PuppyGraph
Circuit mix
Where PuppyGraph 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 & practitioner34%6 events
- Open-source data infrastructure23%4 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows17%3 events
- Streaming17%3 events
- Research9%2 events
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
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
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 8 conferences in 2026, up from 4 in 2024.
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 5
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- Data + AI Summitfirst sponsored 2025, unranked tier
- Data Engineering Open Forumfirst sponsored 2026, Silver
- Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)first sponsored 2026, unranked tier
- Rows & Columns Summitfirst sponsored 2026, unranked tier
- VLDB (International Conference on Very Large Data Bases)first sponsored 2026, unranked tier
Steady 3
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- Data Day Texasevery year 2024–26, unranked tier
- Data Streaming Summitevery year 2024–26, Silver
- Iceberg Summitevery year 2024–26, mostly Bronze
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Subsurfaceonce, 2024, Silver
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).
- CelerData0.83
- Expero0.71
- StarTree0.69
- VeloDB0.67
- Datavolo0.66
- Imply0.63
- Franz Inc0.61
- Tom Sawyer Software0.60
5 Cluster: Current · Data Streaming Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 17 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | 10 | 59% |
| Databricks | 7 | 41% |
| 7 | 41% | |
| StreamNative | 7 | 41% |
| Microsoft | 6 | 35% |
| VeloDB | 6 | 35% |
| MinIO | 5 | 29% |
| Redpanda | 5 | 29% |
| RisingWave | 5 | 29% |
| Snowflake | 5 | 29% |
| Starburst | 5 | 29% |
| Confluent | 4 | 24% |
| Dremio | 4 | 24% |
| Fivetran | 4 | 24% |
| Franz Inc | 4 | 24% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
PuppyGraph (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.
- Current · Data Streaming Summit circuit 14
- ODSC · MLOps World circuit 6
- PyData · posit::conf circuit 2
- Gartner Data & Analytics Summit · Snowflake Summit circuit 2
- PGDays & regional Postgres events · PostgreSQL Conference Europe 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
- Coalesce · Modern Data Stack Conference circuit 1
Sponsorships 17
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data AI Weekend 2026 (Austin) | Oct 10–11, 2026 | Austin, United States | Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons | Other |
| Data Streaming Summit 2026: The Data+Agent Conference | Oct 7–8, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Silver sponsors | Silver |
| Rows & Columns Summit 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Our Sponsors (row 2, untiered) | Other |
| VLDB 2026 (52nd) | Aug 31, 2026 – Sep 4, 2026 | Boston, United States | Exhibitor/Publisher | Other |
| Data + AI Summit 2026 | Jun 15–18, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Explorer | Other |
| Data Engineering Open Forum 2026 | Apr 16, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Silver | Silver |
| Iceberg Summit 2026 | Apr 8–9, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Bronze | Bronze |
| FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | Mar 16–20, 2026 | Atlanta, United States | Exhibitor | Other |
| Data Day Texas + AI 2026 | Jan 24, 2026 | Austin, United States | Patrons and Partners | Other |
| Data Streaming Summit San Francisco 2025 | Sep 29–30, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| Data + AI Summit 2025 | Jun 9–12, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Enthusiast | Other |
| Iceberg Summit 2025 | Apr 8–9, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Entry | Bronze |
| Data Day Texas + AI 2025 | Jan 25, 2025 | Austin, United States | Graph Partners | Other |
| Data Streaming Summit 2024 | Oct 28–29, 2024 | San Francisco, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| Iceberg Summit 2024 | May 14–15, 2024 | — | Virtual booth | Other |
| Subsurface LIVE 2024 | May 2–3, 2024 | New York, United States | Silver | Silver |
| Data Day Texas + AI 2024 | Jan 27, 2024 | Austin, United States | Graph Partners | Other |
Speakers 6
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weimo Liu | Data Streaming Summit 2026: The Data+Agent Conference | speaker | From Thousands of Tables to an Ontology Graph: Building an AI Agent with Usra and PuppyGraph | Video |
| Weimo Liu | Twenty-First TUC Meeting (Graph Data Council) | speaker | Decoupled graph compute: Analyzing petabyte-scale data without migration | Slides |
| Weimo Liu | Iceberg Summit 2026 | speaker | Apache Iceberg: the Answer to Observability for AI Agents | Video |
| Weimo Liu | Data Day Texas + AI 2026 | speaker | Context Trace/Graph: Observability for AI Agents | — |
| Weimo Liu | Data Streaming Summit San Francisco 2025 | speaker | A Survey of Cybersecurity Data Infra and How to Simplify It with Ursa and Graph | Video |
| Weimo Liu | Subsurface LIVE 2024 | — | — | — |