NVIDIA GTC and Hackathon Approach

This week we have Tom Plunkett reviewing his recent experience at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference and winning the associated hackathon. We will be in the Executive Conference Room this week.

Here’s the breakdown of what Tom plans to cover:

1. What I saw at the NVIDIA GTC conference in San Jose March 16-19.
2. Competing and Winning the GTC Hack to Create Hackathon with vibe coding, DGX GB10, OpenClaw, and other technologies.
3. Creating a first draft of a patent application using Gemini Pro 3.1 Preview and other AI technologies.
4. A high level examination of Databricks AI/ML Strategy

Previous Meetups:

I finally got the recordings posted from our last two meetups:

• Gemma-4 and TurboQuant – https://hsv.ai/2026/04/15/gemma-4-turboquant/
• AlphaFold 3 – https://hsv.ai/2026/03/25/alphafold-3/

I didn’t get the video started for AlphaFold at the very beginning, so it picks up about 5 minutes into the presentation from Alexa.

Links:

• https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/ – many of the sessions are available to watch

Details:

• Date – 04/22/2026
• Time – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
• Location – HudsonAlpha – Executive Conference Room
• Address – 601 Genome Way Northwest, Huntsville, AL 35806
• Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/gsv-zhtr-yah