• Alexander Arvidsson

    Alexander Arvidsson

    Star Wars fan extraordinaire

    Alexander is a principal solutions architect at Solution Xperts in Linköping, 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 22 years toying 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 SQL Server, Azure and Power BI.

  • 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.

  • Benny Magnus

    Benny Magnus

    Data Visualization Consultant | Competence Center Lead Power BI at Ordina Belgium

    My carreer started within supply chain as a business analyst for a multinational company where I gained a lot of business experience. In this role, I also got familiar with reporting tools such as Tableau. I decided to focus for 100% on data visualization and thus became a data visualization consultant. In this role, I can combine my technical skills with my business knowledge which makes it also interesting to be the bridge between BI developers and business teams.

  • Brian Mather brian@action-bi.uk

    Brian Mather brian@action-bi.uk

    Founder of Action BI

    Brian has been helping major international organisations transform their business using Power BI since 2015 including financial performance, asset management as well as driving new technologies for airport maintenance

  • Chris Webb

    Chris Webb

    Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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

  • Christian Vandekerkhove

    Christian Vandekerkhove

    Senior SQL Server DBA at Monin N.V.

    Experienced SQL Server Database Administrator with a demonstrated history (> 20 years) of working in the banking industry. Skilled in Databases, Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Failover solutions, Powershell, C#. Strong information technology professional who yearly takes courses to be up with the newest technology events.

  • David De Wilde

    David De Wilde

    datascience & engineering consultant @ delaware

    David has a background in mechanical and biomedical engineering. However, he got bitten by the ‘data’ bug and switched over to the data analytics side. His experience ranges from data warehouse till report, from batch till streaming and from shop-floor till marketing data. Currently, his focus lies on the azure modern data platform, more specifically on azure Databricks. As a datascience & engineering consultant, he helps organizations unlock the potential of their data by making it readily available to the users.

  • Dejonghe Koen

    Dejonghe Koen

    Data and ML engineer at Cegeka

    Data and ML engineer at Cegeka

  • Els van Vessem

    Els van Vessem

    BI specialist

    Els van Vessem (they/them) works as a BI specialist at a hospital in Rotterdam, after 7 years in the IT and BI contracting/consulting business. Their official task: bring order to the chaos of all the different sources of data, and create dashboards on how many covid patients the hospital has on each ward. Their secret mission: nudging their new coworkers in a devops direction. Outside of work they hang out on twitter (@geekingthething), read a whole lot of books, and spoil their two kitties with toys and treats.

  • Erland Sommarskog

    Erland Sommarskog

    Erland Sommarskog SQL-Konsult AB

    Erland Sommarskog is an independent consultant based in Stockholm. He has worked with SQL Server since 1991. He was first awarded SQL Server MVP in 2001, and he has been re-awarded every year since. His focus is on systems development with the SQL Server Database Engine and his passion is to help people to write better SQL Server applications.

  • Grant Fritchey

    Grant Fritchey

    Redgate Software

    Grant Fritchey is a Data Platform MVP with over 20 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 evangelist 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, 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. Heini is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and an Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

  • Henk Boelman

    Henk Boelman

    Cloud Advocate at Microsoft

    Henk is a Cloud Advocate specializing in Artificial intelligence and Azure with a background in application development. He is currently part of the regional cloud advocate team in the Netherlands. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Microsoft AI MVP and worked as a software developer and architect building lots of AI powered platforms on Azure.

    He loves to share his knowledge about topics such as DevOps, Azure and Artificial Intelligence by providing training courses and he is a regular speaker at user groups and international conferences.

  • Hugo Kornelis

    Hugo Kornelis

    I make SQL Server fast (.com)

    Hugo Kornelis is an established SQL Server communiity expert who spends a lot of time at various conferences. He is also a blogger, technical editor of a variety of books, and Pluralsight author. He was awarded SQL Server MVP and Data Platform MVP 12 times (2006 - 2016 / 2019 - now).

    When not working for the community, he is busy at his day job: freelance database developer/consultant.

    Hugo has over 20 years of SQL Server experience in various roles. He has a strong database design background, but also loves to write and tune complex queries.

  • Ivana Pejeva

    Ivana Pejeva

    e61

    Ivana is a data scientist, passionate about machine learning and artificial intelligence. As part of the Data Science and Strategy competence center at element61, she helps organizations build and grow business with data. Ivana is an engineering professional with a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from KU Leuven.

