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Lightning AI

Product category (jev): ML platforms 50% confident
Org type (jev): Software vendor 98% confident
Conferences sponsored6
Events sponsored15
Speaker slots207 distinct people
Conferences present at9sponsor or speaker
Years active2022–2026

Circuit mix

Where Lightning 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.

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
Conference2019202020212022202320242025202620272028
PyTorch Conference
NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)
MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production)
The AI Summit
PyData
AWS re:Invent
ODSC (Open Data Science Conference)
Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS)
SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)

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.

Sponsorships by tier

Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.

  • Title
  • Platinum
  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Bronze
  • Other / unlabeled

Where they've grown or pulled back

DownSponsored 1 conference in 2026, down from 4 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.

Moved down 1

Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.

Pulled out 1

Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.

Steady 3

Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.

Once or on and off 1

No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.

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).

  1. Outerbounds0.73
  2. Cohere0.70
  3. CentML0.68
  4. Qualcomm0.68
  5. Innodata0.68
  6. Nebius0.67
  7. MathWorks0.67
  8. Mistral0.67

11 Cluster: NeurIPS · ACM SIGKDD circuit →

Often sponsors alongside

Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 15 this company sponsored).

CompanyShared eventsShare
IBM1280%
Google1067%
Intel853%
Meta853%
Jane Street747%
Citadel640%
The D. E. Shaw Group640%
Lambda640%
Microsoft640%
Outerbounds640%
Qualcomm640%
Amazon Web Services533%
AMD533%
Databricks533%
FuriosaAI533%

Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints

Lightning 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.

Lightning AICentMLRunhouseOuterboundsUnion.aiHumanSignalAgnostiq (Covalent)IterativeTenstorrentXetHubPyTorchTrueFoundryWhyLabsKolenaFeatureformArcade.devFennelMIT Media LabZerveDelta LakeCrewAIExpansoTELUSPachydermAporialakeFSIguazioOcado TechnologyCharles SchwabGuardrails AI
Lightning AICentMLRunhouseOuterboundsUnion.aiHumanSignalIterativeTenstorrentPyTorchTrueFoundryWhyLabsKolenaFeatureformArcade.devFennelMIT Media LabZerveCrewAIExpansoTELUSPachydermAporiaIguazioCharles SchwabGuardrails AI

Sponsorships 15

EventDatePlaceTier as listedNormalized tier
PyTorch Conference North America 2026Oct 20–21, 2026San Jose, United StatesPlatinum Platinum
PyTorch Conference Europe 2026Apr 7–8, 2026Paris, FranceBronze Bronze
NeurIPS 2025 (San Diego)Dec 2–7, 2025San Diego, United StatesBronze Bronze
PyTorch Conference 2025Oct 22–23, 2025San Francisco, United StatesGold Gold
The AI Summit New York 2024Dec 11–12, 2024New York, United StatesSilver Sponsors Silver
NeurIPS 2024Dec 10–15, 2024Vancouver, CanadaGold Gold
5th Annual MLOps World and Generative AI World Conference 2024Nov 7–8, 2024Austin, United StatesGold Sponsors Gold
PyTorch Conference 2024Sep 18–19, 2024San Francisco, United StatesDiamond Title
8th Annual Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS) 2024Jul 10–15, 2024Toronto, CanadaSponsors Other
ODSC East 2024Apr 23–25, 2024Boston, United StatesGold Partners Gold
NeurIPS 2023Dec 10–16, 2023New Orleans, United StatesSilver Silver
The AI Summit New York 2023Dec 6–7, 2023New York, United StatesSilver Sponsors Silver
4th Annual MLOps World Conference & Expo 2023Oct 25–26, 2023Austin, United StatesGold Sponsors Gold
PyTorch Conference 2023Oct 16–17, 2023Burlingame, United StatesPlatinum Platinum
NeurIPS 2022Nov 28, 2022 – Dec 9, 2022New Orleans, United StatesPlatinum Platinum

Speakers 20

SpeakerEventRoleTalkLinks
Sebastian RaschkaPyCon DE & PyData 2026panelStop Waiting, Start Shipping: Real-World Strategy for Open-Source LLMs—
Sebastian RaschkaPyCon DE & PyData 2026keynoteFrom Scratch to Scale: Turning LLM Code into Architecture Insights—
Thomas ViehmannPyTorch Conference Europe 2026lightning talkModel-Changing Transforms With Torch.compile—
Luca AntigaPyTorch Conference 2025lightning talkThunder: Distribute and Optimize Your PyTorch Models With Zero Code Changes—
Luca AntigaPyTorch Conference 2025lightning talkSponsored Session: Lightning Talk: Accelerating Experimentation and Unlocking Real-Time Inference on Microcontrollers with Lightning—
Thomas ViehmannPyTorch Conference 2025lightning talkThunder: Distribute and Optimize Your PyTorch Models With Zero Code Changes—
William FalconAWS re:Invent 2024breakoutNVIDIA AI startups: Innovations in action (sponsored by NVIDIA)Video
Aniket Maurya5th Annual MLOps World and Generative AI World Conference 2024workshop (virtual)Serving GenAI Workload At Scale With LitServe—
Luca AntigaPyTorch Conference 2024keynoteSponsored Keynote: The Lightning AI OSS Stack for Accelerating the AI Lifecycle—
Luca AntigaPyTorch Conference 2024lightning talkLightning Talk: Understanding and Optimizing PyTorch Models with Thunder—
Sebastian RaschkaPyTorch Conference 2024keynoteKeynote: Navigating the Architectural Timeline of LLMs—
William FalconAWS re:Invent 2023lightning talkImplementing your AI strategy with PyTorch Lightning in the cloud (sponsored by Lightning AI)Video
Aniket Maurya4th Annual MLOps World Conference & Expo 2023workshop (virtual)Finetuning a Large Language Model on A Custom Dataset—
Richard Izzo4th Annual MLOps World Conference & Expo 2023lightningSupporting Community Competitions to Develop LLMs—
William Falcon4th Annual MLOps World Conference & Expo 2023speakerGen AI and Lightning: Accelerating AI Innovation while Ensuring Scalability and Security—
Carlos MocholíPyTorch Conference 2023lightning talkInto Generative AI with PyTorch Lightning 2.0—
Luca AntigaPyTorch Conference 2023lightning talkInto Generative AI with PyTorch Lightning 2.0—
William FalconPyTorch Conference 2023keynoteKeynote: PyTorch Lightning: Powering the GenAI Revolution from Research to the Enterprise—
Sebastian RaschkaSciPy 2023tutorialModern Deep Learning with PyTorch—
William FalconPyData Miami 2022speakerSpeed up your Machine Learning Applications with Lightning AI—