Call for Speakers
Data Platform Next Step
1 Jun 2026
2 Jun 2026
Clarion Hotel & Congress Airport Copenhagen, Denmark
dataplatformnextstep.com
In-person conference focusing on Microsoft Data Platform users that want to take the next step and further their knowledge around Data Engineering. There will be sessions about Microsoft Fabric, SQL, Databricks, Data Factory, Data Lake, Stream Analytics, Purview and many more technologies.
This is fourth edition of the conference and it's organized by people with many years of experience in managing events and conferences. All work with the conference is voluntarily and no one gets paid. Any profits go on to make this and next events even better and to support other community events.
Call for Speakers
13 Nov 2025
18 Feb 2026
This is a in-person conference held in Copenhagen with focus on Data Platform in the Microsoft universe. No hybrid or online sessions are accepted.
The "Next Step" in the title should be taking literally. We're not looking for beginner sessions. We're also not looking for Analytics and DBA sessions.
We will have 3 breakout rooms with 6 sessions of 45 minutes duration in each and a total of 18 sessions selected. The venue has a capacity up to 300 participants.
Themes:
- Data Engineering
- Data Governance
- Data Integration
- Data Lakehouse
- Data Streaming
- Data Warehouse
- DataOps & DevOps
If you have a session that is not falling in one of these themes, then reach out to us.
Session selection takes place directly after the call for speakers closes and you can expect to receive feedback within 10 days. Selection process is always hard and sessions is weighed across theme, technologies, level and the abstract.
We expect you to confirm your selection within 3 days.
We highly recommend speakers to read this blog post (and see the presentation) about writing a good session abstract.
Speaker program:
- Social event and welcome reception (May 31st)
- Training day, Ask me anything and conference dinner (June 1st)
- Conference day and speaker dinner (June 2nd)
All events and activities are free and optional.
Feel free to send us an email: speakers@dataplatformnextstep.com if you have any questions.
accommodation
event fee
We will cover 3 nights of accommodation on the conference hotel + all the events and activities in the speakers program.
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