ODSC AI West 2026
ODSC AI West is the Open Data Science Conference’s flagship West Coast event for data scientists, AI engineers and technical leaders building real world AI systems. The 2026 edition runs from October 27 to 29 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in Burlingame, in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a virtual pass available alongside in-person attendance.
Across nine technical tracks, the program covers frontier AI research, AI engineering, evaluation and AIOps, coding agents and developer tools, data and AI infrastructure, physical AI and robotics, and AI governance. Sessions mix keynotes with hands-on workshops, tutorials and talks, with a co-located executive summit for AI leadership, an AI Expo Hall, book signings and nightly networking events.
More than 125 speakers are confirmed for 2026, spanning frontier research labs, the teams building today’s coding agents and the groups working on AI safety and evaluation. Confirmed names include Peter Norvig, Michael I. Jordan, Nouha Dziri, Chip Huyen, Deepak Pathak and Marius Hobbhahn, with new speakers added weekly in the run up to the event.
Key Speakers & Guests
| Name | Type | Role / Details |
|---|---|---|
Peter Norvig |
Keynote Speaker | Researcher, Recursive; former Director of Research, Google |
Michael I. Jordan |
Keynote Speaker | Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley; Researcher, Inria |
Nouha Dziri |
Keynote Speaker | Senior Research Scientist, Cohere Labs |
Chip Huyen |
Keynote Speaker | Author, AI Engineering |
Deepak Pathak |
Keynote Speaker | Co-Founder and CEO, Skild AI; Professor, Carnegie Mellon University |
Marius Hobbhahn |
Keynote Speaker | CEO and Founder, Apollo Research |
Sinan Ozdemir |
Keynote Speaker | Head of AI Developer Education, Fireworks AI; Author, Building Agentic AI |
Thomas Dohmke |
Speaker | Founder, Entire; former CEO, GitHub |
Alex Graveley |
Speaker | Lead, Comet (Perplexity); former Chief Architect, GitHub |
Marco Pavone |
Speaker | Director of Autonomous Vehicle Research, NVIDIA; Stanford Autonomous Systems Lab |
Jason Liu |
Speaker | Codex Team, OpenAI; Creator, Instructor |
Daisy Hollman |
Speaker | Claude Code, Anthropic |
