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AI By the Bay 2025

Nov 17–19, 2025 · Scottish Rite Center, Oakland, CA, United States

Conference
AI By the Bay Vendor & industry
Dates
Nov 17, 2025 – Nov 19, 2025
Venue
Scottish Rite Center
Place
Oakland, CA, United States
Format
In person
Status
Past
Attendance
1,000
Organizer's Luma listing: '1000+ attendees' and '70+ speakers' (pre-event claim, not a confirmed headcount).
Website
ai.bythebay.io
Recorded
14 sponsors · 75 speaker appearances
Notes
First edition under the AI By the Bay name (successor of Scale By the Bay; the 2024 scale.bythebay.io page said 'See you in 2025', and after 2024 it pointed to ai.bythebay.io). Theme 'Reliable Agentic AI Conference'. Nov 17 workshops, Nov 18-19 talks plus a 2-day hackathon. Keynotes per YouTube titles: Peter Norvig, Tyler Jewell, Zhamak Dehghani, Ryan Boyd; homepage also features Zhamak Dehghani and Samuel Colvin as keynote speakers. Speakers from ai.bythebay.io/talks (53 talks) and /speakers (74 listed; those without a listed talk are recorded with talk_title null, placeholder 'Capybara Speaker' omitted). Sponsors from /companies; 'Sustaining Sponsor' mapped to gold (top listed tier). The /companies page also shows ~16 untiered logos of speakers' companies (Netflix, Anthropic, Databricks, Snowflake, Meta, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Google, etc.), not recorded as sponsors.

Ticket prices

TicketPriceValid untilNotesSource
Academic/Nonprofit$499—govevents.com
General Admission$749—govevents.com

