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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
AMA
AWS
Analytics
Application Development
Architecture
Azure
Azure Arc
Azure ML
Azure OpenAI
Azure SQL Database
Career and Personal Development
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 Science and Machine Learning
Data Transformation and Integration
DataOps and Automation
Database engine
Databases
Databricks
Dataflows
Decision Makers and Leadership
Delta Lake
Demo Led Session
Deployment
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Event Hub
Fabric
Fabric Warehouse
Fabric – How to Succeed
Functions
GCP
Governing
Health and Wellbeing
In Memory OLTP
Inclusion
Inspirational Data Solutions
Inspiring Teams
KQL
Lakehouse
Managed Instance
Managing
Managing People
Maximising Personal and Team Strengths
Mental Health
Modelling
Monitoring
MySQL
New
OpenAI
Optimising
Optimising Your Data Platform
Oracle
Panel Discussion
Personal Success
Postgres
Power BI
Power Query
PowerShell
Presentation
Python
Query Store
Reporting and Visualisation
SQL Database in Fabric
SQL Server
SQL Server, the Ground to Cloud Database
Securing
Soft Skills
Spark
Strategy
Successful Delivery
TSQL
Testing
Time Managememt
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
AMA
AWS
Analytics
Application Development
Architecture
Azure
Azure Arc
Azure ML
Azure OpenAI
Azure SQL Database
Career and Personal Development
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 Science and Machine Learning
Data Transformation and Integration
DataOps and Automation
Database engine
Databases
Databricks
Dataflows
Decision Makers and Leadership
Delta Lake
Demo Led Session
Deployment
Development
Event Hub
Fabric
Fabric Warehouse
Fabric – How to Succeed
Functions
GCP
Governing
Health and Wellbeing
In Memory OLTP
Inclusion
Inspirational Data Solutions
Inspiring Teams
KQL
Lakehouse
Managed Instance
Managing
Managing People
Maximising Personal and Team Strengths
Mental Health
Modelling
Monitoring
MySQL
New
OpenAI
Optimising
Optimising Your Data Platform
Oracle
Panel Discussion
Personal Success
Postgres
Power BI
Power Query
PowerShell
Presentation
Python
Query Store
Reporting and Visualisation
SQL Database in Fabric
SQL Server
SQL Server, the Ground to Cloud Database
Securing
Soft Skills
Spark
Strategy
Successful Delivery
TSQL
Testing
Time Managememt
Tooling
Tools
Workshop
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09:00
10:00
10:50
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11:20
12:20
13:10
(lunch)
14:10
15:10
16:00
(break)
16:30
Auditorium
Introducing DAX user-defined functions
Alberto Ferrari
Power BI, Analytics, Application Development, Reporting and Visualisation
TMDL in Action: Optimizing Power BI Models with Advanced Scripting
Pragati Jain, Miguel Félix
Power BI, Modelling, Analytics, Fabric
Pokémon Battle, Choose Your Index: You Can’t Have Them All
Brent Ozar
Azure SQL Database, Optimising, Application Development, Databases
Code Your Own Sports Analytics Dashboard
Gift Ojeabulu
Python, Analytics, Reporting and Visualisation, Development
Through the Hype: Fabric in the Real World
Ian Pike, Megan Livadas
Power BI, Managing, Fabric, Decision Makers and Leadership
Living Lounge
Microsoft Fabric, Lakehouses and Power BI: A guide for BI developers
Kasper de Jonge
Power BI, Analytics, Fabric, Architecture
User Data Functions: Development, Testing, and Integration
Oskari Heikkinen
Testing, Power BI, Python, Functions
Prepare Your Power BI Semantic Model for AI-Ready Analytics
Yulia Kraynova
Power BI, Modelling, Analytics, Fabric
DeepSQL: How To Discover SQL Server Internals
Rob Volk
Databases, Architecture, SQL Server, TSQL
Responsible AI in Practice for the Microsoft Data Platform
