SQLBits
- Organizer
- SQLBits Ltd
- Category
- Database
- Website
- sqlbits.com
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · YouTube
- Typical place
- 4 cities
- Topics
- Data engineeringWarehouse & lakehouseBI & analyticsGovernance & qualityMachine learningGenerative AI
UK-based Microsoft data platform conference ('The Data Conference'), first held 6 Oct 2007 at Microsoft TVP Reading; billed itself as Europe's largest Microsoft Data Platform event. Annual multi-day event that moves venue each year, with paid training days and general-session days and a free Saturday. 2019 Manchester Central; 2020 moved from London (March) to online (29 Sep-3 Oct); no conference in 2021; 2022 ExCeL London (hybrid); 2023 ICC Wales, Newport; 2024 Farnborough; 2025 ExCeL London; 2026 ICC Wales, Newport. As of Nov 2026 the site says 2027 dates have not been announced. Session, speaker and video data come from the public SQLBits GraphQL API behind sqlbits.com (conference IDs 18=2019, 20=2020, 22=2022, 23=2023, 24=2024, 25=2025, 26=2026). Social accounts are the conference's own.
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Complete list
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22–25, 2026 | SQLBits 2026 | Newport, United Kingdom | — | 14 | 216 | |
| Jun 18–21, 2025 | SQLBits 2025 | London, United Kingdom | — | 24 | 142 | |
| Mar 19–23, 2024 | SQLBits 2024 | Farnborough, United Kingdom | 2,279 | 29 | 216 | |
| Mar 14–18, 2023 | SQLBits 2023 | Newport, United Kingdom | — | 29 | 150 | |
| Mar 8–12, 2022 | SQLBits 2022 (Arcade) | London, United Kingdom | — | 19 | 177 | |
| Sep 29, 2020 – Oct 3, 2020 | SQLBits 2020 (The Greatest Data Show) | — | Online | — | 13 | 122 |
| Feb 27, 2019 – Mar 2, 2019 | SQLBits 2019 (Speakeasy) | Manchester, United Kingdom | — | 15 | 53 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 1 of 7 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
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.
- Data Platform Next Step0.21
- Data Saturdays0.21
- Microsoft Fabric Community Conference0.18
- SQL Konferenz0.17
- PASS Data Community Summit0.14
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Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 80 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Title / headline
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Media
- Other / unspecified