• Talks or Panels
    Enterprises are rapidly adopting AI across public, private, edge, and sovereign environments—but how do they meet the demands of latency, compliance, and resiliency at scale? In this breakout session, discover how Microsoft and NVIDIA empower...

    , Principal Product Manager, Azure AI, Microsoft

    , Sr. Dir. of Product Management, Microsoft

    • Wednesday, Oct 295:00 PM - 5:40 PM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    For today’s CIOs and enterprise AI leaders, the path to meaningful AI outcomes doesn’t begin with algorithms—it begins with data. From model training to deployment at scale, the successful AI lies in how organizations manage, prepare, and govern...

    , VP, AI, Pure Storage

    • Wednesday, Oct 2912:40 PM - 12:55 PM EDT
  • Training Lab

    Join us for an immersive, hands-on lab where you’ll explore the cutting edge of local AI inference—right on NVIDIA Jetson Thor, powered by the new NVIDIA Blackwell GPU architecture. In this lab, you’ll get practical experience running large...

    , Sr. Technical Product Marketing Manager, NVIDIA

    , Sr. Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

    , Technical Marketing Engineer, Metropolis, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 293:15 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    How can you accelerate your AI transformation with confidence to create value? Learn how EY is helping clients on their AI journey based on lessons learned from their own AI transformation leveraging the EY.ai Agentic Platform. Built on NVIDIA AI...

    , Dir., Tax Technology and Transformation, Ernst & Young (EY)

    • Wednesday, Oct 291:40 PM - 1:55 PM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    Ready to move beyond ad-hoc AI projects and drive real transformation? This session unveils the Framework for Innovative Technology Solutions (FITS), a modular and repeatable methodology for accelerating secure AI adoption in the federal...

    , Sr. Dir. of AI and Data Strategy, Government Acquisitions, Inc.

    • Wednesday, Oct 2912:20 PM - 12:35 PM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    Discover how Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA’s strategic collaboration empowers public sector missions through advanced AI/machine learning capabilities. Learn about NVIDIA’s comprehensive software portfolio on AWS, how it seamlessly...

    , Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    , Sr. Solutions Architect, US Federal CSP Technical Lead, NVIDIA

    , Sr. Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    • Wednesday, Oct 291:00 PM - 1:40 PM EDT
  • Training Lab

    Efficiently serving large models to many users is challenging because the two stages of inference conflict: the massive, compute-bound "prefill" (processing the prompt) can block the fast, memory-bound "decode" (generating the answer), causing...

    , Technical Content Developer, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 2910:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    The development and deployment of frontier AI applications demands an entirely new kind of infrastructure—one purpose-built for large-scale training and inference of advanced generative AI models. Together AI’s cloud infrastructure combines NVIDIA...

    , SVP of Infrastructure, Together AI

    • Tuesday, Oct 285:00 PM - 5:15 PM EDT
  • Training Lab

    In this session, we'll teach engineers and developers how to build and interact with a digital twin model for computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations. Attendees will learn how to manipulate CFD data within NVIDIA Omniverse in a...

    , Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer, NVIDIA

    , Sr. Product Manager – Omniverse, NVIDIA

    • Tuesday, Oct 283:15 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    In this session, we'll discuss how manufacturers are accelerating computing by running Synopsys solutions on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated hardware, overcoming the performance and scalability limits of CPU-only environments. GPU architectures unlock...

    , Strategic Partnerships Director, Synopsys

    • Wednesday, Oct 293:20 PM - 3:35 PM EDT
  • Training Lab

    Complex decision optimization problems arise in diverse contexts, such as supply chain management, logistics, resource allocation, personnel scheduling, last-mile delivery, and portfolio optimization. In this lab, we'll dive deep into the...

    , Technical Marketing Engineer, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 291:00 PM - 2:45 PM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    Quantum computing has the potential to offer giant leaps in computational capabilities, impacting a huge range of industries, from drug discovery to portfolio optimization. Realizing these benefits requires building integrated quantum-classical...

    , Group Product Manager for Quantum Computing, NVIDIA

    • Tuesday, Oct 283:00 PM - 3:40 PM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    NVIDIA released CUDA in 2006, opening up the world to the power of accelerated computing. Since then, NVIDIA has built more than 900 domain-specific CUDA-X libraries and models, bringing accelerated computing to all industries and driving...

