Submissions now open for lightning talks at the 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference
Give an eight-minute talk about a topic of your choice at the 2026 AMLC
The 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference is now accepting submissions for lightning talks! Lightning talks provide speakers the opportunity to deliver a brief, eight-minute talk about a topic of interest to the AMLC audience. Example topics for a lightning talk could include:
A description of a data science, AI, or machine learning project you’ve worked on
A brief overview of a technical architecture or methodology you think others should know about
A demonstration of an open source software package or a data visualization technique
Highlighting a finding from recent research
...and so on. To learn more and submit a proposal for a lightning talk, please click the link below:
The deadline to submit lightning talk proposals will be 11:59PM US ET on Monday, April 6. All lightning talks will take place on Saturday, April 18 in the Capital One Hub at the UVA School of Data Science.
We look forward to reviewing your proposals!
The 2026 Applied Machine Learning Conference is now just over two weeks away! We have 42 technical talks and hands-on tutorials lined up over two days covering a wide range of topics across data science, machine learning, and AI engineering, featuring speakers from organizations like NVIDIA, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, McAfee, S&P Global, DARPA, IBM, and many more, as well as leading universities including UVA, Virginia Tech, Georgetown, Duke, and NC State. Renowned machine learning engineer Vicki Boykis and David Luebke, co-founder of NVIDIA Research, will headline the conference.
Most sessions will be highly technical, but there’s plenty here for the AI-curious, too — including talks and tutorials about the novel economics of AI and what it means for organizations using and building on top of AI models, why most ML projects should fail and how to do it well, and how to ensure AI-powered systems are deployed ethically and responsibly.
If you’re thinking about registering for the conference, now is the time! Last year’s conference sold out, so be sure to secure your tickets while they’re still available.
P.S. We’d be grateful if you could share the event with folks in your network who may be interested in attending! We do our best to get the word out about the AMLC, but the #1 way attendees find out about the event is still by word of mouth from people they know.