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...

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...

Erik Meijer has been deeply involved in the development of Haskell, C#, Visual Basic, Dart, and Hack, and has contributed to the...

Peter Norvig is a Distinguished Education Fellow at Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute, a long-time researcher...

Max is founder and CEO at a stealth AI/Agents startup. Before that he was Distinguished Engineer and CTO at IBM. Max has held elected and leadership positions in OpenJS / NodeJS, Cloud Foundry, and Knative OSS communities. Max holds a masters and Ph.D. in computer science. Introducing weave-cli - the easiest way to manage your vector database In this session Max will introduce and demonstrate weave-cli: a fast Golang CLI for Weaviate vector DB to help view, list, create, dele

Steve Anderson is a data science and AI thought leader. In his current role at Teradata, he is the Senior Director of Data Science & AI....

Professional software developer since 1997, with much of that time spent helping developers build software that doesn't suck. A Typed...

Josh has been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 7 books (including "Reactive Spring")...

Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®. He is passionate about...

Baruch Sadogursky did Java pre-generics and DevOps pre-Docker, starting DevRel at JFrog with ten people, leading to a $6B IPO. He...

Vasanth Mohan here from the FusedVR Youtube Channel. I started FusedVR started back in 2016 as a fun way to learn about building VR / AR...

Lisa is an engineering, product, and advocacy expert in open source data infrastructure and DataOps fields. At Databricks, her role oversees the open source involvement and developer relations of projects including MLflow, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg™, and Unity Catalog OSS. She also serves on the LF AI & Data Governing Board, formerly led the Open Platform for Enterprise AI's (OPEA) Developer Experience Working Group, and leads the Continuous Delivery Foundatio

Mary is a Technical Advocate and Java Champion. She has deep hands-on software engineering experiences. She is active in the tech...

Vaibhav Gupta is the Founder and CEO of Boundary, a Y Combinator startup developing a new programming language (BAML) that makes LLMs...

Leonid Igolnik is a long-time engineering leader and operator who’s spent his career building and scaling enterprise software systems....