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Northwestern University

Product category (jev): Not a vendor 99% confident
Org type (jev): University / research 100% confident
Also listed as: Northwestern University, CIERA
Conferences sponsored0
Events sponsored0
Speaker slots77 distinct people
Conferences present at6sponsor or speaker
Years active2019–2026

Circuit mix

Where Northwestern University 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
MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production)
AWS re:Invent
Disney Data & Analytics Conference
posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)
SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python)
The Data Thread

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

Northwestern University has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.

DownHad speakers at 1 conference in 2026, down from 3 in 2022.

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 1

First speaker in 2025 or later.

No longer seen 4

No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.

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. Duke University0.79
  2. University of Toronto0.69
  3. Moderna0.67
  4. Citizens Bank0.65
  5. Cornell University0.63
  6. University of Pennsylvania0.62
  7. TELUS0.62
  8. Charles Schwab0.62

2 Cluster: CIDR · ACM SIGMOD/PODS 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

Northwestern University (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.

Northwestern UniversityDuke UniversityModernaColumbia UniversityMonash UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaCornell UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityThe Ohio State UniversityEPFLUniversity of Chicagofast.aiHarvard UniversityUniversity of VirginiaTechnical University of MunichUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonRice UniversityMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Santa CruzQuantStackUniversity of MichiganArizona State UniversityDuckDB Labsprefix.devUC Santa CruzCaltechUCLAETH ZurichUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBrown UniversityMeta
Northwestern UniversityDuke UniversityModernaColumbia UniversityMonash UniversityCornell UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityEPFLUniversity of Chicagofast.aiHarvard UniversityRice UniversityQuantStackUniversity of MichiganArizona State Universityprefix.devUC Santa CruzCaltechUCLAETH ZurichBrown UniversityMeta

Sponsorships 0

No sponsorships recorded for Northwestern University.

Speakers 7

SpeakerEventRoleTalkLinks
Caleb KruegerSciPy 2026bofThe Academy and Industry: Building Interdisciplinary Relationships—
Matthew Kayrstudio::conf(2022)speakerVisualizing distributions and uncertainty using ggdistSlides · Video
Andrew CrottyThe Data Thread 2022talkEveryone Should Use Apache Arrow for Data Systems ResearchVideo
Diego Klabjan3rd Annual MLOps World 2022speakerMLOps for Deep Learning—
Yegna Subramanian Jambunath3rd Annual MLOps World 2022speakerMLOps for Deep Learning—
Noah GiftAWS re:Invent 2019breakoutAWS Educate: Innovation in educationSlides · Video
Steven Keith PlattDDAC 2019featuredApplied Retail Analytics Use Cases—