Circuit mix
Where Blackstone 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 providers38%3 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner25%1 event
- Vendor flagships & roadshows13%1 event
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos13%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps13%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Blackstone 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||
| Data Council | ||||||||
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||
| Gartner Data & Analytics Summit | ||||||||
| Snowflake Summit |
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.
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 1 conference in 2019.
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.
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Data Councilonce, 2019, unranked tier
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).
- Resolve AI0.82
- Unstructured0.76
- Contextual AI0.74
- TextQL0.73
- TwelveLabs0.70
- Arcee AI0.70
- Vectara0.69
- Zeta Global0.68
2 Cluster: AI Engineer · QCon circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 1 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ascend.io | 1 | 100% |
| Capital One | 1 | 100% |
| Cherre | 1 | 100% |
| Citadel | 1 | 100% |
| Crux | 1 | 100% |
| Data Science Institute, Columbia University | 1 | 100% |
| Datadog | 1 | 100% |
| Dataform | 1 | 100% |
| Guru | 1 | 100% |
| IBM | 1 | 100% |
| Microsoft | 1 | 100% |
| Mode | 1 | 100% |
| The New York Times | 1 | 100% |
| Qubole | 1 | 100% |
| Reonomy | 1 | 100% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Blackstone (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 1
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Council New York City 2019 | Nov 12–13, 2019 | New York, United States | Partner | Other |
Speakers 6
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Stecher | AI Engineer New York 2026 | speaker | Built to Scale: Future-Proofing Your Technology Roadmap | Video |
| Han Zhang | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | Building Finance Apps at Blackstone with Sigma and Snowflake | — |
| Rob Wisniewski | Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026 (Orlando) | speaker | TextQL: Your Data Is Fine. Your AI Isn't Good Enough - Blackstone on Agentic Analytics | — |
| Monty Hall | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Blackstone's AWS odyssey: Agility, automation, & efficiency unleashed | — |
| Monty Hall | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Accelerate innovation with partner solutions in AWS Marketplace | — |
| Jai Subrahmanyam | AWS re:Invent 2022 | lightning talk | Delivering data mesh with Blackstone and Alation (sponsored by Alation) | Slides |