Companies
The Walt Disney Company
Product category: Not a vendor 99% confident
Org type: End-user enterprise 100% confident
Also listed as 2 other names
The Walt Disney Studios · Walt Disney Imagineering
Conferences sponsored1
Events sponsored1
Speaker slots8471 distinct people
Conferences present at8sponsor or speaker
Years active2019–2026
Talks, past 12 months3#895 on the communication index · many voicesCircuit mix
Where The Walt Disney Company 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 expos56%9 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows13%2 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner13%1 event
- Python & R data science13%2 events
- Cloud providers6%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where The Walt Disney Company 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.
- 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.
Conferences present at
Distinct conferences each year, split by whether the company sponsored or only had speakers there.
- Sponsored
- Speakers only
2
2
2
1
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1
4
Distinct speakers
People from this company on a program that year, each counted once.
10
1
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Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Platinum
1
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 1 conference in 2021.
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 1
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- AI By the Baylast sponsored 2021; the conference ran again in 2023 and 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).
- LTIMindtree0.87
- Nestlé0.74
- NAB0.73
- FIS0.72
- Globe Telecom0.71
- DXC Technology0.70
- Centene Corporation0.69
- Stack Overflow0.68
8 Cluster: AWS re:Invent · Google Cloud Next circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 1 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | 1 | 100% |
| Dallas Scala Enthusiasts | 1 | 100% |
| Databricks | 1 | 100% |
| Hasura | 1 | 100% |
| London Scala User Group | 1 | 100% |
| Lyft | 1 | 100% |
| Manning | 1 | 100% |
| Pipeline | 1 | 100% |
| Rockset | 1 | 100% |
| Scala Developers Barcelona | 1 | 100% |
| Scalator | 1 | 100% |
| Seattle Scala User Group | 1 | 100% |
| Signify Technology | 1 | 100% |
| SoftwareMill | 1 | 100% |
| Tubi | 1 | 100% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
The Walt Disney Company (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 1
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scale By the Bay 2021 | Oct 27–29, 2021 | — | Platinum | Platinum |
Speakers 84
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angela Alexander | DDAC 2026 | featured | Disney Compass: Charting a New Course in Data Collaboration and Audience Insights | — |
| Bj Price | DDAC 2026 | featured | The Society of Curious Analysts Presents: A Field Guide to AI Curiosities, Artifacts and Nonsense | — |
| Celia Gomez | DDAC 2026 | featured | The Human Behind the Science: Judgment, Creativity and Perspective in Human-Centered Analytics | — |
| Chad Cooper | DDAC 2026 | featured | Everything I Know Is Wrong, Trust Me | — |
| Chris Lisciandro | DDAC 2026 | keynote | Refreshing Adventure Awaits: Disney & Coca-Cola | — |
| Emily Kubicek | DDAC 2026 | featured | Disney Compass: Charting a New Course in Data Collaboration and Audience Insights | — |
| Jacob Benoit | DDAC 2026 | featured | Large Language Model Evaluation and Guardrails: Building Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Systems | — |
| Kristen Swerzenski | DDAC 2026 | featured | I'm Not a Data Scientist...Right? A Field Guide for 'Unofficial' Data Professionals | — |
| Max Benton | DDAC 2026 | featured | The Christmas Movie Playbook for Green-Lighting Analytical Projects | — |
| Rebekah Lindborg | DDAC 2026 | featured | I'm Not a Data Scientist...Right? A Field Guide for 'Unofficial' Data Professionals | — |
