Back Market
Circuit mix
Where Back Market shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Python & R data science50%5 events
- Postgres & open-source databases40%4 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner5%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps5%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Back Market 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOSDEM | ||||||||
| PyCon (national Python conferences) | ||||||||
| EuroPython | ||||||||
| Forward Data Conference | ||||||||
| AI Product Day |
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.
- Gold
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownSponsored 2 conferences in 2026, down from 3 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.
Moved up 1
Best tier rose between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- EuroPythonBronze 2022 → Gold 2026
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- FOSDEMevery year 2019–22, unranked tier
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- PyCon (national Python conferences)3 of 8 years, 2019–26
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).
6 Cluster: PyCon · EuroPython circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 9 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 89% | |
| Red Hat | 5 | 56% |
| Amazon Web Services | 4 | 44% |
| Arm | 4 | 44% |
| Cisco | 4 | 44% |
| Colt | 4 | 44% |
| Université Libre de Bruxelles | 4 | 44% |
| Bloomberg | 3 | 33% |
| EuroPython Society | 3 | 33% |
| Hudson River Trading | 3 | 33% |
| JetBrains | 3 | 33% |
| The Linux Foundation & Cloud Native Computing Foundation | 3 | 33% |
| Microsoft | 3 | 33% |
| OpenTAP | 3 | 33% |
| 1Password | 2 | 22% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Back Market (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 9
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EuroPython 2026 | Jul 13–19, 2026 | Kraków, Poland | Gold | Gold |
| PyCon US 2026 | May 13–19, 2026 | Long Beach, United States | Participating | Other |
| PyConES 2022 | Sep 30, 2022 – Oct 2, 2022 | Granada, Spain | — | Unlabeled |
| EuroPython 2022 | Jul 11–17, 2022 | Dublin, Ireland | Bronze | Bronze |
| FOSDEM 2022 | Feb 5–6, 2022 | — | Main sponsor | Other |
| FOSDEM 2021 | Feb 6–7, 2021 | — | Main sponsor | Other |
| FOSDEM 2020 | Feb 1–2, 2020 | Brussels, Belgium | Main sponsor | Other |
| PyConFR 2019 | Oct 31, 2019 – Nov 3, 2019 | Bordeaux, France | Or | Gold |
| FOSDEM 2019 | Feb 2–3, 2019 | Brussels, Belgium | Main sponsor | Other |
Speakers 3
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Martignole | Forward Data Conference 2026 | speaker | How Back Market moved into agentic AI in 12 months, and everything is fine, thank you. | — |
| Steve Buckingham | Forward Data Conference 2026 | speaker | Everyone has an analyst in their pocket now. What's left for the data team? | — |
| Anne-Sophie Lavelle | AI Product Day 2026 | speaker | De Python à Profit : la vérité cachée sur la mise à l'échelle de l'AI chez Backmarket | — |