• Adam Saxton

    Adam Saxton

    Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

    Adam Saxton is just a guy in a cube doing the work! He is on the Power BI CAT team at Microsoft working with customers to help adopt Power BI. He is based in Texas, and started with Microsoft supporting SQL Server connectivity and Reporting Services in 2005. Adam has worked with Power BI since the beginning, on the support side and with documentation. In addition, he produces weekly videos for his Guy in a Cube YouTube channel.

  • Aditi Kumari

    Aditi Kumari

    Senior Analytics Architect @ element61

    Originating from India and migrated to Belgium in 2017, total of 9 years of experience working in Big Data domain. gets the thrill trying out new tools and technologies, adept in setting up streaming pipelines.

  • Alexander Arvidsson

    Alexander Arvidsson

    Star Wars fan extraordinaire

    Alexander is a principal solutions architect at Attollo in Sweden. Nobody really knows what it means to be a principal solutions architect, but he spends his days teaching courses or helping clients of all shapes and sizes to take better care of their data.
    He has spent the last 25 years poking around with data, databases and related infrastructure services such as storage, networking and virtualization, occasionally emerging from the technical darkness to attend a Star Wars convention somewhere in the world.
    He is a Data Platform MVP, frequent international speaker, podcaster, Pluralsight author, blogger and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, focusing on the Microsoft data platform stack.

  • Alpa Buddhabhatti

    Alpa Buddhabhatti

    Cluster reply , London , UK

    Alpa is an Azure Consultant with a passion for data and technology at Cluster Reply UK. She is Microsoft Certified Trainer and certified in Azure Data engineer and Azure Data Science. She is working on Azure services such as Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Key Vault , Azure , Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage and Azure Data Lake .

  • Ásgeir Gunnarsson

    Ásgeir Gunnarsson

    Data Platform MVP

    Ásgeir is a Data Platform MVP and owner of North Insights IVS. He works on Business Intelligence solutions using the whole of the MS BI stack. Ásgeir has been working in BI since 2007 both as a consultant and internal employee. Before turning to BI Ásgeir worked as a technical trainer and currently teaches BI courses at the Continuing Education Department of the University of Iceland.

    Ásgeir speaks regularly at events both domestic and internationally and is the group leader of the Icelandic PASS Group as well as the Icelandic Power BI user group.

    Ásgeir is the co-author of Pro Power BI Administration from APRESS and the Power BI MVP book

    Ásgeir is passionate about data and loves solving problem with BI.

  • Ben Watt

    Ben Watt

    Managing Director of Datalineo

    Ben is Managing Director of Datalineo and is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, specialising in Power BI.

  • Benjamin Kettner

    Benjamin Kettner

    CTO ML!PA Consulting GmbH

    Dr. Benjamin Kettner is co-founder and CTO of ML!PA Consulting GmbH. Since 2020 he is Microsoft MVP and Friend of Red Gate. He received his doctorate in applied mathematics at the Free University of Berlin in 2012. At the time of his doctorate he was a member of the DFG Research Center Matheon - Mathematics for Key Technologies and a member of the Computational Nano Optics group at the Zuse Institute Berlin.
    During his PhD and studies he worked on software development and programming as well as databases and data models. After his PhD he worked as a consultant at a Microsoft BI Partner, where he was technical project manager and also managed the research and development department and worked as a software architect. In 2015 he founded ML!PA Consulting GmbH, a Microsoft partner with a focus on advanced analytics, Internet of Things and cloud solutions. There he works as CTO and software architect and conceives, develops and designs customer solutions. In 2017 ML!PA Consulting GmbH was one of only four Microsoft Partner of the Year finalists in the Internet of Things category. Dr. Benjamin Kettner is active in the Microsoft Data Platform Community, leads the Berlin regional group of PASS Deutschland e.V. and frequently appears as author of blog posts and scientific articles and speaker at technical events.

  • Bo Vande Sompele

    Bo Vande Sompele

    Data & Analytics consultant at Lytix

    Bo is a data and analytics consultant at Lytix with experience in data modeling, data integration, data engineering and data analytics. Next to that she trains new data analysts in spe at Syntra (Evening trainings for adults).

  • Brecht Vuylsteke

    Brecht Vuylsteke

    Technical Consultant at Realdolmen

    As a Technical Consultant at Realdolmen, I'm assisting customers in designing , architecting and implementing various SQL Server solutions. I've been working with SQL Server for over 10 years.

