Data Saturday Southwest US: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com

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Data Saturday Southwest US

event date

15 May 2021

location

Online

This Data Saturday Event is being jointly developed by the Albuquerque SQL Server User Group, Arizona Data Platform Users Group, and the Santa Fe Data Platform Users Group. This event will include sessions on many Microsoft Data Platform related topics.

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Call for Speakers

Call opens at 12:00 AM

19 Feb 2021

Call closes at 11:59 PM

21 Mar 2021

Call closes in Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-06:00) timezone.

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Topics: Any Microsoft Data Platform-related technical subject or non-technical

Session Length: 60 minutes

Session Abstract: Please include a full description of what topics this session will cover, what the audience will learn, and which, if any, pre-requisites should be expected of attendees

Number of sessions per speaker: 3 submissions maximum

Tracks: Please choose the track most appropriate to your session from among: Database Engine, BI & Analytics, Azure, Professional Development

Difficulty level: Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced

In particular we would like to encourage speakers local to the southwest region of the United States to submit sessions.

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106 submissions

Submitted sessions

Buck Woody

Keynote with Buck Woody - Data Literacy for the Data Professional

Ian Groves

Fun and Fails in the Government Community Cloud

Thomas Y. Chen

Data Science for Humanitarian Good

Martin Schoombee

BIML-UP!! How I use BIML to speed up SSIS development.

Ed Pearson

An Azure Solution for Real-Time Analytics

Marco Parenzan

Time series anomaly detection with Azure and .NET

Deborah Melkin

Beyond the Basic SELECT
A Practical Starter Guide to SQL Notebooks

Nikola Ilic

Fold on tight - what is a Query folding and why should I care?
Magnificient 7 - Simple Tricks to boost your Power BI Development
Unpack VertiPaq - Understanding "Brain & Muscles" behind Power BI

Hasham Niaz

Power BI for Business Users
Power BI Report Server - Migration Checklist
Power BI – RLS Security & Data Governance

Alexander Arvidsson

Not my Problem(?) - Azure Networking 101 for Azure SQL Server DBAs
The Untruthful Art - Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
Azure machine learning for the absolute beginner

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Sean Brown

Intro to Execution Plans
Intro To Visual Studio Database Projects
Code with Style

John Miner

Effective Data Warehouse Storage Patterns
Transitioning your T-SQL skills to Spark SQL
Audit and Prevent unwanted SQL Server Tables changes

Tracy Boggiano

SQL Server Configuration with dbatools and dbachecks
Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource

Deepthi Goguri

Auto Correction? Watch this with Query Store in Action!
Method behind the magic of Indexes in SQL Server

Ben Miller

Gathering Database Ops Data with PowerShell

Thimantha Vidanagamage

Azure Data Factory: No-code Data Preparation in a Modern Data Warehouse
Power BI: Utilizing Large Scale Semantic Models in Service
Azure Analysis Services: Shifting to an Effective Semantic Model

Joshua Higginbotham

Common ETL Patterns using Azure Databricks
Functional ETL using Python

Dèjì Akọ́mọláfẹ́

On-Premises or Hybrid Cloud? Questions That Matter When Virtualizing SQL Server on VMware vSphere

Andrew Kelly

Large Scale Data Loads using Partitioning

George Walkey

Azure SQL Devops

Kevin Feasel

Launching A Data Science Project: Cleaning Is Half The Battle
Optimizing Backup Performance using Data Science Techniques
Developing a SQL Server Machine Learning Services Project

Andrew Pruski

A deep dive into Docker

Rob Sewell

Introduction to Azure Arc Enabled Data Services
Creating Azure SQL Database Users Programmatically with a Service Principal using Azure DevOps
I ain't a Data Scientist - Why do I need Jupyter Notebooks?

John Martin

Getting Started with SQL Server 2019 and Polybase
Migrating Databases to Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance
An Introduction to Terraform, Infrastructure as Code

Carlos Lopez

Using WSL2 for SQL Server in Containers as development platform
Working with Azure SQL DB Serverless

Jared Poche

One Bite at a Time: Deleting Millions of Rows from Production Systems
Every Millisecond Counts

Mikey Bronowski

SQL Server and PowerShell walk into a bar...
Automate management tasks using elastic jobs in Azure SQL Database
Azure Data Studio and keyboard shortcuts - all you can eat

Dennes Torres

Why Synapse Analytics is beyond Azure SQL Datawarehouse
SQL Server in the Cloud: The available options
Going to Azure SQL: Admin differences no one told you before

Mark Runyon

The Countless Benefits of Mentoring
Getting Started as a Conference Speaker
Elevating Your Career into IT Leadership

Usama Wahab Khan

Azure databricks for engineers, build your first ETL Pipeline with ADB

David Patrick

Intro to Power BI
Intro to Dataverse inside of Power Automate
3 Ways for Getting Data from SharePoint : SSIS, Excel and Access

Felipe Schneider

From simple notebook to a MLOps

Damir Matešić

MS SQL New functions, syntaxes, tips & tricks
Advanced data types – JSON

Yitzhak David

SQL Server 2019 on containers and Kubernetes(k8s) from zero to an hero !
Analytics in Power BI with R and Python with SQL Server 2019 ML Service & Polybase
T-SQL Window Functions in SQL Server 2019

Jeff Iannucci

Mastering Digital Communication: Better Practices for Successful Interactions
Faster Transactions: Query Tuning for Data Manipulation
Breaking Bad Habits: Solutions for Common Query Antipatterns

Hasan Savran

Starting with Azure SQL Edge on Raspberry Pi
What do Graph Tables bring to the table
How does Azure Cosmos DB work under the hood?

Angela Henry

Getting Started With Data Modeling
Intro to Azure Data Catalog
Profiling Your Data

Ramesh Satya

SQL Server Indexes - Back To The Basics

William Assaf

How to Think Like a Certification Exam
Become a Contributor to Microsoft Docs

William Assaf, Christine Assaf

Ethics in Modern Data

Javier Villegas

Monitoring and Troubleshooting SQL Server environments using Free community tools
Performance Features in SQL Server and Azure SQL
Introduction to Azure SQL

Brandon Leach

SQL Server Configuration And Deployment With Powershell DSC
A DBA's Guide to the Proper Handling of Corruption

Amit Bansal

SQL Server Memory Internals & Troubleshooting
Developer Best Practices in SQL Server
6 Query Tuning Techniques That Will Solve 75% Of Your Performance Problems

Aaron Cutshall, DHA, MSHI

How to Give a Technical Presentation
Defining What’s Normal — The Basics of Database Normalization
Tally Ho! — Explore the Varied Uses of Tally Tables

Luis Beltran

Using your database for Machine Learning with ML.NET
Cosmos DB + Azure Functions: A serverless database processing

Gonzalo Bissio

Azure Sql DB Managed instance, a different sql server?

Bob Pusateri

Locks, Blocks & Snapshots: Maximizing Database Concurrency
The ABCs of BDCs: Big Data Clusters for Beginners

Denny Cherry

Table Indexing
Selecting the correct Azure Data Solution for your application
Azure 101

Taiob Ali

Azure SQL Database - Business Continuity During A Disaster
The magnificent seven - Intelligent Query Processing in SQL Server
Performance Optimization with Azure SQL Database

John Deardurff

New Features of SQL Server 2019
Introduction to Query Store