Jeff's 2024 GTC Cheatsheet for AECO Professionals

GTC will be back in person from March 17-21, 2024. We have over 800 sessions spanning dozens of different categories, industries and skill levels! While you could spend time browsing this incredible collection of sessions, I've done some of the hard work for you! I have curated a special list of sessions for all my partners and industry friends to save you some time. If you work in the AECO industry you've come to the right place!

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Session Categories Index

• Keynote
• Generative AI
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• AI in AECO
• AI Governance / IP / Strategy
• Omniverse / USD
• AI Training
• Climate
• NVIDIA Research
• Graphics
• XR
• CUDA
• Hardware

KEYNOTE

S62542 - GTC 2024 Keynote

Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA

GENERATIVE AI

S62832 - Edify Models for Visual Content Generation

Ming-Yu Liu, Vice President of Generative AI Research, NVIDIA

S62958 - Artists Exploring Creativity and Language with Generative AI

Wallis Mills, Senior Strategist, NVIDIA

Vanessa A Rosa, Artist, Little Martians - Mars College

Andrea Gagliano, Senior Director Data Science, AI/ML at Getty Images, Getty Images

Pinar Seyhan Demirdag, Co-Founder and AI Director, Seyhan Lee and Cuebric

Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Artist, Studio Amelia

Youmna Chamcham, Chief Executive Officer/Co-Founder, Mini Studio AI

S62683 - Building a Generative Service to Create 3D Assets from Text

Dade Orgeron, CTO, Shutterstock

S62430 - What’s Next in Generative AI

Brad Lightcap, Chief Operating Officer, OpenAI

Manuvir Das, Vice President of Enterprise Computing, NVIDIA

S62190 - Elevating 3D Concepts: GenAI-Infused Design

Pierre Maheut, Director of the Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, Adobe

CWE62194 - Connect With the Experts: Deploying and Optimizing Image-Based Generative AI Pipelines on Workstations

Chris Hebert, Senior Engineer, NVIDIA

Cem Moluluo, Senior Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Dennis Sandler, Senior Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Luca Spindler, Developer Technology Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Maximilian Mueller, Senior Developer Technology Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Ricardo Monteiro, Senior Video Coding Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Stephan Seitz, Senior Developer Technology Software Engineer, NVIDIA

S62414 - Taking it up a Notch: Engineering the Future of AECO Design Tools

Gamma Basra, Senior Partner, Head of Visualization, Foster + Partners

Martha Tsigkari, Senior Partner, Head of Applied R+D, Fosters + Partners

S61268 - 3D and Gen AI at Home: Building an Application for the Global Design Industry

Jeff Ho, CPO, HOMEE AI

Gene Chang, Chief Technology Officer, HOMEE

S61665 - Implementing Generative AI in Practice

Yaron Haviv, Co-founder and CTO, Iguazio (Acquired by Mckinsey)

DLIT61491 - Exploring Foundation Models: The Pillars of AI Advancement

Jovan Chew, Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

Darren Tan, Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

DLIW61552 - Generative AI with Diffusion Models

Mohammad Raza, Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

DLIW61558 - Generative AI with Diffusion Models

DLIT61227 - Real 2 Sim: Build 3D Assets from Real-World Objects

Maycon da Silva Carvalho, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

Jason Tichy, Senior Data Scientist, NVIDIA

P61373 - Constructing 3D Furniture Models from Single Images with 2D Part Segmentation

CheRung Lee, Professor, National Tsing Hua University

iuankai fang, Designer, National Tsing Hua University

S61376 - Reinventing Workplace Productivity through Personalized Foundation Models

Ashok Pancily Poothiyot, Director of Product Management, Dropbox

Ameya Bhatawdekar, Director, Machine Learning, Dropbox

S62785 - Leveraging Generative AI for Marketing Content Generation and Edition

yoann yvon, Head of Digital Interaction, Soprasteria Group

S62953 - Overcome the Complexities of Generative AI with a Secure, Scalable AI Foundry

Kari Briski, Vice President Generative AI Software Product Management, NVIDIA

S62954 - A Guide to Building Safe Generative AI Copilots that Improve Productivity and Protect Company Data

Jacob Liberman, Principle Product Manager, Enterprise AI, NVIDIA

Emily Apsey, Manager, Technical Marketing and Engineering, NVIDIA

S62541 - Diffusion Models: A Generative AI Big Bang

Karsten Kreis, Senior Research Scientist, NVIDIA

Arash Vahdat, Principal Scientist and Research Manager, NVIDIA

LLMs (Large Language Models)

