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Where the global AI community unites to build the future.

Get ready to deepen your expertise, forge powerful connections, and stay at the absolute forefront of artificial intelligence. ODSC AI East is returning to Boston, MA at the Hynes Convention Center, April 28–30, for three days dedicated to practical, hands-on learning and community growth. And/OR you may join Virtual Conference. More details here - https://odsc.ai/east/

First Speakers Announcement

• Adam Tauman Kalai, Safety and Ethics Researcher, OpenAI
• Jonathan Frankle, Chief AI Scientist, Databricks
• Amy Hodler, Executive Director, GraphGeeks.org
• David Campbell, Head of AI Security, Scale AI
• Ben Armstrong\, PhD\, Executive Director \| Co-Lead\, Work of the Future\, MIT
• Ari Morcos, PhD, CEO and Co-founder, Datology AI
• Sydney Runkle, Software Engineer, LangChain
• Noah Giansiracusa, PhD, Assoc. Prof. of Math and DS, Bentley University
• Karen Zhou, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
• Joseph Fuller\, Prof. \| Co-head\, Future of Work Project\, Harvard Business School
• Denise Gosnell, Co-Founder & CEO, Data Driven Intuition
• Rajiv Shah, PhD, Chief Evangelist, Contextual AI
• Claire (Yunzhu) Zhao\, Director\, Group Lead \| AI/ML\, AQDS\, Pfizer
• David Hoyle, PhD Research Data Science Specialist, dunnhumby
• Dr. Denis Garagić, Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder, Palladyne AI
• Jeremiah Lowin, Founder & CEO, Prefect
• Veronika Durgin, VP of Data
• Xiong Liu Director, Data Science and AI, Novartis
• Mohammad Soltanieh-ha, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Boston University

This is more than just a conference; it’s the essential event for data science practitioners, AI builders, technical leaders, and anyone looking to pivot into an AI-driven career. With 300+ hours of content from 250+ expert speakers, you'll gain job-ready skills and strategic insights you can implement immediately.

Why You Need to Be Here: Learning and Value

Technical Tracks: Data Engineering \| Physical AI \| AI for BioPharma & Health \| LLMs\, GenAI & RAG \| Agentic AI & Workflow Automation \| Keynotes & Industry Leadership \| Data Science & Machine Learning & MLOps \| AI Engineering & AIOps

Non-Technical Tracks: AI Strategy \| AI Risk & Governance \| Agentic AI for Enterprise \| AI Products & Innovation \| AI & Future of work \| Executive Track \| AI Founder Track

At ODSC AI East, we prioritize tangible value and immersive learning, ensuring you walk away certified and skilled. Our expansive agenda is packed with cutting-edge workshops and deep-dive tutorials across the most in-demand domains:

• Hands-On Training: Master crucial skills in LLMs, Generative AI & RAG, AI Engineering & MLOps, Data Science, and Machine Learning with expert-led, hands-on sessions.
• Focused Tracks: Explore specialized content in Agentic AI & Workflow Automation, Data Engineering, and AI for Robotics.
• Learn from Engineers Who Ship: Our speakers are the industry's top practitioners and researchers, renowned for bringing real-world innovations and strategies to the stage.

Beyond the Talks: Our Expanded Community Events

The true value of ODSC AI East is the opportunity to connect and collaborate. Your pass unlocks a rich ecosystem of co-located events and unique networking opportunities designed for every career level:

• AI X Leadership Summit (Co-located): A curated forum for executives, business leaders, and technical managers to gain practical insights on shaping, governing, and scaling their organization’s AI strategy.
• AI Mini-Bootcamp: Kickstart your journey or reinforce fundamentals with our intensive, pre-conference AI training and certification tracks.
• AI Expo & Demo Hall: Explore the latest advancements, witness live product demos, and meet technical experts from leading AI companies and innovative startups. This is the place to gain insight into build vs. buy decisions for enterprise AI solutions.
• Networking+ Activities & Events: Challenge yourself to grow your network at our dedicated events, including the Main Network Reception, targeted Lunch Meetups, and exclusive VIP Networking sessions, forging invaluable connections across the global community.

Join us in celebrating our community's pursuit of knowledge, inclusivity, and fairness as we work together to move the world of data science forward. Ready to build better AI? Find your perfect pass and secure your spot at ODSC AI East 2026 today!

Useful Links

• ​​Free access to more talks/trainings: Ai+ Training platform
• ​​ODSC blog: https://opendatascience.com/
• ​​Slack Channel: https://hubs.li/Q03SyZP80
• ​​Code of conduct: https://odsc.ai/code-of-conduct/

Designing the Multimodal & Agentic Future of AI

Seniz Gayde Ayata - AIATUS AI Explore the future of artificial intelligence as we move beyond single-modality systems into an era of sophisticated multimodal and agentic AI. This keynote will examine how the convergence of vision, language, and action is reshaping what's possible in AI, and what it means for developers building the next generation of intelligent systems.

