Overview
The HPA Tech Retreat is the pre-eminent gathering of industry-leading thinkers and innovation-focused companies engaged in the creation, management, and dissemination of content. Every year, for a week near Palm Springs, the HPA Tech Retreat brings together a world-class roster of well-known and emerging leaders in engineering, technology, creativity and business. At the HPA Tech Retreat, the most compelling topics facing the media and entertainment landscape today are presented, explored and debated.
During the HPA Tech Retreat, attendees and speakers unplug from their day-to-day routine to engage with the brightest minds in the industry. From 7:30 AM breakfast roundtables to late-night fire pit conversations, there is nowhere else to experience the kind of unbiased, unvarnished, and authentic discussion, deliberation, and debate between experts that happens throughout the Tech Retreat.
Participants—who have included Oscar winners, program leads from NASA, and established and emerging tech mavens—take a forward-looking approach to trends and technologies of the content creation ecosystem while tackling issues of the present from fresh perspectives.
The HPA Tech Retreat is a limited attendance event, strictly capped at 700 guests, that consists of the main conference program, TR-X Tech Retreat Xtra, the Supersession, breakfast roundtables, and the curated innovation zone where companies present the absolute latest in technology.
Tech Retreat Features

TR-X
TR-X – eSports: Dropping the Mic on Center Stage
Although eSports seemed to come out of nowhere to become a new driving force in year-round live events, it has been around for decades in one form or another. Find out from industry leaders why you need to pay attention to how video game publishers, eSports leagues, and live streaming services are transforming the live sports arena.
Registration for TR-X is included in the All-Access HPA Tech Retreat Package, and can also be purchased independent of the Tech Retreat.

Supersession
Supersession: Industry Climate Change is Real – are Snowflake Workflows Melting?
As HDR, UHD and cloud based workflows converge, is the industry heading to a more predictable way to make high quality content? This year’s Supersession will explore how filmmakers, content creators, tool developers and service providers are pushing the boundaries to streamline the production, post and delivery of unprecedented amounts of content at unprecedented levels of quality and complexity. Get deep in the drift about what’s happening now and a forecast for the winds of change.

Main Program
HPA Tech Retreat Main Program
The HPA Tech Retreat Main Program features an array of high-powered conference sessions, more than 50 breakfast roundtables led by industry experts, and extensive networking opportunities. This is an incomparable opportunity to meet and engage with a world-class roster of well-known and emerging leaders in engineering, technology, creativity and business.

Innovation Zone
Innovation Zone
HPA invites individuals and companies to share new and innovative technology with the participants of the HPA Tech Retreat®. The Innovation Zone is where attendees can discover your company’s NEW technology in a space designed for learning and discovery. Bring your latest and greatest innovations that improve how the chain from acquisition to delivery is done.
Look Who’s Talking…
Keep an eye on this space. We will have many experts from around the world, sharing their insights and knowledge at this years Tech Retreat.

Aaron Kuder
ARRI and Stuttgart Media University (HdM)
Adam Lesh
SingularDTV
Adam Myhill
Unity
Alex Zhukov
Video Gorillas
Andy Maltz
General Intelligence
Andy Schuler
Netflix
Annie Chang
Universal Pictures
Arnold Ha
USC
Barbara Lange
Kibo121
Barry Goch
AJA Video Systems
Carlos A. Morales
ROMA
Chris Clark
Netflix
Chris Fetner
Netflix
Christine Sears
Salesforce
Corinne Bogdanowicz
Light Iron
Craig Dwyer
Avid
Craig German
HPA
Dakota Maysonet
Yellowpike Media
Darrell Wenhardt
CBT Systems
Dave Kneeland
Fox
Dave Siegler
Cox Media Group and Pearl TV
David Benson
Bebop Technology
David Gould
Dolby
David Morin
Academy Software Foundation
Debra Kaufman
ETCentric
Del Parks
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Don Eklund
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Ed Grogan
Department of Defense
Eliot Mack
Lightcraft Technology
Eliot Sakhartov
Microsoft
Eric Pohl
Singularity Imaging
Erik Weaver
Entertainment Technology Center at USC
Field Garthwaite
Iris TV
Greg Geier
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Haruka Miyagawa
Netflix
Ian Main
Teradici
Ianik Beitzel
ARRI and Stuttgart Media University (HdM)
Jack Wenzinger
AWS
Jason Brahms
Video Gorillas
Jason Dachman
SVG
Jason Schleifer
Nimble Collective
Jay Tucker
UCLA Center for Media, Entertainment & Sports
Jean-Philippe Jacquemin
Barco
Jerry Pierce
Inter-Society Digital Cinema Forum, National Association of Theatre Owners
Jesse Korosi
Sim
Jim Burger
Thompson Coburn LLP
Joachim Zell
Barco
Joe Bogacz
Canon
John Willkie
Luxio
Joshua Pines
Picture Shop
Julien Berry
Delair Studios
Karl Paulsen
Diversified
Keanu Concepcion
USC
Kenny Lauer
Rival Theory
Kevin Ottomeyer
TeradiciLisa Rodgers
Bird Box
Lowell Kay
LJK Consult
Lucas Carboni
Fox
Marc Genin
Gearhouse Broadcast CORP
Marc Scarpa
Simplynew
Marc Zorn
HBO
Marcus Taormina
Bird Box
Mark Chiolis
Mobile TV Group
Mark Harrison
DPP
Mark Schubin
HPA Tech Retreat
Matt Jones
Ola Cabs
Matthew Goldman
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Michael Chambliss
International Cinematographers Guild
Michael Flathers
IBM
Michael Little
Artistic Resources Corp
Mike Morgan
Netflix
Mike Ulaky
ESL
Mitch Rosenthal
Riot Games
Nick Garvin
Mobile TV Group
Oles Petriv
Video Gorillas
Paul Saccone
Blackmagic Design
Paul Stechly
Applied Electronics
Peter Putman
ROAM Consulting
Phil Squyres
Sony Pictures TV
Randi Altman
postPerspective
Ray Panahon
Riot Games
Richard Duke
Avid
Richard Friedel
FOX TV
Richard Miller
Pixelworks
Richard Smith
Netflix
Richard Zhang
Adobe
Roger Vakharia
Salesforce
Rohit Puri
Netflix
Scott Kramer
Netflix
Scott Metzger
Nurulize
Scott Rothenberg
NEP Group
Sean Coleman
Company 3
Sean Cooney
Netflix
Selma Sabera
Meow Wolf
Sergio Diaz
ROMA
Skip Pizzi
NAB
Stan Moote
IABM
Steven Poster
ASC, International Cinematographers Guild
Thomas Burns
Dell
Tim Claman
Avid
Tom Graham
Dolby Laboratories
Tom Sahara
Tom Sahara LLC
Toshi Ogura
Sony
Wolfgang Ruppel
RheinMain University
Wolfgang Schram
PRG