Shopify at ICML 2026

Shopify AI at ICML

July 6-11, 2026 • Seoul, South Korea

Join our remote-first team building AI systems at massive scale 🚀

Take the first step:

AI powering global commerce

We're building global commerce intelligence. Our ML systems process billions of daily queries, enabling millions of merchants to succeed worldwide. We've assembled the best AI talent on the planet to make commerce better for everyone. New to Shopify? Here's what matters:

$14.6B BFCM 2025 Sales

40M/day LLM Inferences

$1.5B+ R&D Investment

∞ Model Access

Where to find us

ALL WEEK

📍 Booth #B306

Drop by anytime! Live demos, meet the team, explore opportunities

WIP Presentation Schedule

Thursday

10:05am

Sidekick

11:30am

Commerce Foundation Models

1:30pm

SimGym

2:45pm

Catalog

4:15pm

Search Query Rewriting

5:00pm

Tangle

Friday

10:05am

Catalog

11:30am

Tangle

1:30pm

Sidekick

2:45pm

SimGym

4:15pm

Commerce Foundation Models

5:00pm

Search Query Rewriting

Saturday

10:05am

SimGym

11:30am

Search Query Rewriting

2:00pm

Catalog

2:45pm

Sidekick

4:15pm

Tangle

5:00pm

Commerce Foundation Models

EXPO TALK

Monday, July 6, XXXpm KST
Room XXX

🎤

Shopify Model Distillation

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Watch

Shopify's AI leadership

Mikhail Parakhin

Chief Technology Officer

Linjun Yang

VP, Applied ML Engineering

Zhong Wu

VP, Applied ML Engineering

Andrew McNamara

Director, Applied ML Engineering

What we're building

Sidekick AI Assistant 🤖

Re-architected conversational agent with enhanced reasoning and MCP tool integration delivering multi-turn state management. 2x MAU growth in 2025.

See Sidekick in action →

Global Product Catalog 🌍

Multimodal LLMs processing 10K+ categories using Generative Recommendations architecture. Real-time inference handling 40M calls daily at sub-100ms latency.

Discover catalog tech →

Agentic AI 🛍️

Deploying AI agents that automate commerce flows through intelligent and autonomous operations while maintaining human oversight for critical decisions.

Learn about agents →

Real-time Fraud Detection 🛡️

ML models analyzing millions of transactions simultaneously using cross-platform pattern detection to protect merchant livelihoods from sophisticated threats.

Read about trust →

Semantic Search
(Vantage) 🔍

Two-stage ranking with multimodal embeddings leveraging L1 retrieval plus L2 LLM re-ranking to search across billions of products with unprecedented accuracy.

Dive into search tech →

Tangle
(Open Source) 🧪

Visual ML experimentation platform launching at NeurIPS featuring browser-based DAG editor that enables 10x experiment velocity without environment setup.

Explore Tangle →