Companies
VMware
Product category (jev): Cloud infrastructure 94% confident
Org type (jev): Software vendor 83% confident
Also listed as: VMWARE · VMWare · VMware Cloud on AWS · VMware Data Solutions · VMware Inc. · VMware Tanzu · VMware Tanzu Hub · VMware by Broadcom · Vmware · vmware inc
Conferences sponsored16
Events sponsored33
Speaker slots8368 distinct people
Conferences present at32sponsor or speaker
Years active2019–2026
Circuit mix
Where VMware shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Microsoft data platform32%17 events
- Postgres & open-source databases19%14 events
- Cloud providers10%6 events
- Open-source data infrastructure7%5 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos6%3 events
- AI engineering & MLOps5%4 events
- Software engineering & trading tech5%4 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows4%4 events
- Streaming4%3 events
- Python & R data science3%3 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner2%2 events
- Research2%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
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
13
7
7
7
11
4
1
Distinct speakers
People from this company on a program that year, each counted once.
19
13
14
9
20
2
Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
14
3
3
4
3
5
1
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownSponsored 1 conference in 2026, down from 3 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.
Pulled out 3
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- Data Summit (DBTA)last sponsored 2022; the conference ran again in 2023–26
- QConlast sponsored 2020; the conference ran again in 2023–26
- SQLSaturdaylast sponsored 2024; the conference ran again in 2025–26
Steady 2
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- AWS re:Invent4 of 5 years 2019–23, Title
- PGConf.DE (PostgreSQL Conference Germany)every year 2022–23, Gold
Once or on and off 10
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
Show all 10 conferences
- ACM SIGMOD/PODS (International Conference on Management of Data)once, 2021, Gold
- Big Data & AI Parisonce, 2023, tier not listed
- Cassandra Summitonce, 2019, Gold
- Community Over Code (formerly ApacheCon)once, 2020, Platinum
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit)once, 2021, Gold
- PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit)once, 2019, unranked tier
- PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon)once, 2020, Platinum
- Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)once, 2022, unranked tier
- TensorFlow Worldonce, 2019, unranked tier
- The AI Summitonce, 2024, 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).
- Heimdall Data0.78
- DBeaver0.77
- Rubrik0.74
- Octopus Deploy0.71
- SolarWinds0.71
- Dbvisit0.70
- Red Gate Software0.69
- Tessell0.69
12 Cluster: SQLSaturday · PASS Data Community Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 33 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 21 | 64% |
| Quest | 13 | 39% |
| Amazon Web Services | 12 | 36% |
| Dell Technologies | 11 | 33% |
| Idera | 10 | 30% |
| 9 | 27% | |
| IBM | 9 | 27% |
| PASS | 9 | 27% |
| Snowflake | 9 | 27% |
| Intel | 8 | 24% |
| Pure Storage | 8 | 24% |
| COZYROC | 7 | 21% |
| MongoDB | 7 | 21% |
| Redgate | 7 | 21% |
| Rubrik | 7 | 21% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
VMware (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 33
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percona Live 2026 Bay Area | May 27–29, 2026 | Mountain View, United States | Platinum Sponsor | Platinum |
| The AI Summit New York 2024 | Dec 11–12, 2024 | New York, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| SQLSaturday Boston #1086 | Oct 5, 2024 | Burlington, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| SQLSaturday Baton Rouge #1076 | Jul 27, 2024 | Baton Rouge, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| SQLSaturday Jacksonville #1068 | May 4, 2024 | Jacksonville, United States | — | Unlabeled |
| SQLSaturday Atlanta #1072 | Apr 20, 2024 | Alpharetta, United States | Gold | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2023 | Nov 27, 2023 – Dec 1, 2023 | Las Vegas, United States | Emerald | Title |
