Conferences / Ray Summit
Ray Summit 2026
Aug 24–26, 2026 · San Francisco Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- Ray Summit Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Aug 24, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026
- Venue
- San Francisco Marriott Marquis
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —Site says only 'Three days. Hundreds of AI builders.' An aggregator's '3,000+ expected' figure is not used.
- Website
- anyscale.com
- Recorded
- 24 sponsors · 21 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Training day 24 Aug, summit 25-26 Aug; co-located with the first vLLM Conference (hosted by Inferact), included in the Ray Summit pass. Registration via the Linux Foundation. Speakers: keynotes and featured session speakers only, from the event-week home page (full agenda in a JS-only LF session catalogue, not checked); affiliations from logo alt text (Krishna Toshniwal 'latitude', Volodymyr Kuleshov 'Inception lab', Shaowei Su 'MAI' as shown). Gold tier: one logo is labelled 'Nebius' twice; the second uses a Lila logo file and is recorded as Lila. No 2027 edition announced as of Nov 2026.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summit Pass (Day 1 + Day 2, incl. vLLM Conference) | $400 | — | Price shown on event-week page. | web.archive.org |
| Summit + Training Pass | $450 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Bundle Promo (5 passes, summit + training) | $750 | — | Shown as '$2250 $750' (struck-through list price). | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 24
Speakers and talks 21
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Beam | Lila Sciences | Keynote | — | — |
| Bryan Catanzaro | NVIDIA | Keynote | — | — |
| Elvis Nava | mimic | Keynote | — | — |
| Felix Heide | Torc Robotics | Keynote | — | — |
| Ion Stoica | Anyscale | Keynote | — | — |
| Josh Payne | Nscale | Keynote | — | — |
| Keerti Melkote | Anyscale | Keynote | — | — |
| Liam Fedus | Periodic Labs | Keynote | — | — |
| Robert Nishihara | Anyscale | Keynote | — | — |
| Simon Mo | Inferact | Keynote | — | — |
| Vincent Gonguet | Bedrock | Keynote | — | — |
| Aamir Anwar | Spotify | Featured | Ray in Production: Engineering Lessons from Spotify's Hendrix Framework for Training LLMs | — |
| Aleksandar Djuric | Recursion | Featured | Building a Virtual Biology Platform on Ray: Multimodal AI Across Hybrid Anyscale at Recursion | — |
| Andrew Dai | Elorian | Featured | Why Current AI Cannot Truly See the World | — |
| Edward Hu | Mercor | Featured | Training Frontier Knowledge Work Agents: A 397B Open Recipe with SkyRL | — |
| Hanna van der Vlis | Adyen | Featured | Trillion-Token Pretraining: Building a Tabular Foundation Model for Payments | — |
| Jack Li | Apple | Featured | Apple Maps on Ray: Batch Inference and LLM Evaluation at Scale | — |
| Krishna Toshniwal | Latitude | Featured | Performant Training for All Workstreams | — |
| Serrana Aguirregaray | Discord | Featured | Scaling Machine Learning at Discord: Our Journey with Ray and Anyscale | — |
| Shaowei Su | MAI | Featured | Ray and MAI-Thinking-1 | — |
| Volodymyr Kuleshov | Inception Labs | Featured | Diffusion Large Language Models: Redefining the Token Efficiency Frontier | — |
Sources
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260824155002/https://www.anyscale.com/ray-summit/2026
- https://web.archive.org/web/20261019165836/https://www.anyscale.com/ray-summit/2026
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260514195905/https://www.anyscale.com/ray-summit/2026
- https://www.anyscale.com/ray-summit/2026
- https://vllm.ai/events/ray-summit