Towards the Agentic Lakehouse and From wazero to wazhero

✨ 🚀 WASM and a returning special guest 🐍 ✨

PyMI comes back to town on the 5th November with a double-talk event.
We will kick-off the evening with a talk about WebAssembly and its ecosystem with Edoardo Vacchi from Dylibso.
Then, we will have once again Jacopo Tagliabue from Bauplan, who will tell us all about how AI Agents can safely interact with a Lakehouse. Jacopo's talk will be followed by an Ask-Me-Anything session.

Agenda

• 👋 18:30 Doors Open: Food and Socializing
• 🔌 19:00 Talk: From wazero to wazhero with Edoardo Vacchi
• 🤖 19:45 Talk: Towards the Agentic Lakehouse with Jacopo Tagliabue
• 🎤 20:05 Ask-Me-Anything with Jacopo Tagliabue
• 🍻 After the meetup we will organize a dinner close to the venue, anybody who wants to join is welcome!

📍 Venue: True Layer, Via Joe Colombo, 8, 20124 Milano MI (Gioia M2, Centrale M3, Isola/Garibaldi M5)
📺 The event will be recorded and streamed on Python Milano Youtube channel (links will appear here close to the event)

🔌⚡ From wazero to wazhero: when Python meets Gopher!
What is WebAssembly and why should you care?
You probably know Wasm as a front-end technology, but did you know that Wasm has a life outside the browser?
Join us for a joyride through the wonderful world of Wasm, and learn everything you wanted to know; including possibly something you didn't want to know!
We'll walk you through this rising ecosystem and show you how a Wasm runtime works with an overview of its architecture!

Edoardo Vacchi, Staff Research Engineer @ Dylibso
During my PhD I researched language design and implementation at the University of Milan. I have worked at UniCredit Bank in the R&D department, at Red Hat in the Drools team, and at Tetrate on the Wazero WebAssembly runtime.
I joined Dylibso as a Staff Research Engineer, where I work on several Wasm runtimes and other Wasm-related tech.

🤖🏞️ Safe, Untrusted, "Proof-Carrying" AI Agents: Toward the Agentic Lakehouse + Ask-Me-Anything

AI is taking coding by storm, but adoption for data-engineering tasks is lagging. This is not surprising: data workloads are ops-heavy, stateful, and cloud-dependent, whereas much software engineering can be approximated by a local codebase. What would it take for agents to be lakehouse-ready for production data? Drawing on the data-management literature and the MVCC model, we argue that the agentic lakehouse is the concurrent lakehouse, i.e., a data system designed for dozens of agents to collaborate safely. We demonstrate a self-repairing pipeline by running frontier models on Bauplan and close with a preview of our latest AI-for-systems research.

The short talk will be followed by an Ask-Me-Anything session where you will be able to ask Jacopo anything related to data, career advice or whatever (did you know Jacopo worked with Olimpia Milano at the beginning of his career?).

Jacopo Tagliabue, Co-founder @ Bauplan
Jacopo Tagliabue is the co-founder of Bauplan, a data-infrastructure company based in SF. Previously, he co-founded Tooso (acquired by TSX:CVO), led Coveo's AI through IPO and launched Coveo Labs, producing open-source libraries, models, and datasets widely adopted by industry and academia. His research spans information retrieval, data management, and computer systems, with collaborations (among others) at Netflix, NVIDIA, Stanford, the University of Wisconsin–Madison. While building his new startup, he moonlights as Professor of ML Systems at NYU, which is only notable because it is the only job he ever had that his parents understand.

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