Education & Training

ODSC AI West 2026

ODSC AI West 2026 is a premier conference bringing together the world's leading AI builders, practitioners, and researchers. The event features AI business strategy sessions, hands-on workshops, and sessions spanning NLP, Machine Learning, MLOps, GenAI, and more. Attendees will connect with solution partners and explore the latest in AI and data science adva…

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25Speakers
23Sponsors
41Exhibitors
4On the bill · sessions
64Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at ODSC, in alphabetical order.
Adam Tauman Kalai
Safety and Ethics Researcher, OpenAI · OpenAI
Alex Graveley
Director of Comet · Perplexity AI
Andrej Karpathy, PhD
Founder · Eureka Labs
Carlos Guestrin, PhD
Professor, Computer Science · Stanford University
Cassie Kozyrkov, PhD
Former Chief Decision Scientist · Google
Charu Maheshwari
Product Finance & Strategy · Anthropic
Chip Huyen
Author · AI Engineering
Daphne Koller, PhD
CEO and Founder · insitro
Deepak Pathak, PhD
Co-Founder & CEO · Skild AI
Diogo Almeida
CEO & Co-Founder · TypeSafe AI
DJ Patil, PhD
Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, Head of Technology · Devoted Health
Dr. Ali Arsanjani
Dir., Applied AI Engineering, Google Cloud · Google Cloud
Dr. Jon Krohn
Host, Co-Founder · SuperDataScience Podcast, Y Carrot
Jason Liu
Developer Experience Engineer · OpenAI
Jeff Clune, PhD
Professor | Senior Research Advisor · University of British Columbia | Google DeepMind
Manuela Veloso, PhD
Head of AI Research | Professor · JPMorgan Chase | CMU
Michael I. Jordan, PhD
Researcher, Inria | Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley
Neil Lawrence, PhD
DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning · University of Cambridge
Nouha Dziri, PhD
Senior Research Scientist · Cohere Labs
Pauline Brunet
VP of Forward Deployed Engineering · Cursor
Peter Norvig
Researcher · Recursive
Rehgan Bleile
Co-Founder & CEO, AlignAI | Founder of Women in Analytics · AlignAI
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Aiceberg
AlignAI
Databricks
Datasaur
Dell
Dynatrace
Elastic
Google
Google Cloud
Gurobi
Intel
LakeFS
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure
MIT
NVIDIA
Oracle
Red Hat
Senzing
Snowflake
Sphinx
super{set}
Zerve
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Agenda

Selected from 4 sessions on the bill.
  • TBA

    Architectural Patterns for Building and Governing Production-Grade Multi-Agent Systems

  • TBA

    Crushed by the AI Elephant – Why Enterprise Teams Seeing Only Parts Kills Progress

  • TBA

    Towards Trustworthy LLMs: Understanding Limits, Advancing Capabilities, Ensuring Safety

  • TBA

    Why Language Models Hallucinate

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 64 companies show up, and 20 bet on three roles at once?

64 companies. twenty are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
20All threespeak · spons · exh
3Sponsoringsponsor only
21Exhibitingexhibitor only
20Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

AlignAI·Google·Google Cloud·Aiceberg·Databricks·Datasaur·Dynatrace·Elastic·Gurobi·Intel·LakeFS·Microsoft·Microsoft Azure·Oracle·Red Hat·Senzing·Snowflake·Sphinx·super{set}·Zerve

Speakers by seniority

52% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite728%
  • Founder / Owner28%
  • VP-level14%
  • Director / Head of312%
  • Engineer · IC14%
  • Research / Science416%
  • Advisor / Investor14%
  • Other roles624%

Of 25 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01AlignAISpEx1V
  2. 02GoogleSpEx1V
  3. 03Google CloudSpEx1V
  4. 04AicebergSpEx
  5. 05DatabricksSpEx
  6. 06DatasaurSpEx
  7. 07DynatraceSpEx
  8. 08ElasticSpEx
  9. 09GurobiSpEx
  10. 10IntelSpEx
  11. 11LakeFSSpEx
  12. 12MicrosoftSpEx
  13. 13Microsoft AzureSpEx
  14. 14OracleSpEx
Sponsors by tier
unspecified23
100% of 23
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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