Alexy Khrabrov is the Head of Ecosystems at LakeSail, the AI-native Lakehouse that rebuilds Spark in Rust. Alexy is the founding Chair of Open-Source Science at NumFOCUS, and a cofounder of the AI Alliance. Alexy was the founding Chair of the Generative AI Commons at the Linux Foundation for AI and Data (LFAI) and now represents Neo4j at LFAI. Alexy is the founder and organizer of Bay Area AI and AI Agent SF meetups, as well as the Scale/Data/AI By the Bay conferences, the independent OSS AI conference running since 2013.