Nvidia AI Day Seoul 2026 opens on Monday at COEX in Seoul, bringing together about 2,000 developers, researchers and company officials for two days built around agentic AI, physical AI and AI infrastructure. The event, announced by Nvidia on 2 November, is the chipmaker's flagship AI gathering in South Korea and runs until Tuesday.

Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and LG Electronics are the headline South Korean presenters, sharing a stage with cloud providers, robotics firms and start-ups. Twenty partner companies are taking part in total, including Naver Cloud, SK Telecom, Coupang Intelligent Cloud, Doosan Robotics, Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Hancom and MegazoneCloud.

Samsung Electronics is presenting work on PhysicsNeMo, Nvidia's physics-based AI platform, showing how it can speed up fluid, thermal and structural analysis in semiconductor design and let AI agents automate the search for better design options. The presentation reflects how closely chip design now depends on simulation, with AI models doing work that once took engineers far longer by hand.

SK Hynix is presenting on combining CUDA-X, Nvidia's accelerated computing software, with PhysicsNeMo to shorten semiconductor device and process simulations. Faster simulation matters to memory makers because it can cut the time needed to test new chip designs before they reach production.

LG Electronics is presenting a closed-loop robot learning system built on Nvidia's Isaac GR00T robot AI model, covering data collection, learning, simulation and field testing, with examples from real factory use. The session is one of several on physical AI, the field that links AI models trained in simulation to machines operating in the real world.

The first day opens with a keynote plenary session featuring senior Nvidia executives, followed by fifteen technology sessions across three tracks in the Grand Ballroom. Registration has already closed, but key sessions will be made available later through Nvidia On-Demand for those who cannot attend in person.

One planned appearance did not go ahead. Madison Huang, Nvidia's senior director of Omniverse and robotics product marketing, cancelled her trip to South Korea on 7 November, a day before her scheduled departure. The event itself is going ahead as planned.

The Seoul gathering is the first of two AI events in the city this week. Intel will hold its AI Summit Seoul 2026 at COEX on 12 November, as both American chipmakers court Korean semiconductor and electronics suppliers. South Korea's government is also in detailed talks with Nvidia about hosting its larger GTC event in late 2027.