Sponsors 14

Gold 3

Silver 6

Startup 3

Community 2

Speakers and talks 75

SpeakerCompanyRoleTalkLinks
Peter NorvigStanford UniversityKeynoteThe present and future of programming with AIVideo
Ryan BoydMotherDuckKeynoteLLMs Meet Data Warehouses: Building Reliable AI Agents for Business AnalyticsVideo
Samuel ColvinPydanticKeynoteDurable Agents: long running AI workflows in a flakey worldVideo
Tyler JewellAKKAKeynoteThe Future of Agentic AI: Architecting the Global Control PlaneVideo
Zhamak DehghaniNextdataKeynoteFrom Data 2.0 to Data 3.0: Making Data Autonomous for AIVideo
Alex MercedDremioSpeakerOpen Standards and Lakehouse AI Development - Arrow Flight, Apache Iceberg and MCPVideo
Angie JonesBlockSpeakerFrom Experiment to Enterprise: How Block Operationalized MCP at ScaleVideo
Arjun Chintapallirtrvr.aiSpeakerFederated Agent Architecture: Leveraging Client Context & Cloud Inference—
Arun JosephRhizomeSpeakerEclipse LMOS & AGC : Agentic Computing Born from the Messy Reality of Enterprise SystemsVideo
Baruch SadogurskyTuxCareSpeakerCan We Trust AI-Generated Code? Maybe We've Been Asking the Wrong Question.Video
Bethany EdmundsNortheastern UniversitySpeaker——
Bhavani Kalisettyrtrvr.aiSpeakerFederated Agent Architecture: Leveraging Client Context & Cloud Inference—
Boris RenskiNova LabsSpeakerIs Generative BI failing?Video
Bruno BorgesMicrosoftSpeakerSpec Driven Development: AI Assisted Coding With Documentation at the CoreVideo
Cameron PfifferLettaSpeakerThe AI Operating System: Stateful Agents with LettaVideo
Chandler MayoRedpandaSpeaker——
Claire LongoCometSpeaker——
Edir Garcia LazoSentinelOneSpeakerBuilding Tools with Tools: Modern AI-Driven DevelopmentVideo
Erik MeijerNormal ComputingSpeakerVerifiably Safe Agentic ComputeVideo
Francis BouvierLightpandaSpeakerSecuring AI agents on the open web: one task, one browser.—
Fred PattonAuth0SpeakerThe Challenges of Ambient Agents: Toward Governable AI Systems at ScaleVideo
Gabriela de Queirozf02 labsSpeakerContext Is All That Matters: MCP and the Dawn of Agentic IntelligenceVideo
Gaurav JainPure StorageSpeaker——
Holden KarauFight Health InsuranceSpeakerAI For Good: Fighting Health Insurance with AIVideo
Hugh McKee—Speaker——
Isaac MillerDSPySpeaker——
Jaikumar GaneshAnyscaleSpeakerScaling Multimodal Data and Reinforcement Learning with RayVideo
James WardAmazon Web ServicesWorkshopHands-On Workshop: Building Agents with Spring AI, MCP, Java, and Amazon BedrockVideo
Jamieson LeibovitchUberSpeakerUber's Multi-Agent PlatformVideo
Jeremy AdamsNeo4jSpeaker——
Jitender AswaniStarburstSpeakerLakeside AI: Bringing Models to Data with Open Lakehouses & AgentsVideo
Joel HorwitzSynterSpeakerEverything is Changing: From Growth Hacking to Vibe Coding, and Back AgainVideo
Jose PlehnBrightQuerySpeakerThe World's Largest Open Source Entity GraphVideo
Josh LongBroadcomWorkshopHands-On Workshop: Building Agents with Spring AI, MCP, Java, and Amazon BedrockVideo
Josh ReiniSnowflakeSpeakerDonut Kill My Vibe: Enriching RAG with Apache Iceberg for Sweet, Structured RetrievalVideo
Josh WillsDatologyAISpeaker——
Julien Le DemDatadogSpeakerThe advent of the open data lakeVideo
Kerim SatirliHashiCorpSpeakerEnterprise-ready document processing for AIVideo
Kevin GaoDescopeSpeakerIdentity Best Practices to Secure and Scale Agentic AI / MCP DeploymentsVideo
Laura Gutierrez Funderburk—SpeakerGraphs as the Backbone of Robust, Scalable and Interoperable Agentic ApplicationsVideo
Lena HallAkamaiSpeakerContext is All You Need: The Art and Science of Information DesignVideo
Leonid IgolnikClariSpeakerCan We Trust AI-Generated Code? Maybe We've Been Asking the Wrong Question.Video
Linghua JinCocoIndexSpeakerContext engineering in ever changing environment - made simpleVideo
Lisa N. CaoDatabricksSpeakerDesigning Data Infrastructure in the Age of Generative AIVideo
Lorenzo PadoanScrapeGraphAISpeakerFrom Bots to Brains: The Evolution of Web ScrapingVideo
Mahati KumarMetaSpeaker——
Mainak GhoshStarburstSpeakerLakeside AI: Bringing Models to Data with Open Lakehouses & AgentsVideo
Malcolm GreavesMeaves IndustriesSpeaker——
Mark CollierThe Linux FoundationSpeakerReliable Agentic AI, the Open WayVideo
Martin TraversoStarburstSpeakerLakeside AI: Bringing Models to Data with Open Lakehouses & AgentsVideo
Mary GrygleskiThe AI CollectiveSpeakerHarnessing Event-Driven and Multi-Agent Architectures for Complex Workflows in Generative AI SystemVideo
Michael Maximiliena stealth AI/Agents startupSpeakerIntroducing weave-cli - the easiest way to manage your vector databaseVideo
Mihai MaruseacGoogleSpeakerTaming the Wild West of ML: Practical Model Signing with Sigstore on KaggleVideo
Oleg AravinGoogleSpeakerMeet Jules, Your Autonomous Coding Partner!Video
Paul YangRunhouseSpeakerBeat OpenAI and Build the Best AI For You: Mobilizing First-Party Data with Fine-TuningVideo
Peter CorlessRedpandaSpeakerAI and data streaming: Integrating agents with data-in-motion for real-time enterprise intelligenceVideo
Prashanth RaoLanceDBSpeakerAgents Need More than Vector SearchVideo
Rushabh Mehta—Speaker——
Samuel ColvinPydanticWorkshopWorkshop: Building Durable Deep Research AgentsVideo
Shub ArghaArcade.devSpeakerContext Is All That Matters: MCP and the Dawn of Agentic IntelligenceVideo
Stephen ChinNeo4jSpeakerContext Engineering: Connecting the Dots with GraphsVideo
Steve AndersonNarraViz AISpeakerTrusted Agentic AI: Architecting Intelligent Systems with Reliable Data at ScaleVideo
Till DöhmenMotherDuckSpeaker——
Tosh RayadhurgamMetaSpeaker——
Tu NguyenHashiCorpSpeakerEnterprise-ready document processing for AIVideo
Tyler JewellAKKASpeakerLive Demo - Develop and Deploy a Trustworthy Multi-Agent SystemVideo
Vaibhav GuptaBoundarySpeakerBAML - A new programming language for building AgentsVideo
Vasanth MohanSambaNovaSpeakerBeyond GPUs: Why AI Agents Need a Need New HardwareVideo
Vasilije MarkovicCogneeSpeakerBuilding memory for AI AgentsVideo
Vasusen PatilDonobuSpeaker——
Viktor GamovConfluentSpeakerThe Missing Protocol: How MCP Bridges LLMs and Data StreamsVideo
Vinay RaoROOST.toolsSpeakerSafety in Foundational ModelsVideo
Vincent KocCometSpeakerAutomatic Agent Optimization and the Rise of Self-Improving AgentsVideo
Vino DuraisamySnowflakeSpeakerDonut Kill My Vibe: Enriching RAG with Apache Iceberg for Sweet, Structured RetrievalVideo
YK SugiCS DojoSpeakerAgentic Coding with Discipline and Skill: Practical Techniques and TipsVideo

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