Observable
Circuit mix
Where Observable shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Microsoft data platform40%2 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner20%1 event
- Open-source data infrastructure20%1 event
- Python & R data science20%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Observable sponsored or had speakers in the past 12 months, and the announced events it is already listed for. One row per conference, January to December; hover a mark for the event and the company's role.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budapest BI Forum | ||||||||
| DuckCon | ||||||||
| OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference) | ||||||||
| PyCon (national Python conferences) |
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale.
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.
Where they've grown or pulled back
Observable has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
DownNothing recorded in 2026; had speakers at 4 conferences in 2024.
Counted per conference. 2026 is the latest year whose conferences have mostly happened. A conference counts as no longer seen only when later events published speaker lists.
No longer seen 3
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- DuckConlast seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
- OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference)last seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
- PyCon (national Python conferences)last seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists 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).
- Seznam.cz0.90
- Generali0.89
- Linode0.88
- Research Affiliates0.83
- DeepLearning.AI0.82
- Exxeta0.82
- Ponder0.81
- BARC0.80
6 Cluster: PyCon · EuroPython circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 0 this company sponsored).
No co-sponsors: this company has no recorded sponsorships, or sponsored alone.
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Observable (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 0
No sponsorships recorded for Observable.
Speakers 5
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allison Horst | Budapest BI Forum 2025 | speaker | Introducing Observable Canvases: A new paradigm in collaborative data analysis and dashboarding | — |
| Allison Horst | OSA CON 2024 | speaker | Observable Framework: a new open-source static site generator to get data past the last mile | Video |
| Allison Horst | Budapest BI Forum 2024 | speaker | Building faster interactive data visualizations with Observable | — |
| Robert Kosara | DuckCon #5 | talk | A duck for your dashboard: Performant data apps in the browser with DuckDB | — |
| Tereza Iofciu | PyCon US 2024 | speaker | Acknowledging Women’s Contributions in the Python Community Through Podcast | Video |