Data Unification at Scale: Building a Single Source of Truth from Disparate Sources

Mustafa Barak - EPAM In today's enterprise landscape, data lives everywhere—legacy systems, cloud platforms, databases, and data lakes. This session explores practical strategies and architectural patterns for unifying disparate data sources into a coherent, reliable single source of truth. Learn how to tackle data quality, governance, and integration challenges at scale while maintaining performance and consistency.

Context Engineering

Emre Okcular - OpenAI As large language models become more powerful, the art and science of context engineering has emerged as a critical skill. Discover how to effectively design, structure, and optimize context for LLM applications, from prompt engineering fundamentals to advanced techniques for retrieval-augmented generation and context management in production systems.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that demystifies the architecture of transformer models through intuitive visualizations and practical coding exercises - no prior machine learning background required!

You’ll:

• Explore the foundational components of transformer models, including embeddings and the attention mechanism.
• Understand how advanced techniques like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI agents extend transformers.
• Participate in a guided codelab to reinforce concepts through real-world implementation.

Whether you’re new to AI or seeking to strengthen your technical foundation, this workshop will equip you with both conceptual clarity and practical skills.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that equips you with practical strategies to build and optimize RAG retrievers for high-performing Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems.

You'll:

• Understand why the retriever is the most critical part of a RAG system and how it shapes response quality.
• Apply strategies to improve retrievers for more accurate and reliable context retrieval.
• Build flexible retrievers from scratch that adapt to user intent over time.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that equips you with practical strategies to build and optimize RAG retrievers for high-performing Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems.

You'll:

• Understand why the retriever is the most critical part of a RAG system and how it shapes response quality.
• Apply strategies to improve retrievers for more accurate and reliable context retrieval.
• Build flexible retrievers from scratch that adapt to user intent over time.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that equips you with practical strategies to build and optimize RAG retrievers for high-performing Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems.

You'll:

• Understand why the retriever is the most critical part of a RAG system and how it shapes response quality.
• Apply strategies to improve retrievers for more accurate and reliable context retrieval.
• Build flexible retrievers from scratch that adapt to user intent over time.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that demystifies the architecture of transformer models through intuitive visualizations and practical coding exercises - no prior machine learning background required!

You’ll:

• Explore the foundational components of transformer models, including embeddings and the attention mechanism.
• Understand how advanced techniques like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI agents extend transformers.
• Participate in a guided codelab to reinforce concepts through real-world implementation.

Whether you’re new to AI or seeking to strengthen your technical foundation, this workshop will equip you with both conceptual clarity and practical skills.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that demystifies the architecture of transformer models through intuitive visualizations and practical coding exercises - no prior machine learning background required!

You’ll:

• Explore the foundational components of transformer models, including embeddings and the attention mechanism.
• Understand how advanced techniques like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI agents extend transformers.
• Participate in a guided codelab to reinforce concepts through real-world implementation.

Whether you’re new to AI or seeking to strengthen your technical foundation, this workshop will equip you with both conceptual clarity and practical skills.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for a hands-on workshop that takes you inside the process of building high-performing, observable AI agents with Arize AX — from tracing to optimization, all in one session.

You’ll:

• Learn how to trace, instrument, and evaluate agent workflows using auto-instrumentation, live session tracking, and continuous evaluation techniques.
• Gain hands-on experience with prompt iteration, tool calling, A/B testing, and real-time debugging using Arize’s Alyx (AI Agent).
• Explore advanced capabilities like multi-agent visualization, session-level evaluation, and creating a production-ready observability setup with Arize AX.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for a hands-on workshop that takes you inside the process of building high-performing, observable AI agents with Arize AX — from tracing to optimization, all in one session.

You’ll:

• Learn how to trace, instrument, and evaluate agent workflows using auto-instrumentation, live session tracking, and continuous evaluation techniques.
• Gain hands-on experience with prompt iteration, tool calling, A/B testing, and real-time debugging using Arize’s Alyx (AI Agent).
• Explore advanced capabilities like multi-agent visualization, session-level evaluation, and creating a production-ready observability setup with Arize AX.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for a hands-on workshop that takes you inside the process of building high-performing, observable AI agents with Arize AX — from tracing to optimization, all in one session.

You’ll:

• Learn how to trace, instrument, and evaluate agent workflows using auto-instrumentation, live session tracking, and continuous evaluation techniques.
• Gain hands-on experience with prompt iteration, tool calling, A/B testing, and real-time debugging using Arize’s Alyx (AI Agent).
• Explore advanced capabilities like multi-agent visualization, session-level evaluation, and creating a production-ready observability setup with Arize AX.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that guides you through building Agentic RAG AI applications using Pinecone and AWS — no prior machine learning background required!

