Yelp
Circuit mix
Where Yelp shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Python & R data science31%5 events
- Open-source data infrastructure24%7 events
- Streaming24%6 events
- Postgres & open-source databases7%1 event
- Modern data stack & practitioner3%1 event
- Microsoft data platform3%1 event
- Cloud providers3%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps3%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.
- Gold
- Silver
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 5 conferences in 2019.
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.
Once or on and off 5
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- EuroPythononce, 2019, unranked tier
- Flink Forwardonce, 2019, Silver
- Percona Liveonce, 2019, unranked tier
- PyCon (national Python conferences)once, 2019, Gold
- PyDataonce, 2019, Gold
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).
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines0.82
- Mor Consulting0.82
- The Alan Turing Institute0.81
- Warsaw University of Technology0.81
- Kraken0.81
- Episource0.81
- Ordina Pythoneers0.80
- Octopus Energy0.79
16 Cluster: PyCon · EuroPython 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 4 | 67% |
| Amazon Web Services | 3 | 50% |
| 3 | 50% | |
| JetBrains | 3 | 50% |
| Python Academy | 3 | 50% |
| Anaconda | 2 | 33% |
| Anvil | 2 | 33% |
| Bloomberg | 2 | 33% |
| Datadog | 2 | 33% |
| Intel | 2 | 33% |
| Linode | 2 | 33% |
| Meta | 2 | 33% |
| MongoDB | 2 | 33% |
| Nexmo | 2 | 33% |
| Pluralsight | 2 | 33% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Yelp (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 Canada 2019 | Nov 16–19, 2019 | Toronto, Canada | Gold | Gold |
| PyCon DE & PyData Berlin 2019 | Oct 9–11, 2019 | Berlin, Germany | Gold | Gold |
| EuroPython 2019 | Jul 8–14, 2019 | Basel, Switzerland | Sponsor | Other |
| Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | May 28–30, 2019 | Austin, United States | Branding | Other |
| PyCon US 2019 | May 1–9, 2019 | Cleveland, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Flink Forward San Francisco 2019 | Apr 1–2, 2019 | San Francisco, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
Speakers 26
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cem Aksoy | Haystack US 2026 | speaker | Managing Search Teams: Field Stories & Practical Takeaways | Video |
| Fatima Taj | Berlin Buzzwords 2025 | talk | How I Sidestepped ‘Being Glue’ | Slides · Video |
| Jacqueline Lee | Data Platform Next Step 2025 | talk | From Chaos to Clarity: Enabling Data teams with Observability | — |
| Pallavi Patil | Haystack EU 2024 | speaker | Relevance Proof in Yelp Search: LLM-Powered Annotations | Slides · Video |
| Ashish Khatkar | Berlin Buzzwords 2024 | talk | Evolving Yelp's Streaming at Scale | Video |
| Ali Rokni | Haystack US 2024 | speaker | Search Query Understanding with LLMs: From Ideation to Production | Slides · Video |
| Umesh Dangat | Berlin Buzzwords 2022 | talk | NrtSearch: Yelp’s fast, scalable, and cost-effective open source search engine | Video |
| Nahla Salem | 3rd Annual MLOps World 2022 | speaker | Panel: What Every Product Manager Delivering AI Solutions Should Know | — |
| Ryan Irwin | 3rd Annual MLOps World 2022 | speaker | Low-latency Neural Network Inference for ML Ranking Applications | — |
| Pradeep Nethagani | Flink Forward Global 2020 | speaker | Realtime bot detection with Flink | — |
| John Stimac | Beam Digital Summit 2020 | speaker | API Sink Connector: A Configurable Beam Pipeline for Connecting to Third-Party Data Stores | Video |
| Yenny Cheung | EuroPython 2020 Online | talk | Creating an inclusive team culture in times of change | Slides · Video |
| Catlyn Kong | Flink Forward Virtual Conference 2020 | speaker | Flink acceptance testing and state compatibility checking | — |
| Steven Moy | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | [REPEAT 1] What’s new with Amazon Redshift, featuring Yelp | Slides · Video |
| Samuele Maci | PyCon DE & PyData Berlin 2019 | talk | What if I tell you that your specs are broken | — |
| Antonio Verardi | Flink Forward Europe 2019 | speaker | Kubernetes + Operator + PaaSTA = Flink @ Yelp | — |
| Enrico Canzonieri | Flink Forward Europe 2019 | speaker | Stream SQL with Flink @ Yelp | — |
| Enrico Canzonieri | Flink Forward Europe 2019 | panelist | Panel Discussion: Building Self Service Platforms for Apache Flink | — |
| Enrico Canzonieri | Beam Summit North America 2019 | speaker | Stream processing for the masses with Beam, Python and Flink | Video |
| Stephan Jaensch | EuroPython 2019 | talk | Testing Microservices: fast and with confidence | Slides · Video |
| Yenny Cheung | EuroPython 2019 | keynote | Why You Should Pursue Public Speaking and How to Get There | Slides · Video |
| Abrar Ahmed Sheikh | PyCon US 2019 | speaker | A Guide to Software Engineering for Visually Impaired | Video |
| Umesh Dangat | Haystack 2019 | speaker | Evolution of Yelp search to a generalized ranking platform | Slides · Video |
| Amit Ramesh | Data Council San Francisco 2019 | talk | End-to-end Exactly-once Aggregation Over Ad Streams | — |
| Luca Giovagnoli | Flink Forward San Francisco 2019 | speaker | Realtime Store Visit Predictions at Scale | — |
| Prem Santosh Udaya Shankar | Flink Forward San Francisco 2019 | speaker | Creating millions of user sessions using Complex Event Processing | — |