groundcover
Circuit mix
Where groundcover shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Cloud providers55%4 events
- AI engineering & MLOps18%1 event
- Software engineering & trading tech18%1 event
- Open-source data infrastructure9%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||||
| QCon | ||||||||||
| Google Cloud Next | ||||||||||
| MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | ||||||||||
| OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference) |
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
UpSponsored 3 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 4
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- AWS re:Inventfirst sponsored 2025, Gold
- Google Cloud Nextfirst sponsored 2026, unranked tier
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPConfirst sponsored 2026, Silver
- QConfirst sponsored 2026, Silver
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).
- Harness0.84
- Freshworks0.82
- Coralogix0.82
- Pulumi0.81
- Cast AI0.79
- Grafana Labs0.78
- HashiCorp0.78
- Kong0.75
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 4 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Aerospike | 3 | 75% |
| Anthropic | 3 | 75% |
| Chainguard | 3 | 75% |
| Databricks | 3 | 75% |
| Datadog | 3 | 75% |
| Dynatrace | 3 | 75% |
| Elastic | 3 | 75% |
| Harness | 3 | 75% |
| IBM | 3 | 75% |
| JetBrains | 3 | 75% |
| Kong | 3 | 75% |
| Neo4j | 3 | 75% |
| Nutanix | 3 | 75% |
| Palo Alto Networks | 3 | 75% |
| Red Hat | 3 | 75% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
groundcover (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QCon San Francisco 2026 | Nov 16–18, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Silver | Silver |
| AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 | Oct 22–23, 2026 | San Jose, United States | Silver | Silver |
| Google Cloud Next '26 | Apr 22–24, 2026 | Las Vegas, United States | Foundation | Other |
| AWS re:Invent 2025 | Dec 1–5, 2025 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
Speakers 5
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noam Levy | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | When Telemetry Steers the Robot: Observability for Physical AI (sponsored by groundcover) | — |
| Adam Hicks | QCon San Francisco 2026 | speaker | Notes From 300 Installs Inside Someone Else's Cloud | — |
| Shahar Azulay | AWS re:Invent 2025 | lightning talk | Tracing the Untraceable: Full-Stack Observability for LLMs and Agents (sponsored by groundcover) | Video |
| Udi Rot | OSA CON 2025 | speaker | Everything I Learned About ClickHouse® was From Real Workloads | Video |
| Shahar Azulay | AWS re:Invent 2023 | lightning talk | Discover seamless observability with eBPF (sponsored by groundcover) | Video |