

INTRO End of Year Event: NVIDIA - The Journey from Within
Room: Schultz Cultural Arts Hall
Join INTRO end-of-year event for an exclusive fireside chat! Greg Estes, former VP of Marketing and Developer Programs at NVIDIA and Strategic Advisor for AI startups will be hosted by Ron Efroni, CEO @ Flox & President @ the NixOS Foundation.
Get an inside look at NVIDIA’s rise from graphics to AI powerhouse. Greg spent 15 years working directly with CEO Jensen Huang, helping build one of the world’s most influential developer ecosystems.
In this session, we’ll explore:
Pivotal moments that shaped NVIDIA’s trajectory
How NVIDIA built their developer ecosystem
Go-to-market lessons for the AI era
Responsible AI and what founders need to know
Practical advice for tomorrow’s tech leaders
Join us for insights that go beyond headlines and into the strategy, leadership, and culture that built NVIDIA from the inside.
About the Speaker
Greg Estes is a strategic advisor to AI-focused portfolio companies at leading Silicon Valley venture firms Mayfield Fund and New Enterprise Associates, as well as Universal Audio, a global leader in audio production technology.
For 15 years, Greg served as Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Developer Programs at NVIDIA, reporting directly to CEO Jensen Huang. During that time, he helped build one of the world’s most influential developer ecosystems—empowering more than 25,000 startups and 6 million CUDA developers to drive breakthroughs in AI, high-performance computing, and accelerated graphics.
Earlier in his career, Greg was Chief Marketing Officer at Avid Technology and Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Silicon Graphics. A frequent keynote speaker and media guest, he has been featured in major industry publications and appeared on leading broadcast outlets, including CNN and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
19:00–19:30 | Networking & Refreshments
19:30–21:00 | Fireside Chat with Greg Estes
21:00–21:30 | Networking & Refreshments
Special Thank You to our Sponsors
Flox - https://flox.dev/
Flox is a platform that lets developers and engineering teams focus on building fast with reproducible environments that span the enterprise SDLC. Using a declarative framework based on Nix, a package management and configuration tool, Flox allows developers to create environments that contain everything they need to build software.