Call For Proposals Open For 2018 HPA Tech Retreat

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) has opened the call for proposals for the 2018 HPA Tech Retreat^®. Key portions of the HPA Tech Retreat programming are determined by the proposals submitted during this process. 

Now in its 23^rd year, the event in Palm Springs attracts a wide array of distinguished attendees and speakers and engages leaders from every facet of the content ecosystem. The HPA Tech Retreat will take place February 19-23 2018 at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa in Palm Desert, CA (Palm Springs area), a new venue for the event this year. 

Call for Proposals: Main Program

The main program presentations, strictly reserved for marketing-free content, take place Wednesday February 21 through Friday February 23. According to event programmer Mark Schubin, “For the main program, ANYTHING related to moving images and associated sounds [is fair game], including (but not limited to) alternative content for cinema, bit-rate reduction, contrast-sensitivity, digital rights management, energy use for HDR TV sets, forensic analysis, gigapixel imaging, higher frame rates, immersive sound, just-valuable-differences, kleptomania in distribution, long GOPs in an era of rapid changes, multi-language subtitling, near-field communications, open-source processing, psychophysics, quantum entanglement for zero latency, reclining seats in cinemas, soundfields, terabit transmission, ultra-high-whatever, virtual reality, wider color gamut, x-rays in 8K, young interpupilary distances, and zoom lenses for 32K imaging. So are haptic, olfactory, and gustatory applications.” 

Proposals for main program presentations may be a few sentences in length, and submitters will be contacted if the topic is of  interest.  Presentations in the main program are typically of half-hour duration, including set-up and Q&A.   The deadline to submit main program proposals is the end of the day on Friday, October 27 2017. 

Call for Proposals: Breakfast Roundtables

Breakfast roundtables begin at 7:30 AM Wednesday to Friday. Schubin notes, “The breakfast roundtables can include marketing information, and table moderators are free to teach, preach, inquire, ask, call-to-task, sell, or do anything else that keeps conversation flowing for an hour.” 

There is no vetting process for breakfast roundtables. No retreat registration discount is conveyed by moderating a breakfast roundtable, and all breakfast roundtable moderators must be registered for the retreat. Proposals for breakfast roundtables may only be submitted by their proposed moderators and once the maximum number of tables is reached (32 per day), no more can be accepted. 

Further details for the 2018 HPA Tech Retreat will be announced in the coming weeks, including supersession topics, TR-X focus, and Innovation Zone details, as well as seminars and meetings held in advance of the Tech Retreat.

For more information about the 2018 HPA Tech Retreat, visit http://www.hpaonline.com