Riot Games
Also listed as 2 other names
Riot Games, Inc · Riot games
Circuit mix
Where Riot Games shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Modern data stack & practitioner31%5 events
- Cloud providers31%5 events
- AI engineering & MLOps19%3 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows13%2 events
- Postgres & open-source databases6%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Riot Games 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.
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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.
Where they've grown or pulled back
Riot Games has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
FlatHad speakers at 4 conferences in 2026, flat from 4 in 2023.
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 3
First speaker in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- Coalescefirst spoke 2025, 2 speakers
- Data + AI Summitfirst spoke 2025, 2 speakers
No longer seen 5
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- Data Con LAlast seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–26
- Data Councillast seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–26
- MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production)last seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–25
- Percona Livelast seen 2019; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2022–23 and 2026
- Ray Summitlast seen 2022; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2023–26
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).
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11 Cluster: AI Engineer · QCon 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
Riot Games (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 0
No sponsorships recorded for Riot Games.
Speakers 28
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cory Ramirez | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | A Context Gap, Not a Data Gap: Riot Games Rethinks Incident Learning | — |
| Jessica Zhang | dbt Summit 2026 | speaker | When skills meet scale: an agent assembly line for dbt | Video |
| Kunal Lanjewar | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | Your Hero Agent Needs a Party | — |
| Ken (Xu Chu) Lin | Data + AI Summit 2026 | speaker | Embracing Serverless SQL at Riot Games | — |
| Marco Garcia | Coalesce on the Road Newport Beach 2026 | speaker | Leveling Up Data Engineering at Riot: How We Rolled Out dbt and Transformed the Developer Experience | — |
| Zach Ward | Coalesce on the Road Newport Beach 2026 | speaker | Leveling Up Data Engineering at Riot: How We Rolled Out dbt and Transformed the Developer Experience | — |
| Miranda Pearson | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Modernize Apple platform development with AWS and EC2 Mac | Video |
| Moz Aslam | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Unlock Innovation: A Guide to AWS Partner Solutions in AWS Marketplace | Video |
| Nathan Pitchaikani | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Detection Engineering at Scale: Building High-Fidelity Security Operations (sponsored by Datadog) | Video |
| Marco Garcia | Coalesce 2025 | speaker | Leveling up data engineering at Riot: How they transformed DevEx with dbt | Video |
| Zachary Ward | Coalesce 2025 | speaker | Leveling up data engineering at Riot: How they transformed DevEx with dbt | Video |
| Marco Garcia | Data + AI Summit 2025 | speaker | Sponsored by: dbt Labs | Leveling Up Data Engineering at Riot: How We Rolled Out dbt and Transformed the Developer Experience | — |
| Phillip Koskinas | Data + AI Summit 2025 | speaker | Future of Anti-Cheat With Riot Games | — |
| Brian Miller | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Effortless game launches: How League of Legends runs at scale on AWS | Video |
| David Press | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Effortless game launches: How League of Legends runs at scale on AWS | Video |
| Aditya Kumar | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Exiting the data center: A League of Legends and VALORANT story | Video |
| Alex Lynchosky | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Improve your mobile and web app quality using AWS Device Farm | Video |
| Evan Vernon | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Reimagining live, in-person experiences with the cloud | Video |
| Ruaidhri Power | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Exiting the data center: A League of Legends and VALORANT story | Video |
| Ian Schweer | 4th Annual MLOps World Conference & Expo 2023 | speaker | Amumu Brain; How League of Legends Uses Machine Learning an Applied Data Science | — |
| Kunal Lanjewar | Data Con LA 2023 | speaker | Right Size, Right Time - Cost Effective Scale for Game Backends using MongoDB | Video |
| Ian Schweer | Data Council Austin '23 | talk | MLOps for League of Legends - Heimerdinger Toolbelt | — |
| James Wyld | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | The future of sport: How Riot Games is reinventing remote esports broadcasts | Slides · Video |
| Mauricio Wecker | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | The future of sport: How Riot Games is reinventing remote esports broadcasts | Slides · Video |
| Steve Fradley | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | How AWS and Riot Games built a governance reporting engine | Slides · Video |
| Wesley Kerr | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | How Riot Games processes 20 TB of analytics data daily on AWS | Slides · Video |
| Wesley Kerr | Ray Summit 2022 | speaker | Large-scale deep learning to augment production RL workloads | — |
| Tyler Turk | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | Globalizing Player Accounts with MySQL at Riot Games | — |