Vanguard
Circuit mix
Where Vanguard shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Cloud providers53%8 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows13%2 events
- AI engineering & MLOps13%2 events
- Software engineering & trading tech13%2 events
- Open-source data infrastructure7%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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| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
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| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||||
| QCon | ||||||||||
| Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) | ||||||||||
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||||
| Subsurface | ||||||||||
| Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS) |
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
Vanguard has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
UpHad speakers at 4 conferences in 2026, up 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 3
First speaker in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)first spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS)first spoke 2026, 1 speaker
No longer seen 2
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- QConlast seen 2022; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2023–26
- Subsurfacelast seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025
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).
- McKinsey & Company0.77
- Postman0.70
- Coder0.69
- PromptQL0.68
- OpenHands0.68
- Cast AI0.68
- Discord0.67
- poolside0.67
7 Cluster: QCon · MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon 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
Vanguard (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 Vanguard.
Speakers 41
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Wolfe | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Optimizing agentic AI: Vanguard's production deployment journey | — |
| Jithin Pradeep | AWS re:Invent 2026 | lightning talk | How Vanguard Scales AI Oversight Without Scaling Human Review (sponsored by Capgemini) | — |
| Jithin Pradeep | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | How Vanguard uses SageMaker HyperPod from training to inference for custom LLMs | — |
| Katherine Garber | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Building migration readiness when the timeline is tight | — |
| Piyush Saxena | AWS re:Invent 2026 | lightning talk | How Vanguard Scales AI Oversight Without Scaling Human Review (sponsored by Capgemini) | — |
| Ritesh Shah | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | How Vanguard uses SageMaker HyperPod from training to inference for custom LLMs | — |
| Ritesh Shah | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Optimizing agentic AI: Vanguard's production deployment journey | — |
| Gareth Yoder | AI Engineer New York 2026 | speaker | No Cash Left Behind: Vanguard's Ledger Modernization Journey | — |
| Cole Haddock | FabCon Europe 2026 | speaker | Guardians of the Lake: Securing your Data with OneLake | — |
| Deepkamal Gill | 10th Annual Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS) 2026 | speaker | Scaling Production-Grade LLMs: Diagnosing Hidden Bottlenecks in Training and Inference Systems | — |
| Cole Haddock | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | speaker | Guardians of the lake: securing your data with OneLake | — |
| Alex Rabinovich | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Scaling Amazon Redshift with a multi-warehouse architecture | Video |
| Rajeev Sharma | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | State of the Art: AWS data protection in 2025 (ft. Vanguard) | Video |
| Andrew Clemens | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | How Vanguard rebuilt its mission-critical trading application on AWS | Video |
| Andrew Rife | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Monitor and manage data quality | Video |
| Bimal Mehta | AWS re:Invent 2024 | chalk talk | Accelerating enterprise innovation with Quantum Embark [REPEAT] | — |
| Christopher A Vokolos | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Mastering resilience at every layer of the cake | Video |
| Michael Del Rossi | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | How Vanguard rebuilt its mission-critical trading application on AWS | Video |
| Ravi Narang | AWS re:Invent 2024 | chalk talk | Accelerating enterprise innovation with Quantum Embark [REPEAT] | — |
| Hitesh Dundi | Subsurface LIVE 2024 | — | — | — |
| Ritesh Shah | AWS re:Invent 2023 | chalk talk | End-to-end data and machine learning governance on AWS | — |
| Stacey Brown | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Resilience lifecycle: A mental model for resilience on AWS | Video |
| Yoni Ryabinski | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Resilience lifecycle: A mental model for resilience on AWS | Video |
| Barry Sheward | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | Multi-Region design patterns and best practices | Slides · Video |
| Glenn Wilkins | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | Data integration at scale: Strategies to unlock SAP and mainframe (sponsored by Qlik) | Slides · Video |
| Perneet Malhotra | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | Modernize and govern your digital supply chain with AWS Marketplace | Slides · Video |
| Rebecca Sundheim | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | Network-attached storage in the cloud with Amazon FSx | Slides · Video |
| Ritesh Shah | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | Boost ML development productivity with managed SageMaker notebooks | Slides · Video |
| Christina Yakomin | QCon San Francisco 2022 | panelist | [Panel] SRE: Is it Working? | — |
| Christina Yakomin | QCon San Francisco 2022 | speaker | Did the Chaos Test Pass? | — |
| Christina Yakomin | QCon San Francisco 2022 | speaker | Chaos Engineering AMA w/ Haley Tucker, Casey Rosenthall, & Christina Yakomin | — |
| Christina Yakomin | QCon London 2022 | speaker | The Scientific Method for Testing System Resilience | — |
| Christina Yakomin | QCon London 2022 | speaker | Practical Resilience - The Core Stuff | — |
| Ayoub Hazrati | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | Vanguard: Personalization at scale with Amazon SageMaker | Slides · Video |
| Denise Murphy | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | Vanguard’s personal advisor services modernization journey to cloud native on AWS (sponsored by Capgemini) | Slides · Video |
| Jack Giammattei | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | Vanguard’s personal advisor services modernization journey to cloud native on AWS (sponsored by Capgemini) | Slides · Video |
| Ritesh Shah | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | Implementing MLOps practices with Amazon SageMaker, featuring Vanguard | Slides · Video |
| Justin Federico | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | AWS X-Ray & Amazon CloudWatch: Increasing visibility for ECS & Fargate | Slides · Video |
| Rajeev Sharma | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | Data lake security in Amazon S3: Perimeters and fine-grained controls | Slides · Video |
| Donovan Stockton | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Data platform engineering: How Vanguard is migrating data to AWS | Slides · Video |
| Nitin Tandon | AWS re:Invent 2019 | leadership session | Leadership session: Running critical FSI applications on AWS | Slides · Video |