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SQL Server, the Ground to Cloud Database
Fabric – How to Succeed
AI and you – Developing Faster With AI
AI and Your Data Platform
Cutting Edge Visualisation and Delivery of Data
Data Internals – Blow Your Mind
Inspirational Data Solutions
Optimising Your Data Platform
Maximising Personal and Team Strengths
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6-24 months
AI
AI and Your Data Platform
AI and data science
AI and you – Developing Faster With AI
AWS
Analytics
Application Development
Architecture
Azure
Azure Arc
Azure SQL
Azure SQL Database
Career and Personal Development
Copilot
Cosmos DB
Cutting Edge Visualisation and Delivery of Data
DAX
DBT
Data Factory
Data Internals – Blow Your Mind
Data Lake
Data Management and Governance
Data Transformation and Integration
DataOps and Automation
Database engine
Databases
Databricks
Dataflows
Decision Makers and Leadership
Delta Lake
Demo Led Session
Deployment
Development
Excel
Fabric
Fabric Warehouse
Fabric – How to Succeed
Functions
Governing
Health and Wellbeing
In Memory OLTP
Inclusion
Inspirational Data Solutions
Inspiring Teams
Lakehouse
Managed Instance
Managing
Maximising Personal and Team Strengths
Mental Health
Modelling
Monitoring
New
OpenAI
Optimising
Optimising Your Data Platform
Oracle
Panel Discussion
Personal Success
Pipelines
Postgres
Power Automate
Power BI
Power Query
PowerShell
Presentation
Preview/Beta
Purview
Python
Query Store
Reporting and Visualisation
SQL
SQL Database in Fabric
SQL Server
SQL Server, the Ground to Cloud Database
Securing
Services
Soft Skills
Spark
Strategy
Successful Delivery
TSQL
Testing
Tooling
Tools
Workshop
Topics
SQL Server, the Ground to Cloud Database
Fabric – How to Succeed
AI and you – Developing Faster With AI
AI and Your Data Platform
Cutting Edge Visualisation and Delivery of Data
Data Internals – Blow Your Mind
Inspirational Data Solutions
Optimising Your Data Platform
Maximising Personal and Team Strengths
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All
0-6 months
2 years +
6-24 months
AI
AI and Your Data Platform
AI and data science
AI and you – Developing Faster With AI
AWS
Analytics
Application Development
Architecture
Azure
Azure Arc
Azure SQL
Azure SQL Database
Career and Personal Development
Copilot
Cosmos DB
Cutting Edge Visualisation and Delivery of Data
DAX
DBT
Data Factory
Data Internals – Blow Your Mind
Data Lake
Data Management and Governance
Data Transformation and Integration
DataOps and Automation
Database engine
Databases
Databricks
Dataflows
Decision Makers and Leadership
Delta Lake
Demo Led Session
Deployment
Development
Excel
Fabric
Fabric Warehouse
Fabric – How to Succeed
Functions
Governing
Health and Wellbeing
In Memory OLTP
Inclusion
Inspirational Data Solutions
Inspiring Teams
Lakehouse
Managed Instance
Managing
Maximising Personal and Team Strengths
Mental Health
Modelling
Monitoring
New
OpenAI
Optimising
Optimising Your Data Platform
Oracle
Panel Discussion
Personal Success
Pipelines
Postgres
Power Automate
Power BI
Power Query
PowerShell
Presentation
Preview/Beta
Purview
Python
Query Store
Reporting and Visualisation
SQL
SQL Database in Fabric
SQL Server
SQL Server, the Ground to Cloud Database
Securing
Services
Soft Skills
Spark
Strategy
Successful Delivery
TSQL
Testing
Tooling
Tools
Workshop
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08:00
09:00
10:40
11:00
(break)
11:30
12:30
13:20
(lunch)
14:20
15:20
16:10
(break)
16:40
17:30
Aspect Lounge
Toon In: Wednesday Briefing
The SQLBits Team
Auditorium
The Roadmap for One SQL: Edge to PaaS to SaaS
Bob Ward, Anna Hoffman, Priya Sathy, Shiva Gurumurthy
Analytics, Databases, New
Dev-Prod Demon Hunters: Finding the Real Cause of Production Slowness
Brent Ozar
Optimising, Application Development, Databases, SQL Server
Expo Hall 2
The Danish Meet Up
SQLBits Team
Expo
Find Your People Networking - Wednesday
