Merge
Circuit mix
Where Merge 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 & MLOps67%3 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows22%1 event
- Cloud providers11%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||||
| MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | ||||||||||
| ODSC (Open Data Science Conference) | ||||||||||
| Snowflake Summit | ||||||||||
| AWS re:Invent |
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
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 3 conferences in 2026, up from 1 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.
New 3
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first sponsored 2026, Gold
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPConfirst sponsored 2026, Silver
- ODSC (Open Data Science Conference)first sponsored 2026, tier not listed
Pulled out 1
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- Snowflake Summitlast sponsored 2024; the conference ran again in 2025–26
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).
1 Cluster: AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 4 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | 3 | 75% |
| 3 | 75% | |
| Microsoft | 3 | 75% |
| Runpod | 3 | 75% |
| Accenture | 2 | 50% |
| Airbyte | 2 | 50% |
| Akamai | 2 | 50% |
| Apify | 2 | 50% |
| Auth0 | 2 | 50% |
| Block | 2 | 50% |
| CData Software | 2 | 50% |
| Databricks | 2 | 50% |
| Datadog | 2 | 50% |
| dbt Labs | 2 | 50% |
| Descope | 2 | 50% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Merge (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 4
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODSC AI West 2026 | Oct 27–29, 2026 | Burlingame, United States | Partner (untiered) | Unlabeled |
| AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026 | Oct 22–23, 2026 | San Jose, United States | Silver | Silver |
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024 | Jun 3–6, 2024 | San Francisco, United States | Snow Row | Bronze |
Speakers 2
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gil Feig | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | Why your company needs a context graph, and how to build it | Video |
| Shensi Ding | AWS re:Invent 2024 | lightning talk | How Drata closed more deals after adding over 30 product integrations (sponsored by Merge) | Video |