# Talks and Blog Posts

This is a collection of presentations, blog posts and documentation around NVIDIA Merlin (NVTabular and HugeCTR).

## Talks

- [Part 6: "AI for Every Company" | GTC Keynote Oct 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiwVziNh_3s) Oct 5th, 2020
- [A Deep Dive into the NVIDIA Merlin Recommendation Framework | GTC Session Oct 2020](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtcfall20-a21132/) Oct 6th, 2020
- [Merlin: A GPU Accelerated Recommendation Framework | KDD 2020 Aug 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi2kCE5xcpw&feature=youtu.be) Aug 22nd, 2020
- [NVTabular: GPU Accelerated ETL for Recommender Systems | GTC Session May 2020](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtcsj20-s21651/) May 15th, 2020
- [HugeCTR: High-Performance Click-Through Rate Estimation Training | GTC Session May 2020](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtcsj20-s21455/) May 15th, 2020

## Blog posts

We frequently post updates on [our blog](https://medium.com/nvidia-merlin) and on the [NVIDIA Developer Technical Blog](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog?r=1&tags=&categories=recommendation-systems).

Some highlights:

- [Why isn’t your recommender system training faster on GPU? (And what can you do about it?)](https://medium.com/nvidia-merlin/why-isnt-your-recommender-system-training-faster-on-gpu-and-what-can-you-do-about-it-6cb44a711ad4) Dec 3rd, 2020
- [Democratizing Deep Learning Recommenders Resources](https://news.developer.nvidia.com/democratizing-deep-learning-recommenders-resources/?ncid=so-link-59588#cid=dl19_so-link_en-us) Dec 3rd, 2020
- [NVIDIA Merlin Deepens Commitment to Deep Learning Recommenders with Latest Beta Update](https://news.developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-merlin-deepens-commitment-to-deep-learning-recommenders-with-latest-beta-update/), Nov 23rd, 2020
- [NVIDIA Merlin Powers Fastest Commercially Available Solution for Recommender Systems Training](https://news.developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-merlin-powers-fastest-commercially-available-solution-for-recommender-systems-training/), Oct 6th, 2020
- [Announcing the NVIDIA NVTabular Open Beta with Multi-GPU Support and New Data Loaders](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/announcing-the-nvtabular-open-beta-with-multi-gpu-support-and-new-data-loaders/) Oct 5th, 2020
- [Accelerating Recommender Systems Training with NVIDIA Merlin Open Beta](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-recommender-systems-training-with-nvidia-merlin-open-beta/) Oct 5th, 2020
- [Better Predictions at Scale with Merlin](https://news.developer.nvidia.com/better-predictions-at-scale-with-merlin/) Aug 20th, 2020
- [Developer Blog: Introducing NVIDIA Merlin HugeCTR](https://news.developer.nvidia.com/developer-blog-introducing-nvidia-merlin-hugectr/) July 28th, 2020
- [Scalable Recommender Systems with NVTabular- A Fast Tabular Data Loading and Transformation Library](https://medium.com/rapids-ai/gpu-recommender-systems-with-nvtabular-eee056c37ea0) Jul 23rd, 2020
- [Introducing NVIDIA Merlin HugeCTR: A Training Framework Dedicated to Recommender Systems](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-merlin-hugectr-training-framework-dedicated-to-recommender-systems/) July 21st, 2020