@Scale is a technical conference series for engineers who build or maintain systems designed for scale.

Building applications and services that scale to millions or even billions of people present a complex set of engineering challenges, many of them unprecedented. The @Scale community is focused on bringing people together to openly discuss these challenges and collaborate on the development of new solutions across a series of topics.

New this year, in person and virtual attendance options will be available at all four of our programs, with some individual topics coming together to create multi-track conversations.


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🚨 Call for Speakers: @Scale Product 2025 🚨
📅 October 22, 2025
📍 Meta Campus, Menlo Park

Are you building cutting-edge AI-powered products? Have a story to share about how AI is transforming mobile, video, RTC, or product experiences at scale?

We’re looking for speakers for @Scale: Product, an engineering conference that brings together the best of Product @Scale, RTC @Scale, Mobile @Scale, and Video @Scale. If you're building something innovative, we want to hear from you!

🎤 We're seeking:
🔹 8 Talks (15–20 mins)
🔹 10 Lightning Talks (10 mins)
🔹 1 Live Panel (45 mins)

Our 2025 Theme: How rapidly AI has evolved and become a part of our daily lives.

We're exploring how AI is seamlessly integrated into the products we use daily; from mobile content creation to AI agents in messaging and video enhancement tools.

Topics we're especially excited about:
AI-powered messaging and conferencing
Mobile-first content creation and AI features
AI in video compression, generation, and enhancement
AI's impact on product design, search, ads, and developer tools

📩 Submission Deadlines:
Meta Speakers: Fri, June 27
Non-Meta Speakers: Fri, July 18

👉 Know someone who should speak? Tag them or share this post!

Submit your proposal here: atscaleconference.com/speaker-submissions/

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@Scale: AI & Data is now open for registration!

Meta’s Engineering and Infrastructure teams are excited to bring together a global contingent of engineers who are interested in building, operating, and using AI and data systems at scale.

This year, we will focus on building a world in which Agents interact with billions of users, a critical step towards unlocking the full potential of AI and data systems. Our in-person talks and panels will delve into the latest advancements in agent development, deployment, and product integration, featuring expert insights on topics such as data for agents, agent tools & environments, safety, and privacy. Attendees can expect to gain practical knowledge and strategies for building AI-powered products, as well as a deeper understanding of the evolving ecosystem and its implications for traditional BI and product analytics.

In addition to our in-person talks and panels, our poster session will showcase a wide range of topics relevant to product analytics, exploring market opportunities, understanding trends, making better decisions, and ensuring the products and systems they build run robustly and reliably at scale. The conference will foster open discussion and collaboration across the industry, and highlight open source solutions that can be leveraged as a foundation for others to build on.

Register to join us in person and be entered for a chance to win a pair of Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarers: atscaleconference.com/events/scale-data-ai-infra/

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📣 AGENDA ANNOUNCEMENT!

📆 The @Scale: Systems & Reliability agenda is now live. Start planning your day of hearing from our industry experts at AMD, Clockwork Systems, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, NVIDIA, Pinterest, Pure Storage, and Union.ai to discuss the rising challenge of AI!

Be sure to join in person and arrive early for a chance to win a pair of Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarers!

🔗 Access the agenda and register here: atscaleconference.com/events/scale-systems-reliabi…

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💡 Let's rise to the challenge and learn more about the demands of AI.

New this year, @Scale: Systems & Reliability will be a two-track program with industry experts discussing compelling stories about solving the hardest hyper-scale problems with distributed systems, infra resilience and many more complex challenges.

Joining us are leaders from AMD, Clockwork Systems, Inc., Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, NVIDIA, Pinterest, Pure Storage, and Union.ai! Stay tuned for the full agenda announcement later this week.

🕶️ Save your spot and learn how you can win a pair of Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarers: atscaleconference.com/events/scale-systems-reliabi…

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CALL FOR SPEAKERS: Systems & Reliability @Scale, May 6, 2025

@Scale is a technical conference series for engineers working on systems designed for scale. New this year, some individual topics will be coming together to create multi-track conversations, beginning with Systems & Reliability. The conference will be a one-day event, taking place on May 6, 2025. It will be hosted in person at Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park, CA, as well as virtually.

The event will showcase presentations from Meta and other industry professionals, including yourself. We encourage the broader research and engineering community to submit presentation proposals on topics related to large-scale distributed systems, such as scalability, reliability, performance, operability, consistency, and observability. This year, we are particularly interested in presentations focusing on the rising challenge of AI.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS DUE: March 10, 2025

Please submit your proposals via the online submission form at atscaleconference.com/speaker-submissions/ and select the "Systems & Reliability" category.

