Meituan
Circuit mix
Where Meituan shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Research70%4 events
- Open-source data infrastructure20%2 events
- Software engineering & trading tech10%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.
Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
FlatSponsored 1 conference in 2026, flat from 1 in 2025.
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.
New 1
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- EMNLP (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing)first sponsored 2025, Platinum
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)once, 2019, unranked tier
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).
- Xiaohongshu0.91
- Baidu0.87
- JD.com0.87
- Ant Group0.84
- ByteDance0.83
- Kuaishou0.83
- DiDi0.79
- Megagon Labs0.77
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 3 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ant Group | 3 | 100% |
| Apple | 3 | 100% |
| Baidu | 3 | 100% |
| Bloomberg | 3 | 100% |
| Tencent | 3 | 100% |
| Adobe | 2 | 67% |
| Airbnb | 2 | 67% |
| Alibaba Cloud | 2 | 67% |
| Appen | 2 | 67% |
| ByteDance | 2 | 67% |
| Capital One | 2 | 67% |
| JPMorgan Chase | 2 | 67% |
| Megagon Labs | 2 | 67% |
| Translated | 2 | 67% |
| Abaka AI | 1 | 33% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Meituan (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 3
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMNLP 2026 | Oct 24–29, 2026 | Budapest, Hungary | Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| EMNLP 2025 | Nov 4–9, 2025 | Suzhou, China | Platinum | Platinum |
| KDD 2019 (25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) | Aug 4–8, 2019 | Anchorage, United States | Award Sponsor (Best Paper / Best Student Paper) | Other |
Speakers 4
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhao Kuo | Community Over Code Asia 2024 | speaker | Meituan's Journey with Apache Spark and Gluten | Video |
| Jie Zhou | ICDE 2023 (39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering) | industry paper | HiNet: Novel Multi-Scenario & Multi-Task Learning with Hierarchical Information Extraction | — |
| 朱亚天 | QCon 广州 2022 (QCon Guangzhou 2022) | keynote | — | — |
| Xiaolin Ha | ApacheCon Asia 2022 | speaker | HBase improvements and practices in Meituan | — |