Rhino World 2023 is the official international event related to the Rhino and Grasshopper ecosystem, a gathering of all McNeel regions, worldwide resellers, trainers, industry partners, 3rd party developers, and expert users. the latest news about Rhino WIP, Rhino Inside, Rhino Compute, RhinoVR, Grasshopper, and food4Rhino.
Join us and learn more about state-of-the-art 3D Design, Analysis, Optimization, Engineering, and Fabrication. Get information on the Rhino and Grasshopper roadmap, 3rd party applications, and vertical markets. Meet the McNeel staff from all regional offices and industry experts at the conference sessions, discussions, masterclasses, and networking events (coffee, lunches, and dinners are included!).
Watch presentations and get hands-on with live software demonstrations from our exhibiting partners and solution providers in different fields: Architecture, Engineering, Product Design, Algorithmic Modeling, Jewelry, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Games engines, Visualization, 3D Printing, Robotic milling, Environmental Analysis, Optimization, Landscaping, Sculpture, and much more!
Learn about Rhino’s royalty-free Developer Tools, new Frameworks, and Ecosystem, including RhinoCommon, Python, rhino3dm, Rhino.Inside, Rhino Compute, Hops, Code Editor, Sub-D, Grasshopper 1.0 and 2, Package Manager and food4Rhino.
LOCATION
SOCIAL EVENTS
Event schedule
Wednesday
18
9.30 am – 1.00 pm
Registration & Exhibition
1.00 pm – 2.15 pm
Lunch
2.15 pm – 4.00 pm
Welcome
McNeel Business Strategy Review
New in Rhino 8
iRhino 3D
ShapeDiver
4.00 pm – 4.45 pm
Coffee & Exhibition
4.45 pm – 6.00 pm
Guest Speaker: Aldo Sollazzo
Guest Speaker: Aaron Porterfield
spherene
6.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Drinks & Exhibition
7.30 pm – 11.30 pm
Dinner at Restaurant Mirabè (bus departs 19:30h from the hotel)
Thursday
19
9.15 am – 10.30 am
Opening of Day 2 and Recap of Day 1
Developer Platform
Rhino 8 Masterclass
chaos
10.30 am – 11.15 am
Coffee & Exhibition
11.15 am – 1.00 pm
Rhino & GH markets and ecosystem (AEC)
Guest Speaker: Martin Schulte
Guest Speaker: Tania Ihlenfeld
Exhibitor videos I
Unreal Engine
1.00 pm – 2.15 pm
Lunch
2.15 pm – 4.00 pm
Grasshopper 2.0 Alpha
food4Rhino
R&D Projects at McNeel Europe
Tech Support
Localization
Exhibitor videos II
Keyshot
4.00 pm – 4.45Â pm
Coffee & Exhibition
4.45 pm – 5.45Â pm
Rhino & GH markets and ecosystem (other markets)
Education
Exhibitor videos III
Gravity Sketch
6.30 pm – 11.00Â pm
Sunset Cocktail & Dinner at Restaurant El Vivero (bus departs 18:30 from the hotel)
Friday
20
9.15 am – 10.30 am
Opening of Day 3 and Recap of Day 2
Guest Speaker: Nicoline van Enter
Guest Speaker: Fred Tucek
10.30 am – 11.15 am
Coffee & Exhibition
11.15 am – 1.00 pm
McNeel Regions
- McNeel Europe
- McNeel North America
- McNeel Latin America
- McNeel Asia
- McNeel Japan
- McNeel Korea
Where are the new opportunities
1.00 pm – 2.15 pm
Lunch
2.15 pm – 2.45Â pm
Rhino’s 25th Anniversary
Closing
3.00 pm – 6.00Â pm
Exhibition & Networking
mcneel regions
Robert McNeel & Assoc.
