22-25 April 2026

Philip Beaumont

Phil Beaumont is a Data and AI Solution Architect in Microsoft services. He utilises a mix of advanced technology  and strategic business acumen to work with CxOs to deliver global strategies, digital transformation, technical readiness and high performance data ecosystems.

Philip Beaumont's Sessions

Modern Data Warehousing with SQL DW and DatabricksSQLBits 2019

SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that leverages Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data. Azure Databricks is a fast, easy and collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics service that can be used for big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. This session will cover the architecture patterns for using the two in synergy.

A dive into the architecture that is Azure SQL DW Gen2SQLBits 2019

A technical overview of Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen 2. SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that leverages Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data.