Franz Inc
Circuit mix
Where Franz Inc shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Modern data stack & practitioner64%9 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos14%3 events
- Research14%2 events
- AI engineering & MLOps7%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Day Texas | ||||||||||
| Data Summit (DBTA) | ||||||||||
| ISWC (International Semantic Web Conference) | ||||||||||
| Data Con LA | ||||||||||
| The Texas AI Summit |
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.
- Gold
- Silver
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownSponsored 1 conference in 2026, down from 3 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 3
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- Data Con LAlast sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2024–26
- Data Summit (DBTA)last sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2024–26
- ISWC (International Semantic Web Conference)last sponsored 2024; the conference ran again in 2025–26
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- Data Day Texas7 of 8 years 2019–26, mostly Silver
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- The Texas AI Summitonce, 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).
- Expero0.79
- Streamlio0.78
- Kaskada0.77
- Tom Sawyer Software0.74
- Tabsdata0.68
- Upsolver0.66
- Katana Graph0.65
- Cambridge Semantics0.62
0 Cluster: ODSC · MLOps World 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 |
|---|---|---|
| KNIME | 7 | 54% |
| Neo4j | 7 | 54% |
| Tom Sawyer Software | 7 | 54% |
| Kineviz | 6 | 46% |
| Caffé Medici | 5 | 38% |
| Elastic | 5 | 38% |
| Expero | 4 | 31% |
| Instaclustr | 4 | 31% |
| PuppyGraph | 4 | 31% |
| ArangoDB | 3 | 23% |
| DataStax | 3 | 23% |
| GoodData | 3 | 23% |
| Graphable | 3 | 23% |
| MotherDuck | 3 | 23% |
| ScyllaDB | 3 | 23% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Franz Inc (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.
- Coalesce · Modern Data Stack Conference circuit 8
- Current · Data Streaming Summit circuit 7
- ODSC · MLOps World circuit 6
- PyData · posit::conf circuit 2
- Gartner Data & Analytics Summit · Snowflake Summit circuit 2
- PGDays & regional Postgres events · PostgreSQL Conference Europe circuit 2
- The AI Summit · AWS re:Invent circuit 1
- QCon · MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon circuit 1
- Community Over Code · Flink Forward circuit 1
- Big Data & AI Paris · Gartner Data & Analytics Summit circuit 1
Sponsorships 13
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data AI Weekend 2026 (Austin) | Oct 10–11, 2026 | Austin, United States | Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons | Other |
| Data Day Texas + AI 2026 | Jan 24, 2026 | Austin, United States | Patrons and Partners | Other |
| Data Day Texas + AI 2025 | Jan 25, 2025 | Austin, United States | Graph Partners | Other |
| ISWC 2024 | Nov 11–15, 2024 | Baltimore, United States | Sponsor | Other |
| Data Day Texas + AI 2024 | Jan 27, 2024 | Austin, United States | Knowledge Graph Partner | Other |
| Data Con LA 2023 | Aug 12, 2023 | Los Angeles, United States | Silver | Silver |
| Data Summit 2023 | May 9–11, 2023 | Boston, United States | Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| Data Day Texas 2023 | Jan 28, 2023 | Austin, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| Data Day Texas 2022 | Jun 13, 2022 | Austin, United States | Silver Partners | Silver |
| Data Day Texas 2020 | Jan 25, 2020 | Austin, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| ISWC 2019 | Oct 26–30, 2019 | Auckland, New Zealand | Other | Other |
| Data Day Texas 2019 | Jan 26, 2019 | Austin, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| The Texas AI Summit 2019 | Jan 25, 2019 | Austin, United States | Friends and Partners | Community |
Speakers 10
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jans Aasman | Data Day Texas + AI 2026 | speaker | The Future Cognitive OS Uses a Knowledge-Based Semantic Layer | — |
| Jans Aasman | Data Summit 2024 | speaker | Knowledge Graphs Revolutionize Data Management | — |
| Jans Aasman | Data Day Texas + AI 2024 | keynote | Beyond Human Oversight: The Rise of Self-Building Knowledge Graphs in AI | — |
| Jans Aasman | Data Con LA 2023 | speaker | Data Fabrics and Knowledge Graphs for the AI Enterprise | Video |
| Jans Aasman | Data Summit 2023 | speaker | Build Predictions With Machine Learning & Graph Neural Networks | — |
| Jans Aasman | Data Day Texas 2023 | keynote | Neuro-Symbolic Story Extraction from Natural Language | — |
| Jans Aasman | Data Day Texas 2022 | speaker | What Happens Next? Event Predictions with Machine Learning and Graph Neural Networks | — |
| Jans Aasman | Data Summit Connect 2020 | speaker | Entity Event Knowledge Graphs for Data Centric Organizations | — |
| Jans Aasman | Data Day Texas 2020 | speaker | Creating Explainable AI with Rules | — |
| Jans Aasman | Data Day Texas 2019 | speaker | The Intelligent Sales Organization Runs on Speech Recognition, Knowledge Graphs and AI | — |