Rakuten
Also listed as 11 other names
RAKUTEN KOBO · Rakuten Cloud · Rakuten Group · Rakuten Group, Inc · Rakuten Inc · Rakuten Institute of Technology · Rakuten Intelligence · Rakuten Kobo · Rakuten Mobile · Rakuten Mobile, Inc · Rakuten Symphony
Circuit mix
Where Rakuten shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Vendor flagships & roadshows30%7 events
- Alt data & financial information26%4 events
- Cloud providers9%1 event
- Python & R data science9%2 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner4%1 event
- Open-source data infrastructure4%1 event
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos4%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps4%1 event
- Research4%1 event
- Geospatial & mapping4%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Rakuten sponsored or had speakers in the past 12 months, and the announced events it is already listed for. One row per conference, January to December; hover a mark for the event and the company's role.
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.
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.
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
Where they've grown or pulled back
FlatSponsored 1 conference in 2026, flat from 1 in 2020.
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.
Pulled out 1
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- Neudata Data Summitslast sponsored 2020; the conference ran again in 2021–26
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).
- Nasdaq0.85
- Cboe Global Markets0.80
- Morgan Stanley0.78
- Franklin Templeton0.77
- Geotab0.76
- LMAX0.76
- AllianceBernstein0.76
- State Street0.75
7 Cluster: Neudata Data Summits · BattleFin Discovery Day circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 3 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ascential | 2 | 67% |
| Consumer Edge | 2 | 67% |
| Earnest Research | 2 | 67% |
| Morgan Stanley | 2 | 67% |
| Second Measure | 2 | 67% |
| Visible Alpha | 2 | 67% |
| Yewno | 2 | 67% |
| YouGov | 2 | 67% |
| 1010data | 1 | 33% |
| 66degrees | 1 | 33% |
| Ab Initio | 1 | 33% |
| ABACUS | 1 | 33% |
| Accenture | 1 | 33% |
| Adaptive6 | 1 | 33% |
| Advan Research | 1 | 33% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Rakuten (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud Next '26 | Apr 22–24, 2026 | Las Vegas, United States | Signature | Silver |
| Neudata San Francisco Summit 2020 | Feb 27, 2020 | San Francisco, United States | bronze | Bronze |
| Neudata New York Conference 2019 | May 7, 2019 | New York, United States | gold | Gold |
Speakers 23
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colin Rowat | STAC Summit Tokyo, Fall 2026 | speaker | Some economics of AI | — |
| Sanjeev Gautam | Distributed SQL Summit Mumbai 2026 | speaker | From monolith to petabyte scale: Built a cloud-native, AI-ready data layer | Video |
| Prakash Balraj | Data + AI Summit 2026 | speaker | Rakuten’s Journey from Data Silos to Unified Intelligence | — |
| Taku Okoshi | Data + AI Summit 2026 | speaker | Rakuten’s Journey from Data Silos to Unified Intelligence | — |
| Italo Carvalho Vianelli Ribeiro | PyCon US 2026 | speaker | Getting Started with Celery: Building Your First Background Task System in Python | — |
| Colin Rowat | STAC Summit Tokyo, Fall 2025 | speaker | Interpretability and explainability in AI and ML / AIとMLにおける解釈可能性と説明可能性 | — |
| Padmarajan Narayanan | Data on Kubernetes Day Europe 2025 | lightning talk | Lightning Talk: Navigating the Complexities of Stateful Workloads in Kubernetes | — |
| Italo Carvalho Vianelli Ribeiro | PyCon JP 2024 | talk | Unlocking the Power of Python's Collections Module | — |
| Alex Bai | HTAP Summit 2024 | speaker | Why Rakuten Adopted TiDB to Scale its Loyalty Points Program | — |
| Mundhra Rohit | HTAP Summit 2024 | speaker | Why Rakuten Adopted TiDB to Scale its Loyalty Points Program | — |
| Tim Liu | HTAP Summit 2024 | speaker | Why Rakuten Adopted TiDB to Scale its Loyalty Points Program | — |
| Spencer Tollefson | Airflow Summit 2024 | talk | Empowering More Teams in your Organization to Self-service their Airflow Needs | Slides · Video |
| Gaurav Jain | Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2024 | speaker | — | — |
| Saeid Abolfazli | CDAO Canada 2024 | speaker | Discussion Group B: How can the Benefits of Data & Analytics Transformation be Effectively Measured? | — |
| Joji John | Snowflake Summit 2023 | featured | — | — |
| Vinayaraj | FOSS4G 2022 | speaker | Multi-branch Deep learning Based Transport Mode Detection using Weakly Supervised Labels | — |
| Joji John | Distributed SQL Summit 2021 | speaker | Building the Data Platform at the Heart of Rakuten Mobile's Autonomous Network | — |
| Miro Salem | Distributed SQL Summit 2021 | speaker | Building the Data Platform at the Heart of Rakuten Mobile's Autonomous Network | — |
| Hale Donertasli | Distributed SQL Virtual Summit 2020 | speaker | 5G and Data Challenges | — |
| Hale Donertasli | Distributed SQL Virtual Summit 2020 | panelist | The Future of Data Infrastructure, A Telco Roundtable | — |
| Puneet Devadiga | Distributed SQL Virtual Summit 2020 | panelist | The Future of Data Infrastructure, A Telco Roundtable | — |
| Bahman Bahmani | O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference London 2019 | speaker | — | — |
| Martin Rezk | ICDE 2019 (35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering) | industry paper | Accurate Product Attribute Extraction on the Field | — |