The Khronos London Chapter is holding a Christmas Extravaganza with a great line up of speakers and lots of door prizes. Speakers included from Away3D, ARM, KDAB, Unity and Intel. Food and drink will be served. Space is limited to 60 people and the event is already half full. Register today!

Join Khronos Seattle chapter leader Tim Reha on stage along with Joe Ludwig, developer at Valve (Khronos member), Stephanie Hurlburt co-founder of Binomial (Khronos Member), Ryan Wang from Outpost Capital, and Vinay Narayan from HTC Vive (Khronos Member).

The Khronos Milano Chapter is thrilled to renew the collaboration with Autodesk for the upcoming Design Week in Milan, Italy - April 4-9. The Milano Chapter will be presenting a series of talks on the “Future of Making Things.” Showing how companies are adopting 3D open standards as WebGL and glTF to deliver new solutions for the world of interior design, architecture and manufacturing.

Khronos Chapters are very busy this month with a total of six meetups around the world. Meetups are taking place this March in Milano, Oslo, Cluj Romania, London, Prague and Boston. Check out the details of each meetup and join one for an educational and fun look at Khronos Technology. No Chapter near you? Find out how you can start your own Chapter.

Khronos Milano Chapter is thrilled to announce that for the January 25th event, Marco Trivellato, lead engineer at Unity Technologies, and contributor in the WebGL Working Group, will fly from London to present Unity WebGL. Space will be limited for this event so please take a moment to reserve your spot today.

The Khronos London Chapter has launched their official WebGL Workshop website. The site has a great and growing collection of tutorials and examples. If you are interested in learning WebGL and are in the London UK area, be sure to join the Meetup group and check out their website.

The Khronos Brisbane Chapter this time around will have distinguished speaker Dr Josh Bowden from CSIRO, talking about developing OpenCL applications for High Performance Computing, as a package in R, and Daniel Filonik who will talk about his DataChopin novel interface for collaborative visualisation. The meetup gets underway on September 8th in Brisbane. More details online.

The Khronos UK Chapter held their 3rd Vulkan Developer event which took a longer and deeper dive in programming 3D graphics using the Vulkan API. The video and slides from this event are now online.

Join the Khronos UK Chapter tomorrow May 26th for their 3rd Vulkan Developer event which will take a longer and deeper dive in programming 3D graphics using the Vulkan API. ARM is hosting the meet up for the day, and also inviting attendees to join them for a drink after at the Cambridge Beer Festival! In this full-day of technical sessions the meet up aim to provide 3D developers like yourself with everything you need to come up to speed on Vulkan and to forge ahead and explore how to use Vulkan in your engine or application.

Dominic Witczak from AMD is holding a meetup in Poland on May 7th to cover the most common mistakes developers make when using Vulkan. you may read more about this event in Polish on the event page and on Facebook. The event is listed on the Khronos website in english.

There are three upcoming Khronos Chapter meetings. The first Chapter meetup is today, April 20th, in Boston ‘Vulkan Round Table’ at the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) - 14th Floor. New York Chapter is holding an ‘Introduction to WebGL 2’ on April 26th at BioDigital Inc. The third Khronos Chapter meet up is the ‘First Rhein-Ruhr Khronos Meeting’ in Germany on May 7th. Keep track of all upcoming Chapter meet ups.

Are you a product designer working with 3D modeling or printing? Join “Khronos WebGL Milano” & “I Love 3D” at Autodesk on April 15th in Milan at the heart of Zona Tortona to learn more about turning ideas into reality with the new tools now available to designers. Spaces for The Future of Making Things are limited to 30 participants. Please register on the Milano Chapter page. Check out our complete list of upcoming Khronos Chapter meet ups around the world.

The Silicon Valley WebGL Meetup group invites you to the San Jose Convention Center as part of the GTC lineup of over 500 sessions on April 6th 2016. An impressive speaker line-up including Isaac Cohen, Brandon Jones (Google), Tony Parisi (International Man of Mystery) and Jaume Sánchez (theSpite).

The Khronos Group will be hosting a series of sessions again this year at Green Space in San Francisco. Lined up this year on March 16th will be sessions on WebGL, glTF, Chapters and Vulkan. A Khronos Social for developers to meet and chat with the developers that create some of the Khronos APIs will wrap up the day. Starting the day will be the now famous JPR Press Briefing on the Gaming Market. Complete details and registration for the Khronos sessions are available online. For anyone that cannot make the sessions, we will have live streaming and videos of the event will be available afterwards.

At the end of January, Joe Davis was at the ISART Digital in Paris to join a panel discussion titled New Graphics APIs discussion panel at the dawn of Vulkan. The meeting was organized and chaired by Christophe Riccio from Unity and Chapter Leader for Paris, and focused on the Khronos Group’s new Vulkan graphics and compute API.