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Ray Summit 2026

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Ray Summit 2026 ran Aug 24–26, 2026 at San Francisco Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, United States. It is a Data conference. ConferenceGrid lists 37 speakers, 33 sponsors and 6 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Jul 11, 2026 · dates verified May 6, 2026

Ray Summit is the premier event for builders shaping the future of AI infrastructure. The conference brings together open source contributors, production machine learning teams, and infrastructure leaders in San Francisco to share practical insights on what works, what breaks, and coming innovations. Attendees will find a dynamic program featuring hands-on w…

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37Speakers
33Sponsors
6Sessions
65Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Ray, in alphabetical order.

Aamir Anwar
AI/ML Platform Engineer · Spotify
Aleksandar Djuric
Software Engineering · Recursion
Andrew Beam
CTO · Lila Sciences
Artem Kazakov
AI / ML Technology Architect · Bridgewater Associates
Bogdan Gaza
Co-Founder & CTO · DatologyAI
Brendan Burns
CVP, Microsoft Azure Cloud Native & Management Platform · Microsoft
Bryan Catanzaro
VP, Applied Deep Learning Research · Nvidia
Chelsea Finn
Assistant Professor, Stanford; Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence (Pi) · Stanford / Physical Intelligence (Pi)
David Hall
Research Engineering Lead · Stanford
Dawn Chen
Software Engineer · Google
Devendra Chaplot
Member of Technical Staff · Thinking Machines
Felix Heide
Head of AI · Torc
Haoran Li
Head of Post-training and Data · Character.ai
Ion Stoica
Co-founder & Executive Chairman · Anyscale
Jack Li
Data and ML Engineer · Apple
Jim Fan
Director & Distinguished Research Scientist · NVIDIA
Jimmy Ba
Co-Founder · xAI
Joe Spisak
Director of Product Management · Meta
Johannes Hagemann
Co-founder & CTO · Prime Intellect
Keerti Melkote
CEO · Anyscale
Kevin Peterson
CTO · Bedrock
Krishna Toshniwal
ML Performance · Latitude AI

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

AWSPlatinum
Google CloudPlatinum
Microsoft AzurePlatinum
DatadogGold
Digital OceanGold
IntelGold
NvidiaGold
SimplismartGold
VastGold
AlluxioSilver
AstronomerSilver
ClockworkSilver
FireboltSilver
LambdaSilver
MemvergeSilver
OpaqueSilver
Red HatSilver
RedisSilver
SnowflakeSilver
TigrisSilver
Weights & BiasesSilver
Attentive
Canva
Coinbase
DaftStartup
Handshake
Notion
Nubank
Physical Intelligence (Pi)
RapidfireStartup
Runway
SkyPilotStartup
WoolyAIStartup

Agenda

Selected from 6 sessions.

  • Aug 24 Afternoon

    LLM Post-Training and High-Performance Serving

    Techniques for post-training large language models and serving them at high throughput and low latency with Ray.

  • Aug 24 Afternoon

    Real-Time Search & Recommendation Systems for AI Commerce

    Technical session on architecting and scaling real-time search and personalized recommendation systems for AI-driven commerce applications.

  • Aug 24 Afternoon

    Scaling Physical AI & Robotics Systems with Ray

    Explore robotic and embodied AI workflows and challenges in scaling physical AI systems using Ray clusters.

  • Aug 24 Morning

    Foundation Model Distributed Training with Ray

    End-to-end strategies and best practices for distributed training of foundation models using Ray, including architecture decisions and optimization techniques.

  • Aug 24 Morning

    Multimodal Data Processing Pipelines for AI Systems

    Technical deep-dive into building and scaling multimodal data processing pipelines using Ray for production-grade AI workloads.

  • Aug 24 Morning

    Production-ready Distributed Inference with Ray Serve

    Learn how to deploy scalable, high-performance inference systems in production using Ray Serve.

Quick answers

When is Ray Summit 2026?
Ray Summit 2026 ran Aug 24–26, 2026 at San Francisco Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, United States.
Where is Ray Summit 2026 held?
Ray Summit 2026 was held at San Francisco Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, United States.
Who is speaking at Ray Summit 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 37 speakers, including Aamir Anwar (AI/ML Platform Engineer, Spotify), Aleksandar Djuric (Software Engineering, Recursion) and Andrew Beam (CTO, Lila Sciences).
Who sponsors Ray Summit 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 33 sponsors, including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Datadog and Digital Ocean.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 65 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

65 companies. one 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
1All threespeak · spons · exh
32Sponsoringsponsor only
32Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

NVIDIA

Speakers by seniority

43% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite719%
  • Founder / Owner411%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of411%
  • Manager / Lead514%
  • Engineer · IC822%
  • Research / Science411%
  • Other roles411%

Of 37 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1NVIDIASponsor · Gold2
2AlluxioSponsor · Silver-
3Anyscale3
4AstronomerSponsor · Silver-
5AttentiveSponsor-
6AWSSponsor · Platinum-
7CanvaSponsor-
8ClockworkSponsor · Silver-
9CoinbaseSponsor-
10DaftSponsor · Startup-
11DatadogSponsor · Gold-
12DigitalOceanSponsor · Gold-
13FireboltSponsor · Silver-
14Google CloudSponsor · Platinum-
Sponsors by tier
platinum3
9% of 33
gold6
18% of 33
silver12
36% of 33
startup4
12% of 33
unspecified8
24% of 33
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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