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.
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] 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; Topics around autonomous vehicles: techniques for developing safer, more efficient transportation, advancements in autonomous driving, end-to-end vehicle simulation, robotaxis, and trucking.