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SQLBits 2024

Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00)

Come and see to some of our amazing speakers on one of these topics: 1. SQL and Databases: 2. Microsoft Fabric and Related Technologies: 3. Power BI and Data Visualization: 4. Azure and Cloud Technologies:

'Got a problem? Don't know who to call? Bring it to SQLBits and get it solved by our panel of experts!

More information can be found here:
https://sqlbits.com/news/ask-the-experts-at-the-experts-lounge/

1. SQL and Databases:
2. Microsoft Fabric and Related Technologies:
3. Power BI and Data Visualization:
4. Azure and Cloud Technologies:

11:10 to 12:00
1. Magi Naumova
2. Paul Andrew, Brynn Borton
3. James Dales, Ana-Maria Bisbe York
4.

12:10 to 13:00
1. Martin Catherall & Heid Hasting
2. Freddie Santos, Nagaraj Sengodan
3. Kristoffer West, Mark Hayes
4.

Speakers

Microsoft Data Platform MVP. 10+ years’ experience working with the complete on premises SQL Server stack. Now working as a principal consultant and solution architect dealing with data platform deliveries in Azure.

James is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and the Azure Data Platform and Visualisation Practice Director at Altius Consulting. Author of the Icon Map Power BI custom visual.

Business Intelligence Consultant and Trainer. Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Microsoft Partner in Power BI. LinkedIn Learning Trainer. Speaker at Power Platform and SQL Saturdays events in Europe, USA, and LATAM.

A seasoned data professional with 20+ years of experience in SQL Server/Analysis Services and related technologies. Leader of the Cork SQL and Power Platform User Groups and the Cork SQL Saturday and a regular speaker at user groups in Ireland.

Paul Andrew's Sessions

An Introduction to Delta Lake and The Lakehouse

Build a Lakehouse in an Hour with CF.Cumulus

Building Near Real-time Data Solutions in Microsoft Azure & Fabric

An Engineers Guide To Realtime Data Handling And Analytics

An Evolution of Data Architectures - Lambda, Kappa, Delta, Mesh & Fabric

Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00)

Ask the Expert - Group B (Fri - 10:10 to 11:00)

Building an Azure Data Analytics Platform End-to-End

An Introduction to Azure Synapse Analytics - What is it? Why use it? And how?

An Introduction to Delta Lakes and Delta Lake-Houses

Azure Data Integration Pipelines - A Complete Introduction

Azure Synapse Analytics - The Technology vs The Workspace Abstraction

Building a Data Mesh Architecture in Azure

Building an Azure Data Analytics Platform End-to-End

Creating a Metadata Driven Orchestration Framework Using Azure Data Integration Pipelines

Implementing Azure Data Integration Pipelines in Production

The Evolution of Data Platform Architectures in Azure - Lambda, Kappa, Delta, Data Mesh

ETL in Azure Made Easy with Data Factory Data Flows

Using Azure DevOps for Azure Data Factory

Complex Azure Orchestration w Dynamic Data Factory Pipelines

Azure Data Lake-The Services. The SQL. The Sharp.

Building an End to End IoT Solution Using Pi Sensors & Azure

James Dales's Sessions

Geospatial Meets Big Data: Transforming Location Intelligence

Take an aerial view of your data with a deep dive into spatial analytics in Power BI

Scanning the skies above SQLBits - Realtime streaming of flight data with Microsoft Fabric

Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00)

Power BI Map Magic - Make amazing maps with Power BI

Ana Maria Bisbe York's Sessions

Let's define Entities and attributes for tabular models in 20 minutes.

Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00)

Getting closer at the anomaly detection in the data

Let's improve the Tabular Model by Combining queries

Power BI Tooltips: how, where and when

Lets play with a date field & Time Intelligence in Power BI

Lets do the cleansing with M and / or Python languages

Some transformations that can save your ETL in Power BI

Mark Hayes's Sessions

Avoiding Turbulent Skies: Power BI Security Strategies for a Smooth Flight

Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00)

"Beyond the barchart". Some top picks from "Get More Visuals" to enhance your reports

"Lesser spotted Visuals". A selection of awesome PowerBI visuals, just waiting for you in AppSource

0 to an fully functional teams bot in 20 minutes!

Empowering you and your team with Power Virtual Agents for Teams

Power(bi) to the Users. How to turn users into super(satisfied) users.

Visio! So what has Visio got to do with Data?

Rebooting your SME Data Analysis Strategy

Migrating my favorite past project from On Premise to Azure

Heidi Hasting's Sessions

An End-to-End Analytics Battle – Azure Synapse verses Microsoft Fabric

Intro to Azure Data Studio

Sensitivity labels - what do they look like

Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00)

Power Up with the Power Platform

Power BI Building first report

Sensitivity labels - what do they look like

Margarita Naumova's Sessions

SQL Server 2025: Unleashing Next-Level Database Performance

Table Partitioning Deep Dive

Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00)

Keeping historical data in tables forever – mission (im)possible!

Azure SQL Managed Instance - what, how, when (and how much)

Data Lakehouse with Azure Synapse Analytics

Modern database design (anti)patterns

SQL Server Table partitioning – DOs and DON’Ts

Identify opportunities for In-Memory OLTP

Freddie Santos's Sessions

Analytics Architectures on Microsoft Fabric

Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00)

Nagaraj Sengodan's Sessions

Real-time Analytics & Machine Learning Models with Microsoft Fabric

Data Quality Revolution : The Fabric-OpenAI Approach

Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00)

Ask the Expert - Group B (Fri - 10:10 to 11:00)

Ask the Expert - Group A (Fri, 13:40 to 14:30)

Martin Catherall's Sessions

An End-to-End Analytics Battle – Azure Synapse verses Microsoft Fabric

Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00)

Brynn Borton's Sessions

Geospatial Meets Big Data: Transforming Location Intelligence

Navigating the Skies of Open AI: Perfect Your Grounding for a Smooth Landing

Ask the Expert - Group B (Thu 10:10 to 11:00)

Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00)

Kristoffer West's Sessions

Creating a true self-service report | without exporting to Excel

The Hitchhiker's Guide to navigating Power BI

Ask the Expert - Group A (Thurs 13:40 to 14:00)

Ask the Expert - Group A (Wed 11:10 to 13:00)