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Exploratory map (t-SNE) · Conference map →

Company map

Every company present at four or more conferences, placed so that companies showing up at the same conferences sit near each other. Colors are clusters: groups of companies that work the same circuit.

Cluster

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1,824 companies. Dot size: number of conferences present at. Hover a dot for details and to light up its cluster; click to open the company. Showing 148 matches in cluster 14.

Selected cluster

Databricks Data + AI World Tour · Snowflake Summit circuit

148

Characteristic conferencesDatabricks Data + AI World Tour, Snowflake Summit, Data + AI Summit, Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, Snowflake World Tour, Big Data LDN

Top categoriesConsulting & services (21), BI & analytics (14), Data integration (13), Governance & catalogs (11)

Companies in this cluster

14Accenture53 conferences
14SAP46 conferences
14Deloitte43 conferences
14dbt Labs36 conferences
14Capgemini32 conferences
14Fivetran32 conferences
14Dataiku29 conferences
14EY27 conferences
14Monte Carlo27 conferences
14Astronomer25 conferences
14KPMG25 conferences
14Qlik25 conferences
14Twilio Segment25 conferences
14Sigma Computing24 conferences
14EPAM23 conferences
14Informatica21 conferences
14Snowplow20 conferences
14Slalom19 conferences
14Atlan18 conferences
14Hightouch18 conferences

Top 20 of 148 by conferences present at.

How to read this

The axes

They mean nothing in particular. t-SNE squeezes each company's many-dimensional footprint onto a page so that similar footprints land near each other. Neighbors are meaningful; the distance between two far-apart groups, and the left/right or up/down direction, are not.

A cluster

A group of companies whose conference footprints are alike: they sponsor and speak at the same conferences. Each is named after the conference that most set it apart. Clusters are computed in the full space, not from the picture, so a cluster can appear split on the map.

Method

Each company is a vector over the conferences where it sponsored (weight 2 per event) or spoke (1 per event), log-damped and TF-IDF weighted so that the ubiquitous flagships count less. The vectors are reduced with truncated SVD and grouped with k-means, picking the number of clusters by silhouette score; lookalikes are the nearest companies by cosine similarity. Only companies present at four or more conferences are included.

Clusters

18 clusters. Marker color repeats every 8 clusters, so the shape (dot, ring, diamond) and number tell them apart. Hover a card to light it up on the map.

0Data Innovation Summit · Nordic Data Science and Machine Learning Summit circuit94

ConferencesData Innovation Summit, Nordic Data Science and Machine Learning Summit, CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits, AWS re:Invent, Data + AI Summit

e.g.Allianz, Vodafone, Broadcom, BMW, Adidas

1Neudata Data Summits · BattleFin Discovery Day circuit95

ConferencesNeudata Data Summits, BattleFin Discovery Day, Alternative Data Conference, WFIC, STAC Summit

e.g.Bloomberg, S&P Global Market Intelligence, Fidelity Investments, LSEG, Morgan Stanley

2AI Engineer · QCon circuit140

ConferencesAI Engineer, QCon, MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon, AWS re:Invent, Data Council

e.g.OpenAI, Datadog, Anthropic, Hugging Face, UC Berkeley

3PGDays & regional Postgres events · PostgreSQL Conference Europe circuit69

ConferencesPGDays & regional Postgres events, PostgreSQL Conference Europe, PGConf.dev, PGConf NYC, Postgres Conference

e.g.Aiven, EDB, Yugabyte, Zalando, Fujitsu