Mars
Also listed as 6 other names
MARS · Mars Food · Mars Petcare · Mars Veterinary Health · Mars Wrigley · Mars, Inc
Circuit mix
Where Mars 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 expos53%9 events
- Microsoft data platform18%3 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows12%2 events
- Python & R data science12%2 events
- Cloud providers6%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Mars 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
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits | ||||||||
| SQLBits | ||||||||
| PyData | ||||||||
| Big Data LDN | ||||||||
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||
| Data + AI Summit | ||||||||
| NVIDIA GTC |
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
Mars has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
UpHad speakers at 5 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.
- Big Data LDNfirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
- Data + AI Summitfirst spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- NVIDIA GTCfirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
- PyDatafirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
No longer seen 1
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- AWS re:Inventlast seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–25
Regulars 1
Speakers in most years of the span.
- CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summitsspeakers in 4 of 5 years, 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).
- Nationwide0.80
- Nokia0.76
- bp0.73
- Eli Lilly0.68
- QBE Insurance0.68
- Liberty Global0.67
- Lidl International0.66
- PepsiCo0.65
15 Cluster: CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits · The AI 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
Mars (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 Mars.
Speakers 19
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subhajit Majumder | Big Data LDN 2026 | speaker | Why Data Leaders Must Become Business Transformation Leaders | — |
| Konstantinos Tsoumas | PyData Amsterdam 2026 | talk | Maybe 3 Minutes, Maybe Chaos – when Conformal Prediction meets my commuting life | — |
| van Balkom, Patrick | PyData Amsterdam 2026 | talk | AI You Can Bet Your Business On: How Mars' Context-Lake Builds the Trust Bridge Between People and AI | — |
| Rachel Belino | Data + AI Summit 2026 | speaker | Building Workforce Intelligence With Unity Catalog and Databricks Genie | — |
| Richie Lee | SQLBits 2026 | speaker | Unlock Unity Catalog: Practical Strategies for Secure, Scalable Data Management | Video |
| Anna Gill | CDAO UK 2026 | panelist | Panel: The Future Data Team: Adaptive, Interdisciplinary & Impact-Driven | — |
| Helen Louwrens | Big Data LDN 2025 | speaker | The ROI Gap: Why Data and AI Investments Haven’t Paid Off | — |
| Konstantinos Tsoumas | PyData Amsterdam 2025 | talk | Uncertainty Unleashed: Wrapping Your Predictions in Honesty with Conformal Prediction | Video |
| Gülen Bengi | GTC 2025 | featured | — | — |
| Ines Ashton | CDAO UK 2024 | speaker | — | — |
| Deepak Jose | AWS re:Invent 2023 | chalk talk | Breaking down data silos and using AI with Mars Wrigley | — |
| Jasjit Singh | CDAO Canada 2023 | panelist | Panel: Cross-Functional Change-Management: Breaking Down Department “Silos” to Promote Data Culture | — |
| Ines Ashton | CDAO UK 2023 | speaker | — | — |
| Yang Gao | Chief Data & Analytics Officers, Fall 2022 | moderator | Opening Panel: Marketing and Data - Collaborating Towards a Data-Driven, Customer-Centric Organization | — |
| Ines Ashton | CDAO UK 2022 (September) | speaker | — | — |
| Matthew Keylock | CDAO UK 2022 (September) | speaker | — | — |
| Jane Loveday | CDAO UK 2022 (March) | panelist | Panel Discussion: How Can You Leverage Data Science & Overcome Silos to Develop a 360-View of the Customer and Accelerate CX Strategy? | — |
| Daniel Harrington | SQLBits 2022 (Arcade) | speaker | Leveraging Apache Spark for Efficient Data Encryption at Scale | Video |
| Richie Lee | SQLBits 2019 (Speakeasy) | speaker | Managing Tooling to Ensure a Reliable CI/CD Pipeline | — |