| Big Data & AI Paris 2023 | Sep 25–26, 2023 | Paris, France | Exhibitor | Unlabeled |
| PGConf.DE 2023 | Jun 27, 2023 | Essen, Germany | Gold | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2022 | Nov 28, 2022 – Dec 2, 2022 | Las Vegas, United States | Emerald | Title |
| Data Summit 2022 | May 16–18, 2022 | Boston, United States | Platinum Sponsors | Platinum |
| PGConf.DE 2022 | May 13, 2022 | Leipzig, Germany | Gold | Gold |
| Postgres Conference Silicon Valley 2022 | Apr 7–8, 2022 | San Jose, United States | Partner | Other |
| AWS re:Invent 2021 | Nov 29, 2021 – Dec 3, 2021 | Las Vegas, United States | Emerald | Title |
| Kafka Summit Americas 2021 | Sep 14–15, 2021 | — | Gold | Gold |
| SIGMOD/PODS 2021 | Jun 20–25, 2021 | Xi'an, China | Gold | Gold |
| ApacheCon @Home 2020 | Sep 29, 2020 – Oct 1, 2020 | — | Platinum | Platinum |
| PGCon 2020 | May 26–29, 2020 | — | Platinum | Platinum |
| QCon London 2020 | Mar 2–4, 2020 | London, United Kingdom | Silver | Silver |
| AWS re:Invent 2019 | Dec 2–6, 2019 | Las Vegas, United States | Emerald | Title |
| PASS Summit 2019 | Nov 4–8, 2019 | Seattle, United States | Exhibitors | Other |
| SQLSaturday Oregon #920 | Nov 2, 2019 | Portland, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| TensorFlow World 2019 | Oct 28–31, 2019 | Santa Clara, United States | Supporting Sponsors | Other |
| SQLSaturday Minnesota #913 | Oct 12, 2019 | Saint Paul, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| SQLSaturday Prague #889 | Sep 21, 2019 | Prague, Czechia | — | Unlabeled |
| SQLSaturday Boston #877 | Sep 14, 2019 | Burlington, United States | Diamond Sponsor | Title |
| SQLSaturday Los Angeles #891 | Jun 15, 2019 | Los Angeles, United States | Elite Sponsor | Other |
| SQLSaturday Dallas #841 | Jun 1, 2019 | Richardson, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| DataStax Accelerate 2019 | May 21–23, 2019 | National Harbor, United States | Gold | Gold |
| SQLSaturday Atlanta #845 | May 18, 2019 | Atlanta, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| SQLSaturday Phoenix #869 | May 4, 2019 | Chandler, United States | Bronze Sponsor | Bronze |
| SQLSaturday Chicago #825 | Mar 23, 2019 | Lisle, United States | Premium Sponsor | Other |
| SQLSaturday Tampa #859 | Mar 23, 2019 | Tampa, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
Speakers 83
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rakesh Sharma | PGConf India 2024 | speaker | An Introduction to PostGIS, H3 and its Integration with Greenplum | Slides · Video |
| Antoni Ivanov | FOSDEM 2024 | speaker | Productionizing Jupyter Notebooks | Slides · Video |
| Chris McClanahan | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Centralize cost, performance, and security optimization (sponsored by VMware) | Video |
| Derek Beauregard | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Accelerate application delivery with VMware Tanzu and AWS (sponsored by VMware) | Video |
| Ivan Oprencak | AWS re:Invent 2023 | workshop | Explore and migrate with VMware Cloud on AWS (sponsored by VMware) | — |
| Lefty Marakas | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Accelerate application delivery with VMware Tanzu and AWS (sponsored by VMware) | Video |
| Lucas Paratore | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | Centralize cost, performance, and security optimization (sponsored by VMware) | Video |
| Niels Hagoort | AWS re:Invent 2023 | workshop | Explore and migrate with VMware Cloud on AWS (sponsored by VMware) | — |
| Oleg Ulyanov | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | 5 architectural innovations in VMware Cloud on AWS that you can’t miss (sponsored by VMware) | Video |
| Sonali Desai | AWS re:Invent 2023 | breakout | 5 architectural innovations in VMware Cloud on AWS that you can’t miss (sponsored by VMware) | Video |
| Kairo Francisco de Araujo | PyCon Ireland 2023 | talk | PEP 458 a solution not only for PyPI | — |
| Alex Thomas | Flink Forward Seattle 2023 | speaker | Flink Alert Processing to Address Alert Fatigue in Cybersecurity | — |
