Call for Speakers

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Day of Data Jacksonville 2026

event starts

1 May 2026

event ends

2 May 2026

location

University Of North Florida - UNF Jacksonville, Florida, United States


Come speak at Day of Data in Jacksonville! May 2nd, 2026. 


This will be Jacksonville's 18th Data Conference!


We are looking for speakers for Saturday for 1-hour sessions and also for 2 all-day pre-cons. The speaker call is open until March 31st.


We plan to have a complete 101 Track for all data-related topics. If you have any 101 sessions, please submit those.


Please also indicate if you would be willing to present in more than one session.


This is an IN-PERSON event at UNF in Jacksonville, Florida!


https://dayofdata.org/jax


Please email Jeff@JeffTaylor.io if you have any questions.

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31 Mar 2026

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Come speak at Day of Data in Jacksonville! May 2nd, 2026.

This will be Jacksonville's 18th Data Conference!

We are looking for speakers for Saturday for 1-hour sessions and also for 2 all-day pre-cons. The speaker call is open until March 31st.

We plan to have a complete 101 Track for all data-related topics. If you have any 101 sessions, please submit those.

Please also indicate if you would be willing to present in more than one session.

This is an IN-PERSON event at UNF in Jacksonville, Florida!

https://dayofdata.org/jax

Please email Jeff@JeffTaylor.io if you have any questions.


