Simple Machines
Circuit mix
Where Simple Machines 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 & practitioner50%1 event
- Streaming25%1 event
- Python & R data science25%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataEngBytes | ||||||||
| Current (formerly Kafka Summit) | ||||||||
| 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.
Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Gold
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 1 conference in 2025.
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.
Not on the company map: lookalikes are computed only for companies present at four or more conferences.
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 1 this company sponsored).
Sponsorships 1
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DataEngBytes 2025 Sydney | Jul 29–30, 2025 | Sydney, Australia | Gold | Gold |
Speakers 2
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Aubury | PyCon AU 2024 | talk | Serpents and Ducks: wrangling data with Python and DuckDB | Video |
| Simon Aubury | Current 2024 | featured | — | — |