Buf
Also listed as 1 other name
Buf Technologies
Circuit mix
Where Buf shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Streaming55%3 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows36%2 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner9%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current (formerly Kafka Summit) | ||||||||
| Data + AI Summit | ||||||||
| Snowflake Summit | ||||||||
| Data Outpost |
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
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 1 conference 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.
- Data + AI Summitfirst sponsored 2025, unranked tier
- Snowflake Summitfirst sponsored 2025, Bronze
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit)every year 2024–25, Gold
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).
- DeltaStream0.95
- Swiggy0.87
- Decodable0.85
- Rockset0.85
- RisingWave Labs0.85
- Lenses.io0.84
- Portworx0.82
- Timeplus0.82
17 Cluster: Current · Data Streaming Summit 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
Buf (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current New Orleans 2025 | Oct 29–30, 2025 | New Orleans, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Data + AI Summit 2025 | Jun 9–12, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Explorer | Other |
| Snowflake Summit 2025 | Jun 2–5, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Snow Row | Bronze |
| Current London 2025 | May 20–21, 2025 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| Current 2024 | Sep 17–18, 2024 | Austin, United States | Gold | Gold |
Speakers 2
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Haines | Small Data SF 2025 | speaker | 4 Lessons Learned the Hard Way and How Thinking Small Saved the Day | Video |
| Scott Haines | Current New Orleans 2025 | speaker | Ending the Streaming Data Quality Nightmare: Building Real-Time Data Intelligence into Your Data Pipelines | — |