung Electronics

15:00 – Rendering Galaxy on Fire 3: Manticore with Vulkan on Mobile Devices – Johannes Kuhlmann, Deep Silver FISHLABS

15:45 – Panel discussion: Worst practices! Lessons learnt from game devs pioneering with Vulkan

16:30 – Buses leave to go to the Cambridge Beer Festival (https://www.meetup.com/KhronosUK/events/239536784/) for more discussion, networking, a Vulkan pub quiz (and beer!)

Travel:

Download the ARM Directions Map (http://www.arm.com/files/pdf/ARMmap.pdf) (pdf)

Buses supplied by ARM will be available to take attendees from Cambridge train station to the ARM building. Full details will be sent to all those signed up nearer the time (so please supply an email address!)

NOTE: Meetup RSVP may not guarantee attendance!

Space is limited at the event, so we will be emailing all attendees RSVPed nearer the event to confirm their attendance, and determine bus space and parking availability. Please look out for the confirmation email in mid-May. Be sure to supply your email address to receive this.