PayPal
Circuit mix
Where PayPal shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- AI engineering & MLOps22%5 events
- Python & R data science19%5 events
- Software engineering & trading tech15%4 events
- Postgres & open-source databases11%3 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner7%2 events
- Open-source data infrastructure7%2 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos7%2 events
- Cloud providers7%2 events
- Streaming4%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
Where they've grown or pulled back
Sponsored 1 conference in 2026, the first year on record.
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.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first sponsored 2026, Platinum
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).
- Hugging Face0.74
- Sonar0.73
- Cloudflare0.72
- Tetrate0.69
- Booking.com0.69
- Akamai0.69
- Spotify0.68
- Visa0.66
1 Cluster: AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 1 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1Password | 1 | 100% |
| Accenture | 1 | 100% |
| Acrew Capital | 1 | 100% |
| Adobe | 1 | 100% |
| Agentfield | 1 | 100% |
| AgentMail | 1 | 100% |
| AIDAChip | 1 | 100% |
| Aikido | 1 | 100% |
| Airbyte | 1 | 100% |
| Akamai | 1 | 100% |
| Amazon Web Services | 1 | 100% |
| Ampersand | 1 | 100% |
| Amplify Partners | 1 | 100% |
| Andon Labs | 1 | 100% |
| Anterior | 1 | 100% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
PayPal (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 1
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
Speakers 40
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Mok | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | expo session | Your Agent Just Authorized What?! | — |
| Mark Lummus | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | expo session | Burn your flags: How PayPal designs interactive CLI tools for agents | Video |
| Navinkumar Patil | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | expo session | Burn your flags: How PayPal designs interactive CLI tools for agents | Video |
| Nixon Dinh | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | The Death of Keyword Search and the Rise of Agent-Readable Catalogs | — |
| Sam Parsons | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | How PayPal Enterprise Payments handles agent-initiated payments across ChatGPT and Google AI Mode | Video |
| Parisa Jamasbi | Percona Live 2026 Bay Area | speaker | The Invisible Charset That Silently Breaks MySQL Replication | Video |
| Philip Witty | AWS re:Invent 2025 | lightning talk | Last HSM Standing: PayPal POS’s move to AWS Payment Cryptography | Video |
| Senthil Thangavel | Open Source Data Summit 2025 | speaker | RAG vs fine-tuning vs hybrid: A practitioner's guide to choosing the right approach for enterprise AI applications | Video |
| Gal Benor | PyData Tel Aviv 2025 | talk | Revealing the Unseen: Leveraging XAI for Deeper Data Insights (HE) | Video |
| Akshay Mittal | 6th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2025 | speaker | Agent Name Service (ANS) in Action – A DNS-like Trust Layer for Secure, Scalable AI-Agent Deployments on Kubernetes | — |
| Balu Kunju | Data Streaming Summit San Francisco 2025 | panelist | Streaming at the Crossroads: Can One Architecture Rule Them All? | Video |
| Brenden Lane | MCP Developers Summit 2025 (San Francisco) | speaker | Building an MCP Server for Agentic Commerce | — |
| Nitin Sharma | MCP Developers Summit 2025 (San Francisco) | speaker | Building an MCP Server for Agentic Commerce | — |
| Jacqueline Karlin | The AI Summit New York 2024 | keynote | 2025, What's Next? | — |
| 王元 | AICon 全球人工智能开发与应用大会 | 上海 | speaker | 从 RAG 到微调：企业知识问答大模型演进之路 | — |
| 马泽宏 | AICon 全球人工智能开发与应用大会 | 上海 | speaker | 从 RAG 到微调：企业知识问答大模型演进之路 | — |
| Raghotham Sripadraj | EuroPython 2023 | talk | Language Models for Music Recommendation | Video |
| Raghotham S | PyData London 2023 | talk | Language Models for Music Recommendation | — |
| Liron Faybish | PyData Tel Aviv 2022 | talk | Keeping sensitive data safe using recommendation systems | Video |
| Tal Erez Hauer | PyData Tel Aviv 2022 | talk | Unleash Big Data Clustering: Parallelize DBSCAN over 400M PayPal Records | Video |
| Nataliya Remez | NDSML Summit 2022 (6th edition) | speaker | — | — |
| Raghotham Sripadraj | EuroPython 2022 | talk | AI for Content Moderation at PayPal | Video |
| Ryan Roggenkemper | EuroPython 2022 | talk | AI for Content Moderation at PayPal | Video |
| Yashada Jadhav | Percona Live 2022 | speaker | Venmo's Experiences With Aurora Failovers Using ProxySQL | — |
| Jeff Nickoloff | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | Intentional and empathetic observability (sponsored by Datadog) | Slides · Video |
| Vladimir Bacvanski | Data Innovation Summit 2021 | featured | — | — |
| Jay Sen | Airflow Summit 2021 | talk | Airflow as the Foundation of a Multi-Faceted Data Platform | Video |
| Aishwarya Sankaravadivel | Airflow Summit 2020 | talk | Data flow with Airflow @ PayPal | Video |
| Dmitry Martyanov | QCon San Francisco 2019 | speaker | CRDTs in Production | Slides · Video |
| 常青 | QCon 上海 2019 (QCon Shanghai 2019) | keynote | — | — |
| Kenneth Kang | QCon New York 2019 | speaker | Scaling DB Access for Billions of Queries Per Day @PayPal | — |
| Petrica Voicu | QCon New York 2019 | speaker | Scaling DB Access for Billions of Queries Per Day @PayPal | — |
| Ashwin Nellore | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | Journey of MySQL at PayPal | — |
| Dong Wang | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | Journey of MySQL at PayPal | — |
| Dong Wang | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | Scaling MySQL at Venmo | — |
| Heidi Wang | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | Scaling MySQL at Venmo | — |
| Stacy Yuan | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | MySQL Security and Standardization at PayPal | — |
| Yashada Jadhav | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | MySQL Security and Standardization at PayPal | — |
| Sanjeev Koranga | DataWorks Summit Washington, DC 2019 | speaker | Real-time Analytics at PayPal | — |
| Jamund Ferguson | QCon London 2019 | speaker | Bringing JAMStack to the Enterprise | Video |