GPU Technology Conference

The Emerging Companies Summit showcases promising companies sharing the latest disruptive technologies revolutionizing mobile and computer industries.

The Summit will feature company presentations, amazing product demos and opportunities for networking among companies, investors, key decision makers, and leading consumer, business and trade press.

The Summit will also feature "CEO on Stage." This lively and fast-paced program provides invited CEOs an opportunity to present their companies, products and strategies to a panel of investors, analysts and technology leaders, who in turn will provide insightful feedback.

In addition to presentations by startups, the Summit will feature panel discussions on mobile computing.

The Emerging Companies Summit takes place on Wednesday, May 16. To register for the Emerging Companies Summit, purchase the One-Day Conference Pass for Wednesday, May 16. Review the Badge Access Chart for a summary of pass entitlements.

EMERGING COMPANIES SUMMIT OPENING ADDRESS

09:00 - Jeff Herbst, Vice President of Business Development, NVIDIA
The opening address includes an overview of NVIDIA's GPU ecosystem development activities.

CEO ON STAGE AGENDA

This lively and fast-paced program provides invited CEOs an opportunity to present their companies, products and strategies to a panel of investors, analysts and technology leaders, who in turn will provide insightful feedback.

> Click here to see this year's panelists.

Morning Sessions Panelists

Jon Peddie	President	Jon Peddie Research
Neil Sequeira	Managing Director	General Catalyst Partners
Savitha Srinivasan	Partner	IBM's Venture Capital Group
Jeff Herbst	V.P. of Business Development	NVIDIA

Afternoon SessionsPanelists

Tom Furlong	Managing Director	Granite Ventures
Rob Enderle	Principal Analyst	Enderle Group
Flip Gianos	General Partner	InterWest Partners
Jeff Herbst	V.P. of Business Development	NVIDIA

EMERGING COMPANIES SUMMIT FIRESIDE CHAT

14:00 - Jen-Hsun Huang and Tim Bajarin
NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang will take part in a fireside chat with Tim Bajarin, one of IT world's pre-eminent analysts and president of Creative Strategies. They will discuss trends in mobile, visual and parallel computing, and the transformational changes ahead for the industry.

THE "ONE TO WATCH" AWARDS

20:00 – Hilton San Jose Ballroom
The "One to Watch" awards recognize innovation and are given to the top five start-ups at ECS based on technology value, market opportunity, market impact and "wow" factor. Total prize money is $120,000. Winners at GTC 2010 included:

Empulse GmbH of Cologne, Germany, and its GPU-based database technology which analyzes billions of records in fractions of a second.

Scalable Display of Cambridge, Mass., and its software solution driving high-quality multi-projector display systems.

Scaleform of Greenbelt, Md., and its 3D stereoscopic graphic user interface for Tegra-based mobile devices.

Universal Robotics of Nashville, Tenn., and its advanced, self-learning robots that handle boxes in a near-limitless variety of shapes and sizes.

VisiSonics College Park, Md., and its sophisticated audio tools that accurately identify the source of sound in 3D space.

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT ECS

ECS ON GTC ON-DEMAND

Explore the many ECS presentations that are now part of the GTC On-Demand archive and watch two of our feature talks below from GTC 2010.  

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