Kev Chant

Data Platform professional based in the Netherlands. Microsoft Certified Trainer and Data Platform MVP. Many years experience with Microsoft Data Platforms. Along the way gained various Microsoft Certifications. Held various roles over the years. Over that tome gained real-life experience with various Microsoft Data Platform offerings and ALM solutions such as Azure Devops and GitHub. Involved with Microsoft technical community in various ways. Including blogs, videos, events and sharing various repositories in GitHub.

Sessions for 2026

From Commit to Production: Chapter one of your End-to-End CI/CD Story for Microsoft Fabric with ADO

Chapter one of an end-to-end CI/CD story for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps. Starting with source control, you’ll see how Fabric Git integration, deployment pipelines, and Azure DevOps can work together.

From Commit to Production: Chapter two of your End-to-End CI/CD Story for Microsoft Fabric with ADO

In chapter two of this session, we’ll walk through options to create an end-to-end CI/CD story for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps.

Previous Sessions

Unveiling the magic of CI/CD for SQL Server using GitHub Actions

In this expert session we unveil the magic of CI/CD for SQL Server updates using GitHub Actions.

Github and Azure DevOps Duet - SQLBits edition

A tale about how a development team and an operations team must bond together and figure out how to use GitHub and Azure DevOps together for Data Platform deployments.

Azure Data Engineering services used to analyze data

Overview to some of the more popular Azure Data Engineering services used to analyze data

Battle tested project planning with Azure Devops boards

Azure boards within Azure DevOps give you the capability to organise your project and analyse the it’s progress. Do you want your manager to stop bugging you about your project’s progress, come to this session?