| Anjali Mangal | Flink Forward Seattle 2023 | speaker | Flink Alert Processing to Address Alert Fatigue in Cybersecurity | — |
| Steve Pousty | Data on Kubernetes Day North America 2023 | speaker | Distributed Vector Databases - What, Why, and How | — |
| Taruj Goyal | Flink Forward Seattle 2023 | speaker | Flink Alert Processing to Address Alert Fatigue in Cybersecurity | — |
| Tejas Budukh | Flink Forward Seattle 2023 | speaker | Flink Alert Processing to Address Alert Fatigue in Cybersecurity | — |
| Chris Bono | Pulsar Summit North America 2023 | speaker | Introducing Spring for Apache Pulsar | Video |
| Chris Wolf | Ray Summit 2023 | speaker | Standing Up Ray Clusters in the Blink of an AI to Drive Private AI | — |
| Kairo de Araujo | EuroPython 2023 | talk | PEP 458 a solution not only for PyPI | Video |
| Martin Vrachev | EuroPython 2023 | talk | PEP 458 a solution not only for PyPI | Video |
| Layla Porter | Visual Studio Live! Nashville 2023 | speaker | ASP.NET Basics for Experts | — |
| Layla Porter | Visual Studio Live! Nashville 2023 | speaker | Building Cloud-Ready Applications in .NET | — |
| Nimish Avarsekar | PGConf India 2023 | speaker | Partition elimination in PostgreSQL and Greenplum | Slides · Video |
| Bob Plankers | AWS re:Invent 2022 | workshop | Explore and migrate to VMware Cloud on AWS (sponsored by VMware) | Slides |
| Niels Hagoort | AWS re:Invent 2022 | workshop | Explore and migrate to VMware Cloud on AWS (sponsored by VMware) | Slides |
| Oleg Ulyanov | AWS re:Invent 2022 | workshop | Explore and migrate to VMware Cloud on AWS (sponsored by VMware) | Slides |
| Oleg Ulyanov | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | All you need to know about architecting VMware Cloud on AWS deployments (sponsored by VMware) | Slides · Video |
| Peter Fein | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | Build scalable multi-tenant databases with Amazon Aurora | Slides · Video |
| Sonali Desai | AWS re:Invent 2022 | breakout | All you need to know about architecting VMware Cloud on AWS deployments (sponsored by VMware) | Slides · Video |
| Xing Yang | DoK Day North America 2022 (at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022) | panelist | (Panel) Databases on Kubernetes: Why are they important? | — |
| Kairo de Araujo | EuroPython 2022 | talk | Work in Progress: Implementing PEP 458 to Secure PyPI downloads | — |
| Ivan Novick | Postgres Conference Silicon Valley 2022 | speaker | Scaling PostgreSQL to New Heights | — |
| Josh Long | Distributed SQL Summit Asia 2022 | speaker | Reactive Spring Meets Distributed SQL and Developers Rejoice | — |
| Xiaoran Wang | PostgresConf.CN & PGConf.Asia 2021 (China Branch) | speaker | PostgreSQL Free Space Map Management | — |
| Akasit Sriprathum | AWS re:Invent 2021 | chalk talk | Lessons learned from customers who have adopted AWS Graviton | Slides |
| Corey Leopold | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | How VMware uses Amazon Kinesis to keep customers safe from cyberattacks | Slides · Video |
| Davor Roglic | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | How VMware uses Amazon Kinesis to keep customers safe from cyberattacks | Slides · Video |
| Larry Henderson | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | A technical deep dive on VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts (sponsored by VMware) | Slides · Video |
| Michael McLaughlin | AWS re:Invent 2021 | workshop | VMware Cloud on AWS: Hands-on workshop (sponsored by VMware) | Slides |
| Phoebe Kim | AWS re:Invent 2021 | workshop | VMware Cloud on AWS: Hands-on workshop (sponsored by VMware) | Slides |
| Shobhan Lakkapragada | AWS re:Invent 2021 | breakout | {New Launch} Introducing AWS Backup for VMware workloads | Slides · Video |
| Layla Porter | Live! 360 Orlando 2021 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Azure Functions: A Guide to Getting Started | — |
| Xing Yang | DoK Day North America 2021 (at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021) | speaker | What's Coming in Kubernetes Storage | — |
| Mark Paluch | Distributed SQL Summit 2021 | speaker | On the way to R2DBC 1.0 | — |