North America and Pacific
McNeel Europe
Europe, Middle East, and Africa
McNeel Latin America
Southeast US and Latin America
McNeel Asia
Asian regional office
McNeel Korea
Korean regional office
GUEST SPEAKERS
Aldo Sollazzo
bio
Aldo Sollazzo, an accomplished Italian entrepreneur and technologist, has established himself as a key figure in the fields of robotics, computer vision, and computational design. With a career marked by dedication and innovation, Sollazzo’s contributions have had a meaningful impact on these dynamic industries.
Since 2011, Sollazzo has held the position of CEO at Noumena, a forward-thinking company that leverages the power of computer vision and machine learning to delve into the complexities of spatial dynamics.
Aaron Porterfield
bio
Nicoline van Enter
bio
Nicoline van Enter has more than 30 years of experience in all sides of the shoe industry. Currently, she is the founder and creative director of The Footwearists, the international platform for footwear innovation. She connects great minds and companies across all sections of the footwear supply chain from machine manufacturers, material suppliers, and brands to retailers, biotechnology, and software developers with the aim of creating meaningful innovation for people and the planet.
Tania Ihlenfeld
bio
Tania Ihlenfeld is a pragmatic visionary with more than twenty-three years of experience leading, observing and innovating within multi-disciplinary AEC teams. She is an architect, entrepreneur and author of Build Success. Tania champions the relentless pursuit of effective leadership, design excellence, developing others, and changing who gets to innovate. She has led high-profile, complex infrastructure projects for award-winning practices in the UK and Australia, including more than 12 years with Grimshaw, London.
Tania is the CEO and founder of Ede Enablers and is currently also collaborating with the leading business of architecture media and symposium platform – Disrupt.
Martin Schulte
bio
Martin Schulte first started working at Herzog & de Meuron in 2016 where he was part of the parametric design team within the Stamford Bridge stadium project. After graduating from the Muenster School of Architecture in 2018 he re-entered Herzog & de Meuron as specialist for parametric stadium design. In 2019 he joined the Design Technologies department as a Computational Design Architect where he worked on the Horizon 2020 research project V4Design and a variety of computational design solutions for Herzog & de Meuron’s architecture projects. Martin has a strong focus on applied research and innovation and hence keeps close relations with the AEC software industry and academia, to explore the potential of technologies such as Extended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Fabrication in architecture. Since 2022 he leads the Computational Design team within the Design Technologies department at Herzog & de Meuron.
Fredrick William Tucek
bio
Fred William Tucek Initially studied Philosophy, Psychology, English (Major) at the university of Pretoria.
Switched to goldsmithing and jewellery design in 1995. 1999 started working as head designer at Flaircraft Ltd. Manufacturing in Dublin where I had my first introduction to 3D Design, then still DOS-based. Since 2007 running my own CAD jewellery Design Company, using Rhino, and various other 3D Design tools in Vienna.
WORLD resellers
Academic Software
ACHELON
Applied Peripherals
Architechnologies
Aufiero Informática
BlueStone Tech
CAD Academy
CAD Software Direct
CadesignBase
CADLANTIQUE
CADLINK
France
CIMSYSTEM
Creative Tools
Design8
Digital Media
Dimensio
ECCOM
FGA Mimarlik
FILOU Software
flexiCAD
FreeForm Solution
FutureCompany
icreatia
Imagine Computation
Rhinoceroshop
LABIRENT
LEMONDIM
Logis3D
MacroCad
Form2Fab
MARINESOFT
MaterForma
Maveric
Medialogic Dubai
MEDIASYS
MK Europe
MR Services
RhinoCenter
NDAR
Neos 3D
Nosco Consultancy
PAZ
picturetools
Pivot
ProGrupa
RBFD Tecnologia
Rhino Master
Rhinocentre
Simply Rhino
Soares de Sousa
SPI ShipConstructor
Studio Chesco
surface3d
SWISSRHINO
Program
gold sponsors
CHAOS
Chaos develops 3D visualization technology for architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. We create intuitive and powerful workflows for architects, artists, and designers in any industry.
