SolarWinds
Also listed as 4 other names
Solar Winds · SolarWinds MSP · SolarWinds, Inc · Solarwinds
Circuit mix
Where SolarWinds 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 platform65%26 events
- Software engineering15%6 events
- Cloud providers11%5 events
- Postgres & open-source databases6%3 events
- Enterprise, analyst & AI expos3%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where SolarWinds 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.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled tier
- 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.
Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownSponsored 2 conferences in 2026, down from 7 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.
Moved down 2
Best tier fell between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- SQLBitsPlatinum 2022 → Gold 2026
- SQLSaturdayPlatinum 2023 → Gold 2025
Pulled out 5
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- Data Céilílast sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2025
- DATA:Scotlandlast sponsored 2022; the conference ran again in 2024–25
- DataGrillenlast sponsored 2022; the conference ran again in 2024 and 2026
- dataMinds Connectlast sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2024–26
- SQL Konferenzlast sponsored 2024; the conference ran again in 2025–26
Steady 3
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- AWS re:Invent4 of 5 years 2021–25, Gold
- PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit)5 of 6 years 2019–24, mostly Silver
- Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360every year 2021–26, Platinum
Once or on and off 3
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Big Data LDNonce, 2021, tier not listed
- Percona Liveonce, 2022, unranked tier
- PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)once, 2024, Silver
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).
- Sleek Technologies, Inc0.91
- SentryOne0.91
- Savory Data0.90
- Havens Consulting0.89
- Solisyon0.89
- oh220.89
- dbWatch0.89
- Idera0.88
12 Cluster: SQLSaturday · PASS Data Community Summit circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 38 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 25 | 66% |
| Redgate | 19 | 50% |
| Quest | 13 | 34% |
| Amazon Web Services | 10 | 26% |
| COZYROC | 10 | 26% |
| Pure Storage | 9 | 24% |
| SIOS Technology | 9 | 24% |
| Intel | 8 | 21% |
| JetBrains | 8 | 21% |
| Advancing Analytics | 7 | 18% |
| Power BI Sentinel | 7 | 18% |
| Rubrik | 7 | 18% |
| Databricks | 6 | 16% |
| Dbvisit | 6 | 16% |
| Idera | 6 | 16% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
SolarWinds (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 38
| 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 | Platinum Sponsors | Platinum |
| SQLBits 2026 | Apr 22–25, 2026 | Newport, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| AWS re:Invent 2025 | Dec 1–5, 2025 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2025 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | Nov 16–21, 2025 | Orlando, United States | Platinum Sponsor | Platinum |
| SQLSaturday Boston #1119 | Sep 27, 2025 | Burlington, United States | Gold Sponsor | Gold |
| SQLBits 2025 | Jun 18–21, 2025 | London, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| SQLSaturday Jacksonville #1103 | May 3, 2025 | Jacksonville, United States | — | Unlabeled |
| AWS re:Invent 2024 | Dec 2–6, 2024 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2024 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | Nov 17–22, 2024 | Orlando, United States | Platinum Sponsor | Platinum |
| PASS Data Community Summit 2024 | Nov 4–8, 2024 | Seattle, United States | Silver sponsors | Silver |
| PGConf NYC 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 – Oct 2, 2024 | New York, United States | Silver | Silver |
| SQL Konferenz 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 – Oct 2, 2024 | Hanau, Germany | Gold Partner | Gold |
| SQLBits 2024 | Mar 19–23, 2024 | Farnborough, United Kingdom | Gold | Gold |
| PASS Data Community Summit 2023 | Nov 13–17, 2023 | Seattle, United States | Exhibitor (tier not published) | Other |
| Live! 360 Orlando 2023 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | Nov 12–17, 2023 | Orlando, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| SQLSaturday Boston #1046 | Oct 14, 2023 | Burlington, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| dataMinds Connect 2023 | Oct 9–10, 2023 | Mechelen, Belgium | — | Unlabeled |
| SQL Konferenz 2023 | Sep 11–13, 2023 | Hanau, Germany | Gold Partner | Gold |
| SQLSaturday Baton Rouge #1060 | Jul 29, 2023 | Baton Rouge, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Data Céilí 2023 | Jun 8–9, 2023 | Dublin, Ireland | Sponsors | Other |
