Shopify
Circuit mix
Where Shopify 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 science37%12 events
- AI engineering & MLOps15%9 events
- Research10%3 events
- Open-source data infrastructure8%5 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows7%4 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner7%4 events
- Software engineering & trading tech5%3 events
- Streaming3%2 events
- Postgres & open-source databases3%2 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos3%1 event
- Microsoft data platform2%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
- Silver
Where they've grown or pulled back
FlatSponsored 1 conference in 2026, flat 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 1
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- Disney Data & Analytics Conferencefirst sponsored 2025, Silver
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
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- PyData4 of 6 years 2019–24, mostly Platinum
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- PyCon (national Python conferences)once, 2019, Silver
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).
- Recursion0.75
- JPMorgan Chase0.75
- Qube Research & Technologies0.73
- Allegro0.73
- Spotify0.72
- WorldQuant0.70
- ASML0.70
- OLX Group0.70
8 Cluster: PyData · posit::conf circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 14 this company sponsored).
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Shopify (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 14
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney) | Dec 6–12, 2026 | Sydney, Australia | Diamond | Title |
| NeurIPS 2025 (San Diego) | Dec 2–7, 2025 | San Diego, United States | Diamond | Title |
| DDAC 2025 | Sep 8–10, 2025 | Lake Buena Vista, United States | Silver | Silver |
| NeurIPS 2024 | Dec 10–15, 2024 | Vancouver, Canada | Platinum | Platinum |
| PyData Global 2024 | Dec 3–5, 2024 | — | Gold | Gold |
| PyData Global 2023 | Dec 6–8, 2023 | — | Gold | Gold |
| PyData NYC 2023 | Nov 1–3, 2023 | New York, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| PyData London 2023 | Jun 2–4, 2023 | London, United Kingdom | Platinum | Platinum |
| PyCon DE & PyData Berlin 2023 | Apr 17–19, 2023 | Berlin, Germany | Platinum | Platinum |
| PyData Global 2022 | Dec 1–3, 2022 | — | Gold | Gold |
| PyData NYC 2022 | Nov 9–11, 2022 | New York, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| PyData London 2022 | Jun 17–19, 2022 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| PyCon Canada 2019 | Nov 16–19, 2019 | Toronto, Canada | Silver | Silver |
| PyCon DE & PyData Berlin 2019 | Oct 9–11, 2019 | Berlin, Germany | Gold | Gold |
Speakers 45
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kshetrajna Raghavan | 7th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2026 | speaker | From One-Shot to Agentic: Optimizing Shop Intelligence with DSPy | — |
| Cody Mazza-Anthony | PyTorch Conference North America 2026 | keynote | Keynote: Shopify's Continual Learning Loop with PyTorch and vLLM | — |
| Elijah McPherson | Open House 2026 (San Francisco) | speaker | — | — |
| Jill Cates | AI Council 2026 | talk | AI Attribution: Measuring What AI Actually Did | — |
| Sireesha Pulipati | DataTune 2026 | talk | Modern Data Engineering on BigQuery: From Pipelines to Intelligence | — |
| Paulo Arruda | QCon AI New York 2025 | speaker | What I Learned Building Multi-Agent Systems From Scratch | — |
| Brad Dietrich | Distributed SQL Summit 2025 | speaker | — | — |
| Rosa Seohwa Kang | Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 | speaker | Optimizing Flink Applications on GKE: Infrastructure Decisions at Shopify | — |
| Ryan van Huuksloot | Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 | speaker | Democratizing Flink SQL at Shopify: Scaling Streaming for Every Developer | — |
| Kshetrajna Raghavan | 6th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2025 | speaker | Where Experts Can't Scale: Orchestrating AI Agents to Structure the World's Product Knowledge | — |
