In this conference, Juan Cañada, Engeneering Director at Epic Games will immerse us in the fascinating world of real-time virtual environments, exploring the latest advances and future developments in this cutting-edge technology. Through a creativity-focused approach, he has managed to overcome complex challenges to deliver systems that allow artists and developers to express their full potential.
With today's challenges in mind, Juan will reflect on the challenges that the future holds, from integrating emerging technologies to pushing the boundaries of what is possible in real-time virtual environments. This talk promises to be an eye-opening tour of the present and future of one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of the digital realm.
Juan Cañada is the Director of Graphics Engineering at Epic Games, where he leads the graphics development in the Unreal Engine engineering team.
Juan has been passionately working on computer graphics for more than 20 years where he filled different roles, from programmer to lead engineer or executive. After leading the Maxwell Render team at Next Limit Technologies for more than a decade he moved to the US to join Epic Games and lead the graphics efforts for UE.
His team is working on next generation graphics technology such as Nanite, Lumen, TSR or Real Time Ray Tracing.
