Ponder
Circuit mix
Where Ponder 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 & practitioner40%4 events
- Open-source data infrastructure20%1 event
- Python & R data science20%1 event
- Postgres & open-source databases10%1 event
- Microsoft data platform10%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budapest Data+AI Forum | ||||||||||
| OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference) | ||||||||||
| PyCon (national Python conferences) | ||||||||||
| SQLBits | ||||||||||
| Data Council | ||||||||||
| DuckCon | ||||||||||
| PG DATA |
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.
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 1 conference 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.
Once or on and off 2
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- OSA CON (Open Source Analytics Conference)once, 2022, unranked tier
- PyCon (national Python conferences)once, 2023, 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).
- Elementl0.79
- OtterTune0.76
- DAGWorks Inc0.72
- Mooncake Labs0.68
- Braintree Payments / PayPal0.66
- Seznam.cz0.66
- Navicat0.64
- Michelin0.64
16 Cluster: PyCon · EuroPython 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Adimian.be SPRL | 1 | 50% |
| Ahana | 1 | 50% |
| Airbyte | 1 | 50% |
| Aiven | 1 | 50% |
| Akamai Cloud Computing Services | 1 | 50% |
| Altinity | 1 | 50% |
| Amazon Web Services | 1 | 50% |
| Anaconda | 1 | 50% |
| Ansys | 1 | 50% |
| Anvil | 1 | 50% |
| Anyscale | 1 | 50% |
| Auth0 | 1 | 50% |
| BeeWare Project | 1 | 50% |
| BeProud | 1 | 50% |
| Bloomberg | 1 | 50% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Ponder (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 2
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyCon US 2023 | Apr 19–27, 2023 | Salt Lake City, United States | Associate | Other |
| OSA CON 2022 | Nov 15, 2022 | — | Sponsor | Other |
Speakers 8
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egor Tarasenko | PG DATA 2026 | speaker | Streamlining Data Ingestion and Transformation with Trino + dbt | — |
| Egor Tarasenko | Budapest Data+AI Forum 2026 | speaker | AI-Powered Airflow Management: From Desktop Assistant to Embedded UI Plugin | — |
| Egor Tarasenko | SQLBits 2026 | speaker | Untangling dbt Dependencies with Knowledge Graphs and AI | — |
| Egor Tarasenko | SQLBits 2026 | speaker | dbt → Cube.js → Superset: Automating Semantic Layer & BI Sync | Video |
| Aditya Parameswaran | DuckCon #3 | lightning talk | Pandas on DuckDB with Ponder | — |
| Doris Lee | OSA CON 2022 | speaker | Scaling your Pandas Analytics with Modin | Video |
| Alejandro Herrera | Budapest ML Forum 2022 | speaker | Effortlessly scale your pandas workflows with Modin | — |
| Devin Petersohn | Data Council Austin 2022 | talk | Scaling up your pandas workflows with Modin | — |