The ODSC East 2025 Schedule: 150+ AI & Data Science Sessions, Keynotes, & More

From May 13th to 15th, ODSC East 2025 is bringing together the brightest minds in AI and data science for an unparalleled learning and networking experience. With 150+ expert-led sessions, hands-on workshops, and cutting-edge talks, you’ll gain the skills and insights needed to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. With top AI companies like Amazon, Hugging Face, Databricks, Microsoft, Netflix, and Meta presenting, you’ll get insights straight from the industry leaders driving innovation.

Here’s a day-by-day breakdown of the can’t-miss sessions, keynotes, and networking opportunities awaiting you at ODSC East 2025. You can also see the detailed schedule here.

May 0: Monday, May 12th

Day 0 of ODSC East 2025 will be virtual-only and will feature hands-on sessions in data science, essentials, and fundamentals for our AI Mini-Bootcamp and VIP pass holders.

Day 1: Tuesday, May 13th

The first official day of ODSC East 2025 will be chock-full of hands-on training sessions and workshops from some of the leading experts in LLMs, Generative AI, Machine Learning, NLP, MLOps, and more. This day will have a strong focus on intermediate content, as well as several sessions appropriate for data practitioners at all levels.

Day 1 will also feature the co-located Gen Ai X Summit, where you will come together with industry leaders and pioneers at the forefront of AI applications and innovation from across the country for panels and talks. You’ll explore the challenges and opportunities created by rapidly advancing fields like Generative AI and LLMs, and how they can be responsibly used to gain competitive advantage in your industry.

Tuesday is also the first day of the AI Expo and Demo Hall, where you can connect with our conference partners and check out the latest developments and research from leading tech companies.

At night, we’ll have our Welcome Networking Reception to kick off the first day.

Sessions:

Workshops:

• Practical Explainability Techniques for Machine Learning Models
• Hybrid Text Classification: Labeling with LLMs and Dense Neural Networks
• Idiomatic Polars
• Advancing GraphRAG: Text, Images, and Audio for Multimodal Intelligence

Tutorials & Training:

• Bayesian Analysis of Survey Data: Practical Modeling with PyMC
• Building Multimodal AI Agents: Agentic RAG with Vision-Language Models
• Beyond Benchmarks: Evaluating AI Agents, Multimodal Systems, and Generative AI in the Real World
• Hill Climbing: Best Practices for Evaluating LLMs

Bootcamp:

• Getting Started with Computer Vision — a Workshop for Impatient Beginners

Talks:

• Practical Strategies for Data Storytelling
• Mastering Time Series Analysis with StatsModels: From Decomposition to ARIMA
• Extracting Insights from Public Datasets with NLP & LLMs: Lessons from ClinicalTrials.gov
• Bridging Causal thinking and Media Mix Modeling
• Amidst the Visualization and Art of Data
• Getting Started with Open Source Contributions
• Foundation Models For Neuroscience: Uncovering Universal Neural Patterns for Many Uses
• Building Effective AI Agents with AG2
• The 2025 Shift to Smaller Models: Why Specialized AI Will Win

Gen Ai X Summit Talks:

• Intro to AI Risk Management
• Building Trustworthy Agentic AI: Lessons from Real-World Deployments

Day 2: Wednesday, May 14th

Day 2 continues with the AI Expo & Demo Hall in addition to the Gen Ai X Summit. Plus, we’ll have keynotes in the morning and our general networking reception at night. This’ll be a fun, engaging day!

Sessions:

Keynotes:

• Eric Xing, PhD, Professor at CMU and President of MBZUAI: Toward Public and Reproducible Foundation Models Beyond Lingual Intelligence

Book Signings:

• Sinan Ozdemir: Quick Start Guide to Large Language Models
• Matt Harrison: Effective Pandas: Patterns for Data Manipulation

Workshops:

• Adaptive RAG Systems with Knowledge Graphs: Building Reinforcement-Learning-Driven AI Applications
• Tentative Session Title: Instant + Customizable GraphRAG with Unstructured + Astra DB
• Machine Learning with CatBoost

Tutorials & Training:

• Explainable AI for Decision-Making Applications
• Building and Deploying LLM Application: Jupyter to Production in Streamlit and Beyond
• Agentic AI in Action: Build Autonomous, Multi-Agent Systems Hands-On in Python
• Build with AG2: Open-Source AgentOS
• The A to Z of Building AI Agents

Talks:

• GenAI at Scale: Building and Measuring Responsible AI Solutions
• Evals for Supercharging Your AI Agents
• Building the Backbone: Scalable LLMOps & MLOps to Enable AI Integration Across Teams
• Modern Experimentation Tools and Techniques in Practice
• Beyond the Prompt: Architecting Reliable Enterprise LLM Agents
• Beyond Productivity: Reimagining Your Innovation Pipeline in the AI Era
• Introduction to LLM Post-Training

Gen Ai X Talks:

• Blueprint for Impactful Agentic AI in the Enterprise

Day 3: Thursday, May 15th

The last day of ODSC East 2025 is all about our speakers!

Sessions:

Keynotes:

• Regina Barzilay, PhD, Distinguished Professor of AI and Health at MIT

Workshops:

• Causal AI: from Data to Action
• LLM & RAG Evaluation Playbook for Production Apps
• Optimizing LLM Inference: Speeding Up AI for Real-World Applications

Tutorials & Training:

• Building AI’s Foundation: The Critical Role of Data Architecture

Talks:

• AI Software Engineering Agents: What Works and What Doesn’t
• Effective AI Decision Support: Overcoming Both Human and AI Fallability
• The State-of-the-art in (Cooperative) Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
• Beyond ChatBots: Cognitive Cartography for Human-Driven AI-Powered Visual Data Science
• Real Time Delivery of Impressions at Scale
• Entity-Resolved Knowledge Graphs: Taking your Retrieval-Augmented Generation to the Next Level
• Structuring the Unstructured: Advanced Document Parsing for AI Workflows
• Guardrails in Generative AI Workflows via Orchestration
• 10 Most Neglected Data Engineering Tasks

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We’re still finalizing even more incredible talks, keynotes, and hands-on training sessions — so stay tuned for exciting new announcements in the coming weeks!

ODSC East 2025 isn’t just another AI conference — it’s your opportunity to level up your skills, network with industry pioneers, and get hands-on experience with the latest AI advancements. Whether you’re diving into LLMs, MLOps, GenAI, or data engineering, there’s something for everyone, from beginner to expert.

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