DraftKings
Also listed as 3 other names
DraftKings, Inc · Draftkings · Draftkings Inc
Circuit mix
Where DraftKings 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 & roadshows44%4 events
- Cloud providers44%4 events
- AI engineering & MLOps11%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where DraftKings sponsored or had speakers in the past 12 months, and the announced events it is already listed for. One row per conference, January to December; hover a mark for the event and the company's role.
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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- Other / unlabeled tier
- Had speakers
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||
| Data + AI Summit | ||||||||
| Snowflake Summit | ||||||||
| MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production) |
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale.
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
DraftKings has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
UpHad speakers at 3 conferences in 2026, up from 1 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.
New conferences spoken at 3
First speaker in 2025 or later.
- Data + AI Summitfirst spoke 2025, 4 speakers
- MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production)first spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- Snowflake Summitfirst spoke 2025, 2 speakers
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).
- Centene Corporation0.83
- Tavily0.78
- Tripadvisor0.71
- NBCUniversal0.71
- Persistent Systems0.71
- Featureform0.70
- The Trade Desk0.70
- PagerDuty0.70
8 Cluster: AWS re:Invent · Google Cloud Next 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
DraftKings (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 DraftKings.
Speakers 17
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naresh Kumar Batthula | 7th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2026 | speaker | When Code Got Fast: The Real Bottlenecks in the AI-Assisted SDLC | — |
| Monika Hristova | Data + AI Summit 2026 | speaker | Streaming the Game: Scaling Real-Time Intelligence at DraftKings With Kafka, Databricks & Sigma | — |
| Vinod Paidakula | Data + AI Summit 2026 | speaker | Streaming the Game: Scaling Real-Time Intelligence at DraftKings With Kafka, Databricks & Sigma | — |
| Emily Gonzales | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | How DraftKings Ensures Regulatory Compliance at Scale Using Snowflake | — |
| Ronak Mistry | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | How DraftKings Ensures Regulatory Compliance at Scale Using Snowflake | — |
| Jeff Singer | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | DraftKings & MongoDB: Supercharging Engineering with AI (sponsored by MongoDB) | Video |
| Joel Miller | AWS re:Invent 2025 | lightning talk | DraftKings: Scaling to 1M operations/min on Aurora during Super Bowl | Video |
| Zach Maybury | AWS re:Invent 2025 | lightning talk | DraftKings: Meeting gaming regulations at Super Bowl scale with AWS Local Zones | — |
| Aaron Hope | Data + AI Summit 2025 | speaker | Building Real-Time Sport Model Insights with Spark Structured Streaming | — |
| Ethan Summers | Data + AI Summit 2025 | speaker | Building Real-Time Sport Model Insights with Spark Structured Streaming | — |
| Greg Von Pless | Data + AI Summit 2025 | speaker | Scaling Real-Time Fraud Detection With Databricks: Lessons From DraftKings | — |
| Monika Hristova | Data + AI Summit 2025 | speaker | Scaling Real-Time Fraud Detection With Databricks: Lessons From DraftKings | — |
| Hank Bond | Snowflake Summit 2025 | speaker | How DraftKings Saves 200 Hours of Platform Management per Season with Snowflake | — |
| Tom Roy | Snowflake Summit 2025 | speaker | How DraftKings Saves 200 Hours of Platform Management per Season with Snowflake | — |
| Moses Thambuswamy | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Security strategies in the ever-evolving media industry | Video |
| David Musicant | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Modernize .NET apps at scale: DraftKings principles for success | Video |
| Jeremy Johnstone | AWS re:Invent 2021 | chalk talk | Scaling & maintaining Amazon WorkSpaces & Amazon AppStream 2.0 deployments | Slides |