Flink Forward
- Organizer
- Ververica (Flink Forward Asia: Alibaba Cloud)
- Category
- Database
- Website
- flink-forward.org
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · YouTube
- Typical place
- 9 cities
- Topics
- StreamingData engineering
The Apache Flink conference, run by Ververica (formerly data Artisans; Alibaba-owned since 2019) since 2015 in Berlin and since 2017 in San Francisco. Flink Forward China (Beijing 2018) became Flink Forward Asia in 2019; the Asia editions are organized by Alibaba Cloud (asia.flink-forward.org). 2019: San Francisco (Apr), Europe/Berlin (Oct), Asia/Beijing (Nov). 2020: San Francisco cancelled for COVID-19 and replaced by Flink Forward Virtual (Apr), then Flink Forward Global (Oct, online) and Asia online (Dec). 2021: Global online (Oct); the 2021 Asia edition ran online in Jan 2022. 2022: San Francisco (Aug) and Asia online (Nov). 2023: Seattle (Nov) and Beijing (Dec). 2024: Berlin (Oct), Shanghai (Nov), Jakarta (Dec). 2025: Singapore (Jul), Barcelona (Oct). 2026: Asia Shenzhen (Jun); as of Nov 2026 no Ververica-run Flink Forward 2026 had been announced (Ververica ran a separate 'Fluss Forward' London event in Sep 2026, not recorded). Social links are the conference's own X/YouTube/Instagram accounts; LinkedIn is Ververica's.
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year, counted once across events.
- Partial or unverified 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 26–27, 2026 | Flink Forward Asia 2026 Shenzhen | Shenzhen, China | — | 1 | 14 | |
| Oct 13–16, 2025 | Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 | Barcelona, Spain | 600 | 6 | 87 | |
| Jul 3, 2025 | Flink Forward Asia Singapore 2025 | Singapore, Singapore | — | — | 34 | |
| Dec 5, 2024 | Flink Forward Asia 2024 Jakarta | Jakarta, Indonesia | — | — | 29 | |
| Nov 29–30, 2024 | Flink Forward Asia 2024 Shanghai | Shanghai, China | — | — | 105 | |
| Oct 21–24, 2024 | Flink Forward Berlin 2024 | Berlin, Germany | — | 6 | 90 | |
| Dec 8–9, 2023 | Flink Forward Asia 2023 | Beijing, China | — | — | 67 | |
| Nov 6–8, 2023 | Flink Forward Seattle 2023 | Renton, United States | — | 9 | 70 | |
| Nov 26–27, 2022 | Flink Forward Asia 2022 | — | Online | — | — | — |
| Aug 1–3, 2022 | Flink Forward San Francisco 2022 | San Francisco, United States | — | 6 | 62 | |
| Jan 8–9, 2022 | Flink Forward Asia 2021 | — | Online | — | — | — |
| Oct 18–27, 2021 | Flink Forward Global 2021 | — | Online | 1,500 | 8 | 91 |
| Dec 13–15, 2020 | Flink Forward Asia 2020 | — | Online | — | — | — |
| Oct 19–22, 2020 | Flink Forward Global 2020 | — | Online | — | 9 | 67 |
| Apr 22–24, 2020 | Flink Forward Virtual Conference 2020 | — | Online | 1,300 | 6 | 63 |
| Nov 28–30, 2019 | Flink Forward Asia 2019 | Beijing, China | 2,000 | — | 2 | |
| Oct 7–9, 2019 | Flink Forward Europe 2019 | Berlin, Germany | 500 | 20 | 105 | |
| Apr 1–2, 2019 | Flink Forward San Francisco 2019 | San Francisco, United States | 350 | 16 | 47 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 6 of 18 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.
Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 49 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Title / headline
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Startup
- Community
- Media
- Other / unspecified