Keynote: The Value of Serial Volunteerism

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Argues that making industry volunteerism part of the workday accelerates career and company impact, citing concrete outcomes: building and open-sourcing the AlUSD Maya plug-in in 2017 to bridge Maya and USD, leading to studio collaboration and Autodesk engagement; creating the production asset ALAB asset—7,000+ downloads and migrating it into a git repo to allow pull requests; committing 100+ hours annually to Academy SciTech reviews and reviewing 300+ SIGGRAPH submissions taught storytelling, confidence, and led to working‑group leadership.

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1. 0:00Introduction and keynote purpose
2. 2:48Why serial volunteerism matters
3. 13:48Personal volunteerism journey
4. 26:26Company volunteerism at Animal Logic
5. 29:53Call to action for industry

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