Rust AI Begins!
🦀 Rust + AI
🗓️ July 27th 2026 | 5:00 - 8:30 PM
🍕 Food: Yes, there will be free food :) Pizza from Flour + Water
💥 Free to attend – limited spots available
Join us for the inaugural Rust + AI meetup in San Francisco.
What to expect:
The night will introduce you to peers from the SF Bay Area who are working on, or interested in leveraging Rust in novel new ways.
* You'll hear from leading Rust AI companies in the Bay Area and beyond through a series of lighting talks.
* We'll finish up the evening with networking opportunities, and feedback for where to take this new community.
We'll have talks by:
LakeSail: Shehab Amin, rebuilding the Spark Lakehouse ecosystem in Rust
LaserData: Kranti Parisa, building a fast streaming service in Rust with Apache Iggy
CocoIndex: Linghua Jin, streaming context change
Valkey: Manvika Tuteja, Valkey GLIDE, Community, Overview
Databricks: Nick Lanham, Why we built delta-kernel-rs.
Temporal: Melanie Warrick & Melissa Herrera, What an Agent Is Made Of: Managing the Agentic Loop in Rust
pgGraph: Native Graph Performance inside Postgres, Dale Prescott Ng, Evokoa
Columnar: Emil Sadek, Universal Data Connectivity for Agentic Systems
Eventual: Everett Kleven, Daft running Python coroutines in Tokio
... you — email us!
Community Blog
All updates and contents will be shared at the rust.ai blog.
We invite speakers to contribute guest posts with all the resources to share. Email Alexy below to get an author invite.
Sponsorship
If you'd like to host, present, and/or sponsor, contact Alexy at alexy@chiefscientist.org.
For the quality of thoughtful software engineering, distributed systems, and AI at scale, see ai.bythebay.io, our community conference, and lu.ma/_ai AI Agent SF meetups.
Event Logistics
Everyone will need to also register with the AWS Builders Loft (https://events.builder.aws.com/L5RBoD) to be approved to come to the event.
Small Print
All guests must be 18+ and present a valid government-issued physical photo ID at check-in (digital IDs will not be accepted). Scooters and bikes are not permitted in any Amazon building with no on-site parking available.