Some people spend their lives searching for purpose. Trish lived hers. Today we honor Patricia "Trish" Neuenschwander—a beloved member of the ICAN family whose courage, compassion, and tireless dedication to protecting children touched countless lives. We are grateful to have known her, to have worked beside her, and to carry forward the mission she cared so deeply about. Read our tribute and learn more about her remarkable life below.❤️ With love, @delbigtree @AaronSiriSG @CatharineLayton @patrick_layton @lindeymagee @HighWireTalk

PyTorch conferences are the open source AI community’s town square, where what’s next gets decided. At #PyTorchCon# NA 2026, Core PyTorch sessions focus on the framework itself and the engineering work shaping how it is built and extended. The program spans torch.compile and dynamic shapes, distributed communication, out-of-tree backends, the release process and CI, profiling and observability, tensor layouts, stable ABI, and accelerator backends. Featured speakers include: @AMD: Prachi Gupta @awscloud Annapurna Labs: Esha Lakhotia @Google: Claudio Basile @Huawei: Jiahao Chen and Jiahao Tan @IBM: Olivier Tardieu and Dave Grove @IBMResearch: Matthew Arnold, Antoni Viros i Martin, and Avery Blanchard @intel: Yu Guangye, Eikan Wang, Panos Kourdis, and Tanima Dey @Meta: Andrey Talman, @drisspg, @rice_fry, Kapil Sharma, Natalia Gimelshein, William Wen, Steven Troxler, @__avik, @sanketpurandare, @aditvenk, Elias Ellison, @janeyx99, Simon Layton, Laith Sakka, Angel Li, Richard Zou, and Yidi Wu @nvidia: @memorypaladin, Sreeram Potluri, and Artem Polyakov @RedHat: Subin George Malana, Jewel K M, Sean McGovern, and Christopher Leonard @amazon: Pinak Panigrahi Register by September 4 to save: Read the Core PyTorch session guide: