Data Saturday Holland and Fabric Friday Holland will take place in the heart of the awesome city of Utrecht in The Netherlands. We're expecting 500+ attendees. The content will focus mainly on the Microsoft Data Platform. Topics we're looking for are for instance SQL Server, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Kubernetes, Cosmos DB, PowerShell, Data Factory, DBT and Power BI. It may sound like we're fully into the cloud and data warehousing, but a lot of our attendees absolutely still love the on-prem world and a good old complicated HA/DR setup session for instance. We've organized this many times already and besides it being one of the biggest Data Saturdays (certainly in the top 3 in Europe) we try to also make it very welcoming and open for our attendees and speakers.
The venue is located in the a big cinema complex in the center of the beautiful Dutch town of Utrecht. Easy to reach via car and public transport from the whole country, and just a short direct train away from Schiphol Airport.
We work closely together with our Belgian friends from Dataminds:Connect, feel free to submit at both our events. We'll make a plan together to get you there in time to enjoy everything their event and the beautiful town of Mechelen have to offer
Fabric Friday is new for us and will replace the pre-conference seminars. Besides being clearly focused on just one technology (which is still a very wide range of topics) we are also using a slightly different format.
It will be a paid event for the attendees, just like our training days were, they help with our overall budget which included the free Saturday.
But the content we are looking for are long format, either deep dives or from 0 to hero, sessions. They should be 3 hours in length and should be given in 2 blocks of 90 minutes with a half hour break in between. The venue is the same as the Data Saturday, and therefore will be a cinema setup and not a classroom. Keep in mind that this changes things for the attendees, they will have an amazing AV experience but no possibility to follow along with the topic on their laptops because there is no table to set them up. We appreciate that 2x90 minutes might be a bit long for you as a speaker to be standing at a lecture desk and we are open to provide you with alternatives. (actual desk to sit behind or a barstool, etc.) We will also provide throw mics so you can have proper interaction with the audience.
Every speaker will receive one hotel night on our expense before every day you are speaking.
If you speak on Fabric Friday we will share a part of our profits with you. This concept is an experiment for us however, right now we don't know yet what that profit sharing will look like exactly. We promise though that we will commit to a minimum amount that we will offer you when your session is accepted, before we ask you to confirm.
Session length is 60 minutes! for Data Saturday and 2 x 90 minutes for Fabric Friday
If you like to submit 2 sessions of which you think this would make for an awesome double feature than please let us know in the comments.
We will choose sessions on June 10th
Our event is open to anyone, we have a friendly community, our catering includes many healthy and dietary choices. And if people contact us with special wishes or needs we always try to help. We do also have a clearly visible Code of Conduct shown at the entrance.
See the general description for more information about the setup of this years 2 day event.
One night per day that you're speaking is on us. We will also do a profit sharing for Fabric Friday speaker (amount tbd)