Chalk
Circuit mix
Where Chalk shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Modern data stack & practitioner43%2 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows29%1 event
- Open-source data infrastructure14%1 event
- Python & R data science14%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Chalk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snowflake Summit | ||||||||
| Data Council | ||||||||
| Data Outpost | ||||||||
| SciPy Conference (Scientific Computing with Python) | ||||||||
| VeloxCon |
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
Where they've grown or pulled back
Sponsored 2 conferences in 2026, the first year on record.
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 Councilfirst sponsored 2026, Bronze
- Snowflake Summitfirst sponsored 2026, 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).
5 Cluster: Coalesce · Modern Data Stack Conference circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 2 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Airbyte | 2 | 100% |
| Datadog | 2 | 100% |
| Dremio | 2 | 100% |
| Hex | 2 | 100% |
| Skyflow | 2 | 100% |
| TextQL | 2 | 100% |
| 7Rivers, Inc. | 1 | 50% |
| Acceldata | 1 | 50% |
| Accenture | 1 | 50% |
| Acxiom | 1 | 50% |
| Alation | 1 | 50% |
| Alteryx | 1 | 50% |
| Altimate AI | 1 | 50% |
| Amazon Web Services | 1 | 50% |
| Amperity | 1 | 50% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Chalk (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 2
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snowflake Summit 26 (sponsor list may be stale) | Jun 1–4, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Blue Square | Gold |
| AI Council 2026 | May 12–14, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Bronze | Bronze |
Speakers 5
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elliot Marx | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | A Computation-First Architecture for Real-Time ML Feature Stores | — |
| Marc Freed-Finnegan | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | The Infrastructure Behind Grindr’s AI Transformation | — |
| Elvis Kahoro | Small Data SF 2025 | speaker | — | — |
| Elliot Marx | SciPy 2025 | speaker | Real-time ML: Accelerating Python for inference (< 10ms) at scale | — |
| Nathan Fenner | VeloxCon 2025 | speaker | Real time ML: Accelerating Velox & Python for inference 10ms at scale | Video |