Companies
Cisco
Product category (jev): Cloud infrastructure 86% confident
Org type (jev): Hardware 100% confident
Also listed as: CISCO · Cisco (Splunk) · Cisco / Outshift by Cisco · Cisco AppDynamics · Cisco Systems · Cisco Systems Inc · Cisco Systems, Inc · Cisco Tetration Analytics · Cisco Webex · Cisco's Emerging Technologies
Conferences sponsored16
Events sponsored30
Speaker slots7161 distinct people
Conferences present at29sponsor or speaker
Years active2019–2026
Circuit mix
Where Cisco 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 & MLOps19%12 events
- Cloud providers18%9 events
- Postgres & open-source databases13%6 events
- Software engineering & trading tech12%8 events
- Research11%6 events
- Python & R data science9%7 events
- Open-source data infrastructure7%4 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos6%3 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows2%2 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner2%2 events
- Streaming1%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
13
2
4
6
6
6
6
9
Distinct speakers
People from this company on a program that year, each counted once.
9
1
3
11
9
10
7
15
Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
8
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5
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3
Where they've grown or pulled back
FlatSponsored 2 conferences in 2026, flat 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 4
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first sponsored 2026, Gold
- Google Cloud Nextfirst sponsored 2026, unranked tier
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPConfirst sponsored 2025, unranked tier
- PyDatafirst sponsored 2025, Bronze
Moved down 1
Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- AWS re:InventPlatinum 2019 → Gold 2025
Pulled out 1
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- EMNLP (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing)last sponsored 2019; the conference ran again in 2020–26
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- FOSDEMevery year 2019–24, unranked tier
Once or on and off 9
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
Show all 9 conferences
- Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)once, 2024, Gold
- IEEE ICDE (International Conference on Data Engineering)once, 2021, Silver
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)once, 2019, Gold
- O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conferenceonce, 2019, Gold
- ODSC (Open Data Science Conference)once, 2019, Gold
- STAC Summitonce, 2022, Gold
- Strata Data Conferenceonce, 2019, Platinum
- The AI Summitonce, 2024, Gold
- VLDB (International Conference on Very Large Data Bases)once, 2019, Gold
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).
15 Cluster: STAC Summit · The AI Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 30 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 60% | |
| Red Hat | 17 | 57% |
| Intel | 14 | 47% |
| Amazon Web Services | 13 | 43% |
| IBM | 13 | 43% |
| Salesforce | 11 | 37% |
| Accenture | 10 | 33% |
| Deloitte | 10 | 33% |
| Snowflake | 10 | 33% |
| Cloudflare | 9 | 30% |
| Databricks | 9 | 30% |
| MongoDB | 9 | 30% |
| NetApp | 9 | 30% |
| NVIDIA | 9 | 30% |
| Splunk | 9 | 30% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Cisco (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 30
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 | Nov 10–12, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | GOLD | Gold |
| AI Engineer New York 2026 | Oct 12–14, 2026 | New York, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Google Cloud Next '26 | Apr 22–24, 2026 | Las Vegas, United States | Explorer | Other |
| AWS re:Invent 2025 | Dec 1–5, 2025 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| PyData Tel Aviv 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Bronze | Bronze |
| MCP Developers Summit 2025 (San Francisco) | May 23, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Sponsor | Other |
