Summary
Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) is a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference for developers that brings together developers, engineers, researchers, inventors, and IT professionals.[1] Topics focus on AI, computer graphics, data science, machine learning and autonomous machines. Each conference begins with a keynote from Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang, followed by a variety of sessions and talks with experts from around the world.
| Nvidia GTC | |
|---|---|
| Date(s) | March & November (4–5 days) |
| Frequency | Semi-annual |
| Venue | San Jose Convention Center |
| Location(s) | San Jose, California, U.S. |
| Founded | October 2, 2009 |
| Most recent | March 20, 2023 |
| Next event | March 18, 2024 |
| Attendance | 75,358 (est.)[when?][citation needed] |
| Organized by | Nvidia |
| Website | www |
It originated in 2009 in San Jose, California, with an initial focus on the potential for solving computing challenges through GPUs.[2] In recent years, the conference focus has shifted to various applications of artificial intelligence and deep learning, including: self-driving cars, healthcare, high performance computing, professional visualization, and Nvidia Deep Learning Institute (DLI) training.[3]
History edit
GTC 2018 attracted over 8,400 attendees. Due to the COVID pandemic of 2020, GTC 2020 was converted to a digital event and drew roughly 59,000 registrants. The 2021 GTC keynote, which was streamed on YouTube on April 12, included a portion that was made with CGI using the Nvidia Omniverse real-time rendering platform. Due to the photorealism of the event, including a model of CEO Jensen Huang, news outlets reported not being able to discern that a portion of the keynote was CGI until later revealed in a blog post on August 11.[4]
| Year | Dates | Location | Notable speakers | Announcements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Sep 30–Oct 2 | San Jose, CA | Jensen Huang; Richard Kerris; Jon Peddie; Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard University | Fermi microarchitecture;[5][6] Maybe first keynote ever in 3D; double precision n body simulation demo |
| 2010 | Sep 20–23 | San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA | Jensen Huang; Sebastian Thrun, robotics at Stanford and engineer at Google; Klaus Schulten, computational biologist, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | DX11 Tessellation; Iray on 3DSMax; CUDA x86; Matlab CUDA Accelerated Parallel Computing Toolbox; CUDA roadmap revealed through Maxwell; Quadro graphics cards for video gaming [7] |
| 2011 | Dec 14–15 | China[8] | Jensen Huang | CUDA[9][10] |
| 2012 | May 14–17 | San Jose | Jensen Huang; Iain Couzins (Human Brains and Crowd Behavior), and Part Time Scientists Robert Boehme and Wes Faler (Space) | Kepler microarchitecture;[11] GeForce Grid (GeForce Now)[12] |
| 2013 | Mar 18–21 | San Jose | Jensen Huang; Erez Lieberman Aiden (genomics pioneer), Ralph V. Gilles (President and CEO of SRT Brand at Chrysler) | Face Works for facial animation[13] |
| 2014 | Mar 25 | San Jose | Jensen Huang; Dirk Van Gelder; Danny Nahmias, Adam Gazzaley; Oculus CEO Brandon (announced Facebook was acquiring) | NVLink;[14] Pascal microarchitecture;[15] Tegra mobile;[16] Audi drives itself onto stage |
| 2015 | Mar 17–20 | San Jose | Jensen Huang; Elon Musk; Jeff Dean; Andrew Ng; Andrej Karpathy (director of AI/Computer Vision at Tesla) | Nvidia Drive; Titan X;[17] Voice recognition[18] |
| 2016 | Apr 4–8; Sep 28–29 | San Jose; Amsterdam | Jensen Huang | Pascal microarchitecture new version;[19] DGX-1; Nvidia Drive PX2; iRay; DGX-2 |
| 2017 | May 8–11 | San Jose; Europe; Israel; Japan | Jensen Huang | Volta Supercomputer;[20] ISAAC Robot Simulator[21] |
| 2018 | Mar 26–29 | San Jose; Europe; Israel; Japan | Jensen Huang | Clara for healthcare and biomedical research;[22] ARM partnership announce for IoT;[23] RAPIDS Demo[24] |
| 2019 | Mar 17–21 | San Jose; Europe; Israel; Japan | Jensen Huang | GauGAN for animation;[25] Orin auto AI processor;[26] Self-driving car partnership with Toyota;[27] CUDA-X AI acceleration libraries adopted by PayPal, SAS, Walmart and Microsoft[28] |