S62263 - Optimizing Inference Performance and Incorporating New LLM Features in Desktops and Workstations

Joohoon Lee, Manager, Deep Learning Inference PM, NVIDIA

Abel Brown, Deep Learning Solution Architect, NVIDIA

S62031 - Speeding up LLM Inference with TensorRT-LLM

Daya Khudia, Technical Lead Manager, Databricks

S62109 - Large Language Model Prompt Tuning

John Wu, Senior Product Manager, AI, Domino Data Lab

Josh Mineroff, Director of Solution Architecture, Tech Alliances, Domino Data Lab

DLIT62131 - Building a GPU-Accelerated Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Pipeline

Ronay Ak, Senior Data Scientist, NVIDIA

Benedikt Schifferer, Manager - Deep Learning for RecSys, NVIDIA

S62394 - Augmenting Vision AI with Large Language Model Interfaces to Improve productivity

Poonam Chitale, NVIDIA

Padmavathy Subramanian, Director of Product Management, NVIDIA

Monika Jhuria, NVIDIA

S62453 - How to Operationalize Large Language Models Safely and Responsibly

Krishna Gade, CEO, Fiddler

S62495 - Advances in Optimization AI

Alex Fender, Senior Engineering Manager, NVIDIA

DLIT61342 - Learn to Build AI Chatbots using Retrieval Augmented Generation with NVIDIA AI Enterprise

Vinay Bagade, Technical Marketing Engineer, NVIDIA

Ryan Kraus, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, NVIDIA

DLIT61739 - Accelerated LLM Model Alignment and Deployment in NeMo, TensorRT-LLM, and Triton Inference Server

Bharat Giddwani, Deep Learning Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

Utkarsh Uppal, Deep Learning Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

CWE62682 - Connect With the Experts: Building Generative AI Applications with Retrieval Augmented Generation

Jacob Liberman, Principle Product Manager, Enterprise AI, NVIDIA

Tanay Varshney, Developer Advocate Engineer for Deep Learning SW, NVIDIA

Annie Surla, Developer Advocate Engineer, NVIDIA

Aditi Bodhankar, Developer Advocate Engineer, NVIDIA

Jiwei Liu, Senior Data Scientist, NVIDIA

S62744 - Retrieval Augmented Generation: Overview of Design Systems, Data, and Customization

Meriem Bendris, Senior Deep Learning Data Scientist, NVIDIA

Miguel Martinez, Senior Deep Learning Data Scientist, NVIDIA

S62922 - Large Language Models: Past, Present, and Future

Thomas Scialom, Research Scientist, Meta

S62531 - Deploying, Optimizing, and Benchmarking Large Language Models with Triton Inference Server

Neelay Shah, Principal Software Architect, NVIDIA

Ryan Mccormick, Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Guan Luo, Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA

S62533 - Beyond RAG Basics: Building Agents, Co-Pilots, Assistants, Data Ingestion Tools, and More!

Tanay Varshney, Developer Advocate Engineer for Deep Learning SW, NVIDIA

AI Governance / IP / Strategy

S62594 - Intellectual Property Challenges in the Age of Generative AI

Iain Cunningham, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, NVIDIA

Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)

S62779 - Driving Enterprise Transformation: CIO Insights on Harnessing Generative AI's Potential

Rama Akkiraju, Vice President, Enterprise AI and Automation, NVIDIA

Sabry Tozin, VP - Engineering, LinkedIn

Sonu Nayyar, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, NVIDIA

Sandy Venugopal, Chief Information Officer, SentinelOne

Chris Bedi, Chief Digital Information Officer, ServiceNow

S62221 - Regulating AI: Global Perspectives

Ned Finkle, VP Government Affairs, NVIDIA

Elham Tabassi, Associate Director for Emerging Technologies, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Gerard de Graaf, Senior Envoy for Digital to the US and Head of EU Office in San Francisco, European Union

Ted W. Lieu, Representative (D-CA 36th District), U.S. House of Representatives

S62292 - Strategies for Safer AI

Jonathan Cohen, Vice President of Applied Research, NVIDIA

Rumman Chowdhury, Co-founder, Humane Intelligence

Iftach Orr, CTO & Co-Founder, ActiveFence

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Head of Safety, Cohere

Nicol Turner Lee, Senior Fellow – Governance Studies, Director – Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution

