Data Decoded
- Organizer
- Media12 Group Ltd
- Category
- Vendor & industry
- Website
- datadecoded.com
- Social
- —
- Typical place
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Topics
- Generative AIData engineeringBusiness & leadershipWarehouse & lakehouseGovernance & quality
Free-to-attend UK data & AI expo/conference series (five seminar theatres, exhibitors, workshops and community meetups) run by events company Media12 Group (Guildford). Manchester edition (Data Decoded MCR, Manchester Central) since Oct 2025; London edition (Data Decoded LDN) since April 2026; recorded as id_suffix 'mcr'/'ldn'. 2027 dates announced: LDN 14-15 April 2027 (Olympia London), MCR 12-13 October 2027 (Manchester Central). Social links on the site point to generic profiles, so none are recorded.
At a glance
- Next event
- Apr 14–15, 2027London, United Kingdom
- Call for papers
- No public call found
- Audience
- Not published
- Tickets
- Free1 price, 2026
- Sponsorship
- Packages not published
- Sponsors
- 72 in 2026▲ +118% vs 2025 (33)
- Program freshness
- 92#78 of 127 · 9% reruns
- Similar conferences
- Big Data LDN, Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, EARL
Speakers it attracts
The 276 people who spoke at Data Decoded in 2025–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.
Most established speakers
- Rob Sewell · ZureKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 13: SQLBits, SQLSaturday, Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)…
- Ryan Boyd · MotherDuckKeynoted 2 other conferences, spoke at 5: AI By the Bay, DataEngBytes, Data Day Texas…
- Juliana Smith · Costain GroupSpoke at 10 other conferences: PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit), dataMinds Connect, Data Saturdays…
- Andy Cotgreavekeynote here · How To Speak DataKeynoted 2 other conferences, spoke at 3: Big Data LDN, Data Innovation Summit, Budapest BI Forum
- David Reedkeynote here · DataIQKeynoted 2 other conferences: The AI Summit, Big Data LDN
- Srimanth Rudrarajukeynote here · LSEGKeynoted 2 other conferences: The AI Summit, Big Data LDN
- Eleanor Treharne-Jones · BigeyeKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 4: The AI Summit, Big Data LDN, Snowflake Summit…
- Ian Massinghamkeynote here · GriptapeKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 3: O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, Big Data LDN, dotAI
- Arash Ghazanfarikeynote here · Dell TechnologiesKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, Big Data LDN
- Ashley Farrugia · DremioKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: Big Data LDN, CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits
- Caroline Carrutherskeynote here · Carruthers and JacksonKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: Data Innovation Summit, Big Data LDN
- Effie Kilmerkeynote here · MicrosoftKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: Big Data LDN, Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year, counted once across events.
- Partial or unverified list
2 of 2 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12–13, 2027 | Data Decoded MCR 2027 | Manchester, United Kingdom | Announced | — | — | — |
| Apr 14–15, 2027 | Data Decoded LDN 2027 | London, United Kingdom | Announced | — | — | — |
| Oct 13–14, 2026 | Data Decoded MCR 2026 | Manchester, United Kingdom | — | 52 | 122 | |
| Apr 22–23, 2026 | Data Decoded LDN 2026 | London, United Kingdom | — | 53 | 131 | |
| Oct 21–22, 2025 | Data Decoded MCR 2025 | Manchester, United Kingdom | — | 33 | 120 |
Attendance over time
No attendance figures recorded
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 72 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Other / unspecified