Nvidia canceled its AI conference in Tel Aviv next week due to safety concerns, as the death toll rises in Israel and the Gaza Strip.
About 2,500 developers, researchers and tech workers were set to attend the two-day conference, which feature was to feature more than 60 live sessions on topics ranging from generative AI, supercomputing and large language models, to autonomous vehicles, healthcare and cybersecurity.Nvidia had scheduled its in-person AI summit, with a keynote by CEO Jensen Huang, for Oct.15 and 16 in Tel Aviv, billing the event as"the #1 conference for developers, business leaders, and AI researchers.
Most of the summit's planned speakers are key figures at Nvidia, such as Kimberly Powell, VP of healthcare; Deepu Talla, VP of embedded and edge computing; and Gilad Shainer, SVP of networking and high-performance computing. Executives from