| Tae Hong Min | DDAC 2026 | featured | Large Language Model Evaluation and Guardrails: Building Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Systems | — |
| Tara Steuber | DDAC 2026 | featured | Level Up Your Coding: Productization in the World of Artificial Intelligence | — |
| Rajendra Dubagunta | Data + AI Summit 2026 | speaker | Beyond Medallion: Architecting Disney’s DATOS for Complex, Real-Time Data Streams With Databricks | — |
| Jaclyn Mathai | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | Audience Flow Intelligence | — |
| Angelik Laboy Torres | PyCon US 2026 | speaker | El Agent que Convirtió el Caos de On-Call en un Solo Slack Thread | Video |
| Andrew Wright | DDAC 2025 | featured | Beyond the Local Maximum: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in Data Science | — |
| Brian Walters | DDAC 2025 | featured | Simulation for Disney Parks and Experiences | — |
| Cara Dienes | DDAC 2025 | featured | Human Intelligence: Leading with Wisdom in an Algorithm-Driven World | — |
| Frederick Zahrn | DDAC 2025 | featured | Simulation for Disney Parks and Experiences | — |
| Haley Smith | DDAC 2025 | featured | To Saving the Planet and Beyond | — |
| Joe Duane | DDAC 2025 | featured | Silos to Synergy: Unifying Data and Analytics for Operational Excellence | — |
| Justin Hoffman | DDAC 2025 | featured | Andy's Toy Box: Sketching Out Research Methodology | — |
| Kevin Masick | DDAC 2025 | featured | Andy's Toy Box: Sketching Out Research Methodology | — |
| Kiran Pendyala | DDAC 2025 | featured | Bubbling Up Insights Without Boiling the Ocean: Framing Data for General Audiences | — |
| Kristen Swerzenski | DDAC 2025 | featured | To Saving the Planet and Beyond | — |
| Lauren Puishys | DDAC 2025 | featured | To Saving the Planet and Beyond | — |
| Maham Sadiq | DDAC 2025 | featured | To Saving the Planet and Beyond | — |
| McKay Curtis | DDAC 2025 | featured | The Missing Lecture: What Stats Courses Forgot to Tell You | — |
| Moritz Bächer | DDAC 2025 | featured | Insights into Disney's Robotic Character Platform | — |
| Paige Berry | DDAC 2025 | featured | Pop Hits and Power Moves: Career Lessons from Pop Music | — |
| Sierra Duncan | DDAC 2025 | featured | Bubbling Up Insights Without Boiling the Ocean: Framing Data for General Audiences | — |
| Teresa Causin | DDAC 2025 | featured | Silos to Synergy: Unifying Data and Analytics for Operational Excellence | — |
| Adam Cohn | DDAC 2024 | featured | Accessibility in Analytics | — |
| Ali Baiocco | DDAC 2024 | featured | Animating the Game: The Evolution of Volumetric Tracking in Sports Broadcasting | — |
| Ashley Levine | DDAC 2024 | featured | Spark Creations: Unleash the Innovators Within You | — |
| Brett O'Neil | DDAC 2024 | featured | Animating the Game: The Evolution of Volumetric Tracking in Sports Broadcasting | — |
| Brian Burke | DDAC 2024 | featured | May the 4th (Downs) Be With You | — |
| Chad Cooper | DDAC 2024 | featured | It's About Time! Investigating How We Analyze, Utilize and Experience Time | — |
| Claudia Morales | DDAC 2024 | featured | Spark Creations: Unleash the Innovators Within You | — |
| Farnaz Shoraka | DDAC 2024 | featured | Free Solo: Summiting the World of Social with National Geographic | — |
| Hailey Skoglund | DDAC 2024 | featured | Spark Creations: Unleash the Innovators Within You | — |
| Justin Hoffman | DDAC 2024 | featured | Turning Data Inside Out: Creating Core Memories | — |
| Kerri Bair | DDAC 2024 | featured | Spark Creations: Unleash the Innovators Within You | — |
| Kevin Masick | DDAC 2024 | featured | Turning Data Inside Out: Creating Core Memories | — |
| Lauren Boyer | DDAC 2024 | featured | Free Solo: Summiting the World of Social with National Geographic | — |
| Lexi Hunt | DDAC 2024 | featured | Accessibility in Analytics | — |
| Nick Lewerke | DDAC 2024 | featured | Free Solo: Summiting the World of Social with National Geographic | — |