  • Chris Webb

    Chris Webb

    Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

    Chris Webb is a member of the Power BI Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft

  • Craig Porteous

    Craig Porteous

    Husband, Dad | Data Platform MVP | Principal Advanced Analytics Consultant | DATA:Scotland event founder | Glasgow Data UG organiser | He/Him.

    I bring data and automation together. I love to learn and share what I learn with the technical community. I enjoy running and live for my family. He/Him

  • Daan Roosen

    Daan Roosen

    Lead Data Engineer at DataSense

    A Data Engineer with a passion for everything that screams data. I try to constantly evolve by staying up to date with new technologies, platforms, modeling techniques but I'll always stay true to what triggered me from the start, Data Vault 2.0 DWH automation. Combined with recent cloud solutions and tooling, I've witnessed a lot of potential and amazing opportunities to implement at our customers. This session is only a fraction, but none the less a great example of what is currently on the market.

  • Dave Ruijter

    Dave Ruijter

    Cloud Solution Architect Data & AI, Microsoft MVP

    Dave is a Microsoft MVP, public speaker, and consultant, helping organizations realize the full potential of the Azure Cloud & Power Platform. He brings a decade’s worth of experience to the table and is a passionate Power BI evangelist, eager to share his knowledge and experiences from the field.

  • Denis Reznik

    Denis Reznik

    Data Architect at Intapp

    Denis works as a Data Architect at Intapp, Inc. He has wide experience in the development of applications, databases, and other solutions based on data. Denis is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP since 2010. He loves to speak about SQL Server and Data at conferences and user-group meetings and actively participates in the development of the SQL Community.

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    Enrico van de Laar

    Data Privacy Engineer @ NMTY

    Enrico has been working with data in all kinds of formats and sizes for over 20 years and has a passion for data privacy. Through his company NMTY he supports organisations with implementing data solutions that respect privacy and avoid unethical or manipulative use of data. Enrico is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and has so far written four books on data related technologies and topics.

  • Filip Popović

    Filip Popović

    Microsoft, Senior Program Manager

    Filip is Program Manager working in Microsoft Development Center Serbia on Azure Synapse Analytics, particularly serverless SQL pool. His primary focus area is performance. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2019. Filip spent 10+ years in software and financial services industry delivering business analytics solutions based on Microsoft technology stack.

  • Gianluca Sartori

    Gianluca Sartori

    @spaghettidba

    Gianluca Sartori is a Data Platform MVP, independent consultant and performance tuning specialist. He has been working in the software industry since 1999 and has been working with SQL Server ever since. He also works as a SQL Server trainer and in his spare time he writes technical articles and participates the SQL Server forums. Gianluca enjoys presenting SQL Server topics at conferences in Europe and US. He is currently working as lead DBA at a famous Formula 1 team.

  • Grant Fritchey

    Grant Fritchey

    Redgate Software

    Grant Fritchey is a Data Platform MVP and AWS Community Builder with over 30 years’ experience in IT, including time spent in support and development. He has worked with SQL Server since 6.0 back in 1995. He has also developed in VB, VB.NET, C#, and Java. Grant has written books for Apress and Simple-Talk. Grant presents at conferences and user groups, large and small, all over the world. He joined Redgate Software as a product advocate in January 2011.

  • Heini Ilmarinen

    Heini Ilmarinen

    DevOps Consultant, Polar Squad

    Heini is a math teacher turned Azure expert. With her background in mathematics and teaching, she has a great passion for problem solving, simplifying complex things and a unique approach to architectures.
    She is a DevOps Consultant at Polar Squad and a Data Platform MVP, specializing in Azure infrastructure and the data platform. She has been working with customers large and small for the past several years to help them sort out their path to the cloud and make sense of their architecture - both hybrid and cloud. She has worked extensively with both Azure infrastructure and analytics solutions and knows a thing or two about BMX bikes as well.

  • Hira Zaidi

    Hira Zaidi

    AI & Data Engineer at Avanade

    Born and raised in the Netherlands with roots from Pakistan. Always been well in studies, but didn't finish it. Worked in the travel industry for over a decade and then moved into the tech world. Starting with a Fullstack Software Development Course followed by the the Techionista Data&AI track. Always challenged for being a woman.

  • Jiri Huygen

    Jiri Huygen

    Power BI Competence Lead at DataSense

    A Data Visualization fanatic with eye for detail, a feel for business and amazing skills in Power BI. He makes the translation between business and IT, gives meaning to your data and provides you with insights you never thought possible.