    , Director, HPC Architecture and Technical Marketing, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 295:00 PM - 5:40 PM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    In this session, Lockheed Martin will discuss how they've leveraged accredited, ready-to-deploy, hardened NVIDIA NIM to significantly accelerate AI processing and reduce runtime. Building on this foundation, we'll explore how Lockheed Martin is...

    , VP, AI Foundations and Commercialization, Lockheed Martin

    • Wednesday, Oct 2910:00 AM - 10:40 AM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    Learn how Northrop Grumman is moving faster than ever, leveraging cutting-edge NVIDIA technologies to boost performance in some of the most complex and demanding environments in the world. We’ll discuss how our integrated, AI-enabled systems are...

    , VP, Northrop Grumman

    • Tuesday, Oct 283:00 PM - 3:15 PM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    Booz Allen Chief Technology Officer Bill Vass will illuminate the evolving convergence of the digital and physical worlds—showing how the integration of digital engineering, sensing, AI, robotics, and immersive interfaces across industries is...

    , SVP, Booz Allen

    , CTO, Booz Allen

    • Tuesday, Oct 285:00 PM - 5:40 PM EDT
  • Full-Day Workshop

    In today's AI landscape, even powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) face limitations when confronted with specialized business knowledge, technical domains, or cultural contexts absent from their training data. While retrieval-augmented...

    , Sr. Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

    • Monday, Oct 279:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    Discover how NVIDIA’s visual AI agents are transforming industrial manufacturing to enhance production quality, functional safety, worker productivity, and workforce upskilling. This session explores real-world applications—including automation of...

    , Global Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 293:00 PM - 3:40 PM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    Python, with its powerful libraries like NumPy and SciPy, is a favorite tool for scientists. However, scaling these applications beyond a single node traditionally requires rewriting code using specialized frameworks like MPI. This software gap...

    , Principle Technical Product Manager, NVIDIA

    , Dir. of Product Management, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 293:00 PM - 3:40 PM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    In this session, we’ll unveil the newest NVIDIA partner and not only reveal the work we’re doing together but also allow you to deploy the integrated software stack directly. Following the initial announcement of this partner at the keynote,...

    , Sr. Dir. of Software Product Management, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 299:00 AM - 9:40 AM EDT
  • Special Event
    Ready to build for a better future? At GTC DC, NVIDIA challenges you to prove that with the right AI models and tools, you can build a full application with a powerful AI agent leveraging MCP—in just two hours—and use it for good. This isn’t your...
    • Wednesday, Oct 294:30 PM - 8:30 PM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    Profound advances in machine learning and AI compel experts to reconsider the limitations of traditional, human-interpretable workflows. We present a two-pronged approach to improving computer vision (CV) generalization in open-world settings...

    , Image Scientist, AI Architect, Fellow, L3Harris

    • Wednesday, Oct 292:20 PM - 2:35 PM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    The rise of AI has made gigawatt-scale data centers a critical necessity for winning the AI race. This session will detail our experience building and operating massive, vertically integrated AI factories accelerated by NVIDIA—including...

    , Head of External Affairs, Crusoe

    • Wednesday, Oct 2910:40 AM - 10:55 AM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    Discover how artificial intelligence is driving transformative change for the U.S. in this dynamic panel of mission-oriented leaders. You'll learn about the impacts of reducing vehicle idling to create smarter, cleaner roadways and explore how...

    , Sr. Manager, Global GTM, Smart Cities and Spaces, NVIDIA

    , Cofounder and CEO, Firescore.ai

    , Chief Weather Officer, Tomorrow.io

    , Deputy Chief, Strategy and Enterprise Architecture, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)

    • Wednesday, Oct 2910:00 AM - 10:40 AM EDT
  • Connect With the Experts
    Model cards are the cornerstone for advancing and communicating AI capabilities, technical limitations, and ethical considerations in a consistent and clear format. But what about other program classes? Hear how NVIDIA is advancing AI transparency...

