AKKA is one of the companies that helps make our By the Bay conferences run. Year after year, from the early Typesafe days to Lightbend and all the way up to this season. Their presence shows up on stage, on our program committee, and on the sponsor wall, threading a single story through many editions of By The Bay conferences. Agentic systems are difficult to run at scale. Unlike simple stateless calls of chained APIs, these systems are stateful, long-lived, concurrent proce

Stanford has been a steady presence at our conference. Some of the most important talks we've hosted—on retrieval, optimization, and...

Meta, of course, needs no introduction. Known globally for platforms like Facebook and Instagram, Meta is now doubling down on AI...

Google’s relationship with the By The Bay community runs deep .  Over the years, their engineers and researchers have brought some of the...

Confluent isn’t just a company we work with—they’re friends. Our friendship started more than ten years ago, and over the years, their...

Vinay Rao is a Chief Technical Officer at ROOST.tools and an Advisor at Anthropic. He leads Engineering, Product Management, Policy...

Akka and MotherDuck have joined AI by the Bay this year — and not by accident. We invited them precisely because their technologies...

We’re especially happy to welcome MotherDuck as a Sustaining Partner at this year’s AI by the Bay. Our theme is simple: make serious analytics feel effortless. MotherDuck fits that spirit perfectly—bringing DuckDB’s beloved, local-first speed into the cloud without losing the lightness that made it popular in the first place. So what is MotherDuck, really? MotherDuck launched in 2022, founded by Jordan Tigani  and a crew of data veterans who helped create the modern analytics

Some friendships in tech conferences run deep, and ours with Databricks is one of them. Over the years, their engineers have stood on our...