Got Your SXSW Sydney Pass? Here's How You Could Unlock Access to NVIDIA's AI Day

September 10, 2025

This October, NVIDIA’s AI Day lands at the ICC Sydney, co-located with SXSW Sydney. The program brings together leading voices from NVIDIA’s team and other key innovators shaping the global AI ecosystem who will dive into the technologies transforming our future from agentic AI and generative models to robotics, sovereign AI, HPC, quantum computing and more.

Expect hands-on training, expert-led sessions and opportunities to connect with pioneers driving Australia’s AI ecosystem forward. Whether you’re a developer, researcher, entrepreneur or enterprise leader, AI Day is your gateway to the breakthroughs defining the next wave of innovation.

And here’s the best part: SXSW Sydney Platinum and Pro Pass holders have the exclusive opportunity to enter a ballot to receive access to NVIDIA’s AI Day on Thursday 16 October.

Explore the sessions on offer at NVIDIA AI Day Sydney on Thursday 16 October: 

Automating AI Factories with NVIDIA Mission Control

Explore how Nicolas Pietro Walker, Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture (NVIDIA) is advancing AI factories with integrated power, cooling, and NVIDIA Mission Control for resilient, automated, and self-healing data centers.

High-Performance, Quantum- and AI-Driven Drug Discovery

Giuseppe M.J. Barca, Professor of Quantum Medicinal Chemistry (MIPS & ANU) and Co-Founder of QDX Technologies, presents a breakthrough digital chemistry framework combining HPC, quantum methods, and ML to accelerate drug discovery with quantum-accurate biomolecular simulations.

Industrial Autonomy in the Era of Physical AI

Rev Lebaredian (NVIDIA) explores how generative AI for the physical world is revolutionising industrial autonomy, showcasing real-world applications transforming manufacturing, logistics, and global operations.

Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI: Effective Methods for Building Intelligent Digital Agents

Kris Murphy (NVIDIA) shares practical strategies for building agentic AI systems that integrate seamlessly with enterprise data, driving efficiency, flexibility, and innovation without relying on proprietary platforms.

From Language to Physics: Next-Gen Robot Learning for the Real World

Niko Suenderhauf (QUT Centre for Robotics) explores four breakthrough approaches that are advancing robots toward human-level interaction and adaptability: embodied 3D world models, language-grounded planning, affordance learning, and multi-modal policy training. 

Accelerating Quantum in Australia

Sam Stanwyck (NVIDIA) unpacks how integrating quantum processors with AI supercomputing is accelerating the path to error-corrected qubits, enabling breakthroughs in drug discovery, energy, and materials science while advancing Australia’s quantum and HPC communities.

Medical Foundation Models for Retina, Skin, and Brain at Population Scale

Zongyuan Ge (Monash University) shares how the Monash AIM for Health Lab is building large-scale medical foundation models across ophthalmology, dermatology, and neurology, using NVIDIA-accelerated systems to drive safer, more efficient clinical workflows.

NVIDIA Halos Opens a New Era of Safety Framework for Physical AI

Riccardo Mariani (NVIDIA) explores how the NVIDIA Halos framework sets safety guardrails for physical AI in vehicles and robotics, and how its inspection lab and certification program accelerate safety validation.

Connecting Real-TIme Insights to Action at the Quick-Service Restaurants (QSRs) Edge

Ravi Teja (Fingermark Ltd) shows how an Agentic AI framework at the edge is transforming QSR operations with NVIDIA Blueprint for Video Search and Summarisation, delivering real-time insights to staff through IoT devices for faster, smarter management.

From a Black Box to Breakthrough: How Australian Startups Accelerate AI With NVIDIA

Vinay Samuel (Zetaris), Ajain Vivek (Brainfish), Weihan Liew (Eklipse), and Susan Marshall (NVIDIA) share how Australian startups are scaling AI smarter with NVIDIA—optimising multimodal agents, generating real-time highlights for 100k+ streamers, and building regulation-ready financial intelligence systems.

State of Australia Quantum Computing

Gabriel Noaje (NVIDIA), Michael Hush (Q-CTRL), and André Saraiva (Diraq) discuss how Australia can harness quantum computing for economic growth and societal impact, sharing insights from research, industry, and high-performance computing.

Transforming Teamwork: Atlassian’s Next-Generation AI, Generative AI Agents, and the Future of Collaboration
Matthew Burton (Atlassian) showcases how Atlassian Intelligence and Rovo are using generative AI agents to automate workflows, enhance collaboration, and transform team productivity.

Want to know how you can attend? SXSW Sydney Platinum and Pro Pass holders have the exclusive opportunity to enter a ballot to receive access to NVIDIA AI Day Sydney. 

If you have your Platinum or Pro Pass, click here to add the “NVIDIA Ballot Add-On” to your pass before September 18 at 11:59PM AEST for your chance to attend. 

If you don’t have your Platinum or Pro Pass yet, secure it before September 18 at 11:59PM AEST and add the “NVIDIA Ballot Add-On” during check out to enter the ballot.

Successful entrants will be notified after September 19. View the full terms and conditions here.

Still have questions about NVIDIA’s AI Day? You can contact their team with any specific questions at NVIDIA_registration@pico.com.