| SQLSaturday Jacksonville #1041 | May 6, 2023 | Jacksonville, United States | — | Unlabeled |
| SQLSaturday New York City #1048 | May 6, 2023 | New York, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| SQLBits 2023 | Mar 14–18, 2023 | Newport, United Kingdom | Platinum Sponsors | Platinum |
| AWS re:Invent 2022 | Nov 28, 2022 – Dec 2, 2022 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Live! 360 Orlando 2022 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | Nov 13–18, 2022 | Orlando, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| SQLSaturday Oregon & SW Washington #1035 | Nov 12, 2022 | Vancouver, United States | Exhibitor | Other |
| DATA:Scotland 2022 | Sep 1–2, 2022 | Glasgow, United Kingdom | Exhibiting Sponsors | Other |
| DataGrillen 2022 | Jun 2–3, 2022 | Lingen (Ems), Germany | Grillrost / Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| Percona Live 2022 | May 16–18, 2022 | Austin, United States | Gold & Silver | Other |
| SQLBits 2022 (Arcade) | Mar 8–12, 2022 | London, United Kingdom | Platinum | Platinum |
| AWS re:Invent 2021 | Nov 29, 2021 – Dec 3, 2021 | Las Vegas, United States | Gold | Gold |
| Live! 360 Orlando 2021 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | Nov 15–19, 2021 | Orlando, United States | Platinum | Platinum |
| PASS Data Community Summit 2021 | Nov 8–12, 2021 | — | Bronze sponsor | Bronze |
| Big Data LDN 2021 | Sep 22–23, 2021 | London, United Kingdom | Exhibitor | Unlabeled |
| PASS Virtual Summit 2020 | Nov 9–13, 2020 | — | Gold Sponsors | Gold |
| PASS Summit 2019 | Nov 4–8, 2019 | Seattle, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| dataMinds Connect 2019 | Oct 7–8, 2019 | Mechelen, Belgium | — | Unlabeled |
| SQL Server Konferenz 2019 | Feb 19–21, 2019 | Darmstadt, Germany | Silver Partner | Silver |
Speakers 19
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gregory Fetterhoff | AWS re:Invent 2026 | lightning talk | Cleared for Takeoff Hybrid Observability at the Busiest Airport (sponsored by SolarWinds) | — |
| Kevin Kline | Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2026 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Cloud Cost Optimization for Dev & Database Professionals | — |
| Tee Dargie | Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2026 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Cloud Cost Optimization for Dev & Database Professionals | — |
| Peter DiStefano | AWS re:Invent 2025 | lightning talk | Paciolan’s Journey: Digital Transformation & Operational Excellence with AWS (sponsored by SolarWinds) | — |
| Kevin Kline | Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2025 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | PostgreSQL Fundamentals and Tooling | — |
| Josh Stageberg | AWS re:Invent 2024 | lightning talk | AWS journey: Customer’s path to hybrid cloud excellence (sponsored by SolarWinds) | Video |
| Robert Mandeville | Live! 360 Tech Con Orlando 2024 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Stop Indexing the Query – Part II | — |
| Steve Wright | Live! 360 Orlando 2023 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Troubleshooting Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools and Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouses | — |
| Steven Wright | SQLSaturday Boston #1046 | — | Mission Possible: This Database Will Self-Destruct | — |
| Steven Wright | SQLSaturday Boston #1046 | — | So you want to be a Tuner? An introduction to SQL Query Plans | — |
| Brandon Tucker | SQLSaturday Jacksonville #1041 | — | Building Your First Clusterless Availability Group On Metal, VMs, Cloud, Or All Three! | — |
| Brandon Tucker | SQLSaturday Jacksonville #1041 | — | A Beginner’s Guide to Query Store | — |
| Brandon Tucker | SQLSaturday Oregon & SW Washington #1035 | — | Building Your First Clusterless Availability Group On Metal, VMs, Cloud, Or All Three! | — |
| Brandon Tucker | SQLSaturday Oregon & SW Washington #1035 | — | SolarWinds Database Products Open Forum | — |
| Robert Mandeville | Percona Live 2022 | speaker | Diagnosing Database Issues With MySQL 8.0’s Performance Schema | — |
| Kevin Kline | Live! 360 Orlando 2021 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Fix Slow Queries—Fast—With SolarWinds Plan Explorer | — |
| Kevin Kline | Live! 360 Orlando 2021 (incl. Visual Studio Live!) | speaker | Ten Query Tuning Techniques Every SQL Developer Should Know | — |
| Thomas LaRock | DataGrillen 2019 | speaker | Data Security and Privacy Techniques for Modern Databases | — |
| Jimmy Angelakos | FOSDEM 2019 | speaker | Deploying PostgreSQL on Kubernetes | Slides · Video |