Whatnot
Circuit mix
Where Whatnot shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Modern data stack & practitioner50%3 events
- Research33%1 event
- Microsoft data platform17%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.
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- Other / unlabeled tier
- Had speakers
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coalesce | ||||||||||
| ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) | ||||||||||
| Data Council | ||||||||||
| DataTune |
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
DownNothing recorded in 2026; sponsored 1 conference 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.
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)once, 2024, unranked 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).
- The Home Depot0.69
- RMIT University0.69
- Criteo0.62
- JD.com0.62
- Intuit0.60
- Zillow0.57
- Mode0.57
- Acryl Data0.57
19 Cluster: Coalesce · Modern Data Stack Conference circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 1 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud | 1 | 100% |
| Amazon Science | 1 | 100% |
| Ant Group | 1 | 100% |
| Apple | 1 | 100% |
| Baidu | 1 | 100% |
| BBVA | 1 | 100% |
| Bloomberg | 1 | 100% |
| Booking.com | 1 | 100% |
| BOSS Zhipin | 1 | 100% |
| Bridge2AI | 1 | 100% |
| ByteDance | 1 | 100% |
| Cambridge University Press | 1 | 100% |
| Capital One | 1 | 100% |
| eBay | 1 | 100% |
| Expedia Group | 1 | 100% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Whatnot (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 1
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDD 2024 (30th ACM SIGKDD Conference) | Aug 25–29, 2024 | Barcelona, Spain | Exhibitor | Other |
Speakers 5
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Leach | DataTune 2024 | talk | Transforming a data warehouse with dbt | — |
| Alice Leach | Coalesce 2023 San Diego | speaker | The more, the merrier: Managing a dynamic, expanding, self-service dbt project | Video |
| Alice Leach | Data Council Austin '23 | talk | Extreme Self-Service: Turning Data Consumers into Data Constructors | — |
| Zachary Klein | Data Council Austin '23 | talk | Data Contracts in the Modern Data Stack | — |
| Stephen Bailey | Coalesce 2022 New Orleans | speaker | Excel at nothing: How to be an effective generalist | Video |