Progress
Circuit mix
Where Progress shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- Software engineering & trading tech67%18 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos24%6 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows8%2 events
- Open-source data infrastructure2%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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360 | ||||||||||
| Big Data LDN | ||||||||||
| Big Data & AI Paris | ||||||||||
| Tableau Conference | ||||||||||
| Berlin Buzzwords | ||||||||||
| The AI 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
FlatSponsored 3 conferences in 2026, flat from 3 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 2
First sponsored in 2025 or later.
- Big Data & AI Parisfirst sponsored 2025, Gold
- The AI Summitfirst sponsored 2025, Silver
Moved up 1
Best tier rose between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- Tableau ConferenceBronze 2019 → Silver 2023
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 3607 of 8 years 2019–26, Gold
Once or on and off 1
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Big Data LDN3 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).
- OpenText0.76
- Opendatasoft0.70
- QA0.70
- DoubleCloud0.69
- ASG Technologies0.68
- YOOI0.68
- MarkLogic0.66
- OVH0.65
18 Cluster: Big Data & AI Paris · Gartner Data & Analytics Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 24 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 22 | 92% |
| Neo4j | 6 | 25% |
| SolarWinds | 6 | 25% |
| Usio | 6 | 25% |
| Actian | 5 | 21% |
| Alteryx | 5 | 21% |
| Collibra | 5 | 21% |
| Databricks | 5 | 21% |
| Denodo | 5 | 21% |
| Dremio | 5 | 21% |
| Fivetran | 5 | 21% |
| IBM | 5 | 21% |
| Snowflake | 5 | 21% |
| Vonage | 5 | 21% |
| Aikido Security | 4 | 17% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
Progress (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 24
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2026 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | Nov 15–20, 2026 | Orlando, United States | Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| Big Data LDN 2026 | Sep 23–24, 2026 | London, United Kingdom | Exhibitor | Unlabeled |
| Big Data & AI Paris 2026 | Sep 15–16, 2026 | Paris, France | Silver | Silver |
| Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2026 | Jul 27–31, 2026 | Redmond, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| The AI Summit New York 2025 | Dec 10–11, 2025 | New York, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2025 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | Nov 16–21, 2025 | Orlando, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| Big Data & AI Paris 2025 | Oct 1–2, 2025 | Paris, France | Gold | Gold |
| Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2025 | Aug 4–8, 2025 | Redmond, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2025 | Mar 10–14, 2025 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2024 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | Nov 17–22, 2024 | Orlando, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2024 | Aug 5–9, 2024 | Redmond, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2024 | Mar 3–8, 2024 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| Live! 360 Orlando 2023 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | Nov 12–17, 2023 | Orlando, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| Big Data LDN 2023 | Sep 20–21, 2023 | London, United Kingdom | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2023 | Jul 17–21, 2023 | Redmond, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| Visual Studio Live! Nashville 2023 | May 15–19, 2023 | Nashville, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| Tableau Conference 2023 (TC23) | May 9–11, 2023 | Las Vegas, United States | Navigator | Silver |
| Live! 360 Orlando 2022 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | Nov 13–18, 2022 | Orlando, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Visual Studio Live! Redmond 2022 (Microsoft HQ) | Aug 8–12, 2022 | Redmond, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Visual Studio Live! Austin 2022 | Jun 13–17, 2022 | Austin, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Live! 360 Orlando 2021 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | Nov 15–19, 2021 | Orlando, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Big Data LDN 2019 | Nov 13–14, 2019 | London, United Kingdom | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| Tableau Conference 2019 (TC19) | Nov 12–15, 2019 | Las Vegas, United States | Kilobyte | Bronze |
| Visual Studio Live! Microsoft HQ 2019 | Aug 12–16, 2019 | Redmond, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
Speakers 17
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carles Onielfa | Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | talk | How to Survive the Vortex of LLM Change | Slides · Video |
| Carles Onielfa | Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | talk | Towards Chunk-less RAG | Slides · Video |
| Carmen Iniesta | Berlin Buzzwords 2026 | talk | How to Survive the Vortex of LLM Change | Slides · Video |
| Jeffrey T. Fritz | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 | workshop | Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building - Jeffrey T. Fritz | — |
| Jeffrey T. Fritz | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 | speaker | Hooking Up All the Things, Making Your Developer's Life Easier | — |
| Jeffrey T. Fritz | Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2025 | speaker | Building Confident Application Systems with .NET Aspire: From Dev to Deployment | — |
| Jeffrey T. Fritz | Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2025 | workshop | Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building | — |
| Jeffrey T. Fritz | Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2025 | workshop | Continued: Hands-On Lab: Get Started with .NET Aspire & ASP.NET Core for Distributed Application Building | — |
| Ed Charbeneau | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2024 | speaker | Blazor Stability Testing Tools for Bullet Proof Applications | — |
| Ed Charbeneau | Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2024 | speaker | Session Intentionally Left Null? | — |
| Jeffrey T. Fritz | Visual Studio Live! Nashville 2023 | speaker | Bringing the Web to Native Applications with Blazor Hybrid | — |
| Jeffrey T. Fritz | Visual Studio Live! Nashville 2023 | workshop | Hands-On Lab: Build Your First Application with Blazor | — |
| Jeffrey T. Fritz | Visual Studio Live! Nashville 2023 | speaker | Beyond the Basics – Building Fast and Reusable Code with Blazor | — |
| Sara Faatz | Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2022 | speaker | Meaningful Engagement with a Hybrid Workforce | — |
| Sara Faatz | Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2022 | speaker | Bounce: The Art of Resiliency | — |
| Sara Faatz | Visual Studio Live! Redmond 2022 (Microsoft HQ) | speaker | Bounce: The Art of Resiliency | — |
| Eve Turzillo | Live! 360 Orlando 2021 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Demo Theater: Going Beyond Inspecting Your Network When it Comes to Debugging | — |