Lenses.io
Circuit mix
Where Lenses.io shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Streaming75%9 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows8%1 event
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos8%1 event
- AI engineering & MLOps4%1 event
- Python & R data science4%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current (formerly Kafka Summit) | ||||||||||
| Data Streaming Summit | ||||||||||
| Big Data LDN | ||||||||||
| Data + AI Summit | ||||||||||
| MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | ||||||||||
| PyData |
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 2 conferences in 2026, up 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 2
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- Data + AI Summitfirst sponsored 2026, unranked tier
- Data Streaming Summitfirst sponsored 2026, Community tier
Moved up 1
Best tier rose between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit)Silver 2019 → Gold 2025
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Big Data LDNonce, 2019, 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).
- Streambased0.84
- Radicalbit0.84
- Timeplus0.84
- Conduktor0.82
- Buf0.81
- RisingWave0.81
- Rockset0.78
- Swim0.78
5 Cluster: Current · Data Streaming Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 11 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | 9 | 82% |
| Imply | 9 | 82% |
| Aiven | 8 | 73% |
| Apache Software Foundation | 7 | 64% |
| Confluent | 7 | 64% |
| IBM | 7 | 64% |
| Microsoft | 7 | 64% |
| StreamNative | 7 | 64% |
| Azul | 6 | 55% |
| Conduktor | 6 | 55% |
| Datadog | 6 | 55% |
| Factor House | 6 | 55% |
| 6 | 55% | |
| RisingWave | 6 | 55% |
| Accenture | 5 | 45% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Lenses.io (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Streaming Summit 2026: The Data+Agent Conference | Oct 7–8, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Community sponsors | Community |
| Data + AI Summit 2026 | Jun 15–18, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Enthusiast | Other |
| Current New Orleans 2025 | Oct 29–30, 2025 | New Orleans, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Current London 2025 | May 20–21, 2025 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| Current 2024 | Sep 17–18, 2024 | Austin, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Kafka Summit London 2024 | Mar 19–20, 2024 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| Kafka Summit London 2023 | May 16–17, 2023 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| Kafka Summit Americas 2021 | Sep 14–15, 2021 | — | Gold | Gold |
| Big Data LDN 2019 | Nov 13–14, 2019 | London, United Kingdom | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019 | Sep 30, 2019 – Oct 1, 2019 | San Francisco, United States | Silver | Silver |
| Kafka Summit London 2019 | May 13–14, 2019 | London, United Kingdom | Silver | Silver |
Speakers 3
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Frenay | Data Streaming Summit 2026: The Data+Agent Conference | speaker | Building an Autonomous SRE Agent for Kafka Incidents | Video |
| Jeremy Frenay | AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 | speaker | Call Now, Fetch Later: Durable MCP Tasks on an Event Log | — |
| Tun Shwe | PyData London 2026 | tutorial | Observing Agentic AI in Production: MCP Server Tracing with OpenTelemetry and Animal Crossing | — |