Spiral
Circuit mix
Where Spiral shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Open-source data infrastructure43%3 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner29%1 event
- Research29%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iceberg Summit | ||||||||||
| DuckCon | ||||||||||
| VLDB (International Conference on Very Large Data Bases) | ||||||||||
| OpenXData |
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
Where they've grown or pulled back
Sponsored 2 conferences in 2026, the first year on record.
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.
- DuckConfirst sponsored 2026, Silver
- VLDB (International Conference on Very Large Data Bases)first sponsored 2026, 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).
- OceanBase0.90
- Hasso Plattner Institute0.80
- Zhejiang University0.75
- National University of Singapore0.73
- TU Dresden0.72
- Huawei0.72
- Megagon Labs0.72
- Alibaba Cloud0.71
2 Cluster: CIDR · ACM SIGMOD/PODS 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud | 1 | 50% |
| Amazon Web Services | 1 | 50% |
| ByteDance | 1 | 50% |
| Cockroach Labs | 1 | 50% |
| Couchbase | 1 | 50% |
| Databricks | 1 | 50% |
| DuckDB Labs | 1 | 50% |
| eBay | 1 | 50% |
| 1 | 50% | |
| GraphAI | 1 | 50% |
| IBM | 1 | 50% |
| InterSystems | 1 | 50% |
| Jane Street | 1 | 50% |
| Megagon Labs | 1 | 50% |
| Meta | 1 | 50% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Spiral (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VLDB 2026 (52nd) | Aug 31, 2026 – Sep 4, 2026 | Boston, United States | Silver | Silver |
| DuckCon #7 | Jun 24, 2026 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Silver supporter | Silver |
Speakers 3
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will Manning | OpenXData 2026 (April) | speaker | Vortex: Building GPU-Native Columnar Storage | Video |
| Will Manning | Iceberg Summit 2026 | speaker | From Drift to Drive: Slicing Through Data with Iceberg and Vortex | Video |
| Will Manning | Iceberg Summit 2025 | speaker | Turbocharge Queries on Iceberg with Next-Gen File Formats | Video |