Data By the Bay is the first three-day, seven-conference matrix, or Data Grid conference. It consists of vertical tracks, corresponding to application areas such as NLP, IoT, Life Sciences, UX, Business Workflows, Data for Democracy and Government. The horizontal tracks are data platforms, pipelines, and algorithms, and they both span all the verticals, and concentrate in the first day, called Data Pipelines.

The main goal of Data By the Bay is connecting the best data engineers, data scientists and data-driven startup leaders with each other. Engineers and scientists build open-source tools that startups and enterprises can take to production quickly, and that they can learn and improve. In return, web-scale production leads to massive datasets and use cases improving the software and pushing frontiers of science.

From the creators of Text By the Bay 2015, Data By the Bay 2016, Scalæ By the Bay 2013-2016, Oh Hai AI, Self-Driving Cars, and AI Vision conferences.