GTC -- NVIDIA today announced that it will host a global, virtual
GTC from Nov. 8-11, featuring a news-filled keynote by NVIDIA
founder and CEO Jensen Huang and talks from some of the world’s
preeminent AI research and industry leaders.
Huang’s keynote will be livestreamed on Nov. 9 at 9 a.m. Central
European Time/4 p.m. China Standard Time/12 a.m. Pacific
Daylight Time, with a rebroadcast at 8 a.m. PDT for viewers in
the Americas. Registration is free and is not required to view the
keynote.
More than 200,000 developers, innovators, researchers and
creators are expected to register for the event, which will focus
on deep learning, data science, high performance computing,
robotics, data center/networking and graphics. Speakers share the
latest breakthroughs that are transforming some of the world’s
largest industries, such as healthcare, transportation,
manufacturing, retail and finance.
Among major speakers at the event are:
- Anima Anandkumar, director of ML research at NVIDIA and Bren
Professor at Caltech
- Alan Aspuru-Guzik, professor of chemistry and computer science,
University of Toronto
- Alan Bekker, head of conversational AI, Snap
- Samy Bengio, senior director of AI and ML research, Apple
- Kay Firth-Butterfield, head of AI and ML, World Economic
Forum
- Axel Gern, CTO, Daimler Trucks
- Fei-Fei Li, professor of computer science, Stanford
University
- Keith Perry, CIO, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Venkatesh Ramanathan, director of data science, PayPal
- Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist, OpenAI
- Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO, Epic Games
- Nir Zuk, founder and CTO, Palo Alto Networks
Leaders from hundreds of other organizations will also present,
including Amazon, Arm, AstraZeneca, Baidu, BMW, Domino’s,
Electronic Arts, Facebook, Ford, Google, Kroger, Microsoft, MIT,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Red Hat, Rolls-Royce, Salesforce,
Samsung, ServiceNow, Snap, Volvo, Walmart and WPP.
“GTC is a great opportunity for developers and business leaders
to learn the latest advances in AI, accelerated computing and
computer graphics from the world’s top innovators, scientists and
researchers,” said Greg Estes, vice president of Developer Programs
at NVIDIA. “Startups, academia and the largest enterprises all come
together at GTC, giving attendees a unique opportunity to share
ideas and collaborate across boundaries to create the future.”
In recent years, GTC has expanded from high performance
computing and graphics to include areas such as cloud and
enterprise computing, where AI breakthroughs are often deployed.
The keynote and other talks provide corporate and IT leaders the
latest on how to configure secure, accelerated data centers that
support modern workloads including AI, machine learning and natural
language processing.
Special Content for Startups, New Training
OfferingsNVIDIA Inception, a startup program with more
than 8,500 members, will host a full track at GTC designed to
educate, inform and cultivate young companies that are
revolutionizing industries. Over 70 startups will be presenting,
including prominent company founders and well-known industry
partners. Themes and topics include conversational AI, drug
discovery, autonomous systems, emerging markets, among other
areas.
GTC attendees will also be able to build and master their skills
with the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, which offers educational
resources for anyone who wants to learn about all things AI. DLI
will feature 14 full-day training workshops, ranging from beginner
to advanced, in four languages across several time zones. Topics
include classic DLI courses like “The Fundamentals of Deep
Learning,” along with new training courses such as “Scaling CUDA
C++ Applications to Multiple Nodes” and “Accelerating Data
Engineering Pipelines.”
Workshops are taught by NVIDIA DLI-certified instructors who are
experts in their field, delivering industry-leading technical
knowledge that drives breakthrough results. Attendees can also earn
a certificate of competency to support professional
development.
Democratizing AI NVIDIA has structured GTC as
an open, all-access event available to virtually any community
around the world.
Sessions and speakers have been curated to inform and inspire
developers, researchers, scientists, educators, professionals and
students from historically underrepresented groups. Topics such as
building better datasets and making AI more inclusive are among
areas that will be covered. NVIDIA partners with organizations
including LatinX in AI, Tech Career and W.AI in Israel, and Ewha
Womans University of Korea to offer complimentary access to DLI
workshops for diverse communities.
GTC will feature a series of emerging markets sessions focused
on addressing business and technical topics in Africa, the Middle
East and Latin America. Speakers from prominent organizations,
startups and universities, such as the Kenya AI Center of
Excellence, Ethiopian Motion Design and Visual Effects Community,
Python Ghana, Nairobi Women in Machine Learning & Data Science,
and Chile Inria Research Center, will describe how developers in
emerging markets are using AI to address challenges.
Learn more about GTC and register to attend at
www.nvidia.com/gtc.
About NVIDIANVIDIA’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention
of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market and
has redefined modern computer graphics, high performance computing
and artificial intelligence. The company’s pioneering work in
accelerated computing and AI is reshaping trillion-dollar
industries, such as transportation, healthcare and manufacturing,
and fueling the growth of many others.
For further information, contact: Ken
BrownDirector, Corporate CommunicationsNVIDIA
Corporation+1-510-290-2603kebrown@nvidia.com
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