NVIDIA GTC 2024 Event Recap
NVIDIA GTC 2024 was a fusion of startups, innovation, technology, and impactful solutions. Central to the excitement was the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), which showcased promising ventures through the Sustainable Futures Startup Showcase and the Climate AI Startup Demo at AI Nations and Sustainable Futures Day.
Read the event recap blog post here.
Sustainable Futures Startup Showcase Innovation Awards Winners
Bug Mars developed Hexapod, an AI-driven software for efficient insect farm management, leveraging 24-hour surveillance and machine learning for automated monitoring and predictive analytics.
FortyGuard enables cities to deliver a comprehensive urban cooling technology through their predictive analytic platform.
WindBorne Systems developed a deep learning forecast model, using data from constellation of sensing balloons with AI, to create the most accurate global medium-range weather forecasts in the world at a fraction of the cost.
Climate AI Startup Demo Winners at AI Nations and Sustainable Futures Day
ClimaSens is developing the next generation of AI-based climate risk models to help organizations transform their climate risk into climate resilience. The platform provides users with multi-hazard climate risk data, visualizations and insights to understand climate-related risks to people, property, and planet globally at a local scale.
north.io developed SaaS solutions that provide geo-informatics, big data processing, AI, and cloud computing to ensure the responsible use of our oceans and land. The geospatial data is easily accessible, quickly discoverable, easily shareable and clearly understandable.
Bug Mars developed Hexapod, an AI-driven software for efficient insect farm management, leveraging 24-hour surveillance and machine learning for automated monitoring and predictive analytics.
Watch the AI Nations & Sustainable Futures Summit video with pitch session.
Event schedule
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | Startup Showcase
Event: Sustainable Futures Startup Showcase with Extreme Tech Challenge
- Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Time: 2:00 – 3:00pm
- Area: Expo Theatre (on Expo Floor in Expo Hall)
- Location: San Jose Convention Center, 150 West San Carlos Street, San Jose, CA 95113
- Featured VCs at the forefront of sustainability, and three startups from the Inception Sustainable Futures program using NVIDIA technology to advance climate AI, AgriTech, ESG and clean energy; highlighting the path to a sustainable future. Co-hosted by Tenika Versey (NVIDIA Inception) and Victoria Slivkoff, Extreme Tech Challenge.
- Startup Lightning Talks: Bug Mars, WindBorne Systems and FortyGuard
- Awards: $1K to each startup from XTC and hardware gifts from NVIDIA
Thursday, March 21, 2024 | Climate AI Demo
Summit: AI Nations and Sustainable Futures Day
- Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024
- Time: 10 – 11am: Climate AI Demo | 9am – 12:40pm: Summit
- Room: Winchester (L1)
- Location: Hilton San Jose, 300 S Almaden Ave, San Jose, CA 95110
- The Summit dissected the role of AI factories in digitalization, geospatial tools safeguarding cities, and how nations are scaling AI’s benefits for economic and climate resilience.
Read the NVIDIA program partner announcement here.
Extreme Tech Challenge Testimonial video: Nat Duncan, CEO, Bug Mars.
