Slack
Circuit mix
Where Slack shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Cloud providers29%6 events
- Software engineering & trading tech23%8 events
- Python & R data science17%3 events
- Open-source data infrastructure9%3 events
- Postgres & open-source databases9%2 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows6%1 event
- Modern data stack & practitioner6%2 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos3%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||||
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| Percona Live | ||||||||||
| Iceberg Summit | ||||||||||
| DASH | ||||||||||
| Data Council | ||||||||||
| Berlin Buzzwords | ||||||||||
| Data Summit (DBTA) |
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.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Bronze
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.
Moved down 2
Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- AWS re:InventPlatinum 2021 → Gold 2025
- PyCon (national Python conferences)Platinum 2019 → Gold 2021
Pulled out 1
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- DASHlast sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2024–25
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Percona Liveonce, 2022, Bronze
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).
14 Cluster: AWS re:Invent · Google Cloud Next circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 9 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | 8 | 89% |
| Capital One | 7 | 78% |
| Elastic | 7 | 78% |
| MongoDB | 7 | 78% |
| Salesforce | 7 | 78% |
| CircleCI | 6 | 67% |
| Amazon Web Services | 5 | 56% |
| Cloudflare | 5 | 56% |
| Cockroach Labs | 5 | 56% |
| Datadog | 5 | 56% |
| HashiCorp | 5 | 56% |
| JetBrains | 5 | 56% |
| LaunchDarkly | 5 | 56% |
| NVIDIA | 5 | 56% |
| PagerDuty | 5 | 56% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Slack (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 9
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS re:Invent 2025 | Dec 1–5, 2025 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2024 | Dec 2–6, 2024 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| DASH 2023 | Aug 2–3, 2023 | San Francisco, United States | Gold | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2022 | Nov 28, 2022 – Dec 2, 2022 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Percona Live 2022 | May 16–18, 2022 | Austin, United States | Bronze | Bronze |
| AWS re:Invent 2021 | Nov 29, 2021 – Dec 3, 2021 | Las Vegas, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| PyCon US 2021 (Online) | May 12–18, 2021 | — | Maintaining | Gold |
| PyCon US 2020 (Online) | Apr 15–23, 2020 | — | Diamond | Platinum |
| PyCon US 2019 | May 1–9, 2019 | Cleveland, United States | Diamond | Platinum |
Speakers 33
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Milas | AWS re:Invent 2026 | lightning talk | Build the Agentic Workplace: What's New on the Slack Developer Platform (sponsored by Salesforce) | — |
| Eduardo Ortega Urrego | Percona Live 2026 Amsterdam | speaker | MySQL + Vitess @ Slack: Managing Databases to Support 1+ Billion Daily Messages | Video |
| Ellen Brown | Data Summit 2026 | speaker | The Data Domain Canvas | — |
| Lawrence Weikum | Iceberg Summit 2026 | speaker | Maintaining Iceberg at Scale: Lessons from Slack | Video |
| Austin Bell | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Delighting Slack users safely and quickly with Amazon Nova and Bedrock | Video |
| Shaurya Kethireddy | AWS re:Invent 2025 | breakout | Delighting Slack users safely and quickly with Amazon Nova and Bedrock | Video |
| Fenil Doshi | Iceberg Summit 2025 | speaker | Adopting Apache Iceberg at Slack: Challenges, Lessons, and Best Practices | Video |
| Lawrence Weikum | Iceberg Summit 2025 | speaker | Adopting Apache Iceberg at Slack: Challenges, Lessons, and Best Practices | Video |
| Maria Jose Hernandez | AWS re:Invent 2024 | lightning talk | Building AI agents in Slack using AWS services (sponsored by Slack from Salesforce) | Video |
| Paul Rapa | AWS re:Invent 2024 | breakout | Learn to create a robust, easy-to-scale architecture with cells | Video |
| Ian Hoffman | QCon San Francisco 2024 | speaker | Changing the Model: Why and How We Re-Architected Slack | — |
| Sergii Gorbachov | QCon San Francisco 2024 | speaker | Slack's AI-Powered, Hybrid Approach for Large-Scale Migration from Enzyme to React Testing Library | — |
| Bryan Burkholder | Berlin Buzzwords 2024 | talk | Standing on the Shoulders of Giants | Video |
| Varun Thacker | Berlin Buzzwords 2024 | talk | Standing on the Shoulders of Giants | Video |
| Alex Demitri | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | The future of Amazon EKS | Video |
| Krishna Patel | AWS re:Invent 2023 | lightning talk | Automate intelligent cloud operations with Slack and AWS (sponsored by Salesforce) | Video |
| Jenna Zeigen | QCon New York 2023 | speaker | Several Components are Rendering: Client Performance at Slack-Scale | — |
| Milena Talavera | AWS re:Invent 2022 | leadership session | Leaping ahead: The power of cloud network innovation | Slides · Video |
| Brian Elliott | QCon San Francisco 2022 | speaker | The Future of Work: How Flexibility Unlocks Potential for People and Organizations | — |
| Brian Elliott | QCon San Francisco 2022 | panelist | [Panel] Hybrid and Remote: How Do We Start Making Change Right Now? | — |
| Rafael de Elvira Tellez | QCon London 2022 | speaker | Slack’s DNSSEC Rollout: Third Time’s the Outage | — |
| Clint Burns | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | Slack is the digital HQ for AWS developers and DevOps teams (sponsored by Slack) | Slides · Video |
| Logan Franey | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | Slack is the digital HQ for AWS developers and DevOps teams (sponsored by Slack) | Slides · Video |
| Laura Nolan | QCon London 2020 | speaker | Managing Systems in an Age of Dynamic Complexity | Video |
| Megan Cristina | QCon San Francisco 2019 | panelist | Panel: Ethics in Software Engineering | Video |
| Mike McGarr | QCon San Francisco 2019 | keynote | Microcultures and Finding Your Place | Video |
| Ananth Packkildurai | Data Council Barcelona 2019 | talk | Murron: Reliable Logging Pipeline | — |
| Jackson Argo | Data Council Barcelona 2019 | talk | Murron: Reliable Logging Pipeline | — |
| Julia Grace | QCon New York 2019 | speaker | Scaling Infrastructure Engineering at Slack | — |
| Laura Nolan | QCon New York 2019 | speaker | What Breaks Our Systems: A Taxonomy of Black Swans | — |
| Laura Nolan | QCon New York 2019 | speaker | SRE AMA w/ Lorne Kligerman & Laura Nolan | — |
| Austin Wilt | Data Council San Francisco 2019 | talk | Balancing Broad Data Access with Usability at Scale | — |
| Mike McGarr | QCon London 2019 | speaker | Discovering Culture Through Artifacts | Video |