2nd Watch
Circuit mix
Where 2nd Watch 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 providers58%4 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows25%2 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos17%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||
| CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits | ||||||||
| Snowflake Summit | ||||||||
| Modern Data Stack Conference (MDSCon) |
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale.
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.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 2 conferences 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.
Moved down 1
Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- AWS re:InventPlatinum 2019 → Gold 2022
Pulled out 2
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summitslast sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2024–26
- Snowflake Summitlast sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2024–26
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).
10 Cluster: AWS re:Invent · Google Cloud Next circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 5 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Accenture | 4 | 80% |
| Capital One | 4 | 80% |
| Matillion | 4 | 80% |
| Persistent Systems | 4 | 80% |
| Pure Storage | 4 | 80% |
| Slalom | 4 | 80% |
| AMD | 3 | 60% |
| Capgemini | 3 | 60% |
| Check Point | 3 | 60% |
| CircleCI | 3 | 60% |
| Cisco | 3 | 60% |
| Cloudflare | 3 | 60% |
| Cohesity | 3 | 60% |
| Commvault | 3 | 60% |
| Confluent | 3 | 60% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
2nd Watch (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 5
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDAO Chicago 2023 | Aug 8–9, 2023 | Chicago, United States | Sponsors | Other |
| Snowflake Summit 2023 | Jun 26–29, 2023 | Las Vegas, United States | Snow Row Partner | Bronze |
| AWS re:Invent 2022 | Nov 28, 2022 – Dec 2, 2022 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2021 | Nov 29, 2021 – Dec 3, 2021 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2019 | Dec 2–6, 2019 | Las Vegas, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
Speakers 7
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Howard | Modern Data Stack Conference 2023 | speaker | Getting real about real-time data | — |
| Chris Garvey | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | Reality check: Moving data lakes from storage to strategic (sponsored by 2nd Watch) | Slides · Video |
| Matthew Carlisle | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | Greenfield to self-service automation | Slides · Video |
| Chris Garvey | AWS re:Invent 2019 | demo theater | CCPA: State privacy law effects on cloud development | Slides · Video |
| Chris Garvey | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Simple path to AWS Managed Services (AMS) | Slides · Video |
| Stefana Muller | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Simple path to AWS Managed Services (AMS) | Slides · Video |
| Victoria Geronimo | AWS re:Invent 2019 | demo theater | CCPA: State privacy law effects on cloud development | Slides · Video |