Discord
Circuit mix
Where Discord 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 & MLOps40%2 events
- Software engineering & trading tech40%2 events
- Streaming20%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QCon | ||||||||||
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||||
| Data Streaming Summit | ||||||||||
| Ray 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.
Where they've grown or pulled back
Discord has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
DownHad speakers at 1 conference in 2026, down from 2 in 2023.
Counted per conference. 2026 is the latest year whose conferences have mostly happened. A conference counts as no longer seen only when later events published speaker lists.
No longer seen 2
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)last seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
- Data Streaming Summitlast seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–26
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).
- OpenHands0.88
- Backblaze0.88
- Harvey0.87
- monday.com0.86
- Qodo0.85
- Sourcegraph0.83
- Hasura0.82
- Parasail0.78
1 Cluster: AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 0 this company sponsored).
No co-sponsors: this company has no recorded sponsorships, or sponsored alone.
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Discord (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 0
No sponsorships recorded for Discord.
Speakers 5
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serrana Aguirregaray | Ray Summit 2026 | featured | Scaling Machine Learning at Discord: Our Journey with Ray and Anyscale | — |
| Lily Mara | QCon San Francisco 2025 | speaker | Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust Into Existing Codebase | — |
| Ian Webster | AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 | speaker | Iterating on LLM apps at scale: Learnings from Discord | Video |
| David Christle | Pulsar Summit North America 2023 | keynote | Streaming Machine Learning with Flink, Pulsar & Iceberg | Video |
| Lily Mara | QCon San Francisco 2023 | speaker | Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla | — |