BBC
Also listed as 5 other names
BBC Global News · BBC News · BBC News (Intl Commercial) · BBC News Labs · BBC's Digital Products
Circuit mix
Where BBC shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Python & R data science33%12 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos28%10 events
- Software engineering19%7 events
- Cloud providers6%2 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows3%1 event
- Modern data stack & practitioner3%1 event
- Streaming3%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps3%1 event
- Alt data & financial information3%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where BBC sponsored or had speakers in the past 12 months, and the announced events it is already listed for. One row per conference, January to December; hover a mark for the event and the company's role.
Presence by conference and year
Each cell is one conference in one year. Fill shows the company sponsored, shaded by its best tier that year; a dot means it had speakers there. Hover for details; click to open the event.
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- Other / unlabeled tier
- Had speakers
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale.
Conferences present at
Distinct conferences each year, split by whether the company sponsored or only had speakers there.
- Sponsored
- Speakers only
Distinct speakers
People from this company on a program that year, each counted once.
Where they've grown or pulled back
BBC has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
FlatHad speakers at 4 conferences in 2026, flat from 4 in 2023.
Counted per conference. 2026 is the latest year whose conferences have mostly happened. A conference counts as no longer seen only when later events published speaker lists.
New conferences spoken at 2
First speaker in 2025 or later.
- Big Data LDNfirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
- Data Decodedfirst spoke 2026, 1 speaker
No longer seen 9
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- Airflow Summitlast seen 2021; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2022–26
- AWS re:Inventlast seen 2020; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2021–25
- Beam Summitlast seen 2021; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2022–26
- CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summitslast seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–26
- DASHlast seen 2019; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2020–26
- EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language)last seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
- EuroPythonlast seen 2022; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2023–26
- Neudata Data Summitslast seen 2022; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2023–26
- Nordic Data Science and Machine Learning Summit (NDSML Summit)last seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–25
Regulars 3
Speakers in most years of the span.
- PyCon (national Python conferences)speakers in 3 of 4 years, 2022–25
- QConspeakers in 7 of 8 years, 2019–26
- The AI Summitspeakers in 2 of 2 years, 2024–25
Lookalikes
Companies with the most similar conference footprint: they sponsor and speak at the same conferences. Bars are cosine similarity, from 0 (nothing shared) to 1 (identical).
- JetBrains0.67
- ITV0.66
- Financial Times0.65
- SS&C Technologies0.64
- Shell0.63
- deepset0.62
- Imperial College London0.61
- bp0.61
10 Cluster: PyCon · EuroPython circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 0 this company sponsored).
No co-sponsors: this company has no recorded sponsorships, or sponsored alone.
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
BBC (ringed) and the 30 companies closest to it on the company map. Close together means they sponsor and speak at many of the same conferences. Distances are only meaningful locally; the axes have no meaning. Dot size: conferences present at. Color: cluster.
Sponsorships 0
No sponsorships recorded for BBC.
Speakers 56
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darren Wood | Big Data LDN 2026 | speaker | Treating Data as a Product in the Age of AI: How Your Data Team Can Build Less, Learn Faster and Deliver Strategic Value | — |
| Jamie Petherbridge-Conroy | Big Data LDN 2026 | speaker | Building Reliable Personalised Discovery Across the Whole of the BBC | — |
| Louise Blythe | Big Data LDN 2026 | speaker | The Human + AI Era: Building the Workforce Capability That Turns Data and AI into Real Impact | — |
| Matt Crooks | PyData London 2026 | talk | AI-Assisted Creative for Automated Marketing using Python | — |
| Darren Wood | Data Decoded LDN 2026 | keynote | Stop Being a Data Factory – Start Treating Data Like a Product | — |
| Henry Wilson | QCon London 2026 | speaker | The Influence Toolkit | — |
| Reece Nunn | QCon London 2026 | speaker | Rethinking Your Engineering Hiring Process & Signals for the AI Era | — |
| Tom Everest | QCon London 2026 | speaker | Keeping the Nation On-Air: How We Think About Resilience at the BBC | — |
| Darren Wood | Big Data LDN 2025 | speaker | The Great AI Giveaway: Years of Hype, Zero Product Thinking and no Value | — |
