KAUST
Also listed as 2 other names
KAUST / NNAISENSE / IDSIA · KAUST AI Initiative
Circuit mix
Where KAUST shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Research83%8 events
- AI engineering & MLOps11%2 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows6%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.
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
- Silver
- Bronze
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 4 conferences in 2023.
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.
Pulled out 4
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- ACL (Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics)last sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2024–26
- ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations)last sponsored 2024; the conference ran again in 2025–26
- ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning)last sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2024–26
- IEEE VIS (IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics)last sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2025
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).
- Translated0.94
- Preferred Networks0.93
- Intelligent Computing, a Science Partner Journal0.93
- DataOcean AI0.92
- Abaka AI0.90
- Borealis AI0.90
- Squarepoint Capital0.90
- Turing0.87
0 Cluster: NeurIPS · ICML circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 7 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | 5 | 71% |
| 5 | 71% | |
| Baidu | 4 | 57% |
| DeepMind | 4 | 57% |
| Meta | 4 | 57% |
| Microsoft | 4 | 57% |
| Adobe | 3 | 43% |
| ByteDance | 3 | 43% |
| Huawei | 3 | 43% |
| Intelligent Computing, a Science Partner Journal | 3 | 43% |
| Kitware | 3 | 43% |
| SCI Institute (University of Utah) | 3 | 43% |
| Springer Nature | 3 | 43% |
| Tableau | 3 | 43% |
| Translated | 3 | 43% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
KAUST (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 7
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICLR 2024 | May 7–11, 2024 | Vienna, Austria | Silver (+) | Silver |
| IEEE VIS 2023 | Oct 22–27, 2023 | Melbourne, Australia | Silver | Silver |
| ICML 2023 | Jul 23–29, 2023 | Honolulu, United States | Silver | Silver |
| ACL 2023 (61st Annual Meeting of the ACL) | Jul 9–14, 2023 | Toronto, Canada | Platinum | Platinum |
| ICLR 2023 | May 1–5, 2023 | Kigali, Rwanda | Silver | Silver |
| IEEE VIS 2022 | Oct 16–21, 2022 | Oklahoma City, United States | Silver | Silver |
| IEEE VIS 2019 | Oct 20–25, 2019 | Vancouver, Canada | Bronze | Bronze |
Speakers 4
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Keyes | GTC 2025 | featured | — | — |
| Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber | Rise of AI Conference 2023 | speaker | — | — |
| Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber | Rise of AI Conference 2022 | speaker | — | — |
| Jeff Shamma | NeurIPS 2020 | keynote | Feedback Control Perspectives on Learning | Video |