Dragonfly
Circuit mix
Where Dragonfly shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Streaming44%2 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner22%1 event
- Cloud providers22%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps11%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current (formerly Kafka Summit) | ||||||||||
| Data Council | ||||||||||
| Google Cloud Next | ||||||||||
| MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production) |
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.
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 2 conferences in 2026, up from 1 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.
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit)first sponsored 2026, Startup tier
- Data Councilfirst sponsored 2025, Bronze
- Google Cloud Nextfirst sponsored 2026, 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).
5 Cluster: Current · Data Streaming Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 4 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Aiven | 3 | 75% |
| Azul | 3 | 75% |
| 3 | 75% | |
| NetApp | 3 | 75% |
| Amazon Web Services | 2 | 50% |
| Apache Software Foundation | 2 | 50% |
| AxonOps | 2 | 50% |
| Conduktor | 2 | 50% |
| Datadog | 2 | 50% |
| DataHub | 2 | 50% |
| Eon | 2 | 50% |
| Factor House | 2 | 50% |
| Firebolt | 2 | 50% |
| Fivetran | 2 | 50% |
| Kannika | 2 | 50% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Dragonfly (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 4
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current San Francisco 2026 | Nov 4–5, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Startup Sponsors | Startup |
| Current London 2026 | May 19–20, 2026 | London, United Kingdom | Startup | Startup |
| Google Cloud Next '26 | Apr 22–24, 2026 | Las Vegas, United States | Foundation | Other |
| Data Council 2025 | Apr 22–24, 2025 | Oakland, United States | Base | Bronze |
Speakers 1
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Allen Wallace | 7th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2026 | speaker (virtual day) | Fan-Out, Tail Latency, and Cluster Mutations: Three Problems in An Ad-Serving Feature Store at Hundreds of Nodes | — |