Tacnode
Circuit mix
Where Tacnode shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Vendor flagships & roadshows20%1 event
- Streaming20%1 event
- Postgres & open-source databases20%1 event
- Microsoft data platform20%1 event
- Software engineering & trading tech20%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postgres Conference (PostgresConf) | ||||||||||
| QCon | ||||||||||
| Current (formerly Kafka Summit) | ||||||||||
| Data + AI Summit | ||||||||||
| PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit) |
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
DownSponsored 2 conferences in 2026, down from 3 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.
New 5
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit)first sponsored 2025, Startup tier
- Data + AI Summitfirst sponsored 2026, unranked tier
- PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit)first sponsored 2025, unranked tier
- Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)first sponsored 2025, unranked tier
- QConfirst sponsored 2026, Startup 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).
- DBOS0.84
- Camunda0.76
- Antithesis0.72
- Hazelcast0.70
- InfluxData0.67
- Azul0.66
- Conduktor0.66
- RisingWave0.66
5 Cluster: Current · Data Streaming Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 5 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 80% | |
| Amazon Web Services | 3 | 60% |
| IBM | 3 | 60% |
| Microsoft | 3 | 60% |
| Quest | 3 | 60% |
| Yugabyte | 3 | 60% |
| Accenture | 2 | 40% |
| Antithesis | 2 | 40% |
| CData Software | 2 | 40% |
| Databricks | 2 | 40% |
| Datadog | 2 | 40% |
| DataHub | 2 | 40% |
| Deloitte | 2 | 40% |
| e6data | 2 | 40% |
| EY | 2 | 40% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Tacnode (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 5
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QCon San Francisco 2026 | Nov 16–18, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Start-Up | Startup |
| Data + AI Summit 2026 | Jun 15–18, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Enthusiast | Other |
| PASS Data Community Summit 2025 | Nov 17–21, 2025 | Seattle, United States | Exhibitors | Other |
| Current New Orleans 2025 | Oct 29–30, 2025 | New Orleans, United States | Startup | Startup |
| Postgres Conference 2025 | Mar 18–21, 2025 | Orlando, United States | Wifi Sponsored By | Other |
Speakers 2
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xiaowei Jiang | QCon San Francisco 2026 | speaker | The Context Gap: Why Correct Agents Fail | — |
| Xiaowei Jiang | Postgres Conference 2025 | speaker | Beyond PostgreSQL: Scaling Real-Time Analytics and AI with Tacnode | — |