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

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

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...

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...