| Ben Nuttall | PyCon UK 2025 | workshop | Data modelling with Pydantic | — |
| Lara Lewington | The AI Summit London 2025 | keynote | The UK's AI Opportunities Action Plan – What’s Been Achieved and Where Next? | — |
| Lara Lewington | The AI Summit London 2025 | keynote | AI in Science: Unlocking the World's Biggest Challenges | — |
| Lara Lewington | The AI Summit London 2025 | keynote | Architecting the Systems That Will Accelerate the UK’s AI | — |
| Beth Anderson | QCon London 2025 | speaker | Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn From Junior Engineers | — |
| Ian Arundale | QCon London 2025 | speaker | Architecture in the Lead: Scaling Today, Shaping Tomorrow | — |
| Matthew Card | QCon London 2025 | speaker | Achieving a Culture That Works: Inclusive Leadership that Drives Lasting Success | — |
| Matthew Clark | QCon London 2025 | speaker | Architecture in the Lead: Scaling Today, Shaping Tomorrow | — |
| Sophie Beaumont | QCon London 2025 | speaker | Scaling the BBC Design System: Tooling, Community, Governance and Gardening | — |
| Christel Swift | EARL 2024 | keynote | — | — |
| Dr. Matthew Crooks | PyData London 2024 | keynote | Keynote- Data: Faithful or Traitor? | — |
| Laura Ellis | The AI Summit London 2024 | keynote | Opening Pandora’s Box: Media publishers and generative AI | — |
| Hannes Ricklefs | QCon London 2024 | speaker | The Art, Science and Psychology of Decision Making | — |
| Danijela Horak | NDSML Summit 2023 (7th edition) | speaker | — | — |
| Harleen Thethy | CDAO Fall 2023 | speaker | — | — |
| Ben Nuttall | PyCon UK 2023 | talk | Live highlights in BBC iPlayer | — |
| Jitesh Gosai | QCon London 2023 | panelist | Panel: Staff+ Engineering in Practice | — |
| Jitesh Gosai | QCon London 2023 | speaker | Psychological Safety for Staff+ Engineers | — |
| Manisha Lopes | QCon London 2023 | speaker | Providing a Personalized Experience to Millions of Users @BBC | — |
| Steph Egan | QCon London 2023 | speaker | 5 Principles for Enablement with (Almost) Nothing to do with Building Tools | — |
| Harleen Thethy | CDAO UK 2023 | speaker | — | — |
| Harleen Thethy | Chief Data & Analytics Officers, Fall 2022 | panelist | Panel Discussion: Data & Marketing - Transforming Data Strategy to Enable Customer-Centricity in Analytics | — |
| Ben Nuttall | PyCon UK 2022 | talk | Rapid prototyping in BBC News with Python and AWS | — |
| Christel Swift | EARL 2022 | talk | When AB testing isn’t possible, Causal Inference & Propensity Modelling to the rescue! | — |
| Ben Nuttall | EuroPython 2022 | talk | Rapid prototyping in BBC News with Python and AWS | Video |
| Danielle Mudler | London: Data Insights and Scouting Summit 2022 | panelist | Panel: Cross Pollination – ESG & Sustainability | — |
| Danielle Mulder | London: Data Insights and Scouting Summit 2022 | speaker | — | — |
| Harleen Thethy | CDAO Melbourne 2022 | speaker | — | — |
| Matthew Clark | QCon London 2022 | speaker | APIs at Scale: Creating Rich Interfaces that Stand the Test of Time | — |
| Paul Caporn | QCon London 2022 | speaker | APIs at Scale: Creating Rich Interfaces that Stand the Test of Time | — |
| David Teague | CDAO UK 2022 (March) | panelist | Panel Discussion: Data Literacy – How Can You Harness Data Education in Order to Show Better Returns from Data? | — |
| Harleen Thethy | CDAO UK 2022 (March) | speaker | — | — |
| Tatiana Al-Chueyr Martins | Beam Summit 2021 | speaker | Scaling machine learning to millions of users with Apache Beam | Slides · Video |
| Ben Nuttall | EuroPython 2021 Online | talk | Innovation in the newsroom | Slides · Video |
| Tatiana Al-Chueyr Martins | Airflow Summit 2021 | talk | Clearing Airflow obstructions | Slides · Video |
| Andrew Carlson | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | BBC: Driving security best practices in a decentralized organization | Slides · Video |
| Ben Nuttall | EuroPython 2020 Online | talk | Tools for maintaining an open source Python project | Slides · Video |
| Blanca Garcia-Gil | QCon London 2020 | speaker | Beyond the Distributed Monolith: Rearchitecting the Big Data Platform | Video |
| Chris Sidebottom | PyData Warsaw 2019 | talk | TDD shouldn't be TDDious | — |
| Alex Chesters | AWS re:Invent 2019 | chalk talk | How the BBC uses Lambda@Edge to customize device pages | Slides |
| Andrew Carlson | AWS re:Invent 2019 | chalk talk | [REPEAT 1] How the BBC uses AWS Secrets Manager to manage secrets | Slides |
| Ben Fields | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | [REPEAT 1] Deep learning applications using Apache MXNet | Slides · Video |
| Neil Delargy | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | [REPEAT 1] Deep learning applications using Apache MXNet | Slides · Video |
| Christel Swift | EARL London 2019 | talk | Building a shiny app to show affinity between programmes | — |
| Nassos Stylianou | EARL London 2019 | talk | How the BBC News data team uses R for graphics | — |
| Ross Wilson | Dash 2019 | speaker | Operational Controls at the BBC | — |
| David Buckhurst | QCon London 2019 | speaker | BBC iPlayer: Architecting for TV | Video |