Exa
Circuit mix
Where Exa 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 & MLOps60%7 events
- Research20%2 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows10%1 event
- Modern data stack & practitioner5%1 event
- Cloud providers5%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||||
| NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) | ||||||||||
| Data + AI Summit | ||||||||||
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||||
| Reverie |
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
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 3 conferences in 2026, up from 1 in 2024.
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 2
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first sponsored 2026, Platinum
- Data + AI Summitfirst sponsored 2026, Bronze
Moved down 1
Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)Silver 2024 → Bronze 2026
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).
- Lovable0.94
- ElevenLabs0.89
- DatologyAI0.88
- Roboflow0.88
- poolside0.85
- DeepMind0.85
- Encord0.83
- Ramp0.82
1 Cluster: AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 8 this company sponsored).
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Exa (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 8
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney) | Dec 6–12, 2026 | Sydney, Australia | Bronze | Bronze |
| AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 | Nov 10–12, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | PLATINUM | Platinum |
| AI Engineer Shanghai 2026 | Nov 5–6, 2026 | Shanghai, China | Platinum sponsors | Platinum |
| AI Engineer New York 2026 | Oct 12–14, 2026 | New York, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Data + AI Summit 2026 | Jun 15–18, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Innovator | Bronze |
| AI Engineer Singapore 2026 | May 15–17, 2026 | Singapore, Singapore | Gold | Gold |
| NeurIPS 2024 | Dec 10–15, 2024 | Vancouver, Canada | Silver | Silver |
Speakers 15
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louis Walsh | AWS re:Invent 2026 | lightning talk | Token-efficient retrieval for production AI agents (sponsored by Exa) | — |
| Jakub Hojsan | AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 | workshop | Build a personal agent with Exa Search | — |
| Jeffrey Pinner | AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 | speaker | What Your AI Doesn't Know: The latest trends in agent searches | — |
| Louis Walsh | AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 | speaker | Your agent pays twice for every search: how we cut token spend by 90+% with better accuracy | — |
| Jakub Hojsan | AI Engineer Shanghai 2026 | speaker | Powering open source personal agents with Exa search | — |
| Jan van der Vegt | Reverie 2026 | speaker | Managing an Index of 100s of Billions of Pages With Exa Skeleton | — |
| Ryan Ahern | AI Engineer New York 2026 | workshop | Build a better prophet: backtest today’s agent against yesterday’s web | — |
| Ryan Ahern | AI Engineer New York 2026 | speaker | Search the Web as It Was: An Introduction to Exa Snapshot | — |
| Jakub Hojsan | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | Agentic Search for Coding Agents | — |
| Jeffrey Wang | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | Knowledge Systems: The New GTM Stack | Video |
| Will Bryk | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | The Search Engine for the Agentic Web | Video |
| Conrad Soon | AI Engineer Singapore 2026 | workshop | Building Real-Time Research Agents With Web-Scale Search | — |
| Max Buckley | AI Engineer Singapore 2026 | speaker | November 24th 2025 — What Comes Next? | — |
| Will Bryk | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | speaker | Building a Smarter AI Agent with Neural RAG | Video |
| Shreyas Sreenivas | AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 | expo session | Web scale vector search at Exa | — |