Beam Summit
- Organizer
- Apache Beam community (produced by Software Guru)
- Category
- Database
- Website
- beamsummit.org
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · YouTube
- Typical place
- New York, United States
- Topics
- Data engineeringStreamingMachine learningGenerative AI
Community conference for Apache Beam. First held in London in 2018 (Beam Summit Europe). In 2019 there were two editions: Beam Summit Europe (Berlin, June) and Beam Summit North America (Las Vegas, September, as a track of ApacheCon NA). 2020 ('Beam Digital Summit') and 2021 were online and free; 2022 was hybrid (Austin); from 2023 in person and free at Google-hosted venues (NYC 2023, Sunnyvale 2024, NYC 2025 and 2026). Site authored by Software Guru (sg.com.mx). Social links are the conference's own accounts (Twitter @beamsummit, LinkedIn beam-summit); the YouTube link is the Apache Beam channel, where recordings are published. No 2027 edition announced as of 2026-11-08.
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year, counted once across events.
- Partial or unverified list
- No sponsor list
8 of 8 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22–23, 2026 | Beam Summit 2026 | New York, United States | — | 7 | 40 | |
| Jul 8–9, 2025 | Beam Summit 2025 | New York, United States | — | 8 | 55 | |
| Sep 4–5, 2024 | Beam Summit 2024 | Sunnyvale, United States | — | 5 | 55 | |
| Jun 13–15, 2023 | Beam Summit 2023 | New York, United States | — | 8 | 88 | |
| Jul 18–20, 2022 | Beam Summit 2022 | Austin, United States | — | 14 | 82 | |
| Aug 4–6, 2021 | Beam Summit 2021 | — | Online | — | 8 | 39 |
| Aug 24–28, 2020 | Beam Digital Summit 2020 | — | Online | — | 8 | 71 |
| Sep 11–12, 2019 | Beam Summit North America 2019 | Las Vegas, United States | — | — | 27 | |
| Jun 19–20, 2019 | Beam Summit Europe 2019 | Berlin, Germany | — | — | 43 |
Attendance over time
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Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- Airflow Summit0.13
- Ray Summit0.11
- KDD0.10
- Iceberg Summit0.09
- Open Source Data Summit0.09
Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 26 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Community
- Other / unspecified