Our Recap of the 10th Anniversary of ODSC AI West
Our 10th anniversary of ODSC AI West is now a part of our history books, and we couldn’t be happier with how everything turned out. We hosted fun networking sessions, book signings, exciting keynotes, and a variety of sessions to cater to everyone’s needs. If you weren’t there or if you just want to look back on the event, then this recap is for you.
Top Sessions
With sessions both online and in-person in Boston, there was something for everyone at ODSC AI West. We had bigger sessions on getting started with machine learning or SQL, up to advanced topics in NLP, and of course, plenty related to large language models and generative AI. Check out some of the slides here.
Some of our most popular sessions at ODSC East were:
- Measuring What Matters: Benchmarking and Human-in-the-Loop for Reliable GenAI
- Context Engineering with LangGraph
- Understanding the Agent Development Lifecycle in the Enterprise
- Beyond Human-in-the-Loop: Labeling Agents for Scalable, Accurate Training Data
- 5 Rules of Enterprise AI for 2026
- How to Build an Evaluation Harness for your AI Agent
- Panel: AI Product Innovation: Insights from Founders, Funders & Builders
- Demystifying the Black Box: Model-Agnostic Global Methods for Explainable AI
- The Human Advantage: Why Judgment Outranks Automation
- Panel: AI and the Future of Work: From Hype to Reality
- Beyond Text: Building & Evaluating Multimodal Graph RAG Systems
- Context Engineering for AI Agents
- Unleashing Enterprise AI: Bridging Innovation and Practicality with Dell AI Factory and NVIDIA
- Approaches to AI alignment
- Agentic by Design: Moving from Automated Tools to Scalable Orchestrations
- Synthetic Data Generation for Enterprise AI
- Building Dynamic In-Context Learning for Self-Optimizing Agents
- Buckle Up: How Waymo Uses Data to Create a Safer Driving Experience
- AI Engineering
- A Practical Guide to LLM Evaluation
- Rethinking RAG: How MCP and Agent2Agent Will Transform the Future of Intelligent Search
- Towards Superintelligence: Compression and Reasoning
- Building, Deploying, and Scaling Agents in Production
- AX is the only Experience that Matters
- Context Engineering for AI Code Reviews with MCP, LLMs, and Open-Source DevOps Tooling
Speaker Awards
As we celebrated ten years of ODSC AI West, we’d like to bring attention to the people who’ve made ODSC what it is today — our speakers and instructors! Filling up rooms, leading engaging discussions, and keeping people coming back for more, these speakers are leaders in their field for good reason. This is why we celebrated our speakers at ODSC AI West 2025 this year by giving three of our leading speakers awards to highlight their impact on the community. This year’s awards went to Cal Al-Dhubaib, Head of AI and Data Science at Further; Michelle Yi, Co-Founder of Generationship; and Amy Hodler, Graph Evangelist at GraphGeeks.org.
Networking
As it is always a highlight and crowd-pleaser of ODSC conferences, the networking events during the week were well-deserved after long days of data science training sessions. Each day, we had at least one book signing where attendees could meet some of their favorite data science book authors and get their questions answered — and those who showed up early enough even got their book signed.
What’s next?
We still have plenty more coming up next year. Right now, tickets are 70% off for a limited time for ODSC AI East, April 28th-30th, 2026 in Boston. That means tickets will only go up in price, so if you’re on the fence about going, let this be the decision-maker for you. Register now before ticket prices go up!
You can also join the Agentic AI Summit 2026, a three-week virtual event designed for builders, engineers, and innovators, this January 21st to February 5th, 2026. Here, you’ll learn how to design, deploy, and scale autonomous AI agents through hands-on workshops and expert-led sessions. Sign up here!
