Firefly
Circuit mix
Where Firefly shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Vendor flagships & roadshows44%2 events
- Cloud providers22%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps22%1 event
- Open-source data infrastructure11%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.
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- Other / unlabeled tier
- Had speakers
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DASH | ||||||||||
| Google Cloud Next | ||||||||||
| O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference | ||||||||||
| Berlin Buzzwords |
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.
- 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 2
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- DASHfirst sponsored 2025, unranked tier
- Google Cloud Nextfirst sponsored 2026, unranked tier
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conferenceonce, 2019, 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).
- Pulumi0.59
- Box0.55
- Rakuten0.55
- Finout0.54
- HCL Technologies0.54
- Weaviate0.53
- Onix0.53
- Palo Alto Networks0.53
14 Cluster: AWS re:Invent · Google Cloud Next 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | 3 | 75% |
| Chainguard | 3 | 75% |
| Gremlin | 3 | 75% |
| Infisical | 3 | 75% |
| Temporal | 3 | 75% |
| Akamas | 2 | 50% |
| Arize AI | 2 | 50% |
| CDW | 2 | 50% |
| Cognizant | 2 | 50% |
| Cortex | 2 | 50% |
| Databricks | 2 | 50% |
| Doppler | 2 | 50% |
| Foulk Consulting | 2 | 50% |
| 2 | 50% | |
| IBM | 2 | 50% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Firefly (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DASH 2026 | Jun 9–10, 2026 | New York, United States | Participating Sponsors | Other |
| Google Cloud Next '26 | Apr 22–24, 2026 | Las Vegas, United States | Explorer | Other |
| DASH 2025 | Jun 10–11, 2025 | New York, United States | Participating Sponsors | Other |
| O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference San Jose 2019 | Sep 9–12, 2019 | San Jose, United States | Exhibitors | Other |
Speakers 1
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eran Bibi | Berlin Buzzwords 2022 | talk | Don't Panic: Getting Your Infrastructure Drift Under Control | Video |