The SQLBits Team
Sponsor Drinks
The SQLBits Team
The SQLBits Run
The SQLBits Team
Board Games Night
The SQLBits Team
Living Lounge
The Power of F2: What You Can (and Can’t) Do with Microsoft Fabric’s Smallest Capacity
Daniel Patkos
Fabric, Tooling, Fabric – How to Succeed, Presentation
Databricks vs Fabric: When to choose, when to combine, and why it’s confusing
Richard Conway, Sandy May
Databricks, Data Management and Governance, Tooling, Fabric Warehouse
Batteries included: SQL DevOps with SQL projects
Anna Hoffman
Managing, Analytics, Fabric, Databases
Copilots, Chaos and Control: Getting Real About AI Productivity
Laura Graham-Brown, Claire Edgson
Power BI, Excel, Purview, Analytics
Future-Proofing SQL Server: High Availability, Performance, and Key Innovations from 2022 to 2025
Fabiano Amorim, Marcelo Adade
Managing, Optimising, Databases, Tooling
Amplify Your Experience: How to Start Writing and Speaking
Tonie Huizer, Tony Davis
Soft Skills, Career and Personal Development, Inspiring Teams, Personal Success
Room 1A
Introduction to Microsoft Fabric Variable Library: Simplifying CI/CD Automation
Kevin Arnold
Deployment, Fabric, DataOps and Automation, Development
Performance monitoring for SQL, from ground to cloud
Uros Milanovic, Zlatko Knezevic
Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, Database engine, Managing
Running Code Clubs
Justin Bird, Sarah Roberts
Soft Skills, Career and Personal Development, Inclusion, Maximising Personal and Team Strengths
Meeting DBAs Where You Are: Simplifying SQL Server Migration with SSMS and Azure Arc
Dr. Dani Ljepava, Neel Ball
Azure SQL Database, Database engine, Managing, Azure Arc
When AI meets your database: Securing sensitive data in Azure SQL in an AI-driven world
Pieter Vanhove, Zoran Rilak, Borko Novakovic
Azure SQL Database, Analytics, Databases, Securing
HA/DR in Action: Application Resiliency with SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL
Mladen Andzic, Uros Milanovic
Database engine, Managing, Analytics, Databases
Room 1B
Unit Testing & Code Style: Enhancing Database Code Quality with SQLCop and tSQLt
Malcolm Smith
Testing, Application Development, DataOps and Automation, Databases
Elevate SQL development with VS Code, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft SQL drivers
Zoran Rilak, Bogdan Gavrilovic
Python, Managing, Optimising, Analytics
Build Secure, Scalable AI Applications with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
Bob Ward, Borko Novakovic
Azure SQL Database, Managing, Analytics, Databases
Unlocking AI Potential: Leveraging Your Data with Microsoft Fabric
Kasper de Jonge
AI and data science, Managing, Monitoring, Analytics
SQL database in Fabric: The unified database for AI apps and analytics
Anna Hoffman
Azure SQL Database, Managing, Modelling, Analytics
Building the Backbone of Agentic AI: A Unified Data Strategy with Microsoft Fabric
Strahinja Rodic, Bogdan Gavrilovic
AI and data science, Managing, Modelling, Analytics
Room 1C
Dredging the Data Lake: Empowering Modern Data Analytics with AI
Will Martin
Data Lake, Deployment, Analytics, Data Transformation and Integration
Microsoft Fabric and the mess of SharePoint
Laura Graham-Brown
Python, Excel, Fabric, Data Transformation and Integration
From Dashboards to Dialogue: Transforming BI at Lloyds Banking Group with Power BI Copilot
Andrew Herman, Sean Hughes
Power BI, Deployment, Managing, Analytics
AWS fundamentals for the accidental SQL Server DBA
Baris Furtinalar, Ondrej Stavinoha
Functions, Managing, Optimising, DataOps and Automation
Microsoft SQL and AMD in the era of AI
Bob Ward, David Harmon
SQL Server, the Ground to Cloud Database, Presentation
Contained Availability Groups – Best Practices from Real-World Projects
Andreas Wolter
Data Management and Governance, SQL Server, SQL Server, the Ground to Cloud Database, Optimising Your Data Platform
Room 2A
