Financial Times
Also listed as 2 other names
FINANCIAL TIMES · The Financial Times
Circuit mix
Where Financial Times shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos39%7 events
- Python & R data science28%5 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner22%4 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows6%1 event
- Alt data & financial information6%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Financial Times 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
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
Financial Times has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
UpHad speakers at 4 conferences in 2026, up 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.
New conferences spoken at 4
First speaker in 2025 or later.
- Data 2030 Summitfirst spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- Data Decodedfirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
- Neudata Data Summitsfirst spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- PyDatafirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
No longer seen 3
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- Neo4j GraphSummitlast seen 2019; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2020 and 2022–26
- Outlierlast seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–25
- posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)last seen 2021; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2022–26
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).
- AXA0.75
- EnBW0.70
- Georgetown University0.66
- T. Rowe Price0.66
- Morgan Stanley0.65
- BBC0.65
- Equifax0.65
- Dow Jones0.64
4 Cluster: PyData · PyCon 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
Financial Times (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 Financial Times.
Speakers 25
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Beckwith | Data 2030 Summit 2026 | speaker | — | — |
| Leanne Fitzpatrick | EARL 2026: Data Intelligence Conference | keynote | — | — |
| Robin Harding | Hong Kong Data Summit 2026 | speaker | Data versus journalism: Two views on reality | — |
| Ayushman Saha | Data Decoded LDN 2026 | keynote | Data Value Measurement: Why and How | — |
| Ayushman Saha | Data Decoded MCR 2025 | keynote | Measure Data Value: Why and How – An Approach | — |
| Ayushman Saha | Data Decoded MCR 2025 | keynote | FIRESIDE CHAT: Driving Decision Making Using Data Science | — |
| Ivan Nikolov | Airflow Summit 2025 | talk | Breaking News with Data Pipelines: How Airflow and AI Power Investigative Journalism | Slides · Video |
| Zdravko Hvarlingov | Airflow Summit 2025 | talk | Breaking News with Data Pipelines: How Airflow and AI Power Investigative Journalism | Slides · Video |
| Leanne Fitzpatrick | PyData London 2025 | keynote | Opening Notes & Keynote: Keep Calm and Data On: Being a data science practitioner in the era of AI proliferation | — |
| Andi 曹-McAleer | CDAO UK 2025 | panelist | Panel Discussion: Navigating the Ethical Landscape: Safeguarding Privacy in the Age of Big Data and AI | — |
| Ayushman Saha | CDAO UK 2025 | panelist | Workshop: Unlocking Business Growth Through Data | — |
| Vladi Nekolov | Airflow Summit 2023 | talk | Accelerating Data Delivery: How the FT automated its ETL pipelines with Airflow | Slides · Video |
| Zdravko Hvarlingov | Airflow Summit 2023 | talk | Accelerating Data Delivery: How the FT automated its ETL pipelines with Airflow | Slides · Video |
| John Burn-Murdoch | Outlier 2023 | keynote | Making charts that make an impact | — |
| John Burn-Murdoch | EARL 2022 | keynote | Data visualisation for communication. | — |
| Simon Burfoot | EARL 2022 | talk | Packages, People, Pain. | — |
| Alwyn Thomas | CDAO UK 2022 (March) | panelist | Panel Discussion: Creating a Comprehensive Data Transformation Strategy - How Can You Balance Both Quick Wins and Long-Term Gains? | — |
| John Burn-Murdoch | rstudio::global(2021) | keynote | — | — |
| Emil Todorov | Airflow Summit 2020 | talk | Democratised data workflows at scale | Slides · Video |
| Mihail Petkov | Airflow Summit 2020 | talk | Democratised data workflows at scale | Slides · Video |
| Alan Smith | Strata Data Conference New York 2019 | keynote | Data sonification: Making music from the yield curve | — |
| James Laird-Smith | EARL London 2019 | talk | Introducing scheduler: making recurring calendar events a little easier | — |
| Megan Stamper | EARL London 2019 | talk | Building a new data science pipeline for the FT with RStudio Connect | — |
| Cait O'Riordan | Strata Data Conference London 2019 | keynote | Finding your North Star | — |
| Rhys Evans | Neo4j GraphTour London 2019 | speaker | Case Study Financial Times | — |