AHEAD
Also listed as 1 other name
Ahead
Circuit mix
Where AHEAD shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Vendor flagships & roadshows44%2 events
- Alt data & financial information44%2 events
- Cloud providers11%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where AHEAD sponsored or had speakers in the past 12 months, and the announced events it is already listed for. One row per conference, January to December; hover a mark for the event and the company's role.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STAC Summit | ||||||||
| NVIDIA GTC | ||||||||
| Snowflake Summit | ||||||||
| AWS re:Invent |
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
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
FlatSponsored 1 conference in 2026, flat from 1 in 2022.
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.
New 2
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- NVIDIA GTCfirst sponsored 2026, Platinum
- STAC Summitfirst sponsored 2025, unranked tier
Pulled out 1
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- Snowflake Summitlast sponsored 2022; 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).
11 Cluster: STAC Summit · NVIDIA GTC circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 4 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence | 3 | 75% |
| DDN | 3 | 75% |
| Dell Technologies | 3 | 75% |
| 3 | 75% | |
| IBM | 3 | 75% |
| Supermicro | 3 | 75% |
| Accenture | 2 | 50% |
| Aeron (Adaptive) | 2 | 50% |
| Amazon Web Services | 2 | 50% |
| Arista | 2 | 50% |
| Capital One | 2 | 50% |
| cPacket Networks | 2 | 50% |
| Deloitte | 2 | 50% |
| EY | 2 | 50% |
| Hypertec | 2 | 50% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
AHEAD (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 4
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GTC 2026 | Mar 16–19, 2026 | San Jose, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| STAC Summit Chicago, Spring 2025 | May 21, 2025 | Chicago, United States | ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS | Other |
| STAC Summit New York, Spring 2025 | May 13, 2025 | New York, United States | ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS | Other |
| Snowflake Summit 2022 | Jun 13–16, 2022 | Las Vegas, United States | Snow Row Partner | Bronze |
Speakers 2
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Perkins | STAC Summit Chicago, Spring 2025 | speaker | Built to Scale: De-Risking Advanced Compute with Factory Integration | — |
| Tim Frank | AWS re:Invent 2024 | keynote | AWS Partner Keynote with Dr. Ruba Borno | — |