Independent / Freelancer
Also listed as 3 other names
Independent / Community-based · Independent / State of Data · Independent Contributor
Circuit mix
Where Independent / Freelancer shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- AI engineering & MLOps50%2 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows25%1 event
- Python & R data science25%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Independent / Freelancer 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.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled tier
- Had speakers
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| useR! (The R User Conference) | ||||||||
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||
| MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | ||||||||
| Snowflake Summit |
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.
Where they've grown or pulled back
Independent / Freelancer has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
Had speakers at 4 conferences in 2026, the first year on record.
Counted per conference. 2026 is the latest year whose conferences have mostly happened. A conference counts as no longer seen only when later events published speaker lists.
New conferences spoken at 4
First speaker in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPConfirst spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- Snowflake Summitfirst spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- useR! (The R User Conference)first spoke 2026, 1 speaker
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).
- Merge0.73
- Block0.73
- Warp0.71
- GrowthBook0.70
- Conviction0.69
- Descope0.67
- Inngest0.67
- Workato0.66
11 Cluster: AI Engineer · QCon circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 0 this company sponsored).
No co-sponsors: this company has no recorded sponsorships, or sponsored alone.
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Independent / Freelancer (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 0
No sponsorships recorded for Independent / Freelancer.
Speakers 5
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ritwik Ranjan | AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan 2026 | speaker | Stop Giving Agents Tokens: Securing With Side-Car Proxies | — |
| Magnus Mengelbier | useR! 2026 | speaker | R Analysis and the Math of Automation at Scale | — |
| Magnus Mengelbier | useR! 2026 | speaker | Quality Control Risk Model for R Package Validation | — |
| Sean Cai | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | State of Data | Video |
| Kosuke Kida | Snowflake Summit 26 | speaker | Zero-ETL Citizen Development on Snowflake: Apps with Postgres and SPCS | — |