

AI By The Bay Conference
This November, AI By The Bay is coming to Oakland, where experts in AI, machine learning, and data engineering will come together. Meet us on November 17th for workshops* and November 18-19 for talks!
Plus, join us for a 2-day Hackathon November 18-19 dedicated to building production-ready AI agents for real B2B/B2C use cases.
70+ speakers including
Samuel Colvin @ Pydantic #keynote
Tyler Jewell @ Akka #keynote
Ryan Boyd @ MotherDuck #keynote
Vasanth Mohan @ SambaNova
Lisa N. Cao @ Databricks
Vinay Rao @ Anthropic
Danica Fine @ Snowflake
Mihai Maruseac @ Google
Bruno Borges @ Microsoft
Peter Norvig @ Stanford
Angie Jones @ Block
Kerim Satirli @ HashiCorp
Julien Le Dem @ Parquet, Datadog
Holden Karau @ Spark, Fight Health Insurance
and many more. For the full list, go to ai.bythebay.io/speakers
1000+ attendees — software engineers, data/ML/AI engineers, data scientists, AI researchers, MLOps, DevOps, AIOps professionals.
Our tracks
Thoughtful and AI-Native Coding – Building maintainable, efficient, and scalable software for AI.
"Can We Trust Al-Generated Code? Maybe We've Been Asking the Wrong Question" by Baruch Sadogursky and Leonid Igolnik.
"Unleashing the Power of End-User Programmable AI" by Erik Meijer.
"The present and future of programming with AI" by Peter Norvig.
"BAML - A new programming language for building Agents" by Vaibhav Gupta.
Knowledge, Data, and Models – Scaling, deploying, and optimizing AI-powered distributed systems.
"Safety in Foundational Models" by Vinay Rao.
"Context Engineering: Connecting the Dots with Graphs" by Stephen Chin.
"Taming the Wild West of ML: Practical Model Signing with Sigstore on Kaggle" by Michai Maruseac.
AI Data Infrastructure– Architecting high-throughput, multimodal AI data pipelines.
"Durable Agents: long running AI workflows in a flakey world" by Samuel Colvin #keynote.
"The AI Operating System: Stateful Agents with Letta" by Cameron Pfiffer.
"AI and data streaming: Integrating agents with data-in-motion for real-time enterprise intelligence" by Peter Corless.
"Beyond GPUs: Why AI Agents Need a Need New Hardware" by Vasanth Mohan.
Open Source AI – The role of OSS in shaping the future of AI.
"Beyond Open Weights: How Open Source and Open Standards Are Shaping the Future of AI" by Matt White
"The advent of the open data lake" by Julien Le Dem.
Buckle up for three days of unique talks from outstanding keynote speakers, valuable networking opportunities, exclusive perks from our amazing partners, and an unforgettable view from the Oakland Scottish Rite Center!
Ready to shine a light on your experience? Our CFP opens on February 14th and wraps up on June 1st. Pitch us your idea and show us what makes your perspective stand out. We can’t wait to hear from you! 👉 Submit here!
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