S62411 - Beyond the Output: Navigating the Ethical Challenges of Generative AI

Iain Cunningham, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, NVIDIA

Brian Green, Director of Technology Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University

Nikki Pope, Senior Director, AI and Legal Ethics, NVIDIA

Gina Moape, Lead, Community Engagement, Mozilla Foundation

S62433 - Balancing the Opportunity and Risks of Modern Technology

David Reber, Chief Security Officer, NVIDIA

Omniverse / USD

CWE62216 - Connect With the Experts: OpenUSD And Omniverse for 3D Product Configurators

Dane Johnston, Director of Omniverse Connect, NVIDIA

Aron Zoellner, Director of Product Management, NVIDIA

Devin Lafontaine, Senior Product Manager on Omniverse, NVIDIA

James Mills, Product Marketing Manager, Omniverse, NVIDIA

Chris Schultz, Senior Engineer - System Software, NVIDIA

Ashley Goldstein, Connection Evangelist for Omniverse, NVIDIA

CWE62241 - Connect With the Experts: Best Practices for OpenUSD Development with Omniverse

Matias Codesal, Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA

Aaron Luk, Senior Engineering Manager, Omniverse, NVIDIA

Shashi Bhushan, NVIDIA

Damien Fagnou, Vice President, Software, NVIDIA

Chris Schultz, Senior Engineer - System Software, NVIDIA

DLIT62101 - Building a 3D Product Configurator with USD and Omniverse

James Mills, Product Marketing Manager, Omniverse, NVIDIA

S62140 - Revolutionizing Urban Planning: Omniverse and OpenUSD for City Scale Digital Twins

Devin Lavigne, Partner, Houseal Lavigne

S62155 - Using Omniverse and GDN to Globally Deliver Digital Twins of Smart Buildings

John Burton, CEO, UrsaLeo

S62169 - From Material Capture to 3D Creation: Mastering USD and Adobe Substance 3D

Pierre Maheut, Director of the Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, Adobe

S62483 - Enabling 3D Geospatial for the Industrial Metaverse with Cesium for Omniverse and 3D Tiles

Shehzan Mohammed, Director of 3D Engineering & Ecosystems, Cesium

S62498 - Interoperable Geospatial Digital Twin Workflows with Omniverse, OpenUSD, Bentley, and Cesium

Ryan Veenstra, Senior Solutions Architect, Cesium

David Burdick, Senior Product Manager, Bentley Systems

DLIT61300 - Navigating Virtual Worlds: Exploring Omniverse, Realistic Simulations, and Generative AI

Aik Beng Ng, Regional Manager, NVIDIA

Megani Rajendran, Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

S61799 - Getting Started wtih Generative AI and OpenUSD for Industrial Metaverse Applications

Vasyl Mykhalchuk, Senior Research and Development Engineer, SoftServe, Inc.

DLIT61522 - OpenUSD for 3D Creators: Collaborative Workflows with Adobe Substance 3D Painter, Autodesk Maya, and NVIDIA Omniverse

Lee Fraser, Sr. Technical Specialist, NVIDIA

CWE61234 - Connect With the Experts: Spatial Computing in Omniverse

Max Bickley, Product Manager, Omniverse Spatial Framework, NVIDIA

David Chu, VP of XR, NVIDIA

Sean Wagstaff, Technical Marketing Engineer, NVIDIA

Peter Pang, Senior Product Manager, NVIDIA

Dane Johnston, Director of Omniverse Connect, NVIDIA

S62623 - Simulating factories of the future with Hyper-Scale, Hyper-Reality Digital Twins

John Pritchard, Business Manager - Emulate3D, Rockwell Automation

Greg Berger, Industry Solution Consultant, Rockwell Automation

S62642 - An Introduction to OpenUSD

Aaron Luk, Senior Engineering Manager, Omniverse, NVIDIA

S62644 - Building Tools for Digital Worlds: Startups Pioneering OpenUSD and Generative AI

Stephanie Rubenstein, Senior Product Marketing Manager, NVIDIA

Christopher Andrews, COO and Head of Product, Rendered.ai

Aleksandr Evgrashin, Head of Software Development, Moebelita GmbH

Michael Wagner, CTO and Co-founder, ipolog

Kevin Hart, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Aireal

S62783 - Digitalizing the World's Largest Industries with OpenUSD and Generative AI

