ODSC AI West 2026

What makes ODSC AI West 2026 a builder conference?

ODSC AI West 2026 runs October 27 to 29 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in Burlingame. The organizer presents nine tracks, more than 250 speakers and 300 hours of content across the conference. Those are promoted program figures, not audited attendance. The practical distinction is its mix of hands-on engineering instruction, product demonstrations and the co-located AI X Leadership Summit.

Which ODSC West pass fits a technical team or an AI supplier?

AI engineers, machine learning developers and data scientists are the core technical audience. Product suppliers can meet practitioners in the AI Solution Showcase, while executives have a separate AI X Leadership Summit. A training-led team needs a pass that includes workshops; an expo-led team can use the October 27 and 28 showcase access. The pass choice should follow the sessions and floor access actually needed.

When do the conference and AI Expo open?

The conference spans Tuesday, October 27 through Thursday, October 29, 2026. The organizer lists the AI Solutions Expo for October 27 and 28, 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM PDT, giving exhibitors 13 stated expo hours across two days. The expo listing does not extend floor access to October 29, even though conference programming continues that Thursday.

How does the three-day ODSC West program unfold?

October 27 opens the conference and the first expo day, with an AI X keynote listed for Cal Al-Dhubaib. On October 28, the second expo day overlaps keynote talks by Deepak Pathak, Michael I. Jordan and Thomas Dohmke; the main reception runs October 28th, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. October 29 retains conference and keynote programming without a listed expo day. Session times should be read in the live schedule.

Where is the ODSC West venue and what is on site?

ODSC AI West uses the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport at 1333 Old Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CA 94010. The conference site also identifies an AI Solution Showcase Expo Hall and a co-located AI X Leadership Summit. Its venue page includes a layout image, but a complete current booth map and room-by-room allocation are not established in the reviewed public pages.

What is the simplest route from SFO to the Hyatt?

The venue page names San Francisco International Airport as the arrival airport and describes a 24-hour complimentary Hyatt shuttle. It says the shuttle runs every 15 minutes from 4:00 AM to 1:00 AM, then every 30 minutes until 4:00 AM. The airport pickup area is marked Hotel Shuttle. This is a Burlingame venue near SFO, rather than a downtown San Francisco convention center.

What do the current ODSC West pass categories include?

The organizer separates Explore, Learn and Build routes. Explore covers two AI Expo days and keynotes, with free admission by application or a $99 guaranteed option on the current page. Learn starts at $699 for talks and tutorials; Build starts at $1,099 for instructor-led training. These are published starting figures and promotional prices may change before checkout. The registration page controls the live amount.

Which badge and access details are confirmed for 2026?

The organizer ties access to pass level: expo access is narrower than the paid talk and training tiers, and VIP adds separate privileges. Its FAQ currently mixes 2026 event information with badge-pickup dates and app wording from 2025. For that reason, this draft does not treat the FAQ pickup hours, replacement fee or cancellation dates as confirmed 2026 rules. The live registration terms govern a purchase.

What does the ODSC hotel offer publish?

The event venue page advertises rooms from $229 plus taxes and fees per night for a limited time, alongside discounted self-parking at $20 per night with in-and-out privileges. Both are organizer-stated offers, not a guaranteed room quote. No current room-block cutoff or inventory is established in the reviewed page. The hotel is at 1333 Old Bayshore Hwy, in the same property as the sessions and networking.

How should visitors budget the travel between SFO and Burlingame?

The 24-hour complimentary airport shuttle is the clearest published transfer for this venue. The organizer also notes a free trolley to downtown Burlingame and a shuttle connection back to SFO for BART travel into San Francisco. Its venue page says the hotel is about five minutes from San Francisco International Airport; downtown San Francisco is a separate trip. The event hotel parking offer is $20 per night.

What will visitors find in the AI Solution Showcase?

The organizer promotes roughly 40 exhibitors, 30 hands-on sessions and 12 AI experiences in the two-day showcase. Its expo copy describes live demos, the AI Startup Showcase, expert talks and product displays. Those counts are promotional and may change. The subject mix includes tools for model development, data infrastructure, agentic workflows and production operations, making a product-category brief more useful than a generic technology label.

Where can exhibitors and sponsors be researched before arrival?

The official expo page carries the showcase description and sponsor logos, while its FAQ directs readers to an Exhibitors Index inside the Virtual AI Expo. A complete, exportable 2026 exhibitor roster and booth-by-booth floor plan were not established in the public pages reviewed on October 7. The visible sponsor names can seed account research, but a prior exhibitor or speaker should not be presented as a confirmed 2026 booth.

Which 2026 tracks and named keynotes anchor the schedule?

The organizer lists nine tracks, including AI Engineering, Evals and Operations, Agentic AI and Autonomous Systems, Graph Enhanced AI, Physical AI and Robotics, and Data and AI Infrastructure. The schedule highlights Deepak Pathak on physical AI, Michael I. Jordan on AI perspectives and Thomas Dohmke in a closing fireside chat. The training page separately promotes hands-on tutorials and workshops, so keynote and workshop access depend on the pass.

Where do meetings fit around keynotes and training?

The live schedule is the useful planning surface because the October 27-28 expo days run from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM PDT while workshops compete with booth time. October 28 has both prominent keynote programming and a 5:00 to 7:00 PM reception in the Grove. A technical buyer who is in instructor-led training may have fewer free floor windows than an expo-only visitor. The published program gives blocks; individual appointments remain private.

Does the stated ODSC audience match an AI vendor’s buyer?