Lewis Prince
Python, Azure ML, Managing, Monitoring
Querying data and metadata with T-SQL, M and DAX
Ana Maria Bisbe York
Modelling, Optimising, Analytics, Fabric
Room 1A
New features in SQL Server 2025
Andrew Pruski
Query Store, Database engine, Managing, Databases
Improve your SQL database design with Copilot and static code analysis
Erik Ejlskov Jensen
Azure SQL Database, Deployment, Modelling, Application Development
SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine – Configuring for price-performance
Uros Milanovic
Database engine, Managing, Optimising, Analytics
Secrets of Power BI Performance Analyzer
Chris Webb
Power BI, Optimising, Reporting and Visualisation, Cutting Edge Visualisation and Delivery of Data
A Whirlwind Tour of the Fabric Capacity Metrics App
Benni De Jagere
Managing, Monitoring, Analytics, Fabric
When AI meets your database: Securing sensitive data in Azure SQL in an AI-driven world
Zoran Rilak, Borko Novakovic
Azure SQL Database, Analytics, Databases, Securing
Room 1B
Optimizing Your Power BI Data for AI
Benni De Jagere, Lars Andersen
Power BI, AI and data science, Managing, Modelling
Lessons from large-scale Fabric deployment
Luke Moloney
AI and data science, Managing, Monitoring, Analytics
No Code Agents with AgentBricks
Tori Tompkins
Databricks, AI, Development, Azure
People first: building strong, inclusive data teams that actually deliver
Hollie Whittles
Decision Makers and Leadership, Soft Skills, Career and Personal Development, Health and Wellbeing
SQL database in Fabric Scenarios and Solutions
Anna Hoffman
AI and data science, Managing, Modelling, Analytics
Room 1C
Ingesting API data with Python Notebooks
Mathias Halkjaer
Data Lake, Fabric, Data Transformation and Integration, Development
Query Performance Enhancements in SQL Server 2025
Grant Fritchey
Azure SQL Database, Optimising, Databases, Data Management and Governance
Room 2A
From Commit to Production: Chapter one of your End-to-End CI/CD Story for Microsoft Fabric with ADO
Kev Chant
Testing, Power BI, Python, Fabric
From Commit to Production: Chapter two of your End-to-End CI/CD Story for Microsoft Fabric with ADO
Kev Chant
Power BI, Python, Deployment, Fabric
Advancing the Role of SQL Server DBA in the Era of AI: Becoming an Azure SQL DBA - Part1
Dr. Dani Ljepava, Strahinja Rodic
Managed Instance, Query Store, Event Hub, Database engine
Advancing the Role of SQL Server DBA in the Era of AI: Becoming an Azure SQL DBA - Part2
Dr. Dani Ljepava, Strahinja Rodic
Managed Instance, Query Store, Event Hub, Database engine
The good, the bad, the ugly with Power BI agentic development
Dominik Leu
Power BI, Optimising, Analytics, Reporting and Visualisation
Room 2B
Query Tuning Internals for the Advanced SQL Developer - Part 1
Kevin Kline
Azure SQL Database, Application Development, Databases, Development
Query Tuning Telemetry for the Advanced SQL Developer - Part 2
Kevin Kline
Azure SQL Database, Application Development, Databases, Development
Stay in Control with AI: AI Drafted Data Models and Templates, Deterministic Delivery
Harmen Wessels, Jakub Piotr Siemaszko
Database engine, Modelling, Data Transformation and Integration, AI
Next-Level BI Development: AI-Driven Semantic Models in Power BI
Kevin Arnold
Power BI, Modelling, Optimising, AI
All about Indexes - Part 1
Gail Shaw
Azure SQL Database, Optimising, Databases, Development
All about Indexes - Part 2
Gail Shaw
Azure SQL Database, Optimising, Databases, Development
Mastering Power BI Documentation System – Not Just an Afterthought
David Kofod Hanna
Power BI, Analytics, Fabric, Reporting and Visualisation
Room 2C
Building Context, Not Vibes Pratical AI Augmented Data Engineering - Part 1
