The much-awaited NVIDIA GTC developer conference is all set to grace the SAP Center in San Jose, CA, from March 17 to 21, 2024. Returning from an in-person gathering hiatus, the event is sure to make heads turn this year.
Traditionally centred around data centres, workstations, and top-tier GPUs, GTC has undergone a transformation to now focus on AI, a domain where NVIDIA undeniably reigns supreme.
The GTC would feature a significant keynote by chief Jensen Huang. The keynote announcement will be live-streamed on Monday, March 18, at 2:30 AM IST (1 PM PT). The event, being promoted as the ‘#1 AI Conference for Developers’, will hold over 900 sessions, 200+ exhibits, 20+ technical workshops, and unique networking events in several technical areas.
The event features fireside chats alongside talks by Meta’s Joelle Pineau, Dr Priscilla Chan, AI researcher Fei-Fei Li and many others. The list of speakers is a balanced one with experts from different areas of the industry, be it research or business.
Apart from the C-suite executives, a number of renowned researchers will be taking the stage to impart knowledge about their work, experience and the current AI landscape.
The topics include, but are not limited to, accelerated computing tools and techniques, AI models & deployment, AR/VR and so on. Each topic will be touched upon by industry leaders, given that NVIDIA is partnered with small and big names in tech, like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, xAI and RunwayML.
Some distinguished speakers to look out for at NVIDIA GTC 2024 include:
- Ming-Yu Liu – Vice President of Generative AI Research at NVIDIA will explain the key ideas behind Edify Model design and its applications to image and 3D generation.
- Dieter Fox – Senior Director of Robotics Research at NVIDIA will be part of the fireside chat to discuss how advances in AI enable breakthroughs in various fields, including computer vision, and natural language processing.
- Amit Bleiweiss – Senior Learning Solution Engineer, NVIDIA will discuss how enterprises can leverage large language model-powered apps to provide innovative services to clients.
- Rama Akkiraju – VP, Enterprise AI and Automation and Sonu Nayyar – SVP, Chief Information Officer at NVIDIA will be part of the panel to discuss harnessing Generative AI’s potential
- Maria Girone – Chief Technology Officer at CERN Open Lab and Andrew Hsiao – AVP at Pegatron will take the stage to discuss uniting AI, digital twins, and accelerated computing
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GTC 2024 will also feature an array of luminaries, including esteemed thought leaders such as Andrea Gagliano, Senior Director of Data Science, AI/ML at Getty Images; Joelle Pineau, VP of AI Research at Meta; Chris Bedi, Chief Digital Information Officer at ServiceNow; Vincent Vanhoucke, Distinguished Scientist and Senior Director of Robotics at Google DeepMind; Steve May, Chief Technology Officer at Pixar; Nick Cannon, Chief Technology Officer at Walt Disney Animation Studios; Francois Chardavoine, CTO at Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic; Peter Lee, Corporate VP of Research and Incubations at Microsoft; Brad Lightcap, Chief Operating Officer at OpenAI; and Dade Orgeron, CTO at Shutterstock.
From NVIDIA, notable participants include Jim Fan, Research Scientist; Billy Dally, Chief Scientist and SVP of Research; Stephen Jones, CUDA Architect; Norm Marks, VP of Automotive Enterprise; and Jeff Larkin, HPC Architect among others.
Additionally, one can expect updates on Blackwell, NVIDIA’s next-gen architecture. Last year the focus was on Hopper, with the even more powerful H200 and GH200 being introduced. The AI leader has already confirmed that their roadmap for 2024-25 features Blackwell, namely the B100 and GB200, which have been listed.
The next-gen GPUs are something to look forward to since NVIDIA currently holds over 90% of the AI GPU market share.
The Blackwell is rumoured to utilise TSMC’s 3nm process and introduce a chiplet design to replace previous GPU architectures. It will succeed NVIDIA’s current Hopper GPU and is slated to enter production in the second half of 2024.
The official keynote teaser points out generative AI’s features like the WPP/NVIDIA engine for digital advertising, the newly introduced Chat with RTX, an industrial metaverse powered by SyncTwin, AI art by Refik Anadol Studio, and OpenAI creating code for Blender animations.
Last month at CES 2024, the third-most valued company in the world introduced three new graphics cards, advancements in in-game NPC dev and robotics, and partnerships across multiple sectors from healthcare to automotive. All in all, NVIDIA showed off a host of new offerings at the Las Vegas event, but not everything it has in store.
The company will share its latest full-stack tech offerings at GTC next month, including those for cloud and on-premise AI/ML development. The conference not only caters to the high-level tech crowd but also encourages beginners in the field to participate.
The event has several beginner-level sessions, such as the Fundamentals of Deep Learning workshop and another one where attendees can learn to build transformer-based natural language processing applications.
Participants will be able to experience generative AI at work through immersive and interactive theatre, pavilion and installations.
Though we may all still be groping in the dark about various aspects of GTC, one thing is clear – NVIDIA is gearing up to bring the spotlight back on AI hardware. Also, consumer GPUs may not be grabbing the headlines, but GTC will give us a peek into where NVIDIA is steering the whole industry.
With these generative AI models hogging the limelight, GTC 2024 is going to spill the beans on NVIDIA’s grand plan for AI dominance in the years to come.
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