GPU Technology Conference

Event Date: September 21 - 23, 2010
Location: San Jose California
Event homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu_technology_conference.html

Overview

Building on last year’s inaugural conference, GTC 2010, taking place Sept 20-23 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California, will feature an even broader and deeper selection of technical sessions, interactive tutorials, technology previews, and industry and academic presentations.

This year, there is a new program called “CEO on Stage,” which invites the heads of a select group of startups exhibiting at the GPU Technology Conference to present on stage in the Emerging Companies Summit plenary sessions.  In a lively and fast-paced exchange, CEOs will each have 8 minutes to introduce their companies and 8 minutes to interact with a panel of industry analysts, investors and technology leaders.  Representatives of Adobe, Google, Barclays Capital, UBS, Page Mill Ventures, Microsoft, Sony, and more have already registered for the full conference.

These companies will be selected by an advisory committee that includes:

  • Jon Peddie, President, Jon Peddie Research
  • Drew Lanza, Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
  • Franck Diard, Chief Software Architect, NVIDIA

In addition to presentations from exciting new companies, ECS 2010 will feature several panel discussions. They include:

  • "Computer Vision on GPUs," covering facial, gesture, human motion, and biometrics recognition; augmented reality; and robotic computing.Moderated by:
    • Jon Peddie, President at Jon Peddie Research
    Panelists:
    • Joe Stam, Sr Applications Engineer at NVIDIA
    • Yoram Yaacovi, CTO & GM Technologies at Microsoft Israel R&D Center
    • Sam Cox, CEO at Milabra
    • Mark Popkiewicz, CEO at Mirriad

  • "Creating Businesses Through Disruptive Industry Changes"
    Moderated by:
    • Jeff Herbst, VP of Business Development at NVIDIA
    Panelists:
    • Garrett Herbert, Partner at Deloitte
    • Gerald Brady, Managing Director at Silicon Valley Bank Venture Capital Group
    • Bill Frauenhofer, Managing Director at Citi
    • Andrew T. Sheehan, Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures

  • "Fireside Chat,” with Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA CEO and co-founder
    Moderated by:
    • Quentin Hardy, national editor at Forbes magazine.