Agenda

NOTE: participants are welcomed to start working on their film before the hackathon!

Remote deadline: 2pm Feb 18, 2024
In person deadline: 5:30pm Feb 18, 2024

In person participants can come to the Media Lab: located at 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Enter via the entrance at the corner of Ames and Amherst Streets. Our volunteers will guide you at the entrance.

Remote participants can join our tutorial/workshop at https://mit.zoom.us/j/95715680116

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Detailed agenda

Feb 17, 2024

1:00-2:00pm

Blender Tutorial

Yetong Xin will give a tutorial on 3D software Blender.

2:00-3:00 pm

Unreal Engine Tutorial

Candice Wu will give a tutorial on 3D software Unreal Engine.

3:30-4:15pm

Playbook Workshop

Our sponsor Playbook will provide a tutorial of their film creation tools.

4:15-5:00pm

Meshy Workshop

Our sponsor Meshy will provide a tutorial of their 3D asset generation products.

5:00-5:45 pm

Pika Workshop

Our sponsor Pika Labs will provide a tutorial of their video generation products.

5:45-6:15 pm

AI Content Creators Panel

Participants will hear from multiple influencers who are committed to science and AI outreach, story-telling, filmmaking, and content generation.

  • Dave Clark

6:30-7:00 pm

Panel Discussion with 2023 Participants, Q&A Session

Participants will hear stories and tips from participants and winners of the hackathon in 2023. Featured Projects:

  • DOG: Dream of Galaxy (Jiajian Min, Xin Nix Liu, Borou Yu, Liu Yang)
  • MINDVAULT (Paris G. Myers)

7:00-8:30 pm

Dinner + Social

This is a chance for you to meet your fellow participants and form teams if you haven’t! We will provide delicious food in the meantime.

8:30 pm

TEAM FORMATION DEADLINE

Each team submit this form to qualify entering the hackathon (even if you team only have one person).

All the panels and the screening section are open to everyone on campus.

Feb 18, 2024

8:30-9:00AM

Check in

Pick up your badge on the 6th floor of Media Lab.
Your team will be seated together.

9:00 - 9:30 AM

Breakfast + Opening Remarks

  • Pat Pataranutaporn @ MIT Media Lab
  • Qian Liu @ Beijing Film Academy

12:45 - 1:30 AM

XR Film Panel

  • Maya Georgieva
  • Rashin Fahandej
  • Nix Xin Liu

2:00 PM

[VIRTUAL PARTICIPANTS ONLY]
Submission Deadline

1:30 - 2:15 pm

Legal Panel

  • Anna Gibson
  • Ari Lipsitz
  • Tom Zick

2:30 - 3:15 PM

Academia Panel

  • Lu Jiang: author of VideoPoet @CMU & Google
  • Rohit Girdhar: author of Emu Video @Meta
  • Vincent Sitzmann: Assistant Professor @MIT
  • James Tompkin: Assistant Professor @Brown
  • Kshitiz Garg: Senior Manager @ Adobe

3:15 - 4:00 PM

Industry Panel

  • Ed Tlegenov: Sr. Research Manager @Autodesk
  • Zoya Bylinskii: ML manager @Adobe
  • Sylvio Drouin: SVP @Unity
  • Hossein Taghavi: Sr. Research/Eng Manager @Netflix
  • Deepti Ghadiyaram: Research @Runway

4:15 - 5:00 PM

Start-Ups Panel

  • Yuanming Hu: founder and CEO @Meshy
  • Matt Tancik @Luma AI
  • Zengyi Qin: co-founder @MyShell
  • Jessie Ma: artist relationship @Pika
  • Simon Song: Founder & CEO @ Tripo AI

5:30 pm

[IN-PERSON PARTICIPANTS]
Submission Deadline

5:00 - 5:45 PM

Film Directors Panel

  • Ben Relles
  • Dan Sickles
  • Souki Mansoor

5:45- 6:00 PM

Group Photo

All of the in person participants will take a group picture in front of the signature wall.

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Project Screening + Judging + Dinner

7:30-8:30pm

Awarding Ceremony

Only in person participants will be given paper certificate.

All winners will be given credits from our sponsors.