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Data Saturday Oslo 2026
event date
29 Aug 2026
location
Campus Fjerdingen, Chr. Krohgs gate 32 Oslo, Norway
website
datasaturday.no
Data Saturday Oslo is a training event for professionals who use data platform capabilities either on-premises or in one or more of the 3 major public clouds Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
Data Saturday Oslo is an event run by volunteers from the #datacommunity/#sqlcommunity for the community. Our event will strive to offer content across data management, cloud and hybrid architecture, analytics, business intelligence, AI, and more.
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26 Jan 2026
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31 Mar 2026
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We welcome submissions covering the 3 major public clouds - AWS, Azure and GCP in addition to topics for on-premises and hybrid environments.
On Friday we have a full day workshop (training day) and on Saturday the session length is 60 minutes.
DataSaturday Oslo strives for diversity and transparency. You can read our CoC here.
Our venue is commonly accessible.
We welcome any and all sessions on data as described above, and we want you as a speaker to know that we will additionally give precedence to the following in our selection process:
- Speakers residing in the Nordic countries
- First-time speakers. We will offer newcomers an experienced mentor to help them prepare.
- Diversity (i.e. diversity in gender, race and ethnicity, disability and neuro-diversity)
- Diversity in topics and technologies
Since this is a free event for the attendees and the event is run by volunteers in their spare time we are not in a position to reimburse travel expenses for, or pay our speakers.
Please note that this is an in-person event. Remote sessions will not be considered.
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Submitted sessions
Tor Martin Antonsen
- DBT in Fabric - hot or not
- The Medallion-Spoke Architecture for Your Lakehouse
- Taming semi-structured chaos with Databricks variant types
- Code, Commit, Deploy: Automating Fabric with Terraform and Git
- Reaching for Data with Microsoft Fabric
- A No-Nonsense Guide to Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric
- Unraveling Networking for Azure Databricks
- Your Engineers Can't See It Either: Sensitive Data Access Control Across dbt, Databricks & Power BI
- Why Data Platforms Fail to Make Organizations Data-Driven — and Five Factors to Fix It
- Your Data Platform Is Burning Money — and Nobody's Watching
- Hyperscale - the SQL Database for All Workloads
- SQL vs. Fabric? Why Not Both! A Practical and Entertaining Guide for All
- SQL database in Fabric: The unified database for AI apps and analytics
- Transform Your Business with Fabric Real-Time Intelligence
- Enable agentic AI apps with a unified data estate in Microsoft Fabric by Microsoft
- SQL Server 2025 and Fabric: Practical Integration for Data Engineers and Architects
- SQL Server 2025 Optimized Locking and ADR: Practical Internals for Real Systems
- Securely Querying Your Enterprise Data with Grafana PDC
- Unlocking key metrics and patterns using Grafana
- Leveling up your MySQL Skills
- From local to cloud ninja: helping data teams touch the sky
- Degrees, Diplomas or Digital Badges – ways to formalize your education
- Maps, Data, Action! Ways to work with geospatial data in Azure
- Airflow & dbt: The hipsters of data integration meet Azure
- Building smarter pipelines with metadata and a dash of Fabric
- Next-generation analytics in practice: Databricks and Microsoft Fabric
- Talking about physical health - Blood sugar: the underestimated danger
- Migration from Azure Data Warehouse to Databricks - challenges and solutions
- Databricks Medaillon Architecture in 10 Minutes
- Two Architectures, One Data Source: Exploring Medallion and Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric
- Fabric IQ - Here’s What Happens When You Try This in a Real Airport
Dhyan Rathore
- Power BI on a diet: 5 TIPS to slim down your semantic models
- Power BI’s Hottest Upgrade - Developer Mode with TMDL
- Power BI Beyond Read-Only: Writebacks and Automation with Fabric User Data Functions
- Hybrid Data in Motion: Near Real-Time Mirroring from SQL Server 2025 into Microsoft Fabric
- Beyond Fragmentation: Strategic Index Rebuild for Sustainable Performance
- Plan Cache Internals : Parameter Sensitive Plans, Cache Optimization, and Monitoring
- Smarter Parallelism: Degree of Parallelism Feedback in SQL Server
- Optimized Locking in SQL Server 2025: Internals, Contention, and Concurrency
- AI maturity in Scandinavia – From data foundation to realized value
- Empowering your data platform with AI
- Authorization By Data Classification (ABC)
- A scalable dataplatform starts with reusable code: Metadata to the Rescue
- What Your AI Agent Needs from Your Database
- Are you being influenced? Data privacy and the ethical challenges of data
- From Convenience to Control: Breaking Free from Big Tech Data Platforms
- All You Need to Know About Composite Data Models in Power BI
- Zero Standing Privilege architecture for Snowflake Data platform
- Comparative analysis of Modern data architecture
- Building dedicated Data Dev environments using Snowflake + DBT
- Securing Microsoft Fabric with Private Link
- Apache Spark for SQL Data Warehouse Developers
- Geospatial data in the cloud: finding formats that scale
- Database Development with a Security-First Mentality
- Kerberos Authentication and SQL Server: A Deep Dive into Delegation
- Securing the SQL Server Data Platform: Preventing Data Loss and Ensuring Data Privacy
- Treating Security as a Data Discipline in Your Organization
- Customer Managed Keys in Microsoft Fabric: What It Actually Does (and Doesn't)
