CDW
Circuit mix
Where CDW 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 & roadshows42%6 events
- Cloud providers27%4 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos15%2 events
- AI engineering & MLOps8%1 event
- Software engineering & trading tech8%1 event
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS re:Invent | ||||||||||
| Snowflake Summit | ||||||||||
| Data + AI Summit | ||||||||||
| Gartner Data & Analytics Summit | ||||||||||
| Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) | ||||||||||
| Google Cloud Next | ||||||||||
| O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference | ||||||||||
| STAC Summit |
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.
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 4 conferences in 2026, up from 1 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 3
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- Data + AI Summitfirst sponsored 2025, unranked tier
- Gartner Data & Analytics Summitfirst sponsored 2026, Silver
- Google Cloud Nextfirst sponsored 2026, Silver
Steady 2
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- AWS re:Inventevery year 2023–24, Gold
- Snowflake Summitevery year 2024–26, Gold
Once or on and off 2
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conferenceonce, 2019, unranked tier
- STAC Summitonce, 2022, Gold
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).
10 Cluster: Gartner Data & Analytics Summit · Snowflake Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 12 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| IBM | 10 | 83% |
| Informatica | 10 | 83% |
| Salesforce | 10 | 83% |
| Capital One | 9 | 75% |
| Deloitte | 9 | 75% |
| Neo4j | 9 | 75% |
| Accenture | 8 | 67% |
| Amazon Web Services | 8 | 67% |
| Atlan | 8 | 67% |
| Boomi | 8 | 67% |
| Capgemini | 8 | 67% |
| CData Software | 8 | 67% |
| Cognizant | 8 | 67% |
| Dataiku | 8 | 67% |
| Fivetran | 8 | 67% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
CDW (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.
- AWS re:Invent · Google Cloud Next circuit 21
- Gartner Data & Analytics Summit · Snowflake Summit circuit 4
- ODSC · MLOps World circuit 1
- The AI Summit · AWS re:Invent circuit 1
- Current · Data Streaming Summit circuit 1
- Community Over Code · Flink Forward circuit 1
- PyCon · EuroPython circuit 1
- PGDays & regional Postgres events · PostgreSQL Conference Europe circuit 1
Sponsorships 12
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2027 (Orlando) | Mar 8–10, 2027 | Orlando, United States | Silver | Silver |
| Data + AI Summit 2026 | Jun 15–18, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Innovator | Bronze |
| Snowflake Summit 26 (sponsor list may be stale) | Jun 1–4, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Blue Square | Gold |
| Google Cloud Next '26 | Apr 22–24, 2026 | Las Vegas, United States | Signature | Silver |
| Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026 (Orlando) | Mar 9–11, 2026 | Orlando, United States | Silver | Silver |
| Data + AI Summit 2025 | Jun 9–12, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Enthusiast | Other |
| Snowflake Summit 2025 | Jun 2–5, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Blue Square | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2024 | Dec 2–6, 2024 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024 | Jun 3–6, 2024 | San Francisco, United States | Blue Square | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2023 | Nov 27, 2023 – Dec 1, 2023 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| STAC Summit Chicago, Spring 2022 | May 10, 2022 | Chicago, United States | GOLD SPONSORS | Gold |
| O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference San Jose 2019 | Sep 9–12, 2019 | San Jose, United States | Exhibitors | Other |
Speakers 8
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asim Iqbal | AWS re:Invent 2026 | lightning talk | Ship agents, not chaos: a 90-day pattern for production on AWS. (sponsored by Mission Cloud, a CDW Company) | — |
| Art Cabugason | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | speaker | Sharing Experiences: Customer Journeys migrating to Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Christopher Marcolis | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | speaker | The Fabric Effect at CDW: Built by the Business, Supercharged by IT | — |
| Karen Thorson | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | speaker | Women in Data: Leading the Way | — |
| Mwazanji Sakala | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | speaker | The Fabric Effect at CDW: Built by the Business, Supercharged by IT | — |
| Pete Johnson | AWS re:Invent 2024 | lightning talk | From Amazon Q to NVIDIA: An AI market overview (sponsored by CDW) | Video |
| Phil Taylor | AWS re:Invent 2024 | lightning talk | From Amazon Q to NVIDIA: An AI market overview (sponsored by CDW) | Video |
| David Wharton | AWS re:Invent 2023 | lightning talk | FinOps on AWS: Accelerated outcomes to maximize ROI (sponsored by CDW) | Video |