Desert Isle Group
Circuit mix
Where Desert Isle Group 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 platform55%11 events
- Software engineering35%7 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows10%2 events
The year around now
Conferences where Desert Isle Group 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
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
Desert Isle Group has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
UpHad speakers at 5 conferences in 2026, up from 2 in 2023.
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 4
First speaker in 2025 or later.
- Data Céilífirst spoke 2025, 1 speaker
- DATACON Seattlefirst spoke 2026, 1 speaker
- Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)first spoke 2025, 1 speaker
- PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit)first spoke 2026, 1 speaker
No longer seen 1
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- SQLDaylast seen 2019; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2022–26
Regulars 2
Speakers in most years of the span.
- SQLSaturdayspeakers in 5 of 8 years, 2019–26
- Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360speakers in 7 of 8 years, 2019–26
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).
- RADACAD0.99
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- P3 Adaptive0.98
- DevScope0.98
- Client First Technologies0.97
- Centric Consulting0.96
- Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting0.95
- Wolters Kluwer0.90
12 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
Desert Isle Group (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 Desert Isle Group.
Speakers 39
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2026 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | panelist | Data Platform Live! Panel Discussion: AI Is Coming for the Data Team: Which Roles Change First? | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2026 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | T‑SQL Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Ginger Grant | PASS Summit West 2026 | precon | Building an AI-Enabled Fabric Practice | — |
| Ginger Grant | PASS Summit West 2026 | speaker | Creating Agentic Solutions with Fabric IQ | — |
| Ginger Grant | PASS Summit West 2026 | keynote | WIT Luncheon: What Do You Do When You Hear The Word "No"? | — |
| Ginger Grant | DATACON Seattle 2026 (with TechCon 365 & PWRCON) | speaker | Building Generative AI models with SQL Server 2025 | — |
| Ginger Grant | DATACON Seattle 2026 (with TechCon 365 & PWRCON) | speaker | Securing Data in Fabric with OneLake | — |
| Ginger Grant | Day of Data Jacksonville #1128 | — | Accelerating Fabric and Power BI Development with MCP Servers | — |
| Ginger Grant | Day of Data Jacksonville #1128 | — | Creating a modern data environment in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Ginger Grant | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | speaker | Securing all of your OneLake data | — |
| Ginger Grant | SQLSaturday Houston #1120 | — | Understanding and Using AI for the Data Professional | — |
| Ginger Grant | Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2025 | speaker | Creating Simple Chat Bots with Microsoft Fabric Datastores | — |
| Ginger Grant | Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2025 | speaker | Why Architecting a Microsoft Fabric Environment May Include a Fabric SQL DB | — |
| Ginger Grant | Data Céilí 2025 | speaker | Lakehouse or Warehouse : Which is the right choice in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Ginger Grant | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | speaker | Decrease Cost and Management Effort with Fabric SQL DB | — |
| Ginger Grant | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | workshop | Building an End-to-End Lakehouse Solution (Hands-on) | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2024 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Using AI to Improve Spark Development in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2024 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | AI in Power BI | — |
| Ginger Grant | SQLSaturday Baton Rouge #1076 | — | Understanding and Using AI for the Data Professional | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Orlando 2023 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | DevOps in Power BI | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Orlando 2023 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | When it Makes Sense to Incorporate Datamarts and Data flows in Power BI | — |
| Ginger Grant | SQLSaturday Jacksonville #1041 | — | Understanding Power BI Dataflows, Datamarts, and Composite modeling | — |
| Ginger Grant | SQLSaturday Jacksonville #1041 | — | Precon: Analytics with Azure Synapse & Power BI | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Orlando 2022 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | panelist | SQL Server Live! Panel Discussion: Azure Cloud Migration Discussion | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Orlando 2022 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Data Model Design and Optimization for Power BI | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Orlando 2022 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Moving Away from Data Flows and Simplifying Data Pipelines in Azure Synapse Analytics | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Orlando 2021 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Selecting the Best Azure Cloud-Based Modern Data Warehousing Solution | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Orlando 2021 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | panelist | Artificial Intelligence Live! Panel Discussion: The Mainstreaming of AI and Machine Learning: Is it for Real? | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Orlando 2021 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Data Lake Management with Azure Synapse Analytics | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Orlando 2019 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Deep Dive into Power BI Administration and Security Internals | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Orlando 2019 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Diving Into Deep Learning with Databricks | — |
| Ginger Grant | Live! 360 Orlando 2019 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Performance Tuning Power BI | — |
| Ginger Grant | SQLSaturday Denver #908 | — | Revealing the Differences in Azure Machine Learning Products | — |
| Ginger Grant | SQLSaturday Denver #908 | — | Getting Started with Data Science and Databricks | — |
| Ginger Grant | SQLDay 2019 | speaker | Getting Started with Azure Databricks | — |
| Ginger Grant | SQLDay 2019 | speaker | Data Driven Decision Making with Azure Machine Learning | — |
| Ginger Grant | SQLSaturday Phoenix #869 | — | Introduction to Snowflake, the data warehouse build for the cloud | — |
| Ginger Grant | SQLSaturday Phoenix #869 | — | Outdoor Courtyard Welcome Message for SQL Saturday Phoenix | — |
| Ginger Grant | SQLSaturday Orange County #847 | — | Using Azure Databricks to Develop Scalable Data Solutions | — |