Improving
Circuit mix
Where Improving 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 platform61%12 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows18%3 events
- Streaming14%2 events
- AI engineering & MLOps7%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQLSaturday | ||||||||||
| Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) | ||||||||||
| Current (formerly Kafka Summit) | ||||||||||
| MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | ||||||||||
| MLOps World (Machine Learning in Production) |
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.
- Platinum
- Silver
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
UpSponsored 2 conferences in 2026, up from 1 in 2022.
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, unranked tier
Once or on and off 2
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit)2 of 4 years, 2022–25
- SQLSaturday4 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).
- Hydrate Technologies LLC0.89
- P3 Adaptive0.89
- Desert Isle Group0.88
- RADACAD0.88
- Centric Consulting0.86
- Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting0.86
- Wolters Kluwer0.82
- Data Mozart0.80
12 Cluster: SQLSaturday · PASS Data Community Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 9 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 6 | 67% |
| Power BI Sentinel | 5 | 56% |
| Databricks | 4 | 44% |
| Profisee | 4 | 44% |
| Amazon Web Services | 3 | 33% |
| COZYROC | 3 | 33% |
| DataCrafters | 3 | 33% |
| EY | 3 | 33% |
| Idera | 3 | 33% |
| Insight | 3 | 33% |
| Snowflake | 3 | 33% |
| Tabular Editor | 3 | 33% |
| Accenture | 2 | 22% |
| Acterys | 2 | 22% |
| Adastra | 2 | 22% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Improving (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 9
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1127 | Mar 21, 2026 | Alpharetta, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | Mar 16–20, 2026 | Atlanta, United States | Silver | Silver |
| Current New Orleans 2025 | Oct 29–30, 2025 | New Orleans, United States | AI Pioneers | Other |
| Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | Mar 29, 2025 – Apr 3, 2025 | Las Vegas, United States | Exhibitor | Other |
| SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1102 | Mar 8, 2025 | Alpharetta, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| SQLSaturday Atlanta BI & Data Analytics #1071 | Feb 10, 2024 | Alpharetta, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit | Oct 4–5, 2022 | Austin, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| SQLSaturday Atlanta #845 | May 18, 2019 | Atlanta, United States | Platinum Sponsor | Platinum |
| SQLSaturday Cleveland #821 | Feb 2, 2019 | Cleveland, United States | Silver Sponsor | Silver |
Speakers 27
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Perry | 7th Annual MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2026 | workshop | Build Your Own Software Factory: Customized AI-Assisted Development | — |
| Mike Diehl | FabCon Europe 2026 | speaker | From Bronze to Business Value Faster with Materialized Lakehouse Views | — |
| Oshi Gupta | MCP Dev Summit Mumbai 2026 | speaker | Closing the AuthZ Gap in MCP: Policy-Driven Tool Invocation Control - Oshi Gupta, Infracloud Technologies | — |
| Sonali Srivastava | MCP Dev Summit Mumbai 2026 | speaker | Closing the AuthZ Gap in MCP: Policy-Driven Tool Invocation Control - Oshi Gupta, Infracloud Technologies | — |
| Kevin Jourdain | SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1127 | — | Don't Be MAD: Vibe Coding is Over | — |
| Preston Mesarvey | SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1127 | — | Building a Modern Data Vault on Snowflake with dbt & AutomateDV | — |
| Tim Rayburn | SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1127 | — | The Judgment Gap: Why AI Adoption Without Verification Is Worse Than No AI At All | — |
| Mike Diehl | FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), Atlanta | speaker | Fabric Development: Repos, Collaboration and Deployments | — |
| Chandan Dutta | SQLSaturday South Florida #1116 | — | Building CI/CD pipeline using Databricks Asset Bundles | — |
| Preston Mesarvey | SQLSaturday Jacksonville #1103 | — | Modern Data Quality Practices For Your Data Estate | — |
| Mike Diehl | Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas) | speaker | Using SQL database Projects in SQL Server Data Tools | — |
| Chandan Dutta | SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1102 | — | Databricks Unity Catalog - Data Governance and lot more | — |
| Preston Mesarvey | SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1102 | — | Modern Data Quality Practices For Your Analytics Environment | — |
| Preston Mesarvey | SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1102 | — | Raffles & Closing @ Auditorium | — |
| Preston Mesarvey | SQLSaturday Jacksonville #1068 | — | Modeling & Transforming Data Using DBT | — |
| Mark Runyon | SQLSaturday Atlanta #1072 | — | Elevating Your Career into IT Leadership | — |
| Mark Runyon | SQLSaturday Atlanta BI & Data Analytics #1071 | — | Elevating Your Career into IT Leadership | — |
| Matt Quinn | SQLSaturday Atlanta BI & Data Analytics #1071 | — | Exploring Snowflake: A Guide for PowerBI Professionals | — |
| Preston Mesarvey | SQLSaturday Atlanta BI & Data Analytics #1071 | — | Modeling & Transforming Data Using DBT | — |
| Rich McCraw | SQLSaturday Atlanta BI & Data Analytics #1071 | — | How Data is Used and Stored in Modern AI Models | — |
| Preston Mesarvey | SQLSaturday Jacksonville #1022 | — | Data Governance 101 | — |
| Ed Watson | SQLSaturday Nashville #933 | — | The Psychology of Better Power BI Reporting | — |
| Ed Watson | SQLSaturday Charlotte #918 | — | The Psychology of Better Power BI Reporting | — |
| Ed Watson | SQLSaturday Atlanta #845 | — | A Beginner's Guide to Power BI | — |
| Jeremy Edmondson | SQLSaturday Atlanta #845 | — | What is CosmosDB and should I care about it? | — |
| Nathan Boster | SQLSaturday Atlanta #845 | — | Turbo-charging SSMS for Beginners | — |
| Preston Mesarvey | SQLSaturday Atlanta #845 | — | Evolving Your BI Environment From SSRS To Power BI | — |