Zoox
Circuit mix
Where Zoox shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Cloud providers29%4 events
- AI engineering & MLOps21%3 events
- Software engineering & trading tech21%3 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner14%2 events
- Research14%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||||
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| Ray Summit | ||||||||||
| Amazon re:MARS | ||||||||||
| NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) | ||||||||||
| Airflow Summit | ||||||||||
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||||
| Reverie |
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.
- Bronze
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 1 conference in 2023.
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 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)once, 2023, Bronze
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).
- Figma0.83
- poolside0.83
- DatologyAI0.78
- Cohere0.78
- Tesla0.74
- TwelveLabs0.74
- Stripe0.73
- Lovable0.73
11 Cluster: NeurIPS · ACM SIGKDD 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Micro Devices | 1 | 100% |
| Alibaba Cloud | 1 | 100% |
| Amazon Science | 1 | 100% |
| Ant Group | 1 | 100% |
| Apple | 1 | 100% |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | 100% |
| Baidu | 1 | 100% |
| Bloomberg | 1 | 100% |
| Borealis AI | 1 | 100% |
| Bosch | 1 | 100% |
| Cambridge University Press | 1 | 100% |
| Capital One | 1 | 100% |
| Celonis | 1 | 100% |
| Cerebras | 1 | 100% |
| Citadel | 1 | 100% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Zoox (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NeurIPS 2023 | Dec 10–16, 2023 | New Orleans, United States | Bronze | Bronze |
Speakers 17
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adharvan Jakkula | Reverie 2026 | speaker | Beyond HPC Storage: S3-Native Training Without the Performance Tradeoff | — |
| Amit Navindgi | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | expo session | From Self-Driving Monorepo to Self-Driving Cars | — |
| Jatin Aneja | QCon AI Boston 2026 | speaker | From Hype to Habit: Conquering AI Adoption at Zoox | — |
| Amit Navindgi | QCon London 2026 | speaker | Building an AI Gateway Without Frameworks: One Platform, Many Agents | — |
| Jatin Aneja | QCon London 2026 | speaker | Building an AI Gateway Without Frameworks: One Platform, Many Agents | — |
| Anindya Saha | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Zoox: Building Machine Learning Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles | Video |
| Jesse Levinson | AWS re:Invent 2025 | innovation talk | Behind the curtain: How Amazon’s AI innovations are powered by AWS | Video |
| Jim Robinson-Bohnslav | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Zoox: Building Machine Learning Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles | Video |
| Amit Navindgi | QCon San Francisco 2025 | speaker | Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox | — |
| Siddharth Kodwani | Ray Summit 2025 | featured | — | — |
| Justin Wang | Airflow Summit 2025 | talk | Airflow at Zoox: A journey to orchestrate heterogeneous workflows | — |
| Saurabh Gupta | Airflow Summit 2025 | talk | Airflow at Zoox: A journey to orchestrate heterogeneous workflows | — |
| Prasanna Padmanabhan | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | ML infrastructure at Zoox that powers autonomous driving of robotaxis | Video |
| Ritwik Bera | Ray Summit 2023 | speaker | Supercharging self-driving algorithms development with Ray: scaling simulation workloads and democratizing autotuning at Zoox | — |
| Yunpeng Pan | Ray Summit 2023 | speaker | Supercharging self-driving algorithms development with Ray: scaling simulation workloads and democratizing autotuning at Zoox | — |
| Jesse Levinson | Amazon re:MARS 2022 | featured | — | — |
| Aicha Evans | Amazon re:MARS 2019 | featured | — | — |