Rust AI Begins!

​🦀 Rust + AI

🗓️ July 27th 2026 | 5:30 - 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

• ​Databricks: TBD & Scott Haines, 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

• ​... you — email us!

​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.