Flink Forward
Circuit mix
Where Flink Forward shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Streaming60%3 events
- Open-source data infrastructure40%2 events
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beam Summit | ||||||||
| Berlin Buzzwords | ||||||||
| Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon) | ||||||||
| Data Streaming Summit |
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.
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 1 conference in 2021.
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 1
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- Data Streaming Summitlast sponsored 2020; the conference ran again in 2023–26
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- Beam Summitevery year 2020–21, Community tier
Once or on and off 2
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Berlin Buzzwordsonce, 2019, Community tier
- Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)once, 2019, Community 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).
- BI-Scout0.95
- Flipkart0.89
- Xiaomi0.79
- OpenSearch0.78
- API70.77
- GetInData0.73
- Yahoo Japan0.73
- NetEase0.70
9 Cluster: CIDR · ACM SIGMOD/PODS circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 5 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Manning | 5 | 100% |
| 4 | 80% | |
| Amazon Web Services | 2 | 40% |
| Apache Software Foundation | 2 | 40% |
| Arabesque | 2 | 40% |
| BI-Scout | 2 | 40% |
| Data Natives | 2 | 40% |
| Datafloq | 2 | 40% |
| eBay | 2 | 40% |
| O'Reilly | 2 | 40% |
| Packt | 2 | 40% |
| 5th Digital Future Science Match | 1 | 20% |
| AI2YNET | 1 | 20% |
| ApacheCon Europe | 1 | 20% |
| Beam Summit Europe | 1 | 20% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Flink Forward (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 5
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beam Summit 2021 | Aug 4–6, 2021 | — | Partners | Community |
| Beam Digital Summit 2020 | Aug 24–28, 2020 | — | Community | Community |
| Pulsar Summit Virtual Conference 2020 | Jun 17–18, 2020 | — | Community Partners | Community |
| ApacheCon Europe 2019 | Oct 22–24, 2019 | Berlin, Germany | Community | Community |
| Berlin Buzzwords 2019 | Jun 16–18, 2019 | Berlin, Germany | Event Partners | Community |
Speakers 0
No speakers from Flink Forward recorded.