Presenter

Patrick is the CEO of Cesium and co-host of the Building the Open Metaverse podcast. Patrick has authored, edited, or contributed to ten books on graphics and games, including WebGL Insights, OpenGL Insights, and 3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes. He is the co-creator of the glTF open standard from Khronos and the creator of the 3D Tiles OGC community standard. He is an advocate for collaboration, open standards, open source, and building the metaverse as an open ecosystem. Patrick taught computer graphics for 8 years at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned an MSE in computer science.