​🎊 Data for AI Meetup January - Bay Area!

​Agentic AI is moving from demos to production. While orchestration tools are evolving quickly, scaling autonomous agents in the real world reveals a deeper challenge: It’s an infrastructure and data strategy problem.

​The industry is moving beyond "just another framework." With the launch of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the focus has shifted to the shared building blocks—compute, integration, and data context.

​We’re bringing together pioneers from Anyscale and Datastrato to discuss:

• ​The Production Data Stack: What are the non-negotiable data foundations for long-running, autonomous agents?

• ​Context & Metadata: How to manage access, governance, and retrieval as data expands to vectors and multimodal assets?

• ​Reliable Execution: How must compute and runtime layers evolve to support multi-step agentic workflows at scale?

• ​Operational Patterns: Real-world lessons on building a neutral, open, and scalable agentic infrastructure.

​Why Join Us? This is a community-driven, experience-based session for builders. No product pitches—just deep dives into the patterns and infrastructure required to make Agentic AI work in the real world.

​🍕 Food, drinks, and networking with the Bay Area Data & AI engineering community.

​The session is community-driven, experience-based, focusing on real-world lessons rather than product promotion.

​🕒 Event Agenda

​5:30 PM – 6:00 PM Registration & Networking

​6:00 PM – 7:55 PM Opening Remarks & Speaker Presentations

• ​6:00 PM – Opening Remarks

  • ​Andrew Dong, President @ Datastrato

• ​6:05 PM – Talk 1 "Beyond Metadata: Enabling Agentic Data Platform with Apache Gravitino"

  • ​Jerry Shao, Co-founder and CTO @ Datastrato

• ​6:30 PM – Talk 2 "Ray: The Distributed Compute Engine for AI"

  • ​Suman Debnath, Technical Lead, ML @ Anyscale

• ​6:55 PM – Lightning Talk "Why Agentic AI Needs an Economic Layer: Payments, Marketplaces, and Trust"

  • ​AIsa

• ​7:05 PM – Talk 3 "What is a Context Graph? (A Follow-up to the Context Graph Manifesto)"

  • ​Daniel Davis, Co-Founder and Evangelist @ TrustGraph

• ​7:30 PM – Talk 4 "Your Agents Should Be Durable"

  • ​Melissa Herrera, Senior AI Developer Advocate @ Temporal

​7:55 PM – 9:00 PM Open Networking & Conversations

​About Data for AI

​We are a community of founders, engineers, executives, and innovators interested in data infrastructure and platforming for Generative AI, multimodal models, and whatever comes next. Come hang out!

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​About AIsa

​AIsa gives startups one API key for models, search, and data—so you can build AI features without stitching together dozens of providers, keys, and contracts.

​Instead of managing 50+ APIs and constantly refactoring, AIsa lets your agents access and switch between leading AI models, retrieval, and data sources through a single unified interface and bill.

​Teams use AIsa to move fast early, experiment freely, and avoid locking themselves into brittle AI infrastructure.

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​About Datastrato

​Datastrato is building the open data fabric platform to accelerate trusted AI. The company is the original creator of Apache Gravitino, unified metadata platform for AI - multi-cloud, multi-engine and multi-modal.

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