Imply
Circuit mix
Where Imply shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Streaming32%14 events
- Open-source data infrastructure23%12 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner15%8 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows12%5 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos12%5 events
- Postgres & open-source databases2%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps2%1 event
- Cloud providers1%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
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.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownSponsored 1 conference in 2026, down from 2 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.
Moved down 3
Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)Platinum 2020 → Silver 2021
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit)Gold 2019 → Silver 2025
- Data + AI SummitSilver 2020 → Bronze 2026
Steady 5
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- Big Data LDN4 of 5 years 2019–23, mostly tier not listed
- Data Day Texas2 of 3 years 2020–22, Silver
- DataEngBytesevery year 2021–22, unranked tier
- MongoDB.local NYC (formerly MongoDB World)every year 2021–22, unranked tier
- Subsurfaceevery year 2021–22, Platinum
Once or on and off 5
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- DataWorks Summitonce, 2019, Silver
- ODSC (Open Data Science Conference)once, 2021, Silver
- OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference)once, 2021, Community tier
- PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)once, 2021, Gold
- Strata Data Conferenceonce, 2019, unranked 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).
5 Cluster: Current · Data Streaming Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 37 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | 24 | 65% |
| Microsoft | 24 | 65% |
| Confluent | 20 | 54% |
| IBM | 17 | 46% |
| 16 | 43% | |
| Aiven | 13 | 35% |
| Apache Software Foundation | 12 | 32% |
| Instaclustr | 12 | 32% |
| Databricks | 11 | 30% |
| MongoDB | 11 | 30% |
| Neo4j | 11 | 30% |
| Red Hat | 11 | 30% |
| Azul | 10 | 27% |
| Fivetran | 10 | 27% |
| Qlik | 10 | 27% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Imply (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 37
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data + AI Summit 2026 | Jun 15–18, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Innovator | Bronze |
| Current London 2025 | May 20–21, 2025 | London, United Kingdom | Silver | Silver |
| Current 2024 | Sep 17–18, 2024 | Austin, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| Kafka Summit Bangalore 2024 | May 2, 2024 | Bengaluru, India | Gold | Gold |
| Kafka Summit London 2024 | Mar 19–20, 2024 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| Big Data LDN 2023 | Sep 20–21, 2023 | London, United Kingdom | Exhibitor | Unlabeled |
| Kafka Summit London 2023 | May 16–17, 2023 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit | Oct 4–5, 2022 | Austin, United States | Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| DataEngBytes 2022 Sydney | Sep 29, 2022 | Sydney, Australia | Sponsors | Other |
| DataEngBytes 2022 Melbourne | Sep 27, 2022 | Melbourne, Australia | Sponsors | Other |
| Big Data LDN 2022 | Sep 21–22, 2022 | London, United Kingdom | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| Data Day Texas 2022 | Jun 13, 2022 | Austin, United States | Silver Partners | Silver |
| MongoDB World 2022 | Jun 7–9, 2022 | New York, United States | Sponsor | Other |
| Kafka Summit London 2022 | Apr 25–26, 2022 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| Subsurface LIVE Winter 2022 | Mar 2–3, 2022 | — | Platinum Sponsors | Platinum |
| PGConf NYC 2021 | Dec 2–3, 2021 | New York, United States | Gold | Gold |
| ODSC West 2021 | Nov 16–18, 2021 | Burlingame, United States | Silver Partners | Silver |
