Jensen Huang.
Minutes into the keynote, hecklers stood on chairs in the auditorium displaying a Greenpeace banner reading, “Nvidia, clean up your dirty business! attendee footage posted to Twitter captured demonstrators pressing Huang directly While the disruption was largely missed by the official livestream. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote address at the company’s GTC conference in Berlin was interrupted by protestors on Wednesday morning.
The demonstration occurred during Nvidia’s three-day GTC Berlin event, running from October 20–22, which features developer sessions, executive panels, and industry talks alongside Huang’s opening address.
The Nvidia CEO too made a small mention of the protests on stage, jokingly, he said, “All important issues, but let me get through my keynote. The outburst follows reports detailing the discovery of Nvidia components—specifically within Russia’s S-71 “Monochrome” weapon, which relies on consumer-grade Jetson Orin modules for autonomous targeting—as well as in cruise missiles deployed against Ukraine. “Jensen, what about the technology that was found in Russian drones? Those were Nvidia chips. What are you doing about that?” one demonstrator shouted across the hall. “What are you doing about that? What are you doing about the environmental destruction? Huang remarked this before resuming the presentation. A Russian Molniya drone allegedly carrying an Nvidia Jetson Orin module crashed and killed three civilians at a gas station in Zaporizhzhia in August after choosing its final target without a human pilot. A New York Times investigation cited Ukrainian air defense commanders, drone experts, and the forensic team that examined the wreckage, as source of their report.