AI is changing fast and the people building what comes next are the ones worth listening to. Meet the first six ODSC AI West keynotes whose work spans some of the biggest shifts happening across AI right now, from agents and trustworthy AI to robotics and AI-powered software development. Peter Norvig, PhD – Recursive A defining figure in modern AI and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, bringing decades of perspective on how the field has evolved and where it goes next. Nouha Dziri, PhD – Cohere Labs Working at the frontier of reliable and trustworthy LLMs, with research spanning hallucination, reasoning, attribution, safety, and multi-agent systems. Marius Hobbhahn – Apollo Research Exploring one of the most critical challenges in frontier AI: how increasingly capable and autonomous systems behave, deceive, and can be evaluated and safeguarded. Dr. Jon Krohn – SuperDataScience Podcast | Y Carrot Examining the rapid expansion of AI agent capabilities and what it means for engineers, data scientists, organizations, and the future of knowledge work. Deepak Pathak, PhD – Skild AI Building toward general-purpose robot intelligence at the intersection of reinforcement learning, self-supervised learning, computer vision, and physical AI. Thomas Dohmke, PhD – Entire Former GitHub CEO and now co-founder of Entire, bringing a firsthand perspective on how AI agents are transforming software development and the way developers build. Six keynotes. Four major frontiers: AI Agents. Robotics. Software Development. Trustworthy AI. And that’s only part of what AI Builders will explore across ODSC AI West 2026, from building autonomous systems to deploying reliable AI and taking AI into the physical world.  📍 San Francisco | October 27–29 🔥 Fall Savings: 40% Off Learn from the people building what’s next and build it yourself. Register now: hubs.li/Q04xmcl40  #ODSCAI #ODSCWest #AIBuilders #AIAgents #Robotics #AIEngineering #TrustworthyAI

Explore OpenAI’s findings on how AI models used task summaries to conceal misaligned behavior, highlighting new challenges in detecting and evaluating AI safety risks. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC hubs.li/Q04yklPM0

Your AI pilot is not the strategy. The harder decisions come next: where AI creates measurable value, what deserves investment, how autonomous systems should be governed, and how to scale adoption without creating new operational risk. That’s the focus of the Ai X Leadership Summit at ODSC AI West 2026. And this isn’t a massive conference-within-a-conference. Only 250 seats are available. Join executives, founders, VPs, Directors, and AI decision-makers for 15+ AI business strategy sessions and peer-level conversations on: - Scaling AI Beyond the Pilot - AI Governance, Risk & Trust - AI ROI & Business Value - AI Agents & Automation - AI Leadership & Strategy - AI and the Future of Work - AI across Product, Finance, Marketing & Sales Come with the questions your organization is facing now. Leave with a clearer strategy for what to fund, what to scale, what to govern—and what not to pursue. 🔥Fall Savings - 40% off  👉 Reserve your seat: hubs.li/Q04yk1Ft0 #ODSCAI #AILeadership #AIStrategy #EnterpriseAI #AIGovernance #AITransformation #AgenticAI

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.ly/Q04yk76X0 #AISecurity #AIAlignment #AgenticAI #ODSC

Your team has AI. So why does the work still look the same? The problem usually isn’t access to the tools. It’s 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. Super Early Bird pricing ends Friday — save up to $600. Register here: hubs.li/Q04yj8sV0

Explore OpenAI’s new framework for reporting AI model misalignment, designed to help identify unexpected model behaviors and improve AI safety and oversight. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC hubs.li/Q04ydvHb0

Discover how Paper2Agent transforms research papers into interactive AI agents, making scientific methods and findings easier to explore, reproduce, and apply. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC hubs.li/Q04ydvf10

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/Q04ydr1l0

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/Q04ydpX00  #Snowflake #SnowflakeExpedition #AI #DataEngineering #MachineLearning #ODSCAI

