Jensen Huang to Keynote COMPUTEX 2026 as NVIDIA Pushes AI Ecosystem Vision in Taipei
TAITRA has confirmed that NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will deliver the keynote address at COMPUTEX 2026, making official what had been widely anticipated: Taipei will once again serve as the opening frame for NVIDIA’s mid-year narrative push. The presentation takes place at the Taipei Music Center on June 1 at 11 a.m. Taiwan Time — Sunday, May 31 at 8 p.m. Pacific — and will be livestreamed globally through NVIDIA’s GTC Taipei keynote page, with a replay available afterward.
Huang is expected to lay out NVIDIA’s current positioning across what the company has internally framed as a “Five-Layer Cake” stack, a conceptual architecture spanning energy and infrastructure at the base through software and applications at the top. The framing is deliberate: NVIDIA has spent the past two years signaling that the AI buildout is no longer a compute procurement story but an ecosystem coordination problem, where each layer of the stack is dependent on the others to function at scale. Physical AI and agentic systems — where autonomous software agents interact with real-world infrastructure in adaptive ways — are expected to feature prominently, reflecting the company’s push beyond data center GPU sales into the operational logic of deployed AI.
Immediately following the keynote, NVIDIA will run GTC Taipei from June 2 through June 4 at the Taipei International Convention Center. GTC has matured from a developer conference into a distributed coordination layer for the AI industry, running across multiple global cities and serving as the primary venue where research concepts get translated into partner commitments and shared tooling. The Taipei edition will include engineering deep-dives, hands-on demos, and ecosystem sessions focused on AI factories, large-scale inference infrastructure, and agentic deployment — the operational challenges that dominate enterprise AI conversations in 2026.
COMPUTEX itself runs June 2 through June 5 across the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Hall 1 and 2, TWTC, and TICC, with approximately 1,500 exhibitors and 6,000 booths expected. The multi-venue structure reflects the event’s expansion beyond its traditional hardware showcase identity into something closer to a full-stack industry summit, where semiconductor supply chain, AI software ecosystems, and production-ready application deployment are treated as continuous rather than separate domains.
Registration for GTC Taipei opened April 21. The convergence of the NVIDIA keynote, the GTC program, and the broader COMPUTEX floor in the same city during the same week is not incidental — Taipei has consolidated its position as the single location where the hardware and software sides of the AI industry are most likely to be in the same room at the same time, and where the direction of that industry gets set in practice rather than in press releases.