ODSC describes its audience as AI and data science practitioners, developers, ML engineers, technical architects and business leaders. The AI X Leadership Summit adds a separate executive program beside the technical conference. The main site promotes 2,500 hybrid attendees, a figure that includes both attendance modes and cannot be read as on-site buyers. No verified 2026 purchasing-authority or job-title percentage breakdown is published in the reviewed pages.

How can a supplier identify relevant accounts before the show?

The public speaker lineup, expo sponsor logos and track taxonomy are the available account signals. A vendor in evaluation tooling can distinguish AI Engineering, Evals & Operations from Graph Enhanced AI or Physical AI & Robotics; a service firm can identify AI X leaders separately from workshop instructors. These are public research inputs. The organizer has not established access to a private registrant list in the reviewed material.

What does the official ODSC schedule tool establish?

ODSC links to a live schedule preview and says speakers are added weekly. Its FAQ describes an app for personal schedules and speaker details, but that paragraph still names the 2025 edition. The 2026 app name, launch date and attendee networking functions therefore remain unconfirmed here. The current schedule page is the safer source for published session topics and updates.

Does the show planner also capture exhibitor leads?

A program planner and an exhibitor capture service perform different jobs. The reviewed ODSC 2026 pages establish a schedule surface and an expo, but do not document an integration between that planner and an exhibitor badge-scanning product. No scanner fields, data export or attendee-consent terms can be inferred from the schedule link. That missing integration detail remains a vendor-specific gap.

What public figures define the cost of exhibiting?

The organizer provides partnership contact and showcase information, but a current 2026 booth rate card, required services and sponsorship prices were not public in the reviewed pages. The $699 Learn and $1,099 Build figures are attendee starting prices, not exhibitor costs. A responsible exhibitor budget needs the organizer quote, floor package and service order before any cost-per-meeting or ROI result can be calculated.

How much floor coverage does a two-day expo require?

The AI Expo is scheduled for 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM PDT on both October 27 and 28, or 13 published floor hours. B2Brain uses 31 scans per productive rep-day as an internal planning benchmark; one rep across both expo days would plan around 62 scans, two around 124. These are staffing scenarios, not an ODSC volume forecast. Booth rules and installation windows remain unpublished in the reviewed material.

Staffing arithmetic for this two-day expo.

Is an official ODSC West lead-capture vendor named?

The reviewed current ODSC event, expo, FAQ and partnership pages do not name a contracted 2026 exhibitor lead-capture product. A registration or schedule provider is not proof of a badge-scanning contract. As of October 7, this section cannot identify a scanner vendor or its order form. The comparison on this page therefore treats the baseline as an exhibitor operating on its own.

What is known about badge data and exports?

With no verified 2026 lead-capture vendor specification, this draft cannot claim which badge fields are delivered, whether notes can be attached, how exports work or what consent wording applies. The organizer does publish an expo and schedule, but neither page supplies those service terms. This is a precise product-information gap, not evidence that an official tool lacks any particular function.

Where can B2Brain add value at ODSC West?

B2Brain runs pre-event targeting, on-floor conversation capture and meeting booking, then post-event Leads-to-Meeting and opportunity attribution. At ODSC, the useful context is a buyer’s actual AI project, model or infrastructure constraint, role and agreed next step. B2Brain reports booth capture in under 30 seconds per conversation. This describes its workflow; without a confirmed official scanner, no feature superiority claim is made.

When might an exhibitor use both systems?

If the organizer requires its own badge service for attendee data, that service may still be necessary for permitted access. B2Brain can preserve the discussion context and booking decision beside the contact. Since the reviewed 2026 sources do not name the official product, price or data rights, this draft makes no purchase recommendation for a particular scanner. The two systems should be evaluated against the actual exhibitor contract.

Which qualification fields fit an AI engineering conversation?

A useful ODSC conversation record identifies the contact’s role, the active use case, present data or model stack, production blocker, decision timetable and the next meeting. The nine-track program spans Agentic AI & Autonomous Systems, AI Engineering, Evals & Operations and Graph Enhanced AI, so a single generic “interested in AI” tag would lose the distinction. The agreed next action is more useful than a raw badge scan.

How can the expo team separate research from active demand?

The October 27-28 expo days run from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM PDT, creating 13 finite capture hours. B2Brain’s 31-scans-per-productive-rep-day benchmark implies 62 scans over both days for one rep, but volume alone does not measure fit. An active project should have a named use case, owner and next step; a workshop learner exploring a topic belongs in a different follow-up path. The organizer’s hybrid attendance claim should not be used as an on-floor lead denominator.

A lead-quality calculation for the expo window.

When should ODSC conversations enter follow-up?

The final conference day is Thursday, October 29, 2026, while the expo ends a day earlier. A meeting request from the October 27 or 28 floor can therefore be routed while the conference is still running. B2Brain’s internal lead-decay estimate is about 85% conversion probability within two hours versus about 9% after a week; the corresponding one-week date from the final day is November 5. These are B2Brain estimates, not ODSC results.

A dated follow-up calculation after the conference.

Which numbers would support an ODSC return decision?

No event-specific ROI figure is defensible from the public material. The organizer does not publish a complete 2026 booth price, and a hybrid attendance count does not reveal qualified on-site conversations. Exhibitors can still record actual booth invoices, staff time, qualified conversations, meetings booked, opportunities created and pipeline attributed after the show. Leads-to-Meeting means meetings booked divided by qualified booth leads; a rate needs observed counts, not an assumed outcome.