    , Software Engineer, Trustworthy AI, NVIDIA

    , Technical Program Manager, Trustworthy AI, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 294:00 PM - 4:50 PM EDT
  • Training Lab

    In this introductory, hands-on course, learners will explore NVIDIA Cosmos, a platform of generative world foundation models (WFMs), advanced tokenizers, guardrails, and an accelerated data processing and curation pipeline built to accelerate...

    , Sr. Solutions Architect, AI/AV Simulation, NVIDIA

    , Dir., Solutions Architecture, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 293:15 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    The shift from human-centric to agentic AI is creating an infrastructure inflection point where autonomous agents operating at machine speed—millions of requests per second with millisecond requirements—will soon dominate workloads by orders of...

    , VP Product, Cloud, Akamai Technologies

    • Wednesday, Oct 2911:20 AM - 11:35 AM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    Rapid liquid cooling adoption in modern AI factories started with NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU in May 2022. Development of each discrete cooling circuit element also rapidly increased (cold plate, CDU, CRAH, chiller, dry cooler) but cannot...

    , Sr. Principal Engineer, Boyd

    • Tuesday, Oct 284:40 PM - 4:55 PM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    Despite explosive innovation in artificial intelligence, many AI initiatives falter—not merely due to poor data quality, but because of complex, often overlooked technical and organizational challenges. This session delves into the true reasons AI...

    , Sr. Manager, Data and AI Practice Leader, CDW

    • Wednesday, Oct 294:40 PM - 4:55 PM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    AI workloads are evolving faster than any technology wave before them. Organizations are rewriting applications, reshaping their cloud-native tooling, and even redefining infrastructure itself. GPUs are the backbone of this shift, while advanced...

    , CTO, Spectro Cloud

    • Wednesday, Oct 293:00 PM - 3:15 PM EDT
  • Training Lab

    Join us for a high-velocity, hands-on speedrun where NVIDIA NIMs and Nemotron models power lightning-fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines. Starting with a curated set of PDF documents, you'll build a data transformation pipeline...

    , Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 293:15 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
  • Connect With the Experts

    This Connect With the Experts session will give developers the opportunity to ask questions about NVIDIA IGX and Jetson following the recent release of NVIDIA Jetson Thor in August. Experts will highlight the core Thor platform, share insights...

    , Sr. Product Marketing Manager, NVIDIA

    , Sr. Technical Product Marketing Manager, NVIDIA

    , Sr. Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

    , Product Line Manager: Edge AI and Robotics, NVIDIA

    • Tuesday, Oct 284:00 PM - 4:50 PM EDT
  • Training Lab

    New vision language models (VLMs) are transforming computer vision with scalable, zero-shot reasoning solutions. Learn about NVIDIA Cosmos Reason—a new open and fully customizable VLM for physical AI and robotics—and Llama Nemotron, which...

    , Technical Marketing Engineer, Metropolis, NVIDIA

    , Technical Marketing Engineer, Metropolis, NVIDIA

    , Product Marketing Manager, Metropolis, NVIDIA

    • Tuesday, Oct 285:15 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
  • Connect With the Experts

    Want to learn how to get started building industrial facility digital twins with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and OpenUSD? Join this interactive support session with NVIDIA technical product managers and solutions architects to get direct help...

    , Sr. Product Manager – Omniverse, NVIDIA

    , Dir., Solutions Architecture, NVIDIA

    , Technical Marketing Manager - Physical AI, NVIDIA

    , Sr. Product Manager, Omniverse, NVIDIA

    , Developer Relations Manager - Physical AI, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 291:00 PM - 1:50 PM EDT
  • Full-Day Workshop


    The bar for what AI-powered agents can do has been steadily rising over the past few years. New breakthroughs allow them to not only engage in conversations, but also use tools, conduct research, and execute on complex...

    , Technical Content Developer, NVIDIA

    • Monday, Oct 279:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT
  • Full-Day Workshop

    Just like how humans have multiple senses to perceive the world around them, more and more computer sensors are being developed to capture a wide variety of data. In the health industry, computed tomography (CT) scans provide a 3D...

    , Sr. Data Scientist, NVIDIA

    • Monday, Oct 279:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    This panel brings together NVIDIA, leading cloud partners (Lambda and Together AI), and state government officials to highlight AI factory investments across the U.S., accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell. These deployments showcase how industry and...

