ODSC AI West
Data scientists and ML engineers in a hands-on, training-heavy format.
- Dates
- Oct 27 to Oct 29, 2026
- Where
- Burlingame, CA · In person and online
- Cost
- Free expo floor; session passes $99 to $1,399. Expo pass free by application or $99 guaranteed; in-person from $699 (Learn) to $1,399 (Accelerate); AI X Leadership Summit from $459; virtual $229-$599.
- Type
- Conference · Free expo, paid sessions
- Organizer
- ODSC
- Audience level
- Early career, Mid career, Senior
- Last checked
- October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site
Official site and registration
Cheaper ways in: Free Expo pass by application; free virtual pass (keynotes and select talks); team discounts 10-20% for 3+.
Speaking opportunities
Has sessions, ask how speakers are chosen
No call for speakers seen in the part of the page read.
Who goes
Roles and segments the organizer or our research tag this event for.
Levels: Early career, Mid career, Senior
The field it serves: Technology & Software
- Verified open jobs
- about 89,532
- Typical posted salary
- $184,000 a year (middle half $131,000 to $234,000)
- Entry or early-career level
- 24% of openings
- Employment, year over year
- −4.2% in information, the closest BLS sector
Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.
Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 2,228 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, September 2026.
Full Technology & Software snapshot: jobs, pay, layoffs and conferences
Employers at this conference
Exhibitors, sponsors and speakers we have found on the event’s own lists.
- Cranium Sponsoring 2026
- Databricks Sponsoring 2026
- Datadog Sponsoring 2026
- Datasaur Sponsoring 2026
- Delphina AI Sponsoring 2026
- Google Cloud Sponsoring 2026
- iMerit Sponsoring 2026
- Intel Sponsoring 2026
- JetBrains Sponsoring 2026
- LMCache Sponsoring 2026
- Merge Dev Sponsoring 2026
- Microsoft Sponsoring 2026
- MinIO, Inc. Sponsoring 2026
- MIT Sponsoring 2026
- Nebius Sponsoring 2026
- Okareo Sponsoring 2026
- Refold Sponsoring 2026
- RunPod Sponsoring 2026
- RUNWARE Sponsoring 2026
- Senzing Sponsoring 2026
- SlapJax Sponsoring 2026
- Snowflake Sponsoring 2026
- Sphinx.ai Sponsoring 2026
- Squadbase Sponsoring 2026
- Starburst Sponsoring 2026
- Zilliz Sponsoring 2026
Read from the event’s own pages: odsc.ai.
Speakers and sessions
Named on the event’s own program. Titles and organizations are as the event lists them.
Keynotes
Cal Al-Dhubaib
Principal Technologist, Rubrik
Deepak Pathak, PhD
Co-Founder & CEO, Skild AI
Diogo Almeida
CEO & Co-Founder, TypeSafe AI
Dr. Jon Krohn
Host, Co-Founder | SuperDataScience Podcast, Y Carrot
Kian Katanforoosh
CEO & Founder, Workera | Stanford Adjunct Lecturer
Marius Hobbhahn
CEO & Founder, Apollo Research
Michael I. Jordan, PhD
Researcher, Inria | Prof. Emeritus, UC Berkeley
Nouha Dziri, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, Cohere Labs
Peter Norvig
Researcher, Recursive
Thomas Dohmke, PhD
Co-founder & CEO, Entire
Speakers
Avinash Balachandran
VP, Toyota Research Institute
Chad Sanderson
CEO, Gable.ai
David Loker
Director of AI, CodeRabbit
Context Engineering for AI Code Reviews with MCP, LLMs, and Open-Source DevOps Tooling
Harrison Chase
CEO and Co-founder, LangChain
João (Joe) Moura
CEO, crewAI
Jon Peck
Sr. Manager, DevRel & Enterprise Advocacy, GitHub
Lili Yu
Research Scientist, Physical Intelligence
Manasi Joshi
Director, Machine Learning Infrastructure, Waymo
Michelle Yi
Co-Founder, Generationship
Nikunj Bajaj
Co-founder and CEO, TrueFoundry
Sandi Besen
AI Research Engineer and Ecosystem Lead, IBM Research
Sanmi Koyejo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Shreya Rajpal
Cofounder and CEO, Guardrails AI
Soheil Koushan
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Vedant Misra
AI Researcher, Google DeepMind
Read from the event’s own pages: odsc.ai
Industries and functions
Where it is and who it is for
Held in Burlingame, CA. Local jobs, employers, layoffs and other conferences nearby are on the place pages.
Past and planned editions
- 2026: October 27, 2026 to October 29, 2026, Burlingame, CA
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