Decodable
Circuit mix
Where Decodable shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Streaming76%15 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows12%2 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner6%1 event
- Open-source data infrastructure3%1 event
- Software engineering3%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 |
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| Data Council | ||||||||
| Data + AI Summit | ||||||||
| Snowflake Summit | ||||||||
| Berlin Buzzwords | ||||||||
| QCon |
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
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 5 conferences in 2023.
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.
Pulled out 2
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- Data Streaming Summitlast sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2024–26
- Snowflake Summitlast sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2024–26
Steady 2
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit)every year 2022–24, mostly Gold
- Flink Forwardevery year 2022–24, mostly unranked tier
Once or on and off 2
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Data + AI Summitonce, 2022, Silver
- Data Councilonce, 2023, 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).
- RisingWave Labs0.90
- Rockset0.90
- DeltaStream0.89
- Onehouse0.86
- StreamNative0.85
- StarTree0.84
- Timeplus0.84
- Buf0.84
13 Cluster: Current · Data Streaming Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 13 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| StreamNative | 9 | 69% |
| Amazon Web Services | 8 | 62% |
| Redpanda | 6 | 46% |
| Cloudera | 5 | 38% |
| Imply | 5 | 38% |
| Microsoft | 5 | 38% |
| RisingWave Labs | 5 | 38% |
| Aiven | 4 | 31% |
| Apache Software Foundation | 4 | 31% |
| Azul | 4 | 31% |
| Conduktor | 4 | 31% |
| Confluent | 4 | 31% |
| 4 | 31% | |
| Hazelcast | 4 | 31% |
| Instaclustr | 4 | 31% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Decodable (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 13
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flink Forward Berlin 2024 | Oct 21–24, 2024 | Berlin, Germany | Sponsors & Partners | Other |
| Current 2024 | Sep 17–18, 2024 | Austin, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Kafka Summit Bangalore 2024 | May 2, 2024 | Bengaluru, India | Gold | Gold |
| Kafka Summit London 2024 | Mar 19–20, 2024 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| Flink Forward Seattle 2023 | Nov 6–8, 2023 | Renton, United States | Sponsors & Partners | Other |
| Pulsar Summit North America 2023 | Oct 25, 2023 | San Francisco, United States | Community Sponsors | Community |
| Snowflake Summit 2023 | Jun 26–29, 2023 | Las Vegas, United States | Snow Row Partner | Bronze |
| Kafka Summit London 2023 | May 16–17, 2023 | London, United Kingdom | Silver | Silver |
| Data Council Austin '23 | Mar 28–30, 2023 | Austin, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit | Oct 4–5, 2022 | Austin, United States | Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| Pulsar Summit San Francisco 2022 | Aug 18, 2022 | San Francisco, United States | Sponsors | Other |
| Flink Forward San Francisco 2022 | Aug 1–3, 2022 | San Francisco, United States | Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| Data + AI Summit 2022 | Jun 27–30, 2022 | San Francisco, United States | Silver | Silver |
Speakers 23
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hans-Peter Grahsl | Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 | speaker | Towards Transactional Buffering of Change Data Capture Events | — |
| H.P. Grahsl | Current London 2025 | speaker | Towards Transactional Buffering of Change Data Capture Events | — |
| H.P. Grahsl | Current London 2025 | speaker | Simplifying Real-Time Vector Store Ingestion with Apache Flink | — |
| Sharon Xie | Current London 2025 | speaker | Unified CDC Ingestion and Processing with Apache Flink and Iceberg | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Flink Forward Asia 2024 Jakarta | speaker | Streaming Data Contracts With Debezium and Apache Flink | — |
| Eric Xiao | Flink Forward Berlin 2024 | speaker | Comparing Apache Flink and Spark for Modern Stream Data Processing | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Flink Forward Berlin 2024 | panelist | AI and Apache Flink: Expert Panel | — |
| Hans-Peter Grahsl | Flink Forward Berlin 2024 | speaker | Vector Database Ingestion with PyFlink on Decodable | — |
| Sharon Xie | Flink Forward Berlin 2024 | speaker | Comparing Apache Flink and Spark for Modern Stream Data Processing | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Current 2024 | featured | — | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Flink Forward Seattle 2023 | speaker | Debezium Snapshots Revisited! | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Flink Forward Seattle 2023 | keynote | Embracing the Ubiquity of Data | — |
| Sharon Xie | Flink Forward Seattle 2023 | speaker | Kubernetes-like Reconciliation Protocol for Managed Flink Services | — |
| Robert Metzger | Berlin Buzzwords 2023 | talk | Tiny Flink — Minimizing the memory footprint of Apache Flink | Slides · Video |
| Gunnar Morling | Data Council Austin '23 | talk | ETL with Change Data Capture in 30 Minutes | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Data Council Austin '23 | talk | Change Data Streaming Patterns With Debezium & Apache Flink | — |
| Gunnar Morling | QCon London 2023 | speaker | Change Data Capture for Microservices | — |
| Robert Metzger | Flink Forward San Francisco 2022 | speaker | Autoscaling Flink with Reactive Mode | — |
| Sharon Xie | Flink Forward San Francisco 2022 | speaker | The top 3 challenges running multi-tenant Flink at scale | — |
| Eric Sammer | Flink Forward Global 2021 | keynote | KEYNOTE | Expert Panel: Current & Future State of the Art in Real-Time Data Infrastructure | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Flink Forward Global 2021 | speaker | Change Data Streaming Patterns in Distributed Systems | — |
| Hans-Peter Grahsl | Flink Forward Global 2021 | speaker | Change Data Streaming Patterns in Distributed Systems | — |
| Eric Sammer | Flink Forward Virtual Conference 2020 | keynote | Keynote: The Evolution of Data Infrastructure at Splunk | — |