Ursa Labs
Circuit mix
Where Ursa Labs 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 science50%5 events
- AI engineering & MLOps20%2 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows10%1 event
- Open-source data infrastructure10%1 event
- Software engineering & trading tech10%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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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
Ursa Labs has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
DownNothing recorded in 2026; had speakers at 6 conferences in 2020.
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.
No longer seen 8
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- New York R Conference (now The New York Data Science & AI Conference)last seen 2020; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2021–25
- posit::conf (formerly rstudio::conf)last seen 2019; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2020–26
- PyCon (national Python conferences)last seen 2020; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2021–26
- PyDatalast seen 2019; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2020–26
- Ray Summitlast seen 2020; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2021–26
- ScaledML (Scaled Machine Learning Conference)last seen 2020; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2026
- STAC Summitlast seen 2020; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2021–26
- Subsurfacelast seen 2020; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2021–25
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).
- University College London0.80
- Cubist Systematic Strategies0.77
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign0.75
- Safran0.74
- University of Copenhagen0.74
- Coiled0.73
- Qube Research & Technologies0.69
- Zurich Insurance0.68
15 Cluster: STAC Summit · The AI Summit 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
Ursa Labs (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 Ursa Labs.
Speakers 11
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wes McKinney | Global STAC Live, Fall 2020 | speaker | A sharper Arrow | — |
| Wes McKinney | Ray Summit 2020 | keynote | Scalable Python We Can Afford | Video |
| Neal Richardson | R Conference "New York" 2020 (virtual) | talk | Speeding Up Data Access in R with Apache Arrow | Video |
| Wes McKinney | R Conference "New York" 2020 (virtual) | talk | Speeding Up Data Access in R with Apache Arrow | Video |
| Wes McKinney | Subsurface LIVE Summer 2020 | speaker | Apache Arrow: A New Gold Standard for Dataset Transport | Video |
| Wes McKinney | ScaledML 2020 | speaker | Apache Arrow: Present and Future | Slides · Video |
| Wes McKinney | PyCon Colombia 2020 | keynote | — | — |
| Wes McKinney | OmniSci Converge 2019 | keynote | Keynote: Apache Arrow: Leveling Up the Data Science Stack | — |
| Wes McKinney | New York R Conference 2019 | talk | Apache Arrow: Leveling Up the Data Science Stack | Video |
| Wes McKinney | rstudio::conf 2019 | speaker | Ursa Labs and Apache Arrow in 2019 | Video |
| Wes McKinney | PyData Miami 2019 | keynote | Ursa Labs and Apache Arrow in 2019 | Video |