diff --git a/examples/nlp/dialogue/dialogue.py b/examples/nlp/dialogue/dialogue.py
index 0da5ae5717da..de91b60d1ed3 100644
--- a/examples/nlp/dialogue/dialogue.py
+++ b/examples/nlp/dialogue/dialogue.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig) -> None:
     try:
         strategy = NLPDDPStrategy(no_ddp_communication_hook=True, find_unused_parameters=True,)
     except (ImportError, ModuleNotFoundError):
-        strategy = None
+        strategy = 'auto'
 
     trainer = pl.Trainer(**cfg.trainer, strategy=strategy)
 
diff --git a/examples/nlp/text_classification/text_classification_with_bert.py b/examples/nlp/text_classification/text_classification_with_bert.py
index 2deb3b34c444..01e8fae9bba5 100644
--- a/examples/nlp/text_classification/text_classification_with_bert.py
+++ b/examples/nlp/text_classification/text_classification_with_bert.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig) -> None:
     try:
         strategy = NLPDDPStrategy(find_unused_parameters=True)
     except (ImportError, ModuleNotFoundError):
-        strategy = None
+        strategy = 'auto'
 
     trainer = pl.Trainer(strategy=strategy, **cfg.trainer)
     exp_manager(trainer, cfg.get("exp_manager", None))
diff --git a/examples/nlp/token_classification/token_classification_train.py b/examples/nlp/token_classification/token_classification_train.py
index 51983a1af98b..56c1487cf9c5 100644
--- a/examples/nlp/token_classification/token_classification_train.py
+++ b/examples/nlp/token_classification/token_classification_train.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def main(cfg: DictConfig) -> None:
     try:
         strategy = NLPDDPStrategy(find_unused_parameters=True)
     except (ImportError, ModuleNotFoundError):
-        strategy = None
+        strategy = 'auto'
 
     trainer = pl.Trainer(strategy=strategy, **cfg.trainer)
     exp_manager(trainer, cfg.get("exp_manager", None))
diff --git a/tutorials/asr/ASR_with_Subword_Tokenization.ipynb b/tutorials/asr/ASR_with_Subword_Tokenization.ipynb
index b8f72a47292b..8b74cd2fc721 100644
--- a/tutorials/asr/ASR_with_Subword_Tokenization.ipynb
+++ b/tutorials/asr/ASR_with_Subword_Tokenization.ipynb
@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@
         "trainer = pl.Trainer(amp_level='O1', precision=16)\r\n",
         "\r\n",
         "# Trainer with a distributed backend:\r\n",
-        "trainer = pl.Trainer(devices=2, num_nodes=2, accelerator='gpu', strategy='dp')\r\n",
+        "trainer = pl.Trainer(devices=2, num_nodes=2, accelerator='gpu', strategy='auto')\r\n",
         "\r\n",
         "# Of course, you can combine these flags as well.\r\n",
         "```\r\n",
@@ -1443,4 +1443,4 @@
       ]
     }
   ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/tutorials/asr/Speech_Commands.ipynb b/tutorials/asr/Speech_Commands.ipynb
index 905ed1987410..5295af81e3ee 100644
--- a/tutorials/asr/Speech_Commands.ipynb
+++ b/tutorials/asr/Speech_Commands.ipynb
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@
                 "\n",
                 "```python\n",
                 "# Trainer with a distributed backend:\n",
-                "trainer = Trainer(devices=2, num_nodes=2, accelerator='gpu', strategy='dp')\n",
+                "trainer = Trainer(devices=2, num_nodes=2, accelerator='gpu', strategy='auto')\n",
                 "\n",
                 "# Mixed precision:\n",
                 "trainer = Trainer(amp_level='O1', precision=16)\n",
diff --git a/tutorials/asr/Voice_Activity_Detection.ipynb b/tutorials/asr/Voice_Activity_Detection.ipynb
index d56965f0c0ac..06d3cde671c4 100644
--- a/tutorials/asr/Voice_Activity_Detection.ipynb
+++ b/tutorials/asr/Voice_Activity_Detection.ipynb
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@
                 "\n",
                 "```python\n",
                 "# Trainer with a distributed backend:\n",
-                "trainer = Trainer(devices=2, num_nodes=2, accelerator='gpu', strategy='dp')\n",
+                "trainer = Trainer(devices=2, num_nodes=2, accelerator='gpu', strategy='auto')\n",
                 "\n",
                 "# Mixed precision:\n",
                 "trainer = Trainer(amp_level='O1', precision=16)\n",
diff --git a/tutorials/nlp/Question_Answering.ipynb b/tutorials/nlp/Question_Answering.ipynb
index 5d353dd76074..9ebbbd819790 100644
--- a/tutorials/nlp/Question_Answering.ipynb
+++ b/tutorials/nlp/Question_Answering.ipynb
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@
         "config.trainer.precision = 16\n",
         "config.trainer.devices = [0] # 0 for CPU, or list of the GPUs to use [0] this tutorial does not support multiple GPUs. If needed please use NeMo/examples/nlp/question_answering/question_answering.py\n",
         "config.trainer.accelerator = \"gpu\"\n",
-        "config.trainer.strategy=\"dp\""
+        "config.trainer.strategy=\"auto\""
       ]
     },
     {
diff --git a/tutorials/speaker_tasks/Speaker_Identification_Verification.ipynb b/tutorials/speaker_tasks/Speaker_Identification_Verification.ipynb
index 54b66ec16371..2188714e92f0 100644
--- a/tutorials/speaker_tasks/Speaker_Identification_Verification.ipynb
+++ b/tutorials/speaker_tasks/Speaker_Identification_Verification.ipynb
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@
     "We can dramatically improve the time taken to train this model by using Multi GPU training along with Mixed Precision.\n",
     "\n",
     "### Trainer with a distributed backend:\n",
-    "<pre><code>trainer = Trainer(devices=2, num_nodes=2, accelerator='gpu', strategy='dp')\n",
+    "<pre><code>trainer = Trainer(devices=2, num_nodes=2, accelerator='gpu', strategy='auto')\n",
     "</code></pre>\n",
     "\n",
     "### Mixed precision:\n",