Zillow
Circuit mix
Where Zillow shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Modern data stack & practitioner22%4 events
- Research22%2 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows17%2 events
- Cloud providers17%3 events
- Open-source data infrastructure6%1 event
- Streaming6%1 event
- Python & R data science6%1 event
- Software engineering & trading tech6%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 1 conference in 2020.
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 3
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)once, 2020, Silver
- Data + AI Summitonce, 2019, unranked tier
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)once, 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).
- Netflix0.83
- Booz Allen Hamilton0.78
- LinkedIn0.72
- Intuit0.71
- Duolingo0.71
- Capital One0.71
- Kuaishou0.68
- Twitter0.67
11 Cluster: NeurIPS · ACM SIGKDD circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 3 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | 3 | 100% |
| Alibaba Cloud | 2 | 67% |
| Apple | 2 | 67% |
| Baidu | 2 | 67% |
| Bloomberg | 2 | 67% |
| Booz Allen Hamilton | 2 | 67% |
| Bosch | 2 | 67% |
| ByteDance | 2 | 67% |
| The D. E. Shaw Group | 2 | 67% |
| 2 | 67% | |
| IBM | 2 | 67% |
| Intel | 2 | 67% |
| Meta | 2 | 67% |
| Microsoft | 2 | 67% |
| National Security Agency | 2 | 67% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Zillow (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 3
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDD 2020 (virtual) | Aug 23–27, 2020 | San Diego, United States | Silver | Silver |
| NeurIPS 2019 | Dec 8–14, 2019 | Vancouver, Canada | Gold | Gold |
| Spark + AI Summit 2019 | Apr 23–25, 2019 | San Francisco, United States | Recruiting | Other |
Speakers 14
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meena Chokkalingam | Data Con LA 2026 | speaker | Domain Modeling in the Age of AI: Why the Semantic Layer Is the New Bottleneck | — |
| Terran Melconian | QCon AI Boston 2026 | speaker | Decision-Driven Evaluation for Generative AI | — |
| Joshua McKiddy | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Build secure applications on AWS the well-architected way [REPEAT] | Video |
| Aaron Wroblewski | Data Council Austin '23 | talk | The Data Infra Behind Zillow's 3x Growth in Experiment Volume | — |
| Rupesh Kumar Perugu | Trino Summit 2022 | speaker | Optimizing Trino using spot instances | Slides · Video |
| Santhosh Venkatraman | Trino Summit 2022 | speaker | Optimizing Trino using spot instances | Slides · Video |
| Deepak Konidena | Coalesce 2022 New Orleans | speaker | Democratizing data at Zillow with dbt, Airflow, Spark, and Kubernetes | Video |
| Tarun Agarwal | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | How Zillow and Genesys are transforming customer conversations | Slides · Video |
| Kelly Smith | Flink Forward Global 2020 | speaker | How We're Democratizing Stream Processing at Zillow | — |
| Tatiana Ensslin | Dash 2020 | speaker | — | — |
| Nikhil Gupta | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Powering Zillow 3D Home tours with AWS serverless | Slides · Video |
| Randy Yao | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Powering Zillow 3D Home tours with AWS serverless | Slides · Video |
| Boaz Brudner | Data Con LA 2019 | speaker | Move Fast, Think Big: The Principles of Managing Large Scale Big Data and Application Development Projects | — |
| Amanda Sopkin | PyCon US 2019 | speaker | The Refactoring Balance Beam: When to Make Changes and When to Leave it Alone | Video |