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Celebrating its decade-long journey, Scale By the Bay stands as an independent, professional stage for tech innovators.
Our tracks
Thoughtful Software Engineering — best practices of writing, testing, and maintaining code, now with AI copilots. Sustainable software requires tests, documentation, support forums, and friendly community managers, all united by the joy your OSS creates for developers and users. Programming languages, IDEs, containerized setups, new paradigms for programming AI, GPU, and distributed systems.
To say that AI will make coders obsolete is like to say that magic will make magicians obsolete. We are with AMjad Masad of Repl.it, calling for a billion new developers! Here we'll learn how to make the new ones and what the current ones will do.
Cloud Architectures looks at how full-stack systems are built these days — from APIs to multiplatform clients to LLM clients. Everything old is new again with the async programming required to query LLM oracles at scale.
All the multimodal AI apps move around vast amounts of text, images, videos, and logs. We have trusted systems like Kafka and Spark to circulate the blood of data through our systems, we are getting a new generation of tools, and with cloud spaces, we need ways to test, deploy, and monitor all of them. Deploying LLM workflows build on all the tools we have and more.
Data and AI are treated holistically at SBTB. We've always looked at AI fed by all the data you could give it and consider it the art of distributed systems and data pipelines. We continue to embed Python stack in such systems, but it evolves further, with new ways to reach any scale.
We also see that LLM programming is moving vast amounts of data, and all programming paradigms and frameworks we use for data big and small are applicable again. We consider data and AI a natural pinnacle of software engineering and look into all ways to program with it.
Open-Source Science (OSSci) is an open-source community initiative at NumFOCUS, the home of Jupyter, pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scimitar — learn the bulk of the Python Data Science Stack. It was co-founded by IBM Research and its Accelerated Discovery team and started by yours truly as the OSS strategy for science. In this track, we bring together OSS developers and researchers to accelerate science and solve humanity's most complicated challenges — cure cancer, reverse climate change, and develop new materials for the growing humankind.
You can read more at opensource.science.
We look at multidimensional clustering, the renaissance of relational databases, cloud SQL and data lakes, location and graph data, meshes, and other themes.
The industry faces fundamental challenges for years to come, such as AI bias we rigorously explore, hardware and software co-development for AI acceleration, and moving large enterprise codebases from on-prem to the cloud, etc.
The companies presenting include Apple, Workday, Nielsen, Uber, Google Brain, Nvidia, Domino Data Labs, Autodesk, Twitter, Microsoft, IBM, Databricks, and many others.
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Our venue
Located on the shores of the beautiful Lake Merritt in Oakland, the OSRC (Oakland Scottish Rite Center) is a historical building that is the new Bay Area home of Scale By the Bay.
With a grand ballroom, theater, a historical organ (that our speaker will play!), marble lobbies, a balcony overlooking the lake, and numerous hallway tracks, it is a perfect way to meet, catch up, learn, and sit down for lunch with friends.
Our coffee stations, pastries, hot breakfast and lunch, and happy hour will be housed in splendor and comfort. With numerous gender-neutral restrooms, we should have no lines.
Conveniently located near BART, OSCR is a 20-minute ride from downtown San Francisco, closer than most other SF points are.
You can also take the ferry to Jack London Square, a bike ride away!
