Conference circuits
The 186 tracked conferences, grouped into 12 named circuits: conferences that draw on the same audience and the same companies. For each circuit, the companies at its core and the companies that bridge it to other circuits.
- Vendor flagships & roadshows25 conferences · 748 events · 1,453 sponsors
- Modern data stack & practitioner22 conferences · 157 events · 627 sponsors
- Open-source data infrastructure16 conferences · 105 events · 328 sponsors
- Streaming5 conferences · 61 events · 283 sponsors
- Postgres & open-source databases39 conferences · 174 events · 436 sponsors
- Microsoft data platform7 conferences · 94 events · 525 sponsors
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos20 conferences · 187 events · 2,261 sponsors
- Cloud providers3 conferences · 26 events · 527 sponsors
- AI engineering & MLOps21 conferences · 146 events · 1,279 sponsors
- Python & R data science13 conferences · 372 events · 1,947 sponsors
- Research12 conferences · 108 events · 791 sponsors
- Software engineering & trading tech3 conferences · 128 events · 458 sponsors
Vendor flagships & roadshows
Conferences run by one vendor for its customers and ecosystem.
Number on each chip: events tracked.
Core companies
Present at the most of its 25 conferences, as sponsor or speaker.
- Amazon Web Servicessponsored at 17 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Microsoftsponsored at 11 / spoke at 9 of its conferences
- Databrickssponsored at 11 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Accenturesponsored at 11 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
- Googlesponsored at 11 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Capgeminisponsored at 10 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Deloittesponsored at 9 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
- Snowflakesponsored at 7 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- dbt Labssponsored at 9 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Infosyssponsored at 8 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- EYsponsored at 8 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Fivetransponsored at 7 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
Bridge companies
At least 20% of their presence here and at least 20% in another circuit; largest overall presence first.
- Fivetran 47% hereEnterprise expos 31%
- Neo4j 22% hereEnterprise expos 30%
- Confluent 25% hereEnterprise expos 21%
- Dataiku 43% hereEnterprise expos 44%
- Qlik 49% hereEnterprise expos 36%
- Informatica 50% hereEnterprise expos 40%
- SAP 20% hereEnterprise expos 30%Research 28%
- Alteryx 34% hereEnterprise expos 62%
Modern data stack & practitioner
Independent and community conferences for data practitioners and the startups that sell to them.
Number on each chip: events tracked.
Core companies
Present at the most of its 22 conferences, as sponsor or speaker.
- Amazon Web Servicessponsored at 8 / spoke at 14 of its conferences
- Snowflakesponsored at 8 / spoke at 14 of its conferences
- Databrickssponsored at 10 / spoke at 11 of its conferences
- MotherDucksponsored at 9 / spoke at 12 of its conferences
- Googlesponsored at 5 / spoke at 12 of its conferences
- IBMsponsored at 6 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- Microsoftsponsored at 4 / spoke at 9 of its conferences
- Netflixsponsored at 3 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Monte Carlosponsored at 4 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Salesforcesponsored at 3 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- DuckDB Labsspoke at 8 of its conferences
- Fivetransponsored at 5 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
Bridge companies
At least 20% of their presence here and at least 20% in another circuit; largest overall presence first.
- ClickHouse 26% hereEnterprise expos 26%
- Instaclustr 22% herePostgres & OSS 24%
- Thoughtworks 26% herePython & R 26%
- DataStax 21% hereOpen-source infra 28%Enterprise expos 26%
- Snowplow 20% hereVendor 36%Enterprise expos 36%
- Astronomer 30% hereVendor 36%
- Airbyte 25% hereVendor 30%Enterprise expos 20%
- Omni 24% hereVendor 45%Enterprise expos 23%
Open-source data infrastructure
Apache and open-source project conferences around lakehouse formats, query engines and data infrastructure.
Number on each chip: events tracked.
Core companies
Present at the most of its 16 conferences, as sponsor or speaker.
