Conferences / Vendor & industry

AI By the Bay

At a glance

Next event: Not announcedLast: Nov 17–19, 2025
Call for papers: Closed Mar 19, 20252025 call
Audience: 1,000 expected2025 · organizer estimate
Past ticket prices: $499–$7492025 event · Oakland
Sponsorship: Packages not published
Sponsors: 14 recorded in 2025No list the year before
Program freshness: 94/100#82 of 143 · 8% rerunsTalk novelty and speaker variety.
Similar conferences: OpenXData, Iceberg Summit, OSA CON

Organizer: By the Bay / Konfy (Framework Foundation)
Category: Vendor & industry
Website: ai.bythebay.io
Social: X / Twitter · LinkedIn · Bluesky · YouTube
Typical place: Oakland, United States
Topics: Generative AIMachine learningData engineeringStreamingWarehouse & lakehouseData science

Bay Area developer conference on functional programming, distributed systems, data and ML, founded by Alexy Khrabrov (By the Bay meetups). Lineage: funconf (2013) -> Scala By the Bay (2014-2016) -> Scale By the Bay (2017-2023) -> AI By the Bay (2025-). Renamed in 2025: the 2024 scale.bythebay.io homepage said 'See you in 2025!' and later pointed to 'AI by the Bay - a full-stack AI conference. As always, in November at Scottish Rite Center'. Produced by Konfy (all-women organizing team) since 2020; footer credits Framework Foundation. Editions since 2019: 2019 (Oakland), 2020 and 2021 (online), 2023 (Oakland, '10th anniversary'), 2025 (Oakland, as AI By the Bay). No edition in 2022 or 2024. No 2026 edition announced as of 2026-11-08 (ai.bythebay.io still shows the 2025 event). A separate 'AI By the Bay 2017' event existed earlier (YouTube playlist) and is not part of this tracked range. Social accounts are the conference's own (still the scalebythebay handles).

Speakers it attracts

The 147 people who spoke at AI By the Bay in 2023–2025, by their record at the other conferences we track.

24%experienced speakers: talks at 3+ other conferences · more than 77% of conferences

22have keynoted another conference

44%no other tracked talks: new voices, or speakers from outside the circuit

Where they work (79 with a known employer type)Vendors 89%Practitioners (end-user companies) 6%Other 3%Universities & research 3%

Most established speakers

Julien Le Dem · DatadogKeynoted 4 other conferences, spoke at 11: Iceberg Summit, Subsurface, The Dive…
Holden Karau · Fight Health InsuranceKeynoted 2 other conferences, spoke at 12: PyData, Data Day Texas, Data + AI Summit…
Alex Merced · DremioKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 14: DataEngBytes, SQLSaturday, Current (formerly Kafka Summit)…
Samuel Colvinkeynote here · PydanticKeynoted 3 other conferences, spoke at 6: PyCon (national Python conferences), PyData, PyTorch Conference…
Danica FineKeynoted 2 other conferences, spoke at 8: Snowflake Summit, Current (formerly Kafka Summit), PyCon (national Python conferences)…
Zhamak Dehghanikeynote here · NextdataKeynoted 2 other conferences, spoke at 8: Big Data LDN, DataEngBytes, Data + AI Summit…
Chris Lattnerkeynote here · ModularKeynoted 3 other conferences, spoke at 4: AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions), PyTorch Conference, TensorFlow World…
Martin Traverso · StarburstKeynoted 3 other conferences: Trino Summit, Trino Fest, Starburst AI & Datanova (formerly Datanova)
Charles FryeKeynoted 2 other conferences, spoke at 4: AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions), Data Council, MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production)…
Dipankar MazumdarSpoke at 10 other conferences: AWS re:Invent, Current (formerly Kafka Summit), Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)…
Lena Hall · AkamaiKeynoted 2 other conferences, spoke at 4: MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon, DataEngBytes, AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)…
Jim Dowling · HopsworksKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 6: PyCon (national Python conferences), PyData, MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production)…

Events52019–2025

Sponsoring companies6170 sponsorships

Speaker appearances343

Activity by year

Sponsor companies per year

Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.

Complete list
No sponsor list

1 of 7 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.

Speakers

Speakers per year

Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.

Events

Dates	Event	Place	Format / status	Attendance	Sponsors	Speakers
Nov 17–19, 2025	AI By the Bay 2025	Oakland, United States		1,000	14	75
Nov 13–15, 2023	Scale By the Bay 2023	Oakland, United States		—	20	80
Oct 27–29, 2021	Scale By the Bay 2021	—	Online	—	19	66
Nov 12–13, 2020	Scale By the Bay 2020	—	Online	—	—	46
Nov 13–15, 2019	Scale By the Bay 2019	Oakland, United States		—	17	76

Attendance over time

Reported attendance for 1 of 5 events; figures are as published by the organizer.

Most frequent speaker companies

Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.

Similar conferences

Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.

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