Picnic
Also listed as 2 other names
Picnic BV · Picnic Technologies
Circuit mix
Where Picnic shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Python & R data science86%7 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows7%1 event
- Software engineering7%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Picnic 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyData | ||||||||
| EuroPython | ||||||||
| Open House by ClickHouse (ClickHouse User Conference) | ||||||||
| QCon |
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.
Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
FlatSponsored 1 conference in 2026, flat from 1 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.
Moved up 1
Best tier rose between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- EuroPythonSilver 2023 → Gold 2025
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).
- The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning0.91
- Man Group0.85
- Heidelberger Druckmaschinen0.83
- Flatiron Health0.82
- Explosion0.82
- Vonage0.81
- Warsaw University of Technology0.80
- Mor Consulting0.79
17 Cluster: PyData · QCon circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 5 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 80% | |
| JetBrains | 4 | 80% |
| Bloomberg | 3 | 60% |
| Microsoft | 3 | 60% |
| Numberly | 3 | 60% |
| pretalx | 3 | 60% |
| pretix | 3 | 60% |
| The Qt Company | 3 | 60% |
| 1Password | 2 | 40% |
| Adyen | 2 | 40% |
| Apify | 2 | 40% |
| Arm | 2 | 40% |
| ClickHouse | 2 | 40% |
| Evolabel | 2 | 40% |
| KickstartAI | 2 | 40% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Picnic (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 5
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyData Amsterdam 2026 | Sep 10–12, 2026 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Platinum Sponsor | Platinum |
| PyData Amsterdam 2025 | Sep 24–26, 2025 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | — | Unlabeled |
| EuroPython 2025 | Jul 14–20, 2025 | Prague, Czechia | Gold | Gold |
| EuroPython 2024 | Jul 8–14, 2024 | Prague, Czechia | Silver | Silver |
| EuroPython 2023 | Jul 17–23, 2023 | Prague, Czechia | Silver | Silver |
Speakers 10
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Majid Hajiheidari | PyData Amsterdam 2026 | talk | Rebuilding Picnic’s Recipe Recommender | — |
| Max Sumrall | Open House Roadshow Amsterdam 2025 | speaker | Deep-Dive: Real-Time Analytics (ft. Picnic) | — |
| Sven Arends | PyData Amsterdam 2025 | talk | Counting Groceries with Computer Vision: How Picnic Tracks Inventory Automatically | Video |
| Kirill Druzhinin | EuroPython 2025 | talk | Breaking HTTP Boundaries: ASGI to build a fleet management system in Python | Video |
| Matthieu Caneill | EuroPython 2025 | talk | dbt-score: continuous integration for dbt metadata | Video |
| Sven Arends | EuroPython 2025 | talk | Meet Marimo, the next-gen Notebook | Video |
| Matthieu Caneill | EuroPython 2024 | talk | The rise of the YAML engineer | Video |
| Maarten Sukel | PyData Amsterdam 2023 | talk | Multimodal Product Demand Forecasting: From pixels on your screen to a meal on your plate | — |
| Jelmer Borst | QCon London 2023 | speaker | How to Apply a Product Mindset to Your Platform Team Tomorrow | — |
| Bas Vlaming | PyData Eindhoven 2022 | talk | Everything in its Right Place: Optimising Ranking in Online Grocery | Video |