Volkswagen
Also listed as 11 other names
VOLKSWAGEN · VOLKSWAGEN AG · Volkswagen AG · Volkswagen AG - Center of Excellence Battery · Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles · Volkswagen Group · Volkswagen Group Components · Volkswagen Group Services GmbH · Volkswagen Group Sverige · Volkswagen Group of America · Volkswagen Poznań Sp. z o.o
Circuit mix
Where Volkswagen shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos44%7 events
- Cloud providers44%7 events
- AI engineering & MLOps6%1 event
- Python & R data science6%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Volkswagen sponsored or had speakers in the past 12 months, and the announced events it is already listed for. One row per conference, January to December; hover a mark for the event and the company's role.
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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- Had speakers
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||
| DACH AI, Data Analytics & Insights Summit | ||||||||
| Data Innovation Summit | ||||||||
| CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits | ||||||||
| Data 2030 Summit | ||||||||
| MLCon (ML Conference) | ||||||||
| PyData |
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale.
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
Volkswagen has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
FlatHad speakers at 2 conferences in 2026, flat from 2 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.
- Data 2030 Summitfirst spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- MLCon (ML Conference)first spoke 2025, 1 speaker
No longer seen 3
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summitslast seen 2022; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2023–26
- Data Innovation Summitlast seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–26
- PyDatalast seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
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).
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5 Cluster: CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits · Data Innovation 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
Volkswagen (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 Volkswagen.
Speakers 20
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joerg Clobes | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Accelerating with NVIDIA Omniverse: VW’s Battery Manufacturing Digital Twin (sponsored by NVIDIA) | — |
| Martin Jaster | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Accelerating with NVIDIA Omniverse: VW’s Battery Manufacturing Digital Twin (sponsored by NVIDIA) | — |
| Gunilla Thorén | Data 2030 Summit 2026 | speaker | — | — |
| Sebastian Angersbach | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Volkswagen Group's custom GenAI models for global brand consistency | Video |
| Viktoria Wendland | DACH AI, Data Analytics and Insights Summit 2025 | speaker | — | — |
| André Netzeband | MLcon Munich 2025 | speaker | Talking Agents – Can AI Generate Podcasts? - AppliedAI Developers Meetup | — |
| Jorn Deiseroth | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Using AI/ML for sustained energy efficiency in industrial operations | Video |
| Mario Duarte | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Maximize business impact with Amazon Q Apps: The Volkswagen AI journey | Video |
| Thomas Bierwirth | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Volkswagen’s platform strategy enables production performance & quality | Video |
| Julian Wagenschütz | PyCon DE & PyData Berlin 2024 | talk | There is a Better Way to Automate and Manage Your (Fluid) Simulations | — |
| Jan Sandmüller | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Resilient SAP side-by-side shop floor integration at Volkswagen (sponsored by Capgemini) | Video |
| Christoph Spohr | Data Innovation Summit 2023 | featured | — | — |
| Dr. Mohammad Al-Rifai | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | Autonomous driving simulation and validation on AWS | Slides · Video |
| Christoph Spohr | Ai, Data Analytics & Insights Summit DACH 2022 | speaker | — | — |
| Dr. Gabriele Compostella | CDAO Germany, Frankfurt 2022 | speaker | — | — |
| Dr. Gabriele Compostella | CDAO Germany 2022 | speaker | — | — |
| Dr. Michael Nolting | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | Data-driven vehicle development at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles | Slides · Video |
| Nihar Patel | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | Transforming the automotive industry with the Industrial Cloud | Slides · Video |
| Patrick van der Smagt | Data Innovation Summit 2020 | keynote | — | — |
| Dr. Uwe Wieland | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Transforming automotive manufacturing with Volkswagen | Slides · Video |