  • Jan Kesters

    Jan Kesters

    Data Solutions Cegeka, Solution and Sales Manager

    New technology and new type of business requirements makes data at the core of digital transformation. To be successful in Data & AI projects, business & IT needs to be aligned and investing in data strategy and a cloud data platform is the right thing to do. My name is Jan Kesters solutions and sales manager at Cegeka Data Solutions, where I’m responsible to make Cegeka’s customers Data-Driven.

  • Joey D'Antoni

    Joey D'Antoni

    Principal Consultant, DCAC

    Joseph D'Antoni is a Principal Consultant at Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting, and Microsoft Data Platform MVP with over 20 years of experience working in both Fortune 500 and smaller firms. He is a frequent speaker at major tech events like Microsoft Ignite, PASS Summit and Enterprise Data World. He blogs about all topics technology at joeydantoni.com. He believes that no single platform is the answer to all technology problems. He lives in Malvern, PA and holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from Louisiana Tech University and an MBA from North Carolina State University, and is the co-author of the Microsoft book "Introducing SQL Server 2016"

  • 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.

  • Joris Poelmans

    Joris Poelmans

    Solution architect

    Solution architect working in Microsoft stack for over 20 years. Former SharePoint MVP and board-member of Dynamics CRM User Group - https://crmug-belux.eu by day. Taking the first steps in machine learning, Python and algorithmic trading by night

  • Joydip Das

    Joydip Das

    Element61, Business Analytics Architect

    10+ years of experience in Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence. Expert in Teradata, Oracle, AbInitio, Informatica, MicroStrategy, PowerBI and Azure Data Services.

  • 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.

  • Karim Ourtani

    Karim Ourtani

    A passionate problem solver

    Karim Ourtani works as an .Net Developer for the Flemish Agency for Care and Health (Zorg & Gezondheid) and is a member of the board of dataMinds, the Belgian Data Platform User group.

    He has been working with SQL Server Since 1998 (version 6.5).
    After working in the Banking Sector in London he moved onto various web projects where SQL Server was at the core of all his undertakings.

    Upon his return to Belgium he initially focused on the BI capabilities of SQL Server as well as Database Programming, but since joining the Flemish Government in 2012 he has been focused on web and application development with C#.

  • Kasper de Jonge

    Kasper de Jonge

    Principal Program Manager, MS Power BI

    Kasper de Jonge is a Principal Program Manager on the Power BI team at Microsoft, where he has worked on developing features for Power BI, Power Pivot and other Analysis Services products such as the Tabular model and Multidimensional cubes. He is a frequent speaker at conferences such as Ingite, MBSAS, SQLPASS, and SQLSaturday. His blog can be found at http://www.kasperonbi.com and can also be found at twitter http://twitter.com/kjonge. He is also author of Dashboarding & Reporting with Power BI: How to Design and Create a Financial Dashboard with Power BI .

  • Kevin Conan

    Kevin Conan

    Microsoft Sr. Customer Engineer

    I love data and making queries run fast. The thrill of taking that long running query and making it run in under 10 seconds is amazing! It’s a great time to be a Data Engineer with all the exciting new and evolving tools in Azure.

    There is an old saying – “Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to fish and you feed them for a lifetime.”. As much as I enjoy tuning systems, I find far more satisfaction from helping others learn how to do what I do. I would not be where I am in my career or life without all the help that I have received along the way, so paying it forward is very important to me!

  • Koen Verbeeck

    Koen Verbeeck

    Senior Consultant @ AE - Data Platform MVP

    Koen Verbeeck is a Business Intelligence professional working at AE. He helps client to get insight in their data and to improve their business intelligence solutions. Koen has over a decade of experience in developing data warehouses, cubes 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 local SQL Server events.

  • Kris Wijnants

    Kris Wijnants

    Data Wizard @ Kohera

    Being a BI professional for over 10 years, I enjoyed my fair share of Datawarehouses to be built. Nowadays I am mainly focussing on BI using the innovative Azure Technologies.

  • Kurt Buhler

    Kurt Buhler

    Data goblin. Recovering Academic. DM.

    Data Visualization Consultant at Ordina

  • Leonard Lobel

    Leonard Lobel

    CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

    Leonard Lobel (Microsoft MVP, Data Platform) is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Sleek Technologies, Inc., a New York-based development shop with an early adopter philosophy toward new technologies. He is also a principal consultant at Tallan, Inc., a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Competency Partner.

    Programming since 1979, Lenni specializes in Microsoft-based solutions, with experience that spans a variety of business domains, including publishing, financial, wholesale/retail, health care, and e-commerce. Lenni has served as chief architect and lead developer for various organizations, ranging from small shops to high-profile clients. He is also a consultant, trainer, and frequent speaker at local usergroup meetings, VSLive, SQL PASS, and other industry conferences.

