ODSC AI West 2025 Conference | Open Data Science Conference

ODSC AI West 2025 Conference | Open Data Science Conference

By ODSC Team | odsc.ai

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Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport

1333 Old Bayshore Highway Burlingame, CA 94010

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Agenda

Tuesday, Oct 28
Wednesday, Oct 29
Thursday, Oct 30

A Practical Guide to LLM Evaluation

Michelle Yi, Co-Founder at Generationship


This session cuts through the noise to provide a hands-on, practical guide for product, business, and technical practitioners tasked with validating LLM-powered systems. We will explore a comprehensi...

5 Rules of Enterprise AI for 2026

Cameron Royce, Turner Founder and CEO at TRUIFY.AI


In this 30 minute session, AI veteran Cameron Turner will guide the audience through 5 rules all AI practitioners and decision makers should adhere to when building scaled industrial AI systems. Span...

From Automated to Agentic to Scaled Agentic

Shikhar Kwatra, AI Architect, OpenAI


Session will include design blueprints/demo, and lessons learned from real production rollouts—enough to start building your own ecosystem, but with plenty still under wraps for the hallway track. Jo...

Practical Agentic Patterns in Production

Laurie Voss VP, Developer Relations at LlamaIndex


2025 is the year of agent: they go beyond basic LLM question-and-answer patterns into an entirely new programming paradigm in which software is given an objective and a set of tools and figures out o...

Doxing Dark Money: Entity Resolution to Empower Downstream AI Applications

Paco Nathan, Principal DevRel Engineer at Senzing


This talk explores known cases, the fraud tradecraft employed, open data sources, and how technology gets leveraged. There are multiple areas were multimodal agentic workflows (e.g., based on BAML) p...

Best Practises of Applying Llama to Real World: Llama Tools

Sanyam Bhutani, Partner Engineer at Meta

Justin Lee, Generative AI Engineer at Meta


This session is to teach you the best practices of applying llama to your domain. We will learn the best approach to using llama out of box on your domain to get the best performance. The session is ...

Build Production-Ready Agents With Simple-to-Customize UIs

Sandi Besen, AI Research Engineer & Ecosystem Lead | IBM


Join this hands-on workshop to build production-ready agents using BeeAI's framework, then deploy them with out-of-the-box web GUIs through the BeeAI Platform. By session end you'll have built functi...

How to Adapt and Thrive in the Age of AI Agents

Julian Bright, Member of Technical Staff at xAI


Within five years, AI agents will handle entire feature implementations and production issues autonomously, fundamentally changing what it means to be a software engineer. The traditional individual ...

From Vision to Orchestration: The Next Generation of AI Systems

Michelle Bonat | Chief AI Officer at AI Squared


AI has hit a real turning point. Success isn’t just about how accurate a model is anymore. It’s about how well all the pieces work together. The future belongs to systems that are orchestrated, obser...

Running LLMs Locally with Docker Model Runner

Rami Krispin | Senior Manager

Data Science and Engin


The Docker Model Runner (DMR) is a new feature in Docker Desktop that enables developers to run Large Language Models (LLMs) natively and seamlessly using familiar Docker tools. Its goal is to simpli...

How to Adapt and Thrive in the Age of AI Agents

Julian Bright | Member of Technical Staff at xAI


Within five years, AI agents will handle entire feature implementations and production issues autonomously, fundamentally changing what it means to be a software engineer. The traditional individual ...

Book Author: TECH CONFIDENTIAL: The Insider's Playbook for Daring Entrepreneur

Denise Gosnell |Co-Founder, CEO|Data Driven Institutions

Kathryn Erickson Author at Tech Confidential


Join Dr. Denise Gosnell and Kathryn Erickson, authors of Tech Confidential. Drawing on decades of experience in graph data, AI systems, and technology strategy, they offer practical insights on build...

Are Your APIs Ready for AI Agents? A 90-Day Action Plan

Sterling Chin | Senior Developer Advocate at Postman

Vibe Coding & The Future of Software Development

Ivan Lourenço Gomes | Front-End Engineer

Technology Instructor at Daweb Schools


Vibe Coding is changing the way we build software. By combining traditional development with powerful AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, and Lovable, we’re making it easier and fa...

Modern Data Architecture in the Cloud Era

Sjoukje Zaal | CTO Data & AI Europe at Capgemini


In today's data-driven world, organizations are rapidly evolving their data architectures to meet the demands of scalability, flexibility, and real-time analytics. This session explores the cutting-e...

Trust Engineering: The Missing Discipline in Enterprise AI

Cal Al-Dhubaib | Head of AI and Data Science at Further


Trust is the fundamental currency to AI success. Enterprises already invest in AI and data governance, transparency, customer experience, explainability, and security, but rarely as a unified practic...

