IKEA
Also listed as 3 other names
IKEA IT AB · IKEA Retail (Ingka Digital) · IKEA Retail (Ingka Group)
Circuit mix
Where IKEA 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 & MLOps38%3 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos25%2 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows13%1 event
- Modern data stack & practitioner13%1 event
- Python & R data science13%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where IKEA 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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- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- 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
IKEA has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
FlatHad speakers at 2 conferences in 2026, flat from 2 in 2022.
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.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summitsfirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
- Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)first spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- PyDatafirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
No longer seen 2
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- Budapest Data+AI Forumlast seen 2022; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2023–26
- Data Innovation Summitlast 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).
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- Vattenfall0.67
- Munich Re0.65
- The HEINEKEN Company0.65
- MOSTLY AI0.63
- Volkswagen0.62
- CBRE0.62
0 Cluster: Data Innovation Summit · Nordic Data Science and Machine Learning Summit 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
IKEA (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 IKEA.
Speakers 8
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anders Borg | FabCon Europe 2026 | speaker | Sharing Experiences: AI and Agentic Apps: Real-World Transformation with Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Raj Navakoti | AI Engineer Europe 2026 | workshop | Build Your First Demand-Driven Context Base: Let AI Agents Tell You What They Need | Video |
| Harlley de Lima | PyData Eindhoven 2025 | talk | Scaling Retail Planning at IKEA: Orchestrating Sales, Fulfillment and Capacity Assessment with Metaflow | — |
| Olivier Maugain | CDAO Benelux 2025 | speaker | Fireside Chat: Data Leadership in a Post-GenAI Landscape – Rethinking Roles, Skills & Value | — |
| María García | NDSML Summit 2025 + AI2R Expo (10th edition) | speaker | — | — |
| Salla Franzén | NDSML Summit 2022 (6th edition) | speaker | — | — |
| Tóth Balázs | Budapest ML Forum 2022 | speaker | Explore-Exploit algorithms used at IKEA recommendations | — |
| Salla Franzén | Data Innovation Summit 2021 | featured | — | — |