Cognition
Circuit mix
Where Cognition shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Vendor flagships & roadshows40%6 events
- AI engineering & MLOps37%7 events
- Cloud providers13%2 events
- Research7%1 event
- Modern data stack & practitioner3%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
- Silver
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 5 conferences in 2026, up from 2 in 2025.
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 6
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first sponsored 2025, Gold
- AWS re:Inventfirst sponsored 2025, Platinum
- Databricks Data + AI World Tourfirst sponsored 2026, Title
- Google Cloud Nextfirst sponsored 2026, Silver
- MongoDB.local NYC (formerly MongoDB World)first sponsored 2026, unranked tier
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)first sponsored 2026, 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).
- ElevenLabs0.78
- ZS0.75
- Replit0.72
- Dash00.71
- poolside0.71
- TwelveLabs0.71
- Exa0.71
- Conductor0.69
1 Cluster: AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 13 this company sponsored).
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Cognition (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 13
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data + AI World Tour Paris 2026 | Dec 8, 2026 | Paris, France | Enthusiast | Silver |
| NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney) | Dec 6–12, 2026 | Sydney, Australia | Gold | Gold |
| Data + AI World Tour New York 2026 | Nov 19, 2026 | New York, United States | Advocate | Title |
| Data + AI World Tour London 2026 | Nov 11, 2026 | London, United Kingdom | Explorer | Gold |
| AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 | Nov 10–12, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | PLATINUM | Platinum |
| Data + AI World Tour Munich 2026 | Nov 4, 2026 | Munich, Germany | Enthusiast | Silver |
| MongoDB.local NYC 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | New York, United States | Program Partners | Other |
| Data + AI World Tour Sydney 2026 | Sep 16, 2026 | Sydney, Australia | Explorer | Gold |
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Silver | Silver |
| AI Engineer Singapore 2026 | May 15–17, 2026 | Singapore, Singapore | Gold | Gold |
| Google Cloud Next '26 | Apr 22–24, 2026 | Las Vegas, United States | Signature | Silver |
| AWS re:Invent 2025 | Dec 1–5, 2025 | Las Vegas, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| AI Engineer Code Summit 2025 | Nov 19–22, 2025 | New York, United States | Gold Sponsors (meet in Expo!) | Gold |
Speakers 11
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theodor Marcu | AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 | speaker | Scaling Your Agent Workforce: Lessons from Inside Cognition | — |
| Walden Yan | AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 | speaker | Walden Yan, Chief Product Officer, Cognition | — |
| Yannis Psorakis | AI Engineer Paris 2026 | speaker | Closing the Distance: Agentic map-reduce for large-scale coding tasks | — |
| Jia Wu | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Cognition | Video |
| Walden Yan | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | Model Routing | Video |
| Ben Lau | AI Engineer Singapore 2026 | speaker | Managing Background Agents as an Engineering Workforce | — |
| Swyx | AI Engineer Singapore 2026 | speaker | The Agent Lab Nation | — |
| Silas Alberti | AI Council 2026 | keynote | Born Different: How AI Natives Build Startups | — |
| Russell Kaplan | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Designing with Agents: A Playbook for Enterprise Engineering Leaders (sponsored by Cognition) | Video |
| Scott Wu | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | speaker | Devin 2.0 and the Future of SWE | Video |
| Scott Wu | AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 | speaker | The Making of Devin | Video |