We are excited to have you join us for engaging discussions on the latest developments in distributed systems and reliability. Looking forward to seeing you all in May with Ahmed Yossef and Michael Chang!

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The countdown has begun…

We are now only 1 week away from our conference that brings together the best and brightest minds in the mobile industry - Mobile @Scale 2024!

If you haven’t registered yet, check out the agenda for the day here: atscaleconference.com/events/mobile-scale-2024/

Joining us are speakers from Meta, Uber, and more! We are thrilled to be bringing sessions and content focused around AI, app quality, and infra and development.

See you there!

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We’re thrilled to share our feature keynote presentation! 🥳

Michael Martinez from Meta will present “AI-Powered Evolution: Driving Mobile Innovation and Scaling Facebook with Integrity” at Mobile @Scale 2024!

This presentation will explore how AI is revolutionizing mobile experiences and the scaling of Facebook while maintaining the quality users expect. He will discuss the evolution of mobile beyond smartphones, with devices like Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, and the role AI plays in making these innovations possible.

Don’t miss the highlights of how AI-driven advancements are shaping the future of seamless, scalable, and personalized mobile experiences!

Register today: atscaleconference.com/events/mobile-scale-2024/

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🌟 You still have time to register for Reliability @Scale 2024!

Joining us will be speakers from Amazon, Bloomberg, Fauna, Honeycomb, Meta and Microsoft, who will share innovative strategies, best practices, and cutting-edge tools and processes designed to enhance configuration safety and reliability in large-scale systems.

Register today and learn more about the critical role of configuration and code safety in achieving and maintaining system reliability at scale: atscaleconference.com/events/reliability-scale-202…

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📢 We are looking for Reliability @Scale 2024 panelists and presentations!
Reliability @Scale is part of our @Scale conference series that focuses on building reliable large-scale distributed systems, and what we learn when they inevitably fail. Move Safely is the theme for this year's event, which emphasizes the critical role configuration and code safety play in achieving and maintaining reliability at scale.
We will explore this theme through discussions and presentations, focusing on innovative strategies, best practices, and cutting-edge tools and processes designed to enhance safe configuration and code changes in large-scale systems.
We are interested in topics related to the following key focus areas:
◾ Safe Deployment: Exploring methodologies and tools that ensure fast, safe and error-free code and configuration changes.
◾ Automated Checks: Implementing automated systems to validate and enforce configuration policies.
◾ Recovery and Rollbacks: Strategies for quick recovery from configuration errors, including investigation and effective rollback plans.
◾ Managing Changes for AI Workloads: Exploring the new challenges AI workloads present in safely and efficiently making changes.
◾ AI-Driven Configuration Optimization: Leveraging artificial intelligence to analyze and optimize configurations for peak performance and reliability. This includes using AI to predict potential configuration issues before they impact the system.
Last year, 23 speakers from Meta AI, Google, Microsoft, Netflix and Amazon Web Services shared reliability learnings across 10 talks and panels. If you missed any of the 2023 content, you can rewatch the presentations by visiting Reliability @Scale 2023.
🎥 This event will be virtual and will take place on October 9th, 2024. Each talk consists of a 20-minute presentation and a 30-minute live Q&A session. If you would like to give a presentation on a change safety topic, now is your chance!
Important dates to remember:
📥 Proposal Submission Deadline - Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
✅ Proposal Acceptance Notification - Friday, July 26th, 2024
🗣 Optional Speaker Coaching starts - Week of August 5th, 2024
🎬 Live Virtual Event - October 9th, 2024
Please submit your proposals by Wednesday 7/17 via the online submission form at atscaleconference.com/speaker-submissions/ and select the “Reliability” category. Include the following in your submission:
◾ Bio/Background
◾ Presentation title (10 words or less)
◾ Brief presentation description (200 words or less)
◾ High level outline of your story / slides
We can’t wait to hear from you and will see you in October!

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Mark your calendars! AI Infra @Scale is back, and this time you can join us in person or virtually. On July 31, AI Infra @Scale will highlight the full stack challenges of scaling AI – both for now and in the future. Register today at atscaleconference.com/events/ai-infra-scale-2024/ and stay tuned for more agenda announcements in the coming weeks. #AIInfraAtScale

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