Nvidia online GTC event will feature 200 sessions on AI, the metaverse, and Omniverse
Dean Takahashi @deantak
August 15, 2022
Nvidia said it will host its next GTC conference virtually from Sept. 19 to September 22, featuring a keynote by CEO Jensen Huang and more than 200 tech sessions.
Huang will talk about AI and the Omniverse, which is Nvidia’s simulation environment for creating metaverse-like virtual worlds. More than 40 of the 200 talks will focus on the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One. I’ll be moderating a session on the industrial applications of the metaverse with speakers from Mercedes-Benz, Siemens and Magic Leap executives, as well Metaverse book author Matthew Ball. (We’ll have similar metaverse sessions at our MetaBeat event and Ball is also speaking at our GamesBeat Summit Next 2022 event in October).
GTC will also feature a fireside chat with Turing Award winners Yoshua Bengio, Geoff Hinton and Yann
LeCun discussing how AI will evolve and help solve challenging problems. The discussion will be
moderated by Sanja Fidler, vice president of AI Research at Nvidia.
GTC talks will explore some of the key advances driving AI and the metaverse — including large language
models, natural language processing, digital twins, digital biology, robotics and climate science.
Major talks
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, introduces Omniverse Avatar
Other major talks will explore:
- BMW, ILM, Kroger, Lowe’s, Siemens, Nvidia and others on using digital twins for a range of applications, from manufacturing to neurosurgery to climate modeling
- ByteDance’s deployment of large-scale GPU clusters for machine learning and deep learning
- Medtronic’s use of AI for robotic surgery and the operating room of the future
- Boeing’s digital transformation enabling aircraft engineering and production to be more flexible and efficient
- Deutsche Bank’s adoption of AI and cloud technologies to improve the customer experience
- Johnson & Johnson’s use of hybrid cloud computing for healthcare, plus a session on its use of quantum computing simulation for pharmaceutical research
- How pharmaceutical companies can use transformer AI models and digital twins to accelerate drug discovery
- United Nations and Nvidia scientists discussing AI for climate modeling, including disaster prediction, deforestation and agriculture
- Amazon Web Services, Ericsson, Verizon and Nvidia leaders describing augmented- and virtual-reality applications for 5G and optimizing 5G deployment with digital twins
- Adobe, Pixar and Nvidia leaders explaining how Universal Scene Description is becoming a standard for the metaverse.
Nvidia said GTC offers a range of sessions tailored for many different audiences, including business executives, data scientists, enterprise IT leaders, designers, developers, researchers and students. It will have content for participants at all stages of their careers with learning-and-development
opportunities, many of which are free.
Developers, researchers and students can sign up for 135 sessions on a broad range of topics, including:
5 Paths to a Career in AI
- Accelerating AI workflows and maximizing investments in cloud infrastructure
- The AI journey from academics to entrepreneurship
- Applying lessons from Kaggle-winning solutions to real-world problems
- Developing HPC applications with standard C++, Fortran and Python
- Defining the quantum-accelerated supercomputer
Insights from Nvidia Research
Attendees can sign up for hands-on, full-day technical workshops and two-hour training labs offered by the Nvidia Deep Learning Institute (DLI). Twenty workshops are available in multiple time zones and languages, and more than 25 free training labs are available in accelerated computing, computer vision, data science, conversational AI, natural language processing and other topics.
venturebeat.com |