| The AI Summit New York 2024 | Dec 11–12, 2024 | New York, United States | Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2024 | Dec 2–6, 2024 | Las Vegas, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| Community Over Code North America 2024 | Oct 7–10, 2024 | Denver, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Community Over Code EU 2024 | Jun 3–5, 2024 | Bratislava, Slovakia | Gold | Gold |
| FOSDEM 2024 | Feb 3–4, 2024 | Brussels, Belgium | Main sponsor | Other |
| AWS re:Invent 2023 | Nov 27, 2023 – Dec 1, 2023 | Las Vegas, United States | Diamond | Title |
| FOSDEM 2023 | Feb 4–5, 2023 | Brussels, Belgium | Main sponsor | Other |
| AWS re:Invent 2022 | Nov 28, 2022 – Dec 2, 2022 | Las Vegas, United States | Emerald | Title |
| STAC Summit New York, Spring 2022 | Jun 1, 2022 | New York, United States | GOLD SPONSORS | Gold |
| STAC Summit London, Spring 2022 | May 19, 2022 | London, United Kingdom | GOLD SPONSORS | Gold |
| STAC Summit Chicago, Spring 2022 | May 10, 2022 | Chicago, United States | GOLD SPONSORS | Gold |
| FOSDEM 2022 | Feb 5–6, 2022 | — | Main sponsor | Other |
| AWS re:Invent 2021 | Nov 29, 2021 – Dec 3, 2021 | Las Vegas, United States | Diamond | Title |
| ICDE 2021 (37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering) | Apr 19–22, 2021 | Chania, Greece | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| FOSDEM 2021 | Feb 6–7, 2021 | — | Main sponsor | Other |
| FOSDEM 2020 | Feb 1–2, 2020 | Brussels, Belgium | Main sponsor | Other |
| NeurIPS 2019 | Dec 8–14, 2019 | Vancouver, Canada | Gold | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2019 | Dec 2–6, 2019 | Las Vegas, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 | Nov 3–7, 2019 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China | Silver Level | Silver |
| ODSC West 2019 | Oct 29, 2019 – Nov 1, 2019 | Burlingame, United States | Gold Partners | Gold |
| Strata Data Conference New York 2019 | Sep 23–26, 2019 | New York, United States | Strategic Sponsors | Platinum |
| VLDB 2019 (45th) | Aug 26–30, 2019 | Los Angeles, United States | Gold | Gold |
| O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference New York 2019 | Apr 15–18, 2019 | New York, United States | Contributing Sponsors | Gold |
| FOSDEM 2019 | Feb 2–3, 2019 | Brussels, Belgium | Main sponsor | Other |
Speakers 71
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Schifman | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Solving Problems Faster with AI SRE (sponsored by Splunk by Cisco) | — |
| colin gibbens | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Expert Defense Within Reach: Agentic SecOps with Splunk and AWS | — |
| Dave Gervon | AWS re:Invent 2026 | lightning talk | Beyond the Buy Button: Cisco on AWS Marketplace, a Partner-Led AI Win (sponsored by Cisco) | — |
| Greg Leffler | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Build Trust in AI with Agent Observability (sponsored by Splunk by Cisco) | — |
| Mohammed Hamzeh | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Modernize the data layer, then scale the AI: A Cisco Case Study (sponsored by MongoDB) | — |
| Kumaran Ponnambalam | 7th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2026 | speaker | Personalized Experiential Learning: How Do Enterprises Build AI Agents That Learn and Adapt for Users and Tenants? | — |
| Al Chen | AI Engineer New York 2026 | speaker | Deploying AI Inside 5 Major Banks Without the 12-Month Compliance Bottleneck | — |
| Jordan Augé | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | speaker | From Opaque To Observable: Tracing Multi-Agent OpenClaw Workflows With OpenTelemetry | — |
| Jordan Augé | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | speaker | MAS-Lab: An Open Framework for Spec-Driven, Interoperable Multi-Agent Systems | — |
| Sam Betts | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | speaker | A2A Goes Stable: What Changed, Why, and What's Next | — |
| Anshal Raj | Airflow Summit 2026 | talk | Architecting the Center of Excellence: A Strategic Blueprint for Federated Airflow at Scale | Video |
