Robert Nishihara
Co-founder
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- Ray Summit 2026 agenda is now live!
- Ray Summit 2026 agenda is now live!
- Ray Summit 2026 agenda is now live!
- Ray Summit 2026 agenda is now live!
Featuring the vLLM Conference
RAY SUMMIT 2026
Meet the builders, platform leads, and researchers training foundation models, building multimodal pipelines, and running RL at scale.
August 24 - 26 2026 · San Francisco, CA
Why Attend
Why Ray Summit?
Three days. Hundreds of AI builders. Technical talks on production systems.
Hands-On Training
Code-first workshops led by engineers who work on Ray everyday.
Meet the Experts
Spend two days with Ray + vLLM maintainers, ML infra leaders, and applied AI researchers.
In-Production Talks
Technical sessions on AI systems running under real load not demos on a laptop.
Community
Access the first-ever vLLM conference, co-located with Ray Summit. One ticket. Two communities.
By Builders
Hear from teams at leading AI teams on what they’ve shipped and learned.
Level Up
Get inspired on the latest in multimodal AI and RL systems - all on open-source.
Speakers
Featured Speakers
Felix Heide
Head of AI
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Presenting Keynote
Andrew Beam
CTO
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Vincent Gonguet
Head of Technical Foundations
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Presenting Keynote
Ion Stoica
CO-FOUNDER/EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
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Presenting Keynote
Liam Fedus
Co-founder & Co-CEO
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Presenting Keynote
Simon Mo
Co-Founder and CEO
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Presenting Keynote
Bryan Catanzaro
VP, Applied Deep Learning Research
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Presenting Keynote
Elvis Nava
Co-founder and CTO
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Presenting Keynote
Shaowei Su
Member of Technical Staff
Session
Ray and MAI-Thinking-1
Serrana Aguirregaray
Senior Software Engineer
Session
Scaling Machine Learning at Discord: Our Journey with Ray and Anyscale
Jack Li
Data and ML engineer
Apple
Session
Apple Maps on Ray: Batch Inference and LLM Evaluation at Scale
Aamir Anwar
AI/ML Platform Engineer
Session
Ray in Production: Engineering Lessons from Spotify's Hendrix Framework for Training LLMs
Krishna Toshniwal
ML Performance
Session
Performant Training for All Workstreams
Aleksandar Djuric
Software Engineering
Session
Building a Virtual Biology Platform on Ray: Multimodal AI Across Hybrid Anyscale at Recursion
TWO COMMUNITIES. ONE TICKET
Your Ray Summit pass includes full access to the co-located vLLM Conference, hosted by Inferact, bringing together two of the leading open-source Al infrastructure communities under one roof.
Topics
Four frontiers. One event.
Foundation Model Training
Multimodal Data Curation
Physical AI
LLM Reinforcement Learning
Schedule
Agenda at a Glance
Three days packed with training, talks, workshops, and hallway-track moments.
Training Day
Aug 24
8:00 - 9:00AM
Registration + Networking
9:00 - 12:00pm
Hands-on Training
12:00 - 1:00pm
Networking Lunch
1:00 - 4:00pm
Hands-on Training
Day 1
Aug 25
8:00 - 9:30AM
Registration + Networking
9:30 - 11:30AM
Keynotes
11:30 - 1:00PM
Networking Lunch
11:30 - 1:00PM
Industry Roundtable- Physical AI
12:30 - 5:30PM
Breakout Session
5:30 - 7:00PM
Ray After Party
Day 2
Aug 26
8:30 - 9:30AM
Registration + Networking
9:30 - 11:30AM
Keynotes
11:30 – 1:00pm
Networking Lunch
11:30 – 1:00pm
Industry Roundtable- Life Sciences
12:30 – 5:30pm
Breakout Session
5:30pm
Event Ends
Training
Ray Hands-on Training
Learn Ray from the experts who build and maintain it.
Ray Summit 2026 Training is designed for engineers building real-world AI infrastructure: large-scale data pipelines, distributed foundation model training systems, and high-performance inference platforms. This is not a weekend hackathon workshop or a “deploy your first model” tutorial. These full-day technical enablement sessions focus on the architectures, performance tradeoffs, and operational patterns behind modern production AI systems.
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Morning
- Multimodal Data Processing Pipelines for AI Systems
- Foundation Model Distributed Training with Ray
- Production-ready Distributed Inference with Ray Serve
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Afternoon
- Scaling Physical AI & Robotics Systems with Ray
- Real-Time Search & Recommendation Systems for AI Commerce
- LLM Post-Training and High-Performance Serving
Where is Ray Summit 2026?
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
Discounted rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis until they are sold out.
Pricing
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All passes include access to recorded sessions post-event.
SUMMIT
$400
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- Conference access:
Ray Summit + vLLM Conference
(Day 1 + Day 2) - Keynotes, breakout sessions, lightning talks
- Expo Hall
- Access to Ray experts
- Session recordings
- Ray Party
SUMMIT + TRAINING
$450
Get Summit + Training Pass
- Full Conference access:
Ray Summit + vLLM Conference
(Training Day + Day 1 + Day 2) - Keynotes, breakout sessions, lightning talks
- Expo Hall
- Access to Ray experts
- Session recordings
- Ray Party
SUMMIT + TRAINING
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- Expo Hall
- Access to Ray experts
- Session recordings
- Ray Party
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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know before you pack your bag.
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