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The D. E. Shaw Group

Product category (jev): Not a vendor 93% confident
Org type (jev): Investor 79% confident
Also listed as: D. E. Shaw · D. E. Shaw & Co. · D. E. Shaw Research · D.E. Shaw · D.E. Shaw Research · DE Shaw Research
Conferences sponsored6
Events sponsored15
Speaker slots11 distinct people
Conferences present at6sponsor or speaker
Years active2019–2026

Circuit mix

Where The D. E. Shaw Group shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.

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.

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  • Platinum
  • Gold
  • Silver
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  • Other / unlabeled tier
  • Had speakers
Conference2019202020212022202320242025202620272028
NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
PyTorch Conference
AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
Data Council
SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)

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
  • Bronze

Where they've grown or pulled back

UpSponsored 4 conferences in 2026, up from 1 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 3

First sponsored in 2025 or later.

Moved up 2

Best tier rose between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.

Once or on and off 1

No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.

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).

  1. Sony0.84
  2. Citadel0.84
  3. Cruise0.82
  4. Jump Trading0.78
  5. NAVER0.77
  6. Together AI0.76
  7. Toloka0.75
  8. Lambda0.74

11 Cluster: NeurIPS · ACM SIGKDD circuit →

Often sponsors alongside

Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 15 this company sponsored).

CompanyShared eventsShare
Google1173%
IBM1173%
Meta1173%
Two Sigma1173%
Apple1067%
Bloomberg1067%
Microsoft1067%
Alibaba Cloud960%
Amazon Web Services960%
Capital One960%
Qualcomm960%
Citadel853%
Intel853%
Jane Street853%
Jump Trading853%

Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints

The D. E. Shaw Group (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.

The D. E. Shaw GroupCitadelSonySamsung ElectronicsCruiseFuriosaAITolokaRBC BorealisJane StreetPrinceton UniversityTaobao and Tmall GroupLambdaClarifaiQualcommNAVERNECCambridge University PressScale AIDuolingoGeneral MotorsCNRSMDPIDisneySpringer NatureMila - Quebec AI InstituteZhipu AIToyotaCommonwealth Bank of AustraliaJohnson & JohnsonCSIRO Data61Snap Analytics
The D. E. Shaw GroupCitadelSonySamsung ElectronicsCruiseFuriosaAITolokaRBC BorealisJane StreetPrinceton UniversityTaobao and Tmall GroupLambdaClarifaiQualcommNECScale AIDuolingoGeneral MotorsCNRSMDPIZhipu AIToyotaCSIRO Data61Snap Analytics

Sponsorships 15

EventDatePlaceTier as listedNormalized tier
NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney)Dec 6–12, 2026Sydney, AustraliaDiamond Title
PyTorch Conference North America 2026Oct 20–21, 2026San Jose, United StatesGold Gold
AI Engineer New York 2026Oct 12–14, 2026New York, United StatesSilver Silver
AI Council 2026May 12–14, 2026San Francisco, United StatesBronze Bronze
NeurIPS 2025 (San Diego)Dec 2–7, 2025San Diego, United StatesDiamond Title
PyTorch Conference 2025Oct 22–23, 2025San Francisco, United StatesGold Gold
NeurIPS 2024Dec 10–15, 2024Vancouver, CanadaDiamond Title
NeurIPS 2023Dec 10–16, 2023New Orleans, United StatesPlatinum Platinum
NeurIPS 2022Nov 28, 2022 – Dec 9, 2022New Orleans, United StatesPlatinum Platinum
KDD 2021 (virtual, Singapore)Aug 14–18, 2021Singapore, SingaporeSilver Silver
NeurIPS 2020Dec 6–12, 2020—Gold Gold
KDD 2020 (virtual)Aug 23–27, 2020San Diego, United StatesSilver Silver
NeurIPS 2019Dec 8–14, 2019Vancouver, CanadaPlatinum Platinum
KDD 2019 (25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)Aug 4–8, 2019Anchorage, United StatesBronze Bronze
SciPy 2019Jul 8–14, 2019Austin, United StatesGold Gold

Speakers 1

SpeakerEventRoleTalkLinks
Simon AxelrodPyTorch Conference 2025lightning talkSponsored Session: Lightning Talk: Improving Drug Discovery with Machine Learning and Molecular Dynamics—