Companies
Booking.com
Product category: Not a vendor 64% confident
Org type: End-user enterprise 99% confident
Also listed as 8 other names
BOOKING.COM · Booking · Booking Holdings · Booking.com Ltd · Booking.com Ph.D · Booking.com and LinkedIn · booking.com · bookingcom
Conferences sponsored5
Events sponsored12
Speaker slots8470 distinct people
Conferences present at29sponsor or speaker
Years active2019–2026
Talks, past 12 months26#37 on the communication index · many voices · +60% this yearCircuit mix
Where Booking.com 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 science25%11 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos15%10 events
- Postgres & open-source databases12%7 events
- Research12%4 events
- AI engineering & MLOps9%5 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows7%5 events
- Cloud providers6%4 events
- Streaming4%3 events
- Software engineering4%3 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner3%2 events
- Open-source data infrastructure1%1 event
- Geospatial & mapping1%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Booking.com 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.
- 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.
Conferences present at
Distinct conferences each year, split by whether the company sponsored or only had speakers there.
- Sponsored
- Speakers only
4
1
4
6
10
12
13
Distinct speakers
People from this company on a program that year, each counted once.
7
1
6
7
14
18
27
Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
2
1
3
2
3
1
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownSponsored 1 conference in 2026, down from 2 in 2023.
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
- EMNLP (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing)first sponsored 2026, Bronze
Steady 2
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)every year 2022–24, mostly Silver
- PyData4 of 7 years 2019–25, mostly Gold
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Percona Liveonce, 2019, Community tier
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).
- Nubank0.80
- ASAPP0.73
- PayPal0.72
- Bar-Ilan University0.71
- CVS Health0.71
- Spotify0.69
- HEINEKEN0.69
- Deliveroo0.69
4 Cluster: PyData · PyCon circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 12 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomberg | 5 | 42% |
| 5 | 42% | |
| Apple | 4 | 33% |
| Baidu | 4 | 33% |
| Capital One | 4 | 33% |
| Hopsworks | 4 | 33% |
| Alibaba Cloud | 3 | 25% |
| Cambridge University Press | 3 | 25% |
| Coiled | 3 | 25% |
| eBay | 3 | 25% |
| Intuit | 3 | 25% |
| Megagon Labs | 3 | 25% |
| Netflix | 3 | 25% |
| 3 | 25% | |
| Springer Nature | 3 | 25% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Booking.com (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 12
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMNLP 2026 | Oct 24–29, 2026 | Budapest, Hungary | Bronze Sponsors | Bronze |
| PyData Tel Aviv 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Gold | Gold |
| PyData Amsterdam 2025 | Sep 24–26, 2025 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | — | Unlabeled |
| AI Engineer Summit 2025 (New York) | Feb 19–22, 2025 | New York, United States | Supporters | Other |
| KDD 2024 (30th ACM SIGKDD Conference) | Aug 25–29, 2024 | Barcelona, Spain | Silver | Silver |
| PyData London 2024 | Jun 14–16, 2024 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| PyData Amsterdam 2023 | Sep 14–16, 2023 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| KDD 2023 (29th ACM SIGKDD Conference) | Aug 6–10, 2023 | Long Beach, United States | Silver | Silver |
| PyData London 2023 | Jun 2–4, 2023 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| KDD 2022 (28th ACM SIGKDD Conference) | Aug 14–18, 2022 | Washington, United States | Women’s Luncheon | Other |
| Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2019 | Sep 30, 2019 – Oct 2, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Community | Community |
| PyData Amsterdam 2019 | May 10–12, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Host | Other |
Speakers 84
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Krige | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Booking.com's playbook for cloud transformation at global scale | — |
| Valentina Muñoz | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Booking.com's playbook for cloud transformation at global scale | — |
| Shweta Vohra | QCon San Francisco 2026 | speaker | Why Most Platform Teams Fail: The Adoption Problem Nobody Wants to Own | — |
| Ela Osterberger | Data 2030 Summit 2026 | keynote | AI Needs a Decision Layer: How Measurement and Guardrails Make AI Innovation Safe to Scale | — |
| Anushka Bhandari | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | speaker | From MCP Playground To Org-Wide Infrastructure: Lessons From Building Booking.com's Agent Foundry | — |
