Speak

• 25th September – Commencement of Call for Papers.
• 1st November – Call for Papers concludes.
• 1st – 14th November – SQLBits Committee selects Training Days.
• 14th November – Notification for Training Day speakers.
• 21st November – Content teams finalize General Session selections.
• 21st November – Notification for General Session speakers.
• 28th November – Deadline for Speaker confirmation.
• TBC – Agenda release.
• 1st February – Agenda locked down and passed to Air Traffic Control.

• A lodging stipend covering two nights at select partner hotels (with optional upgrades).
• A monetary incentive based on passenger (attendee) count – pending committee decision.
• Full access to the SQLBits experience.
• A guaranteed slot for a general session (subject to content quality checks).

• One-night accommodation stipend at select partner hotels (upgrades optional).
• Full access to the SQLBits experience.

Whilst this can include the Ingestion, transformation and processing within a large-scale data mesh architecture, it can also include the administration, installation and management aspects of an on-premises estate or Azure SQL Server Virtual Machine (Mastering Data Engineering) and Performance Tuning.

This theme will cover topics about extracting insights, enriching datasets, and leveraging advanced analytics to add unparalleled value to your business using Machine Learning and AI as well as Real Time Analytics with IoT devices. (Unleashing the Power of Data)

This theme will cover topics about safeguarding data including security, data classification, information protection and governance both in the cloud and traditional estates ensuring compliance and mitigating risks.

This will cover the prompt, efficient and effective delivery of data to the end user or application. This area will include Power Bi, visualisation and modelling

This is the theme for professional and career development, leadership skills, DEI, communication skills and working with people

The call for speakers form has a section where you can list any requirements that you may need a conference to enable for you to be able to present (such as a wheelchair ramp or a stool as an example) and we will do everything we can to accommodate. Please feel free to contact us at speakers@sqlbits.com for any questions about this.

SQLBits is committed to providing an inclusive, welcoming and harassment free environment for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.

At SQLBits we seek to provide fresh content at the very highest standard for our delegates. We expect all our speakers to have some experience, we don’t feel SQLBits is the right place for someone to make their first solo presentation at a large event with the exception of lightning talks where we welcome and encourage first-time speakers.

If you are looking to get into speaking, we’d love to support you via our Connect activity. Visit the page here to find out more.

We aim to provide as much support as is possible for all speakers and for speakers new to SQLBits a little more as Ben explains here.

We are planning on running a hybrid event where speakers can present either remotely or in-person, equally we hope to have delegates attending in-person and virtually. Whilst we really hope that people will attend in-person we fully appreciate that this may not be possible for everyone. As part of the session submission process, we ask you to let us know whether you are planning to present in-person or virtually. If, for some reason, we have to swap to run as a fully virtual event, or you are no longer able to travel we very much hope you will still present your session, if selected, virtually.

If you opt to present virtually, or you need to present virtually due to a change in circumstance whilst we hope you will present your session live we will need a recording in advance. In addition, if we have to make the call to go completely virtual then we will make that decision no later than 4 weeks in advance and will ask you to provide a recording of your session. In these uncertain times we feel this is the best compromise.

We can set up a Teams meeting with you and record the session for you if you would prefer to deliver it to an audience rather than talking to yourself. We don’t need these recordings to be edited to perfection, we’d prefer them to be as if you were presenting live, “warts and all” as it were.

Full-day training session submissions require the following additional information

• Prerequisite knowledge for attendees
• Agenda for the day
• Format of the day (hands on course, workshop)
• 90 second video to promote your session.