nao Labs
Circuit mix
Where nao Labs 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 & practitioner88%5 events
- AI engineering & MLOps13%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forward Data Conference | ||||||||||
| AI Product Day | ||||||||||
| Data Council | ||||||||||
| DuckCon |
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.
- Silver
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
FlatSponsored 1 conference in 2026, flat from 1 in 2025.
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.
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).
- Theory Ventures0.94
- Datakin0.75
- Y420.74
- Acryl Data0.72
- Elementl0.71
- Chalk0.65
- Bauplan0.65
- Nextdata0.64
19 Cluster: Coalesce · Modern Data Stack Conference circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 2 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| ClickHouse | 2 | 100% |
| Omni | 2 | 100% |
| Starlake.ai | 2 | 100% |
| Cassis | 1 | 50% |
| Mirakl | 1 | 50% |
| MotherDuck | 1 | 50% |
| Navicat | 1 | 50% |
| Sifflet | 1 | 50% |
| Solario | 1 | 50% |
| Synq | 1 | 50% |
| Tangram | 1 | 50% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
nao Labs (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.
- Coalesce · Modern Data Stack Conference circuit 14
- Current · Data Streaming Summit circuit 6
- ODSC · MLOps World circuit 3
- PyData · posit::conf circuit 2
- Gartner Data & Analytics Summit · Snowflake Summit circuit 2
- The AI Summit · AWS re:Invent circuit 1
- QCon · MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon circuit 1
- Community Over Code · Flink Forward circuit 1
- Big Data & AI Paris · Gartner Data & Analytics Summit circuit 1
Sponsorships 2
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forward Data Conference 2026 | Nov 16, 2026 | Paris, France | StartUp | Startup |
| Forward Data Conference 2025 | Nov 24, 2025 | Paris, France | Silver sponsors | Silver |
Speakers 9
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christophe Blefari | Forward Data Conference 2026 | keynote | Everyone's an analyst (and that's great) | — |
| Claire Gouze | Forward Data Conference 2026 | speaker | Context engineering for analytics agents that actually work | — |
| Christophe Blefari | Forward Data Conference 2025 | speaker | We have been automated, what to do in 2026? | Video |
| Christophe Blefari | Data Council 2025 | talk | AI Launchpad 2025: Nao | — |
| Claire Gouze | Data Council 2025 | talk | AI Launchpad 2025: Nao | — |
| Christophe Blefari | AI Product Day 2025 | speaker | Quand les data servent les data : comment les équipes data utilisent les agents pour accroître leur propre efficacité | — |
| Claire Gouze | AI Product Day 2025 | speaker | Quand les data servent les data : comment les équipes data utilisent les agents pour accroître leur propre efficacité | — |
| Christophe Blefari | DuckCon #6 | lightning talk | yato: orchestrate your queries with no pain | — |
| Christophe Blefari | Forward Data Conference 2024 | speaker | Q&A about (data) freelancing | — |