- Amazon Web Servicessponsored at 7 / spoke at 14 of its conferences
- Microsoftsponsored at 4 / spoke at 12 of its conferences
- Databrickssponsored at 2 / spoke at 10 of its conferences
- Googlesponsored at 5 / spoke at 10 of its conferences
- IBMsponsored at 5 / spoke at 10 of its conferences
- Netflixspoke at 9 of its conferences
- Starburstsponsored at 5 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- Bloombergsponsored at 3 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- StarTreesponsored at 3 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Applesponsored at 2 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- Ubersponsored at 1 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- Clouderasponsored at 3 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
Bridge companies
At least 20% of their presence here and at least 20% in another circuit; largest overall presence first.
- Starburst 23% hereEnterprise expos 36%
- Apple 26% hereResearch 45%
- Dremio 20% hereEnterprise expos 39%
- DataStax 28% hereEnterprise expos 26%Modern data stack 21%
- Imply 23% hereStreaming 32%
- NetApp 22% hereEnterprise expos 22%Cloud 22%
- StreamNative 24% hereStreaming 57%
- eBay 23% hereResearch 52%
Streaming
Event streaming and real-time processing.
Number on each chip: events tracked.
Core companies
Present at the most of its 5 conferences, as sponsor or speaker.
- Amazon Web Servicessponsored at 4 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
- Googlesponsored at 4 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
- Apache Software Foundationsponsored at 4 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- Confluentsponsored at 1 / spoke at 4 of its conferences
- StreamNativesponsored at 3 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Decodablesponsored at 3 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Clouderasponsored at 3 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- Factor Housesponsored at 3 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- Manningsponsored at 3 of its conferences
- DeltaStreamsponsored at 3 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Ververicasponsored at 2 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Alibaba Cloudsponsored at 2 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
Bridge companies
At least 20% of their presence here and at least 20% in another circuit; largest overall presence first.
- Imply 32% hereOpen-source infra 23%
- Manning 21% herePython & R 47%
- StreamNative 57% hereOpen-source infra 24%
- Azul 47% hereSoftware & trading 35%
- Materialize 21% hereModern data stack 29%Enterprise expos 21%
- PingCAP 20% hereSoftware & trading 20%
- Rockset 31% hereVendor 33%
- StarTree 39% hereOpen-source infra 37%
Postgres & open-source databases
The PostgreSQL community circuit, plus MySQL/MariaDB and FOSDEM's database rooms.
Number on each chip: events tracked.
Core companies
Present at the most of its 8 conferences, as sponsor or speaker (the regional PGDays count as one).
- Amazon Web Servicessponsored at 8 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- EDBsponsored at 7 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- Microsoftsponsored at 7 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- Perconasponsored at 7 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- Googlesponsored at 7 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- Aivensponsored at 7 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- ClickHousesponsored at 3 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- CYBERTECsponsored at 5 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Yugabytesponsored at 5 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Timescalesponsored at 5 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Databrickssponsored at 5 / spoke at 5 of its conferences
- Pivotalsponsored at 4 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
Bridge companies
At least 20% of their presence here and at least 20% in another circuit; largest overall presence first.
- Redgate 32% hereMicrosoft 58%
- Instaclustr 24% hereModern data stack 22%
- Navicat 68% herePython & R 21%
- Arm 20% herePython & R 23%
- Nutanix 21% hereSoftware & trading 21%
- Datavail 25% hereMicrosoft 33%Vendor 21%
- GitLab 23% hereCloud 33%
- MariaDB 26% hereEnterprise expos 41%
Microsoft data platform
SQL Server, Power BI and Fabric community events.
Number on each chip: events tracked.
Core companies
Present at the most of its 7 conferences, as sponsor or speaker.
- Microsoftsponsored at 5 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Redgatesponsored at 6 / spoke at 5 of its conferences
- Tabular Editorsponsored at 5 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Databrickssponsored at 2 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
- dbWatchsponsored at 5 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- TimeXtendersponsored at 5 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- Pure Storagesponsored at 3 / spoke at 5 of its conferences
- Centric Consultingsponsored at 3 / spoke at 4 of its conferences
- GDS Business Intelligence GmbHsponsored at 1 / spoke at 5 of its conferences
- Avanadesponsored at 1 / spoke at 5 of its conferences
- Questsponsored at 4 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
- Iderasponsored at 4 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
Bridge companies
At least 20% of their presence here and at least 20% in another circuit; largest overall presence first.
