Verizon
Circuit mix
Where Verizon 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 providers38%7 events
- Open-source data infrastructure15%4 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos12%3 events
- Python & R data science12%2 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner8%1 event
- Streaming8%1 event
- Vendor flagships & roadshows4%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps4%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.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 1 conference 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.
Pulled out 2
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- Data Con LAlast sponsored 2019; the conference ran again in 2020–26
- Data Streaming Summitlast sponsored 2020; the conference ran again in 2023–26
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- AWS re:Invent3 of 4 years 2019–22, 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, 2023, unranked tier
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).
- Trustpilot0.76
- Slack0.75
- Nielsen0.69
- Commvault0.68
- New Relic0.67
- Gilead Sciences0.67
- Splunk0.65
- PagerDuty0.64
14 Cluster: AWS re:Invent · Google Cloud Next circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 6 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Accenture | 4 | 67% |
| Capital One | 4 | 67% |
| Datadog | 4 | 67% |
| Elastic | 4 | 67% |
| JetBrains | 4 | 67% |
| Neo4j | 4 | 67% |
| NVIDIA | 4 | 67% |
| Pure Storage | 4 | 67% |
| Red Hat | 4 | 67% |
| Salesforce | 4 | 67% |
| Snowflake | 4 | 67% |
| Splunk | 4 | 67% |
| 2nd Watch | 3 | 50% |
| AMD | 3 | 50% |
| Capgemini | 3 | 50% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Verizon (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 6
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyCon US 2023 | Apr 19–27, 2023 | Salt Lake City, United States | Partner | Other |
| AWS re:Invent 2022 | Nov 28, 2022 – Dec 2, 2022 | Las Vegas, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| AWS re:Invent 2021 | Nov 29, 2021 – Dec 3, 2021 | Las Vegas, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| Pulsar Summit Virtual Conference 2020 | Jun 17–18, 2020 | — | Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2019 | Dec 2–6, 2019 | Las Vegas, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| Data Con LA 2019 | Aug 17, 2019 | Los Angeles, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
Speakers 32
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alessandro Lori | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Outrun technical debt in the age of autonomous development | — |
| Ramesh Ramakrishnan | AWS re:Invent 2026 | lightning talk | From reactive operations to autonomous resilience: How Agentic AI is redefining SRE (sponsored by HCLTech) | — |
| Sanjit Paliwal | PyData Boston 2025 | speaker | No Cloud? No Problem. Local RAG with Embedding Gemma | Video |
| Vidyasagar (Sagar) Kamma | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | What’s new: Data streaming on AWS | Video |
| Chandi Datta | Cassandra Summit 2023 | talk | The What and Why of Cassandra Datamodelling at Scale | — |
| Sunil Dabre | Cassandra Summit 2023 | talk | The What and Why of Cassandra Datamodelling at Scale | — |
| Lee Sattler | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Practical implementations of quantum communication networks | Video |
| Luyang Wang | Ray Summit 2023 | speaker | Large Scale Pathways Recommender Systems (PaRS) at Verizon | — |
| Xuning (Mike) Tang | Ray Summit 2023 | speaker | Large Scale Pathways Recommender Systems (PaRS) at Verizon | — |
| Craig Allen | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | Verizon Connect transformation through their journey to the cloud | Slides · Video |
| Matthew J. Threefoot | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | How 5G Edge is being used to solve customer problems (sponsored by Verizon) | Slides · Video |
| Jake Cohen | DDAC 2022 | featured | ESPN Edge: Powering the Future of Sports Media Innovation | — |
| Lester Solbakken | Berlin Buzzwords 2022 | talk | Hybrid search > sum of its parts? | Video |
| Robert Belson | MongoDB World 2022 | featured | — | — |
| Harish Srigiriraju | Data Summit 2022 | speaker | How to Use In-App Ratings to Personalize and Improve Your User Experience | — |
| Elise Neel | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | Build smarter applications on Verizon 5G Edge with AWS Wavelength (sponsored by Verizon) | Slides · Video |
| Robert Belson | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | Build smarter applications on Verizon 5G Edge with AWS Wavelength (sponsored by Verizon) | Slides · Video |
| Kirk Campbell | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | Building for the edge: Verizon 5G Edge and AWS Wavelength foundations (sponsored by Verizon) | Slides · Video |
| Robert Belson | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | Building for the edge: Verizon 5G Edge and AWS Wavelength foundations (sponsored by Verizon) | Slides · Video |
| Sudheer Adumulla | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | Getting up and running with Amazon EKS | Slides · Video |
| Vamsi Kalluri | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | Getting up and running with Amazon EKS | Slides · Video |
| Alan Prestwich | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Using open source to re-architect monolithic applications | Slides · Video |
| Bob Leano | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | How Verizon Media implemented push notification using Amazon DynamoDB | Slides · Video |
| Brian McHale | AWS re:Invent 2019 | demo theater | Asset tracking: IoT data from device to business outcomes | Slides · Video |
| Harshil Shukla | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | How Verizon Media implemented push notification using Amazon DynamoDB | Slides · Video |
| Sandeep Alluri | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | How Verizon moves critical databases to Amazon RDS with zero downtime | Slides · Video |
| Srini Kalapala | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | New solutions leveraging Verizon’s 5G network | Slides · Video |
| Srinivas Sodagam | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | How Verizon moves critical databases to Amazon RDS with zero downtime | Slides · Video |
| Lester Solbakken | Haystack Europe 2019 | speaker | Ranking article comments using reinforcement learning | Slides · Video |
| Jon Bratseth | Berlin Buzzwords 2019 | talk | Scalable machine-learned model serving | Slides · Video |
| Lester Solbakken | Berlin Buzzwords 2019 | talk | Scaling ONNX and TensorFlow model evaluation in search | Slides · Video |
| Don Spaulding | Data Summit 2019 | speaker | AI-Driven CX | — |