(
GPU
Technology
Conference) The largest conference on artificial intelligence. Sponsored by NVIDIA and held in San Jose, California, roughly 1,500 attendees came to the first event in 2009, while the 2025 conference brought in more than 25,000.
From Graphics to AI to Graphics
Over the years, the highlights of the conference have shifted dramatically as NVIDIA GPUs migrated from screen rendering and gaming to AI processing. Nevertheless, computer graphics are always a featured topic because GPUs for gaming are improving as well. In fact, in the 2025 GTC conference, NVIDIA's founder Jensen Huang discussed how AI is improving graphics. See
AI conferences and
NVIDIA.