ODSC AI West 2026

About ODSC AI West 2026

ODSC AI West 2026 runs from Tuesday, October 27 to Thursday, October 29, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency SFO, 1333 Old Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame, CA, in hybrid format. Tracks include AI Accelerator, Agentic AI & Autonomous Systems, AI Engineering, Evals & AIOps, Physical AI & Robotics, Data and AI Infrastructure, AI for Software Developers and Hands-On Training. It is aimed at AI engineers, ML engineers, data scientists and architects.

The site lists 43 speakers and 18 sessions. Speakers include Peter Norvig, Michael I. Jordan, Thomas Dohmke (Co-founder & CEO, Entire) and Nouha Dziri (Senior Research Scientist, Cohere Labs). Sessions include Architecture of Self-Improving Agents, Coding Agent real-time Observability and Control, and a featured keynote on Physical AI & Robotics. Networking options are a morning run, Dinner with Data Scientists, Roulette Talks and Women in AI. Sessions will be recorded.

Location

1333 Old Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame, California, 94010, United States

Venue: Hyatt Regency SFO

Agenda

Tuesday, October 27

• 09:00–10:00 · Don’t Let Your Agents Become Autonomous Insiders — Cal Al-Dhubaib
• 09:00–17:00 · Main Conference Tracks & Program
• 09:00–17:00 · AI X Leadership Summit - Day 1
• 10:00–17:00 · AI Expo & Showcase

Wednesday, October 28

• 10:00–11:00 · Own Your Intelligence: The Path from AI Dependent to AI Native — Sinan Ozdemir
• 11:30–12:30 · Closing Keynote: Fireside Chat — Thomas Dohmke, PhD
• 13:00–14:00 · Coding Agent real-time Observability and Control — Marius Hobbhahn
• 14:30–15:30 · Featured Keynote: Physical AI & Robotics — Deepak Pathak, PhD
• 16:00–17:00 · A Collectivist, Economic, and Statistical Perspective on AI — Michael I. Jordan, PhD
• 17:30–18:30 · Architecture of Self-Improving Agents — Alex Graveley
• 19:00–20:00 · Featured Keynote Track Talk: Agentic AI & Autonomous Systems — Babak Hodjat, PhD
• 09:00–10:30 · Main Conference Tracks & Program
• 09:00–17:00 · ODSC AI Breakout & Training Sessions
• 09:00–17:00 · Say Hello to AI!

Thursday, October 29

• 09:00–10:00 · AI’s Bitterest Lesson — Diogo Almeida
• 10:30–11:30 · Riding the Exponential: How to Thrive as Agents Double Task Horizons Every 7 Months — Dr. Jon Krohn
• 09:30–16:00 · Main Conference Tracks & Program
• 11:30–13:00 · Startup Pitch & Showcase

Tracks & topics

• AI Accelerator
• Personal AI & Workflow Automation
• AI Engineering, Evals & AIOps
• Physical AI & Robotics
• Data Science & Machine Learning
• Data and AI Infrastructure
• Agentic AI & Autonomous Systems
• AI for Software Developers
• Hands-On Training

Audience

• AI engineers
• ML engineers
• data scientists
• architects

Speakers

• Peter Norvig
  Researcher, Recursive
• Dr. Jon Krohn
  Host, Co-Founder, SuperDataScience Podcast, Y Carrot
• Deepak Pathak, PhD
  Co-Founder & CEO, Skild AI
• Nouha Dziri, PhD
  Senior Research Scientist, Cohere Labs
• Michael I. Jordan, PhD
  Researcher, Inria | Prof. Emeritus, UC Berkeley
• Thomas Dohmke, PhD
  Co-founder & CEO, Entire
• Marius Hobbhahn
  CEO & Founder, Apollo Research
• Cal Al-Dhubaib
  Principal Technologist, Rubrik
• Diogo Almeida
  CEO & Co-Founder, TypeSafe AI
• Kian Katanforoosh
  Ai X Keynote, Workera
• Sinan Ozdemir
  Keynote Track, Fireworks AI, Tola Capital
• Babak Hodjat, PhD
  Keynote Track, Cognizant
• Dr. Ali Arsanjani
  Keynote Track, Google
• Peter Norvig, PhD
  Researcher, Recursive
• Alex Graveley
  Director of Comet, Perplexity AI
• Chip Huyen
  Author, AI Engineering
• Charu Maheshwari
  Product Finance & Strategy, Anthropic
• Pauline Brunet
  Global Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, SpaceXAI
• Jason Liu
  Developer Experience, OpenAI
• Chiara Piccinotti
  VP, Data Science, Engineering and Experimentation, Discord
• Lavi Nigam
  Machine Learning Engineer, Google
• Ganesh Balachandran
  Head of Product Data Science, Waymo
• Daisy Hollman, PhD
  Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
• Jake Broekhuizen
  Applied Research, LangChain

Networking & recordings

Morning Run; Dinner with Data Scientists; Roulette Talks; Women in AI; Opening and closing receptions; Spooky AI After Dark

Yes, sessions will be recorded

Social

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• linkedin
• youtube
• instagram

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