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DataGrillen

Organizer
William Durkin and Ben Weissman (volunteer-run)
Category
Database
Website
datagrillen.com
Social
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Typical place
Lingen (Ems), Germany
Topics
BI & analyticsData engineering

Free, volunteer-run two-day Microsoft Data Platform community conference in Lingen (Ems), Germany, motto 'Data, Bratwurst & Beer' (sessions plus an evening BBQ). Formerly SQLGrillen (renamed DataGrillen for 2019). Held at the IT-Zentrum Lingen; roughly 200 attendees, four or five tracks named after barbecue tools. Entirely sponsor-financed; sponsor tiers are Anzünder (Silver, EUR 1,500), Grillrost (Gold, EUR 2,500) and Grillmeister (Platinum, EUR 5,000), plus long-standing Foundation Sponsors (solisyon, Data Masterminds). 2020 (planned May 28-29) and 2021 (planned May 20-21) were cancelled because of COVID-19; there was no 2023 edition (organizers' decision, Aug 2022) and no 2025 edition. Editions recorded: 2019, 2022, 2024, 2026 and the announced 2027 (May 13-14). The same organizers run online events New Stars of Data, Dativerse and DataMinutes (online-only, not recorded).

At a glance

Next event
May 13–14, 2027Lingen (Ems), Germany
Call for papers
Open until Dec 20, 202641 days left
Audience
200 attendees2019
Tickets
Free1 price, 2026
Sponsorship
Packages not published
Sponsors
11 in 2026No list the year before
Program freshness
76#119 of 127 · 25% reruns
Similar conferences
dataMinds Connect, Fabric February, Data Saturdays

Speakers it attracts

The 92 people who spoke at DataGrillen in 2024–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.

66%experienced speakers: talks at 3+ other conferences · more than 96% of conferences
12have keynoted another conference
8%no other tracked talks: new voices, or speakers from outside the circuit
Where they work (24 with a known employer type)Consultancies 79%Vendors 17%Practitioners (end-user companies) 4%

Most established speakers

Events52019–2027
Sponsoring companies2645 sponsorships
Speaker appearances233

Activity by year

Sponsors

Sponsor companies per year

Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.

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Speakers

Speakers per year

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

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Events

DatesEventPlaceFormat / statusAttendanceSponsorsSpeakers
May 13–14, 2027DataGrillen 2027Lingen (Ems), GermanyAnnounced—5—
May 21–22, 2026DataGrillen 2026Lingen (Ems), Germany—1165
May 16–17, 2024DataGrillen 2024Lingen (Ems), Germany—1059
Jun 2–3, 2022DataGrillen 2022Lingen (Ems), Germany—953
Jun 20–21, 2019DataGrillen 2019Lingen (Ems), Germany2001056

Attendance over time

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Reported attendance for 1 of 5 events; figures are as published by the organizer.

Most frequent speaker companies

Microsoft9Redgate6Data Masterminds5Denny Cherry & Associate…4Advancing Analytics3oh22data AG3ALDI Sued3b.telligent2Macaw2Wortell2Apps Associates2Axians Business Analytics2db Berater GmbH2GDS Business Intelligenc…2InSpark2

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.

  1. dataMinds Connect0.39
  2. Fabric February0.32
  3. Data Saturdays0.31
  4. Data Céilí0.27
  5. SQL Konferenz0.27

13 Cluster: Microsoft · Avanade · Advancing Analytics crowd →

Sponsors over the years

Top 25 of 26 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.

  • Platinum
  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Other / unspecified
2019202220242026SolisyonSolisyonRedgateRedgateData MastermindsData MastermindsPower BI SentinelPower BI SentinelRosenRosenHedda.ioHedda.iooh22oh22Daten-WGDaten-WGCloudRedeCloudRedeInSparkInSparkMacawMacawSigma ComputingSigma Computingb.telligentb.telligentDenny Cherry & Associates C…Denny Cherry & Associates ConsultingPrivinityPrivinitySolarWindsSolarWindsTabular EditorTabular Editortec networkstec networksAdvancing AnalyticsAdvancing AnalyticsdatacidersdatacidersDevartDevartMasterminds GroupMasterminds GroupdbWatchdbWatchIT-EmslandIT-EmslandSentryOneSentryOne

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