Christine Osik, Head of Simulation, Amazon Robotics

Dean Takahashi, Lead Writer, VentureBeat

Patrick Cozzi, CEO, Cesium

Rev Lebaredian, Vice President, Omniverse and Simulation Technology, NVIDIA

Joe Bohman, Executive Vice President, PLM Products, Siemens Digital Industries Software

Andy Pratt, CVP of Emerging Technologies, Microsoft

John Lu, Wistron Manufacturing Operations Director, Wistron

Paulina Chmielarz, Industrial Operations Digital and Innovation Director, Jaguar Land Rover

S62786 - How Gothernburg Optimized Event Planning for the City’s 400th Anniversary Festival.

Eric Jeansson, Geo Data Strategist, Project Manager Virtual Gothenburg, Urban Planning Authority, City of Gothenburg

Johan De Paoli, Business developer, G?teborg & Co.

AI TRAINING

CWE62444 - Connect With the Experts: High-Performance Model Serving with Triton Inference Server

Neelay Shah, Principal Software Architect, NVIDIA

Ryan Mccormick, Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA

David Zier, Senior System Software Manager, NVIDIA

Guan Luo, Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Tanmay Verma, Senior System Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Olga Andreeva, Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Matthew Kotila, Software Engineer - Deep Learning Tools, NVIDIA

Neal Vaidya, Developer Advocate Engineer for Deep Learning SW, NVIDIA

Tanay Varshney, Developer Advocate Engineer for Deep Learning SW, NVIDIA

CWE62952 - Connect With the Experts: Bridging the Gap - Production AI for the Open-Source Enthusiast

Adriana Flores Miranda, Senior Manager, AI Enterprise Solution Architecture, NVIDIA

Aastha Jhunjhunwala, Solution Architect, NVIDIA

Konstantin Cvetanov, Senior Solution Architect, North America Enterprise Software, NVIDIA

Matt Penn, Solutions Architect, Cyber AI, LLMs, Generative AI, Public Sector, NVIDIA

Avinash Kaur, Deep Learning Data Scientist, NVIDIA

Brandon Tuttle, Senior Solution Architect, NVIDIA

James Maki, Senior Deep Learning Data Scientist, NVIDIA

CLIMATE

S62210 - A New Generation of Global Climate Models Augmented by AI

Laure Zanna, Professor in Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science, New York University

S61573 - Harnessing NVIDIA GPUs for Accelerated Air Quality Simulations in the NASA Earth System Model through Advanced Machine Learning Integration

Peter Ivatt, NASA / University of Maryland

S62582 - Global Strategies: Startups, Venture Capital, and Climate Change Solutions

Tenika Versey, Global Head of Sustainable Futures, NVIDIA Inception, NVIDIA

Johan Mathe, Co-founder and CTO, Atmo AI

Karthik Kashinath, Principal Engineer and Scientist, AI-HPC and Engineering Lead, Earth-2, NVIDIA

Thomas Debass, Chief partnerships Officer, U.S. Department of of State

Shimon Elkabetz, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Tomorrow.io

NVIDIA RESEARCH

S62226 - Insights from NVIDIA Research

Bill Dally, Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research, NVIDIA

GRAPHICS

S62312 - Autodesk’s Next-Generation Viewport System

Henrik Edstrom, Distinguished Architect, Graphics, Autodesk

Adam Felt, Distinguished Engineer, Autodesk

S62351 - Production Rendering on GPU with Arnold

Adrien Herubel, Principal Software Engineer, Autodesk

S62046 - Dive Deep into Real-Time Neural Rendering on NVIDIA GPUs

Chaojian Li, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology

Yonggan Fu, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology

CWE62522 - Connect With the Experts: Vulkan, OptiX, and DirectX Ray Tracing

Neil Bickford, Senior Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Chris Hebert, Senior Engineer, NVIDIA

David Hart, Principal Engineer, NVIDIA

Martin-Karl Lefrancois, Senior Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Markus Tavenrath, Senior Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Pascal Gautron, Senior Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Pyarelal Knowles, Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

S61318 - AI-Accelerated Real-Time Ray Tracing and The Future of Rendering

Vladislav Vulchev, Development Team Leader, Chaos

CWE61212 - Connect With the Experts: GPU Selection Strategies for Cloud-Based Graphics Workloads

Mitch VanDyken, Professional Visualization Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

