How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote and what to expect

Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC Developer Conference in San Jose, California on Monday with a keynote from CEO Jensen Huang at 11am PT/2pm ET.

GTC, which stands for GPU Technology Conference, is Nvidia’s major annual event held from March 16th to March 19th. Chip manufacturers typically use the spotlight to announce new products, champion partnerships, and lay out their vision for the future of computing. Huang’s keynote will focus on Nvidia’s role in the future of computing and AI. You can watch the two-hour talk in person at the SAP Center or live stream the talk on the event website. The YouTube live stream is embedded below.

The wide-ranging three-day event focused on the future of AI across industries including healthcare, robotics, and self-driving vehicles.

On the software side, rumors are swirling that Nvidia will launch an open source platform for enterprise AI agents called NemoClaw, as first reported by Wired. The platform provides companies with a structured way to build and deploy AI agents (software that can perform multi-step tasks autonomously) and positions Nvidia to mirror similar products from companies such as OpenAI.

On the hardware side, the company is also rumored to be launching new chips designed to accelerate AI inference processes. The process by which an AI model applies what it has learned to generate a response or make a decision is different from the initial training process, which requires much more computing power. Faster and cheaper inference is widely believed to be one of the final bottlenecks in broadly scaling AI applications. The chips represent Nvidia’s latest attempt to dominate not only the education market, where it already has about 80% share, but also the inference market, where competition is rapidly increasing from custom chips built by Google, Amazon and others.

There will also be a variety of partnership announcements and demonstrations showcasing Nvidia’s AI capabilities across the industry.

Kevin Cook, chief equity strategist at Zacks Investment Research, told TechCrunch that attendees should also know what the company plans to do with its relationship with Groq. Inference company Nvidia reportedly paid $20 billion to license the technology late last year. There is a lot of curiosity about this partnership, considering that Groq’s founder Jonathan Ross: Sunny Madra, President of Groq; And other members of the Groq team have agreed to join Nvidia to help advance and expand the licensed technology.