Nvidia is hosting its GTC 2026 keynote with CEO Jensen Huang leading the presentation. Nvidia has framed the event around the “next generation of Artificial Intelligence,” and Huang previously said the company would unveil “a chip that will surprise the world” at the show. Expectations also include updates on the future of real-time rendering and broader announcements spanning compute, networking, and software.
The keynote will start today at 11 am PT (6 PM GMT), and is available to view below. Nvidia is expected to spend significant time on its next-generation Vera Rubin platform and its latest Artificial Intelligence technologies. Open questions heading into the event include whether the company will reveal what comes after Vera Rubin and how far it will extend its roadmap across chips, software, models, and applications.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will walk onto the floor of the SAP Center on Monday, March 16, at 11 a.m. PT to deliver a keynote to a crowd that has been arriving since Sunday from 190 countries. Thirty-thousand attendees. Ten venues across downtown. This year’s GTC spans topics from physical Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence factories to agentic Artificial Intelligence and inference. More than 700 sessions provide all the details.
Intel has confirmed that it will be at GTC 2026. This will be around six months after Nvidia’s $5 billion investment in Intel. Intel has stated that GTC “is the next step in our partnership” with Nvidia. It remains unclear what the two companies will announce, but the appearance adds weight to speculation about deeper collaboration and possible manufacturing ties through Intel Foundry.
The event also includes a pregame show and a later panel focused on open models. The pregame show starts at 8 a.m. PT on Monday, three hours before Huang takes the stage, and features leaders from Perplexity, LangChain, Mistral, Skild AI and OpenEvidence. On Wednesday, March 18, at 12:30 p.m. PT, Huang will moderate a panel on open models with Harrison Chase and leaders from A16Z, AI2, Cursor and Thinking Machines Lab, with discussion centered on how open models compare with frontier closed systems and what that means for developers building on top of them.