| Esakki Raj E | MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru 2026 | speaker | MCP + Kubernetes: Building a Self-Healing AI Platform (Not Just Pipelines) | — |
| Senay Goitom | Open House 2026 (San Francisco) | speaker | — | — |
| Hina Gandhi | Data Summit 2026 | speaker | Teaching Spark to Tune Itself: Reinforcement Learning for Smarter Optimization | — |
| Praveen Sinha | Iceberg Summit 2026 | speaker | Beyond the Forklift: Unlocking Revenue-Critical Workloads on Iceberg | Video |
| Neelabh Tripathi | MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 | speaker | Operating MCP in the Enterprise: From Protocol To Production | — |
| Arjun Sambamoorthy | AWS re:Invent 2025 | lightning talk | Securing AI Agent Ecosystems: MCP Server & Agent Security at Scale | Video |
| Hasith Kalpage | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Building agentic AI platform engineering solutions with open source | Video |
| Jonathan Zarkower | AWS re:Invent 2025 | lightning talk | Driving Resilience with Assurance and Visibility from Edge to Cloud (sponsored by Cisco) | Video |
| Keith Llorens | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Connecting Context to Performance: Real-World Enterprise Observability (sponsored by Splunk) | — |
| Kumaran Ponnambalam | 6th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2025 | speaker | Agent Drift: Understanding and Managing AI Agent Performance Degradation in Production | — |
| Yaron Singer | KDD 2025 (31st ACM SIGKDD Conference) | ADS invited talk | — | — |
| Ola Mabadeje | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | speaker | Multi-Agent AI and Network Knowledge Graphs for Change Management and Network Testing | Video |
| Arjun Sambamoorthy | MCP Developers Summit 2025 (San Francisco) | speaker | Securing MCP in an Agentic World | — |
| Greg Leffler | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Troubleshooting in complex environments faster with Splunk (sponsored by Splunk) | Video |
| Matt Frey | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Responsible AI: From theory to practice with AWS | Video |
| Rama Krishna Balapalle | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Enhance performance with observability, security, and log analytics | Video |
| Shaja Selvamani | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Explore what’s new in analytics and governance | Video |
| Vijoy Pandey | AWS re:Invent 2024 | lightning talk | Building the open and interoperable internet of agents (sponsored by Cisco) | Video |
| Mrinal Raj | PyCon India 2024 | talk | Build Your Own Live Streaming Device Behind Your Home Router | — |
| Qingwang Li | Community Over Code Asia 2024 | speaker | Continuous Optimization: Two Years of Cisco Webex Improvements and Innovations Based on Apache Dolph | Video |
| Xu Bai | Community Over Code Asia 2024 | speaker | Efficiently managing and optimizing Apache Iceberg with Apache Amoro | Video |
| Natali Vlatko | Community Over Code EU 2024 | keynote | EU policies and regulations affecting open source specialists working in OSPOs | — |
| Adrienne Braganza-Tacke | Visual Studio Live! Chicago 2024 | speaker | Variables of the Veracious Variety: How to Better Name your Variables | — |
| Adrienne Braganza-Tacke | Visual Studio Live! Chicago 2024 | speaker | Looks GREAT To Me: Getting Past Bare Minimum Code Reviews | — |
| Ashish Sood | AWS re:Invent 2023 | chalk talk | Advanced real-time analytics and ML in your data warehouse [REPEAT] | — |
| Travis Mehlinger | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Deploy FMs on Amazon SageMaker for price performance | Video |
| Vishal Jain | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Teradata secures 100s of AWS workloads with Cisco Multicloud Defense (sponsored by Cisco) | Video |
| Alec Hothan | Pulsar Summit North America 2023 | keynote | A journey to Deploy Pulsar on Cisco's Cloud Native IoT Platform | Video |
| Alec Hothan | Pulsar Summit North America 2023 | speaker | End to end secure pulsar deployment: Safeguard data flow and protect against threats | Video |
