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.
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.
Sessions address subject matters concerning telecommunications and 5G: 5G network acceleration and security, AI-on-5G applications, and 6G research.