Sony
Circuit mix
Where Sony shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Research69%9 events
- Cloud providers15%4 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos8%2 events
- AI engineering & MLOps8%2 events
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
- Silver
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownSponsored 1 conference in 2026, down from 2 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.
Moved down 1
Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)Title 2019 → Platinum 2026
Pulled out 1
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- EMNLP (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing)last sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2024–26
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)once, 2024, 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).
- Cruise0.96
- NAVER0.88
- Cambridge University Press0.85
- The D. E. Shaw Group0.84
- Toloka0.84
- RBC Borealis0.82
- Qualcomm0.82
- Taobao and Tmall Group0.82
11 Cluster: NeurIPS · ACM SIGKDD circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 9 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | 9 | 100% |
| 9 | 100% | |
| Alibaba Cloud | 8 | 89% |
| Bloomberg | 8 | 89% |
| Netflix | 8 | 89% |
| PDT Partners | 8 | 89% |
| Salesforce | 8 | 89% |
| Two Sigma | 8 | 89% |
| Capital One | 7 | 78% |
| Citadel | 7 | 78% |
| The D. E. Shaw Group | 7 | 78% |
| G-Research | 7 | 78% |
| IBM | 7 | 78% |
| MathWorks | 7 | 78% |
| Meta | 7 | 78% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Sony (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 9
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney) | Dec 6–12, 2026 | Sydney, Australia | Platinum | Platinum |
| NeurIPS 2025 (San Diego) | Dec 2–7, 2025 | San Diego, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| NeurIPS 2024 | Dec 10–15, 2024 | Vancouver, Canada | Platinum | Platinum |
| KDD 2024 (30th ACM SIGKDD Conference) | Aug 25–29, 2024 | Barcelona, Spain | Silver | Silver |
| NeurIPS 2023 | Dec 10–16, 2023 | New Orleans, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| EMNLP 2023 | Dec 6–10, 2023 | Singapore, Singapore | Diamond | Title |
| NeurIPS 2022 | Nov 28, 2022 – Dec 9, 2022 | New Orleans, United States | Diamond | Title |
| NeurIPS 2020 | Dec 6–12, 2020 | — | Platinum | Platinum |
| NeurIPS 2019 | Dec 8–14, 2019 | Vancouver, Canada | Diamond | Title |
Speakers 11
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaganjot Kaur Kang | AWS re:Invent 2025 | lightning talk | GenAI game coach: Real-time gameplay feedback | Video |
| Masahiro OBA | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | [NEW LAUNCH] Build trust in production agents with AgentCore Observability ft Sony | — |
| Masahiro OBA | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | [NEW LAUNCH] Scaling generative AI workloads with efficient model choice | Video |
| Taichi Hirano | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Learn the latest generative AI updates and use cases [Japanese] | — |
| Alexis Baudron | PyTorch Conference 2024 | lightning talk | Lightning Talk: Mobile Computational Photography with PyTorch: Low-Light Denoising | — |
| Francisco Fatore | AWS re:Invent 2023 | lightning talk | Sony Interactive Entertainment: Generative and predictive AI on AWS (sponsored by DataRobot) | Video |
| Simon Nicoud | AWS re:Invent 2023 | lightning talk | Sony Interactive Entertainment: Generative and predictive AI on AWS (sponsored by DataRobot) | Video |
| Alice Xiang | World AI Cannes Festival 2023 | featured | — | — |
| Varun Raj Kompella | 6th Annual TMLS 2022 | speaker | Outracing Champion Gran Turismo Drivers With Deep Reinforcement Learning | — |
| Hiroaki Kitano | World AI Cannes Festival 2022 | featured | — | — |
| Tomoyuki Shirakawa | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Enterprise solutions with blockchain: Use cases from Nestlé, Sony Music, and Workday | Slides · Video |