Instacart
Circuit mix
Where Instacart 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 & MLOps31%5 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows19%3 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner13%2 events
- Postgres & open-source databases13%2 events
- Research13%2 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos6%1 event
- Cloud providers6%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
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
Instacart has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
DownNothing recorded in 2026; had speakers at 4 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 3
First speaker in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first spoke 2025, 1 speaker
- Data Councilfirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
- Data Summit (DBTA)first spoke 2025, 1 speaker
No longer seen 8
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)last seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
- Airflow Summitlast seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
- AWS re:Inventlast seen 2021; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2022–25
- DASHlast seen 2020; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2021–26
- MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production)last seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–25
- Ray Summitlast seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
- Snowflake Summitlast seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–26
- Spatial Data Science Conference (SDSC)last seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
Regulars 1
Speakers in most years of the span.
- PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)speakers in 2 of 3 years, 2023–25
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).
- Coinbase0.66
- Arcee AI0.63
- Tavily0.61
- Braintrust0.58
- Arize AI0.58
- DoorDash0.57
- Intuit0.57
- Riot Games0.57
1 Cluster: AI Engineer · MLOps World 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
Instacart (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 Instacart.
Speakers 23
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ankit Mittal | PGConf NYC 2025 | speaker | Hybrid Search on Postgres at Scale | — |
| Vinesh Gudla | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | speaker | How Instacart transformed its search and discovery using an LLM-driven approach | Video |
| Vinesh Gudla | Data Summit 2025 | speaker | Improving Product Discoverability & Relevance | — |
| Anant Agarwal | Data Council 2025 | talk | Orchestrating at Scale: How Instacart Manages 20M+ Daily Workflows | — |
| Andrew Lee | Spatial Data Science Conference 2024 New York | speaker | — | — |
| Dmitry Shkolnik | Spatial Data Science Conference 2024 New York | speaker | — | — |
| Konrad Miziolek | Spatial Data Science Conference 2024 New York | speaker | — | — |
| Brandon Leonardo | Ray Summit 2024 | keynote | Instacart's Generative AI Strategy | Video |
| Anant Agarwal | Airflow Summit 2024 | talk | Scaling Airflow for Data Productivity at Instacart | Slides |
| Haixun Wang | KDD 2024 (30th ACM SIGKDD Conference) | ADS invited talk | — | — |
| Guanghua Shu | 4th Annual MLOps World Conference & Expo 2023 | workshop (virtual) | Lessons Learned: The Journey to Real-Time Machine Learning at Instacart | — |
| Prakash Putt | 4th Annual MLOps World Conference & Expo 2023 | speaker | Supercharging Search with LLMs: The Instacart Journey | — |
| Ankit Mittal | PGConf NYC 2023 | speaker | Postgres as Personalization Engine | Slides |
| Jonathan Phillips | PGConf NYC 2023 | speaker | Postgres as Personalization Engine | Slides |
| David Scott | Ray Summit 2023 | speaker | Scaling Computer Vision Models with Ray: A Cost-Effective and Efficient Distributed Training Framework | — |
| Han Li | Ray Summit 2023 | speaker | Build Instacart Training Platform on Ray | — |
| Rajpal Paryani | Ray Summit 2023 | speaker | Build Instacart Training Platform on Ray | — |
| Rajpal Paryani | Snowflake Summit 2023 | featured | — | — |
| Han Li | Ray Summit 2022 | speaker | Scaling Instacart fulfillment ML on Ray | — |
| Dustin Pearce | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | The powerful simplicity of Amazon ECS | Slides · Video |
| Haixun Wang | KDD 2021 (virtual, Singapore) | ADS invited talk | Rethink e-Commerce Search | — |
| Blaine Schanfeldt | Dash 2020 | speaker | — | — |
| Dragan Rakas | Dash 2020 | speaker | — | — |