Agentic AI is rapidly evolving, presenting significant opportunities to reshape how individuals live and work. These advanced AI systems, designed to autonomously reason, plan, and execute complex tasks based on high-level goals, are making waves across numerous industries. From intelligent personal assistants automating repetitive tasks to boosting operational efficiencies, agentic AI is driving innovation and providing value.
During NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference scheduled for March 17-21 in San Jose, California, industry experts will discuss the practical applications of agentic AI across various sectors. Attendees will explore how these systems are revolutionizing customer service, cybersecurity, retail, automotive, financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications. Additionally, engineers and developers can learn how to design and build AI agents and multi-agent systems using cutting-edge tools and frameworks.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will deliver the GTC keynote on Tuesday, March 18, at 10 a.m. PT.
Agentic AI Sessions for Business Leaders
GTC will host numerous sessions tailored for executives and business leaders, exploring the transformative potential of generative and agentic AI within the enterprise. Some key sessions include:
- Harnessing AI Agents for Enterprise Success: Insights From AI Experts: Experts from Accenture, Meta, Microsoft, and ServiceNow will share their expertise in developing and deploying generative AI and agentic solutions. The discussion will cover real-world enterprise use cases, strategies for building user trust, and the challenges of scaling AI agents across organizations.
- Securing the Future: Protecting and Consuming Agentic AI: David Reber, chief security officer at NVIDIA, will provide crucial information and strategies for organizations to safely leverage agentic AI and protect themselves from emerging threats.
- AI in Action: Improving Customer Service Across Industries With Agentic AI: Panelists from Yum! Brands, U.S. Bank, and Mayo Clinic will discuss the strategies and challenges of successful AI agent deployment based on real-world implementations in retail, financial services, and healthcare.
- How to Onboard Your Team of AI Agents to Transform Your Enterprise: Adel El Hallak, senior director of product management at NVIDIA, will highlight how NVIDIA AI Blueprints – building blocks for agentic AI – empower businesses to easily compose and deploy teams of agents to achieve dynamic data retrieval and real-time interactivity.
- Enterprise Gen AI’s Next Wave: Unlock Efficiency and Effectiveness in Business-Specific Functions With Agentic AI: Attendees will learn how Deloitte and NVIDIA are collaborating to create domain-specific agentic AI solutions and explore how these solutions can uniquely address specific business challenges.
Agentic AI Sessions for Developers and Engineers
Developers, engineers, architects, data scientists, and other technical professionals attending GTC can visit the AI Platforms Pavilion and the Generative and Agentic AI Pavilion. These pavilions will enable them to meet with industry leaders and learn about end-to-end workflows using resources from the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform.
Technical sessions on agentic AI include:
- Building Custom Reasoning Models to Achieve Advanced Agentic AI Autonomy: NVIDIA product managers will demonstrate how to build and customize reasoning-capable AI agents using open-source models and advanced training techniques, enabling AI agents to address complex problems autonomously.
- How to Build an Agentic AI System Using the Best Tools and Frameworks: Bartley Richardson, director of agentic AI at NVIDIA, will showcase the latest tools and frameworks that help developers more easily build agentic AI systems that connect AI agents to enterprise data and drive efficiency gains across organizations.
- AI Agents in Production: Insights and Future Directions: Harrison Chase, cofounder and CEO of LangChain, will share key lessons learned from LangChain’s experience helping customers develop, deploy, and manage enterprise AI agents in production at scale, as well as explore emerging technologies poised to shape the future.
- Learn to Build Agentic AI Workflows for Enterprise Applications: NVIDIA solutions architects will lead a technical session on how to deploy an agentic AI workflow, create tools for an AI agent, and quickly augment existing workflows with new tools.
Agentic AI Sessions for Industry Applications
GTC offers sessions on how AI can be implemented practically in almost every industry, from financial services to healthcare, retail, and automotive. Some notable industry-specific sessions include:
- Unlock the Power of AI Agents in Automotive: Bryan Goodman, executive director of AI at Ford Motor Company, will discuss the benefits and challenges of deploying AI agents in the automotive industry, and practical solutions for doing so.
- AI at Scale: Lessons from Capital One’s Agentic AI Adoption: Prem Natarajan, executive vice president and head of enterprise AI at Capital One, will talk about the bank’s development and adoption of generative and agentic AI technologies, and discuss key initiatives that balance innovation in customer experience with well-governed and risk-centered approaches.
- AI Agents and Digital Humans Shaping the Future of Interaction in Telecoms: Leaders from Amdocs, AT&T, Indiana University, and ServiceNow will delve into the cutting-edge developments and challenges of deploying digital human AI agents and AI-driven solutions across telecommunications.
- MOMA: Zero-Shot Multi-Objective Antibody Evolution Using Multi-Agents: Wei Lu, senior director of AI at Aureka Bio, will discuss how MOMA (Multi-Objective Multi-Agents) — a novel framework that orchestrates agentic models — accelerates the discovery of antibodies with optimal stability, target affinity, and reduced side effects, thereby enhancing high-valued therapeutic antibody design.
Register now for NVIDIA GTC to explore the latest technological advancements, including agentic and physical AI.
