NVIDIA today announced that it will host its GTC 2022 conference virtually from March 21-24, with a news-filled keynote by its founder and CEO Jensen Huang and more than 900 sessions from 1,400 speakers, including some of the world's top researchers and industry leaders in AI, high performance computing and graphics. Huang's keynote will be live-streamed on Tuesday, March 22, at 8 a.m. Pacific time. This GTC will focus on accelerated computing, deep learning, data science, digital twins, networking, quantum computing and computing in the data center, cloud and edge. There will be more than 20 dedicated sessions on how AI can help visualize and further climate science.

"As one of the world's leading AI conferences, GTC provides a singular opportunity to help solve huge challenges and redefine the future for developers, researchers and decision-makers across industries, academia, business and government," said Greg Estes, vice president of Developer Programs at NVIDIA. "There's a mother lode of content and opportunities for attendees of all levels to deepen their knowledge and make new connections."Among the many notable speakers at GTC:

• Andrew Ng, founder of DeepLearning.AI, founder and CEO of Landing AI
• Prof. Dr. Bjorn Stevens, managing director and director of the department, The Atmosphere in the Earth System, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
• Prof. Chelsea Finn, assistant professor of computer science, Stanford University
• Hao Yang, vice president of AI Research, Visa
• Jack Jin, lead machine learning Infra engineer, Zoom
• Joe Ucuzoglu, CEO, Deloitte U.S.
• Lidia Fonseca, chief digital and technology officer, Pfizer
• Magnus Östberg, chief software officer, Mercedes-Benz AG
• Marc Petit, general manager for Unreal Engine, Epic Games
• Markus Gross, vice president of Research, Walt Disney Studios
• Michael Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
• Natalya Tatarchuk, director of global graphics, Unity
• Peter Stone, executive director, Sony AI, and professor of computer science, University of Texas, Austin
• Dr. Stefan Sicklinger, head of BigLoop and Advanced Systems, CARIAD/VW Group
• Yu Liu, director of AI, Meta
• Zoe Lofgren, member of Congress, U.S. House of Representatives

Other organizations participating include Amazon, Autodesk, Barclays, Bloomberg, Cisco, Cornell University, DeepMind, Dell Technologies, Ericsson, Flipkart, Google Brain, Lockheed Martin, NASA, NFL, Snap, U.S. Air Force and VMware.