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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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17 submissions
Submitted sessions
Philip Seamark
  • Power BI Storage Modes: The Ultimate Showdown
  • Load Testing Semantic Models with Fabric Notebooks
  • Analytics at the speed of Direct Lake
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
Jinal Mehta
  • Data Pipeline Security: Building Trusted Architecture in a Zero-Trust World
John Deardurff
  • Business Continuity in Azure SQL Databases
Kristyna Ferris
  • 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
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