August 26, 2025 — Leads & Copy — Akka, previously Lightbend, has partnered with Deloitte Canada to address the deployment of large-scale agentic AI systems for critical applications. The companies aim to leverage Akka’s Agentic Platform to scale agentic AI technology for enterprise customers, ensuring stability, performance, and measurable outcomes.
Akka’s CEO, Tyler Jewell, expressed enthusiasm about the collaboration, noting the increasing priority of agentic AI among enterprises. Anand Nimkar, a partner and Applied AI practice leader at Deloitte Canada, emphasized Akka’s capabilities in building scalable agentic AI systems, delivering business value quickly and economically.
Akka is known for its libraries that have been downloaded over 1 billion times. It’s a standard for building resilient and elastic distributed systems, used by firms such as Capital One, John Deere, Swiggy, Tubi, and Walmart. The collaboration will allow Deloitte to utilize Akka’s Agentic Platform, including the SDK and Akka Automated Operations, for customer deployments.
The Akka Agentic Platform aims to accelerate agentic AI application delivery, moving these technologies from data science to core application delivery teams. It supports innovation and operation at 3X the velocity with ⅓ the compute. The platform includes orchestration, non-blocking LLM adapters, durable memory, event-driven systems, data streaming, and multi-region deployment capabilities.
The Akka and Deloitte collaboration seeks to provide customers with ease of development, deployment, and operations. Interested parties can find more information at akka.io.
Jay Nichols, Nichols Communications for Akka, +1 408 772 1551, jay@nicholscomm.com
Source: Akka
