Shopify at NeurIPS 2025

Shopify AI at NeurIPS

December 2-7, 2025 • San Diego, California

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 #1713 • Hall A/B

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

Presentation Schedule

Wednesday

9:30am

Merchant Recommender

11:00am

Sidekick

12:00pm

Tangle

1:30pm

Catalogue

4:30pm

Buyer Recommender

Thursday

9:30am

Sidekick

11:30am

Catalogue

1:00pm

Tangle

4:00pm

Buyer Recommender

4:30pm

Merchant Recommender

EXPO TALK

Tuesday Dec 2, 8:30am
Upper Level Ballroom 6AB

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Generative
Recommendations

Building recommendations at commerce scale

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SPOT TALK

Thursday Dec 4, 11:15am
Exhibit Hall AB

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Tangle
Platform

Open-source ML experimentation

Visual pipeline builder launching at NeurIPS

Explore Tangle →

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 →