There is a lot that AI can do to help us tackle climate and sustainability challenges. From predicting the extreme weather events that are expected to become more frequent going forward, to addressing supply chain concerns, managing agriculture and supporting the financial systems, AI technologies are helping us build resilience in an uncertain world.
The upcoming NVIDIA GTC 2025, running from March 17-21, is offering a global platform to explore these issues. It’s being hosted in San Jose, but virtual registration is completely free and going to make the important discussions that will take place available to all.
GTC 2025 will start with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote speech on Wednesday, March 19, from 4:00 AM to 6:00 AM AEDT. For those that can’t watch it live, the keynote will be available on-demand within 24-72 hours after the live presentation. This session typically unveils NVIDIA’s latest breakthroughs and sets the tone for AI innovation in the year ahead, and from there the subsequent keynotes will delve into the applications and implications of these innovations.
AI for Climate Resilience: Australian Innovation in the Spotlight
One angle of particular relevance to Australia that will be explored over GTC 2025 is how the nation’s unique environmental challenges make it a perfect testing ground for climate AI solutions. In particular, a session titled “The Role of AI and Accelerated Computing in Understanding and Mitigating Urban Climate Change” brings together experts from Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand universities to discuss how climate change is impacting on urban planning, lifestyles, and experiences.
The panel will “delve into how AI-powered tools are revolutionising climate modelling and weather forecasting, enabling high-resolution simulations of urban microclimates and their interactions with the built environment,” and “highlight accelerated computing’s role in dramatically reducing computation time and energy consumption for climate simulations and show how it enables more frequent and detailed analyses of urban climate phenomena.”
While this session is scheduled for in-person attendance in San Jose, it will be recorded and made available for on-demand viewing shortly after the original presentation. This ensures that Australian researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers can access these critical insights regardless of location or time zone differences.
Building Resilience Within Businesses
Meanwhile, the financial sector stands at the forefront of AI adoption and business resilience. Organisations from all sectors and at all sizes will be looking to banks and insurers for leadership, support and guidance as business models become increasingly disrupted.
With this in mind, GTC 2025 has invited Andrew McMullan, the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at CBA to a session titled “Best Practices to Implement Your AI Strategies in the Enterprise, to explore the AI adoption strategies that will help businesses navigate the increasingly uncertain world.
The session will also explore to achieve the reliability, security, and scalability that will be crucial for mission-critical AI applications. We’ll explore best practices for implementing AI strategies, highlighting AI’s value and potential impact.
Like the climate session, this presentation will be available for on-demand viewing after the live event, making it accessible to Australian financial professionals without disrupting their schedules.
Balancing Innovation with Responsibility
As AI is being used to address climate challenges and promote business resilience, it must also confront important ethical questions. How do we ensure these powerful tools are transparent and explainable? What can be done to prevent unequal access to AI-driven insights, which could widen gaps between well-resourced organisations and smaller entities? And how do we address AI’s own environmental footprint, ensuring that the technology’s benefits outweigh its energy demands?
GTC 2025 provides a forum to engage with these critical questions alongside technical innovations. Virtual attendees will have access to sessions exploring responsible AI development, energy-efficient computing architectures, and initiatives to democratise access to advanced technologies.
For example, attendees can join “AI Innovations Driving Economic Growth” (S73782) at 7pm AEDT to discover how conversational AI and multi-modal large language models are transforming healthcare, agriculture, and education. For those interested in infrastructure, “Creating a Digital Twin of the French Railway” (S71822) at 11pm AEDT showcases how SNCF leverages NVIDIA’s AI and simulation tools across 27,000 km of tracks. Additional sessions include genomics research using supercomputing (S72297, 11am AEDT), AI team development strategies (S73837, 7pm AEDT), and how startups are driving scientific breakthroughs with NVIDIA platforms (S73885, 7pm AEDT).
Overall, NVIDIA GTC 2025 aims to be one of the most comprehensive events to look at how AI is shaping our resilience as individuals, businesses and nations. With free virtual registration, it’s also highly accessible, and allows all Australian professionals to fully participate in this global conversation.
Register today for virtual attendance and be part of the AI revolution that’s helping us navigate our most pressing global challenges.