    Lenni has also authored several MS Press books and Pluralsight courses on SQL Server and Azure Cosmos DB programming.

  • Lothar Verledens

    Lothar Verledens

    AI Innovation Lead Architect @ Inetum-Realdolmen

    Lothar enjoys translating complex business problems to the best possible solution and helps companies to transform to an intelligently automated version of themselves.
    He likes introducing people and companies to the advances in the field of artificial intelligence/machine learning/data and how this can add value to companies of all sizes and sectors.

  • Marthe Moengen

    Marthe Moengen

    IT Consultant at Capgemini

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

  • Matt Gordon

    Matt Gordon

    Director of Data and Infrastructure at Rev.io

    Matt is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and has worked with SQL Server since 2000. He is the leader of the Lexington, KY Data Technology Group and a frequent domestic and international community speaker. He's an IDERA ACE alumnus and 2021 Friend of Redgate. His original data professional role was in database development, which quickly evolved into query tuning work that further evolved into being a DBA in the healthcare realm. He has supported several critical systems utilizing SQL Server and managed dozens of 24/7/365 SQL Server implementations. Following several years as a consultant, he is now the Director of Data and Infrastructure for rev.io, where he is implementing data governance, DevOps, and performance improvements enterprise-wide.

  • Mattias De Coninck

    Mattias De Coninck

    BI Consultant at Lytix

    Mattias is a BI Consultant working at Lytix. He is focused on Power BI development and everything surrounding it.

  • Mira Vasic

    Mira Vasic

    Senior Partner and co-owner at In Touch Female Leadership & Career Academy

    Dr. ing. Mira Vasic helps individuals develop their leadership skills and companies become truly inclusive. She is an expert on topics of female leadership and gender-diversity. Mira is a frequently asked international keynote speaker and teaches MBA courses for Politecnico di Milano Business School. She is a Senior Partner and co-owner of ‘In Touch Female Leadership & Career Academy’ and has a tremendous passion for empowering women.
    In the past ten years, she has been working as a researcher and consultant for both commercial and governmental sectors in Serbia, Spain, Greece, Italy and the Netherlands. She also holds a PhD in Structural Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2015) and fluently speaks 4 languages. Her value is her enthusiastic approach and her great sense of humour.

  • Nathan Bijnens

    Nathan Bijnens

    CSA Manager

    CSA Data & AI turned CSA Manager, part of Microsoft Belux.

  • 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).

  • Pieter Vanhove

    Pieter Vanhove

    Microsoft, Domain Solution Architect - Data & AI

    Pieter Vanhove is a Domain Solution Architect at Microsoft Belgium and 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.

  • Prathyusha(Prathy) Kamasani

    Prathyusha(Prathy) Kamasani

    Group Manger at Avanade

    Prathy is a senior Power BI, Power Platform and Microsoft BI consultant with over ten years of experience delivering innovative and easy to use BI systems in a broad range of sectors. She combines a flair for design and user experience with the ability to use her strong technical skills to solve the most complex of problems. With a BSC and MSC in Computer Systems, her technical experience has evolved with the Microsoft BI platform with a current focus on Power BI and the complimentary PowerApps and Flow tools.

    Prathy is a regular blogger at prathy.com, organiser of London Power BI User Group, speaker at events like SQLBits, Microsoft Business Applications Summit, SQL Saturdays and Local User groups and holds a coveted Microsoft Data Platform MVP award.

  • Randi Vertongen

    Randi Vertongen

    Customer Engineer Data & AI Microsoft

    After starting out as a SQL Server DBA at a consulting company (Kohera), Randi has been working as a customer engineer Data & AI at Microsoft for over a year now.

    As a customer engineer Randi works with clients on on-premises and azure cloud assignments, no longer limited to exclusively SQL Server.

  • Sammy Deprez

    Sammy Deprez

    Partner @ Arinti - AI MVP @ Microsoft

    Sammy is senior consultant and Managing Partner at Arinti (a company focused on the Microsoft Data & AI Platform) .
    He is passionate about everything that has to do with data and anything connecting to that, from reporting till data science & AI.
    Worked on projects locally & abroad and in industries from healthcare to finance & banking.
    And most importantly he loves to share his knowledge with others. That is why he is also board member of the Global AI Community.

  • Sebastiaan Leysen

    Sebastiaan Leysen

    Senior consultant data & analytics @ delaware

    Sebastiaan Leysen graduated as an engineer from the TU Delft in 2015. He has a BSc degree in Computer Science and a MSc degree in Management of Technology.

    Sebastiaan started working at delaware in March 2016. Throughout his first years at delaware, he developed a strong affinity for data and analytics, focusing on the newest wave of SAP analytics technologies. In January 2020, he moved to delaware’s Data Engineering & Data Science team to shift focus on exploring the Azure technology stack, including Databricks, and the broader problem of designing modern big data platforms.

    He has been advising clients on a wide range best-practices and architectural design choices related to the optimal usage of analytical tools and data platforms. He positions himself as a bridge between the decision makers and data engineers.

  • Simon Whiteley

    Simon Whiteley

    Data Platform MVP. Cloud Architect, Nerd

    Director of Engineering for Advancing Analytics Ltd and Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Simon is a seasoned solution architect & technical lead with well over a decade of Microsoft Analytics experience. A deep techie with a focus on emerging cloud technologies and applying "big data" thinking to traditional analytics problems, Simon also has a passion for bringing it back to the high level and making sense of the bigger picture. When not tinkering with tech, Simon is a death-dodging London cyclist, a sampler of craft beers, an avid chef and a generally nerdy person.

  • Steph Locke

    Steph Locke

    AI & Data Platform MVP and CEO of Locke Data and Nightingale HQ

    Steph Locke, AI MVP, is the CEO of a startup helping businesses develop Data & AI strategies. The leader of the global satRdays brand, international presenter, author, and poster of doggo photos, Steph enjoys contributing to making the tech world a better place.

  • Steve Jones

    Steve Jones

    The Voice of the DBA

    Steve Jones has been working with databases and computers for over two decades. He has worked with SQL Server since 1991, from v4.2 through SQL Server 2016. He has been a DBA, developer, and manager in a variety of large and small companies across multiple industries. In 2001 Steve founded SQLServerCentral with two partners and has been publishing technical articles and facilitating discussions among SQL Server professionals ever since. He currently is the full time editor of SQLServerCentral, as well as an evangelist for Redgate Software. Steve is a 10 year Microsoft Data Platform MVP and lives on a horse ranch in Colorado.

  • Stijn Wynants

    Stijn Wynants

    Microsoft Senior Customer Engineer

    Stijn is a Microsoft Senior Customer Engineer in Data & AI, former-MVP & DataMinds (Belgian Data Platform User Group) core member. He is also one of the organisers of the local user group sessions & the yearly event called DataMinds Connect (SQL Server Days). He spends his days working hands-on with the largest Synapse Deployments in the world, he enjoys tuning environments and driving products to their limit!

  • Terry McCann

    Terry McCann

    Microsoft MVP & Principal Consultant

    Microsoft MVP. Principal consultant & Owner of Advancing Analytics. A consultancy who help businesses advance their analytics and better understand their data. Frequent speaker at events across the globe. Organiser of the Data Science user group in Exeter, UK and previous co-organiser of SQL Saturday Exeter, UK. 

  • Tom Carpentier

    Tom Carpentier

    BI Consultant at Lytix

    Tom is an experienced Business Intelligence Analyst currently working for as a Freelancer for Lytix, focusing on SCRUM, ETL, T-SQL development and SSAS. He also enjoys the occasional Power BI work, and loves to learn new technologies. Currently his main area of interest is CI/CD and Agile SQL Development. He particularly enjoys sharing his knowledge with others, and has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer in both .NET and SQL/BI development since 2012.

  • 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”.

  • Viorel-Felix Ciucu

    Viorel-Felix Ciucu

    Owner of VCI Consulting | Consultant | Site Reliability Engineer & DBA

    I'm a SQL Server DBA focusing on automating the infrastructure for databases.
    I architect and implement HA and DR for SQL Server.
    Have been working in telecommunications, healthcare or fintech industries.
    Contributor for dbatools PowerShell module.

  • Vivian Paiva

    Vivian Paiva

    Azure Technical Trainer at Microsoft

    Addicted to Data & Learning
    I am a passionate IT professional exploring cloud and Data world. 11+ years database experience
    3+ years in Microsoft:
    - Premier Field Engineer Data&AI
    - Azure Technical Trainer

  • Wesley Backelant

    Wesley Backelant

    Cloud Solution Architect - Data&AI @ Microsoft

    SQL Server geek turned Azure Data geek

  • Willem Meints

    Willem Meints

    Technoloy Advocate/Microsoft AI MVP

    Willem Meints is an AI/machine learning expert for Info Support and Microsoft AI MVP. He has worked for years on several machine learning algorithms and recently wrote a book about deep learning using CNTK.

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