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Data Saturday Sofia 2026
event date
10 Oct 2026
location
Labs Building 2 floor Sofia, Bulgaria
Data Saturdays Sofia is a training event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform.
About this Event
Data Saturday Sofia is an in-person training event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform.
Community speakers will offer cloud, analytics, database administration, business intelligence, AI, and more sessions.
Following the announcement of the ending of PASS, this site has been established by the community as a means to continue events under the Data Saturdays name.
We believe that by sharing these resources and enabling community input, we can provide the same level of events that SQLSaturdays provide.
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Call for Speakers
Call opens at 6:00 PM
12 Dec 2025
Call closes at 11:59 PM
14 Aug 2026
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We will accept sessions , focused on Data Platform (preferable Microsoft Data Platform), but other topics especially based on open source solutions are appreciated.
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Submitted sessions
Gethyn Ellis
- The Hidden Cost of Bad Prompts: A Practical Guide to Prompt Engineering for Data Professionals
- AI Won’t Replace You - But It Will Change How You Work
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Data-Driven Culture
- You can be 10x more productive in Power BI without AI
- I will make ugly dashboard into a professional looking one
- I have always asked for export to Excel. What can you do to avoid this request?
- How to create truly user-friendly self-service Power BI semantic model
- Who is burning your capacity ...and what can you do against it
- Mastering Power BI Model Types - Import, DirectQuery, or Composite?
- From DirectQuery to Direct Lake - Supercharge your live-data reporting for on-premise data
- Fabric Apps – What, Why & How
- Governing the Autonomous Cloud: Securing AI Agents with API Management
- Agentic Cloud Operations: Orchestrating Deployments with Azure Logic Apps Automation
- Securing AI in Azure: Best Practices for the field
- From POC to Enterprise‑Ready: Scaling AI with Microsoft Foundry
- Your Budget Is Still in Excel. Your Agents Don't Know That.
- Storytelling With Data
- Financial reporting with Power BI
- From Actuals to Intent: Designing AI Agents That Understand Business Goals
- Don't Build an Agent. Build an Agent Builder.
- Data & AI Strategy with Microsoft Fabric: From Operating Model to Agentic Execution
- AI by Design: Engineering Systems for the EU AI Act
- Beyond ETL: Building AI-Ready Data Pipelines
- From SQL to Fabric: Building Scalable Real-Time Data Platforms with T-SQL, Eventhouse, and Data Acti
- Cost-Efficient RAG for Microsoft Foundry Agents: External Knowledge with Azure Cosmos DB Vector Sear
- Effective Use of the Work IQ Semantic Graph for Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI Agents
- Why AI Agent Adoption Needs a Cloud Adoption Framework
- Microsoft Work IQ: Making Copilot and AI Agents Understand How Your Company Actually Works
- InfluxDB 3 and the Rise of AI-Native Time-Series Intelligence
Håkan Silfvernagel
- Agentic Systems for developers: Lessons from Microsoft Agent Framework
- Foundry Local: Building and Running AI on Your Own Machine
- More than just a Tool(tip): Elevating Business Context without Visual Noise in Power BI
- Living in a Material(ized) World: Medallion Architecture with Fabric Materialized Lake Views
- Getting Data Into Microsoft Fabric: The Right Tool for the Right Job
- Fabric's AI Toolkit: What Each Piece Does and When to Actually Use It
- Vibe Coding Meets Governance: Modernizing Power BI Standardization
- From Noise to Clarity: Why We Need Visual Standards — An Introduction to IBCS
- My Data is GOOD?
- Ontologies everywhere
- Hacking SQL Server Another Day
- Copilot Calls Shotgun
- SQL Curiosities: Любопитството уби котката
- Hacking Azure AI: Човешка съпротива
- Hacking Windows
- Developing Road Runner Capturing Apps: A Coyote Story Gone Wrong
- Query Execution: Expectation - Reality
- Hidden Gems of SQL Server 2025
- The AI is ready, but you are the problem. How to finally be ready for a real AI.
- Stop right there: You are spending real money on AI. Where is the real value?
- Agents 006: The license to build. Picking the right Microsoft agent for your mission
- Handling Multiple Schemas in Real-Time Streams with Fabric
- Microsoft Foundry Demystified: Building and Evaluating Agents with MCP and Guardrails
- Unlock Real-Time Data with SQL Server 2025 Change Event Stream and Microsoft Fabric
- RAG in the Era of Knowledge Bases: Building Intelligent Retrieval with Microsoft Foundry
- Unlocking Marketing Intelligence with AI Transformations in Fabric
- Vibing with SQL: AI in the Developer’s Seat