Budapest BI Forum

At a glance

Next event: Nov 16–18, 2026Budapest, Hungary
Call for papers: No public call found
Audience: Not published
Tickets: €340–€1,1502026 event · Budapest
Sponsorship: Packages not published
Sponsors: 3 recorded in 2025▼ −57% vs 2024 (7)
Program freshness: 83/100#122 of 143 · 26% rerunsTalk novelty and speaker variety.
Similar conferences: Budapest Data+AI Forum, Power BI Next Step, Data Saturdays

Organizer: BI Consulting Kft.
Category: Database
Website: budapestbi.hu
Social: X / Twitter · LinkedIn · Bluesky
Typical place: Budapest, Hungary
Topics: BI & analyticsBusiness & leadership

Hungary's vendor-independent business intelligence, data analytics and data visualization conference, run every November in Budapest by BI Consulting Kft. (formed from the merger of the Open Source BI and Innovatív BI conferences; editions since 2013). Bilingual (Hungarian/English) with Power BI & Fabric, Tableau, dataviz, data-driven business and (2019, 2023) PyData/rstats tracks. Format since 2021: an in-person workshop/tutorial day and an in-person conference day (also streamed), followed by an online-only day. Venues: Mercure Budapest Castle Hill (2019-2024), Danubius Hotel Helia (2025-). Renamed Budapest BI & Analytics Forum for 2026. The 2020 edition (Nov 25) was online-only and is not recorded. Sites: budapestbiforum.hu (to 2020), budapestbi.hu (2021-). BI Consulting's other conference, the Budapest Data+AI Forum (series budapest-data-forum, June), is tracked separately.

Speakers it attracts

The 124 people who spoke at Budapest BI Forum in 2023–2025, by their record at the other conferences we track.

30%experienced speakers: talks at 3+ other conferences · more than 81% of conferences

7have keynoted another conference

45%no other tracked talks: new voices, or speakers from outside the circuit

Where they work (84 with a known employer type)Consultancies 48%Vendors 35%Practitioners (end-user companies) 13%Universities & research 5%

Most established speakers

Benni De Jagere · MicrosoftKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 13: Fabric February, Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon), SQLBits…
Mathias HalkjaerSpoke at 13 other conferences: Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon), SQLBits, Power BI Gebruikersdagen…
Nikola Ilic · Data MozartSpoke at 13 other conferences: SQLSaturday, Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon), SQLBits…
Alexander ArvidssonSpoke at 12 other conferences: Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon), SQLBits, Power BI Gebruikersdagen…
Andy Cotgreave · TableauKeynoted 3 other conferences: Big Data LDN, Data Innovation Summit, Data Decoded
Marc LelijveldSpoke at 12 other conferences: SQLSaturday, Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon), SQLBits…
Alberto Ferrari · SQLBIKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 7: Data Point Prague, PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit), SQLBits…
Rui Romano · MicrosoftKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 7: Data Point Prague, SQLSaturday, Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)…
Ásgeir Gunnarsson · North Insights ApSSpoke at 9 other conferences: SQLSaturday, Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon), SQLBits…
Valerie Junk · PorcuBISpoke at 9 other conferences: SQLBits, Power BI Gebruikersdagen, dataMinds Connect…
Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen · Savory DataSpoke at 8 other conferences: SQLSaturday, SQLBits, Power BI Gebruikersdagen…
Mathias ThierbachSpoke at 8 other conferences: Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon), Power BI Gebruikersdagen, SQLDay…

Events72019–2026

Sponsoring companies3349 sponsorships

Speaker appearances338

Activity by year

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Speakers

Speakers per year

Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.

Events

Dates	Event	Place	Format / status	Attendance	Sponsors	Speakers
Nov 16–18, 2026	Budapest BI & Analytics Forum 2026	Budapest, Hungary	Announced	—	4	43
Nov 17–19, 2025	Budapest BI Forum 2025	Budapest, Hungary		—	3	53
Nov 18–20, 2024	Budapest BI Forum 2024	Budapest, Hungary		—	7	54
Nov 20–22, 2023	Budapest BI Fórum 2023	Budapest, Hungary		—	4	62
Nov 15–17, 2022	Budapest BI Fórum 2022	Budapest, Hungary		—	10	45
Nov 16–18, 2021	Budapest BI Fórum 2021	Budapest, Hungary		—	9	36
Nov 12–14, 2019	Budapest BI Forum 2019	Budapest, Hungary		—	12	45

Attendance over time

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Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.

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