Vespa.ai
Circuit mix
Where Vespa.ai 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 infrastructure60%6 events
- AI engineering & MLOps27%2 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos13%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haystack | ||||||||||
| Berlin Buzzwords | ||||||||||
| AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | ||||||||||
| MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production) | ||||||||||
| The AI 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.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 3 conferences in 2026, up from 2 in 2024.
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 3
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- Berlin Buzzwordsfirst sponsored 2025, Platinum
- Haystackfirst sponsored 2026, unranked tier
- MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production)first sponsored 2026, Startup tier
Once or on and off 2
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)once, 2024, Silver
- The AI Summitonce, 2024, 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).
- Superlinked0.85
- Cognee0.74
- OTTO0.74
- Restate0.69
- Qdrant0.67
- Weaviate0.65
- Hyperspace0.64
- OpenSearch0.59
1 Cluster: AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 6 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic | 4 | 67% |
| Qdrant | 3 | 50% |
| Amazon Web Services | 2 | 33% |
| Apple | 2 | 33% |
| Bloomberg | 2 | 33% |
| Deepgram | 2 | 33% |
| 2 | 33% | |
| Groq | 2 | 33% |
| MongoDB | 2 | 33% |
| OpenSearch | 2 | 33% |
| OpenSource Connections | 2 | 33% |
| Search Guard | 2 | 33% |
| Weights & Biases | 2 | 33% |
| A.Team | 1 | 17% |
| ABBYY | 1 | 17% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Vespa.ai (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.
- AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit 13
- QCon · MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon circuit 8
- AWS re:Invent · Google Cloud Next circuit 3
- ODSC · MLOps World circuit 2
- The AI Summit · AWS re:Invent circuit 2
- PyData · posit::conf circuit 1
- Data Innovation Summit · Nordic Data Science and Machine Learning Summit circuit 1
- Big Data & AI Paris · Gartner Data & Analytics Summit circuit 1
Sponsorships 6
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2026 | Nov 17–18, 2026 | Austin, United States | Starup Zone | Startup |
| Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | Jun 7–9, 2026 | Berlin, Germany | Gold Partners | Gold |
| Haystack US 2026 | May 6–7, 2026 | Charlottesville, United States | Co-Host Kardinal Hall Dinner & Drinks | Other |
| Berlin Buzzwords 2025 | Jun 15–17, 2025 | Berlin, Germany | Platinum Partners | Platinum |
| The AI Summit New York 2024 | Dec 11–12, 2024 | New York, United States | Bronze Sponsors | Bronze |
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 | Jun 25–27, 2024 | San Francisco, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
Speakers 7
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piotr Kobziakowski | Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | talk | Tensor arithmetics in search and ranking for Ecommerce. | Video |
| Radu Gheorghe | Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | talk | Circular Dependency Fixes when Bootstrapping a Golden Set | Video |
| Piotr Kobziakowski | Berlin Buzzwords 2025 | talk | Vespa.ai’s Personalized Search: Advanced Ranking & Tensor framework | Slides · Video |
| Radu Gheorghe | Berlin Buzzwords 2025 | talk | Which GPU for Local LLMs? | Slides · Video |
| Kristian Aune | Haystack US 2025 | speaker | Building Relevance Formulas with LLMs | Slides · Video |
| Jo Kristian Bergum | Haystack EU 2024 | speaker | What You See Is What You Search: Vision Language Models for PDF Retrieval | Slides · Video |
| Jo Kristian Bergum | Haystack EU 2023 | speaker | Navigating Neural Search: Avoiding Common Pitfalls | Slides |