- Redgate 58% herePostgres & OSS 32%
- Quest 45% hereEnterprise expos 24%
- Pure Storage 29% hereSoftware & trading 22%
- Insight 22% hereVendor 56%
- Advancing Analytics 35% hereVendor 31%Enterprise expos 23%
- CGI 41% hereEnterprise expos 37%
- Datavail 33% herePostgres & OSS 25%Vendor 21%
- Profisee 38% hereEnterprise expos 42%
Enterprise, analyst & AI expos
Large expos and analyst-led summits aimed at enterprise data and AI buyers.
Number on each chip: events tracked.
Core companies
Present at the most of its 20 conferences, as sponsor or speaker.
- Denodosponsored at 12 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Snowflakesponsored at 10 / spoke at 9 of its conferences
- IBMsponsored at 10 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- Alteryxsponsored at 10 / spoke at 5 of its conferences
- Dataikusponsored at 10 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Neo4jsponsored at 10 / spoke at 5 of its conferences
- Fivetransponsored at 9 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
- Microsoftsponsored at 9 / spoke at 9 of its conferences
- Googlesponsored at 8 / spoke at 9 of its conferences
- Oraclesponsored at 9 / spoke at 4 of its conferences
- Amazon Web Servicessponsored at 8 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
- HPsponsored at 8 / spoke at 5 of its conferences
Bridge companies
At least 20% of their presence here and at least 20% in another circuit; largest overall presence first.
Cloud providers
The hyperscalers' own conferences.
Number on each chip: events tracked.
Core companies
Present at the most of its 3 conferences, as sponsor or speaker.
- Deloittesponsored at 3 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Accenturesponsored at 3 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Capgeminisponsored at 3 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- NVIDIAsponsored at 3 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Intelsponsored at 3 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- PwCsponsored at 3 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- Teradatasponsored at 3 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- Palo Alto Networkssponsored at 2 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- Cognizantsponsored at 2 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- NetAppsponsored at 2 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- Salesforcesponsored at 2 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- Elasticsponsored at 2 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
Bridge companies
At least 20% of their presence here and at least 20% in another circuit; largest overall presence first.
- Teradata 20% hereEnterprise expos 55%
- NetApp 22% hereOpen-source infra 22%Enterprise expos 22%
- Cognizant 29% hereVendor 56%
- PwC 30% hereVendor 28%Enterprise expos 22%
- Wipro 24% hereVendor 61%
- ServiceNow 22% hereResearch 27%Enterprise expos 24%
- LaunchDarkly 20% hereSoftware & trading 32%Vendor 30%
- Splunk 34% hereEnterprise expos 28%
AI engineering & MLOps
Building, deploying and operating ML and AI systems.
Number on each chip: events tracked.
Core companies
Present at the most of its 21 conferences, as sponsor or speaker.
- Googlesponsored at 11 / spoke at 14 of its conferences
- Microsoftsponsored at 7 / spoke at 14 of its conferences
- NVIDIAsponsored at 7 / spoke at 10 of its conferences
- Amazon Web Servicessponsored at 11 / spoke at 9 of its conferences
- Databrickssponsored at 9 / spoke at 9 of its conferences
- Metasponsored at 1 / spoke at 11 of its conferences
- IBMsponsored at 8 / spoke at 9 of its conferences
- JPMorgan Chasesponsored at 1 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- OpenAIsponsored at 2 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- Spotifysponsored at 2 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- UC Berkeleysponsored at 1 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- Intelsponsored at 7 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
Bridge companies
At least 20% of their presence here and at least 20% in another circuit; largest overall presence first.
- SAS 24% hereEnterprise expos 60%
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise 21% hereEnterprise expos 32%Software & trading 21%
- Anthropic 37% hereVendor 24%
- Sentry 26% herePython & R 51%
- HP 27% hereEnterprise expos 69%
- Hugging Face 33% herePython & R 29%
- Temporal 31% herePython & R 26%
- Auth0 29% herePython & R 38%
Python & R data science
Community conferences for the Python and R data ecosystems.
Number on each chip: events tracked.