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- SQL Server Partitioning any% speedrun
- Good dates, bad dates: Mastering your T-SQL date and time datatypes
- SQL Injection - The Old Dog of Data Security
- Write it Back: Enhancing Power BI with Data Writebacks and Translytical Workflows
- A wizards introduction to Semantic Link
- On Dating: Automation and Data-Driven Decisions
- Building NotebookLM Application On SQL Server 2025
- SQL Server to AI Server: Building a Secure MCP Gateway for Intelligent Query Optimization
- Building an AutoML Pipeline for Vector Data in Azure SQL
- Chat with Azure SQL
- How to Build Workflow-Driven Database Provisioning in Azure DevOps
- Two Developers, One Mission: Make a Test Database That Doesn’t Suck
- SQL Server Real-Time Intelligence
- Finding HVAC faults using time-series anomaly detection
- Knowledge Co‑Creation Between Employers and Higher Education Institutions in the Sultanate of Oman:
- Enhancing Stakeholder Collaboration to advance Information Management process within projects
- Crafting Intuitive Power BI Dashboards with Figma
- Wireframe to Report: A Practical Power BI design workflow
- Data Modelling for AI-Driven BI
- Accelerating the BI Development Lifecycle with AI
- Customer-First Analytics: Power BI Dashboard for Impact
- From Chaos to Control: Practical Governance Patterns in Microsoft Fabric
- Upstream First: Why 80% of Power BI Performance Is Won Before the Model Exists
- The KPI Trap: When Measuring Performance Hurts Decisions
- Soft skills for hard problems: Get an edge in data leadership
- Ethos, Pathos & Logos: Aristotle’s Lesson for Ethical Data Design
- Ethical Storytelling: Keeping Your Visuals on the Right Side of Truth
- Inclusive Analytics: Developing Accessible Power BI Reports
- 13 optimizer statistic problems you didn’t know you had
- Your MSSQL environment is vulnerable and I can prove it
- Hacking MSSQL on Cloud. All of them. How I became sysadmin on Azure, AWS, GCP and Alibaba.
- Exploring the new performance "bugs", I mean, "features" of SQL2022 and SQL2025
- Future-Proofing SQL Server: Performance, HADR and Innovations on 22 and 25
- Better Together: Practical Patterns for Combining Microsoft Fabric and Databricks
- Advanced Timeseries Analytics and Anomaly detection in Fabric Realtime Intelligence
- Releasing the Potential of Microsoft Real-Time Intelligence through AI Agents
- Fabric IQ Explained: Turning Insights into Intelligent Action
- SQL Server 2025 performance improvements: real-world production experience
- How are your workitems and pipelines doing? Reporting on Azure Devops
- Git for data professionals
- Backlogs, bureaucracy, and breakthroughs: Implementing Scrum in the public sector
- Query Store Basics: A DBA’s Best Friend
- Accelerating your migration to Databricks
- Databricks Semantic Models
- Master Governance in Databricks Unity Catalog
- What Retro Games Taught Me About Microsoft Fabric
- Orchestration best practices in Microsoft Fabric
- Tenant Observability & Automation: Capacity Metrics, Log Analytics, Scanner API and Python
- Level-Up your Power Query game with Custom Functions
- Resurrecting Lost Data: Mastering SQL Server's Transaction Logs and Row Internals Secrets
- When Good Isn't Good Enough: How Statistics Reveal the Real Story in Data
- User Data Functions: Development, Testing, and Integration
- AI Is Easy - until you add people: Inside the Chaos of Implementing AI
- Congratulations, you are agile. Your product is still late.
- Unf*ck your mind: How to finally build something great again
- SQL Server 2025 Vector Data Type and AI Models
- SQL Server 2025 Optimized Locking
- SQL Server Accelerated Database Recovery
- Dynamic Pivot – Making Columns out of Rows
- Dynamic Search Conditions - SQL 2025 Edition
- Introduction to Regular Expressions in SQL Server
- All You Wanted to Know About Collations
- Improve your Database Performance in Seven Simple Steps
- Five stages of grief - internals of a hash spill
- Has Microsoft fixed bad parameter sniffing?
- Here’s the execution plan … now what?
- Execution plans ... where do I start?
- The ultimate CI/CD showcase for Microsoft Fabric
- From Data Engineering to Knowledge Engineering in the blink of an eye
- Why Digital Transformations Fail & How to Make them Work
- New features in SQL Server 2025 (that aren't AI)
- The Burrito Bot; AI-Powered Search in SQL Server 2025
- Mirror, mirror on the wall, who can sync their data best of all
- Garbage in, hallucinations out: designing data for GenAI agents
- Supercharge Power BI with the Power BI REST API
- Model like a star - starschema 101 - UK
- Geospatial + AI with SQL: From Public Data to Maps Using Just SQL
- SQL Is Still Your Superpower: Build an End-to-End Data Pipeline Using Only SQL Production Ready
- AI and SQL? Yes! Enable AI Using Only SQL Functions
- From Individual Contributor to Data Leader: The Skills No One Teaches
- Fabric + Databricks + Power BI: Making the Integration Actually Work
- Stop defining the same data twice - getting started with Fabric IQ
- Auto Govern your Semantic Models with Semantic Link Labs
- GraphQL with Materialized lakehouse views - a match made in heaven
- How implicit conversion ruined my day
- Everything you need to know about Temporal Tables
- SQL Server indexes - the basics and beyond
- Industrial Revolution 5.0 - Agentic AI, the modern spinning jenny?
- Anatomy of cloud migration and modernisation
- Ephemeral environments with AWS Database Services
- SQL 2025, SSMS 22 and Fabric. And they mirrored happily ever after?
- SQL Copilot, what the query is this!?
- How an attendee became a speaker
- Loadtesting Fabric II, the sequel
- Fabric SQL, can I have some more databases please?
- Event-Driven Data Vault in Microsoft Fabric: From Stream to Structure
- Accelerating Data Vault 2.0 in Microsoft Fabric with Metadata-Driven Automation