  • Johan Ludvig Brattås

    Johan Ludvig Brattås

    Suffers from chronic curiosity

    Johan Ludvig Brattås is a principal solution architect at Capgemini, and a dedicated community guy. He has worked with MS SQL server since late 1999, mostly with BI in one form or another. Since 2015, most of his work has been in Azure working on data platform services, IoT, Stream Analytics and Snowflake.

    Combining his passion for MS SQL Server with his passion for sharing knowledge, he started speaking at various events in the SQL Community. This is also a way to give back to the community for all the things he has learned over the years. When not working, Johan Ludvig either spends his time with his kids, playing with new technology or teaching coeliacs how to bake glutenfree food.

  • John Martin

    John Martin

    Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services

    John is an experienced data platform professional having spent over a decade working with various data and cloud platform technologies. Currently specialising in Amazon Redshift but also with a long history in Microsoft SQL Server wherever it is deployed as well as key Amazon data platform technologies including Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Athena. In this time John has learned how to get the most out of these platforms as well as the key pitfalls that should be avoided.

  • Just Blindbæk

    Just Blindbæk

    Microsoft BI consultant, trainer, speaker and MVP

    Independent BI consultant with extensive experience in all phases of BI development on Microsoft SQL Server, Azure and Power BI. Founder and coordinator of Microsoft Business Intelligence Professionals Denmark (MsBIP.dk) and Power BI UG Denmark (PowerBI.dk). Is a Microsoft Certified Trainer at Orange Man.

  • Katrien Cloetens

    Katrien Cloetens

    KPMG, Data architect

    I am a venturous tech enthusiast working as a data architect at KPMG. My focus is to create business value for my client through technical savviness, by acting as the missing link between business and technology. My experience is mainly focused in designing and developing datawarehouses, modern data platforms, data lakes, and other data - buzzwords using the wonderful Microsoft platform!

  • Koen Verbeeck

    Koen Verbeeck

    Senior Consultant @ AE - Data Platform MVP

    Koen Verbeeck is a data professional working at AE. He helps organizations to get insight in their data and to improve their analytics solutions. Koen has over a decade of experience in developing data warehouses, models and reports using the Microsoft data platform . Since 2017 Koen is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. He has a blog at http://www.sqlkover.com, writes articles for MSSQLTips.com and is a frequent speaker at SQL Server events.

  • Kurt Buhler

    Kurt Buhler

    Ordina

    Data Goblin

  • Luke Moloney

    Luke Moloney

    Cloud Architect @ Microsoft

    Luke works as Data & AI Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft in Dublin. Previous to Microsoft, he worked for Aginic - an Analytics consultancy in Australia implementing Azure oriented data solutions. Outside of technology you can find him watching F1 or Rugby

  • Mara Pereira

    Mara Pereira

    Founder & Principal Power BI Architect, Data Pears

    My mission is to help organisations and individuals creating amazing data experiences with Power BI.

  • Marc Lelijveld

    Marc Lelijveld

    Data Platform MVP | FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect | MS Certified Trainer | Data & Analytics consultant

    Data Platform MVP, FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Power BI enthusiastic, public speaker and passionate for everything which transforms data into action! Working at Macaw in the Netherlands as a Data & AI consultant.

    What I like the most? Sharing my thoughts, experience, best-practices and enthusiasm about Microsoft data platform with others. I mostly do this in public speaking at usergroups, conferences, customer presentations and end-user training. Besides that I also have my own blog which you can find at https://data-marc.com/

  • Marthe Moengen

    Marthe Moengen

    Data Analyst at Sopra Steria

    26-year-old digitalization geek from Oslo enjoying the sweet spot between analyst and developer.

  • Nico Jacobs

    Nico Jacobs

    SQL Server, BI and AI trainer at U2U

    Dr. Nico Jacobs is a Microsoft Business Intelligence and SQL Server trainer and consultant at U2U since 2004. Before that, he was a machine learning researcher at the computer science department of the University of Leuven where he obtained a PhD in machine learning.
    At U2U, Nico creates and delivers courses on the SQL Server business intelligence stack (Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services …), Power BI, Azure AI, machine learning and Big Data and the traditional relational database environment (database development and administration).