| Sara Shapiro | DDAC 2024 | featured | Free Solo: Summiting the World of Social with National Geographic | — |
| Eric Leung | posit::conf(2024) | lightning | R Scripts to Databricks: Lessons in Production Workflow | Video |
| Ashley Gough | Data Innovation Summit 2024 | featured | — | — |
| Amy Sardeshmukh | DDAC 2023 | featured | Modeling the Magic: Attraction Optimization Through Simulation | — |
| Ari Silva | DDAC 2023 | featured | From Influencers to Influencing Purchase: How to Leverage Organic Social to Amplify Media Investment | — |
| Ashley Gough | DDAC 2023 | featured | Embrace the Unknown: Journeys of Discovery and Reinvention | — |
| Caitlin Cassidy | DDAC 2023 | featured | Hiring Tactics for a "Practically Perfect" Magical Team | — |
| Cara Dienes | DDAC 2023 | featured | X Marks the Spot: A Treasure Map to Find Analytics-Driven Business Value | — |
| Chad Cooper | DDAC 2023 | featured | The Fast and the Curious: Discovering the Power of Curiosity to Create, Collaborate and Innovate | — |
| Clare Tuyn | DDAC 2023 | featured | Embrace the Unknown: Journeys of Discovery and Reinvention | — |
| Jeff Wiley | DDAC 2023 | featured | Modeling the Magic: Attraction Optimization Through Simulation | — |
| Joni Ferguson | DDAC 2023 | featured | Embrace the Unknown: Journeys of Discovery and Reinvention | — |
| Julie Wellons | DDAC 2023 | featured | Embrace the Unknown: Journeys of Discovery and Reinvention | — |
| Lisa Meyer | DDAC 2023 | featured | From Influencers to Influencing Purchase: How to Leverage Organic Social to Amplify Media Investment | — |
| McKay Curtis | DDAC 2023 | featured | Using Machine Learning to Help You Not Be Annoying | — |
| Michael Tschanz | DDAC 2023 | keynote | From #BigData 2 #BigImpact - Maximize Value, Shape the Future | — |
| Nick Winfrey | DDAC 2023 | featured | How Leading the Data Clean Room Revolution Landed Disney on 2023's List of Most Innovative Companies | — |
| Paloma Sierra Rivera | DDAC 2023 | featured | Embrace the Unknown: Journeys of Discovery and Reinvention | — |
| Tara Wilson | DDAC 2023 | featured | Teaching Dogs New Tricks: Level Up Your Python | — |
| Cara Dienes | DDAC 2022 | featured | Human Learning: Navigating the learning curve across an analytics career | — |
| Christine McCarthy | DDAC 2022 | keynote | The Art and Science of Data-Driven Decision Making | — |
| Don Ross | DDAC 2022 | featured | Unlocking the Benefits of Cloud Architecture to Create Magical Analytic Solutions | — |
| Justin Ford | DDAC 2022 | featured | Unlocking the Benefits of Cloud Architecture to Create Magical Analytic Solutions | — |
| Mina McBride | DDAC 2022 | featured | Allyship: One Size Doesn't Fit All | — |
| Tara Wilson | DDAC 2022 | featured | Allyship: One Size Doesn't Fit All | — |
| Daphne Cheung | Data Innovation Summit 2022 | featured | — | — |
| Daphne Cheung | Data Innovation Summit 2021 | featured | — | — |
| Maya Senen | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Rapid online data transfer with AWS DataSync | Slides · Video |
| Brian Jeselnick | DDAC 2019 | featured | From 'Once Upon a Time' to 'Happily Ever After' - How to Deliver Unforgettable Data-Driven Stories | — |
| Doug Hill | DDAC 2019 | featured | Machine Learning : An Attacker's Perspective | — |
| Farnaz Shoraka | DDAC 2019 | featured | Movies Analytics : The Infinity Quest | — |
| Glen Taylor | DDAC 2019 | featured | Machine Learning : An Attacker's Perspective | — |
| Matt Estes | DDAC 2019 | featured | Machine Learning : An Attacker's Perspective | — |
| Matt Nickens | DDAC 2019 | featured | Discovering Audience Preferences through Machine Learning | — |
| Mitkumar Pandya | DDAC 2019 | featured | Discovering Audience Preferences through Machine Learning | — |
| Nick Lewerke | DDAC 2019 | featured | Movies Analytics : The Infinity Quest | — |
| Steve Appleby | DDAC 2019 | featured | From 'Once Upon a Time' to 'Happily Ever After' - How to Deliver Unforgettable Data-Driven Stories | — |