NVIDIA has announced that it will be hosting a new virtual GTC event from November 8 to 11, 2021. One of the highlights will be a keynote by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who’s expected to unveil new AI technologies and products during the news-filled livestream. NVIDIA fans can tune in to see what Huang has to say on November 9.
From NVIDIA’s press release:
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.
Here are some of the major speakers who will be appearing at the GTC event. They include Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO.
- 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
“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.”
Source: NVIDIA