Cruise
Circuit mix
Where Cruise shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Research78%4 events
- Streaming11%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps11%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
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) | ||||||||||
| Ray Summit | ||||||||||
| ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) | ||||||||||
| Beam Summit |
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.
- Platinum
- Silver
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 1 conference in 2022.
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.
Moved down 1
Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)Platinum 2019 → Silver 2022
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).
- Sony0.96
- NAVER0.89
- Toloka0.87
- Taobao and Tmall Group0.85
- Cambridge University Press0.83
- The D. E. Shaw Group0.82
- G-Research0.80
- RBC Borealis0.78
11 Cluster: NeurIPS · ACM SIGKDD circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 3 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud | 3 | 100% |
| Apple | 3 | 100% |
| Bloomberg | 3 | 100% |
| Citadel | 3 | 100% |
| The D. E. Shaw Group | 3 | 100% |
| DeepMind | 3 | 100% |
| G-Research | 3 | 100% |
| 3 | 100% | |
| Hudson River Trading | 3 | 100% |
| IBM | 3 | 100% |
| MathWorks | 3 | 100% |
| Meta | 3 | 100% |
| Microsoft | 3 | 100% |
| NAVER | 3 | 100% |
| Netflix | 3 | 100% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Cruise (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 3
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NeurIPS 2022 | Nov 28, 2022 – Dec 9, 2022 | New Orleans, United States | Silver | Silver |
| NeurIPS 2020 | Dec 6–12, 2020 | — | Platinum | Platinum |
| NeurIPS 2019 | Dec 8–14, 2019 | Vancouver, Canada | Platinum | Platinum |
Speakers 4
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arwin Tio | Beam Summit 2024 | speaker | Scaling Autonomous Driving with Apache Beam | Slides |
| Alexander Sidorov | Ray Summit 2022 | speaker | Cruise.data: A new dataset processing pipeline for Cruise ML | — |
| Xuebin Yan | Ray Summit 2022 | speaker | Cruise.data: A new dataset processing pipeline for Cruise ML | — |
| Geoffrey Chi-Johnston | KDD 2022 (28th ACM SIGKDD Conference) | ADS invited talk | — | — |