PyTorch Conference North America 2026
by PyTorch Foundation (The Linux Foundation)
The PyTorch Foundation's flagship open-source AI conference, co-located with AGNTCon + MCPCon.
About This Event
PyTorch Conference North America 2026 runs 20-21 October 2026 at the San Jose Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos St, hosted by the PyTorch Foundation. The two-day programme spans the full open-source AI stack — bare-metal infrastructure, training and inference, kernel engineering, frameworks and compilers, generative AI, security and privacy, responsible AI and compliance, and agent-based systems — delivered as technical talks, hands-on workshops, a community expo and poster sessions. Foundation projects on the agenda include PyTorch itself plus vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion and Safetensors. Diamond sponsors are AMD, AWS, Google, Meta and NVIDIA. AGNTCon + MCPCon North America is co-located at the same venue on 22-23 October.
Key Dates & Deadlines
- Standard registration price ends
- AGNTCon + MCPCon standard add-on price ends
- Late registration closes
At a Glance
- Date
- October 20–21, 2026
- Location
- San Jose Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos St, California
- Format
- In-Person
- Event Type
- Conference
- Status
- Upcoming
- Pricing
- Paid
- Organizer
- PyTorch Foundation (The Linux Foundation)
- Added
- Jul 6, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 12, 2026
Topics & Focus Areas
Who Should Attend
- ✓ML engineers
- ✓AI infrastructure engineers
- ✓Research scientists
- ✓Platform and MLOps leads
- ✓Open-source maintainers
- ✓Heads of AI engineering
- ✓Kernel and compiler engineers
Why Attend
A platform lead running PyTorch in production gets two days with the maintainers of the exact projects their inference bill depends on — vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray — and can ask in person why a kernel regressed instead of filing an issue and waiting a month. AMD, AWS, Google, Meta and NVIDIA all sponsor at the top tier, so hardware and serving comparisons happen in one building without a single vendor owning the stage. Adding AGNTCon + MCPCon for two more days at a 20% discount turns one trip into a full agentic-infrastructure review.
Event Features
- ✓Training and inference technical track
- ✓Kernel engineering track
- ✓Frameworks and compilers track
- ✓Generative AI track
- ✓Responsible AI and compliance track
- ✓Security and privacy track
- ✓Agent-based systems and applications track
- ✓Hands-on technical workshops
- ✓Community expo and poster sessions
- ✓AI Community Bash featuring De La Soul, 21 October
- ✓Co-located AGNTCon + MCPCon North America, 22-23 October, San Jose Convention Center
What Makes This Unique
- ★Run by the PyTorch Foundation itself, so roadmap and internals talks come from project maintainers rather than a vendor's platform marketing team.
- ★Co-located with AGNTCon + MCPCon on 22-23 October at the same convention center, with 20% off the add-on when bought alongside a PyTorch registration — four days of framework and agentic-infrastructure content on one trip.
- ★Covers Foundation projects well beyond PyTorch — vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion and Safetensors — which is where serving cost and inference architecture decisions actually get made.
- ★The academic rate is a flat $249 at every tier including late registration, which keeps researchers in the room instead of pricing them out.
- ★AMD, AWS, Google, Meta and NVIDIA all sponsor at Diamond tier simultaneously — rare neutral ground for comparing hardware and cloud options.
Industries Represented
Pricing Details
Attendee registration is tiered by date: Super Early Bird $499 (31 Mar-10 Apr, expired), Early Bird $599 (11 Apr-31 Jul, expired), Standard $799 (1 Aug-4 Sep 2026), Late $999 (5 Sep-21 Oct 2026). Academic rate is a flat $249 at every tier with proof of academic ID. Co-located AGNTCon + MCPCon is a separate add-on: $375 early (2 Apr-28 Jul), $475 standard (29 Jul-7 Oct), $925 late (8-23 Oct), with a 20% discount when added to a PyTorch Conference registration. Every registration deadline is 11:59 p.m. Pacific on the stated date.
Organizer
PyTorch Foundation (The Linux Foundation)
pytorch.org/Frequently Asked
- When is PyTorch Conference North America 2026?
- PyTorch Conference North America 2026 takes place October 20–21, 2026 in San Jose, California.
- Where is PyTorch Conference North America 2026 held?
- PyTorch Conference North America 2026 is held in San Jose, California. The event format is in-person.
- What is the PyTorch Conference North America 2026 submission deadline?
- The next PyTorch Conference North America 2026 deadline is standard registration price ends on Sep 4, 2026. Remaining dates: AGNTCon + MCPCon standard add-on price ends — Oct 7, 2026; Late registration closes — Oct 21, 2026.
- How much does PyTorch Conference North America 2026 cost?
- PyTorch Conference North America 2026 is paid. Attendee registration is tiered by date: Super Early Bird $499 (31 Mar-10 Apr, expired), Early Bird $599 (11 Apr-31 Jul, expired), Standard $799 (1 Aug-4 Sep 2026), Late $999 (5 Sep-21 Oct 2026). Academic rate is a flat $249 at every tier with proof of academic ID. Co-located AGNTCon + MCPCon is a separate add-on: $375 early (2 Apr-28 Jul), $475 standard (29 Jul-7 Oct), $925 late (8-23 Oct), with a 20% discount when added to a PyTorch Conference registration. Every registration deadline is 11:59 p.m. Pacific on the stated date.
- Who should attend PyTorch Conference North America 2026?
- PyTorch Conference North America 2026 is aimed at ML engineers, AI infrastructure engineers, Research scientists, Platform and MLOps leads, Open-source maintainers, Heads of AI engineering, Kernel and compiler engineers.
- What topics does PyTorch Conference North America 2026 cover?
- PyTorch Conference North America 2026 covers PyTorch and open-source AI, Training and inference at scale, Kernel engineering, Frameworks and compilers, Generative AI, Responsible AI and compliance, AI security and privacy, Agent-based systems, Inference serving with vLLM, Distributed training with DeepSpeed and Ray.
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