Our research and development are leading the way toward a truly comprehensive end-to-end visualization ecosystem to meet the evolving needs of our customers. In 2022 Chaos merged with Enscape and acquired Cylindo. Headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, Chaos is now the largest global 3D visualization company, with more than 700 employees and offices worldwide.
spherene
After introducing the concept of ADMS, we predominantly use the terms “Spherenes” and “Spherene” to describe the complex but highly efficient structures that this technology enables. Spherenes are designed for maximum material efficiency, making them particularly suitable for additive manufacturing applications.
Unreal Engine
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, and has more than 40 offices worldwide. connections. Epic develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. With Unreal Engine, you can bring amazing real-time experiences to life using the world’s most advanced real-time 3D creation tool.
From first projects to the most demanding challenges, our free and accessible resources and inspirational community empower everyone to realize their ambitions.
Keyshot
KeyShot® is the first real-time ray tracing application that uses a physically correct render engine based on scientific research in the areas of scientifically accurate material representation and global illumination.
KeyShot’s intuitive software breaks down the complexity of making photo-realistic images and animations from 3D digital data.
Gravity Sketch
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ShapeDiver
We provide the tools and scalable infrastructure to help you transform your library of Grasshopper files into powerful and shareable online applications.
Share the full power of your parametric design files with partners, clients, and other non-technical stakeholders wherever they are while protecting your IP.
Exhibiting Partners
MecSoft
MecSoft’s software products are designed to help users create and optimize toolpaths for CNC machining to facilitate best of class manufacturing processes. Their most popular software products include RhinoCAM (a completely integrated CAM solution for Rhinoceros 3D) and VisualCAD/CAM (standalone CAD and CAM software suite).
datakit
Datakit propose SDK solutions for software developers and converters for design offices to extract, convert, retrieve and exploit 2D and 3D technical data: 2D drawing, 3D B-rep, Mesh representation, parts / assemblies / attributes, colors, textures…, Product Manufacturing Information: PMI / FD&T / GDT/ Metadata, properties.
Integrated plugins for Rhino and attractive bundles including native and standard formats are available.
Bella
By adhering to a physics-based approach, it not only produces truly photographic images, but does so with a predictability that both simplifies use, and enhances productivity.
The Bella for Rhino plugin brings this directly into Rhino 6, 7, or 8, on Windows or MacOS (on Intel or Apple Silicon). There are very few new settings to learn, as the plugin automatically translates Rhino’s render settings, materials, environments, and so forth.
madCAM
madCAM AB develops and distributes CAM-software worldwide, providing solutions for the tooling, metal-fabrication, plastic and woodworking industries.
Asuni
Asuni is the developer of VisualARQ, a Flexible BIM solution for Rhino, and Lands Design, a landscape design solution for Rhino and AutoCAD.
The company’s funding, for investigation and development of new software, as well as for infrastructure and staff, has been raised from retained earnings.
Studio 3DX
Veesus
3D scan data is often so massive and complex that it’s hard to store, view, and work with.
From the very start, our mission has been to remove the difficulties surrounding the use of Point Cloud data, by providing products that are at the forefront of technology, never standing still and available to any user.
Over the years we have created a complete eco-system of products that allow you to capture, share, engineer, and present. Utilising a highly efficient file format allows us to break down many common barriers to Point Cloud exploitation. All of this is available using a simple affordable monthly subscription.
3Dconnexion
Rhino Terrain
For 15 years, we have been committed to providing innovative solutions using the brilliant 3D modeller Rhinoceros.
We develop a range of software dedicated to 3D geomodelling to meet the needs of different application areas: GIS, Civil Engineering, 3D Engineering, Photogrammetry and Solar Calculation.
CrossBytes
Packhunt
Packhunt is a construction-tech company, based in Amsterdam, digitizing the construction industry to make the way we build our environment smarter and more efficient.
With Packhunt you can create web apps from Grasshopper definitions without code and share and sell them online.