fast.ai
Circuit mix
Where fast.ai shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Python & R data science57%4 events
- AI engineering & MLOps29%2 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner14%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.
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| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
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| posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf) | ||||||||||
| Data Con LA | ||||||||||
| JupyterCon | ||||||||||
| ODSC (Open Data Science Conference) | ||||||||||
| PyData | ||||||||||
| PyTorch Conference |
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
fast.ai has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
DownNothing recorded in 2026; had speakers at 3 conferences 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 1
First speaker in 2025 or later.
- PyTorch Conferencefirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
No longer seen 5
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- Data Con LAlast seen 2021; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2022–26
- JupyterConlast seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025
- ODSC (Open Data Science Conference)last seen 2019; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2021–26
- posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)last seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–26
- PyDatalast 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).
- Saturn Cloud0.75
- University of Chicago0.75
- EPFL0.69
- Rice University0.68
- Coiled0.66
- QuantStack0.65
- Pearson0.64
- Quansight0.63
8 Cluster: PyData · posit::conf 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
fast.ai (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 fast.ai.
Speakers 7
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Howard | PyTorch Conference 2025 | keynote | Keynote: Jeremy Howard, Founding Researcher at fast.ai in Conversation with Anna Tong, Reporter, Forbes | — |
| Jeremy Howard | posit::conf(2023) | keynote | A hacker's guide to open source LLMs | Video |
| Hamel Husain | JupyterCon 2023 | tutorial | Write, Document, Test and Distribute Python Packages With Jupyter & Quarto | — |
| Hamel Husain | PyData Seattle 2023 | panelist | Panel: “Building a Stronger Open Source Python Data Community: Trends, Gaps, and Collaborative Contributions” | Video |
| Hamel Husain | rstudio::conf(2022) | speaker | Literate Programming With Jupyter Notebooks and Quarto | Slides · Video |
| Francisco Javier Arceo | Data Con LA 2021 | speaker | Keeping pace with data infrastructure so it doesn't outrun you | — |
| Rachel Thomas | ODSC West 2019 | keynote | Algorithmic Bias | — |