Best Practices of Applying Llama to Real World: Llama Tools

Sanyam Bhutani | Partner Engineer at Meta

Justin Lee | Generative AI Engineer


This session is to teach you the best practices of applying llama to your domain. We will learn the best approach to using llama out of box on your domain to get the best performance. The session is ...

Building Performant & Scaled Agentic Vector Search

Thierry Damiba | Developer Advocate at Qdrant


AI agents have grown from simple Q&A chatbots into systems that can independently plan, retrieve, act, and verify tasks. Yet most pilots break moving from prototype to production for three reasons: M...

Code, Environment, Data: The Holy Trinity of Reproducible ML models with MLflo

Amit Kesarwani | Director of Solution Architecture

LakeFS


Tired of your MLflow experiments breaking due to hidden data changes? Most ML pipelines overlook dataset versioning, leading to reproducibility nightmares. This talk reveals the hidden pitfalls of un...

Accelerate Data Science at Your Desk with Dell and NVIDIA

Sama Bali | Senior Product Marketing Manager

AI and Data Science Solutions, NVIDIA| Dell Technologies


Discover how Dell Pro Max PCs, powered by the latest NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs and CUDA-X libraries, can transform local data science workflows. This session will show you how to harness accelerated comput...

Test Drive | Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA

Jon Presti | Technical Instructor at Firefly


In this session, you will explore real-world deployment patterns for AI and the future of agentic AI systems in this interactive seminar. After a short discussion, you will shift gears and take contr...

Fast, Cost-Efficient Inference to Scale Agentic AI

Yunmo Koo | Software Engineer at FriendliAI


Agentic AI, systems that plan, reason, and act across multiple steps, is rapidly becoming central to modern applications across industries. Yet the same capabilities that make these systems powerful ...

A Visual Guide to AI Agents

Maarten Grootendorst | Lead Data Scientist

Netherlands Cancer Institute


Driven by the rapid advances in deep learning, language AI systems are developing at an unprecedented pace. We are approaching a new field of AI where autonomous systems, or AI Agents, think and act ...

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  • 2 days 9 hours
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About this event

Science & Tech • Science

Are you ready to experience the leading technical AI conference at the heart of the AI boom? Accelerate your professional development with hands-on training, talks, workshops, networking events, 10+ tracks, and more.

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ODSC AI West will feature 250+ speakers, instructors, and practitioners, 2,500 of your fellow data and AI practitioners, and hands-on instruction for world-class experts in:

Join us October 28-30 in San Francisco to celebrate our 10th anniversary with AI’s pioneers. New speaker profiles will be added weekly. You’re welcome to check out some speaker blogs here.

With five passes to choose from, you can personalize your experience and get the most out of ODSC AI West:


Silver Pass - 2 days (Wednesday and Thursday) - access to ODSC Keynotes, Talks, and Tutorials, AI Expo & Demo Hall, The Gen Ai X Summit, Networking Reception, Meet the Experts, Dinner with Data Scientists, and other events.

Gold Pass - 3 days (Tuesday - Thursday) - everything included in Silver Pass, plus one Extra day, full of Talks, Tutorials, and Hands-on Workshop Sessions, AI Expo & Demo Hall on Tuesday, and other events.

Platinum Pass - 3 days (Tuesday - Thursday) - everything included in Gold Pass, with the additions of Deep Dive Training Sessions, held by industry leaders and other events.

AI Mini-Bootcamp Pass - 4 days (Monday (virtual only), Tuesday - Thursday) - everything included in the Platinum Pass plus access to Virtual Bootcamp Fundamentals & Pre-Conference Training and a full year of premium subscription to the Ai+ Training Platform.

VIP Pass - 4 days (Monday (virtual only), Tuesday - Thursday) - everything included with the Mini-Bootcamp Pass, with the additions of daily access to the Speaker/VIP Networking Lunch, Speaker/VIP Lounge, and VIP Fast Lane Registration & Gift Package.


IMPORTANT NOTE: All ODSC AI West Passes are strictly non-refundable if the pass holder has attended Agentic AI Summit or Any Pre-conference Bootcamp Sessions.

You’ll also be able to build meaningful connections with speakers and peers in a relaxed setting during our networking events like the ODSC Networking Reception, Dinner with Data Scientists, Meet the Speaker session, Book Signing sessions, and more.

So, are you excited about ODSC West in San Francisco? Register now and experience the leading technical AI conference for yourself!

What can you expect from an ODSC AI conference? Check out this highlights video from ODSC East 2024. ODSC, where the data community connects.

  • Ticket prices and availability are subject to increase or decrease, at the discretion of ODSC AI, before and/or after you have made your purchase, and do not entitle the purchaser to a partial refund or credit.
  • Given the nature of live events, changes to specific sessions and/or presenters may be unavoidable and do not entitle the purchaser to a partial (or full) refund or credit. ODSC AI reserves the right to expel and/or void the Ticket of any attendee or participant who violates the Code of Conduct.

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