GTC 2025 recap
I attended GTC for the first time this year and got to experience what turned out to be one of the strangest, over-the-top conferences I've ever attended. It took many typical conference activities (technical talks, an exhibit floor, after-hours parties) and mashed them together with some distinctively unusual conference elements like a keynote in a sports arena, a night market, and a live music stage running all week. Though it felt like a regular tech conference at its surface, it didn't take me long to realized that the program was crafted to subtly spoon-feed attendees with messages and ideas that NVIDIA wanted them to hear. Jensen's keynote outlined what everyone should talk about for the rest of the week, and most of the technical sessions all built off of things from the keynote in a way that make them seem like genuine industry trends to the casual observer. Things that NVIDIA didn't want attendees thinking about just didn't make the program, and all the us...