| 2020 | Oct 5–9 | Digital[29] | Jensen Huang | AI Supercomputer for Biomedical Research;[30] Ampere GPUs for visual computing;[31] A100;[32] Artificial Intelligence for Edge and Cloud;[33] ISAAC Demo [34] |
| 2021 | Apr 12–16 | Digital | Jensen Huang; Geoffrey Hinton; Yann LeCun; Yoshua Bengio[35] | Grace;[36][37] BMW Virtual Factory;[38] Omniverse Enterprise;[39] SDK for quantum simulations;[40] DGX SuperPOD;[41] Nvidia BlueField 3 DPU[42] |
| 2022 | Mar 21–24 | Digital | Jensen Huang; Andrew Ng, Dale Durran, Doruk Sonmez | Hopper architecture,[43] H100 GPU,[44] Jetson AGX Orin[45] |
| 2022 | Sep 19–22 | Digital | Jensen Huang; others speakers to be announced | TBA |
| 2023 | Mar 20–23 | Digital | Jensen Huang;
Valerie Taylor, Director, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory; Demis Hassabis, Founder and CEO, DeepMind; Ilya Sutskever, Co-founder and Chief Scientist, OpenAI; Anima Anandkumar, Senior Director of ML Research, Nvidia; Scott Belsky, Chief Strategy Officer and EVP, Design and Emerging Products, Adobe; Kathy Smith, Artist and Professor School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California; Soumith Chintala, Researcher, Meta; Kathryn Guarini, Chief Information Officer, IBM Corporation; Paul Debevec, Chief Research Officer, Netflix Eyeline Studios; Tonya Custis, Director of AI Research, Autodesk; Toru Saito, Deputy Chief of Subaru Lab, Subaru Corporation; Thomas Schulthess, Director, ETH Zurich/The Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS); Bill Vass, Vice President of Engineering, Amazon Web Services (AWS); Chike Aguh, Chief Innovation Officer, US Department of Labor; Tanya Simms, Director for Cyber Policy & Programs, Office of the National Cyber Director, Executive Office of the President; Sergey Levine, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley; |
TBA |
| 2024 | Mar 18–21 | San Jose | Jensen Huang | Blackwell architecture[46] |
2021 notable speakers by industry sector edit
Research edit
- Geoffrey Hinton
- Yann LeCun
- Jürgen Schmidhuber
- Daphne Koller
- Yoshua Bengio, Full Professor, University of Montreal
- Rommie Amaro, Director, National Biomedical Computation Resource, University of California, San Diego
- Founder and Scientific Director, Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
- Peter Boyle, chair, Computational Quantum Field Theory, University of Edinburgh
- Soumith Chintala, Research Engineer, Facebook AI
- Francois Chollet, Software Engineer, Google
- Lillian Chong, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
- Joseph Glover, Provost and SVP for Academic Affairs, University of Florida
- Ken Goldberg, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- Sepp Hochreiter, Head of the Institute for Machine Learning, Kepler U. Linz
- Hatem Ltaief, Principal Research Scientist, Kaust
- Sriram Raghavan, VP IBM Research AI, IBM
- Raquel Urtasun, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Architecture, engineering, construction and design edit
- Amy Bunszel, EVP AEC Design Solutions, Autodesk
- Lori Hufford, VP, Applications Integration, Bentley Systems
Automotive edit
Topics around autonomous vehicles: techniques for developing safer, more efficient transportation, advancements in autonomous driving, end-to-end vehicle simulation, robotaxis, and trucking.[47]
- Jesse Levinson, co-founder and CTO, Zoox
- Hildegard Wortmann, Member of the Board of Management, Audi AG
Finance edit
Sessions concern impacts of technology advances in financial technology (Fintech). Presentations focus on how companies, consumers, and money interact across industries and how AI allows Fintech interactions to be personalized with recommendation engines, how self-service uses conversational AI, how transactions are secured with fraud-detection models.[48]
- Jie Chen, managing director in Corporate Model Risk, Wells Fargo
- Gerald Hanweck, VP, Software Eng, CBOE Global Markets
- Richard Huddleston, executive director, Morgan Stanley
- Ashok Srivastava, SVP and Chief Data Officer, Intuit
Healthcare edit
Sessions concern impacts of technology advances in healthcare.