| OSA CON 2021 | Nov 2, 2021 | — | Community Partner | Community |
| DataEngBytes 2021 | Oct 5–7, 2021 | — | Sponsors | Other |
| Big Data LDN 2021 | Sep 22–23, 2021 | London, United Kingdom | Exhibitor | Unlabeled |
| ApacheCon @Home 2021 | Sep 21–23, 2021 | — | Silver | Silver |
| Kafka Summit Americas 2021 | Sep 14–15, 2021 | — | Gold | Gold |
| ApacheCon Asia 2021 | Aug 6–8, 2021 | — | Silver | Silver |
| Kafka Summit APAC 2021 | Jul 27–28, 2021 | — | Gold | Gold |
| Subsurface LIVE Summer 2021 | Jul 21–22, 2021 | — | Platinum | Platinum |
| MongoDB.live 2021 | Jul 13–14, 2021 | — | Sponsor | Other |
| Data + AI Summit 2021 | May 24–28, 2021 | — | Silver | Silver |
| Kafka Summit Europe 2021 | May 11–12, 2021 | — | Gold | Gold |
| ApacheCon @Home 2020 | Sep 29, 2020 – Oct 1, 2020 | — | Platinum | Platinum |
| Spark + AI Summit 2020 | Jun 22–26, 2020 | — | Silver | Silver |
| Data Day Texas 2020 | Jan 25, 2020 | Austin, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| Big Data LDN 2019 | Nov 13–14, 2019 | London, United Kingdom | Exhibitor | Unlabeled |
| Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019 | Sep 30, 2019 – Oct 1, 2019 | San Francisco, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Strata Data Conference New York 2019 | Sep 23–26, 2019 | New York, United States | Exhibitors | Other |
| DataWorks Summit Washington, DC 2019 | May 20–23, 2019 | Washington, United States | Silver | Silver |
| Kafka Summit London 2019 | May 13–14, 2019 | London, United Kingdom | Silver | Silver |
| Kafka Summit NYC 2019 | Apr 2, 2019 | New York, United States | Silver | Silver |
Speakers 20
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gian Merlino | OSA CON 2024 | speaker | Getting data materialization right | Video |
| Hellmar Becker | Berlin Buzzwords 2024 | talk | Let's Do Data Lineage in Kafka, Flink and Druid! | Video |
| Darin Briskman | AWS re:Invent 2023 | lightning talk | Analyzing streaming data with Apache Druid (sponsored by Imply) | Video |
| Tijo Thomas | Community Over Code North America 2023 | speaker | Harnessing Real-Time: Powering High Concurrency Streaming Analytics with Apache Druid | — |
| Fangjin Yang | Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit | featured | — | — |
| Rohan Garg | DataEngBytes 2022 Melbourne | speaker | Best of Stream + Batch: When Streaming Analytics Isn't | Video |
| Gian Merlino | ApacheCon Asia 2022 | speaker | Tales at Scale: Analytics at 1000 QPS and Beyond | — |
| Sergio Ferragut | Berlin Buzzwords 2022 | talk | Build Real-time Analytic Applications: The Easy Way. | Video |
| Gian Merlino | OSA CON 2021 | panelist | The Future of Open Source Analytic Databases (Panel Discussion) | — |
| Peter Marshall | OSA CON 2021 | speaker | Succeeding with Apache Druid and Clickstream Data | — |
| Rachel Pedreschi | OSA CON 2021 | speaker | Data Rivers: The New Analytics Architecture | — |
| Jag Dhillon | DataEngBytes 2021 | speaker | Situational Intelligence with Analytics in Motion | Video |
| Matt Sarrel | Data Con LA 2020 | speaker | Apache Druid 101 | — |
| Gian Merlino | ApacheCon @Home 2020 | keynote | — | Video |
| Hellmar Becker | Budapest Data Forum 2020 | speaker | Apache Druid®: under the covers | — |
| Peter Marshall | Budapest Data Forum 2020 | speaker | Apache Druid®: under the covers | — |
| Gian Merlino | Data Day Texas 2020 | speaker | Fresh and Fast with Apache Druid: Analytics for Real-time and Ad-hoc Applications | — |
| Surekha Saharan | DataWorks Summit Washington, DC 2019 | speaker | Setting the Stage for Fast Analytics with Druid | — |
| Gian Merlino | Data Council San Francisco 2019 | talk | Swimming in the Data River, or, when “Streaming Analytics” isn’t | — |
| Fangjin Yang | Flink Forward San Francisco 2019 | speaker | Building a Streaming Analytics Stack with Open Source Technologies | — |