  • Pamela Paterson

    Pamela Paterson

    International Best-Selling Author and Senior IT Business Analyst Consultant

    Pamela Paterson, BJ, MS, CBAP, LSSGB, is an international best-selling author and a senior IT business analyst consultant, having worked with +50 organizations including Red Cross, KPMG, PwC, Hewlett-Packard, and the federal government. She is an award-winning speaker, has presented to thousands at conferences in the U.S, Europe, Canada, and Asia, and has written six books, two of them international best-sellers, including Creating Requirements for Software Projects: A Business Analyst’s Guide to Requirements Management. Previously, Pamela taught project management at a Toronto college, and has a stealth bio in communications, information design, engineering, and chemistry. She can be reached at www.pamelapaterson.com.

  • Patrick LeBlanc

    Patrick LeBlanc

    Principal Program Manager, MIcrosoft

    Patrick LeBlanc is a currently a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and a contributing partner to Guy in a Cube. Along with his 15+ years’ experience in IT he holds a Masters of Science degree from Louisiana State University. He is the author and co-author of five SQL Server books. Prior to joining Microsoft he was awarded Microsoft MVP award for his contributions to the community. Patrick is a regular speaker at many SQL Server Conferences and Community events.

  • Paul Andrew

    Paul Andrew

    Data Platform MVP, Avanade Centre of Excellence Technical Architect specialising in data platform solutions built on Microsoft Azure.

    Avanade Centre of Excellence (CoE) Technical Architect specialising in data platform solutions built on Microsoft Azure.
    Data engineering competencies include Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, Data Lake, Databricks, Stream Analytics, Event Hub, IoT Hub, Functions, Automation, Logic Apps and of course the complete SQL Server business intelligence stack.
    15+ years’ experience working within healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and gaming verticals delivering analytics through the definition of industry leading design patterns and technical architectures.
    STEM ambassador and very active member of the data platform community delivering training and technical sessions at conferences both nationally and internationally.
    Father, husband, swimmer, cyclist, runner, blood donor, geek, Lego and Star Wars fan!

  • Paulien van Eijk

    Paulien van Eijk

    Data and Analytics enthusiast

    Paulien is a Data Analytics expert who loves to combine her knowledge of Power BI and Data Science to deliver value for her clients. It is important to her that she builds the solution in strong cooperation with the client in order to deliver not only a scalable and performant solution, but also a solution that reflects the clients' needs.

  • Pieter Vanhove

    Pieter Vanhove

    Program Manager - Security & Governance Azure Database Platform

    Pieter Vanhove is a Program Manager in the Security & Governance Azure Database Platform team at Microsoft. He is the feature PM for ledger which is all about bringing the power of Blockchain to SQL Server. He has been working with SQL Server since 2000. Pieter has a profound knowledge in high availability and disaster recovery solutions, data security and loves the new Azure stuff. Together with the dataMinds Team in Belgium, he helps organizing dataMinds Connect and is also a regular speaker at Belgian and international events.

  • Randi Vertongen

    Randi Vertongen

    CSA-E Data & AI @ Microsoft

    As a former SQL Server DBA-consultant, Randi works with and for customers @ Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect - Engineering.

  • Reitse Eskens

    Reitse Eskens

    Data Platform Consultant at Axians Business Analytics

    Reitse began his computer days with GW Basic and quickly followed with Windows 3.11. After that many computers followed and, interrupted by human resource and psychology studies, he got into the IT work field around 2007. There he met Oracle 9. With a command line from 1980. At his current job he met SQL Server. And loved it. Now he’s working with SQL 2008 to SQL 2019, supporting customers and tuning databases. New projects focus more on the Azure data platform.

  • Robert Hawker

    Robert Hawker

    Associate Director, Data and Analytics

    Before getting into Data, Rob qualified with PwC as a chartered accountant in the UK. This led to finance system implementation work (global SAP ERP rollout) at Vodafone with an emphasis on data management starting in 2007. Rob continued down the data career path and has worked across Telecommunications, Media, Financial Services and Pharmaceuticals in various hands on and leadership roles.

    He started working with Power BI in early 2019 and has made working with the tool his focus since then.

