Hornet.dev
Also listed as 2 other names
HORNET.dev · Hornet
Circuit mix
Where Hornet.dev shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Open-source data infrastructure60%2 events
- AI engineering & MLOps40%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Hornet.dev sponsored or had speakers in the past 12 months, and the announced events it is already listed for. One row per conference, January to December; hover a mark for the event and the company's role.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin Buzzwords | ||||||||
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||
| Haystack |
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.
- Silver
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
Sponsored 2 conferences in 2026, the first year on record.
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.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first sponsored 2026, unranked tier
- Berlin Buzzwordsfirst sponsored 2026, Silver
Not on the company map: lookalikes are computed only for companies present at four or more conferences.
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 2 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomberg | 2 | 100% |
| Qdrant | 2 | 100% |
| 1Password | 1 | 50% |
| Accenture | 1 | 50% |
| Acrew Capital | 1 | 50% |
| Adobe | 1 | 50% |
| Agentfield | 1 | 50% |
| AgentMail | 1 | 50% |
| AI-Powered Search | 1 | 50% |
| AIDAChip | 1 | 50% |
| Aikido | 1 | 50% |
| Airbyte | 1 | 50% |
| Aiven | 1 | 50% |
| Akamai | 1 | 50% |
| Amazon Web Services | 1 | 50% |
Sponsorships 2
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Supporting Partners | Other |
| Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | Jun 7–9, 2026 | Berlin, Germany | Silver Partner | Silver |
Speakers 5
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jo Kristian Bergum | Haystack Europe 2026 | speaker | The unreasonable effectiveness of BM25 for agentic search | Video |
| Jo Kristian Bergum | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | The unreasonable effectiveness of BM25 for agentic search | Video |
| Jo Kristian Bergum | Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | panelist | AI is here – time to throw away our search engines? | Video |
| Jo Kristian Bergum | Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | talk | Agentic Retrieval: Building Self-Optimizing Search Systems | Slides · Video |
| Lester Solbakken | Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | talk | When better retrieval makes agents worse | Video |