BlackRock
Circuit mix
Where BlackRock shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- AI engineering & MLOps26%5 events
- Software engineering & trading tech26%6 events
- Research17%2 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows9%1 event
- Modern data stack & practitioner9%2 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos9%2 events
- Python & R data science4%1 event
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.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled tier
- Had speakers
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale. 2027, 2028 is still mostly ahead, so its bars are faded and incomplete.
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.
Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
FlatSponsored 1 conference in 2026, flat from 1 in 2021.
Counted per conference. 2026 is the latest year whose conferences have mostly happened. Tiers use the best tier each year; swatches show the path, oldest first. A conference counts as pulled out only when a later event published a complete sponsor list, since most events don’t say whether their list is complete.
New 2
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first sponsored 2025, unranked tier
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)first sponsored 2025, Gold
Pulled out 1
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- Snowflake Summitlast sponsored 2021; the conference ran again in 2022 and 2024–26
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).
- Cerebras0.85
- SambaNova0.79
- Weights & Biases0.75
- Reflection AI0.75
- Encord0.75
- Kaggle0.75
- DatologyAI0.75
- Writer0.74
1 Cluster: AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 4 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | 4 | 100% |
| Microsoft | 4 | 100% |
| Modal | 3 | 75% |
| NTT DATA | 3 | 75% |
| Salesforce | 3 | 75% |
| Thomson Reuters | 3 | 75% |
| Together AI | 3 | 75% |
| Abaka AI | 2 | 50% |
| Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) | 2 | 50% |
| Apple | 2 | 50% |
| Arm | 2 | 50% |
| Association for Computing Machinery | 2 | 50% |
| Atlassian | 2 | 50% |
| Baseten | 2 | 50% |
| Biohub | 2 | 50% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
BlackRock (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 4
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney) | Dec 6–12, 2026 | Sydney, Australia | Platinum | Platinum |
| NeurIPS 2025 (San Diego) | Dec 2–7, 2025 | San Diego, United States | Gold | Gold |
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | Jun 3–5, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Supporters | Other |
| Snowflake Summit 2021 | Jun 8–10, 2021 | — | Yottabyte | Title |
Speakers 22
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sahil Vashishat | QCon AI New York 2026 | speaker | Building an AgentOps Stack for Financial Services | — |
| Dan Wolf | QCon San Francisco 2026 | speaker | Inside Asimov: BlackRock’s Platform Architecture for Applied AI at Scale | — |
| Sri Annapurna Bhupatiraju | QCon San Francisco 2026 | speaker | Inside Asimov: BlackRock’s Platform Architecture for Applied AI at Scale | — |
| Ning Lu | STAC Summit London, Fall 2026 | speaker | AI Evals: From judging outputs to engineering decision context | — |
| Dhagash Mehta | STAC Summit New York, Spring 2026 | speaker | AlphaAgents: Large Language Model based multi-agents for equity portfolio construction | — |
| Dhagash Mehta | STAC Summit New York, Spring 2026 | panelist | Scaling AI in the enterprise | — |
| Julia Kalimova | JupyterCon 2025 | poster | Poster Presentations | — |
| Kyong Lee | JupyterCon 2025 | poster | Poster Presentations | — |
| Infant Vasanth | 6th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2025 | speaker | Context is King: Scaling Beyond Prompt Engineering at BlackRock | — |
| Vaibhav Page | 6th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2025 | speaker | Context is King: Scaling Beyond Prompt Engineering at BlackRock | — |
| Infant Vasanth | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | speaker | Accelerating Investment Operations: How BlackRock Builds Custom Knowledge Apps at Scale. | Video |
| Vaibhav Page | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | speaker | Accelerating Investment Operations: How BlackRock Builds Custom Knowledge Apps at Scale. | Video |
| Dhagash Mehta | STAC Summit New York, Spring 2025 | speaker | How to Choose a Threshold for an Evaluation Metric for Large Language Models | — |
| Brennan Rosales | AI Engineer Summit 2025 (New York) | speaker | Agents in Investment Management: Aladdin Copilot | — |
| Bhaskarjit Sarmah | 5th Annual MLOps World and Generative AI World Conference 2024 | speaker (virtual) | HybridRAG: Merging Knowledge Graphs with Vector Retrieval for Efficient Information Extraction | — |
| Anna Grigoryan | Budapest Data+ML Forum 2024 | speaker | Advanced Techniques for Validating AI-Generated Summaries | — |
| Máté Sal | Budapest Data+ML Forum 2024 | speaker | Copilot fejlesztések tesztelése a BlackRocknál | — |
| William Chen | QCon New York 2023 | speaker | Portfolio Analysis at Scale: Running Risk and Analytics on 15+ Million Portfolios Every Day | — |
| Tóth Máté | Budapest Data Forum + Budapest ML Forum 2023 | speaker | Befektetési alapok kategorizálása NLP eszközökkel | — |
| Bhaskarjit Sarmah | 6th Annual TMLS 2022 | speaker | Workshop: Learning Embedded Representation of the Stock Correlation Matrix using Graph Machine Learning | — |
| Tiffany Perkins-Munn | The AI Summit New York 2021 | featured | — | — |
| Tiffany Perkins-Munn | The AI Summit New York 2020 | featured | — | — |