Berlin Buzzwords
- Organizer
- Plain Schwarz
- Category
- Database
- Website
- berlinbuzzwords.de
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · Bluesky · Mastodon · YouTube
- Typical place
- Berlin, Germany
- Topics
- Data engineeringStreamingMachine learningGenerative AIGovernance & quality
Annual open-source conference on search, data storage/streaming/processing and machine learning, founded in 2009 by Isabel Drost-Fromm, Jan Lehnardt and Simon Willnauer; first edition 2010. Organized by Plain Schwarz UG (earlier editions under newthinking communications). Held at the Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, in June: a Sunday barcamp followed by two conference days on four stages. 2020 ('vbuzz') and 2021 were online-only; hybrid (on-site plus online-only tickets) since 2022. Talks are recorded and published on YouTube (Plain Schwarz channel; playlists linked from each year's site). Program on pretalx since 2022 (pretalx.com/bbuzz22, then program.berlinbuzzwords.de). Each year's site is archived at <year>.berlinbuzzwords.de. YouTube channel is the organizer's (Plain Schwarz); the other accounts are the conference's own.
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Partial or unverified list
8 of 9 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 13–15, 2027 | Berlin Buzzwords 2027 | Berlin, Germany | Announced | — | — | — |
| Jun 7–9, 2026 | Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | Berlin, Germany | 350 | 14 | 90 | |
| Jun 15–17, 2025 | Berlin Buzzwords 2025 | Berlin, Germany | — | 12 | 83 | |
| Jun 9–11, 2024 | Berlin Buzzwords 2024 | Berlin, Germany | — | 16 | 81 | |
| Jun 18–20, 2023 | Berlin Buzzwords 2023 | Berlin, Germany | — | 15 | 74 | |
| Jun 12–14, 2022 | Berlin Buzzwords 2022 | Berlin, Germany | — | 17 | 77 | |
| Jun 14–17, 2021 | Berlin Buzzwords 2021 | — | Online | — | 12 | — |
| Jun 7–12, 2020 | Berlin Buzzwords 2020 (vbuzz) | — | Online | — | 10 | — |
| Jun 16–18, 2019 | Berlin Buzzwords 2019 | Berlin, Germany | 600 | 30 | 70 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 2 of 9 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
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.
- Haystack0.28
- Community Over Code0.14
- Data Streaming Summit0.13
- Iceberg Summit0.13
- Flink Forward0.12
Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 75 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Community
- Media
- Other / unspecified