Antithesis
Circuit mix
Where Antithesis shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Software engineering & trading tech40%3 events
- Streaming33%3 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows13%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps13%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 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QCon | ||||||||||
| Current (formerly Kafka Summit) | ||||||||||
| DASH | ||||||||||
| MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | ||||||||||
| Data Streaming Summit |
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale. 2027, 2028 is still mostly ahead, so its bars are faded and incomplete.
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.
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 3 conferences in 2026, up from 2 in 2024.
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.
- DASHfirst sponsored 2026, unranked tier
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPConfirst sponsored 2026, Silver
Moved up 1
Best tier rose between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- QConBronze 2024 → Silver 2026
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit)every year 2024–25, mostly Silver
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).
7 Cluster: QCon · MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 7 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Yugabyte | 5 | 71% |
| Amazon Web Services | 4 | 57% |
| 4 | 57% | |
| Gravitee | 4 | 57% |
| Conduktor | 3 | 43% |
| Databricks | 3 | 43% |
| Datadog | 3 | 43% |
| IBM | 3 | 43% |
| Materialize | 3 | 43% |
| Orkes | 3 | 43% |
| Temporal | 3 | 43% |
| Unblocked | 3 | 43% |
| Accenture | 2 | 29% |
| Aiven | 2 | 29% |
| Aklivity | 2 | 29% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Antithesis (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 7
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QCon San Francisco 2026 | Nov 16–18, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Silver | Silver |
| AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 | Oct 22–23, 2026 | San Jose, United States | Silver | Silver |
| DASH 2026 | Jun 9–10, 2026 | New York, United States | Participating Sponsors | Other |
| QCon London 2026 | Mar 16–18, 2026 | London, United Kingdom | Silver | Silver |
| Current New Orleans 2025 | Oct 29–30, 2025 | New Orleans, United States | Silver | Silver |
| QCon San Francisco 2024 | Nov 18–20, 2024 | San Francisco, United States | Bronze | Bronze |
| Current 2024 | Sep 17–18, 2024 | Austin, United States | Startup | Startup |
Speakers 4
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrian Hatch | QCon San Francisco 2026 | speaker | Trust, but Verify: Delivering Quality with Agentic Workflows | — |
| Lawrie Green | QCon London 2026 | speaker | Learning to Trust your AI Agents | — |
| Connor McKee | Data Streaming Summit San Francisco 2025 | speaker | Are Your Kafka Guarantees Actually Guaranteed? | Video |
| Lawrie Green | Data Streaming Summit San Francisco 2025 | speaker | Are Your Kafka Guarantees Actually Guaranteed? | Video |