22-25 April 2026
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Technical Team Leaders Thrive at SQLBits

SQLBits gives technical leaders the clarity, confidence, and community to lead strong teams, make smart platform decisions, and deliver results that matter.

Every year, technical team leaders come to SQLBits to sharpen their platform strategy, strengthen their teams, and stay ahead of rapid change across the data ecosystem. Whether you lead engineers, analysts, DBAs, or a mixed data team, SQLBits helps you make better technical decisions and deliver with confidence.

Common challenges for Leaders

Do any of the following sound familiar? You can find sessions at SQLBits to help you succeed with common workplace challenges:

  • Balancing hands-on technical depth with growing leadership responsibility? Learn how to stay credible technically while guiding architecture, standards, and best practice.
  • Choosing the right tools and platforms for your team? Cut through the noise around Fabric, AI, cloud, and modern data stacks to make informed, future-proof decisions.
  • Managing delivery pressure while maintaining quality and performance? Explore proven patterns for optimisation, DevOps, governance, and scalable design.
  • Helping your team adapt to AI, automation, and new ways of working? Understand where AI genuinely adds value and how to introduce it without disrupting productivity.
  • Aligning technical work with real business impact? See how others structure teams, prioritise effectively, and translate data capability into measurable outcomes.

SQLBits gives technical team leaders the clarity, confidence, and community to lead strong teams, make smart platform decisions, and deliver results that matter.

Relevant key speakers

SQLBits brings together the best speakers in the business – technical leaders, architects, and senior practitioners who’ve designed, built, and run real-world data platforms at scale. You’ll hear from people navigating the same delivery pressures, architectural trade-offs, and rapid technology shifts you face, sharing practical insight you can take back and apply immediately.

SQLBits is highly interactive by design. You’ll have the chance to ask questions, work through practical issues, and leave with actionable insights and solutions you can apply immediately back in the office.

Network with people like you

Each year, SQLBits welcomes a rich and diverse mix of attendees from data practitioners to CDOs, creating an environment where perspectives are shared openly and learning is rooted in real-world experience. You’ll leave with insights and ideas you can apply immediately back in your role. You can expect:

  • 300+ hours of expert-led content across SQL Server, AI, Fabric, and modern data platforms, delivered by 200+ world-class speakers
  • Outstanding networking opportunities, with conversations that go beyond surface level
  • Sessions designed for practical learning that sticks and supports real professional growth
  • A deep commitment to inclusion, accessibility, and psychological safety, with thoughtful provisions including childcare and on-site counsellors