Nvidia GTC 2024 Event

MONDAY, March 18

  • 8:00 AM – 8:25 AM PDT
    • SJCC 220A (L2): “How Lowe’s is Driving Innovation and Agility With AI” – Seemantini Godbole, EVP, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Lowe’s
  • 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM PDT
    • SJCC 220A (L2): “AI and the Radical Transformation of Marketing” – Stephan Pretorius, CTO, WPP
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM PDT
    • SJCC 220C (L2): “Fireside Chat with David Luan and Bryan Catanzaro: The Future of AI and the Path to AGI” – Bryan Catanzaro, VP, Applied Deep Learning Research, NVIDIA; David Luan, Founder and CEO, Adept AI
    • SJCC 230A (L2): “The Big Bang of Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD)” – Steve May, CTO, Pixar; Aliza Carpio, Director, Tech Evangelist, Autodesk; Gordon Bradley, Fellow, Autodesk; Guido Quaroni, Sr. Director of Engineering of 3D & Immersive, Adobe
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
    • SAP Center: “GTC 2024 Keynote” – Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA

TUESDAY, March 19

  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
    • Signia Hotel, Imperial Ballroom: “Financial Analyst Q&A” – Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA; Colette Kress, EVP and CFO, NVIDIA
  • 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM PDT
    • SJCC 220C (L2): “Driving Innovation: Generative AI and Industrial Digitalization in the Automotive Industry” – Chrissie Kemp, Chief Data & Digital Product Officer, Jaguar Land Rover; Alex Kendall, Co-Founder and CEO, Wayve; Norm Marks, VP, Automotive Enterprise, NVIDIA; Raquel Urtasun, Founder and CEO, Waabi
    • SJCC 210D (L2): “Charting the Future of AI in MedTech” – Parminder Bhatia, Chief AI Officer, GE Healthcare; Dr. Sarah Matt, VP, Product Strategy, Oracle Health; Shan Jegatheeswaran, VP Global Head MedTech Digital, Johnson & Johnson; Rodolphe Katra, PhD, VP of Artificial Intelligence, Medtronic
    • SJCC 230C (L2): “Enterprise AI in Banking: How One Leader is Investing in ‘AI First'” – Chintan Mehta, CIO and Head of Digital Technology and Innovation, Wells Fargo
  • 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM PDT
    • SJCC 220B (L2): “A Culture of Open and Reproducible Research, in the Era of Large AI Generative Models” – Joelle Pineau, VP, AI Research, Meta
    • SJCC 210D (L2): “Lab in a Loop: AI to Transform Drug Discovery and Development” – Aviv Regev, Head of Genentech Research and Early Development, Genentech

WEDNESDAY, March 20

  • 8:00 AM – 8:50 AM PDT
    • SJCC 212A (L2): “Financial Knowledge Graphs for Retrieval Augmented Generation” – Dhagash Mehta, Head of Applied AI Research, BlackRock
    • SJCC 230A (L2): “Accelerated Computing is Accelerating Industrial Digitalization” – Andrew Hsiao, Associate VP, Pegatron
  • 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM PDT
    • SJCC 210F (L2): “How AI Will Decode Biology to Radically Improve Lives” – Ben Mabey, CTO, Recursion
    • SJCC 230B (L2): “From Netflix Recommendations to Conversational Multi-agents: The (R)Evolution of AI-Driven Product Innovation” – Xavier Amatriain, VP AI Product Strategy, LinkedIn
    • SJCC 220B (L2): “Lessons on Video Generation Models from Research to Production” – Anastasis Germanidis, CTO and Co-Founder, Runway
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM PDT
    • SJCC 220B (L2): “Robotics in the Age of Generative AI” – Vincent Vanhoucke, Distinguished Scientist and Senior Director of Robotics, Google DeepMind
    • SJCC 210G (L2): “Overcome the Complexities of Generative AI With a Secure, Scalable AI Foundry” – Kari Briski, VP Generative AI Software Product Management, NVIDIA
    • SJCC 230B (L2): “Artists Exploring Creativity and Language With Generative AI” – Andrea Gagliano, Senior Director, AI/ML, Getty Images; Pinar Seyhan Demirdag, Co-Founder and AI Director, Cuebric; Youmna Chamcham, CEO/Co-Founder, Mini Studio AI
    • SJCC 210D (L2): “Navigating the Opportunity for GenAI in Financial Services” – Prem Natarajan, EVP, Chief Scientist and Head of Enterprise AI, Capital One; Rohit Chauhan, EVP, AI, Mastercard; Belinda Neal, COO for Core Engineering & Head of Engineering Partnerships, Goldman Sachs
  • 10:30 AM – 10:55 AM PDT
    • Marriott Ballroom 3 (L2): “Generative AI Ecosystems and Partnerships: a Telco and ISV Perspective” – Rohit Batra, General Manager and VP, Telecom, Media & Technology Industry, ServiceNow
  • 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM PDT
    • SJCC 210E (L2): “Unlock the Power of Generative AI Across your On-premises and Edge” – Chris Wolf, Global Head of AI and Advanced Services, VMware
    • SJCC 220A (L2): “Transforming AI” – Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA; Ashish Vaswani, Co-Founder and CEO, Essential AI; Noam Shazeer, CEO and Co-Founder, Character.AI; Niki Parmar, Co-Founder, Essential AI; Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO and Co-Founder, Inceptive; Llion Jones, CTO and Co-Founder, Sakana AI; Lukasz Kaiser, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI; Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol; Aidan Gomez, CEO and Co-Founder, Cohere
  • 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM PDT
    • SJCC 220B (L2):Generative AI: Building and Scaling Adobe Firefly” – Alexandru Costin, VP, Generative AI & Sensei, Adobe
    • SJCC 220C (L2): “Solving the Biggest Challenges in GenAI” – Matt Bell, Head of Product Research, Anthropic
    • SJCC 212A (L2): “Digitalizing Global Manufacturing Supply Chains With Digital Twins, Powered by OpenUSD” – Kirk Fleischhauer, Senior VP, Foxconn
  • 3:00 PM – 3:50 PM PDT
    • SJCC LL20C (LL): “Building Accelerated AI With Hugging Face and NVIDIA” – Jeff Boudier, Head of Product, Hugging Face
    • Marriott Ballroom 3 (L2): “How Telcos are Enabling National AI Infrastructure and Platforms” – Joao Kluck Gomes, Director, Telco Global Business Development, NVIDIA; Manoj Prasanna Kumar, Head, Technology – 5G/MEC & IOT Technology, Singtel; Vikram Sinha, President Director and CEO, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison; Igor Krochin, Telconet

THURSDAY, March 21

  • 8:00 AM – 8:50 AM PDT
    • SJCC 220B (L2): “AI-Driven Drug Discovery: Unravelling Biological Complexities” – Anthony Costa, Group Lead, Life Sciences Developer Relations, NVIDIA; Daphne Koller, Founder and CEO, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Insitro, Stanford University; Luca Naef, Co-Founder and CTO, VantAI; Gary Glick, Founder and CEO, Odyssey Therapeutics; Edith Hessel, Chief Scientific Officer, Relation Therapeutics
  • 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM PDT
    • SJCC 210D (L2): “Best Practices in Networking for AI: Perspectives from Cloud Service Providers” – Peter Salanki, VP of Engineering, CoreWeave; Gilad Shainer, Senior VP Networking, NVIDIA; Omar Baldonado, Director of DC Networking, Meta; Jithin Jose, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure; Jeff Drehobl, Sr Staff Network Development Engineer, X