PyTorch 2.8 Live Release Q&A

Our PyTorch 2.8 Live Q&A webinar will focus on PyTorch packaging, exploring the release of wheel variant support as a new experimental feature in the 2.8 release. This feature is designed to improve the PyTorch install experience for users once it becomes generally available.

Charlie is the founder of Astral, whose tools like Ruff—a Python linter, formatter, and code transformation tool—and uv, a next-generation package and project manager, have seen rapid adoption across open source and enterprise, with over 100 million downloads per month.

Jonathan has contributed to deep learning libraries, compilers, and frameworks since 2019. At NVIDIA, Jonathan helped design release mechanisms and solve packaging challenges for GPU-accelerated Python libraries. A founding force behind WheelNext, Jonathan actively works on proofs of concept, demos, and PEPs.

Ralf is CEO, Technology at Quansight and a long-time maintainer of NumPy and SciPy. With over 15 years in the scientific Python ecosystem, Ralf also maintains meson-python, created the Array API standard and pypackaging-native, and focuses on building sustainable open source communities.

Eli Uriegas is a Staff Software Engineer at Meta and a key contributor to the PyTorch project. Eli focuses on improving the developer experience through infrastructure enhancements and the application of AI to developer tools, and is a maintainer of PyTorch’s build and CI systems

Watch on demand on YouTube.