2024-02-20 19:45:12
See the Future at GTC 2024: NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang to Unveil Latest Advances in Accelerated Computing, Generative AI and Robotics
NVIDIA announces it will host its flagship GTC 2024 conference at the San Jose Convention Center from March 18-21. More than 300,000 people are expected to sign up to participate in person or virtually.
NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang will keynote at SAP Center on Monday, March 18 at 1:00 PM PT. It will be streamed live and available on demand. Registration is not required to view the lecture online.
Since Huang first highlighted machine learning in his 2014 GTC keynote, NVIDIA has been at the forefront of the AI revolution. The company’s platforms have played a crucial role in enabling AI across multiple domains, including large language models (LLMs), biology, cybersecurity, data centers and cloud computing, conversational AI, networking, physics, robotics, and quantum computing. , scientific and cutting-edge.
AI leaders and large companies in healthcare, transportation, financial services, telecommunications and agriculture will participate in GTC 2024, the first in person in five years
The event’s 900 sessions and more than 300 exhibitors will showcase how organizations are deploying NVIDIA platforms to achieve remarkable advancements across industries, including aerospace, agriculture, automotive and transportation, cloud services, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail and telecommunications.
“Generative AI has moved into the spotlight as governments, industries and organizations around the world seek to harness its transformative capabilities,” says Huang. “GTC has become the most important AI conference in the world because the entire ecosystem is there to share knowledge and promote the state of the art. Join us.”
Notable Speakers attending GTC 2024 include:
• Brad Lightcap, director of operations at OpenAI
• Sébastien Bubeck, vice-president of 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 co-director of HAI at Stanford University
• Priscilla Chan, co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
• Stefan Goebel, Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff, Product Engineering and Head of Strategic Engineering Partnerships, SAP Labs
• Belinda Neal, Director of Central Engineering Operations and Head of Engineering Partnerships at Goldman Sachs
• Moises Hernandez-Fernandez, vice president of JPMorgan Chase’s Machine Learning Center of Excellence
• Shan Jegatheeswaran, vice president and global head of MedTech Digital and Johnson & Johnson
• Rodolphe Katra, vice president of AI, yes Medtronic
• Aaron Saunders, CTO da 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.
“NVIDIA is catalyzing progress across a variety of industries on a global scale. The innovations and tools we offer are driving positive results for our customers and partners. Our goal is to continually strengthen our position as a market leader”, reinforces Marcelo Pontieri, Marketing Director of NVIDIA’s Enterprise division for Latin America. “At this event, we will also have the participation of local experts, including a talk with Petrobras executives, providing an even broader view of the technological possibilities in our region.”
Registration is open at www.nvidia.com/gtc.
AI, automobile and robotics on display
From generative AI to robotics and automotive, GTC attendees can interact with dozens of cutting-edge demonstrations, see the latest autonomous vehicle technology, and explore how generative AI will impact virtually every industry.
The Generative AI Pavilion will include a massive multi-sensory, interactive installation by renowned AI artist Refik Anadol and a demonstration of Cuebric, a generative AI tool for filmmakers, by Seyhan Lee.
Many of the world’s leading automotive and robotics companies will showcase 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.
25 robots, from humanoids to industrial manipulators, will be on the exhibition floor, from companies such as Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Disney and Google DeepMind.
Research in focus at GTC 2024
Top AI researchers will participate in more than 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 research with NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally.
• Informal chat with Christian Szegedy, research scientist and co-founder of xAI, and Bojan Tunguz, data scientist at NVIDIA, about AI-based reasoning.
• Presentation by Sébastien Bubeck, vice president of Microsoft GenAI, on the promise of smaller models.
• Discussion on building practical AI agents that reason and code at scale with Kanjun Qiu, co-founder and CEO of Imbue, and Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of deep learning applied research at NVIDIA.
• Conversation about the future of foundation models with Percy Liang, associate professor and director of Stanford University’s Foundation Models Research Center and co-founder of Together AI, and Jim Fan, research scientist at NVIDIA.
Learning and developing
GTC 2024 presents a rich array of learning and development opportunities for career professionals, policymakers, educators, and students.
Policymakers can participate in a discussion about the challenges of regulating AI with representatives from the US Congress, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the European Union, and NVIDIA.
Attendees can choose from 20 full-day, hands-on, instructor-led 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 free on-site training labs are included in the GTC 2024 “Conference + Training” package.
To further support AI in academia, a select 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
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 through exhibits, breakout sessions, pitches and more.
Sessions for startups at GTC 2024 include:
• AI secrets I wish I knew
• Building tools for digital worlds: startups pioneering OpenUSD and generative AI
• Global strategies: startups, Venture Capital and solutions for climate change
Separate sessions for the venture capital community will be offered through the NVIDIA VC Alliance program, including an AI day for VCs and a reverse pitch session where VCs will pitch startups to join their portfolio.
Q&A for NVIDIA Investors
NVIDIA will host an investor Q&A session on March 19 at 8:30 a.m. PT.
The webcast will be available at investidor.nvidia.com
About NVIDIA
Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 spurred the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ushered in the era of modern AI, and has helped industrial digitization across markets. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data center-scale solutions that are disrupting the industry.
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Some forward-looking statements
Certain statements in this press release, including, without limitation, statements regarding: the timing, size, themes, sessions, speakers, participants, availability and impact of the GTC, including the GTC keynote address; governments, industries and organizations around the world seeking to harness the transformative capabilities of generative AI; the entire ecosystem sharing knowledge and advancing the state of the art in GTC; Generative AI impacting virtually every industry; the learning and development opportunities at GTC; and the timing and availability of financial analyst questions and answers are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially from expectations.
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