The PyTorch Foundation OSPO & Academic Outreach Working Group is inviting academic open source projects to submit for a Day 0 workshop at #PyTorchCon North America 2026.

Projects using PyTorch, @DeepSpeedAI, Helion, @raydistributed, Safetensors, or @vllm_project can submit for consideration. Eight selected projects will present five-minute lightning talks, followed by a hands-on workshop and mentor office hours.

Depending on the project, workshop conversations may cover open source readiness, governance, reproducibility, community, security and maintenance, and ecosystem positioning.

The call is open to students, researchers, faculty, research engineers, university labs, academic OSPOs, research institutions, and maintainers of research-originated open source projects.

The submission deadline is September 30, 2026, at midnight PT.

Register for PyTorch Conference North America: https://hubs.la/Q04tBgv_0

🔗 Read more and submit: https://pytorch.org/blog/from-research-project-to-open-source-ecosystem-bring-your-academic-pytorch-project-to-pytorchcon-na/…

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