NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will deliver the opening keynote at GTC 2023, covering the latest advancements in generative AI, the metaverse, large language models, robotics, cloud computing, and more.
More than 250,000 people are anticipated to attend the four-day event, which will feature 650+ sessions from academics, developers, and industry executives from nearly every computing area. GTC will also include an informal conversation between Huang and OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, as well as lectures by DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque, and others.
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“This is the most extraordinary moment we have witnessed in the history of AI,” Huang said. “New AI technologies and rapidly spreading adoption are transforming science and industry, and opening new frontiers for thousands of new companies. This will be our most important GTC yet.”
Huang’s speech will be livestreamed and accessible on demand on Tuesday, March 21, at 8 a.m. Pacific time. Viewing the speech does not require registration. The opening and classes will be closed captioned in English.
Other notable speakers include:
- Chike Aguh, chief innovation officer, U.S. Department of Labor
- Soumith Chintala, researcher, Meta and creator of PyTorch
- Paul Debevec, chief research officer, Netflix Eyeline Studios
- Kathryn Guarini, CIO, IBM Corporation
- Tony Hemmelgarn, CEO, Siemens Digital Industries Software
- Sergei Levine, associate professor, UC Berkeley
- Thomas Schulthess, director, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, ETH Zurich
- Kathy Smith, artist and professor, USC
- Ashok Srivastava, chief data officer, Intuit
Amazon Robotics, AWS, ByteDance, Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Epic Games, Ford Motor Company, Fraunhofer, General Motors, Google, HPE, Jaguar Land Rover, Lenovo, Lockheed Martin, Mercedes Benz, Microsoft, MIT, Oracle Cloud, Pixar, Samsung, Shell, TSMC, United States Space Force, and VMware are among those taking part.
Spotlight on Research
GTC will also include panels from the industry’s top researchers, a talk by NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally, and 65+ sessions focused on generative AI. Huang’s fireside chat with Sutskever, chief scientist and co-founder of OpenAI, will air on March 22, at 9 a.m. Pacific time, and on demand afterward.
Notable sessions include:
- A fireside chat with Scott Belsky, chief product officer at Adobe, and Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied research at NVIDIA, on how generative AI is transforming the creative process.
- A conversation with NVIDIA’s automotive team on how generative AI is revolutionizing AV development.
- Numerous talks on demystifying generative AI for a broad audience.
- A discussion on AI’s influence on art with AI artist Refik Anadol, The Museum of Modern Art curators Paola Antonelli and Michelle Kuo, and NVIDIA Vice President of Omniverse Richard Kerris.
- A panel from robotics experts on how AI can advance real-world deployments of robots using simulation.
Multiple sessions on how generative AI can be used across industries from content creation to graphics to drug discovery by Amgen, Autodesk, AWS, Evozyne, General Motors, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, London College of Fashion, Microsoft Research and SK Telecom
Learning and Career Development Opportunities
GTC offers learning chances to participants at all professional stages. Registrants can save money on full-day, instructor-led, hands-on technical seminars provided by the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI). There will be 28 classes available in various languages, including Korean, Japanese, and traditional Chinese.
GTC will offer training and sessions such as Change the World With a Career in AI, Fundamentals of Deep Learning, and Blueprint to Becoming an Effective Student Researcher for early career and student participants as part of NVIDIA’s efforts to increase AI workforce readiness and create a more inclusive AI ecosystem. In addition, NVIDIA is offering credits for DLI seminars at GTC to minority-serving schools such as HBCUs, HSIs, and community colleges.
Sessions for Startups
GTC offers startups the opportunity to learn directly from experts in AI, data science and machine learning. NVIDIA Inception, a global program designed to nurture cutting-edge startups with 13,000+ members, will host tracks aimed at helping startups grow their businesses and gain industry knowledge. The NVIDIA Venture Capital Alliance program, which has 400 VC firms as members, will host sessions designed for investors.
Sessions for startups include Essential Tech for GenAI Startups, Emerging Venture Themes for 2023 – Generative AI and Riding the Wave – Generative AI for Startups.
NVIDIA Financial Analyst Q&A
NVIDIA will hold a Q&A session with financial analysts following the keynote at 10 a.m. Pacific time. The webcast will be available at investor.nvidia.com.