Experts Lounge Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00) Paul Andrew, James Dales, Ana Maria Bisbe York, Mark Hayes in Non-Technical Ask the Expert - Group B (Wed: 13:50 to 15:40) Robert French, Ed Freeman, Vuong Nguyen, Alexander Billington in Non-Technical
Gate 1 SQL Server Managed Instance: Migration and Security Best Practices Deepthi Goguri, Kay Sauter in Operations Pilot's Guide to Self-Care: Navigating Mental Health in the Corporate Sky Kellyn Gorman, Eugene Meidinger, Tracy Boggiano in Non-Technical An Engineers Guide To Realtime Data Handling And Analytics Paul Andrew, Daniel Addy in Analytics Azure SQL Managed Instance Deep Dive by Microsoft Product Group Niko Neugebauer, Dr. Dani Ljepava, Nevena Nikolic, Djordje Jeremic in Operations
Gate 2 Deploy Power BI as Code Paulien van Eijk in Delivery Soaring Through Data: An Intro to Python for Data Analysis Sue Bayes in Analytics Live Power Platform and Fabric Build Laura Graham-Brown, Claire Edgson in Delivery Creating a true self-service report | without exporting to Excel Just Blindbæk, Kristoffer West in Delivery
Gate 3 An End-to-End Analytics Battle – Azure Synapse verses Microsoft Fabric Heidi Hasting, Martin Catherall in Analytics Simplified SQL modernization journey with Azure SQL Migration Tools: A deep dive Ajith Krishnan, Neel Ball, Radhey Shah in Operations Communication Skills for the Technology Pro Kevin Kline in Non-Technical Mastering Azure SQL PaaS: A 100-Minute Journey from Novice to Expert Manish Kumar, Haider Raza in Operations
Gate 4 What You Should Know About Always On Availability Groups Bob Ward in Operations SQL DB: a developer's catalyst Carlos Robles, Jerry Nixon, Muazma Zahid in Delivery Modernize your SQL Data by starting cloud journey with SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc. Raj Pochiraju, Dhananjay Mahajan in Operations Delta and Databricks vs SQL Server Anna-Maria Wykes, Annette Allen, James Yarrow in Operations
Gate 6 Table Partitioning Deep Dive Margarita Naumova in Operations
Gate 7 First Class MLOps with Databricks Tori Tompkins, Alexander Billington in Analytics Enhancing Power BI with Conversational AI Integration Carole McNally in Delivery Writing T-SQL code for the engine, not for you Cláudio Silva in Operations Thwarting Disaster for SQL Server on Azure VM John Morehouse in Operations
Gate 8 Real-time Analytics & Machine Learning Models with Microsoft Fabric Nagaraj Sengodan, Monica Bagga in Analytics Flying High Amongst the Clouds with Fabric Warehouses Andy Cutler, Brian Bønk in Analytics Low flying planes and Realtime Data Analytics Frank Geisler, Devang Shah in Analytics How to Deliver Strategic Goals Al Eardley in Non-Technical
Gate 9 Your Performance Tuning Check List Extended session Monica Rathbun in Operations When to Wave Off Landing Data in PaaS Services Joey D'Antoni, Matt Gordon in Strategy Bridging Data Islands: Crafting a Semantic Search Oasis with Generative AI Gary Short in Analytics Flying into the Future: Using AI To Help Do Your Data Job Matt Gordon in Analytics
Gate 10 Take an aerial view of your data with a deep dive into spatial analytics in Power BI James Dales in Analytics From the runway to the skies - Hands-On Real-Time Analytics Johan Ludvig Brattås in Analytics Advanced data security implementation for Power BI Hylke Peek in Delivery Point-in-time analysis in Power BI and Fabric Mathias Halkjaer in Delivery
Gate 11 Navigating Data Governance in Microsoft Fabric and Purview Wolfgang Strasser in Strategy Getting Started with Troubleshooting Query Performance Erin Stellato in Operations Now Where Did THAT Estimate Come From? Hugo Kornelis in Operations Microsoft Fabric Power BI DirectLake Deep Dive Philip Seamark in Analytics
Gate 12 Introduction to Microsoft Fabric Mohammad Ali in Analytics Database of the future is here - Azure SQL Hyperscale deep dive Arvind Shyamsundar, Aditya Badramraju in Data Leadership Advanced dimensional modelling Arthur Graus in Delivery I Saw Three Ships a Sailing: Mentorship, Sponsorship & Allyship Rie Merritt in Non-Technical
Gate 13 PostgreSQL for SQL Server Professionals Silvano Coriani in Operations A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: The Visual Learner's Introduction to DAX James McGillivray in Delivery Analysing and Resolving Deadlocks. Erland Sommarskog in Operations From zero to Kusto hero at 30.000 ft Brian Bønk in Analytics
Gate 14 Make my report pop - using psychology, physiology, and design to create dazzling reports Robert French, Olivia Wise in Non-Technical Power BI and Fabric Governance – Going from the skies to the ground! Rishi Sapra in Strategy The importance of People Analytics in decision-making human resource management. Jessica Benedecti in Strategy Understanding Extended Events Grant Fritchey in Operations