Nvidia is heading to SIGGRAPH 2026 with a keynote scheduled for July 20 at 3:45 PM PDT in Los Angeles. The session is titled “Next Era of Graphics — Neural Rendering, World Models, and Simulation,” and it promises to cover AI-driven breakthroughs across creative tools, robotics, industrial design, and autonomous systems.
What Nvidia is presenting
The one-hour keynote will feature Jan Kautz and Ming-Yu Liu, both Vice Presidents at Nvidia, leading discussions on three core themes: neural rendering, world models, and simulation methods. Neural rendering uses AI to generate photorealistic images and environments in real time, a capability that has implications for everything from gaming to digital twins used in industrial planning. World models represent AI systems that can understand and predict how physical environments behave, with applications in autonomous vehicles and robotics. Simulation creates virtual environments where these AI systems can be trained at scale before being deployed.
SIGGRAPH 2026 runs from July 19 to July 23 in Los Angeles. Nvidia has also lined up RTX Rendering Day on July 22 and Physical AI Day sessions alongside the keynote.
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