You’ll:

• Learn the fundamentals of vector database concepts and the Pinecone architecture.
• Gain practical experience in building an end-to-end Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chat application using Pinecone alongside AWS services.
• Reinforce concepts through guided implementation exercises tailored for real-world scenarios.

Whether you’re just starting out or enhancing your expertise, this workshop will equip you with the skills to create powerful, production-ready Agentic RAG systems.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that guides you through building Agentic RAG AI applications using Pinecone and AWS — no prior machine learning background required!

You’ll:

• Learn the fundamentals of vector database concepts and the Pinecone architecture.
• Gain practical experience in building an end-to-end Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chat application using Pinecone alongside AWS services.
• Reinforce concepts through guided implementation exercises tailored for real-world scenarios.

Whether you’re just starting out or enhancing your expertise, this workshop will equip you with the skills to create powerful, production-ready Agentic RAG systems.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that guides you through building Agentic RAG AI applications using Pinecone and AWS — no prior machine learning background required!

You’ll:

• Learn the fundamentals of vector database concepts and the Pinecone architecture.
• Gain practical experience in building an end-to-end Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chat application using Pinecone alongside AWS services.
• Reinforce concepts through guided implementation exercises tailored for real-world scenarios.

Whether you’re just starting out or enhancing your expertise, this workshop will equip you with the skills to create powerful, production-ready Agentic RAG systems.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that takes you from unstructured documents to structured insights using LandingAI’s Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) API.

You’ll:

• Learn the fundamentals of Agentic Document Extraction — its history, principles, and core building blocks.
• Explore the features of LandingAI’s ADE API, including batch and parallel processing, structured outputs, visual grounding, confidence scoring, and advanced parsing.
• Gain practical experience building a Smart Document Auditor for financial filings (e.g., 10-K documents) by extracting, validating, and refining structured fields.
• Understand how to extend ADE-powered pipelines to other domains such as healthcare, insurance, and legal document processing.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that takes you from unstructured documents to structured insights using LandingAI’s Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) API.

You’ll:

• Learn the fundamentals of Agentic Document Extraction — its history, principles, and core building blocks.
• Explore the features of LandingAI’s ADE API, including batch and parallel processing, structured outputs, visual grounding, confidence scoring, and advanced parsing.
• Gain practical experience building a Smart Document Auditor for financial filings (e.g., 10-K documents) by extracting, validating, and refining structured fields.
• Understand how to extend ADE-powered pipelines to other domains such as healthcare, insurance, and legal document processing.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that takes you from the basics of vector search to building fully functional AI agents powered by Weaviate.

You'll:

• Learn the fundamentals of vector search and Weaviate’s architecture for semantic and multimodal retrieval.
• Build an end-to-end agentic workflow using Weaviate, covering document and image search, automated reasoning, and chaining multiple agent steps.
• Gain hands-on experience through templated Jupyter Notebooks, progressing from simple queries to advanced multimodal and agentic flows with real-world data.
• Develop practical skills for integrating agents into intelligent automation workflows across diverse use cases.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that takes you from the basics of vector search to building fully functional AI agents powered by Weaviate.

You'll:

• Learn the fundamentals of vector search and Weaviate’s architecture for semantic and multimodal retrieval.
• Build an end-to-end agentic workflow using Weaviate, covering document and image search, automated reasoning, and chaining multiple agent steps.
• Gain hands-on experience through templated Jupyter Notebooks, progressing from simple queries to advanced multimodal and agentic flows with real-world data.
• Develop practical skills for integrating agents into intelligent automation workflows across diverse use cases.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that takes you from the basics of vector search to building fully functional AI agents powered by Weaviate.

You'll:

• Learn the fundamentals of vector search and Weaviate’s architecture for semantic and multimodal retrieval.
• Build an end-to-end agentic workflow using Weaviate, covering document and image search, automated reasoning, and chaining multiple agent steps.
• Gain hands-on experience through templated Jupyter Notebooks, progressing from simple queries to advanced multimodal and agentic flows with real-world data.
• Develop practical skills for integrating agents into intelligent automation workflows across diverse use cases.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.

As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that takes you from unstructured documents to structured insights using LandingAI’s Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) API.

You’ll:

• Learn the fundamentals of Agentic Document Extraction — its history, principles, and core building blocks.
• Explore the features of LandingAI’s ADE API, including batch and parallel processing, structured outputs, visual grounding, confidence scoring, and advanced parsing.
• Gain practical experience building a Smart Document Auditor for financial filings (e.g., 10-K documents) by extracting, validating, and refining structured fields.
• Understand how to extend ADE-powered pipelines to other domains such as healthcare, insurance, and legal document processing.

📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.