Honeycomb
Circuit mix
Where Honeycomb shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Software engineering & trading tech77%13 events
- Cloud providers13%4 events
- Python & R data science7%1 event
- Vendor flagships & roadshows3%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QCon | ||||||||||
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||||
| PyCon (national Python conferences) | ||||||||||
| Open House by ClickHouse (ClickHouse User 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.
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
FlatSponsored 1 conference in 2026, flat from 1 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.
New 1
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- PyCon (national Python conferences)first sponsored 2026, unranked tier
Moved down 1
Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- QConSilver 2020 → Bronze 2025
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).
- Freshworks0.87
- Claypot AI0.83
- Valkey0.81
- CircleCI0.79
- Diagrid0.79
- Backblaze0.78
- Endor Labs0.77
- Klaviyo0.76
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 11 this company sponsored).
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Honeycomb (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 11
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyCon AU 2026 | Aug 26–30, 2026 | Brisbane, Australia | industry | Other |
| QCon San Francisco 2025 | Nov 17–19, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Bronze | Bronze |
| QCon London 2025 | Apr 7–9, 2025 | London, United Kingdom | Bronze | Bronze |
| QCon San Francisco 2024 | Nov 18–20, 2024 | San Francisco, United States | Bronze | Bronze |
| QCon London 2024 | Apr 8–10, 2024 | London, United Kingdom | Bronze | Bronze |
| QCon New York 2023 | Jun 13–15, 2023 | New York, United States | Bronze | Bronze |
| QCon London 2023 | Mar 27–29, 2023 | London, United Kingdom | Bronze | Bronze |
| QCon San Francisco 2022 | Oct 24–26, 2022 | San Francisco, United States | Bronze | Bronze |
| QCon London 2022 | Apr 4–6, 2022 | London, United Kingdom | Silver | Silver |
| QCon London 2020 | Mar 2–4, 2020 | London, United Kingdom | Silver | Silver |
| QCon San Francisco 2019 | Nov 11–13, 2019 | San Francisco, United States | Media | Media |
Speakers 28
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liz Fong-Jones | QCon AI New York 2026 | speaker | Reflections on the 2x Initiative at Honeycomb | — |
| Rebecca Murphey | QCon AI New York 2026 | speaker | Reflections on the 2x Initiative at Honeycomb | — |
| Liz Fong-Jones | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | Lambda for every scale and workload shape | — |
| Martin Thwaites | AWS re:Invent 2026 | lightning talk | How Observability Evolved From Dashboards to Agents Writing Code (sponsored by Honeycomb) | — |
| Liz Fong-Jones | QCon San Francisco 2026 | speaker | Making Production Legible to Agents: Lessons From Building an Observability MCP | — |
| Charity Majors | Open House 2026 (San Francisco) | featured | Fireside chat: The evolution of observability | — |
| Liz Fong-Jones | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Optimizing performance and cost with AWS Graviton | Video |
| Martin Thwaites | QCon London 2024 | speaker | Production Comes First - An Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices | — |
| Liz Fong-Jones | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Seamless observability with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry | Video |
| Ben Hartshorne | QCon San Francisco 2023 | speaker | How to Get Tech-Debt on the Roadmap | — |
| Charity Majors | QCon New York 2023 | speaker | Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering | — |
| Fred Hebert | QCon New York 2023 | speaker | Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops | — |
| Kent Quirk | QCon New York 2023 | speaker | Reliable Architectures Through Observability | — |
| Jessica Kerr | QCon London 2023 | speaker | Observable Frontends | — |
| Charity Majors | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | Optimizing price performance with feature management and observability (sponsored by LaunchDarkly) | Slides · Video |
| Charity Majors | AWS re:Invent 2022 | lightning talk | Shipping software should be boring (sponsored by Honeycomb) | Slides · Video |
| Charity Majors | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | Overcoming migration hurdles with CircleCI and AWS Graviton (sponsored by CircleCI) | Slides · Video |
| Michael Sickles | AWS re:Invent 2022 | lightning talk | Shipping software should be boring (sponsored by Honeycomb) | Slides · Video |
| Pierre Tessier | AWS re:Invent 2022 | lightning talk | Shipping software should be boring (sponsored by Honeycomb) | Slides · Video |
| Pierre Tessier | AWS re:Invent 2022 | chalk talk | AWS Graviton adoption by Honeycomb.io using Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda | Slides |
| Charity Majors | QCon San Francisco 2022 | speaker | The Staff-Plus Engineer Path Panel | — |
| Charity Majors | QCon San Francisco 2022 | speaker | The Engineer/Manager Pendulum | — |
| Jessica Kerr | QCon San Francisco 2022 | speaker | Honeycomb: How We Used Serverless to Speed Up Our Servers | — |
| Jessica Kerr | QCon London 2022 | speaker | Could Observability-Driven Development Be the Next Leap? | — |
| Jessica Kerr | QCon London 2022 | speaker | Observability for Speed & Flow | — |
| Ben Hartshorne | QCon San Francisco 2019 | speaker | Observability in the SSC: Seeing Into Your Build System | Slides · Video |
| Charity Majors | QCon San Francisco 2019 | speaker | Yes, I Test In Production (And So Do You) | Slides · Video |
| Christine Yen | QCon San Francisco 2019 | speaker | Observability in the Development Process: Not Just for Ops Anymore | Slides · Video |