Scott Bell, Mihaly Kavasi
Power BI, DataOps and Automation, Data Transformation and Integration, AI
Building Context, Not Vibes Pratical AI Augmented Data Engineering (Part 2)
Scott Bell, Mihaly Kavasi
Testing, Power BI, Data Lake, Deployment
Window functions in SQL Server - brush up your skills
Thomas Hütter
Database engine, Optimising, Analytics, Application Development
CI/CD in PowerBI: For when just hitting publish isn't good enough
Ashley Warren
Power BI, Deployment, Analytics, Fabric
OneLake Security - Centralized Data Security for Microsoft Fabric (Part 1)
Gabi Münster, Thierry Houy, Edgar Cotte
Power BI, Data Lake, Managing, Analytics
OneLake Security - Centralized Data Security for Microsoft Fabric (Part 2)
Gabi Münster, Thierry Houy, Edgar Cotte
Power BI, Data Lake, Managing, Monitoring
Getting Started with Vibe Engineering: Playing with Fire
Eugene Meidinger
AI, Development, DAX, AI and you – Developing Faster With AI
Room 3A
Challenging the Norm: An Agile Approach to Data Visualization
Leslie Welch
Testing, Power BI, Modelling, Analytics
DaxLib.SVG: A DAX UDF Library for creating SVGs
Jake Duddy
Power BI, Reporting and Visualisation, Development, DAX
Wireframe to Report: A Practical Power BI design workflow
Shubhangi Goyal
Testing, Power BI, Monitoring, Optimising
Using TSQL in SQL Server to analyse the deadlock graph events
Bogdan Sahlean
Monitoring, Modelling, Optimising, Databases
Building Resilient SQL Server HA/DR in a Multi-Cloud World
David Bermingham
Databases, Architecture, AWS, Azure
Room 3C
An Apache Spark query's journey through the layers of Microsoft Fabric
Christian Henrik Reich
Spark, Data Lake, Database engine, Databricks
My Real-Time Intelligence Journey: From Power BI Data Visualization to Streaming Data
Valerie Junk
Power BI, Fabric, Reporting and Visualisation, Soft Skills
Query Store Basics: A DBA’s Best Friend
Peter Kruis
Testing, Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, Query Store
Building Scalable Data Warehouses with Microsoft Fabric:
Jonathan Stewart
Modelling, Analytics, Fabric, Databases
Running Code Clubs
Justin Bird
Soft Skills, Career and Personal Development, Inclusion, Maximising Personal and Team Strengths
Soft Skills for Success
Robert French
Soft Skills, Career and Personal Development, Personal Success, Managing People
Room 4A
Spark Unplugged: How In-Process Analytics Is Making Distributed Computing An Expensive Investment
Barry Smart
Python, Spark, Optimising, Analytics
From “Who Wrote This ETL?” to Databricks, Claude Saves the Day via Microsoft Foundry
Anna-Maria Wykes
Azure ML, Data Lake, Optimising, Databricks
Unlock Unity Catalog: Practical Strategies for Secure, Scalable Data Management
Anna Grzybkowska, Richie Lee
Databricks, DataOps and Automation, Data Management and Governance, Architecture
AI-Augmented Query Optimization: SQL Server 2025 Meets Fabric Self-Healing Data Platform
James Serra, Karunakar Kotha
Azure SQL Database, Python, Azure ML, Managing
What's new in Columnstore for SQL Server 2022/2025
Niko Neugebauer
Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, Managing, Optimising
From Dashboards to Dialogue: Transforming BI at Lloyds Banking Group with Power BI Copilot
Andrew Herman, Sean Hughes
Power BI, Deployment, Managing, Analytics
Room 4B
SQL Injection – The Old Dog of Data Security
Daniel Hutmacher
PowerShell, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance
An introduction to Extended Events
Peter Kruis
Azure SQL Database, Monitoring, Optimising, Databases
SQL For Everything: Structure, Unstructured, SQLServer, Onelake
Alex Merced
Azure SQL Database, Data Lake, Analytics, Data Transformation and Integration
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