Core companies
Present at the most of its 13 conferences, as sponsor or speaker.
- Amazon Web Servicessponsored at 5 / spoke at 9 of its conferences
- Microsoftsponsored at 6 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- Positsponsored at 6 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Bloombergsponsored at 5 / spoke at 7 of its conferences
- Metasponsored at 3 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
- NumFOCUSsponsored at 6 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
- Googlesponsored at 4 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
- Saturn Cloudsponsored at 4 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
- NVIDIAsponsored at 3 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
- Capital Onesponsored at 3 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
- Hugging Facesponsored at 1 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
- New York Universitysponsored at 1 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
Bridge companies
At least 20% of their presence here and at least 20% in another circuit; largest overall presence first.
- Capital One 27% hereResearch 25%
- Two Sigma 39% hereResearch 44%
- Thoughtworks 26% hereModern data stack 26%
- Manning 47% hereStreaming 21%
- Navicat 21% herePostgres & OSS 68%
- Sentry 51% hereAI eng & MLOps 26%
- Sticker Mule 56% hereSoftware & trading 32%
- Hugging Face 29% hereAI eng & MLOps 33%
Research
Academic conferences on databases, data mining and machine learning.
Number on each chip: events tracked.
Core companies
Present at the most of its 12 conferences, as sponsor or speaker.
- Googlesponsored at 11 / spoke at 9 of its conferences
- Microsoftsponsored at 9 / spoke at 9 of its conferences
- IBMsponsored at 10 / spoke at 5 of its conferences
- Amazon Web Servicessponsored at 9 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
- Oraclesponsored at 8 / spoke at 5 of its conferences
- Huaweisponsored at 8 / spoke at 4 of its conferences
- Metasponsored at 7 / spoke at 8 of its conferences
- SAPsponsored at 7 / spoke at 4 of its conferences
- New York Universitysponsored at 1 / spoke at 9 of its conferences
- Alibaba Cloudsponsored at 6 / spoke at 6 of its conferences
- Snowflakesponsored at 7 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
- ByteDancesponsored at 6 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
Bridge companies
At least 20% of their presence here and at least 20% in another circuit; largest overall presence first.
- Oracle 32% hereEnterprise expos 26%
- SAP 28% hereEnterprise expos 30%Vendor 20%
- Apple 45% hereOpen-source infra 26%
- Capital One 25% herePython & R 27%
- Two Sigma 44% herePython & R 39%
- eBay 52% hereOpen-source infra 23%
- Intuit 26% hereModern data stack 23%
- UC Berkeley 21% hereAI eng & MLOps 47%
Software engineering & trading tech
General software-engineering and capital-markets technology conferences.
Number on each chip: events tracked.
Core companies
Present at the most of its 3 conferences, as sponsor or speaker.
- Pure Storagesponsored at 3 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
- Amazon Web Servicessponsored at 2 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
- Microsoftsponsored at 1 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
- Dell Technologiessponsored at 1 / spoke at 3 of its conferences
- IBMsponsored at 2 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Oraclesponsored at 2 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Azulsponsored at 2 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- WhiteSourcesponsored at 2 of its conferences
- Undosponsored at 2 / spoke at 2 of its conferences
- Redpandasponsored at 2 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- Temporalsponsored at 2 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
- Solacesponsored at 2 / spoke at 1 of its conferences
Bridge companies
At least 20% of their presence here and at least 20% in another circuit; largest overall presence first.
- Pure Storage 22% hereMicrosoft 29%
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise 21% hereEnterprise expos 32%AI eng & MLOps 21%
- Siemens 43% hereEnterprise expos 23%
- Sticker Mule 32% herePython & R 56%
- Xebia 47% herePython & R 23%
- KX 68% hereEnterprise expos 21%
- Nutanix 21% herePostgres & OSS 21%
- Azul 35% hereStreaming 47%
Other views
Similarity matrix → every pair of conferences, by shared sponsor or speaker companies.
Exploratory maps (t-SNE) → companies and conferences placed by footprint; see also the conference map.
Method: a company's presence in a circuit counts each distinct event once, 2 if it sponsored and 1 if it only had speakers there. Cancelled events are left out.