- Ross Mitchell, AI Officer, Moffitt Cancer Center
- David Mobley, Professor, Pharm Sciences and Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
- David Ruau, Head of Global Data & Decision Science, Bayer
- Edward Suh, Mg Dir Research Information Services, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Media, entertainment and gaming edit
- Vicki Dobbs Beck, Executive In Charge, ILMxLAB
- Rob Legato, VFX Supervisor, Titanic, The Jungle Book, The Lion King
- Kim Libreri, CTO, Epic Games
- Perry Nightingale, SVP and Head of Creative, WPP
- Abhay Parasnis, CTO and Chief Product Officer, Document Cloud, Adobe
Retail edit
Telecommunications edit
Sessions address subject matters concerning telecommunications and 5G: 5G network acceleration and security, AI-on-5G applications, and 6G research.[49]
- Ganesh Harinath, VP and CTO, 5G MEC, Verizon Media
- Pardeep Kohli, President and CEO, Mavenir
- Shailesh Shukla, VP/GM Networking, Google Cloud
- Alex Sinclair, CTO, GSMA
2022 notable speakers and sessions edit
- Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, Nvidia: GTC 2022 Keynote
- Andrew Ng, Founder and CEO, DeepLearning.AI, Landing AI: The Data-centric AI Movement
- Lina Halper, Principal Animation Engineer, Nvidia: Deep Dive: One Click Animation Retargeting in Omniverse
- Douwe Kiela, Head of Research, Hugging Face: BigScience: Building a Large Hadron Collider for AI and NLP
- Prof. Dr. Bjorn Stevens, Director of the Department The Atmosphere in the Earth System, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology: Digital Twins for Understanding and Adapting to Climate Change
- Doruk Sonmez, Intelligent Video Analytics Engineer, OpenZeka: End-to-end Edge Solutions: Navigating Pre-qualified Hardware, Software, and Sensors for your NVIDIA Jetson Deployment
Conference topics edit
Accelerated computing and developer tools edit
- Algorithms / Numerical Techniques; Libraries / Runtimes; Performance Optimization; Profilers / Debuggers / Code Analysis; Programming Languages / Compilers
Computer vision edit
- Research; Intelligent Video Analytics; Image Processing
Cybersecurity and Fraud detection edit
Data science edit
Data center edit
- Data Center / Cloud - Business Strategy; Data Center / Cloud Infrastructure - Technical; Data Center CPUs; Networking; Virtualization
Deep learning edit
- Frameworks; Inference; Training
Internet of things (IoT), 5G, edge computing edit
- Signal & Sensor Processing
Graphics edit
- AI Applications, Art; Animation / VFX / Virtual Production; Production Rendering and Ray Tracing; Real-Time Rendering and Ray Tracing
High performance computing (HPC) edit
- Astronomy / Astrophysics; Climate / Weather / Ocean Modeling; Computational Chemistry and Materials Science; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Computational Physics; Quantum Computing; Supercomputing; Scientific Visualization
Conversational AI and natural language processing edit
Recommenders and personalization edit
Autonomous machines edit
- Robotics; Robotics Research; Reinforcement Learning
3D design collaboration and simulation edit
Video streaming and conferencing edit
XR (virtual and augmented reality) edit
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