| Marat Kenzhebulatov | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | speaker | Scaling Agents: From AI Experimentation to an Engineering Operating Model | — |
| Kelly Pisane | posit::conf(2026) | speaker | Building Confidence, Not Bugs: Internal Packages for Empowered Data Teams | — |
| Kexin Fei | PyData Amsterdam 2026 | talk | The A/B Testing Blind Spot: Solving the Opt-In Paradox with Randomized Encouragement and DoubleML | — |
| Lin Jia | PyData Amsterdam 2026 | talk | The A/B Testing Blind Spot: Solving the Opt-In Paradox with Randomized Encouragement and DoubleML | — |
| Aditya Seth | Percona Live 2026 Amsterdam | speaker | Right-Sizing MySQL EC2 with Production Evidence | Video |
| Martin Alderete | Percona Live 2026 Amsterdam | speaker | Who Is Using What? - Building a MySQL Audit Plugin & Governance Pipeline at Booking.com Scale | Video |
| Abhro Bhaduri | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | Agentic Data Access: Booking.com’s Agentic Travel Experience, Secured by Immuta | — |
| Adam Healy | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | Cost Optimization at Scale: Booking.com’s Journey with SELECT | — |
| Chris De Groot | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | Booking.com's Data Travels: Platform Foundations to Agentic Analytics | — |
| Dimitar Nedev | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | Apache Iceberg at Scale: Lessons from Affirm, Booking.com, DoorDash and Indeed | — |
| Jay Stricks | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | Booking.com's Data Travels: Platform Foundations to Agentic Analytics | — |
| Kiran Kodandoor | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | AI-Powered Analytics and Data Discovery Using Snowflake at Booking.com | — |
| Mike Ogren | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | Governed Zero-Copy Data with Horizon Catalog and Iceberg Catalog Federation | — |
| Paul Neustadt | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | AI-Powered Analytics and Data Discovery Using Snowflake at Booking.com | — |
| Regis Siqueira | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | Governed Zero-Copy Data with Horizon Catalog and Iceberg Catalog Federation | — |
| İlkcan Keleş | Diva: Dive into AI 2026 | speaker | — | — |
| Natalie Halimi | Data Innovation Summit 2026 | featured | — | — |
| Başak Tuğçe Eskili | OpenXData 2026 (April) | speaker | Booking.com's ultra-low latency feature platform | Video |
| Jabez Eliezer Manuel | QCon London 2026 | speaker | Behind Booking.com's AI Evolution: The Unpolished Story | — |
| Martin Alderete | preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2026 | — | The Missing Manual for MySQL Audit Plugins | — |
| Mohammed Gaafar | preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2026 | — | The history of SLIs for MySQL at Booking.com | — |
| Nicolai Plum | preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2026 | — | Developer Schema Changes | — |
| Spiros Georgiou | preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2026 | — | The history of SLIs for MySQL at Booking.com | — |
| Zeeshan Pervaiz | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Designing mission critical applications with serverless services | Video |
| Moran Beladev | PyData Tel Aviv 2025 | talk | Building the Future of AI Trip Planning: LLMs, Inference Optimization, and Agentic Designs at Booking.com (EN) | — |
| Nurettin Burak OMEROGLU | Current New Orleans 2025 | workshop | Kafka Ops Meets AI: Automating Operational Excellence at Scale | — |
| Sanchit Juneja | NDSML Summit 2025 + AI2R Expo (10th edition) | speaker | — | — |
| Danny McCarthy | Data Decoded MCR 2025 | panelist | PANEL: Navigating The Intersection of AI And Data Governance | — |
| Siddhartha Choudhury | Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 | keynote | Opening Session & Keynotes | — |
| Antonio Castelli | PyData Amsterdam 2025 | talk | Scaling Trust: A practical guide on evaluating LLMs and Agents | Video |
| Başak Eskili | PyData Amsterdam 2025 | talk | Diversity Isn’t a Buzzword, It’s a Business Case | — |
| Nazlı Alagöz | PyData Amsterdam 2025 | talk | Causal Inference Framework for incrementality : A Case Study at Booking to estimate incremental CLV due to App installs | Video |
| Mahmoud Nagib | RoachFest 2025 London | speaker | Resilience, Refactors, and Realities: What We Learned Migrating to CockroachDB | — |
| Abhro Bhaduri | Snowflake Summit 2025 | speaker | Unlocking the New Era of Smart Travel with Booking.com and Immuta | — |
| Dimitar Nedev | Snowflake Summit 2025 | speaker | How Booking.com Is Architecting Scalable Python Frameworks for the AI Data Cloud | — |
| Dylan Goldsborough | Snowflake Summit 2025 | speaker | How Booking.com Is Architecting Scalable Python Frameworks for the AI Data Cloud | — |