Architecting AI Workloads with Cosmos DB: Azure vs Fabric
Felicity Nyan
Cosmos DB, Fabric, Application Development, Databases
dbatools - Wheel of Fortune
Cláudio Silva, Jess Pomfret
PowerShell, Managing, DataOps and Automation, Databases
Architecting the Cloud: How We Build a SQL Server PaaS at Scale
Nader Sharara
Managed Instance, Database engine, Managing, DataOps and Automation
Creative GitHub Strategies for the Modern Database Professional
Rob Volk, Amy Abel
Database engine, Managing, DataOps and Automation, Reporting and Visualisation
The Right Database for the Right Job: A Practical Framework for Database Selection
Reut Almog Talmi, Mo Kamioner
Modelling, Decision Makers and Leadership, Databases, Data Management and Governance
When Good Queries Go Bad: Fixing Performance with Query Store
Deepthi Goguri
Azure SQL Database, Query Store, Monitoring, Optimising
Room 2B
5 Design Patterns for Better Looking Reports
James McGillivray
Power BI, Reporting and Visualisation, Development, Cutting Edge Visualisation and Delivery of Data
From Chaos to Control: Orchestrating Lakehouse Workloads in Microsoft Fabric Part 1
Ásgeir Gunnarsson
Spark, Optimising, Analytics, Fabric
From Chaos to Control: Orchestrating Lakehouse Workloads in Microsoft Fabric Part 2
Ásgeir Gunnarsson
Spark, Optimising, Analytics, Fabric
Everything you need to know about Temporal Tables
Magnus Ahlkvist
Application Development, Databases, Development, SQL Server
Databricks Asset Bundles: Putting the Engineering into Data Engineering
Gavin Campbell
Deployment, Databricks, DataOps and Automation, Development
Data Storytelling in Power BI: From Reports to Narratives
Rishi Sapra
Power BI, Analytics, Reporting and Visualisation, Development
Room 2C
Cost Effective In-Memory Analytics at Scale: Using DuckDB as Application-Layer Offload
James Saull
Python, Analytics, In Memory OLTP, Application Development
Hosting SQL Server on AWS - What is the right choice for my workload?
Christopher J Hutchings, Reut Almog Talmi
Deployment, Optimising, Databases, Strategy
Deep dive into SQL HA/DR architectures on AWS
Marcelo Fernandes, Ondrej Stavinoha
Databases, Architecture, AWS, SQL Server
Questioning My SQL Server Faith… So You Don’t Have To
Gianluca Sartori
Postgres, Application Development, Decision Makers and Leadership, Databases
Shine bright like a star, without burning out!
Gloria Georgieva Clare
Soft Skills, Health and Wellbeing, Mental Health, Personal Success
Cross-Stitch Your Career: Level Up from DBA to Fabric Administrator
Nico Botes
PowerShell, Power BI, Python, Managing
Room 3A
Untangling dbt Dependencies with Knowledge Graphs and AI
Egor Tarasenko, Alex Selkirk
Deployment, Databases, AI, Architecture
Python In Microsoft Fabric: Execution Options And Scaling
Matt Collins
Python, Spark, Optimising, Analytics
Panel Debate: Real-World Microsoft Fabric Administration - Lessons from the Trenches
Ásgeir Gunnarsson, Benni De Jagere, Just Blindbæk, Lars Andersen
Managing, Monitoring, Optimising, Analytics
Choosing the Right Incremental Load Strategy in Fabric
Tom Van de Velde
Spark, Fabric, Data Factory, Data Transformation and Integration
Under the Hood of Transparent Data Encryption: Securing Data at Rest in Azure SQL and SQL Server
Pieter Vanhove
Azure SQL Database, Managing, Databases, Securing
Room 3C
Becoming a Master Builder: Creating the Ultimate BI Developer Toolbox
Reid Havens, Steve Campbell
Power BI, Functions, Modelling, Optimising
Room 4A
Turning insights into action: The art of data communication
Alexander Arvidsson, Valerie Junk
Power BI, Optimising, Reporting and Visualisation, Soft Skills
Code Club Experience
Justin Bird
Soft Skills, Career and Personal Development, Health and Wellbeing, Inclusion
Room 4B
Understanding DAX Pillars
David Kofod Hanna, Francesco Bergamaschi
Power BI, Modelling, Analytics, Reporting and Visualisation
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