NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Global Technology Leaders to Showcase Age of AI at GTC 2026

NVIDIA today announced that GTC, the world’s premier conference on AI and accelerated computing, will take place March 16-19 this year in San Jose, California. More than 30,000 attendees— spanning developers, researchers, business leaders and AI-native companies—will gather from over 190 countries to explore how AI is becoming essential infrastructure, powering a new industrial era.

“GTC is the epicenter of the AI industrial era,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “AI is no longer a single breakthrough or application—it is essential infrastructure. Every company will use it. Every nation will build it. From energy and chips to infrastructure, models and applications, every layer of the stack is advancing at once, and you’ll see that all come to life at GTC.”

What to Expect at GTC 2026
Keynote: Huang will deliver the keynote from SAP Center on Monday, March 16, at 11 a.m. PT. The keynote will outline NVIDIA’s latest advancements across the full AI stack, from accelerated compute and AI factories to open models, agentic systems and physical AI, setting the industry’s direction for the year ahead. The keynote will be livestreamed and available on demand at nvidia.com. Registration is not required to view the keynote online.

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