NVIDIA GTC 2026

GTC 2026 will take place from March 16–19, 2026 in San Jose, California and online. From physical AI and AI factories to agentic AI and inference, GTC 2026 will showcase the breakthroughs shaping every industry.

Explore the catalog of OpenUSD sessions and trainings featuring AOUSD members at this year’s show, and register now with code AOUSD20 for 20% off. 

We are excited that so many AOUSD members are exhibiting and presenting this year, including Cadence, Foxconn, Lightwheel, Microsoft, PTC, Schneider Electric, Siemens and NVIDIA. 

For a limited time at GTC, attendees can complete the OpenUSD Development Certification for free. Join our onsite prep session and livestream community office hours to ensure you’re exam-ready.

Sunday, March 15       

8:30-4:30 p.m. | Workshop
OpenUSD Crash Course: Build 3D Data Pipelines for Physical AI
NVIDIA partnered with UME Studio

Monday, March 16      

11:00-1:003:45 p.m.  |  Keynote
NVIDIA GTC 2026 Keynote with Jensen Huang
NVIDIA

2:00-3:45 p.m.  |  Lab
Assembling Industrial Digital Twins with OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse Libraries
NVIDIA

Tuesday, March 17   

8:00-9:45 a.m. | Lab
Build Robot-Ready Assets for Physically Accurate Simulations
Lightwheel

9:00-9:40 a.m. | Talk
Beyond the Basics: OpenUSD for Advanced Physical AI Simulation
NVIDIA

9:00-9:40 a.m. | Talk
Autonomous AI Factories: A Technical Preview of Agent-Native Production
Microsoft

10:00-10:40 a.m. | Talk
A New Standard for Unified Power and Infrastructure Design With OpenUSD
Schneider Electric

10:00-11:30 a.m. | Tutorial
Deep Dive: Streaming Immersive Robotics Teleoperations
Lightwheel

1:00-2:45 p.m. | Lab
Advance World Simulation With 3D Gaussian Splatting for Large-Scale Environment Reconstruction
NVIDIA

3:00-3:40 p.m. | Talk
How Open World Models are Powering the Next Breakthroughs in Physical AI
NVIDIA

4:00- 4:40 p.m. | Panel
How to Build Planetary-Scale AI Infrastructure
Cadence, PTC, Schneider Electric, NVIDIA

4:00- 5:00 p.m. | Lightning Talk
Building the Next Wave of AI-Enabled Robots
Lightwheel

Wednesday, March 18  

8:00–8:45 a.m. | Certification
Your Path to Physical AI and OpenUSD Certification at GTC
NVIDIA

10:00-10:40 a.m. | Talk
Develop Physical AI Applications and Build Data Factories With the Robotics Ecosystem
Foxconn

11:00-11:40 a.m | Talk
AI-Driven Digital Twins Optimize Facility Simulation and Autonomous Driving
Delta Electronics

4:00-4:40 p.m. | Panel
Autonomous Networks: The New Brain of Telco Operations
Accenture

5:40- 5:55 a.m. | Talk
Maximize Tokens-per-Watt With AI Factory Digital Twins, From Chip to Grid
Siemens

7:30–9:30 p.m. | Meetup
Physical AI Developer Meetup
*Must be registered with a conference pass for day of event