SQLBits 2024
Nose-Dive Narratives: Slide Karaoke 2024
Get ready to wrap up a serious day of learning with a dash of humor, spontaneity, and friendly competition! SQLBits presents "Slide Karaoke" where SQLBits speakers reveal their hidden talents while vying for bragging rights. This session promises to be a one-of-a-kind experience that will leave you in stitches and awe, and the speakers scrambling for their non-existent notes!
Get ready to wrap up a serious day of learning with a dash of humor, spontaneity, and friendly competition! SQLBits presents "Slide Karaoke" where SQLBits speakers reveal their hidden talents while vying for bragging rights. This session promises to be a one-of-a-kind experience that will leave you in stitches and awe, and the speakers scrambling for their non-existent notes!
A intrepid group of SQLBits speakers will have just 5 minutes to deliver a presentation on an informative data-related topic of their choice. The catch? They'll be presented with random slides they've never seen before, and they must seamlessly incorporate these mystery slides into their talk. Our panel of judges will evaluate each performance based on a set of agreed-upon criteria, including audience voting!
You'll witness Data & Analytics experts demonstrating their wit, grace under pressure, and uncanny ability to turn the unexpected into pure entertainment. Expect a delightful fusion of knowledge and hilarity, as our speakers go head-to-head in this high-spirited showdown.
A intrepid group of SQLBits speakers will have just 5 minutes to deliver a presentation on an informative data-related topic of their choice. The catch? They'll be presented with random slides they've never seen before, and they must seamlessly incorporate these mystery slides into their talk. Our panel of judges will evaluate each performance based on a set of agreed-upon criteria, including audience voting!
You'll witness Data & Analytics experts demonstrating their wit, grace under pressure, and uncanny ability to turn the unexpected into pure entertainment. Expect a delightful fusion of knowledge and hilarity, as our speakers go head-to-head in this high-spirited showdown.
Speakers
Mark Pryce-Maher's previous sessions
Nose-Dive Narratives: Slide Karaoke 2024
Get ready to wrap up a serious day of learning with a dash of humor, spontaneity, and friendly competition! SQLBits presents "Slide Karaoke" where SQLBits speakers reveal their hidden talents while vying for bragging rights. This session promises to be a one-of-a-kind experience that will leave you in stitches and awe, and the speakers scrambling for their non-existent notes!
Fabric Product Group - Ask us Anything
Come and join the Fabric Product Group for one of our fireside chats. Bring your questions because we have all the answers!!
Fabric Power Hour
The famous Power BI Power Hour returns, but this time it has expanded to cover the whole of Fabric!
Rob Sewell
blog.robsewell.com
Simon Whiteley
advancinganalytics.co.uk/blog
Simon Whiteley's previous sessions
Behind the Hype - Architecture Trends in Data
Seasoned Data Engineer and YouTube grumbler Simon Whiteley takes us on a journey through the current industry trends and buzzwords, carving through the hype to get at the underlying ideals. Which is going to last and which is a sales gimmick? Which bandwagon might actually take you in the right strategic direction?
Nose-Dive Narratives: Slide Karaoke 2024
Get ready to wrap up a serious day of learning with a dash of humor, spontaneity, and friendly competition! SQLBits presents "Slide Karaoke" where SQLBits speakers reveal their hidden talents while vying for bragging rights. This session promises to be a one-of-a-kind experience that will leave you in stitches and awe, and the speakers scrambling for their non-existent notes!
Benni De Jagere
bennidejagere.com
Benni De Jagere's other proposed sessions for 2026
A Whirlwind Tour of the Fabric Capacity Metrics App - 2026
Copilot in Fabric - Explained for the Administrator! - 2026
Deep Dive into Microsoft Fabric Capacities: Fundamentals, Concepts, and Advanced Strategies - 2026
Demystifying the on-premises data gateway (for Power BI Semantic Models) - 2026
End-to-end Monitoring for Microsoft Fabric - 2026
Exploring permission boundaries in Microsoft Fabric - 2026
Fabric Capacities, beyond the obvious - 2026
Panel Debate: Real-World Microsoft Fabric Administration - Lessons from the Trenches - 2026
Slide Karaoke - Ultimate Showdown! - 2026
Star Schema ALL the things! But why? - 2026
Understanding Fabric Capacities - 2026
Benni De Jagere's previous sessions
Nose-Dive Narratives: Slide Karaoke 2024
Get ready to wrap up a serious day of learning with a dash of humor, spontaneity, and friendly competition! SQLBits presents "Slide Karaoke" where SQLBits speakers reveal their hidden talents while vying for bragging rights. This session promises to be a one-of-a-kind experience that will leave you in stitches and awe, and the speakers scrambling for their non-existent notes!
Asking questions to get meaningful answers
By making sure we're supplying the other party with the compact information they need, and making sure we're "forcing" them to give a decent answer, there's a lot more information we can receive. By getting the information we need, we'll be able to proceed quicker, and getting to results faster.
Setting yourself up for success when submitting to present
During this session we'll cover how you find those elusive speaking opportunities and how you can make the most of it with just a few simple things to keep in mind. Most importantly, what can you do to help understand organizers or selection committees why exactly your session would be a good fit for them, and why you think it would be a good fit for their audience.
Star Schema ALL the things! But why?
