22-25 April 2026 
Nico Jacobs
blogs.u2u.be/author/Nico-Jacobs
Dr. Nico Jacobs started his career as a data mining researcher at the university of Leuven, Belgium. He joined U2U in 2004 as an instructor, author and technology strategist. His current technical expertise focuses on Power BI and Data Engineering/Data Science on Microsoft Azure. As a passionate trainer, Nico likes to inspire his students to gain a thorough knowledge on the subject. Nico regularly speaks at local and international conferences. You can see what he’s up to by following @SqlWaldorf on Twitter .
Nico Jacobs's Training Days
DAX in a DaySQLBits 2024
Learn in one day the core concepts of the DAX language, with a lot of focus on the evaluation context. (in-person only)
Getting started with Azure Machine LearningSQLBits 2020
Azure Machine Learning (ML) helps you with every aspect of the machine learning process. Learn how to manage datasets, build models automatically, graphically or with code, and deploy them as a REST service in one day!
Nico Jacobs's Sessions
Getting started with SparkML in Microsoft FabricSQLBits 2024
Microsoft Fabric supports machine learning in their Spark notebooks. See an end-to-end demo of how Fabric data is used to build machine learning models upon, which are then used to make predictions about other Fabric datasets.
Populate and purify your data lake with Azure Data FactorySQLBits 2020
In this session you will get a birds eye view of all the features in Azure Data Factory, and see this demonstrated in a cloud ETL.
What Power BI users need to know about RSQLBits 2018
Learn the basic knowledge to use the R language in Power BI as source, transformation or visualization
Analyze data streams with Azure stream analyticsSQLBits 2015
Azure stream analytics is a new Azure service for analyzing streaming data.
Getting started with SparkML in Microsoft FabricSQLBits 2024
Microsoft Fabric supports machine learning in their Spark notebooks. See an end-to-end demo of how Fabric data is used to build machine learning models upon, which are then used to make predictions about other Fabric datasets.
Azure Data ExplorerSQLBits 2022
In this session you will learn for which data analysis purposes ADX is best suited, and see the complete flow (from setup over data ingestion till querying with the Kusto query language) demonstrated.
Calculation groups in Power BISQLBits 2022
This session illustrates what calculation groups can be used for and how to create them in the Tabular Editor.
Azure Synapse Analytics ServerlessSQLBits 2022
Azure Synapse Analytics Serverless (ASAS) databases do not contain data, only external tables which point to files holding the data. Yet they are able to solve many of your big data challenges, while you only pay for what your query.
Deceptive DAXSQLBits 2022
In this session several DAX expressions will be shown which do not always do what most Power BI users expect. Step by step these DAX expressions will be dissected and the evaluation context rules will be made clear such that you understand why the expressions behave different then expected.
Populate and purify your data lake with Azure Data FactorySQLBits 2020
In this session you will get a birds eye view of all the features in Azure Data Factory, and see this demonstrated in a cloud ETL.
What Power BI users need to know about RSQLBits 2018
Learn the basic knowledge to use the R language in Power BI as source, transformation or visualization
Analyze data streams with Azure stream analyticsSQLBits 2015
Azure stream analytics is a new Azure service for analyzing streaming data.