Jason Schugardt is a Senior Solutions Architect for NVIDIA helping customers connect to the best solutions at NVIDIA. With over 25 years of experience in the Visual Effects industry, he has worked on numerous blockbuster films, including the Academy Award-winning The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Peter Jackson's King Kong, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2, and Steven Spielberg's Minority Report, and many others. Driven by his passion for exploring cutting-edge technology, he's led innovative VR and AR projects, pushing the boundaries of technology in storytelling. Currently at NVIDIA, Jason enjoys leveraging his deep expertise to help clients harness the power of generative AI, Neural Radiance Fields, Gaussian Splats, and other next-gen reality capture.