| Vinay Upadhya | Distributed SQL Summit 2021 | speaker | Architecting Resilient, Geo-distributed Stateful Apps on VMware Tanzu | — |
| Michael James | Distributed SQL Virtual Summit Asia 2021 | speaker | — | — |
| Prasad Bopardikar | Distributed SQL Virtual Summit Asia 2021 | speaker | — | — |
| Rima Olinger | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | Migrate and modernize applications using VMware Cloud on AWS | Slides · Video |
| Rima Olinger | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | Enabling business continuity with VMware Cloud on AWS | Slides · Video |
| Vittorio Viarengo | AWS re:Invent 2020 | breakout | Build, run, manage, connect, and protect hybrid clouds with VMware (sponsored by VMware) | Slides · Video |
| Sheri Byrne-Haber | Data Con LA 2020 | speaker | Machine Learning applications in accessibility | — |
| Catherine McGarvey | ApacheCon @Home 2020 | keynote | — | Video |
| DaShaun Carter | Distributed SQL Virtual Summit 2020 | speaker | — | — |
| Joe Beda | Distributed SQL Virtual Summit 2020 | keynote | Kubernetes as a Universal Control Plane | — |
| Alexandra Wang | PGCon 2020 | speaker | Zedstore - In-core Column Store for Postgres | Slides · Video |
| Hubert Zhang | PGCon 2020 | speaker | Distributed snapshots and global deadlock detection | Slides · Video |
| Julien Rouhaud | PGCon 2020 | speaker | Building automatic adviser and performance tuning tools in PostgreSQL | Slides · Video |
| Soumyadeep Chakraborty | PGCon 2020 | speaker | Zedstore - In-core Column Store for Postgres | Slides · Video |
| Hari Sivaraman | ScaledML 2020 | poster | — | — |
| Lan Vu | ScaledML 2020 | poster | — | — |
| Uday Kurkure | ScaledML 2020 | poster | — | — |
| Eryn Muetzel | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Policy-based management of hundreds of Kubernetes clusters | Slides · Video |
| Megan Bruce | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Policy-based management of hundreds of Kubernetes clusters | Slides · Video |
| Suzy Visvanathan | AWS re:Invent 2019 | breakout | Transform your business with the VMware & AWS hybrid cloud | Slides · Video |
| Dr. Sayan Putatunda | DataHack Summit 2019 | speaker | — | — |
| Joe Beda | Scale By the Bay 2019 | keynote | Kubernetes is a Platform Platform | Video |
| Kiran R | DataHack Summit 2019 | speaker | — | — |
| Nisha Kumar | QCon San Francisco 2019 | speaker | License Compliance for Your Container Supply Chain | Slides · Video |
| Greg Spiegelberg | Postgres Conference Silicon Valley 2019 | speaker | PostgreSQL as a Graph Database | Slides |
| Andrew Nielsen | SQLSaturday Boston #877 | — | VMware Technologies and Microsoft SQL Server | — |
| Oleg Ulyanov | SQLSaturday Boston #877 | — | Successfully Virtualizing SQL Server on vSphere: Doing It Right | — |
| Julien Rouhaud | PGConf.Asia 2019 | speaker | Performance Analysis at Full Power | — |
| Michael Paquier | PGCon 2019 | speaker | How to get a feature committed? | Slides |
| Caixue Lin | DataStax Accelerate 2019 | featured | — | — |
| Deji Akomolafe | SQLSaturday Jacksonville #820 | — | Successfully Virtualizing SQL Server on vSphere - Straight from the Source | — |
| Deji Akomolafe | SQLSaturday Phoenix #869 | — | Successfully Virtualizing SQL Server on vSphere - Straight from the Source | — |
| Deji Akomolafe | SQLSaturday Orange County #847 | — | Successfully Virtualizing SQL Server on vSphere - Straight from the Source | — |
| Sanjay Poonen | Google Cloud Next '19 | keynote | Opening Keynote (Cloud Next '19) | Video |
| Deji Akomolafe | SQLSaturday Chicago #825 | — | Virtualizing SQL Server on vSphere - Straight from the Source | — |
| Craig Sylvester | Postgres Conference 2019 (PostgresConf US 2019) | speaker | Petabyte Scale Data Warehousing with Open Source Greenplum Database | — |
| Liz Frost | Postgres Conference 2019 (PostgresConf US 2019) | speaker | You Got Kubernetes In My Postgres! | Slides |
| Zack Odom | Postgres Conference 2019 (PostgresConf US 2019) | speaker | Learn how Dell Computer Improved Postgres/Greenplum Performance 20x with a Database Proxy | — |
| Giuseppe Maxia | FOSDEM 2019 | speaker | Test complex database systems in a laptop with dbdeployer | Video |