Wednesday, March 11, 8 a.m. PT
GTC 2026: What to Count on From the Largest AI Convention of the 12 months🔗
Each March, San Jose will get slightly electrical.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will stroll onto the ground of the SAP Middle — residence of the San Jose Sharks — on Monday, March 16, at 11 a.m. PT to ship a keynote to a crowd that has been arriving since Sunday from 190 international locations.
Thirty-thousand attendees. Ten venues throughout downtown. Register, and also you’ll hit your step depend. The keynote streams free from nvidia.com for many who need to attend nearly.
This yr’s GTC spans subjects from bodily AI and AI factories to agentic AI and inference. Huang’s keynote will cowl the complete stack: chips, software program, fashions and functions. It’s a buildout measured in gigawatts. Greater than 700 periods present all the small print.
The pregame present — that includes the CEOs of Perplexity, LangChain, Mistral, Skild AI and OpenEvidence — begins at 8 a.m. PT on Monday, three hours earlier than Huang takes the stage. And the keynote is simply the capstone of day one.
On Wednesday, March 18, at 12:30 p.m. PT, Huang will reasonable a panel on open fashions with Harrison Chase, cofounder and CEO of LangChain, and leaders from A16Z, AI2, Cursor and Considering Machines Lab. The dialog shall be about the place open fashions stand towards the frontier closed ones, and what it means for everybody constructing on high of them. Doorways open at 11:30 a.m. PT. Seating is first come, first served.
Tuesday, March 17, at 9 a.m. PT, Dario Gil, Undersecretary on the U.S. Division of Power, joins NVIDIA Vice President of Hyperscale and Excessive-Efficiency Computing Ian Buck to debate AI in local weather and power analysis. At 2 p.m. PT later that day, Common Music Group chairman and CEO Sir Lucian Grainge joins NVIDIA Vice President of Media and Leisure Richard Kerris on music and AI.
On March 18, tune in to the GTC Developer Neighborhood Livestream for a full day of real-time protection of hackathons, present ground demos and developer areas. Ask questions, request deep dives and have interaction straight with NVIDIA engineers within the YouTube chat.
Off the primary phases: 150 researcher posters on robotics, mannequin innovation and programs structure, with the researchers there to speak by means of their work. Seventy-plus hands-on coaching labs, an hour and 45 minutes every. Certification exams onsite, no further price.
There are snacks, too. At Cesar Chavez Park, the middle of the GTC campus, a day market runs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The night time market goes till 9 p.m.
The convention ends Thursday afternoon. Keep tuned all week on the weblog for updates.
NVIDIA GTC runs March 16-19 in San Jose, California. Register at nvidia.com/gtc — use code GTC26-20 for 20% off. The keynote streams free at nvidia.com, no registration required.
