Jensen Huang, the chief executive of NVIDIA, is scheduled to participate in the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in South Korea, which runs from October 28 to 31. NVIDIA said Huang will engage with global heads of state and senior Korean executives, including representatives of giants such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.

In a statement, the company noted that Huang’s agenda at the summit will focus on showcasing NVIDIA’s role in driving growth through artificial intelligence, robotics, digital-twins modelling and autonomous vehicles — both within Korea and on the international stage. The Korean hosts describe the forum as a flagship private-sector gathering aligned with the APEC leaders’ meeting of 21 member economies.

The timing of Huang’s attendance is particularly significant amid complex global dynamics. The summit comes as U.S.–China trade and technology tensions remain high, making the presence of a major U.S. AI-chip company at a key East Asian forum all the more noteworthy. Analysts believe that Huang’s meetings with Korean memory-chip titans could signal deeper collaboration in securing supply chains critical for AI infrastructure.

For NVIDIA, which is already under export-control scrutiny in China while seeking to reinforce its global partnerships beyond that market, the Korea trip offers a dual strategic purpose: ramping up alliances in a pivotal region while vying for leadership in the next wave of computing innovation.

Huang’s participation highlights how business-leaders’ fora like APEC are increasingly becoming venues where technological strategy, geopolitics and industrial supply chains converge — and where chip companies in particular are playing front-row roles.