November 30–December 3, 2026

NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C.

Name: NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C. 2026
Start: 2026-11-30
End: 2026-12-03
Location: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

Join us to explore how super intelligence (SI) is accelerating American economic growth and scientific discovery.

Experiences
Speakers
Topics

Experiences
Speakers
Topics

Connect with developers, researchers, industry partners, public sector professionals, and policymakers to learn how SI is helping drive innovation in the U.S. economy. The conference will feature expert sessions, live demos, and hands-on workshops covering everything from open models and AI factories to physical AI, high-performance computing, and scientific advancement. GTC takes place at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, plus venues across the city.

Learn, Connect, and Share Innovation

Talks and Panels

Deep dive into technology breakthroughs.

Join sessions where developers, researchers, and business leaders share the tools and insights powering real products and deployments across every industry.

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Learning, Training, and Certification

Build your skills. Boost your career.

Get expert training with full-day workshops that go deep on everything from open models and infrastructure to physical AI, high-performance computing, and U.S. scientific advancement. You can also access our two-hour hands-on labs and onsite certification exams.

Explore Trainings Sessions

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Networking With Like Minds

Connect on open source, NVIDIA products, and more.

From hallway conversations to structured meetups, GTC connects you with developers, startups, and thought leaders who are shaping the AI ecosystem.

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Hear From Leading Minds in the Industry

The speaker lineup is growing, with more to come soon.

Darío Gil

Undersecretary for Science
U.S. Department of Energy

Ian Buck

VP, Hyperscale and HPC
NVIDIA

Kari Briski

VP, Open Models and Software
NVIDIA

Rev Lebaredian

VP, Physical AI Simulation
NVIDIA

Marcela Denniston

Senior Director, Head of Cyber Defense Operations and Engineering
NVIDIA

Thomas Fuchs

Senior Vice President, Chief AI Officer
Lilly

Justin Boitano

VP, Enterprise AI Products
NVIDIA

Bryan Catanzaro

VP, Applied Deep Learning Research
NVIDIA

Dr. Rick Abramson

Director of the Digital Health Center of Excellence
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Here’s What to Expect Across Key Topics

Explore the session catalog to dive deeper into the topics that interest you.

Agents

Explore how organizations can build, evaluate, and deploy specialized agents with open models, tools, and platforms that enable transparency, control, and scale.

Science

Discover how accelerated computing is enabling scientists. You’ll learn how they fuse agentic systems, simulation, and data to unlock breakthroughs in climate, materials, biology, and beyond.

Infrastructure

See how leading organizations turn data centers into scalable AI factories that efficiently and securely produce, manage, and deploy advanced technology from gigawatt-scale compute to enterprise agents.

Safety and Security

Explore how open, customizable tools enforce boundaries around AI agents, protect sensitive data, and create safer AI systems.

CUDA and Libraries

Dive into NVIDIA CUDA™, open source frameworks, CUDA-X libraries, and developer tools that let you build, optimize, and deploy GPU-accelerated applications, from community-driven projects to the latest open models and SDK.

Local AI

Discover what’s driving the shift to local AI, from hardware advances that bring stronger models to smaller systems to strategies for routing open and closed models across local, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure.

Open Source

Discover how open source models, software, and communities help developers and organizations build transparent, adaptable AI systems.

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.

GTC Washington, D.C. Conference Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Join us on November 30–December 3 and be part of the NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C. experience.