Go beyond the AI hype
More than just buzzwords and AI wishcasting, Cockroach Connect AI is a focused gathering of infrastructure minds and AI-native builders exploring how to support a world where machine-driven demand outpaces human scale — and resilience is non-negotiable.
It’ll be an evening of sharp insight, real-world panels, and meaningful connections with those shaping the next-generation stack — and it won’t be the same without you.
Cockroach Connect: The Hidden Infrastructure Challenges Behind AI
AI isn’t just accelerating software — it’s transforming the very shape of demand. What once scaled in steps now scales in surges. Workloads that used to rise with user growth are now driven by autonomous agents operating continuously, globally, and at machine speed.
This shift is rewriting the assumptions beneath modern infrastructure. Traditional systems were designed for peak traffic. AI-native systems require persistent, unpredictable, exponential traffic — and the resilience to absorb it.
Cockroach Connect AI is where that transformation takes center stage. This is not another conversation about model performance or fine-tuning. It’s about the architecture required to sustain what AI makes possible:
Infrastructure that holds under 10x, 100x, or 1,000x load
Databases that are always-on, always-consistent, and geographically aware
Redefining scale, uptime, and availability in a world where your "users" are autonomous, tireless, and multiplying
This event is for the innovators thinking beyond the horizon — engineers architecting for an AI-driven future, investors betting on next-generation systems, and founders building what comes next.
Space is limited. Join us to be part of the conversation shaping the infrastructure AI will stand on.
What you can expect
The event will include a candid panel conversation with Cockroach Labs’ Spencer Kimball and Coatue’s Lucas Swisher on how AI-native companies are reshaping system design, operational scale, and investor expectations.
We’ll also have two in-depth technical sessions led by ClickHouse and Automation Anywhere.
Check the vibes
Connect and network with the next generation of innovators at SHACK15 in San Francisco’s legendary Ferry Building. Enjoy unparalleled, panoramic views of the SF Bay over drinks and bites, with a live DJ spinning tunes.
Plus, get a snapshot of your aura with our aura photographer, and take a little piece of San Francisco home with onsite 3D-printed versions of iconic SF landmarks.
Agenda
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1
Registration
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
2
Fireside Chat: AI Is Completely Rewriting What Scale Means
This panel explores how AI agents are transforming architecture decisions. What happens when systems must scale by 1,000x, not 10x? What’s the new cost of downtime? And why is distributed autonomy becoming a baseline requirement?
Speakers
Spencer Kimball
CEO, Cockroach Labs
Lucas Swisher
Lead Growth Investing, Coatue
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM
3
CockroachDB + ClickHouse: Powering Real-Time AI
ClickHouse is an open source, columnar analytical database built for lightning-fast analytics on massive data. It powers real-time analytics for thousands of companies like Cloudflare, Instacart, LangChain, and Sierra, supporting enterprise-grade AI and SaaS applications that need low-latency insights on large, growing datasets.
A common reference architecture we see among customers is combining an operational database like CockroachDB with an analytical database like ClickHouse to build their customer-facing, real-time applications. This approach enables them to use the right tools for the right job — CockroachDB for highly resilient transactions and ClickHouse for lightning-fast analytics.
In this talk, we’ll double-click on the CockroachDB + ClickHouse “better together” story — how customers use these technologies to power their enterprise AI applications. We’ll discuss why this architecture is more important than ever in the era of AI and dive deeper into the technical implementation, including CDC mechanisms that make this integration seamless. As the icing on the cake, we’ll show a live demo of CockroachDB + ClickHouse in action!
Speaker
Sai Srirampur
Director of Product, ClickHouse
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM
4
Scaling Agentic Process Automations: Automation Anywhere’s Data Evolution with CockroachDB for Scalable, Resilient Workflow
Automation Anywhere delivers intelligent AI automation solutions at global scale, helping enterprises orchestrate millions of automated processes daily. Supporting this scale requires a data infrastructure that is fault-tolerant, globally available, and capable of handling both transactional consistency and rapid growth.
In this session, we’ll share why we selected CockroachDB as a core platform of our data layer, covering:
The limitations and challenges of legacy systems we needed to overcome
The architectural evaluation process and key benefits using CockroachDB
Challenges we faced during the adoption process
We’ll detail our journey from proof-of-concept through production deployment, including schema design decisions, multi-region configuration, performance tuning, and lessons learned in operating CockroachDB at scale.
Join us for a deep dive into the technical evolution of Automation Anywhere’s platform and discover how CockroachDB underpins our mission to deliver a resilient, hitless, highly available platform to our customers enabling millions of agentic workflows.
Speaker
Ruchir Gupta
Principal Engineer R&D, Automation Anywhere
5:45 PM - 5:50 PM
5
Closing remarks
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
6
Cocktail reception
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