| Ricardo Tejedor Sanz | 6th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2025 | speaker | Where Experts Can't Scale: Orchestrating AI Agents to Structure the World's Product Knowledge | — |
| Bret Little | MCP Dev Summit Europe 2025 | keynote | Scaling Commerce Interactivity: Lessons from Shopify’s Implementation of MCP UI in AI Agents | — |
| Samuel Path | MCP Dev Summit Europe 2025 | keynote | Scaling Commerce Interactivity: Lessons from Shopify’s Implementation of MCP UI in AI Agents | — |
| Kshetrajna Raghavan | 5th Annual MLOps World and Generative AI World Conference 2024 | speaker | Multimodal LLMs for Product Taxonomy at Shopify | — |
| Jill Cates | PyCon Italia 2024 | talk | How to Handle Very Large Data with Python | Video |
| Kriti Kohli | PyData NYC 2023 | speaker | Leveraging Generative AI for Enhanced E-commerce | Video |
| Khosrow Ebrahimpour | Berlin Buzzwords 2023 | talk | Highly Available Search at Shopify | Slides · Video |
| Wendy Foster | TMLS 2023 | speaker | Data Storytelling for Beginners | — |
| Marc Laforet | Subsurface LIVE 2023 | — | — | — |
| Marc Laforet | Trino Summit 2022 | speaker | Rewriting History: Migrating petabytes of data to Apache Iceberg using Trino | Slides · Video |
| Kshetrajna Raghavan | PyData NYC 2022 | speaker | Using Interconnected ML Models to Tackle Retail Challenges | Video |
| Jesse McGinnis | QCon San Francisco 2022 | panelist | [Panel] Hybrid and Remote: How Do We Start Making Change Right Now? | — |
| Jesse McGinnis | QCon San Francisco 2022 | speaker | Building High-Trust and High-Performing Teams at Shopify in a Remote World | — |
| Sam Handler | Dash 2022 | featured | — | — |
| Isaac Vidas | Ray Summit 2022 | speaker | The Magic of Merlin: Shopify's new machine learning platform | — |
| Anneya Golob | 3rd Annual MLOps World 2022 | speaker | Panel: What Every Product Manager Delivering AI Solutions Should Know | — |
| Isaac Vidas | 3rd Annual MLOps World 2022 | speaker | Shopify’s ML Platform Journey Using Open Source Tools. Case Study Building Merlin & AMA | — |
| Megan Parker | Airflow Summit 2022 | talk | Airflow at Shopify: Keeping Users Happy while Running Airflow at Scale | Slides · Video |
| Sam Wheating | Airflow Summit 2022 | talk | Airflow at Shopify: Keeping Users Happy while Running Airflow at Scale | Slides · Video |
| Josh Varner | Percona Live 2022 | speaker | Database Incident Management: When Everything Goes Wrong | — |
| Andy Toulis | Haystack US 2022 | speaker | Bayesian Optimization of Relevance at Shopify | Slides · Video |
| Doug Turnbull | Haystack US 2022 | speaker | Bayesian Optimization of Relevance at Shopify | Slides · Video |
| Bart de Water | QCon London 2022 | speaker | Shopify’s Architecture to Handle the World’s Biggest Flash Sales | — |
| Bart de Water | QCon London 2022 | speaker | Large Scale Architectures Panel | — |
| Chris Seaton | QCon London 2022 | speaker | Performance & Mechanical Sympathy Panel | — |
| Chris Seaton | QCon London 2022 | speaker | Understanding Java Through Graphs | — |
| Yaroslav Tkachenko | Data Council Austin 2022 | talk | Apache Flink Adoption at Shopify | — |
| Yaroslav Tkachenko | Flink Forward Global 2021 | speaker | Storing State Forever: Why It Can Be Good For Your Analytics | — |
| Jill Cates | TMLS Annual Conference & Expo 2020 | speaker | Workshop: Building a MovieLens Recommender System | — |
| Françoise Provencher | PyCon Canada 2019 | keynote | — | — |
| Yizhar Toren | Data Council Barcelona 2019 | talk | Talking Bayes to Business: A/B Testing Use Case | — |
| Yizhar Toren | EARL London 2019 | talk | Hard talks: Explaining Bayes to Business (marketing spend use-case) | — |
| Jason Hiltz-Laforge | Dash 2019 | speaker | Building & Scaling Distributed Teams | — |
| Conor Landry | Berlin Buzzwords 2019 | talk | Reindexing in Record Time: How Shopify Indexes Over 800,000 Merchants' Data in Under 24 Hours | Slides · Video |
| Jeremy Cole | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | MySQL on Google Cloud: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | — |