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...

Robert Nishihara is one of the creators of Ray, the world’s leading open source AI compute engine. He is one of the co-founders of...

IBM doesn’t just show up—they lead. Let’s be honest—when IBM’s on the schedule, you know it’s going to be good. They’ve been with us for...

Did you know that Pydantic is downloaded nearly 300 million times every month? It began as a weekend experiment, sparked by a simple but...

Netflix’s presence at our conferences over the years has been both consistent and inspiring, providing updates on the latest developments...

In 2023, we hosted the fundamentals of LLM by Full Stack Deep Learning. Now, we help developers master the Enterprise AI. Join 1,000+ senior engineers Nov 17–19 in Oakland, CA to solve the production challenges that come next. Dates & Location:  November 17–19, 2025 • Scottish Rite Center, Oakland, CA. Audience:  For Senior Engineers, Infra Leads & Platform Teams. Why Attend? For years, FSDL has set the standard for learning how to build real AI products, not just theoretical

We’re always excited to see our community grow—not just in numbers, but in the diversity of ideas, tools, and brilliant minds. Year after...

This year at By The Bay, we’re thrilled to be joined by Anthropic, a company at the forefront of building large-scale AI systems with...

Julien Le Dem is a Principal Engineer at Datadog, serves as an officer of the ASF and is a member of the LFAI&Data Technical Advisory...

With a background in Business and Psychology and more than a decade of experience managing Big Data systems for several Berlin-based...

Angie Jones is VP of Engineering, AI Tools & Enablement at Block Inc. An award-winning educator and international keynote speaker, Angie shares her expertise with audiences at software companies and conferences around the globe. As a Master Inventor, Angie is celebrated for her innovative and creative thinking, which has led to over 25 patented inventions. From Experiment to Enterprise: How Block Operationalized MCP at Scale At Block, we've moved beyond experimentation to imp

Mihai Maruseac is a member of Google Open Source Security team (GOSST), working on Supply Chain Security, specifically for ML, but also a...