Circuit mix
Where Tailscale shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- AI engineering & MLOps67%5 events
- Cloud providers20%2 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows13%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Tailscale sponsored or had speakers in the past 12 months, and the announced events it is already listed for. One row per conference, January to December; hover a mark for the event and the company's role.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||
| DASH | ||||||||
| MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon |
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
- Silver
- Bronze
- 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 4
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)first sponsored 2025, Bronze
- AWS re:Inventfirst sponsored 2025, Gold
- DASHfirst sponsored 2025, unranked tier
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPConfirst sponsored 2026, Gold
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).
- Warp0.93
- Conductor0.90
- Langfuse0.88
- commercetools0.88
- Inngest0.86
- Docker0.86
- Northwestern Mutual0.84
- Pinecone0.81
2 Cluster: AI Engineer · QCon circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 7 this company sponsored).
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Tailscale (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 7
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Silver | Silver |
| AI Engineer Miami 2026 | Apr 20–21, 2026 | Miami, United States | — | Unlabeled |
| AI Engineer Europe 2026 | Apr 8–10, 2026 | London, United Kingdom | SILVER SPONSORS | Silver |
| MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 | Apr 2–3, 2026 | New York, United States | Gold | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2025 | Dec 1–5, 2025 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| AI Engineer Paris 2025 | Sep 23–24, 2025 | Paris, France | Bronze Sponsors | Bronze |
| DASH 2025 | Jun 10–11, 2025 | New York, United States | Participating Sponsors | Other |
Speakers 4
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Briggs | AWS re:Invent 2026 | breakout | The AWS network I would build today: Identity over topology (sponsored by Tailscale) | — |
| Remy Guercio | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | An AI Future Without the Lock-In | Video |
| TBD (Tailscale) | AI Engineer Europe 2026 | expo session | What if the network was the sandbox? | Video |
| Lee Briggs | AWS re:Invent 2025 | lightning talk | Secure, Easy and Performant VPC Resource Connectivity with Tailscale (sponsored by Tailscale) | Video |