Avanade
Circuit mix
Where Avanade shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Vendor flagships & roadshows48%10 events
- Microsoft data platform48%17 events
- Modern data stack & practitioner5%2 events
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.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled tier
- Had speakers
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQLBits | ||||||||||
| Data + AI Summit | ||||||||||
| SQLSaturday | ||||||||||
| Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) | ||||||||||
| SQL Konferenz | ||||||||||
| Data Saturdays | ||||||||||
| Databricks Data + AI World Tour | ||||||||||
| Budapest Data+AI Forum | ||||||||||
| Data Con LA | ||||||||||
| Data Platform Next Step |
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale. 2027, 2028 is still mostly ahead, so its bars are faded and incomplete.
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.
Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownSponsored 1 conference in 2026, down from 2 in 2023.
Counted per conference. 2026 is the latest year whose conferences have mostly happened. Tiers use the best tier each year; swatches show the path, oldest first. A conference counts as pulled out only when a later event published a complete sponsor list, since most events don’t say whether their list is complete.
New 1
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)first sponsored 2025, Gold
Moved up 1
Best tier rose between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- Data + AI SummitPlatinum 2019 → Title 2024
Once or on and off 2
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Databricks Data + AI World Touronce, 2023, Platinum
- SQLBits2 of 4 years, 2022–25
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).
- Measure Killer0.81
- Neudesic0.81
- Tabular Editor0.79
- Adastra0.79
- ACP CUBIDO0.78
- Fellowmind0.77
- InSpark0.77
- Advania0.76
3 Cluster: Data Saturdays · SQL Konferenz circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 11 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 11 | 100% |
| Fivetran | 8 | 73% |
| Amazon Web Services | 6 | 55% |
| Informatica | 6 | 55% |
| Prophecy | 5 | 45% |
| Qlik | 5 | 45% |
| Accenture | 4 | 36% |
| Alation | 4 | 36% |
| Capgemini | 4 | 36% |
| Databricks | 4 | 36% |
| Dataiku | 4 | 36% |
| dbt Labs | 4 | 36% |
| EY | 4 | 36% |
| Immuta | 4 | 36% |
| Intel | 4 | 36% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Avanade (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 11
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FabCon Europe 2026 | Sep 28, 2026 – Oct 1, 2026 | Barcelona, Spain | Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | Mar 16–20, 2026 | Atlanta, United States | Diamond | Title |
| European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Europe 2025) | Sep 15–18, 2025 | Vienna, Austria | Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| SQLBits 2025 | Jun 18–21, 2025 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| Data + AI Summit 2024 | Jun 10–13, 2024 | San Francisco, United States | Legend | Title |
| Data + AI World Tour Paris 2023 | Nov 9, 2023 | Paris, France | Diamond Sponsors | Platinum |
| Data + AI Summit 2023 | Jun 26–29, 2023 | San Francisco, United States | Platinum Sponsor | Title |
| Data + AI Summit 2022 | Jun 27–30, 2022 | San Francisco, United States | Platinum | Title |
| SQLBits 2022 (Arcade) | Mar 8–12, 2022 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| Spark + AI Summit 2020 | Jun 22–26, 2020 | — | Gold | Gold |
| Spark + AI Summit Europe 2019 | Oct 15–17, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Platinum | Platinum |
Speakers 35
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mou Rakshit | Day of Data Baton Rouge #1141 | — | From Data to Decisions: Building Agentic Construction Intelligence with Databricks Agent Bricks | — |
| Mihaly Kavasi | Data Platform Next Step 2026 | workshop | Building Context, Not Vibes Practical AI Augmented Data Engineering | — |
| Mihaly Kavasi | Budapest Data+AI Forum 2026 | speaker | From Prototype to Production: Turn Power Query into Scalable Data Pipelines with AI | — |
| Mou Rakshit | SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1127 | — | From Data to Decisions: Building Agentic Construction Intelligence with Databricks Agent Bricks | — |
