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NVIDIA has announced it will host its flagship GTC 2024 conference at the San Jose Convention Center from the 18th to the 21st of March. More than 300,000 people are expected to register to attend in person or virtually.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will deliver the keynote of GTC 2024 from the SAP Center on Monday, 18th March, at 1 p.m. Pacific time. It will be livestreamed and available on demand. Registration is not required to view the keynote online.

Since Huang first highlighted machine learning in his 2014 GTC keynote, NVIDIA has been at the forefront of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution. The company’s platforms have played a crucial role in enabling AI across numerous domains, including large language models, biology, cybersecurity, data center and cloud computing, conversational AI, networking, physics, robotics, and quantum, scientific, and edge computing.

GTC 2024: A Showcase of NVIDIA’s Innovations

The event’s 900 sessions and over 300 exhibitors will showcase how organisations are deploying NVIDIA platforms to achieve remarkable breakthroughs across industries, including aerospace, agriculture, automotive and transportation, cloud services, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications.

“Generative AI has moved to centre stage as governments, industries, and organizations everywhere look to harness its transformative capabilities,” Huang said. “GTC has become the world’s most important AI conference because the entire ecosystem is there to share knowledge and advance the state of the art. Come join us.”

Notable speakers at GTC 2024 include:

• Brad Lightcap, Chief Operating Officer at OpenAI
• Sébastien Bubeck, Vice President at Microsoft GenAI
• Vincent Vanhoucke, distinguished scientist and Senior Director of Robotics at Google DeepMind
• Joelle Pineau, Vice President of AI Research at Meta
• Fei-Fei Li, professor of computer science and HAI Co-Director at Stanford University
• Priscilla Chan, Co-Founder of and co-CEO at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
• Stefan Goebel, Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff, Product Engineering and Head of Strategic Engineering Partnerships at SAP Labs
• Belinda Neal, Chief Operating Officer for Core Engineering and Head of Engineering Partnerships at Goldman Sachs
• Moises Hernandez-Fernandez, Vice President of Machine Learning Centre of Excellence at JPMorgan Chase
• Shan Jegatheeswaran, Vice President and Global Head of MedTech Digital at Johnson & Johnson
• Rodolphe Katra, Vice President of AI at Medtronic
• Aaron Saunders, CTO at Boston Dynamics

More than 1,000 organizations will participate, including Adobe, Amazon, Amgen, Anthropic, Blackrock, Cohere, Databricks, Dell Technologies, Genentech, Getty Images, HPE, Hugging Face, Lockheed Martin, L’Oreal, Lowe’s, Lucasfilm and ILM, Mercedes-Benz, Micron, Mistral AI, Netflix, Oracle, Pixar, Runway, Saudi Aramco, Scale AI, ServiceNow, Siemens, Snowflake, Supermicro, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Zoox.

Registration is open at www.nvidia.com/gtc.

AI, Auto, Robotics on Display at GTC 2024

From generative AI to robotics to automotive, GTC 2024 attendees can interact with dozens of state-of-the-art demos, see the latest autonomous vehicle technology, and explore how generative AI will impact virtually every industry.

The Generative AI Pavilion at GTC 2024 will include a huge, multisensory, interactive installation by world-renowned AI artist Refik Anadol and a demo of Cuebric, a generative AI tool for filmmakers, by Seyhan Lee.

Many of the world’s leading automotive and robotics companies will show next-generation vehicles and autonomous machines at the event. Vehicles on display will include the new Volvo EX90, Mercedes-Benz Concept CLA Class, Polestar 3, WeRide Robobus and Nuro R3 autonomous delivery vehicle.

Twenty-five robots ranging from humanoids to industrial manipulators will be on the show floor, from companies including Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Disney and Google DeepMind.

Research in Focus

Leading AI researchers will participate in 200+ sessions, including a panel moderated by Huang on Transforming AI with all eight authors of “Attention Is All You Need,” a seminal research paper on transformers. Other research highlights include:

• Insights from NVIDIA Researchwith NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally
• Fireside chat with Christian Szegedy, Research Scientist and Co-Founder of xAI, and Bojan Tunguz, Data Scientist at NVIDIA, on AI-based reasoning.
• Presentation by Sébastien Bubeck, Vice President oat Microsoft GenAI, on the promise of smaller models.
• Discussion on building practical AI agents that reason and code at scalewith Kanjun Qiu, Co-Founder of and CEO at Imbue, and Bryan Catanzaro, Vice President of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA.
• Conversation on the future of foundation modelswith Percy Liang, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Research on Foundation Models at Stanford University and Co-Founder of Together AI, and Jim Fan, Research Scientist at NVIDIA.

Learning and Development

GTC 2024 presents a rich variety of learning and development opportunities for career professionals, policymakers, educators and students.

Policy makers can join a discussion on the challenges of AI regulation with representatives from the U.S. Congress, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the European Union and NVIDIA.

Attendees can choose from 20 full-day, instructor-led, hands-on technical workshops, many of which will be available virtually in EMEA and APAC time zones.
For the first time at GTC, participants can receive professional certification in generative AI.

More than 40 complimentary onsite training labs are included in the GTC “Conference + Training” package.

To further support AI in academia, a curated set of sessions will be available to help educators integrate NVIDIA technologies into classrooms and courses.

Learn more about training opportunities on the event website.

Opportunities for Startups at GTC 2024

NVIDIA Inception, a global program designed to nurture cutting-edge startups with more than 18,000 members, will host an interactive pavilion featuring demos from dozens of startups. More than 150 Inception members will participate in GTC 2024 through exhibitions, presentation sessions, pitches and more.

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