Jensen Huang opened GTC Berlin by framing AI infrastructure as the basis of a new industrial revolution, with more than 100 sessions underway.

NVIDIA opened GTC Berlin on Wednesday with CEO Jensen Huang using his keynote to argue that AI infrastructure is becoming a new industrial base, while the company’s European event programme and partnerships underscored its push across the region.

In the keynote coverage published by NVIDIA on 21 October 2026, Huang said European companies including L’Oréal, Revolut, Spotify, Merck, Vodafone, Zara, Porsche, Nestlé and HSBC are working with NVIDIA on AI. He also said NVIDIA had committed nearly $10 billion to Europe’s technology ecosystem during a weeklong roadshow that included Paris, London, Stockholm and Dublin, and that the company works with more than 12,000 partners.

Huang described AI as a “five-layer cake,” with energy, advanced computers, AI factories, tokens and digital intelligence, and applications built on top. He said the infrastructure must exist before models can emerge, comparing the need for AI infrastructure with the historical need for the internet’s networking layer and the electricity grid. “To be part of this AI economy, you don’t want to just be consuming the AI; you want to be producing the AI,” he said, according to NVIDIA’s live blog.

The conference itself runs for three days at STATION-Berlin, with more than 100 sessions on agentic AI, robotics, physical AI, open models and accelerated computing. NVIDIA’s Berlin keynote was scheduled for 21 October at the Tempodrom, while background conference material confirms the event spans 20–22 October, with workshops on 20 October and the conference and exhibition on 21–22 October.

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