AI by the Bay

Bay Area’s Best OSS AI conference | AI-Native Coding | Data and Models | Cloud Flows | Open-Source AI: 60+ talks & panels #aibythebay

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He’s an advocate for tools that make developers’ lives easier and has over 15 years of experience building software, from mobile apps to AI systems.
Oleg is passionate about bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI and everyday coding.

Help us give Oleg a warm welcome! 🎉

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Rolling in with @Google energy - welcoming Oleg Aravin to our speakers’ crew. 🤖

@_erkfel is a Staff Software Engineer at Google and lead developer on Jules, Google’s AI coding agent.

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🏍️ Breaking in with joy: @holdenkarau rolled home from a motorcycle ride and immediately shared the most Holden thought: use AI to make the world kinder. See you Tuesday afternoon. Look for the sparkle. Follow the roar. 🦖✨

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Big thanks to @rungalileo, perfect timing, perfect partner. ⏳

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AI By the Bay is moments from opening, and there’s no better way to mark the countdown than with @Galileo joining as a Silver Sponsor! 🤝💙

@rungalileo is the agent observability and eval engineering platform that helps enterprises ship reliable AI.

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Engineering teams use Galileo platform to create reusable, adaptive evals that scale into runtime guardrails in prod.

👀 Companies like Comcast, Five9, NTT & ServiceTitan use Galileo to deploy agents 5X faster while building evaluation capabilities as a competitive advantage.

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• Built-in compaction, quality checks, and lineage to keep AI signals reliable.
• Blueprint for an open Lakehouse ingestion layer that serves many workloads.

Can’t wait to see this trio on stage! 👀

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Learn how to go from managed ingestion → open lakehouse for the AI era.
Speakers: @jaswani, Mainak Ghosh @mtraverso from @starburstdata.
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Key takeaways:
• How to standardize ingestion on Starburst, Trino, and Apache Iceberg.
• Techniques for resilient batch / stream / CDC ingestion without pipeline sprawl.
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Takeaway: The best teams won’t write prompts. They’ll design optimizers and curate datasets, so agents learn from mistakes and quietly get better week over week.

📈 If you’re tired of brittle hacks and dashboard drama, this hour’s worth it.

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Next week at AI by the Bay (Oakland & SF), @vincent_koc (Research Engineer at @Cometml) is skipping the prompt theatre and talking about agents that fix themselves 🤖🛠️

Talk: "Automatic Agent Optimization and the Rise of Self-Improving Agents"

What he’ll actually show:
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🔎 The real choke point is context management, not “prompt creativity.”
🔁 Automatic agent optimization: agents that rewrite their own instructions mid-flight.
🧰 A hands-on look with the Opik Agent Optimizer SDK -> GEPA vs HAPO -> and how they juggle cost · latency · accuracy.

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She is also the founder of R-Ladies and AI Inclusive, global communities empowering more than 200,000 members in 65+ countries.

We can’t wait to welcome her on stage - be there. ⭐️

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Say hello to Gabriela de Queiroz & yes, we’re very proud she’s joining us. 💜

@gdequeiroz is the Founder of f02 labs, a consulting studio helping startups accelerate visibility, product adoption, and developer engagement through AI Strategy and Developer Relations as a Service.

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Previously Director of AI at Microsoft, she advised hundreds of startups on building and scaling AI products, and before that led global AI strategy & open-source initiatives at IBM.
In addition to her industry work, Gabriela teaches on platforms such as Maven, Coursera & edX.

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It can run natively in environments where Chrome can’t, from serverless functions to lightweight containers.

Thank you to the Lightpanda team for joining us this year! 🐼 💜

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We’re glad to announce Lightpanda 🐼 as our Startup sponsor!

@lightpanda_io is an open-source headless browser built from scratch for automation & AI agents. It starts instantly, runs up to 10x faster & uses 10x of the memory of Headless Chrome.

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👀 It's designed for developers automating the web at scale: from data extraction to AI agents. Lightpanda combines CDP compatibility (Puppeteer, Playwright...) with JavaScript execution at a fraction of the performance overhead of human-facing browsers.
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2. Data and model infrastructure standards - defining common formats, protocols, and benchmarks that ensure interoperability and trust.

Huge thank you to LF AI & Data Foundation for being with us this year. 💙

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💡 We’re proud to welcome @LFAIDataFdn as our Nonprofit Sponsor!

The LF AI & Data Foundation, part of @linuxfoundation, is a global open-source community advancing the software that powers modern AI.
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☑️ Its mission is to accelerate innovation across two pillars:

1. AI applications and agent frameworks built in the open - enabling organizations to build, deploy, and scale AI systems using open-source technology; and
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