OpenCV will be at CES 2020 to connect with the community and announce new upcoming technologies.

Additionally, OpenCV will be hosting a private party at a mansion in Las Vegas on the 7th of January, the first night of CES. This is a must-attend private event for both individuals and companies to connect with computer vision industry professionals and community members.

Agenda

• Private Mansion Party (sponsored by Monster)
  • Dinner & Networking
  • Meet-and-greet with computer vision researchers, students, and OpenCV enthusiasts
  • Live musical performance
• Opportunities for individuals and companies to demo their products to attendees, including investors and customers in the computer vision domain
• OpenCV Hardware Partnership Program official announcement
  • OpenCV Hardware Program introduction & annual roadmap preview (in English and Chinese)
    • OpenCV Hardware Store & OpenCV Smart Vision Flagship Hardware Project
    • OpenCV AI Marketplace
  • Announcement and showcase of OpenVisionCapsules —a new, standardized means for encapsulating and distributing machine learning models and other computer vision algorithms
  • Special Q&A session with OpenCV executive and staff members
• Keynote: Gary Bradski—OpenCV: Past, Present, and Future

OpenCV Connect Game @ CES

In order to be invited to attend this private party, individuals and businesses may take part in OpenCV Connect Game @ CES, a game focused on encouraging members of the OpenCV community to connect with each other. Players will be provided OpenCV Connect stickers to attach to their business cards, which they will trade with other players and exhibitors. Collect enough business cards and win an invite to the party.

Tickets

Note: OpenCV Connect is an event independent to the CES conference. CES Tickets are not included with the OpenCV Connect Tickets.

OpenCV will be selling four different categories of tickets to the game—two for individual developers (aimed at those on the floor at CES without a booth) and two for exhibitors (aimed at those with a booth). Click here to purchase the OpenCV Connect@CES tickets.

• Developer – $30 per person
  • Gain access to the game
  • 100 stickers to apply to business cards for trading
• Member – $100 per person
  • All benefits from the previous tier
  • 1 OpenCV Individual Membership for 1 year
• Exhibitor – $300 per person
  • All benefits from previous tiers
  • Poster + stickers to hand out for the game — players (i.e. OpenCV enthusiasts) come to your booth to exchange their business cards
• Ambassador – $800 per person
  • All benefits from previous tiers
  • Immediate access to the private party
  • $800 discount for OpenCV Hardware Partnership Membership (redeemable within 4 weeks)
• Media Pass – $0
  • Free entry to the private party
  • Your application will be reviewed and, when indicated, approved within 48 hours. The host reserves the right to deny anyone credentials for any reason.

Developer and Exhibitor Ticket Tiers

Developers will be provided with a set of stickers to attach to their business cards for trading with exhibitors. Exhibitors will also be provided with stickers to disperse to individuals that come to their booth, as well as a poster to display advertising that they are taking part in the game. Booths will need to secure the proper amount of business cards for each member they want to send to the party. Because it will bring extra foot-traffic from OpenCV enthusiasts, booths will want to participate in the game—even if they do not plan on attending the party.

Member Ticket Tier

There are two more tiers. The first is the Member tier, an extension of the individual tier where we bundle an OpenCV Individual Membership with the Developer ticket. It will be the same price as the Individual Membership will normally be priced outside of the event. This is an incentive to purchase a membership while also participating in the game free of charge.

Ambassador Ticket Tier

The final tier is the Ambassador tier, where each ticket guarantees access to the private party, as well as a discount (valued at the price of a single Exhibitor ticket) off the normal price of an OpenCV Group, Core, or Board Membership.

Ambassadors also have another role to serve in the game. OpenCV does not have a booth at CES this year and thus has no convenient way of distributing supplies to participants. Ambassadors’ booths will serve as a hub for posters and stickers to the other participants of the game during Booth Setup on January 6th.

Winners

Participants who collect more than 10 business cards applied with OpenCV Connect stickers are the winners. Winners who submit the results to info@OpenCV.org before the party will be eligible to enter the party until the seats run out.

Guests at the party will be able to demo their smart vision products at the party to other OpenCV enthusiasts and OpenCV members, as well as investors in the Computer Vision domain. There will also be potential product customers from both the US and China at the party.

Winners and Ambassadors will also be entered into private OpenCV Connect social networks.

Finally, after the party, an OpenCV HW Board Member will be available to schedule a private meeting to discuss the new OpenVisionCapsules format. This will also be a great opportunity to ask questions and talk about potential integrations with OpenCV for your product.

Attendees

Gary Bradski

Gary Bradski, PhD is a leading entrepreneur and researcher in computer vision and machine learning. He founded and is CEO of the most popular computer vision library in the world: OpenCV https://opencv.org/.  He organized the computer vision team for Stanley, the autonomous car that won the $2M DARPA Grand Challenge (now in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum) which in turn kicked off the autonomous driving industry. Gary served as a visiting Professor at Stanford University Computer Science department for seven years. He helped develop one of the first Video Search startups, VideoSurf, that sold to Microsoft in 2011. He founded Industrial Perception Inc. which sold to Google in 2013 and he created the Silicon Valley office of Magic Leap. He co-founded Arraiy which sold to Matterport in 2019. He serves on the boards and advisory boards of over a dozen startups.

Stephen Li

Stephen is a Co-Founder and CEO at Dilili Labs, Inc. He serves as the Chairman of the OpenCV Hardware Partnership committee. Stephen worked at Qualcomm as an engineering lead, from the world’s first Android device, and the world’s first Firefox device until there were billions of smartphones globally powered by Snapdragon chipsets. He worked as the Software Department Head at Magic Leap during the company’s Series B and Series C Funding of over $1.4B. Stephen served as the board of director or advisor for a few startups. He participated in industry-standard work, e.g. Mobile OS, W3C Geolocation working group, OpenCV Interoperable Hardware, etc.