SIGGRAPH Finances• Lost $2,800,000 last year
– SIGGRAPH 2009 - $1,900,000 (after ACM)
– SA2009 - $530,000 + (startup costs)
• For FY 2011 are under required fund balance by $1,200,000
• Why?
– Global Economy
– SIGGRAPH Asia more expensive than expected (Convention Center costs, others)
• History: SIGGRAPH 2002 lost $1,800,000
– Cut budget 20% and moved back to West Coast (2003,2004,2005,2007,2008)
– All made profit ($200,000 – $970,000)
SIGGRAPH Finances
• SIGGRAPH 2010 cut budget 20% and back to West Coast (7 of next 10 years)
• SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 budget 50% of SA 2009
• SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 and beyond a small (500 – 1,000 attendee) technical only Conference
• Cut rest of organization budget
– Meetings, Travel, Print
• Total surplus of $377,000 for FY 2011
• Should be above required Fund balance in 3 - 4 years
Member benefits ACM Digital Library
Reduced registration at a large number of conferences
Computer Graphics Quarterly (electronic)
SOMA DVD/Streaming Video of SIGGRAPH Conference
SIGGRAPH email aliases
Creative Heads Job Services
Awards
– Steven Anson Coons Award for Lifetime Achievement
– Computer Graphics Achievement Award
– Significant New Researcher Award
– Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art
– Outstanding Service Award
SIGGRAPH Goals Become a more efficient organization
– Restructured the Executive Committee (EC) to move all operations to a set of Standing Committees
– EC members responsible for strategic issues, not operations
– Volunteers can focus on one task Support the Technical Community
– SIGGRAPH Asia Papers Program (in 2009 almost as many accepted papers as SIGGRAPH)
• Reduce load on SIGGRAPH Papers Committee and Authors can submit to two high quality conferences rather than one
– Small Conferences
• Sponsor/Co-Sponsor 12-20 per year
• In-Cooperation 20-30 per year
SIGGRAPH Goals• Form alliances with external organizations
– Eurographics
• Many technical conferences/workshops together
– Digital Content Association of Japan
– Computer Graphics – ARTS (Japan)
– China National Center for Developing Animation, Cartoon, & Game Industry (NCACG)
• Agreement to work together to support education activities in China
• SIGGRAPH Village (International Resources Center)
• Support Students:
– SIGGRAPH Student Services Committee
SIGGRAPH Goals
• Support the Education Community:
– Education Committee: CGEMs, curricular materials (education.siggraph.org)
• Support the Digital Arts Community
– Digital Arts Committee (arts.siggraph.org)
• Expand our Chapters Community and better integrate them into SIGGRAPH
– 60 Chapters in 15 countries and several are in formation
– Associate Member (in implementation)