NVIDIA announced GTC, the leading conference on AI and accelerated computing, will be held March 16-19 in San Jose. Over 30,000 attendees from more than 190 countries, including developers, researchers, business leaders, and AI-focused companies, will gather to see how AI is becoming essential infrastructure for a new industrial era.
GTC is the epicenter of the AI era, said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. AI is no longer a single breakthrough or application; it is essential infrastructure. Every company will use it. Every nation will build it from energy and chips to infrastructure models and applications. Every layer is advancing simultaneously, and you will see it come to life at GTC.
What To Expect At GTC 2026
On Monday, March 16, at 11:00 a.m. PT, Huang will deliver the keynote at the SAP Center, outlining NVIDIA’s latest advances across the entire AI stack:
- accelerated computing
- AI factories
- open models
- agentic systems
- physical AI
The keynote will set the industry’s direction for the year. It will be available live or on demand at NVIDIA.com; registration is not required.
GTC will cover the AI stack’s five layers:
- Energy
- chips
- Infrastructure
- Models
- Applications
Attendees will learn about the technologies, partners, and jobs relevant to each layer and see how their combination drives major infrastructure expansion.
1000+ Sessions: GTC will offer sessions on topics such as:
- AI factories
- large-scale inference
- robotics
- digital twins
- scientific computing
- quantum computing
- enterprise AI developments
Highlights include:
- hands-on tutorials in AI development
- panels for robotics breakthroughs
- in-depth discussions of quantum applications
- real-world case studies of enterprise AI
These presentations will cover how to build, scale, and optimize each AI layer and show them working together in practical scenarios.
Huang will also lead a discussion on Open Frontier Models and Future Directions with leaders from A16Z, AI2, AMP, Coalition, Black Forest Labs, Cursor, Reflection AI, and Thinking Machines Lab.
The GTC Live Keynote pre-game show starts on Monday, March 16, at 8:00 a.m. PT, featuring industry leaders discussing accelerated computing beyond AI and the five-layer stack behind major infrastructure projects. The ecosystem is needed for worldwide project delivery. This show will be available live online. Notable speakers include:
- Perplexity CEO Aravin Srinivas
- LangChain CEO Harrison Chase
- Skilled AI CEO Deepak Pathak
- Open Evidence CEO Daniel Nadler
- Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch
In addition to talks, hands-on training and certification will be available. Developers and engineers can build in-demand skills in AI, accelerated computing, networking, data science, and physical AI through:
- over 60 hands-on labs
- on-site certification opportunities
Self-paced courses, educator programs, and personalized training consultations will also be available to support workforce growth for the expanding AI infrastructure.
Startups, investors, and the AI ecosystem:
- Over 240 NVIDIA inception startups will showcase technology in Physical AI, robotics, generative AI, and enterprise applications.
- There will be dedicated programming for startups and venture capital.
- An AI Day with top venture firms and NVentures.
- Engagement sessions to connect founders and investors working across every layer of the AI stack.
Developer and Research tracks at GTC: Developers can learn directly from NVIDIA engineers and partners, and connect with the global community to build the next wave of AI applications. Technical deep dives, CUDA sessions, and infrastructure workshops will cover large-scale model training, inference optimization, and the deployment of AI services across cloud, edge, and sovereign environments.
More than 150 poster presentations will present cutting-edge research from the global AI community, covering model innovation, robotics, systems, architecture, and new AI applications.
AI Across Industries and Around the World will transform downtown San Jose into an AI campus across ten venues. Cesar Chavez Park will feature a day-and-night market with food, entertainment, and live programming. The All In! The podcast will host interviews from the show floor on Wednesday, March 18. On Thursday, March 19, Student and Community Day will offer discounted rates to the wider community.
Recognizing global audiences, GTC will also provide virtual programming with customized regional content through the online session catalog.
Additionally, GTC features a global lineup of leaders: representatives from organizations that span every layer of the AI industrial system, including cloud platforms, model labs, application developers, and robotics companies, who will share how AI is increasing productivity and driving change across industries.
Participating Organizations:
- Adobe
- Agile Robots
- Agility AI2
- AMP Coalition
- Black Forest Labs
- Canva
- CodeRabbit
- Cohere
- Cursor Energy Systems
- Cursor
- Dassault Systems
- Decagon
- General Motors
- Giant Spark
- Goggle DeepMind
- HuggingFace
- IBM Research
- IdealWorks
- Inception Labs
- Johnson&Johnson
- Kimmy (Open Parentheses)
- Moonshot AI
- L’Oreal
- Lucid Motors
- Magic AI
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Poolside
- Physical Intelligence
- Reflection AI
- Runway
- Siemens
- Shopify
- Snap
- Tesla
- Together AI
- Thinking Machines Lab
- Uber Electronic Technologies
- Universal Robots
- The US Department of Energy
- Vention
- and others
NVIDIA Financial Analyst Q&A
On Tuesday, March 17th at 9:00 a.m. PT, NVIDIA will hold a Q&A session for shareholders and analysts. The webcast will be available at investor.nvidia.com.
Source: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Global Technology Leaders to Showcase Age of AI at GTC 2026
