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NVIDIA Names Six GTC Berlin Golden Ticket Winners for Open-Model Developer Contest

September 21, 2026 at 21:47 EDT

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NVIDIA has selected six developers for its GTC Berlin Golden Ticket program, sending Lucas Hudson, James Kane, Devin Nicholson, Aaron Nowak, Vladimir Shirokun and Stefan Trauth to the company’s October AI conference in Berlin. The winners were chosen after a developer contest focused on projects built with open models, with the prize package centered on in-person access to NVIDIA GTC Berlin and CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote.

Sept. 22, 2026 · NVIDIA

Six open-model builders get GTC Berlin access

NVIDIA named six Golden Ticket winners for its Berlin developer contest, tying community open-model projects to its October AI conference agenda.

Golden Ticket winners

Oct. 20-22

GTC Berlin dates

100+

Sessions across the AI stack

€357

Starting pass price

Winner Count, Drawn to Scale

6 winners

Each block represents one selected developer. The contest rewarded open-model projects with conference access, keynote VIP seating, merchandise and community events.

What builders value

Projects with tool use, deterministic data handling and usable interfaces stood out as practical open-model work.

What still limits it

The prize excludes travel and lodging, and deployed agent apps still rely on hosted inference, live feeds and careful grounding.

The contest signal

Open-model project→Judged submission→GTC Berlin access

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