Mark Collier
Executive Director
PyTorch Foundation
Mark Collier is Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation, home to PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion and Safetensors, and General Manager, AI & Infrastructure at the Linux Foundation. He co-founded OpenStack and the OpenInfra Foundation, growing a small NASA–Rackspace collaboration into a global open source community. Today he works with companies, researchers and developers worldwide to build a vendor-neutral AI stack that keeps AI infrastructure accessible to all.
Conference Sessions
- Opening Remarks – Mark Collier, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation Dec 10, 2026 • 10:00 AM-10:10 AM 2F Hall
Raghu Ganti
Distinguished Engineer
IBM
I am a Distinguished Engineer in the AI Platform organization at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights. I work on all things PyTorch at IBM.
Conference Sessions
- Raghu Ganti, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Dec 10, 2026 • 10:10 AM-10:30 AM 2F Hall
Lysandre Debut
Lysandre is the Chief Open-Source Officer at Hugging Face; ensuring that the ecosystem is as well supported as possible in the ML lifecycle, with open-source tools. He has been at Hugging Face for the past six years and was the first open-source employee at Hugging Face; working on transformers and the entire stack of Hugging Face open-source libraries since then.
Conference Sessions
- Lysandre Debut, Chief Open-Source Officer, Hugging Face Dec 10, 2026 • 10:30 AM-10:50 AM 2F Hall
Tsubasa Masui
Senior Manager
Mitsubishi Electric
Tsubasa Masui is a Senior Manager at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, leading the company-wide open source strategy and the promotion of InnerSource adoption. He is focused on building frameworks that improve in-house development efficiency while fostering collaboration with the open source community.
Conference Sessions
- Tsubasa Masui, Senior Manager & Masahiro Hiramori, Head Engineer, Mitsubishi Electric Dec 10, 2026 • 10:50 AM-11:10 AM 2F Hall
Masahiro Hiramori
Head Engineer
Mitsubishi Electric
Masahiro Hiramori (mshr-h) is a Head Engineer at Mitsubishi Electric and a PyTorch Ambassador. He works on on-device AI and edge LLMs, contributing to open-source AI development and its adoption in industry.
Conference Sessions
- Tsubasa Masui, Senior Manager & Masahiro Hiramori, Head Engineer, Mitsubishi Electric Dec 10, 2026 • 10:50 AM-11:10 AM 2F Hall