  • Rune Ovlien Rakeie

    Rune Ovlien Rakeie

    Tietoevry, Principal Cloud Architect

    Rune have been working with databases for over 20 years, primarily in those years with Microsoft SQL Server. Throughout the years he has had many roles, from Developer, Database Designer, Solution Architect and all the way to Production Dba.
    Today Rune works for Tietoevry as a Principal Cloud Architect "focusing" on the different cloud vendor's Data Platform Services.
    Rune is very active in the Microsoft Data Platform community and have held a position on the board for the Norwegian user group and for the last 7 years he has been running the largest Microsoft Data Platform conference on Norwegian soil, SQLSaturday Oslo, now re-branded to Data Saturday Oslo.
    In his spare time you can find Rune in the woods of his hometown Arendal enjoying his new found hobby, single track bicycling.

  • Sander Stad

    Sander Stad

    Data Masterminds, PowerShell Underdog

    Sander is a SQL Server DBA with over 20 years of experience in IT. He has worked with SQL Server since version 2000 and is a Cloud and Datacenter Management (CDM) MVP.
    He is a huge PowerShell enthusiast and will try to automate processes as much as he can.

  • Simon De Meester

    Simon De Meester

    Data Wizard

    Simon is a passionate data wizard who loves to learn new things. Whether it’s keeping up with the latest Power BI updates or looking for new ways to leverage Azure’s impressive capabilities, you can always find him in the front row. But since knowledge gains value by sharing, he is never afraid to step up and teach others about what he has learned.

  • Stefan Azaric

    Stefan Azaric

    Program Manager - Azure Synapse Analytics | Synapse SQL

    Program Manager - Azure Synapse Analytics | Synapse SQL

  • Thomas Hütter

    Thomas Hütter

    Explorer of Data

    Thomas holds a degree in Business Economics, but has been a data explorer and a developer at heart ever since the days of dBase and Turbo Pascal. He touched his first SQL Server at V6.5 and used covering indexes before they became a feature.

    Thomas has been developing in Navision/Dynamics/Business Central systems for quite some time (since 2001, one year before MS acquired Navision), joined PASS in 2006 and got his hands on R in 2014 (the year before MS bought Revolution Analytics). Currently he is on a transition from app to BI developer. He has worked for ISVs as well as end-user companies, as a developer, consultant, accidental DBA and is an author for data-related articles as well as a speaker at data events across Europe.

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    Tomaž Kaštrun

    SQL Server developer and data scientist

    Tomaž Kaštrun is a SQL Server developer and data scientist with more than 15 years of experience in the fields of business warehousing, development, ETL, database administration, and query tuning. He holds over 15 years of experience in data analysis, data mining, statistical research, and machine learning. He is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP for data platform and has been working with Microsoft SQL Server since version 2000. He is a blogger, author of many articles, a frequent speaker at the community and Microsoft events. He is an avid coffee drinker who is passionate about fixed gear bikes. In 2018 he co-authored book "SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services with R".

  • Uwe Ricken

    Uwe Ricken

    db Berater GmbH - Managing Director

    Uwe Ricken is working with IT systems since the 90’s. The start of experiences with Microsoft SQL Server came with the assignment for development of membership administration software for the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany. The software has been distributed to five additional European countries. The primary passion for developments with Microsoft SQL Server expanded in 2007 with his engagement as a DBA for Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main. After 6 years of operational experiences as a DBA and over 14 years as a developer of complex database models he achieved the “Microsoft Certified Master – SQL Server 2008” certification which “was” the highest technical certification. The year 2013 finished with the first MVP award for his support to the Microsoft SQL Server community in Germany and Europe.
    To provide his deep knowledge about Microsoft SQL Server to the interested community Uwe Ricken is blogging since 2010 at http://www.sqlmaster.de about his daily experiences with Microsoft SQL Server. His blog posts are in German language only to provide the German speaking SQL community inside views into the technology of Microsoft SQL Server.
    Uwe Ricken is a speaker on many international conferences and events and preferred topics are “Database Internals”, “Indexing” and “Development”.

  • Wolfgang Strasser

    Wolfgang Strasser

    data juggler

    Wolfgang Strasser creates solutions based on the Microsoft Data Platform tools in his day-to-day job as Data Consultant at ACP cubido.
    The tools range from on-premises solutions up into the Azure cloud - Azure SQL, Synapse, Purview and Power BI are your friends!
    Based on his professional careers as a software developer he likes to work on structured development processes.
    Wolfgang shares his knowledge with the community at many national and international events. For his community work, Wolfgang has been awarded with the Microsoft MVP Award for Data Platform in October 2015.
    Whenever there is time, he blogs at https://workingondata.wordpress.com or records & publishes tech-videos at https://www.youtube.com/c/wolfgangstrasser

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