AI is moving from experimentation into real systems, and the builders leading that shift are working across deployment, infrastructure, safety, agents, open-source tooling, and enterprise adoption. At ODSC AI West 2026, learn from speakers including Sara Zanzottera, Scott Askinosie, Sinan Ozdemir, Megan C. Starkey, Bryan Lapidus, Eddie Landesberg, Saurabh Dahal, Sydney Runkle, Sourav Sarkar, and more. Together, they bring practical insight from across the AI ecosystem: AI engineering, local and open-model workflows, responsible AI, enterprise deployment, model evaluation, agentic systems, production infrastructure, and reliability for real-world AI applications. Join us in San Francisco, October 27–29, for ODSC AI West, the AI builders conference for practitioners, engineers, technical leaders, and teams working to build, deploy, and scale AI. 🔥Fall Savings - 40% off Register now: hubs.li/Q04ydljF0

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/Q04ycvhX0 #AIAgents #AgenticAI #AIEngineering #ElizaOS

Explore why Anthropic’s policy chief argues that AI safety needs enforceable safeguards and accountability, rather than relying on voluntary commitments from AI companies. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC hubs.li/Q04y7h3c0

Still defaulting to Pandas for every dataframe task? At ODSC AI West 2026, Matt Harrison, Python & Data Science Corporate Trainer and Consultant at MetaSnake, will lead the workshop “Polars: A Highly Optimized Dataframe Library.” Matt has been working with Python since 2000 and has taught developers at conferences including PyCon, SciPy, Strata, OSCON, and SCALE. In this session, he’ll introduce the key features of Polars and compare them with Pandas, with a focus on efficient data manipulation and analysis for larger datasets. Join this Data Science & Machine Learning workshop at ODSC AI West 2026: hubs.li/Q04y88WM0

Most AI agents look good in a demo. The real test: can your business trust them? Join ODSC AI Skills Accelerator in Stockholm with Anastasiia Stefanska, Lead of Data Team at TUI, for a practical look at building more reliable AI agents. Tools, instructions, boundaries, cost, consistency — and the trade-offs that show up in production. Seats are limited: hubs.li/Q04y7gfq0 #AIAgents #AIEngineering #ODSCAI

From technical talks and leadership sessions to hallway networking and community meetups, ODSC AI West brings together the people building, deploying, and shaping AI in practice. These moments are what make the conference more than a schedule of sessions: shared ideas, practical questions, and connections that continue long after the event. Next stop: ODSC AI West 2026 in San Francisco. 👉 Register now: hubs.li/Q04y7cb50

Scaling AI across an enterprise takes more than strong pilots. It requires governance, workforce readiness, and a clear path to measurable business value. At the co-located Ai X Leadership Summit, Saima Shafiq, SVP and Head of AI Enablement at @usbank, will join the panel “Leading the AI Enterprise: Strategy, Scale & the Future of Work.” Saima leads enterprise-wide AI enablement from U.S. Bank’s AI Center of Excellence, with a focus on scaling adoption while maintaining strong governance and responsible AI practices. Her experience spans more than two decades across financial services, technology transformation, and applied AI. Join the panel for a practical discussion on moving beyond pilots, building AI-first organizations, preparing teams for change, managing risk, and creating measurable business value. Register for ODSC AI West 2026: hubs.li/Q04y7p980

Explore how Cloudflare’s new controls let website owners separate search engine crawling from AI training, giving publishers more control over how their content is used. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC hubs.li/Q04y7gJJ0

Attending ODSC AI West? Make sure to drop by the Databricks booth #3! Explore live, hands-on demos featuring Genie Ontology, Genie One, Genie Agents, Genie Code, and Omnigent. Discover how to govern, build, and scale enterprise-grade agentic systems with full AI observability via MLflow. Plus, mingle directly with our Databricks DevRel, Engineering, and Product teams to discuss the latest innovations, real-world agent design patterns, and what’s coming next! Stop by Databricks’ booth to chat, ask questions, and see the future of Data + AI in action! 👉 Explore the ODSC AI West Expo: hubs.li/Q04xZHb30

Explore Mark Zuckerberg’s market-led approach to AI safety and what it could mean for regulation, innovation, and the future of AI development. #DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSC hubs.li/Q04y1d-S0