Nvidia said on Wednesday it will hold the world’s largest AI and accelerated computing conference, GTC 2026, in San Jose, California from March 16 local time, or March 17 in South Korea. The event will draw more than 30,000 developers, researchers, business leaders and AI companies from about 190 countries. GTC 2026 will highlight how AI is becoming essential infrastructure leading a new industrial era.

CEO Jensen Huang (젠슨 황) will deliver a keynote at SAP Center at 11 a.m. on March 16, or 3 a.m. on March 17 in South Korea. The speech will introduce Nvidia’s latest technologies across the full AI stack, from accelerated computing and AI factories to open models, agentic systems and physical AI. The keynote will be available as a livestream and on-demand replay on Nvidia’s website.

Nvidia will run more than 1,000 sessions covering topics ranging from AI factories and large-scale inference to robotics, digital twins, scientific computing, quantum computing and enterprise AI adoption. The sessions will address how to build and scale each layer of the AI stack and how they connect in real production environments. Huang will also hold a discussion with industry leaders on the latest trends and future direction of open frontier models.

GTC will also spotlight all layers of AI, made up of energy, chips, infrastructure, models and applications. Nvidia will show through the keynote, sessions and demos that each layer is evolving based on its own partner ecosystem, technology and skilled workforce.

Programs for startups and ventures, AI Day involving major venture firms, and sessions involving Nventures will provide founders and investors with opportunities to explore innovation across the full AI industry stack.

Nvidia founder and CEO Huang said GTC is the hub of the AI industrial era and that AI is no longer a single application or technological innovation but has become essential infrastructure. He added that every company will use AI and every country will build AI. He also said every layer of the AI stack, from energy and chips to infrastructure, models and applications, is advancing at the same time and that people will be able to see these changes firsthand at GTC.