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Web AI Summit 2026

Web AI Summit 2026 is an in-person event by Google focused on running AI and ML models entirely on the client side in JavaScript. Attendees will hear from front-end leaders about the cutting edge of client-side AI and edge computing, including local LLMs, computer vision, and real-time browser-based applications. The conference features lightning talks, demo…

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26Speakers
5Sponsors
20Sessions
19Companies · in total

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Speakers

Programmed at Web, in alphabetical order.

Abhi Patel
SWE · Google / Deepmind
Akaash Parthasarathy
Researcher · Carnegie Mellon University (MLC AI)
Alex Nahas
Founder · MCB-B
Chintan Parikh
Product Manager · Google
Devang Patel
ONNX Runtime Lead · Microsoft
Erick Wendel
Professional JS Instructor · EW Academy
Heejae Kim
Software Engineer · Auger
Ishan Anand
Chief AI Officer · InsightSciences.ai
Janna Lipenkova
CEO · Anacode
Jason Mayes
Web AI Lead · Google
JD Fiscus
Founder · iamfiscus
Joshua Lochner
Open Source ML Engineer (Transformers.js) · Hugging Face
Julia Pagnucco
Senior SWE, Chrome AI Security · Google
Marian Harbach
Researcher, Chrome · Google
Matthew Soulanille
ODML Software Engineer · Google
Nico Martin
ML Engineer · Hugging Face
Ningxin Hu
Principle Eng · Intel
Peter Altamirano
VP, Global Head of Technology · Monks
Ping Yu
SWE Lead · Google
Reese Levine
Researcher · Llama.cpp / UC Santa Cruz
Rene Vergara
Co-Founder · Factorial Biomechanics
Rob Kochman
Group PM Chrome · Google

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Google
Hugging Face
Intel
Llama.cpp
WebLLM

Agenda

Selected from 20 sessions.

  • Fri, October 30, 2026 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

    Agentic Kernel Optimization at the Scale of the Web

    Efficient on-device inference requires hardware-specific GPU kernels, but maintaining optimized implementations across devices is becoming increasingly complex. At Hugging Face, we…

  • Fri, October 30, 2026 10:10 AM - 10:20 AM

    Scaling On-Device Web AI with LiteRT.js and WebGPU

    One year after its debut as Google’s WebGPU runtime, LiteRT.js has evolved from a lightweight .tflite model runner into a complete, client-side AI platform. In this session, discov…

  • Fri, October 30, 2026 10:20 AM - 10:30 AM

    LiteRT-LM.js: Running Multimodal, Agentic LLMs in the Browser

    Bring powerful LLM capabilities to the web with LiteRT-LM.js. Keep user data local and API costs low by running models like Gemma 4 and Qwen directly in the browser. Go beyond simp…

  • Fri, October 30, 2026 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

    Harnessing On-Device AI: What’s New in Web APIs

    Join us for an update on the web’s Built-in AI and AI-centric compute APIs. We’ll cover the Prompt and Task APIs, explore new multimodal inputs, and discuss Chrome’s shift toward s…

  • Fri, October 30, 2026 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

    WebLLM 2.0: Engineering Browser AI Across Execution, Interface, and Storage Boundaries

    WebLLM brings local AI to browsers using MLC-LLM and TVM. As browser AI advances, systems challenges increasingly lie beyond model kernels. This talk explores runtime optimization …

  • Fri, October 30, 2026 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

    Llamas on the Web: Introducing WebGPU support for llama.cpp

    In this talk, we introduce Llamas on the Web, a WebGPU backend for llama.cpp enabling efficient LLM inference in the browser. We’ll discuss challenges in memory management, quantiz…

  • Fri, October 30, 2026 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

    The State of Transformers.js: What Shipped, What's Next

    One year after the v4 preview, Transformers.js has grown from 1.7 to 10 million monthly downloads. We cover what shipped: the new WebGPU runtime for browsers and server-side JS, mo…

  • Fri, October 30, 2026 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM

    Real-time multi-camera biomechanics on the web

    For almost half a century, multi-camera analytics has been the gold standard of biomechanics, used in the most sophisticated labs around the world. Today, Factorial Biomechanics b…

  • Fri, October 30, 2026 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

    How to Ship an In-Browser Image Generator in Under 50 MB

    I’ll show how I adapted image generation models for in-browser inference under strict constraints, from a 48 MB GAN implementation to a larger 400 MB diffusion pipeline. I’ll cover…

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 19 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?

Nineteen companies. three 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
3All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
14Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Google·Hugging Face·Intel

Speakers by seniority

23% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite28%
  • Founder / Owner312%
  • VP-level14%
  • Manager / Lead415%
  • Product28%
  • Engineer · IC623%
  • Research / Science312%
  • Other roles519%

Of 26 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
Sponsors by tier
unspecified5
100% of 5
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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