NVIDIA GTC conference was the transformative moment in AI that was promised. The Generative AI revolution has been paved with milestone moments and, without a doubt, this was one of them.
The Northern Data Group and its GenAI cloud platform, Taiga Cloud, had a hugely memorable experience, attending as a Platinum Sponsor and an Elite NVIDIA partner. Our booth was front and center on the exhibition floor (as were our DJ booths), we joined the speaking agenda with a panel on responsible innovation and hosted an over-subscribed networking event.
Taking our place alongside the world’s most important and innovative enterprises, researchers, and investors was hugely inspiring and a reminder of our bold collective ambition, as well as our shared responsibility, to innovate in the right way.
Below are some of my key takeaways from the week.
Possibilities are limitless (but we’ll achieve more together)
NVIDIA’s convening power is unmatched. As Jensen Huang said, “$100 trillion of the world’s companies are here at GTC.” I’ve been to developer conferences before, but I think everyone would agree, this was different. Thousands of us attended Jensen’s keynote in a stadium in central San Jose. However, the scale of the production did not overshadow the impact of NVIDIA’s announcements, industry partnerships or customer-driven innovation.
We heard about humanoid robotics, healthcare microservices, new digital twins to crack weather forecasting, omniverse integrations with Apple, and much more. These displays of GenAI truly in action showed just how far industry-wide collaboration can go.
This coupling of revolutionary new hardware with the necessary compute power is unlocking a new era of innovation bravery. And it is one that Northern Data Group is at the heart of.
Being named as one of the first sovereign AI cloud providers to secure access to Blackwell-based cloud services and infrastructure, beyond our existing market-leading NVIDIA GPU network, means we will continue to deliver the best possible hardware and engineering for our customers and help power the next wave of AI-driven innovation.
Making an impact
It was this message that resonated in the hundreds of conversations we had at our booth. Visitors from every strand of the industry walked around the exhibition hall and stopped by to hear about Northern Data Group, and its proposition across its GenAI cloud platform, Taiga Cloud, and cutting-edge colocation provider, Ardent Data Centers.
The extent of our tailored engineering support, technical optimization, energy and operational efficiency and existing GPU access all stood out as unique and sparked a huge number of new connections and opportunities for the future.
Our VR experience showing how we utilize a data center facility in Lefdal, Norway, helped bring to life how such technology can be powered by 100% clean energy and kept cool, thanks to pioneering liquid cooling systems.
It was a fantastic validation of the team’s hard work to have received such positive reactions over the whole week. Welcoming Jensen to our booth and hosting Northern Data Group’s well attended evening drinks reception in the Corinthian’s Grand Ballroom were huge highlights.