| Chandra Ganguly | Pulsar Summit North America 2023 | keynote | A journey to Deploy Pulsar on Cisco's Cloud Native IoT Platform | Video |
| Kumaran Ponnambalam | 4th Annual MLOps World Conference & Expo 2023 | speaker | Using Scouter Models to Monitor Model Drift - A Novel Approach | — |
| Shail Bhargava | Pulsar Summit North America 2023 | speaker | End to end secure pulsar deployment: Safeguard data flow and protect against threats | Video |
| Sami Musallam | PyCon Italia 2023 | workshop | Troubleshooting and Monitoring Production Applications with OpenTelemetry | — |
| Nikolay Voronchikhin | Modern Data Stack Conference 2023 | speaker | Keeping up with the modern data stack | — |
| Justin Buchanan | AWS re:Invent 2022 | chalk talk | AI-powered contact centers are key for successful organizations | Slides |
| Mohammed Nasir | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | Infosys Cobalt: Creating value from the confluence of technology forces (sponsored by Infosys) | Slides · Video |
| Sunder Parameswaran | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | Correlate cloud performance metrics directly with business impact (sponsored by Cisco) | Slides · Video |
| Yosef Arbiv | PyCon Ireland 2022 | workshop | Workshop: OpenTelemetry | — |
| Alex Garbarini | Coalesce 2022 New Orleans | speaker | Jumpstart dbt: How to Achieve Speed and Scale | Video |
| Nikolay Voronchikhin | Coalesce 2022 New Orleans | speaker | How Cisco powers its modern ELT approach with Fivetran and dbt Labs | Video |
| Virendra Singh | Coalesce 2022 New Orleans | speaker | Jumpstart dbt: How to Achieve Speed and Scale | Video |
| Flo Pachinger | EuroPython 2022 | talk | Common Python Mistakes with Kubernetes, How They Can Cause Vulnerabilities and How to Solve Them! | — |
| John Sabasteanski | STAC Summit New York, Spring 2022 | speaker | Fairness through a picosecond lens | — |
| John Sabasteanski | STAC Summit New York, Spring 2022 | speaker | Can low latency be composed? | — |
| Daniel Brown | STAC Summit London, Spring 2022 | speaker | Fairness through a picosecond lens | — |
| Nemanja Kamenica | STAC Summit Chicago, Spring 2022 | speaker | Fairness through a picosecond lens | — |
| Nikolai Pitaev | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | Enterprise networking and SD-WAN with Cisco and AWS (sponsored by Cisco) | Slides · Video |
| Simarbir Singh | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | Enterprise networking and SD-WAN with Cisco and AWS (sponsored by Cisco) | Slides · Video |
| James Beeken | Global STAC Live, Spring 2021 | speaker | Moving compute to the network | — |
| Matthew Grosvenor | Global STAC Live, Fall 2020 | speaker | An FPGA primer for software developers | — |
| Matthew Grosvenor | Global STAC Live, Spring 2020 | speaker | An interconnect primer: Unscrambling the alphabet soup | — |
| Shahid Barkat | PyData Los Angeles 2019 | speaker | Introducing Autoimpute: a Python Package for Grappling with Missing Data | Video |
| Azeem Suleman | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | What everyone should know about hybrid cloud networking | Slides · Video |
| John Day | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Set up Kubernetes clusters on premises & on AWS with Cisco Container Platform | Slides · Video |
| Mayuri Kulkarni | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | What everyone should know about hybrid cloud networking | Slides · Video |
| Siva Sivakumar | Strata Data Conference New York 2019 | keynote | Cisco Data Intelligence Platform (sponsored by Cisco) | — |
| Dmitry Figol | EuroPython 2019 | talk | Optimizing Docker builds for Python applications | Video |
| Vimalkumar Jeyakumar | SIGMOD/PODS 2019 | industry paper | ExplainIt! -- A declarative root-cause analysis engine for time series data | — |
| Jag Tamvada | STAC Summit New York, Spring 2019 | speaker | Streaming Telemetry for your Low Latency Network | — |
| David Goeckeler | Google Cloud Next '19 | keynote | Opening Keynote (Cloud Next '19) | Video |