Nikhil Simha
Employers on the program
- 2025–2026Zipline AI2 talks
- 2019–2023Airbnb3 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- QCon
- Data Council
- Data Innovation Summit
- OpenXData
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2026 | QCon London 2026 | QCon | speaker | Chronon - Mixed-Workload Data Processing Framework as Zipline AI Chronon is a data processing framework open-sourced by Airbnb. It is adopted across organizations like Stripe, Netflix, OpenAI, and Uber. Chronon was originally…Show lessChronon is a data processing framework open-sourced by Airbnb. It is adopted across organizations like Stripe, Netflix, OpenAI, and Uber. Chronon was originally built for ML applications. | |
| May 21, 2025 | OpenXData 2025 | OpenXData | speaker | Cross paradigm compute engine for AI/ML data as Zipline AI AI/ML systems require realtime information derived from many data sources. This context is needed to create prompts and features. Most successful AI models…Show lessAI/ML systems require realtime information derived from many data sources. This context is needed to create prompts and features. Most successful AI models require rich context from a vast number of sources. | |
| Oct 2, 2023 | QCon San Francisco 2023 | QCon | speaker | Chronon - Airbnb’s End-to-End Feature Platform as Airbnb ML Models typically use upwards of 100 features to generate a single prediction. As a result, there is an explosion in the number of data pipelines and high…Show lessML Models typically use upwards of 100 features to generate a single prediction. As a result, there is an explosion in the number of data pipelines and high request fanout during prediction. | |
| Jul 22, 2020 | Data Council SF 2020 (online) | Data Council | talk | Zipline - Airbnb's Declarative Feature Engineering Framework ML & MLOps as Airbnb | |
| Mar 14, 2019 | Data Innovation Summit 2019 | Data Innovation Summit | speaker | Untitled as Airbnb |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazel Weakly | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Joy Ebertz | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Suhail Patel | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.