Come along in this journey from source to model to report using a practical mindset, thinking about the design decisions and ramifications along the way. At the core of the session lies the message to think about best practices, with the added step to test, assess, and benchmark what exactly they do for you.
You're a Power BI Admin? Let's get your threads aligned for Fabric!
This session will focus on the life of a Power BI Admin moving over to the extended Fabric realm, and keeping their things in check. We'll look at the familiar topics of capacity and workspace management, and how they align with the new workloads that have been introduced. We'll notice there's a very large overlap, as Fabric has been built on the foundations of Power BI.
Linda Torrång
Linda Torrång's previous sessions
Streamlining Power BI with PowerShell
Power BI is a vital tool for data analytics, but managing workspaces, access, and data sets manually can be time-consuming and error-prone.
This session explores how PowerShell automation simplifies and streamlines these tasks.
Nose-Dive Narratives: Slide Karaoke 2024
Get ready to wrap up a serious day of learning with a dash of humor, spontaneity, and friendly competition! SQLBits presents "Slide Karaoke" where SQLBits speakers reveal their hidden talents while vying for bragging rights. This session promises to be a one-of-a-kind experience that will leave you in stitches and awe, and the speakers scrambling for their non-existent notes!
Anyone can be an alphabet soup ally
Folks that belong to the queer community are often referred to as LGBTQ+, Jess and Linda represent a small portion of the letters within this alphabet soup and they will guide you through some common situations where you can be a good ally.
There is no one right answer, but there are ways for you to prepare for certain situations so you know what your best move might be to provide support and allyship.
This session will provide tips for people who are new to being an ally and for existing allies who want to add skills to their toolbelt.
Mathias Halkjaer
fluxbi.com
Mathias Halkjaer's other proposed sessions for 2026
Beware! SQL Injection through ADF/Pipelines - 2026
Fabric Data Agents and beyond - 2026
Ingesting API data with Python Notebooks - 2026
Mastering AI in Power BI - 2026
Mastering Direct Lake - 2026
Navigating Data Modeling in Direct Lake - 2026
The Future of Data - 2026
Vibecoding examples for data professionals - 2026
Vibe-coding for the data professional - 2026
When data lies - typical patterns for manipulating data - 2026
Mathias Halkjaer's previous sessions
Nose-Dive Narratives: Slide Karaoke 2024
Get ready to wrap up a serious day of learning with a dash of humor, spontaneity, and friendly competition! SQLBits presents "Slide Karaoke" where SQLBits speakers reveal their hidden talents while vying for bragging rights. This session promises to be a one-of-a-kind experience that will leave you in stitches and awe, and the speakers scrambling for their non-existent notes!
A deep dive into Direct Lake
The new Direct Lake storage mode in Power BI promises to revolutionize data handling by blending the real-time nature of DirectQuery and the high performance of Import mode. Is this all just hype, or does Direct Lake truly deliver on these claims?
Marthe Moengen
data-ascend.com
Marthe Moengen's previous sessions
Data Mesh vs Data Fabric - in Microsoft Fabric
This session delves into the comparison of Data Mesh and Data Fabric, what are their benefits and limitations? How are they different, and can they coexist? And in Microsoft Fabric, how would you go about implementing these architectural frameworks in practice?
Nose-Dive Narratives: Slide Karaoke 2024
Get ready to wrap up a serious day of learning with a dash of humor, spontaneity, and friendly competition! SQLBits presents "Slide Karaoke" where SQLBits speakers reveal their hidden talents while vying for bragging rights. This session promises to be a one-of-a-kind experience that will leave you in stitches and awe, and the speakers scrambling for their non-existent notes!
How to automate your data actions through Data Activator
In this session, we will delve into how Activator enables your organization to get closer to its data-driven goals.
The Future of Data Analytics: Adapting to the Shifting Technology Landscape
Why is Microsoft Fabric so revolutionary and could we have seen it coming? What are the key features and capabilities that make Fabric a catalyst for change in the technology landscape? What characterizes disruptive technology, and what are the trends going forward? What does the future of data and analytics look like?
Liping Huang
dataleaps.co.uk
Liping Huang's other proposed sessions for 2026
Import vs. Direct Query vs. Direct Lake Power BI on Databricks storage mode considerations - 2026
Liping Huang's previous sessions
Nose-Dive Narratives: Slide Karaoke 2024
Get ready to wrap up a serious day of learning with a dash of humor, spontaneity, and friendly competition! SQLBits presents "Slide Karaoke" where SQLBits speakers reveal their hidden talents while vying for bragging rights. This session promises to be a one-of-a-kind experience that will leave you in stitches and awe, and the speakers scrambling for their non-existent notes!
Introducing your Databricks Flight Assistant
Buckle up for a high-flying adventure! Discover how to get your very own Co-Pilot like assistant in Databricks. With the Lakehouse Assistant, simply chat with it in English, and watch as it effortlessly crafts SQL queries and scripts, demystifies complex code, and even patches up errors, all while you gently cruise above the Lakehouse.
Air Traffic Control (Data Governance) with Databricks Unity Catalog, tips, tricks and best practices
The session is aimed at Platform Admin and Data Governance personas. It is a beginner session with no prerequisites. Audience will walk away with understanding about the data governance requirements of people, process and technology. Also how new capabilities in Unity Catalog can further simplify your data governance and accelerated analytics and AI initiatives on the lakehouse.