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Data Saturday Chicago 2026

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Data Saturday Chicago 2026

event date

14 Mar 2026

location

Wojcik Conference Center at Harper College Palatine, Illinois, United States

website

datasaturdaychicago.com/

Data Saturday Chicago is a community event for anyone interested in the Microsoft Data Platform. This event is for the data community, by the community, and brought to you by the team who has been bringing you SQL Saturday Chicago since 2010!

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86 submissions
Submitted sessions
Raghunadha Dornala
  • Ensemble Load Balancing for Cloud Banking: Boosting Performance and Scalability
Gethyn Ellis
  • Moneyball – Build a killer Fantasy Football Team with Power BI
  • Bridging the Gap: Transforming Tech Friction into Startup Success
  • Data-Driven Storytelling with Power BI
  • A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Data-Driven Culture
John Deardurff
  • SQL Server 2025: an enterprise AI-ready database platform
  • Business Continuity in Azure SQL Databases
Fabiano Amorim
  • Your Ultimate SQL Server Statistics Best Practices Review
  • 13 optimizer statistic problems you didn’t know you had
  • The Injection Game: Exposing SQL Injection Vulnerabilities with ScriptDom
  • Hacking MSSQL on Cloud. All of them. How I became sysadmin on Azure, AWS, GCP and Alibaba.
Hugo Kornelis
  • T-SQL User-Defined Functions, or: How to kill performance in one, easy step
  • Performance and execution plan improvements in SQL Server 2025
  • Now Where Did THAT Estimate Come From?
  • Normalization beyond Third Normal Form
  • Improve your Database Performance in Seven Simple Steps
  • Five stages of grief - internals of a hash spill
  • Approximate functions: How do they work?
  • Here’s the execution plan … now what?
  • Execution plans ... where do I start?
AnandKumar Vedantham
  • DataOps in Practice: Automating Secure Pipelines with Azure DevOps & Bicep
  • Security-First Data Architectures: Embedding Zero-Trust into Microsoft Fabric and Azure
Sai Tejaswi Bellapukonda
  • "Reskilling for the AI Era: From Analyst to Agent Manager"
Eric Riz
  • The Ultimate Microsoft Copilot Workshop: Harnessing AI for Productivity and Innovation
  • From Chaos to Clarity: Architecting a Data Strategy for Responsible AI
  • Digital Debt: Unlocking Productivity in the Modern Workplace
Michael McKinley
  • Modern Power BI Training: From Data Rookie to Dashboard-Ready In One Day
Kristyna Ferris
  • Mastering the Content Snowball - Turning Tiny Efforts into Big Opportunities
  • The Fellowship of the Star Schema: Transforming OLTP Data for Power BI
  • Power BI Admin Level-Up: Leveraging Fabric to Manage Your Tenant
  • Decoding Fabric Licensing
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Ashutosh Jha
  • Evolving Firewall Architectures for High-Bandwidth Data Centers
David Giard
  • You and Your Technical Community
  • Own Your Own Career – Advice from a Veteran Software Engineer
  • Diving Deep into Data with Azure Data Explorer and Kusto Query Language
  • Effective Data Visualization
Andrew Boerger
  • Trust, but Verify: Data Quality in Microsoft Fabric
Ankur Bansal
  • Unlock the power of AI to elevate your customer service!
Pratik Sheth
  • Automating Data Trust: Building a Resilient Data Quality Framework
Randy Knight
  • The Lost Art of Debugging SQL Server Stored Procedures
  • Always On Availability Groups: Real-World Lessons from the Trenches
  • AI for DBAs: Copilot, ChatGPT, and the Future of Database Work
John Martin
  • Modernizing workloads from SQL Server to PostgreSQL with Flexible Server for PostgreSQL
  • Database Development For non-Developers
  • Of course I want to let Azure SQL manage my indexes, why wouldn't I?
  • Automation for the people!
  • Database Security is not the DBAs responsibility, change my mind.
Frank Geisler
  • Data Wranglng the PowerShell way
  • Releasing the Potential of Microsoft Real-Time Intelligence through AI Agents
  • From Xbox to Insights: Real-Time Data in Action
Udaya Veeramreddygari
  • API Development using AI Agents
Jared Kuehn
  • Intro to PySpark in Microsoft Fabric
  • Microsoft Fabric: Lessons from Year 2
  • SSMS Copilot - A New Tool for your Database
Niyati P
  • Data-Centric Agentic Computer Vision
Dippu Kumar Singh
  • AI-Powered Transformation: The Future of Energy & Utilities Now
Jinal Mehta
  • Key Considerations for Designing & Implementing a Big Data Pipeline
  • Data Pipeline Security: Building Trusted Architecture in a Zero-Trust World
Endika Pascual
  • Microsoft Fabric and Data Vault 2.0: A Scalable, Governed Data Architecture
Rajesh Vayyala
  • Data Modeling for AI-Driven Enterprises: Best Practices for Scalability and Compliance
  • Modern Data Made Simple: A Practical Walkthrough of the Medallion Architecture
  • Architecting a Lakehouse on Azure: Combining Data Lakes and Warehouses
  • AI-Native Data Architectures: Building for Speed, Scale, and Smartness
Philip Seamark
  • Transforming the Power BI Modeling Experience with MCP
  • Power BI Storage Modes: The Ultimate Showdown
  • Load Testing Semantic Models with Fabric Notebooks
  • Analytics at the speed of Direct Lake
Rob Volk
  • Revenge: The SQL!
  • Log Shipping for SQL Server
Kyle Mueller
  • Semantic Model Optimization 101, and Why it Matters
  • Where to Start With a Messy Model: A Practical Approach
Lee Markum
  • Buttons, Levers, and Dials: What to Do With Key SQL Server Settings!
  • Leveraging Query Store for Improved Performance
Siddhesh Pore
  • Databricks Genie - No-Code AI Apps for empowering BI users to be self sufficient
Thomas LeBlanc
  • Effective Visualizations with Power BI
  • Enhancing Power BI with Copilot
  • Making Power BI Run Faster!!!
Minesh Chande
  • Modernize your SQL Server workloads to Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
  • Customize your managed SQL Server database on AWS Cloud
  • HA/DR options on Amazon RDS and RDS Custom for SQL Server
Abraham Pabbathi
  • Business Intelligence with AI on Azure Databricks
Tony Wilhelm
  • Intro to PowerShell with dbatools for the DBA
  • My Brain Has Blue Screened - Let’s Laugh
Joseph Fleming
  • Transactional Replication - From Expletives to Excellence
Joshua Higginbotham
  • Unlocking Real-Time Intelligence with Microsoft Fabric: From Purpose to Practical Use
  • Unlocking the Power of Data Agents and Copilot in Microsoft Fabric