PyTorchCon NA 2026 opens call for academic open source projects, 8 lightning talk slots
PyTorch · x · 2026-09-24
The PyTorch Foundation OSPO & Academic Outreach Working Group is inviting academic open source projects to apply for a Day 0 workshop at PyTorchCon North America 2026.
- Projects using PyTorch, DeepSpeed, Helion, Ray, Safetensors, or vLLM are eligible; eight selected projects get five-minute lightning talks plus a hands-on workshop and mentor office hours.
- Topics include open source readiness, governance, reproducibility, community, security, maintenance, and ecosystem positioning.
- Open to students, researchers, faculty, research engineers, university labs, academic OSPOs, and maintainers; deadline is September 30, 2026, midnight PT.
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