The schedule is live. Now the question is: what will your three days at ODSC AI West look like? With 150+ hands-on sessions across 9 tracks, you can build an agenda around the work you actually do and the problems you need to solve next. Explore sessions on agentic AI, AI engineering, evaluation, ML, data infrastructure, Physical AI, developer tools, AI leadership, and more. Whether you’re building models, deploying agents, engineering AI systems, leading technical teams, or deciding where AI belongs in the business, there’s a track built around the work. Take a look at the schedule and build your agenda: hubs.li/Q04yBvyg0 (hubs.li/Q04yBvyg0) Fall Savings -40% Ends Friday!

Using the biggest model for every task can work in a demo. In production, cost, latency, and task-specific quality can tell a different story. At ODSC AI West 2026, Rob Ferguson, VP of Technology and Strategy at @FireworksAI_HQ, will present “One Big Model, or Many Small Ones?” Rob will make the case for a different architecture: fine-tuning smaller, task-specific models and coordinating them through routing and evaluation layers. Drawing on experience across Fireworks, Microsoft, and AWS, he’ll explore how teams can identify good candidates for specialized models, build eval sets around their actual workloads, estimate costs more realistically, and route requests to the right model instead of defaulting to one generalist system. Join Rob at ODSC AI West 2026: hubs.li/Q04yGpZt0

Explore how SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 is designed for coding and knowledge work, expanding the capabilities of AI models for complex tasks. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC hubs.li/Q04yByJZ0

You don’t need to be in San Francisco to code along at ODSC AI West. From October 27–29, the Virtual Pass gives you access to live technical sessions covering agents, MCP, RAG, inference, evals, observability, AI-assisted development, data science, and more. These are working sessions, not just presentations. You can follow the code, run the notebooks from your own machine, and ask instructors questions while they work through the material. The virtual program currently includes hands-on training sessions, expert talks, and  keynotes. Sessions include building MCP clients, moving a RAG pipeline into an agentic system, serving LLMs from a single GPU through distributed infrastructure, and instrumenting agents for production observability. If travel isn’t part of your ODSC AI West plans this year, you can still join the technical program live. 💻 Get your Virtual Pass: hubs.li/Q04yCc-S0 🔥Fall Savings -40% Ends Friday!  #ODSCAI #ODSCWest #AIEngineering #AgenticAI #MachineLearning

Data engineering is changing as AI systems demand more connected, contextual, and trustworthy data. At ODSC AI West 2026, @DeniseKGosnell, Co-Founder & CEO of Data Driven Intuition, will present “Rethinking Data Engineering.” Denise brings deep expertise in graph technology, enterprise data systems, and AI. She previously served as Chief Data Officer at DataStax, helped launch graph database technology at AWS, and is the author of The Practitioner’s Guide to Graph Data and Tech Confidential. Her session will bring a practical perspective on how modern data infrastructure can better support scalable AI systems and stronger decision-making. Join Denise at ODSC AI West 2026:  hubs.li/Q04yCpLD0

See how Snorkel AI reached a $3.5 billion valuation as demand for complex, high-quality AI training data continues to surge. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC hubs.li/Q04yBx_M0

RAG gets harder when your data is not just text. At ODSC AI West 2026, @vishakha041, Co-Founder & CEO of @ApertureData, will present “Beyond Embeddings: The Trifecta of Graph, Multimodal, and Semantic RAG.” Vishakha leads the development of ApertureDB, a vector-graph multimodal AI database built for production AI systems. In this session, she’ll show why stitching together separate vector, graph, metadata, and object-storage systems can create unnecessary latency and consistency problems. Using a live GraphRAG demo, Vishakha will explore how a unified approach to graphs, multimodal data, embeddings, and semantic retrieval can simplify infrastructure while improving performance and correctness. Join this Graph Enhanced AI talk at ODSC AI West 2026: hubs.ly/Q04yq-840

Explore how Meta’s Muse AI agent is gaining popularity as agentic AI continues to accelerate, highlighting the growing interest in autonomous AI systems. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC hubs.ly/Q04yr5Yd0

Personal AI apps are becoming more contextual, multimodal, and tailored to individual needs. But developers still need practical ways to build them. In the AI Accelerator – Personal AI & Workflow Automation, @DynamicWebPaige, DevRel Lead for GenAI at @Google, will lead “Building with Gemini: AI Studio, Gemini APIs, and the Future of Personal AI Apps.” Paige leads GenAI Developer Experience at Google and previously worked across applied machine learning and product roles at Microsoft, GitHub, and Google, including PaLM v2 and Gemini. In this workshop, attendees will use Google AI Studio and Gemini APIs to prototype, test, and deploy AI-powered experiences while exploring practical workflows, use cases, and best practices for personal AI applications. Join Paige at ODSC AI West: hubs.ly/Q04yqXhK0

