University of Waterloo
Circuit mix
Where University of Waterloo shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Research54%7 events
- AI engineering & MLOps31%4 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner8%1 event
- Postgres & open-source databases8%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.
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- 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.
Where they've grown or pulled back
University of Waterloo has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
FlatHad speakers at 1 conference in 2026, flat from 1 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 2
First speaker in 2025 or later.
- EDBT/ICDT Joint Conferencefirst spoke 2027, 2 speakers
- PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)first spoke 2025, 1 speaker
No longer seen 5
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- CIDR (Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research)last seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–26
- Data Day Texaslast seen 2020; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2022–26
- LDBC Technical User Community (TUC) Meetinglast seen 2021; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2022–26
- MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production)last seen 2022; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2023–25
- VLDB (International Conference on Very Large Data Bases)last seen 2019; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2020–26
Regulars 1
Speakers in most years of the span.
- Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS)speakers in 2 of 2 years, 2024–25
Not on the company map: lookalikes are computed only for companies present at four or more conferences.
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.
Sponsorships 0
No sponsorships recorded for University of Waterloo.
Speakers 15
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ihab Ilyas | EDBT/ICDT 2027 | keynote | — | — |
| Xiao Hu | EDBT/ICDT 2027 | ICDT invited lecture | What is New in Join-Aggregate Query Processing? | — |
| Renée J. Miller | ICDE 2026 (42nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering) | keynote | Model Lake Management | Slides |
| Beihao Zhou | PGConf NYC 2025 | speaker | PgBouncer in Parallel: Bringing Multithreading to the Trusted Postgres Pooler | Slides |
| Cong Wei | 9th Annual Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS) 2025 | speaker | MoCha: Towards Movie-Grade Talking Character Synthesis | — |
| Weiming Ren | 9th Annual Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS) 2025 | speaker | Vamba: Understanding Hour-Long Videos with Hybrid Mamba-Transformers | — |
| Amir Hossein Karimi | 8th Annual Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS) 2024 | speaker | Advances in Algorithmic Recourse: Ensuring Causal Consistency, Fairness, & Robustness | — |
| Guodong Jin | CIDR 2023 | paper | KÙZU Graph Database Management System | Slides · Video · Paper |
| Yue Hu | 3rd Annual MLOps World 2022 | speaker | AI in Robotics, Manufacturing, and Media: How Good Practices Can Shape the Future | — |
| Semih Salihoglu | Fourteenth LDBC TUC Meeting | speaker | GRainDB: Making RDBMSs Efficient on Graph Workloads Through Predefined Joins | Slides · Video |
| Jimmy Lin | ICDE 2021 (37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering) | keynote | The Attack of the Muppets: Data Management in the Era of Pretrained Transformers | — |
| Semih Salihoglu | Data Day Texas 2020 | speaker | Query Processor of GraphflowDB and Techniques for the Graph Databases of 2020s | — |
| Ihab Ilyas | O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference London 2019 | keynote | The quest for high-quality data | — |
| M. Tamer Özsu | VLDB 2019 (45th) | keynote | Graph Processing: A Panaromic View and Some Open Problems | — |
| Semih Salihoglu | Twelfth LDBC TUC Meeting | speaker | Optimizing subgraph queries with a mix of tradition and modernity | Slides |