NVIDIA GTC Live Berlin: Europe’s AI Infrastructure, Open Models, Safety, and Physical AI

This GTC Live Berlin pre-keynote livestream brings together founders, investors, researchers, and industry executives to discuss how Europe is building and adopting AI. Across several panel conversations, participants address sovereign AI infrastructure, open models, startup scaling, agent safety, AI factories, and physical AI in manufacturing and healthcare. The stream sets context ahead of Jensen Huang’s first Berlin keynote.

■ Europe’s AI stack and sovereign infrastructure
- Mistral AI, Deutsche Telekom, and Dassault Systèmes discuss open models, compute capacity, virtual twins, and sovereign AI choices.
- Nebius, Schneider Electric, and Brookfield cover AI factory financing, GPU pricing, power constraints, and grid efficiency.

■ Startups, open models, and frontier AI
- General Catalyst, Ineffable Intelligence, Black Forest Labs, and Corti discuss European startup scaling, compute bottlenecks, continual learning, and healthcare AI.
- Panelists debate whether Europe needs frontier labs and trillion-dollar tech companies.

■ AI safety, agents, and cybersecurity
- Hugging Face, CrowdStrike, and Red Hat discuss open-weight model safety, agent containment, defense-in-depth, and token economics.
- Discussion includes agent identity, enterprise governance, and AI-assisted cyber defense.

■ Physical AI and industrial deployment
- Humanoid, Siemens Healthineers, Agile Robots, and Mercedes-Benz address humanoid robots, factory deployments, ROI requirements, and healthcare applications.

Viewers gain a high-level view of the commercial, infrastructure, and safety questions around AI in Europe, with company examples but limited deep technical detail. The livestream is suited to technology executives, investors, policymakers, and AI practitioners seeking an overview of Europe’s AI ecosystem before the keynote. It does not include the keynote itself or detailed product specifications and pricing.