Docker
Circuit mix
Where Docker 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 & MLOps35%4 events
- Cloud providers20%2 events
- Software engineering & trading tech15%3 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows10%1 event
- Postgres & open-source databases10%2 events
- Python & R data science10%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
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
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 2 conferences in 2026, up from 1 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.
New 2
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first sponsored 2025, Platinum
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPConfirst sponsored 2026, Title
Pulled out 1
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- DASHlast sponsored 2019; the conference ran again in 2020 and 2022–25
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- AWS re:Invent2 of 3 years 2023–25, Gold
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- PyCon (national Python conferences)once, 2022, Bronze
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).
- Tailscale0.86
- Auth00.84
- Cloudflare0.82
- Cast AI0.81
- Snyk0.81
- Chainguard0.81
- Postman0.80
- Descope0.79
7 Cluster: QCon · MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 7 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic | 6 | 86% |
| Red Hat | 6 | 86% |
| CircleCI | 5 | 71% |
| Cloudflare | 5 | 71% |
| Datadog | 5 | 71% |
| Neo4j | 5 | 71% |
| Amazon Web Services | 4 | 57% |
| Atlassian | 4 | 57% |
| 4 | 57% | |
| IBM | 4 | 57% |
| LaunchDarkly | 4 | 57% |
| NVIDIA | 4 | 57% |
| PagerDuty | 4 | 57% |
| Sentry | 4 | 57% |
| Tailscale | 4 | 57% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Docker (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 7
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 | Apr 2–3, 2026 | New York, United States | Diamond | Title |
| AWS re:Invent 2025 | Dec 1–5, 2025 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| AI Engineer Paris 2025 | Sep 23–24, 2025 | Paris, France | Platinum Sponsors | Platinum |
| AWS re:Invent 2023 | Nov 27, 2023 – Dec 1, 2023 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| PyCon US 2022 | Apr 27, 2022 – May 3, 2022 | Salt Lake City, United States | Supporting | Bronze |
| Dash 2019 | Jul 16–17, 2019 | New York, United States | Silver | Silver |
Speakers 22
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lætitia AVROT | PGConf.EU 2026 (16th PostgreSQL Conference Europe) | speaker | You Shall Not YOLO: Model Your Damn Data | — |
| Dan Ndombe | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | workshop | From approval loops to autonomous agents with Docker | — |
| Jim Clark | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | Who Approved That MCP Server? Governing the Tool Layer | — |
| John Craft | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | From approval loops to autonomous agents with Docker pt2 | — |
| John Craft | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | From approval loops to autonomous agents with Docker pt1 | — |
| John Craft | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | From approval loops to autonomous agents with Docker pt4 | — |
| John Craft | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | workshop | From approval loops to autonomous agents with Docker | — |
| John Craft | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | From approval loops to autonomous agents with Docker pt5 | — |
| John Craft | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | From approval loops to autonomous agents with Docker pt3 | — |
| Rowan Christmas | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | YOLO Mode, Safely: microVM Sandboxes for Any Agent | — |
| Tushar Jain | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | Unlock Agent Autonomy: The Runtime for AI-Native Systems | Video |
| Bobby House | MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 | speaker | Distributing MCP Servers With OCI To Power Agent Skills | — |
| Cecilia Liu | MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 | keynote | Keynote: Building a Unified Control Plane for MCP Across Servers, Clients, and Teams | — |
| Jim Clark | MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 | speaker | Dynamic MCPs: Agentic Discovery, Configuration, and Management of MCP Workloads | — |
| Jim Clark | AWS re:Invent 2025 | lightning talk | Enterprise AI Without the Chaos: A New Path to Secure, Compliant Applications (sponsored by Docker) | — |
| Solomon Hykes | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | keynote | Containing Agent Chaos | Video |
| Yves Brissaud | AWS re:Invent 2023 | lightning talk | Securing the software supply chain with Docker Scout and Amazon ECR (sponsored by Docker) | Video |
| Justin Cormack | QCon San Francisco 2022 | speaker | Programming Your Policies | — |
| Justin Cormack | QCon San Francisco 2022 | panelist | Panel: Languages of Infrastructure | — |
| Lætitia AVROT | PGConf.DE 2022 | speaker | Your Hitchhiker's Guide to the Postgres Documentation | Slides |
| Justin Cormack | QCon London 2020 | speaker | The Modern Platform in 2020 | Video |
| Justin Cormack | QCon London 2019 | panelist | Panel: Secure Isolation of Applications | Video |