John Li, Solution Architect, NVIDIA

Jimmy Rotella, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

Eric Puccio, Product Specialist, NVIDIA

Daniel Moffitt, Sr Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

S61472 - Sharing Physically Based Materials Between Renderers With MDL

Jan Jordan, Senior Software Product Manager MDL, NVIDIA

Lutz Kettner, Director, Advanced Rendering and Materials, NVIDIA

XR

S62344 - Fast-Track your Unreal Engine Build to XR Cloud Streaming to Iterate Your Project with Your Customers, Even without PC

Herve Fontaine, Chief Growth Officer, Innoactive

Daniel Seidl, Founder & CEO, Innoactive

S62208 - How XR is Being Implemented in Enterprises Today

Ingo Esser, Senior DevTech Manager, NVIDIA

Robert Menzel, Senior DevTech Engineer, NVIDIA

CWE62236 - Connect With the Experts: XR ?VCR, CloudXR, VRWorks, and Anything Else XR-Related

Ingo Esser, Senior DevTech Manager, NVIDIA

Robert Menzel, Senior DevTech Engineer, NVIDIA

DLIT62084 - How to Build a Native OpenUSD XR Application

Max Bickley, Product Manager, Omniverse Spatial Framework, NVIDIA

CWE62451 - Connect With the Experts: Get XR Streaming Answers Directly from NVIDIA CloudXR Engineers, Architects, and Product Teams

William Cannady, Technical Product Manager, NVIDIA

Andrew Wilson, Sr. Applied Engineer, NVIDIA

Arjun Dube, Principal Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Connor Smith, Distinguished Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Mitch VanDyken, Professional Visualization Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

S62465 - Succeed in Delivering XR Streaming from the Cloud

William Cannady, Technical Product Manager, NVIDIA

Robert Menzel, Senior DevTech Engineer, NVIDIA

Andrew Wilson, Sr. Applied Engineer, NVIDIA

S61443 - Make VR and High-End Graphics Accessible to Everybody

Xaver Freiherr Loeffelholz von Colberg, Product Owner 3D AppStore, BMW Group

CUDA

S62400 - CUDA: New Features and Beyond

Stephen Jones, CUDA Architect, NVIDIA

CWE62260 - Connect With the Experts: Using CUDA and the CUDA Toolkit Effectively to Accelerate Your Applications

Rob Armstrong, CUDA Technical PM Lead, NVIDIA

Rob Nertney, Senior Technical Product Manager - CUDA, NVIDIA

Andy Terrel, NVIDIA

CWE61532 - Connect With the Experts: What's in Your CUDA Toolbox? CUDA Profiling, Optimization, and Debugging Tools

Jackson Marusarz, Technical Product Manager, NVIDIA

Daniel Horowitz, Senior Director of Engineering, Developer Tools, NVIDIA

Holly Wilper, Manager, System Software Tools, NVIDIA

Magnus Strengert, Software Engineering Manager, NVIDIA

Rafael Campana, Senior Engineering Director of CUDA Developer Tools, NVIDIA

Sebastien Domine, Software Vice President, Developer Tools, NVIDIA

Steve Ulrich, Software Engineering Manager, NVIDIA

HARDWARE

S62247 - Customer use Cases for NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip and Grace CPU Superchip

Galen Shipmen, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Ivan Goldwasser, Director, Data Center Product Marketing, NVIDIA

CWE61327 - Connect With the Experts: How to Run and Optimize Your Workloads on the NVIDIA Grace CPU

John Linford, Principal Technical Product Manager, Datacenter CPU Software, NVIDIA

Ian Finder, Principal Product Lead, Grace, NVIDIA

Filippo Spiga, Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA

Giridhar Chukkapalli, Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA

Jason Tichy, Senior Data Scientist, NVIDIA

Bob Knight, System Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Shriram Jagannathan, Engineer, NVIDIA

Mathias Wagner, Senior Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Matthias Jouanneaux, DevTech Compute, NVIDIA

CWE61236 - Connect With the Experts: Tuning Applications for Grace Hopper Superchip

Chirayu Garg, AI Developer Technology Manager, NVIDIA

Akshay Subramaniam, Senior AI Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Alan Gray, Principal Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Abdurrahman Yasar, Senior AI Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Rakib Hasan, Senior Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA

Jiri Kraus, Principal DevTech Compute, NVIDIA

Matthias Jouanneaux, DevTech Compute, NVIDIA