WorldQuant
Circuit mix
Where WorldQuant shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Research43%3 events
- Python & R data science36%3 events
- Software engineering & trading tech14%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.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled tier
- Had speakers
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) | ||||||||||
| PyData | ||||||||||
| STAC Summit | ||||||||||
| The Data Thread |
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.
- Gold
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 2 conferences in 2026, up from 1 in 2022.
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.
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)every year 2024–26, Gold
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- PyData2 of 5 years, 2022–26
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).
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology0.79
- QuantumBlack0.77
- Inria0.73
- Qube Research & Technologies0.73
- Probabl0.71
- Shopify0.70
- Cruise0.66
- Mistral0.66
11 Cluster: NeurIPS · ACM SIGKDD circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 5 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) | 3 | 60% |
| Apple | 3 | 60% |
| Capital One | 3 | 60% |
| Cerebras | 3 | 60% |
| Citadel | 3 | 60% |
| Cohere | 3 | 60% |
| Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 3 | 60% |
| The D. E. Shaw Group | 3 | 60% |
| DatologyAI | 3 | 60% |
| DRW | 3 | 60% |
| Figma | 3 | 60% |
| G-Research | 3 | 60% |
| 3 | 60% | |
| IBM | 3 | 60% |
| IMC | 3 | 60% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
WorldQuant (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 5
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney) | Dec 6–12, 2026 | Sydney, Australia | Gold | Gold |
| PyData & PyCon Yerevan 2026 | Jul 24–25, 2026 | Yerevan, Armenia | — | Unlabeled |
| NeurIPS 2025 (San Diego) | Dec 2–7, 2025 | San Diego, United States | Gold | Gold |
| NeurIPS 2024 | Dec 10–15, 2024 | Vancouver, Canada | Gold | Gold |
| PyData Yerevan 2022 | Aug 12–13, 2022 | Yerevan, Armenia | Gold | Gold |
Speakers 5
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vazgen | PyData & PyCon Yerevan 2026 | talk | Beyond CLIP: Implementing CoMM — A Multimodal Contrastive Learning Paper from ICLR 2025 | — |
| Radu Teodorescu | The Data Thread 2022 | talk | A New Hope For The Big Data Divergence | Video |
| David Rukshin | STAC Summit New York, Spring 2022 | speaker | Building an ML factory | — |
| David Rukshin | Global STAC Live, Spring 2020 | keynote | KEYNOTE PANEL Analytics infrastructure: How should the pandemic change our architectural approach? | — |
| Pranav Suri | PyData Delhi 2019 | talk | How I Used Data Visualization in My Quest for the Perfect Wine | — |