Nvidia Spring 2022 GTC Is Back With More Than 50 Free Automotive Sessions

Nvidia’s spring GPU Technology Conference (GTC) is back again next week (March 21 to 24, 2022) and for the third year in a row, it’s going to be all virtual and free of charge. As always, company founder and CEO Jensen Huang will be delivering his signature keynote to announce the latest technical advances in areas ranging from graphic rendering to artificial intelligence for health care and automated driving. While the keynote is happening at 8:00 am PDT on Tuesday March 22, the real value of the conference for most people is in the educational sessions and presentations going on all week.

There will be more than 900 online sessions with over 1,400 speakers running at various times throughout the day for anyone that wants to watch from different time zones. Registrants will also be able to catch up with the sessions on-demand after the conference.

Among those sessions are more than 50 devoted to automotive topics as part of the Drive Developer Days. Over the past several years, Nvidia has been aggressively expanding its focus on the automotive market, trying to be at the heart of what has become known as the software defined vehicle (SDV).

When Tesla
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launched what was arguably one of the first SDVs a decade ago with the first Model S, Nvidia was a big part of that. While Tesla has turned to developing its own chips for Autopilot and FSD, Nvidia has been gaining a lot of traction across the industry with Drive Xavier and Orin chips and its extensive software portfolio which are now packaged under the Drive Hyperion brand. Nvidia Drive tools have been widely used by most of the startups in the automated driving sector and both Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar Land Rover have announced plans to use the full Drive Hyperion software and hardware stacks while companies including Volvo, Nio, Xpeng and TuSimple are using Nvidia chips.

The GTC automotive sessions cover far more than just creating automated driving systems software and using the hardware, but a wide range of related areas. That includes topics like creating synthetic datasets for use in the simulation system that runs on Nvidia’s Omniverse technology, Concierge personalized user experience, the mapping platform that came from the acquisition of Deepmap and lots more.

As the world shifts increasingly to electrification, software defined vehicles that can be updated with new features after sale can help create a new kind of user experience to replace what some might consider lost with the end of distinct internal combustion engines. Jim Morgan and Alex Elliot from Jaguar Land Rover will be discussing that in their session “How Software Defined Vehicle Architectures are Helping Reimagine the Modern Luxury Experience.” Magnus Östberg, the chief software officer at Mercedes-Benz R&D North America will talk about “Creating Software for the Most Desirable Cars.” Raquel Urtasun, the founder and CEO of Waabi will discuss “Building a Next Generation Autonomous Driving System with the Waabi World High-Fidelity, Closed-Loop Simulator.”

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