SF/Bay AI Developers Group

Register on AICamp website is REQUIRED for admission.

Description:
Streaming the Future: Kafka & The Agentic Era event is a builder evening in San Francisco exploring what happens when streaming infrastructure meets AI.

🎤 Main Sessions:
Panel: The Future of Kafka + AI
Speakers: Filip Yonov (Aiven), Sijie Guo (StreamNative), Yingjun Wu (RisingWave)
Abstract: Is Kafka becoming the default message bus for AI agents, or is that hype? What does "real-time" actually mean in an AI context? Where does this stack go in the next 2-3 years?
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Tech talk: Streaming as the Backbone of Autonomous AI Agents
Speakers: Sijie Guo, CEO, StreamNative
Abstract: When agents need to coordinate, observe, and react, they need a message bus. A practical look at event-driven agent architectures and real-time RAG pipelines.
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Tech talk: Designing Real-Time Systems for the Age of Agents
Speakers: Yingjun Wu, CEO, RisingWave
Abstract: Architecture patterns, real-time serving, and event-driven design for the agentic era.
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Tech talk: ​Your Kafka Topics Already Know What They Are
Speakers: Filip Yonov, Head of Streaming, Aiven
Abstract: Live Demo: Watch Claude diagnose a production anomaly from raw Kafka topics in under 30 seconds.
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Tech talk: ​OpenSearch + AI: Building Smarter Search for the Agentic Era
Speaker: Dima Kan, Product Director of Search, Aiven
Abstract: What it actually takes to build AI-native search pipelines that go beyond basic retrieval, including practical patterns for RAG, real-time indexing, and making OpenSearch a backbone for agentic applications.

Agenda:
- 5:30pm~6:00pm: Checkin, food and networking
- 6:00pm~8:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A
- 8:00pm~9:00pm: Open discussion, Mixer and Closing.

Speakers/Topics:
If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 50,000+ AI developers in San Francisco and 500K+ in global.

Register on AICamp website is REQUIRED for admission.

Description:
Welcome to the AI meetup in San Francisco. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and Agentic AI, hands-on experiences with code labs and workshops, and networking with speakers and fellow AI developers, builders, startup founders.

Tech Talk: From AI Experiments to Production - Scale AI Workflows
Speaker: Rob Whiteley (Coder)
**Abstract:**AI is everywhere in development right now. Coding assistants. Autonomous agents. Background workflows. AI-generated PRs. But most teams are stuck in the same place: 1) Experiments work, production doesn’t; 2) AI writes code faster, but workflows break; 3) Agents generate output, but teams can’t trust or scale it; 4) And governance gets added too late, slowing everything down.
We’ll focus on how teams are redesigning their development workflows to work with AI, not just adding tools on top. That includes how to structure workflows, manage agents, and introduce the right level of control without killing developer velocity. No hype. No tool comparisons. Just a clear look at why most AI workflows fail and what actually works at scale.

Speakers/Topics:
If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 50,000+ AI developers in San Francisco and 500K+ in global.