LOS ANGELES—Now in its 22nd year, the 2016 Hollywood Professional Association Tech Retreat has opened registration. The gathering features engineering, creativity and business leaders to discuss trends and technologies of the future, while also dealing with current issues.

The five-day retreat includes conference sessions, daily breakfast roundtables, the Innovation Zone (formerly the Demo Room), and networking events.

The 2016 HPA Tech Retreat will take place Feb. 15-19 at the Hyatt Regency Indian Wells in Palm Springs, Calif. The sessions schedule and programming information will be announced soon.

Early bird registration is now available. For more information, visit www.hpaonline.com. 

LOS ANGELES—Proposals for the 2016 HPA Tech Retreat are still being accepted, but the cutoff date of Oct. 30 is fast approaching. Scheduled to take place Feb. 15-19, the retreat is a gathering of professional who support the creation, management and dissemination of content for distribution environments.

This year’s conference will feature seminars, a super session and a curated technology room. The call for proposals seeks presentations for the main program and breakfast roundtables, which will run Feb. 17-19. Topics can include “anything from scene-to-seen and gear-to-ear,” according to Mark Schubin, who organizes the retreat. For more information on how to submit a presentation proposal go to www.hpaonline.com.

The 2016 HPA Tech Retreat will take place at the Hyatt Regency Indian Wells in Indian Wells, Calif., from Feb. 15-19. Registration and application to the technology demo area will open in November.

LOS ANGELES—The 2016 HPA Tech Retreat is now accepting proposals for presentations for the main program and breakfast roundtables taking place Feb. 17-19. Presentation topics may include anything related to moving images and associated sounds, including areas like augmented reality, energy use for HDR TV sets, soundfields, terabit transmissions, x-rays in 8K and more.

No formal submissions are required, simply provide a sentence or two on the topic and HPA will reach out if it needs more info. Presentations in the main program are typically a half-hour, including set-up and Q&A; requests must be submitted for a different duration. HPA is also accepting proposals for panels, which run longer. Panel proposers are expected to provide the moderator and panelists. Presenters, moderators and panelists may attend sessions for free and get a discount on the full retreat.

Send proposals to Mark Schubin at TVMark@EarthLink.net or Media.Mark.Schubin@GMail.com. All proposals received will be acknowledged. Deadline for submission is Oct. 30, with decisions expected at the beginning of December.

The 2016 HPA Tech Retreat will take place from Feb. 15-19 at the Hyatt Regency Resort in Indian Wells, Calif. For more information, visit the HPA website.