Lightbend
Circuit mix
Where Lightbend shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Modern data stack & practitioner33%2 events
- Software engineering & trading tech33%2 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos22%1 event
- Python & R data science11%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 | ||||||||||
| AI By the Bay | ||||||||||
| Strata Data Conference | ||||||||||
| Data Council | ||||||||||
| EuroPython |
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
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 1 conference in 2024.
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.
Pulled out 2
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- AI By the Baylast sponsored 2019; the conference ran again in 2021, 2023 and 2025
- QConlast sponsored 2024; the conference ran again in 2025–26
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- 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).
- Rasa0.74
- The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning0.67
- Honeycomb0.65
- Anodot0.64
- Nextdata0.64
- Freshworks0.64
- Diagrid0.63
- Claypot AI0.61
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 3 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dremio | 2 | 67% |
| Oracle | 2 | 67% |
| Accenture | 1 | 33% |
| Actian | 1 | 33% |
| Aiven | 1 | 33% |
| Alation | 1 | 33% |
| Algorithmia | 1 | 33% |
| Alluxio | 1 | 33% |
| Alteryx | 1 | 33% |
| Amazon Web Services | 1 | 33% |
| AMD | 1 | 33% |
| Anaconda | 1 | 33% |
| Analyttica TreasureHunt | 1 | 33% |
| Antithesis | 1 | 33% |
| Apache Software Foundation | 1 | 33% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Lightbend (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 3
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QCon San Francisco 2024 | Nov 18–20, 2024 | San Francisco, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| Scale By the Bay 2019 | Nov 13–15, 2019 | Oakland, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| Strata Data Conference New York 2019 | Sep 23–26, 2019 | New York, United States | Exhibitors | Other |
Speakers 3
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sean Walsh | EuroPython 2020 Online | talk | Serverless 2.0 with Cloudstate.io-stateful functions with Python | Slides · Video |
| Sean Walsh | QCon London 2020 | speaker | Cloudstate—Towards Stateful Serverless | Video |
| Gerard Maas | Data Council Barcelona 2019 | talk | Kubernetes as a Streaming Data Platform: A Federated Operator Approach | — |