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PyTorch Conference North America 2026

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yTorch 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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36Voices
25Underwriters
44Exhibitors
0On the bill · sessions
93Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at PyTorch, in alphabetical order.
Abby Bangser
Principal Engineer · Syntasso
Ahmed Bebars
Principal Engineer · The New York Times
Baptiste Assmann
Director of Product · HAProxy Technologies
Brian Stevens
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for AI · Red Hat
Chad Beaudin
Chief Engineer · Boeing Software Factory
Chris Aniszczyk
CTO · Linux Foundation
Chris Holmes
Vice President · Planet Labs
Erin A. Boyd
Sr. Director · NVIDIA
Fabian Steinbach
Software Architect · ZEISS
Faseela K
Cloud Native Developer · Ericsson
Goetz Reinhaeckel
Program Director Cloud · BWI
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Linux Kernel Maintainer & Fellow · The Linux Foundation
Idit Levine
Founder & CEO · Solo.io
Jago Macleod
Engineering Director · Google
Jan Melen
General Manager · Ericsson
Jean-François Hubert
Development Director · Ubisoft Entertainment
Jesse Butler
Principal Product Manager and Technologist · Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) / AWS
Jonathan Bryce
Executive Director, Cloud & Infrastructure · Linux Foundation
Jorge Palma
Principal PM Lead for Azure Kubernetes Services · Microsoft
Karena Angell
Technical Strategist, Global Engineering | CNCF TOC Chair · Red Hat
Katie Gamanji
Senior Field Engineer · Apple
Keith Babo
Chief Product Officer · Solo.io

— and 14 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
armPlatinum
AWSDiamond
BasetenPlatinum
GoogleDiamond
Intel – PyTorchPlatinum
Lightning AI PyTorch 2026Platinum
Red HatPlatinum
Citadel SecuritiesGold
DatadogGold
D.E. ShawGold
d-MatrixGold
Jane StreetGold
Lemurian LabsGold
RebellionsGold
clockwork.ioSilver
FalSilver
LablupSilver
tigrisSilver
VASTSilver
ClickHouseBronze
Perforated AIBronze
Dell Technologies Capital
Dell Technologies Capital (DTC)Startup + Non-Profit + VC
LMCache Tensormesh
Yasp.ai
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 93 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

“93 companies. two 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.

№ 01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
2All threespeak · spons · exh
23Sponsoringsponsor only
43Exhibitingexhibitor only
25Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Google·Red Hat

№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

56% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite822%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of1028%
  • Manager / Lead617%
  • Product26%
  • Engineer · IC617%
  • Other roles26%

Of 36 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01GoogleSp·DEx1V
  2. 02Red HatSp·P3V
  3. 03ArmSp·P
  4. 04AWSSp·D
  5. 05BasetenSp·P
  6. 06Citadel SecuritiesSp·G
  7. 07ClickHouseSp·B
  8. 08clockwork.ioSp·S
  9. 09DatadogSp·G
  10. 10Dell Technologies CapitalSp
  11. 11Dell Technologies Capital (DTC)Sp·S
  12. 12D.E. ShawSp·G
  13. 13d-MatrixSp·G
  14. 14FalSp·S
№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier
diamond2
8% of 25
platinum5
20% of 25
gold7
28% of 25
silver5
20% of 25
bronze2
8% of 25
startup + non-profit + vc1
4% of 25
unspecified3
12% of 25
№ 05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's 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.

№ 06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions