NVIDIA at Open Source AI Week
October 18–26
San Francisco, CA
Open Source AI Week, hosted by The Linux Foundation, is the nexus event overlapping activations from hackathons, top conferences, startup showcases, networking opportunities, and more in the heart of developer communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s where everyone can gather to discuss the latest happenings in their open-source projects.
Join us in this week-long celebration highlighting innovation, collaboration, and community-driven solutions in the fast-evolving AI landscape, with the PyTorch Conference serving as the flagship event.
Keynote With Jim Fan, Director of Robotics and Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research
The Physical Turing Test: Solving General Purpose Robotics | Wednesday, October 22, 9:50–10:05 a.m. PT
The age of generalist AI agents for the physical world is here. Join Jim Fan, Distinguished Scientist and Director of NVIDIA GEAR Research Lab, as he outlines the major challenges facing the “robot revolution” and how the community is overcoming them with techniques in simulation, synthetic data, and accelerated computing.
Featured Programs
Featured Conference
PyTorch Conference 2025
Check out the scheduled NVIDIA sessions, posters, meetups, and more in this year’s program at Open Source AI Week’s flagship event.
Open Source AI Week Schedule at a Glance
Check out the scheduled NVIDIA keynote, sessions, posters, meetups, and more in this year’s program.
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Tue, Oct. 21
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Wed, Oct. 22
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Thu, Oct. 23
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Fri, Oct. 24
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. PT
Moscone West, Room 2005–2007
Join NVIDIA Panelists at Open Agent Summit
The leading event on agentic AI—intelligent, autonomous systems that perceive, plan, and act in dynamic environments. As generative AI moves beyond static prompts, this summit brings together top researchers, builders, and strategists to explore the next generation of goal-directed agents built on open source and open standards. Join NVIDIA Developer Advocate Mitesh Patel for a panel discussion: The Future of Agents and Human-Agent Collaboration—Moderated by Yujian Tang, OSS4AI.
8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. PT
Moscone West
Join NVIDIA Panelists at Measuring Intelligence Summit
At PyTorch Conference 2025, the Measuring Intelligence Summit explores how to evaluate foundational models and agentic systems. NVIDIA Senior Product Manager for Generative AI Software, Vivienne Zhang, joins as a featured panelist to discuss reasoning models, superintelligence, and the future of AI benchmarks.
8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. PT
Moscone
Experience NVIDIA technologies at the PyTorch Associate Training at Measuring Intelligence Summit
The PyTorch Associate Training is an in-person, instructor-led program designed to equip participants with the foundational and practical skills identified in the domains and competencies of the upcoming PyTorch Certified Associate exam.
5–7 p.m. PT
Moscone West
PyTorch Conference Startup Showcase
Watch early-stage AI startups—including participants from the NVIDIA Inception program—pitch their differentiated value to a live audience, including venture capitalists and PyTorch engineers.
9:50 a.m.–10:05 a.m. PT
Moscone Center, Room 3000/3012
Keynote: The Physical Turing Test: Solving General Purpose Robotics
Jim Fan, Director of Robotics and Distinguished Research Scientist, NVIDIA
11:50 a.m.–12 p.m. PT
Moscone Center, Room 2004/2006
Lightning Talk: Hardware-Aware Python Packages ~ PyTorch and WheelNext Grab the Wheel!
Jonathan Dekhtiar, Senior Engineer, NVIDIA
Eli Uriegas, Software Engineer, Meta
12:10–12:35 p.m. PT
Moscone Center, Room 2001/2003
The Future Is Tiled: Using CuTile and TileIR To Write Portable, High-Performance GPU Kernels
Jared Roesch, Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA
3:20–3:50 p.m. PT
Meet the Experts Lounge – Expo Hall
Meet the Developers of PyTorch Dev Infra
Zhe Zhang, CI/CD Infrastructure Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA
4:25–4:45 p.m. PT
Moscone Center, Room 2014/2016
Amazingly Fast and Incredibly Scalable Inference With NVIDIA's Dynamo and TensorRT-LLM
Harry Kim, Principal Product Manager, NVIDIA
Laikh Tewari, Deep Learning SW Product Manager, NVIDIA
5:35–6 p.m. PT
Moscone Center, Room 2005/2007
Enabling Lightweight, High-Performance FSDP With NVIDIA GPU
Xuwen Chen, DevTech Engineer, NVIDIA
Jianbin Chang, Senior Engineer, Tech Software, NVIDIA
Sangkug Lym, Computer Architect, NVIDIA
Cory Ye, NVIDIA BioNeMo Developer, NVIDIA
6–9 p.m. PT
7 Social SF
Trivia and Community: Hosted by NVIDIA, DeepInfra, and vLLM
Join NVIDIA and DeepInfra for a casual, community-driven meetup during PyTorch Open Source AI Week.
12:10–12:35 p.m. PT
Moscone Center, Room 2009/2011
Scaling KV Caches for LLMs: How LMCache + NIXL Handle Network and Storage Heterogeneity
Moein Khazraee, Senior Architect, NVIDIA
Junchen Jiang, Computer Science Professor, University of Chicago
10 a.m.–6 p.m. PT
The Clancy, Autograph Collection, San Francisco, CA
dAGI Summit: Making AI Universally Accessible, Provably Fair, Impartial, and Beneficial for All
Join senior researchers and leaders from OpenAI, DeepMind, Amazon, Meta, and NVIDIA alongside the founders and maintainers of top open-source AI projects like Letta, Cline, and PyTorch.
10 a.m.–10 p.m. PT
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
GPU Mode IRL / Hackathon
GPU MODE IRL is meeting again! Start the day with keynotes, meet new friends, and spend all day hacking.