PlanetScale
Circuit mix
Where PlanetScale shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Postgres & open-source databases68%11 events
- AI engineering & MLOps18%2 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner9%1 event
- Software engineering & trading tech5%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 |
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| FOSDEM | ||||||||||
| Percona Live | ||||||||||
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||||
| The Dive | ||||||||||
| PGDay Goiânia | ||||||||||
| PGDay São Paulo | ||||||||||
| QCon |
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
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 2 conferences in 2026, up 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.
New 2
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first sponsored 2026, Gold
- The Divefirst sponsored 2026, unranked tier
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- Percona Live3 of 5 years 2019–23, mostly unranked tier
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 7 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | 5 | 71% |
| Altinity | 4 | 57% |
| MySQL | 4 | 57% |
| Bloomberg | 3 | 43% |
| Galera Cluster | 3 | 43% |
| Reducto | 3 | 43% |
| Airbyte | 2 | 29% |
| Apify | 2 | 29% |
| Arize AI | 2 | 29% |
| Braintrust | 2 | 29% |
| Browserbase | 2 | 29% |
| Cerebras | 2 | 29% |
| Cloudflare | 2 | 29% |
| Coinbase | 2 | 29% |
| Comet | 2 | 29% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
PlanetScale (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.
- PGDays & regional Postgres events · PostgreSQL Conference Europe circuit 19
- Current · Data Streaming Summit circuit 6
- AWS re:Invent · Google Cloud Next circuit 2
- AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit 1
- QCon · MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon circuit 1
- Community Over Code · Flink Forward circuit 1
- PyCon · EuroPython circuit 1
Sponsorships 7
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Engineer New York 2026 | Oct 12–14, 2026 | New York, United States | Gold | Gold |
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Gold | Gold |
| The Dive 2026 | Jun 1–3, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Co-host (Postgres Community Talks & Happy Hour) | Other |
| Percona Live 2023 | May 22–24, 2023 | Denver, United States | Sponsor (named in press release; not on archived sponsor wall) | Other |
| Percona Live 2022 | May 16–18, 2022 | Austin, United States | Gold & Silver | Other |
| Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2019 | Sep 30, 2019 – Oct 2, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Gold | Gold |
| Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | May 28–30, 2019 | Austin, United States | Community Dinner | Other |
Speakers 20
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| João Foltran | PGDay Goiânia 2026 | speaker | Postgres na PlanetScale: Construindo com open source | — |
| João Foltran | PGDay São Paulo 2026 | speaker | Postgres na PlanetScale: Construindo com open source | — |
| Ben Dicken | AI Engineer New York 2026 | speaker | PlanetScale Q&A + Merch Drop | — |
| Ben Dicken | FOSDEM 2026 | speaker | PostgreSQL and MySQL, Two Databases, Three Perspectives | Video |
| Matthias Crauwels | FOSDEM 2026 | speaker | Data on Kubernetes / stateless storage | Video |
| Rohit Nayak | FOSDEM 2026 | speaker | PostgreSQL and MySQL, Two Databases, Three Perspectives | Video |
| Shlomi Noach | FOSDEM 2026 | speaker | PostgreSQL and MySQL, Two Databases, Three Perspectives | Video |
| Matthias Crauwels | FOSDEM 2025 | speaker | Devroom welcome | Slides · Video |
| Matthias Crauwels | FOSDEM 2025 | speaker | Migrating Massive Aurora and MySQL Databases to Vitess Kubernetes Clusters with Near-Zero Downtime | Slides · Video |
| Shlomi Noach | FOSDEM 2025 | speaker | schemadiff: in memory schema analysis, validation, normalization, diffing, and manipulation | Slides · Video |
| Chris Sinjakli | QCon London 2023 | speaker | Deconstructing an Abstraction to Reconstruct an Outage | — |
| Harshit Gangal | FOSDEM 2023 | speaker | Life of a Query in Vitess | Video |
| Matt Lord | Percona Live 2022 | speaker | Vitess VReplication: Standing on the Shoulders of a MySQL Giant | — |
| Shlomi Noach | FOSDEM 2022 | speaker | The relational model in the modern development age | Video |
| Alkin Tezuysal | FOSDEM 2021 | speaker | How to shard MariaDB like a Pro? | Slides · Video |
| Liz van Dijk | FOSDEM 2021 | speaker | Hitchhiker's Guide to MySQL | Video |
| Shlomi Noach | FOSDEM 2021 | speaker | Open Source Database Infrastructure with Vitess | Slides · Video |
| Dan Kozlowski | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | Vitess: Running Sharded MySQL on Kubernetes | — |
| Jiten Vaidya | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | An Open-Source, Cloud Native Database (CNDB) | — |
| Sugu Sougoumarane | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 | speaker | Vitess: Running Sharded MySQL on Kubernetes | — |