| Colin Pop | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | speaker | Agentic Data Engineering on Microsoft Fabric: Building Adaptive Pipelines | — |
| Nina Arora-Rowland | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | speaker | Agentic Data Engineering on Microsoft Fabric: Building Adaptive Pipelines | — |
| Pragati Jain | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | speaker | The Fabric Access Puzzle: Cracking Permission Problems with Confidence | — |
| Pragati Jain | Data Saturday #78 - Data Community Austria Day 2026 | speaker | Who’s In, Who’s Out? Controlling Access in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Rishi Sapra | European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Europe 2025) | speaker | Navigating the journey from Excel to Fabric (and back again!) | — |
| Alex Barbeau | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | speaker | Fabric and Azure Databricks: Lessons From the Field | — |
| Audrey Gerred | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | speaker | Navigating the Realities of AI in Microsoft Fabric: Lessons from Avanade's Journey | — |
| Dhananjay Kumar | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | speaker | Fabric and Azure Databricks: Lessons From the Field | — |
| Heidi Hasting | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | workshop | SQL Projects and Source Control Integration for SQL in Fabric, Azure SQL, and SQL Server | — |
| Mou Rakshit | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | speaker | AI-Powered Real-Time Intelligence: Transforming Data-Driven Decisions with Microsoft Fabric & GenAI | — |
| Nicolas Nakasone | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | speaker | Professional Integration of Development and Database Administration with SSMS 21 | — |
| Pragati Jain | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | workshop | Navigating End-to-End Power BI Development in the Cloud | — |
| Tanvi Jaikamal | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | speaker | Navigating the Realities of AI in Microsoft Fabric: Lessons from Avanade's Journey | — |
| Roman Tesolkin | SQL Konferenz 2025 | talk | Sky Analytics: Turning Raw Drone Logs into Visual Stories with Power BI | Slides |
| Roman Tesolkin | SQL Konferenz 2025 | talk | What Does Inclusivity Mean to You? A Collaborative Conversation on Building Better Workplaces | — |
| Prathyusha(Prathy) Kamasani | Data Saturday #59 - Data Saturday Holland 2024 | speaker | Powering Up Your Power BI Development Workflow with Microsoft Fabric Notebooks | — |
| Roman Tesolkin | SQL Konferenz 2024 | talk | Mastering the Mind: Leveraging Adult ADHD in the World of Data Analysis | Slides |
| Lewis Baybutt | SQLBits 2024 | speaker | Bring your contextual data to life with Microsoft Graph and Power Platform | Video |
| Rishi Sapra | SQLBits 2024 | speaker | What does Microsoft Fabric mean for a Finance/Business Analyst? | Video |
| Rishi Sapra | SQLBits 2024 | speaker | Power BI and Fabric Governance – Going from the skies to the ground! | Video |
| Gosia Borzęcka | SQLBits 2023 | speaker | Cognitive Services Extravaganza! | Video |
| Christian Cote | SQLSaturday Jacksonville #1022 | — | Feeding the Modern Data Warehouse | — |
| Avanade Avanade | SQLBits 2022 (Arcade) | speaker | Digital Twins - The need for connected data | — |
| Avanade Avanade | SQLBits 2022 (Arcade) | speaker | The "Meta-verse" - Using metadata to build your pipelines in less than 20 min | — |
| Josie West | SQLBits 2022 (Arcade) | speaker | Digital Twins - The need for connected data | — |
| Korey Edwards | Data Con LA 2021 | panelist | Public Health Innovations for COVID Response | — |
| Jean-Pierre Riehl | SQLBits 2020 (The Greatest Data Show) | speaker | AI on Edge, encounter between Data Science and IoT | — |
| Sean Forgatch | SQLSaturday Baton Rouge #867 | — | Azure Data Factory Ingestion Framework | — |
| Sean Forgatch | SQLSaturday Atlanta #845 | — | Azure Data Factory Ingestion Framework | — |
| Sean Forgatch | SQLSaturday Chicago #825 | — | Azure Data Factory Ingestion Framework | — |
| Jean-Pierre Riehl | SQLBits 2019 (Speakeasy) | speaker | Azure Data Lake : SELECT * FROM DataLake WHERE People=Happy | — |