    , VP Data Center Infrastructure, Lambda

    , Director, NVIDIA Cloud Partners (NCP) Special Initiatives, NVIDIA

    , Chief Revenue Officer, Together AI

    • Wednesday, Oct 295:00 PM - 5:40 PM EDT
  • Training Lab

    Unlock the power of real-time 3D digital twin applications with NVIDIA Omniverse Kit App Streaming. In this lab, you'll build, containerize, deploy, and extend interactive 3D applications that stream directly to web clients—enabling scalable,...

    , Sr. Product Manager, Omniverse, NVIDIA

    , Dir., Solutions Architecture, NVIDIA

    • Tuesday, Oct 285:15 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
  • Full-Day Workshop

    As manufacturing accelerates toward automation and AI-driven processes, digital twins are becoming essential for simulating, testing, and deploying intelligent systems in real-world factory environments.

    In this workshop, you’ll learn...

    , Sr. Solutions Architect, AI/AV Simulation, NVIDIA

    , Principal Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

    , Technical Marketing Engineer, Metropolis, NVIDIA

    , Technical Marketing Engineer, Metropolis, NVIDIA

    • Monday, Oct 279:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    ServiceNow and NVIDIA go beyond integration to building enterprise AI that’s trusted, scalable, and built to deliver outcomes now. From NVIDIA Nemotron-15B to agentic workflows, see how this alliance powers mission-critical use cases for the...

    , SVP, Global Industries and Solutions, ServiceNow

    • Tuesday, Oct 282:20 PM - 2:35 PM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    As critical infrastructure becomes increasingly digitized and interconnected, the public and regulated sectors face mounting cybersecurity challenges across operational technology (OT) environments. In this panel, NVIDIA hosts leaders shaping the...

    , SVP, Networking and Cybersecurity, NVIDIA

    , VP of Strategy and OT Verticals, Forescout Technologies

    , Sr. Managing Dir. and Global Applied Cybersecurity Leader, Accenture

    , General Manager, Digital Enterprise Services, Siemens Industry

    • Tuesday, Oct 285:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    AI agents are transforming the digital workforce, but regulated industries face unique challenges around security, compliance, and data privacy. This session explores how to build and deploy teams of trustworthy AI agents on premises, ensuring...

    , Engineering Manager, NVIDIA

    , Engineering Manager, Agentic AI and Cybersecurity AI, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 294:00 PM - 4:40 PM EDT
  • Connect With the Experts

    Next-generation AI robots must sense, plan, and act autonomously. Adopting a "simulation-first" approach is essential for developing adaptable, efficient robots—enabling rapid creation of robust robot policies and seamless adaptation to new...

    , Solution Architect, Robotics, NVIDIA

    , Robotics Solution Architect, NVIDIA

    , Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

    , Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

    , NVIDIA

    , Principal Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

    , NVIDIA

    • Tuesday, Oct 283:00 PM - 3:50 PM EDT
    • Wednesday, Oct 299:00 AM - 9:50 AM EDT
  • Theater Talk
    In the years following World War II, America's maritime industrial base led the world in innovative designs and productive capacity. Today, maritime leadership has transitioned to other nations that are actively defining the future of shipbuilding...

    , Cofounder and CTO, Saronic Technologies

    • Wednesday, Oct 2912:00 PM - 12:15 PM EDT
  • Connect With the Experts

    Stop by to chat with our experts about all things code vibing—from streamlining your workflow to unlocking the right tools for your development style. Whether you're deep in the zone or looking to get unstuck, we’ve got you...

    , Principal Product Manager, NVIDIA

    , Technical Product Manager, NVIDIA

    , Director, Enterprise Product, NVIDIA

    , Principal Technical Product Manager, NVIDIA

    , Dev Tech Engineer, Nvidia

    , Director of Dev Tech, NVIDIA

    • Tuesday, Oct 283:00 PM - 3:50 PM EDT
  • Talks or Panels
    The NVIDIA CUDA platform is the foundation of the GPU computing ecosystem. Every application and framework that uses the GPU does so through CUDA's libraries, compilers, runtimes, and language—which means CUDA is growing as fast as its ecosystem...

    , CUDA Technical Product Management Lead, NVIDIA

    • Wednesday, Oct 292:00 PM - 2:40 PM EDT