22-25 April 2026 
Niko Neugebauer
Niko Neugebauer works as Tech Leader at Finsolutia. With over 20 years of experience in IT, he is passionate about Data Platform and Community.
Founder of the Portuguese SQL Server User Group, the main organizer of the first SQLSaturday outside of North America – #78 Portugal, Niko presented at a lot of events such as PASS Summit, SQLRally, SQLBits, SQLSaturdays around the world. He loves sharing and is an author of blog series with 120+ posts on the Columnstore Indexes, plus the free & open-sourced CISL library helping everyone to work with Columnstore Indexes.
Sessions for 2026
20 Years of the Cloud: What Changed, What Didn’t, and What’s Next
Brent Ozar leads a panel of experienced data professionals reflecting on 20 years of the cloud. With no vendor marketing, they discuss what actually changed, which problems never went away, and what they expect to face in the next 20 years based on real-world experience.
What's new in Columnstore for SQL Server 2022/2025
Discover what is new in SQL Server 2022 / 2025 for the Columnstore Indexes and Batch Execution Mode. Driven by the examples let's review the latest improvements in the Columnstore technology and its integration with the new data types such as JSON and VECTOR, new math functions and much more.