AI & Machine Learning

PyTorch Conference North America 2026

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PyTorch Conference North America 2026 ran Oct 20–21, 2026 at San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, United States. It is an AI & Machine Learning conference. ConferenceGrid lists 55 speakers, 68 sponsors and 57 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Oct 21, 2026 · dates verified May 5, 2026

PyTorch Conference North America 2026 gathers top-tier AI pioneers, researchers, and developers to explore the future of open source AI and the impact of PyTorch Foundation projects like PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion, and Safetensors. The event features in-depth technical talks, hands-on workshops, and conversations on AI infrastructure, applications…

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55Speakers
68Sponsors
57Sessions
81Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at PyTorch, in alphabetical order.

Abdullah Gharaibeh
Senior Staff Software Engineer · Google Cloud
Aditi Mewada
Apple
Ailing Zhang
Meta
Alban Desmaison
Research Engineer · Meta
Ali Taha
Baseten
Anshul Sinha
Meta
Ben Burtenshaw
Hugging Face
Bill Jia
VP of Engineering, Core ML/AI · Google Cloud
Brian Stevens
Senior Vice President and AI CTO · Red Hat
Cao Jiahui
AMD
Carlos Costa
Distinguished Engineer · IBM
Chris Jones
Google
Chris Lattner
Executive Vice President of Advanced AI Software and Platforms · Qualcomm
Cody Mazza-Anthony
Senior Staff ML Engineer · Shopify
Edward Yang
Research Engineer · Meta
Elisa Cascardi
Meta
George Novack
Inferact
Ilina Mitra
Baseten
Ion Stoica
Professor / Executive Chairman · UC Berkeley / Anyscale
Jana van Greunen
Director of PyTorch Engineering · Meta
Laura Gustafson
Meta
Liz Li
AMD

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

AMDDiamond
AMD PyTorchDiamond
AnyscalePlatinum
armPlatinum
AWSDiamond
BasetenPlatinum
ClockworkPlatinum
CrusoeDiamond
GoogleDiamond
HuaweiPlatinum
Huawei OSSPlatinum
IBMDiamond
InferactPlatinum
IntelPlatinum
Intel – PyTorchPlatinum
Lightning AIPlatinum
Lightning AI PyTorch 2026Platinum
MetaDiamond
nscalePlatinum
NvidiaDiamond
QualcommDiamond
Red HatPlatinum
VerdaPlatinum
Citadel SecuritiesGold
DatadogGold
D.E. ShawGold
d-MatrixGold
FuriosaAiGold
hpeGold
Jane StreetGold
Lemurian LabsGold
ModalGold
RebellionsGold
SusquehannaGold
VultrGold
AxeleraSilver
clockwork.ioSilver
Cloud Native Computing FoundationSilver
FalSilver
FlagOSSilver

Agenda

Selected from 57 sessions.

  • 10:00 AM

    Keynote: Open Science and AI Foundation Models: Allies in the Pursuit of Knowledge

    Keynote Session
  • 10:10 AM

    Keynote: AI Model Customization Platform

    Keynote Session
  • 10:15 AM

    Keynote: Linear Algebra for the Age of Research

    Keynote Session
  • 10:35 AM

    Contributing to Inference OSS That Won't Stand Still: A BoF on vLLM, llm-d, and the Moving Target

    Birds of a Feather
  • 10:35 AM

    Meet the Developers of vLLM

    Birds of a Feather
  • 10:40 AM

    Demo: PyTorch Ecosystem Running Natively on Trainium: Reinforcement Learning - TorchTitan & Monarch

    Demo Theater
  • 10:55 AM

    Demo Theater: The Engineering Behind 3-Second Video Generation

    Demo Theater
  • 10:55 AM

    NVIDIA: Hands-On with NVIDIA: Demos from the Engineers Behind NVIDIA's AI Stack

    Sponsored Activity
  • 10:55 AM

    Red Hat: Quantization Showdown: PyTorch Inference Optimization on OpenShift AI

    Sponsored Activity

Quick answers

When is PyTorch Conference North America 2026?
PyTorch Conference North America 2026 ran Oct 20–21, 2026 at San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, United States.
Where is PyTorch Conference North America 2026 held?
PyTorch Conference North America 2026 was held at San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, United States.
Who is speaking at PyTorch Conference North America 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 55 speakers, including Abdullah Gharaibeh (Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud), Aditi Mewada (Apple) and Ailing Zhang (Meta).
Who sponsors PyTorch Conference North America 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 68 sponsors, including AMD, AMD PyTorch, Anyscale, arm and AWS.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 81 companies show up, and 12 bet on three roles at once?

81 companies. twelve 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
12All threespeak · spons · exh
55Sponsoringsponsor only
14Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Meta·Google·IBM·Baseten·Red Hat·AMD·Inferact·AWS·Crusoe·Huawei·NVIDIA·Qualcomm

Speakers by seniority

29% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite47%
  • Founder / Owner12%
  • VP-level611%
  • Director / Head of59%
  • Manager / Lead35%
  • Engineer · IC24%
  • Research / Science24%
  • Other roles3258%

Of 55 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1MetaSponsor · Diamond15
2GoogleSponsor · Diamond4
3IBMSponsor · Diamond4
4BasetenSponsor · Platinum3
5Red HatSponsor · Platinum3
6AMDSponsor · Diamond2
7InferactSponsor · Platinum2
8AWSSponsor · Diamond1
9CrusoeSponsor · Diamond1
10HuaweiSponsor · Platinum1
11NVIDIASponsor · Diamond1
12QualcommSponsor · Diamond1
13AMD PyTorchSponsor · Diamond-
14AnyscaleSponsor · Platinum-
Sponsors by tier
diamond9
13% of 68
platinum14
21% of 68
gold12
18% of 68
silver17
25% of 68
bronze7
10% of 68
startup + non-profit + vc1
1% of 68
unspecified8
12% of 68
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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