NVIDIA Shifting Its GPU Technology Conference Into an Online Event Over Coronavirus Concerns

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COVID-9 continues to wreck the plans of companies worldwide.



NVIDIA has revealed that its AI and Deep Learning conference, GTC, will no longer be held in San Jose from March 22 to 26. Instead, it’s being turned into an online event due to “growing concern over the coronavirus.”



“NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will still deliver a keynote address, which will be available exclusively by livestream,” reads a note on the official blog. “We’re working to schedule that and will share details once they’re available.”



Many of the conference’s other scheduled events should be available online. “We will be working with our conference speakers to begin publishing their talks online beginning in the weeks ahead,” NVIDIA explained.



An executive had claimed that the show was still on...

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[Peter_Brosdahl]

I'm glad they chose to go this route. Who knows, this may have helped them stumble onto a new process for these events in the future.

edit: The other nice thing is this way GTC won't have to take on the less than positive other meaning, good till canceled

 

[Brian_B]

Glad to see we can even move conferences into the cloud