Call for Speakers

Microsoft Data Platform Group - Birmingham

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Microsoft Data Platform Group - Birmingham

planned future dates

7 Nov 2024, 5 Dec 2024, 6 Feb 2025, 6 Mar 2025, 3 Apr 2025, 1 May 2025, 5 Jun 2025, 3 Jul 2025, 7 Aug 2025, 4 Sep 2025, 2 Oct 2025

location

Online


What we're about

Birmingham Microsoft Data Platform Group - Bringing the West Midlands Microsoft Data Platform Community together.

What?

A virtual (and possibly in-person, so please leave a note if you're willing to come to Birmingham!)  meeting held on the first Thursday of every month @ 1pm GMT/BST. It's a free-to-attend, informal gathering of like-minded people, with 1-2 speakers presenting hour-long sessions including tips, techniques, and information on old, new, and upcoming technology.

The event is kindly sponsored by Purple Frog Systems, Power BI Sentinel, and RP Analytics.

Where?

Anywhere!

All of our meetings are currently held virtually on Microsoft Teams.

When?

The first Thursday of every month @ 1pm GMT/BST.

open, 337 days left
Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM

01 Dec 2022

Call closes at 11:59 PM

02 Oct 2025

Call closes in UTC (UTC+00:00) timezone.
Closing time in your timezone () is .

All speakers welcome, whether you've presented here before or not.

All Data Platform orientated sessions welcome, including:

  • Azure / Synapse
  • SQL Server
  • Power BI / DAX
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Data Warehousing
  • Machine Learning
  • ...other areas welcome

Sessions are 1 hour long and are made up of a 5 minute introduction from our hosts followed by your 50 minute session and 5 minutes for closing remarks

Sessions are held on MS Teams and we ask you join 15 minutes early to get slides set up and ensure there are not tech issues.

Our audience is usually somewhere between 50-100 attendees.

***NOTE***

This group runs on the first Thursday of every month, currently we are looking for the following dates, please indicate in your submission which date(s) you are available for:

  • 07/11/2024 - Confirmed
  • 05/12/2024 - Confirmed
  • 06/02/2025 - Open
  • 06/03/2025 - Open
  • 03/04/2025 - Open
  • 01/05/2025 - Open
  • 05/06/2025 - Open
  • 03/07/2025 - Open
  • 07/08/2025 - Open
  • 04/09/2025 - Open
  • 02/10/2025 - Open
  • 06/11/2025 - Open
  • 04/12/2025 - Open

We try and vary the topic each month so if you apply for multiple months, you may be accepted 2-3 months ahead rather than the next available slot.



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