Your team has AI. So why does the work still look the same? The problem usually isn’t access to the tools, but the workflow around them: what gets delegated, what still needs human review, where approvals happen, and who owns the result. That’s the focus of the AI for Work Summit, Dec 2–3 in NYC: practical sessions built around changing how real work gets done, not another round of AI theory. Bring the work your team is already doing. Leave with a better way to run it. Early Bird pricing ends Friday – SAVE up to $600! Register now: hubs.li/Q04ysxrj0

Catch up on the biggest AI breakthroughs, top news, and industry trends from September 21–27 in our latest weekly roundup. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC opendatascience.com/last-wee…

Explore ODSC AI West 2026 sessions by skill level and find the talks and workshops that match your experience and learning goals. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC hubs.ly/Q04yr4Rm0

Meet the speakers joining ODSC AI West 2026! This year’s speaker lineup brings together researchers, engineers, founders, and technical leaders working across the systems shaping applied AI: physical AI, autonomous systems, trustworthy LLMs, graph-powered AI, agentic workflows, open-model infrastructure, and production data layers. Learn from experts including: Brad Bebee – AWS Prashanth Rao – Hyperdimensional Computing Labs Vishakha Gupta – ApertureData Jans Aasman – Franz Inc. Aleksander Molak – Lingaro Rohan Kodialam – Sphinx David Hoyle – dunnhumby Dr. Michaela Greiler – Codalytiqs ODSC AI West returns to San Francisco, October 27–29, with sessions designed for practitioners, leaders, engineers, and AI builders who want to understand where AI is going and how to build with it responsibly. Fall Savings -40% Ends Friday! Register now: hubs.li/Q04yqFYh0

The ODSC AI West schedule is live. Now’s the time to decide what you want to see. With 150+ hands-on sessions across 9 tracks, three days fill up quickly. See what’s happening across agentic AI, AI engineering, evals and reliability, data infrastructure, Physical AI, machine learning, developer tools, AI leadership, and more. You can map out the sessions you want to attend, find the speakers you want to learn from, and see who you’ll be sharing the room with. Take a look at the schedule and build your agenda: hubs.li/Q04yqDKS0 Fall Savings -40% Ends Friday! 📍San Francisco & Virtual | October 27–29, 2026 #ODSCAIWest #AIEngineering #AgenticAI #MachineLearning #DataScience

Snowflake Expedition 2026 brings together builders and leaders for technical deep dives, hands-on bootcamps, product announcements, and real-world approaches to building with data and AI. Explore agentic workflows, AI-ready data, Snowflake’s latest capabilities, and techniques you can put to work right away. November 3–6 | Global Virtual Event Save your seat: hubs.li/Q04ykl0Z0  #Snowflake #SnowflakeExpedition #AI #DataEngineering #MachineLearning #ODSCAI

How capable should an AI system be before it becomes harder to control? David Campbell introduces Domain-Limited General Intelligence (DLGI), a way to build systems that can generalize within defined boundaries. He covers: - DLGI vs. narrow AI and AGI - Emergent behavior and misaligned optimization - Why bounded systems may be easier to test and control Watch here: hubs.li/Q04ykkbm0 #AISecurity #AIAlignment #AgenticAI #ODSC

What does it look like when AI agents help run the work, not just write the code? In this ODSC Ai X Podcast episode, @shawmakesmagic, creator of ElizaOS, explains how a two-person team coordinates a fleet of agents using GitHub issues, pull requests, reviews, worktrees, and testing workflows. Shaw also discusses permissions, trust, agent economics, and why today’s workflows may be a step toward computers we rarely need to touch. 🎧 Listen: hubs.li/Q04ykfbg0 #AIAgents #AgenticAI #AIEngineering #ElizaOS

You don’t need to become a developer to put AI to work. Start with the tasks already on your to-do list: organizing files, formatting documents, and pulling together recurring updates. In ODSC’s free AI for Work webinar, Sheamus McGovern shows you how, with live examples using Cowork. 📅 September 30 | 1 PM ET Save your free spot: hubs.li/Q04ykdkT0

Discover how Anthropic is bringing Claude into physical science with a new biology lab, exploring how AI can support real-world experiments and accelerate scientific discovery. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC hubs.li/Q04ykmgV0

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