PyTorch Conference 2026

Official hashtag: #PyTorchCon

About PyTorch Conference 2026

Organized by the Linux Foundation, PyTorch Conference 2026 takes place on Tuesday, October 20 and Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at the San Jose Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos St. Tracks cover Hardware Heterogeneity, Responsible AI, Hardware and Software Co-Design, Adaptive Intelligence, AI Foundation Models, Inference Optimization, Large Models Training and Continuous Learning.

The site lists 62 speakers and 19 sessions, mostly keynotes. Mark Collier, Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation, Brian Stevens of Red Hat and Jana van Greunen of Meta are among the names. The audience is described as ML and AI engineers, infrastructure and systems engineers, researchers and students, technical leaders and open source contributors.

A ticket is listed at $249, and evening events are part of the programme. Sessions will be recorded and posted on the PyTorch Conference YouTube channel within two weeks.

Location

150 W San Carlos St, San Jose, California, United States

Venue: San Jose Convention Center

Agenda

Tuesday, October 20

• 09:00–09:10 · Keynote: Welcome to PyTorch Conference North America — Mark Collier
• 10:20–10:27 · Keynote: Open Source Inference at Production Scale — Brian Stevens
• 09:55–10:03 · Keynote: Beyond Brute Force: The Era of Adaptive Intelligence. — Sara Hooker
• 09:20–09:35 · Keynote: PyTorch Updates — Alban Desmaison
• 07:30–08:30 · Registration & Badge Pick-Up
• 09:10–09:10 · Keynote: Shopify's Continual Learning Loop with PyTorch and vLLM — Cody Mazza-Anthony
• 09:30–09:30 · Keynote: MAX and Mojo: The Best Way to Extend PyTorch — Chris Lattner
• 09:40–09:40 · Keynote: Evolving Ray and Kubernetes Together for the AI Era — Ion Stoica
• 09:50–09:50 · Keynote: Trainium’s Journey to Native PyTorch — Robert Hundt
• 09:55–09:55 · Keynote: Beyond Brute Force: The Era of Adaptive Intelligence — Sara Hooker
• 10:05–10:05 · Keynote: PyTorch at Meta - From Internal Workloads to Multi-Silicon Ecosystem — Jana van Greunen
• 10:15–10:15 · Keynote: vLLM Update: Scaling Open Frontier Inference Infrastructure — Simon Mo
• 10:30–10:30 · Keynote: PyTorch Performance for Agents on Vera Rubin — Ujval Kapasi
• 18:00–19:30 · Poster Presentations
• 18:00–18:30 · Are We There Yet? (AWTY): A Framework for Assessing Small Model Viability on Local Hardware
• 18:30–19:00 · 2 in 1: Deep Dive into PyTorch Certified Associate (PTCA) and PyTorch Ambassador Program — Sahdev Zala
• 19:00–19:30 · Accelerating Helion Autotuning with Warm-Start and Shared Caches

Wednesday, October 21

• 09:20–09:30 · Keynote: Workload Fungibility in the Age of Agents — Bill Jia
• 10:05–10:13 · Keynote: Open Science and AI Foundation Models: Allies in the Pursuit of Knowledge — Rachad Alao

Audience

• ML & AI Engineers
• Infrastructure & Systems Engineers
• Researchers & Students
• Technical Leaders
• Open Source Contributors

Speakers

• Mark Collier
  Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation
• Brian Stevens
  Senior Vice President and AI CTO, Red Hat
• Bill Jia
  VP of Engineering, Core ML/AI, Google Cloud
• Sara Hooker
  CEO & Co-Founder, Adaption
• Rachad Alao
  Vice President of Engineering, Cohere
• Alban Desmaison
  Meta
• Mazin Gilbert
  Executive Director, Agentic AI Foundation
• Jana van Greunen
  Director of PyTorch Engineering, Meta
• Cody Mazza-Anthony
  Senior Staff ML Engineer, Shopify
• Edward Yang
  Research Engineer, Meta
• Chris Lattner
  Executive Vice President of Advanced AI Software and Platforms, Qualcomm
• Ion Stoica
  Professor / Executive Chairman, UC Berkeley / Anyscale
• Robert Hundt
  VP Distinguished Engineer, Amazon
• Simon Mo
  Co-Founder and CEO, Inferact
• Carlos Costa
  Distinguished Engineer, IBM
• Abdullah Gharaibeh
  Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud
• Ujval Kapasi
  VP, AI & HPC Frameworks and Libraries, NVIDIA
• Tristan Rice
  Meta, PyTorch Distributed
• Luc Georges
  Hugging Face
• Rob Mulla
  Google
• Elisa Cascardi
  Meta
• Nikhila Ravi
  Meta
• Songhao Jia
  Meta
• Zachary DeVito
  Meta

Sponsors

• AMD
• AWS
• Google
• IBM
• Meta
• NVIDIA
• Qualcomm
• Crusoe

Networking & recordings

Evening Events

Sessions will be recorded and available on the PyTorch Conference YouTube channel within two weeks.

Social

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• youtube

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