Mode
Circuit mix
Where Mode 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 & practitioner71%11 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows21%3 events
- AI engineering & MLOps8%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coalesce | ||||||||||
| Data Council | ||||||||||
| Snowflake Summit | ||||||||||
| Modern Data Stack Conference (MDSCon) | ||||||||||
| ODSC (Open Data Science Conference) | ||||||||||
| Data Outpost |
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
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 2 conferences 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.
Pulled out 2
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- Coalescelast sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2026
- Snowflake Summitlast sponsored 2020; the conference ran again in 2021–22 and 2024–26
Once or on and off 3
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Data Council2 of 4 years, 2019–22
- Modern Data Stack Conference (MDSCon)once, 2023, Bronze
- ODSC (Open Data Science Conference)once, 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).
- Census0.91
- Rasgo0.89
- Brooklyn Data Co0.88
- Acryl Data0.85
- Steep0.83
- Datafold0.80
- Metaplane0.79
- Select Star0.76
19 Cluster: Coalesce · Modern Data Stack Conference circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 10 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Databricks | 5 | 50% |
| Fivetran | 5 | 50% |
| IBM | 5 | 50% |
| Sigma Computing | 5 | 50% |
| Snowflake | 5 | 50% |
| Snowplow | 5 | 50% |
| Census | 4 | 40% |
| Hightouch | 4 | 40% |
| phData | 4 | 40% |
| Slalom | 4 | 40% |
| Starburst | 4 | 40% |
| Atlan | 3 | 30% |
| Bigeye | 3 | 30% |
| Brooklyn Data Co | 3 | 30% |
| CARTO | 3 | 30% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Mode (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 10
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coalesce 2023 San Diego | Oct 16–19, 2023 | San Diego, United States | Bronze | Bronze |
| Modern Data Stack Conference 2023 | Apr 4–5, 2023 | San Francisco, United States | Bronze sponsors | Bronze |
| Coalesce 2022 New Orleans | Oct 17–21, 2022 | New Orleans, United States | Ecosystem | Other |
| Data Council Austin 2022 | Mar 23–24, 2022 | Austin, United States | Silver | Silver |
| Coalesce 2020 | Dec 7–11, 2020 | — | Supporting partner | Other |
| Snowflake Summit 2020 (cancelled) | Jun 1–4, 2020 | Las Vegas, United States | Platinum Partner | Platinum |
| Data Council New York City 2019 | Nov 12–13, 2019 | New York, United States | Partner | Other |
| ODSC West 2019 | Oct 29, 2019 – Nov 1, 2019 | Burlingame, United States | Silver Partners | Silver |
| Snowflake Summit 2019 | Jun 3–6, 2019 | San Francisco, United States | Silver Partner | Silver |
| Data Council San Francisco 2019 | Apr 17–18, 2019 | San Francisco, United States | Partner | Other |
Speakers 15
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benn Stancil | dbt Summit 2026 | speaker | How to have ideas | Video |
| Benn Stancil | AI Council 2026 | talk | Benchmarking AI Agents Against Realistic Analytical Tasks with ADE-bench | — |
| Benn Stancil | Small Data SF 2024 | speaker | BI's Big Lie | Video |
| Benn Stancil | Data Council Austin 2024 | panel | WTF Are We Doing? | — |
| Benn Stancil | Coalesce 2023 San Diego | speaker | It’s petty, let’s fight: A data-driven look at our most divisive and least consequential debates | — |
| Benn Stancil | Coalesce 2023 San Diego | speaker | A data-driven look at our most divisive and least consequential debates | Video |
| Benn Stancil | Snowflake Summit 2023 | featured | — | — |
| Benn Stancil | Modern Data Stack Conference 2023 | speaker | The modern data stack is dead, long live the modern data stack! | — |
| Benn Stancil | Coalesce 2022 New Orleans | speaker | Money, Python, and the Holy Grail: Designing Operational Data Models | Video |
| Emily Ritter | Coalesce 2022 New Orleans | speaker | "But my number says this"...and other horror stories | Video |
| Benn Stancil | Data Council Austin 2022 | talk | The Return of the OLAP Cube | — |
| Benn Stancil | Coalesce 2021 | speaker | The modern data experience | Slides · Video |
| Benn Stancil | Coalesce 2020 | speaker | Beyond the Modern Data Stack: dbt Cloud Metadata in Mode | Video |
| Benn Stancil | Data Council New York City 2019 | talk | Building an End-to-End Data Stack in Thirty Minutes | — |
| Josh Ferguson | Data Council San Francisco 2019 | talk | Introducing Switch: A Framework for Custom Data Applications | — |