poolside
Circuit mix
Where poolside 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 & MLOps42%3 events
- Cloud providers33%2 events
- Research17%1 event
- Software engineering & trading tech8%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
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||||
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||||
| NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) | ||||||||||
| QCon |
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
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
FlatSponsored 1 conference in 2026, flat from 1 in 2024.
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 2025, unranked tier
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)first sponsored 2025, Title
Moved up 1
Best tier rose between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- AWS re:InventPlatinum 2024 → Title 2025
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).
- TwelveLabs0.88
- Exa0.85
- ElevenLabs0.84
- Conductor0.84
- Zoox0.83
- PromptQL0.82
- Figma0.80
- Lovable0.78
1 Cluster: AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 5 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Datadog | 5 | 100% |
| Weights & Biases | 5 | 100% |
| Atlassian | 4 | 80% |
| Elastic | 4 | 80% |
| Neo4j | 4 | 80% |
| NVIDIA | 4 | 80% |
| Oracle | 4 | 80% |
| Red Hat | 4 | 80% |
| ServiceNow | 4 | 80% |
| Accenture | 3 | 60% |
| Amazon Web Services | 3 | 60% |
| Anthropic | 3 | 60% |
| Baseten | 3 | 60% |
| Bloomberg | 3 | 60% |
| Buildkite | 3 | 60% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
poolside (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 5
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Supporting Partners | Other |
| NeurIPS 2025 (San Diego) | Dec 2–7, 2025 | San Diego, United States | Diamond | Title |
| AWS re:Invent 2025 | Dec 1–5, 2025 | Las Vegas, United States | Diamond | Title |
| AI Engineer Code Summit 2025 | Nov 19–22, 2025 | New York, United States | Special Sponsors and Supporting Companies | Other |
| AWS re:Invent 2024 | Dec 2–6, 2024 | Las Vegas, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
Speakers 13
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marah Abdin | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | The Messy Reality of Scale: Synthetic Data and Pre-Training at Poolside | Video |
| Robert McHardy | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | The Messy Reality of Scale: Synthetic Data and Pre-Training at Poolside | Video |
| Johan Lajili | AI Engineer Europe 2026 | lightning talk | Your agent is blindfolded. How giving it (good) eyes multiplies performance and trust | Video |
| Cory Dobson | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Dive into Poolside: AI Models for Highly Secure Software Environments (sponsored by poolside) | Video |
| Ivo Pinto | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Dive into Poolside: AI Models for Highly Secure Software Environments (sponsored by poolside) | Video |
| Joe Rowell | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Inside Poolside’s Model Factory: Building Better Models Faster (sponsored by poolside) | Video |
| Eiso Kant | AI Engineer Code Summit 2025 | speaker | AGI: The Path Forward | Video |
| Eiso Kant | AWS re:Invent 2024 | innovation talk | Compute innovation for any application, anywhere | — |
| Isaac Cohen | AWS re:Invent 2024 | lightning talk | Dive into poolside: AI models just for software engineering (sponsored by poolside) | Video |
| Joe Rowell | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Conquer AI performance, cost, and scale with AWS AI chips | Video |
| Vitor Monteiro | AWS re:Invent 2024 | lightning talk | Dive into poolside: AI models just for software engineering (sponsored by poolside) | Video |
| Joe Rowell | QCon London 2024 | speaker | Pitfalls of Unified Memory Models in GPUs | — |
| Joe Rowell | QCon London 2024 | panelist | Panel: What Does the Future of Computing Look Like | — |