Optiver
Circuit mix
Where Optiver shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Python & R data science38%8 events
- AI engineering & MLOps26%5 events
- Research15%3 events
- Software engineering & trading tech15%6 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner5%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.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 4 conferences in 2026, up from 1 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.
New 2
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first sponsored 2026, Platinum
- DataEngBytesfirst sponsored 2026, Gold
Moved up 1
Best tier rose between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)Platinum 2024 → Title 2026
Moved down 1
Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- EuroPythonTitle 2021 → Gold 2026
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- AICon 全球人工智能开发与应用大会 (AICon Global AI Development and Application Conference)every year 2024–25, unranked tier
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- PyDataonce, 2022, Title
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).
- DeepMind0.74
- QuantumBlack0.73
- Pydantic0.73
- G-Research0.71
- Picnic0.69
- Modal0.69
- 1Password0.68
- Balyasny Asset Management0.68
1 Cluster: AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 16 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 81% | |
| Bloomberg | 10 | 63% |
| Microsoft | 10 | 63% |
| Numberly | 6 | 38% |
| Arm | 5 | 31% |
| Cerebras | 5 | 31% |
| Exa | 5 | 31% |
| Hudson River Trading | 5 | 31% |
| Modal | 5 | 31% |
| Sonar | 5 | 31% |
| Together AI | 5 | 31% |
| Two Sigma | 5 | 31% |
| 1Password | 4 | 25% |
| Apify | 4 | 25% |
| ClickHouse | 4 | 25% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Optiver (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 16
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney) | Dec 6–12, 2026 | Sydney, Australia | Diamond | Title |
| AI Engineer Shanghai 2026 | Nov 5–6, 2026 | Shanghai, China | Platinum sponsors | Platinum |
| AI Engineer New York 2026 | Oct 12–14, 2026 | New York, United States | Gold | Gold |
| DataEngBytes 2026 Sydney | Jul 28–29, 2026 | Sydney, Australia | Gold | Gold |
| EuroPython 2026 | Jul 13–19, 2026 | Kraków, Poland | Gold | Gold |
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Gold | Gold |
| NeurIPS 2025 (San Diego) | Dec 2–7, 2025 | San Diego, United States | Diamond | Title |
| AICon 全球人工智能开发与应用大会 | 上海 | May 23–24, 2025 | Shanghai, China | 高级赞助商 | Other |
| NeurIPS 2024 | Dec 10–15, 2024 | Vancouver, Canada | Platinum | Platinum |
| AICon 全球人工智能开发与应用大会 | 上海 | Aug 18–19, 2024 | Shanghai, China | 高级赞助商 | Other |
| EuroPython 2024 | Jul 8–14, 2024 | Prague, Czechia | Gold | Gold |
| EuroPython 2023 | Jul 17–23, 2023 | Prague, Czechia | Platinum | Platinum |
| EuroPython 2022 | Jul 11–17, 2022 | Dublin, Ireland | Gold | Gold |
| PyData London 2022 | Jun 17–19, 2022 | London, United Kingdom | Diamond | Title |
| EuroPython 2021 Online | Jul 26, 2021 – Aug 1, 2021 | — | Keystone | Title |
| EuroPython 2020 Online | Jul 23–26, 2020 | — | Sponsor | Other |
Speakers 17
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xinghong Fang | AI Engineer Shanghai 2026 | speaker | Building a reliable, multi-region LLM gateway | — |
| Noyan Tokgozoglu | AI Engineer New York 2026 | speaker | Scaling AI with P&L on the line | — |
| Tom Kunc | DataEngBytes 2026 Sydney | speaker | How to Win Trades and Understand Data: Unique Challenges of Data Engineering in High Frequency Trading | — |
| Waleed Shahid | DataEngBytes 2026 Sydney | speaker | How to Win Trades and Understand Data: Unique Challenges of Data Engineering in High Frequency Trading | — |
| Dan Jones | EuroPython 2026 | sponsored talk | AI Slop to AI Gold: Building Codebases That Last | Video |
| James Shannon | STAC Summit Hong Kong, Spring 2026 | panelist | Scaling under pressure: Capacity planning, colocation strategy, and the AI memory squeeze | — |
| James Shannon | STAC Summit Sydney, Fall 2025 | panelist | Inside the Exchange: Engineering for Speed, Scale, and Determinism | — |
| Samet Yaslan | EuroPython 2025 | talk | Choosing Between Free Threading and Async | Video |
| Samet Yaslan | EuroPython 2024 | talk | Python in Parallel: Sub-Interpreters vs. NoGIL vs. Multiprocessing | Video |
| James Shannon | STAC Summit Asia (Singapore), Spring 2024 | speaker | Threading the needle: Navigating constraints to compete in real time | — |
| Nicolas Demarchi | EuroPython 2023 | sponsored talk | The challenges of doing Infra-As-Code without "the cloud" | Video |
| Matthew Nassr | STAC Summit New York, Spring 2023 | speaker | Can object stores lift your data? | — |
| Gabor Bakos | PyData London 2022 | talk | Data Pipelining for Real-time ML Models | — |
| Jens de Smit | STAC Summit London, Spring 2022 | speaker | Can low latency be composed? | — |
| Joel Christiansen | EuroPython 2021 Online | talk | Managing transient dependencies | Slides · Video |
| Joost Lek | EuroPython 2021 Online | talk | How I helped fly a helicopter on Mars | Video |
| James Morris | STAC Summit Hong Kong, Fall 2019 | speaker | Everything you wanted to know about FPGA but were afraid to ask | — |