| Jay Stricks | Snowflake Summit 2025 | speaker | Unlocking the New Era of Smart Travel with Booking.com and Immuta | — |
| Sanchit Juneja | Data Innovation Summit MEA 2025 | speaker | — | — |
| Deepak Patankar | Data & AI Warsaw Tech Summit 2025 | speaker | Graphs for real-time Fraud Detection and Prevention | — |
| Rajat Saxena | Data & AI Warsaw Tech Summit 2025 | speaker | Graphs for real-time Fraud Detection and Prevention | — |
| Bruno Passos | AI Engineer Summit 2025 (New York) | leadership track | Building AI Agents with Real ROI in the Enterprise SDLC | Video |
| Simon Mudd | FOSDEM 2025 | speaker | Upgrading to MySQL 8.4 at Booking.com | Slides · Video |
| Jo Ann Davaris | The AI Summit New York 2024 | keynote | AI Governance & Performance: C-Suite Insights | — |
| Ali Hasan | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Migration and modernization with Amazon CloudFront | Video |
| Felipe Moraes | PyData Amsterdam 2024 | tutorial | Uplift Modeling for Marketing Personalization in Practice | — |
| Hugo Manuel Proenca | PyData Amsterdam 2024 | tutorial | Uplift Modeling for Marketing Personalization in Practice | — |
| Matteo Romeo | PyData Amsterdam 2024 | tutorial | Uplift Modeling for Marketing Personalization in Practice | — |
| Narendra Mukherjee | PyData Amsterdam 2024 | talk | From language to marketing: RNNs for data-driven multi-touch attribution at Booking.com | — |
| Narmin Gulmammadova | PyData Amsterdam 2024 | talk | From language to marketing: RNNs for data-driven multi-touch attribution at Booking.com | — |
| Alexander Shmidt | Airflow Summit 2024 | talk | How we use Airflow at Booking to Orchestrate Big Data Workflows | Slides · Video |
| Madhav Khakhar | Airflow Summit 2024 | talk | How we use Airflow at Booking to Orchestrate Big Data Workflows | Slides · Video |
| Mayank Chopra | Airflow Summit 2024 | talk | How we use Airflow at Booking to Orchestrate Big Data Workflows | Slides · Video |
| Adam Gajtkowski | EARL 2024 | talk | Improving Insights by Utilizing Causal Inference Methods | — |
| Mahmoud Yassin | 18th Annual CDOIQ Symposium | speaker | — | — |
| Thomas Davey | Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024 | featured | — | — |
| Mahmoud Yassin | Data Innovation Summit MEA 2024 | speaker | — | — |
| John Purkins | CDAO UK 2024 | speaker | — | — |
| Sanchit Juneja | CDAO Europe 2023 | speaker | — | — |
| Mahmoud Nagib | RoachFest 2023 (New York) | speaker | Resilient evolution: A modernization and simplification journey with CockroachDB | — |
| Bram van den Akker | PyData Amsterdam 2023 | talk | Tables as Code: The Journey from Ad-hoc Scripts to Maintainable ETL Workflows at Booking.com | — |
| Felipe Moraes | PyData Amsterdam 2023 | talk | Enhancing Economic Outcomes: Leveraging Business Metrics for Machine Learning Model Optimization | — |
| Jon Smith | PyData Amsterdam 2023 | talk | Tables as Code: The Journey from Ad-hoc Scripts to Maintainable ETL Workflows at Booking.com | — |
| Priyanka Sharma | Spatial Data Science Conference 2023 London | speaker | — | — |
| Simon J Mudd | preFOSDEM MySQL Days 2023 | — | Migration to MySQL Group Replication at booking.com: thoughts & experiences | Slides |
| Guy Taylor | CDAO Europe 2022 | speaker | — | — |
| David Ponessa | Flink Forward San Francisco 2022 | keynote | User Keynote: Apache Flink as a security data processing engine at Booking.com | — |
| Pedro Ceriotti | Flink Forward San Francisco 2022 | keynote | User Keynote: Apache Flink as a security data processing engine at Booking.com | — |
| Mohammed Gaafar | Percona Live 2022 | speaker | MySQL at Scale: Booking MariaDB to MySQL Migration | — |
| Nicolai Plum | Percona Live 2022 | speaker | MySQL Backups at Booking.com | — |
| Simon Mudd | Percona Live 2022 | speaker | MySQL 8.0 at 4. Where are we now? | — |
| Matt Crouch | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | Optimize applications through end user insights with Amazon CloudWatch RUM | Slides · Video |
| Amit Beka | PyData Warsaw 2019 | talk | The NLU Orchestra | — |
| Georgiy Mogelashvili | QCon San Francisco 2019 | speaker | Six Things I've Learned as a Manager I Wish I Knew Before | Slides · Video |
| Noa Barbiro | ML Conference 2019 Munich (Spring Edition) | speaker | Up-close and personal: Hyper-Personalization using Deep Learning | — |
| Daniël van Eeden | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | Large Scale Deployment of SSL/TLS For MySQL | — |
| Amit Beka | PyData Amsterdam 2019 | talk | Annotating data the right way | Video |
| Camille Couturier | PyData Amsterdam 2019 | tutorial | Hands on: build a recommender system | Video |
| Karlijn Zaanen | PyData Amsterdam 2019 | talk | Efficient Transfer Learning for Machine Translations @Booking.com | Video |
| Satendra Kumar | PyData Amsterdam 2019 | talk | Efficient Transfer Learning for Machine Translations @Booking.com | Video |