Block
Circuit mix
Where Block shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- AI engineering & MLOps43%6 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner17%4 events
- Postgres & open-source databases17%3 events
- Cloud providers13%3 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows4%1 event
- Streaming4%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataEngBytes | ||||||||||
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||||
| MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | ||||||||||
| FOSDEM | ||||||||||
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||||
| Flink Forward | ||||||||||
| AI By the Bay | ||||||||||
| Data + AI Summit | ||||||||||
| Percona Live |
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.
- Title
- Platinum
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
FlatSponsored 2 conferences in 2026, flat from 2 in 2025.
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 3
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first sponsored 2026, unranked tier
- FOSDEMfirst sponsored 2025, unranked tier
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPConfirst sponsored 2025, 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).
1 Cluster: AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 5 this company sponsored).
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Block (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 | Oct 22–23, 2026 | San Jose, United States | Diamond | Title |
| AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | Sep 17–18, 2026 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Platinum | Platinum |
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Supporting Partners | Other |
| MCP Dev Summit Europe 2025 | Oct 2, 2025 | London, United Kingdom | Sponsor | Other |
| FOSDEM 2025 | Feb 1–2, 2025 | Brussels, Belgium | Main sponsor | Other |
Speakers 27
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradley Axen | AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 | keynote | Keynote: Building the Human-Agent Workplace | — |
| Bradley Axen | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | workshop | Sponsored Workshop: The Buzz-Word Is Collaboration | — |
| Morgan Martin | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | workshop | Sponsored Workshop: The Buzz-Word Is Collaboration | — |
| Tyler Longwell | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | workshop | Sponsored Workshop: The Buzz-Word Is Collaboration | — |
| Wes Billman | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | workshop | Sponsored Workshop: The Buzz-Word Is Collaboration | — |
| Alex Hancock | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | The Universal Remote Control for AI | — |
| Alex Hancock | MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 | speaker | Goose as a Proving Ground for New MCP Features, and How To Use Them | — |
| Ramesh Ramani | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Infrastructure protection at scale with AWS Security, ft. Block, Inc. | Video |
| Angie Jones | AI By the Bay 2025 | speaker | From Experiment to Enterprise: How Block Operationalized MCP at Scale | Video |
| Angie Jones | MCP Dev Summit Europe 2025 | speaker | Why Clients Matter: The Other Side of MCP | — |
| Richard Moot | MCP Dev Summit Europe 2025 | speaker | Tools, Not Endpoints: The Layered MCP Pattern for Task‑Centric Agents | — |
| Satish Pamarthi | DataEngBytes 2025 Melbourne | speaker | Designing Cost-Efficient, Metadata-driven Kafka Processing Systems at Scale | — |
| Unni Krishnan | DataEngBytes 2025 Melbourne | speaker | Designing Cost-Efficient, Metadata-driven Kafka Processing Systems at Scale | — |
| Yikai Gong | DataEngBytes 2025 Melbourne | speaker | Designing Cost-Efficient, Metadata-driven Kafka Processing Systems at Scale | — |
| Alex Hancock | MCP Developers Summit 2025 (San Francisco) | speaker | MCP Registry: Designing For Server Discovery | — |
| Angie Jones | MCP Developers Summit 2025 (San Francisco) | speaker | From Experiment to Enterprise: How Block Operationalized MCP at Scale | — |
| Tim Sutton | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Modernize Apple platform development with AWS and EC2 Mac | Video |
| Amey Khedekar | DataEngBytes 2024 Melbourne | speaker | Serving a multi-platform Data Lake via Delta, Iceberg, Unity and Glue | Video |
| Ankita Saha | DataEngBytes 2024 Melbourne | speaker | Serving a multi-platform Data Lake via Delta, Iceberg, Unity and Glue | Video |
| Jackie Brosamer | Data + AI Summit 2024 | featured | — | — |
| Bradley Axen | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Build & deploy generative AI apps in days with Databricks Lakehouse AI (sponsored by Databricks) | Video |
| Mike Wittig | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | What can networking do for your application? | Video |
| Karel Alfonso Sague | Flink Forward Seattle 2023 | keynote | Riding the Streams: Powering Stream Processing at Cash App with Ververica | — |
| Rashmi Shamsundar | Flink Forward Seattle 2023 | keynote | Riding the Streams: Powering Stream Processing at Cash App with Ververica | — |
| Abdi Farah | DataEngBytes 2023 Melbourne | speaker | Harnessing Metadata for Enhanced Observability and Discoverability | Video |
| Daniel Nichter | Percona Live 2022 | speaker | Efficient MySQL Performance | — |
| Daniel Nichter | FOSDEM 2022 | speaker | Efficient MySQL Performance | Video |