It All Starts Here

March 16–19, 2026  |  San Jose, CA and Virtual

March 16–19, 2026  |  San Jose, CA and Virtual

NVIDIA GTC is the premier global AI conference, taking place this week throughout San Jose. Join thousands of developers, researchers, and business leaders, live and online, to explore the AI breakthroughs shaping every industry—from physical AI and AI factories to agentic AI and inference.
Don’t miss this week of incredible learning and discovery, including inspiring sessions, hands-on training, and opportunities to connect with experts and peers.
It’s not too late to join. Grab an Exhibits Only pass to explore the show floor in person, or register to watch sessions virtually from wherever you are.  

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on Stage
Live

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s Keynote and GTC Live Pregame

See Jensen Huang live on stage at SAP Center as he explores the next generation of AI. 
Be sure to tune in early to catch the GTC Live 2026 pregame show. You’ll hear the latest on accelerated computing beyond AI, including the five-layer stack behind the largest infrastructure buildouts and the ecosystem needed to deliver it worldwide.

Experiences You Won’t Want to Miss

Special Panel Moderated by Jensen Huang

Wednesday, March 18, 12:30–2 p.m. at the Civic Center

One of the most important shifts in AI over the past year has been the rapid advancement of open frontier models. Open innovation is accelerating progress across every company and every industry, making it clear that AI will proliferate everywhere.

Don’t miss NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang hosting industry leaders from Ai2, Cursor, Langchain, Mistral, and others for a candid discussion on the state of the art in open frontier models and what comes next.

Build-a-Claw at GTC:
Your AI Agent, Built by You

March 16–19 at GTC Park

Stop by NVIDIA’s “Build-a-Claw” area Monday through Thursday in GTC Park to learn how to customize an always-on AI assistant using OpenClaw, the fastest-growing open source project in history. Bring your own NVIDIA DGX Spark or GeForce RTX laptop, with no personal data on the device. DGX Spark will also be available to buy on site.

No matter your technical level, you'll leave with something remarkable.

Sessions Recommended for You

Hear From Leading Minds in the Industry

Pras Velagapudi

CTO
Agility Robotics 

Mira Murati

Founder and CEO 
Thinking Machines Lab

Jeff Dean

Chief Scientist
Google DeepMind and Google Research 

Dario Gil

Undersecretary for Science
U.S. Department of Energy 

Chelsea Finn

Assistant Professor,  Stanford University
Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence

Explore What’s Possible With Next-Gen AI

Agentic AI and Reasoning AI

Learn from industry experts how to build specialized AI agents that reason, plan, and act to deliver real business results with the latest open models, libraries, frameworks, and platforms.

AI Factories and Scaling Infrastructure

See how AI factories and next‑generation infrastructure can turn your data centers into scalable intelligence engines that efficiently produce, manage, and deploy AI across your enterprise.

AI for Science

Discover how accelerated computing and AI are transforming scientific discovery, fusing simulation, data, and machine learning to unlock breakthroughs in climate, materials, biology, and beyond.

CUDA, Libraries, and Developer Tools

Dive into CUDA, CUDA-X libraries, and developer tools that let you build, optimize, and deploy GPU‑accelerated applications.

High-Performance Inference and Training

Learn how to scale model training and AI inference together so your most demanding reasoning models, agents, and robotics workloads run faster, cheaper, and more reliably in production.

Open Models

Explore the new universe of open models, data, and tools that let you customize deeply, integrate quickly into your agent architectures, and deploy trustworthy AI tailored to your domain.

Physical AI and Robotics

See how NVIDIA open models, libraries, and simulation frameworks are helping developers build the next generation of factories, robots, and autonomous vehicles.

Quantum Computing and HPC

Discover how quantum computing and HPC, unified on accelerated platforms, enable hybrid workflows that push the frontiers of science, engineering, and industry at unprecedented scale.

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