Apps Associates
Circuit mix
Where Apps Associates shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Microsoft data platform67%6 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows11%1 event
- Streaming11%1 event
- Software engineering11%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where Apps Associates sponsored or had speakers in the past 12 months, and the announced events it is already listed for. One row per conference, January to December; hover a mark for the event and the company's role.
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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- Had speakers
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQLSaturday | ||||||||
| DataGrillen | ||||||||
| Current (formerly Kafka Summit) | ||||||||
| dataMinds Connect | ||||||||
| Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) | ||||||||
| Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360 |
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale.
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.
Where they've grown or pulled back
Apps Associates has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
UpHad speakers at 4 conferences in 2026, up from 3 in 2025.
Counted per conference. 2026 is the latest year whose conferences have mostly happened. A conference counts as no longer seen only when later events published speaker lists.
New conferences spoken at 6
First speaker in 2025 or later.
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit)first spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- DataGrillenfirst spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- dataMinds Connectfirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
- Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)first spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- SQLSaturdayfirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
- Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360first spoke 2025, 1 speaker
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).
- Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting0.88
- Improving0.87
- Centric Consulting0.86
- oh22information services GmbH0.85
- Desert Isle Group0.84
- DevScope0.84
- Hydrate Technologies LLC0.84
- dbWatch0.83
13 Cluster: SQLSaturday · PASS Data Community Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 0 this company sponsored).
No co-sponsors: this company has no recorded sponsorships, or sponsored alone.
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Apps Associates (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 0
No sponsorships recorded for Apps Associates.
Speakers 11
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Gordon | Day of Data Baton Rouge #1141 | — | Transactions Are Events: Event-Driven Architecture On Data In Motion | — |
| Matt Gordon | DataGrillen 2026 | speaker | Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026: The Fight for Control | — |
| Matt Gordon | DataGrillen 2026 | speaker | Better or Wurst For Your Workloads: Azure SQL vs. SQL in Fabric | — |
| Michael Muehlbeyer | Current London 2026 | speaker | A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Apache Kafka Data Migrations | — |
| Matt Gordon | Day of Data Jacksonville #1128 | — | The SQL Database You Know, The AI Skills You Need To Grow | — |
| Matt Gordon | Day of Data Jacksonville #1128 | — | SQL Server 2025 - An Introduction | — |
| Matt Gordon | SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1127 | — | Fabric IQ in the Real World | — |
| Matt Gordon | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | workshop | SQL Server 2025 Deep Dive: Essential Innovations for DBAs and Database Developers | — |
| Matt Gordon | Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2025 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | workshop | Workshop: ETL, KQL, and RTI - Harnessing Data in Motion with Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Matt Gordon | dataMinds Connect 2025 | speaker | Database Watcher: Figure Out What's Wrong and Fix It Fast | — |
| Matt Gordon | SQLSaturday Boston #1119 | — | Azure-ish SQL and Azure AI 101 | — |