| Date: | March & November |
| Frequency: | Semi-annual |
| Venue: | San Jose Convention Center |
| Location: | San Jose, California, U.S. |
| Attendance: | 75,358 |
| Organized: | Nvidia |
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.
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]
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 | Jensen Huang; Richard Kerris; Jon Peddie; Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard University | Fermi microarchitecture | |
| 2010 | Sep 20–23 | 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
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| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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] |
Topics around autonomous vehicles: techniques for developing safer, more efficient transportation, advancements in autonomous driving, end-to-end vehicle simulation, robotaxis, and trucking.[47]
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]
Sessions concern impacts of technology advances in healthcare.
Sessions address subject matters concerning telecommunications and 5G: 5G network acceleration and security, AI-on-5G applications, and 6G research.[49]