Polar Squad
Circuit mix
Where Polar Squad 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 platform100%11 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.
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- Had speakers
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dataMinds Connect | ||||||||
| SQLBits | ||||||||
| Data Saturdays | ||||||||
| Fabric February | ||||||||
| Data Céilí | ||||||||
| DATA:Scotland | ||||||||
| DataGrillen |
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
Polar Squad has never sponsored a tracked conference, so this follows where its speakers appear instead.
DownNothing recorded in 2026; had speakers at 2 conferences 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.
No longer seen 7
No speakers since 2024 or earlier, though the conference published speaker lists after that.
- Data Céilílast seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
- Data Saturdayslast seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
- DATA:Scotlandlast seen 2022; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2023–25
- DataGrillenlast seen 2022; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024 and 2026
- dataMinds Connectlast seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
- Fabric Februarylast seen 2024; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2025–26
- SQLBitslast seen 2023; the conference ran again with speaker lists in 2024–26
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).
- Datalineo1.00
- DataBrothers1.00
- Bruvo0.99
- Transmokopter SQL AB0.99
- Cloud Formations0.99
- Structured Concepts0.98
- Datashift0.98
- Privinity0.98
6 Cluster: dataMinds Connect · Data Saturdays 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
Polar Squad (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 Polar Squad.
Speakers 18
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heini Ilmarinen | dataMinds Connect 2024 | speaker | Knee-Deep In Tech Live @ DataMinds Connect | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | dataMinds Connect 2024 | speaker | A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Data Saturday #59 - Data Saturday Holland 2024 | speaker | To Bicep or to Terraform - That is the Question | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Data Saturday #59 - Data Saturday Holland 2024 | speaker | Reaching for Data with Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Data Céilí 2024 | speaker | Smoothing out Fabric | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Fabric February 2024 | speaker | Super Smash - Microsoft Fabric vs. Databricks | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Fabric February 2024 | speaker | Riding The Wave of Everchanging Technologies | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | dataMinds Connect 2023 | speaker | Knee-Deep In Tech Live @ DataMinds Connect | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | SQLBits 2023 | speaker | To Bicep or to Terraform - That is the Question | Video |
| Heini Ilmarinen | SQLBits 2023 | speaker | Knee-Deep In Tech Live @ SQL Bits | Video |
| Heini Ilmarinen | SQLBits 2023 | workshop | Boost Your Skills for an Azure Architect | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | dataMinds Connect 2022 | speaker | Networking unlocked for the Azure Data Services | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | dataMinds Connect 2022 | workshop | Less Clicking, More Sanity! Infra as Code for your Azure Data Solution | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | DATA:Scotland 2022 | speaker | Full 180° - Lessons Learned from Switching Careers | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | DataGrillen 2022 | speaker | Less Clicking, More Coding! Azure Data Platform Development Using Infrastructure as Code | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | SQLBits 2022 (Arcade) | speaker | Less Clicking, More Coding! Data Platform Development Using Infrastructure as Code | Video |
| Heini Ilmarinen | SQLBits 2022 (Arcade) | speaker | Networking unlocked for the Azure Data Services | Video |
| Heini Ilmarinen | dataMinds Connect 2021 | speaker | Infrastructure as Code to an Azure Data Platform Architecture | — |