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105 submissions
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Rob Volk
  • Revenge: The SQL!
  • DeepSQL: How To Discover SQL Server Internals
Tim Rayburn
  • Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers
  • Vibes Aren’t a Strategy: Engineering Context in the Age of AI
Marilina Trevisan
  • Garbage in, hallucinations out: designing data for GenAI agents
Karunakar Kotha
  • Moving to Azure SQL from VM-based SQL
Nem Schlecht
  • Maximizing SSMS for Developers and DBAs
Warren Sifre
  • Working Genius Uncovered
  • Data Platform - Framework Philosophy
Victor Ivantsov
  • My Toolbox of SQL Tricks
Juan Pablo Tarquino
  • VisualStudio SQL Server Projects for Devs
Siva Kantha Rao Vanama
  • Architecting Enterprise Cloud Transformation: Innovations in Cloud-Native Automation & Multi-Cluster
Dr. S. Isele
  • Keynote: Legacy Modernization: Turning Enterprise Risk Into Controlled, Agile Transformation
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Mou Rakshit
  • Designing Conversational BI: How Databricks AI/BI Genie Unlocks Self-Service Insights
  • Agentic AI in Finance: Governed Metrics, Open Access, and Automated Action on Databricks
  • Real-Time Intelligence: Turning Streaming Data into Smart Decisions
Shishir Tewari
  • Rearchitecting Financial Data Processing for Petabyte-Scale Allocation
  • Scalable Customer Lifecycle Intelligence
Fabiano Amorim
  • 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
Alex Merced
  • SQL For Everything: Structure, Unstructured, SQLServer, Onelake
  • Sub-second Power BI Dashboards Directly on the Data in Your ADLS Storage Using Dremio
  • IceFrame: A Python Toolkit for Building and Operating Iceberg Data Pipelines
  • Agentic Analytics: Why Your AI Isn’t the Problem—Your Data Foundation Is
Terence (T.J.) Brown
  • Databricks Visualization for Power BI Developers
Sudhir Amin
  • Beyond Traditional DBA Practices - Transforming T-SQL Scripting Expertise into AI Agents
Jason Romans
  • Full House: Making Room for Both Lakehouse and Warehouse
  • From Desktop to Notebook: Getting Started with DuckDB
  • Data on Fire: A Hands-On Intro to Spark in Fabric
Abhijit Ubale
  • Hierarchical Agentic RAG for Cloud Neutral Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Reasoning.
John Miner
  • “Moving on up, to the Azure cloud, with a PostgreSQL database in the sky.”
  • Many ways to track changes in SQL Server
  • Understanding file formats within the Fabric Lakehouse
  • Fabric Data Engineering with Python Notebooks
  • Building a reporting warehouse using Fabric
Mohamed Mortadha Manai
  • Building Agentic AI Workflows with xAI on Vertex AI: From Code to Action
Tony Wilhelm
  • My Brain Has Blue Screened - Let’s Laugh
  • Intro to PowerShell with dbatools for the DBA
David Seis
  • PowerBI for the accidental Data Anlayst
  • Intro to PowerShell Automation for the SQL Server DBA
  • PowerShell as the Data Platform Glue: Standardizing Runs, Logs, and Failures Across Any Tool
Minesh Chande
  • T-SQL to PostgreSQL Leveraging Amazon Q CLI and AWS DMS SC
  • HA/DR options on Amazon RDS and RDS Custom for SQL Server
Annemarie Merchant
  • Getting Started with Copilot in Microsoft Fabric
Rajesh Vayyala
  • Why AI Fails at the Data Layer and How to Architect It Right
Aaron Cutshall, DHA, MSHI
  • SQL Team Six: How to Build Effective Teams
  • Leadership Essentials for Data Teams
  • How to Give a Technical Presentation
  • An Enterprise Data Architecture Framework
  • A Postgres Developer's Snowflake Survival Guide
Pinal Dave
  • "Run Query Run" - A Fresh Look at SQL Wait Stats
  • AI Bulletproof DBA: Thriving with SQL Performance in the AI Era
David Bermingham
  • Building Resilient SQL Server HA/DR in a Multi-Cloud World
Sukhwant Kaur
  • Build AI applications using SQL database in Fabric
Christopher Wilson
  • Your Piece of the Tech Pie: Strategies for Professional Fulfillment and Impact
  • From Adversity to Agile: Unleashing Your Inner Butterfly in Tech
  • Optimal Decisions, Optimal Code: A Mindset for Technical Excellence
Steve Jones
  • Using Data API Builder to Speed Up Application Development
  • Running a Local GenAI Model on your Laptop
  • Balance in Life with a Career
Trey Johnson
  • Why you should build your Power BI reports differently for Copilot!?!
  • Why you need Fabric IQ as the Foundation for your AI!
Kristyna Ferris
  • Mastering the Content Snowball - Turning Tiny Efforts into Big Opportunities
  • The Fellowship of the Star Schema: Transforming OLTP Data for Power BI
  • Decoding Fabric Licensing
Kevin Feasel
  • Applying Forensic Accounting Techniques using SQL and Python
  • Hello, Computer: Language Recognition in Azure
  • Now You Have Two Problems: Regular Expressions in SQL Server 2025
  • Data Virtualization in SQL Server
Charles Lakes II
  • Let’s Architect Your App: Microsoft Dataverse 101
Lenore Flower
  • Talk Data to Me: Essential concepts for Power BI & Fabric Practitioners
  • Paginated Reports 101 for the Power BI Veteran
  • Power BI Paginated Reporting Crash Course
  • Make Managed Self Service BI work for you with Power BI & Purview (the BI Mullet approach)
  • Learn Fabric Lakehouse Security Through Your Existing Power BI Skills
Andy Levy
  • Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations
Andy Leonard, Stephen Leonard
  • AI + Fabric Data Engineering: The Training You Wish You'd Had Six Months Ago
Gilberto Hernandez
  • Zero to Insights: Build an End-To-End Data Pipeline for AI in Snowflake in Under 60 Minutes
Preston Mesarvey
  • Modern Data Quality Practices For Your Analytics Environment
  • Building a Modern Data Vault on Snowflake with dbt & AutomateDV
James Serra
  • Learning to present and becoming good at it
  • Enhancing your career: Building your personal brand
  • Using Generative AI on Structured Data (to query or modify data)
Matt Gordon
  • Transactions Are Events: Event-Driven Architecture On Data In Motion
  • The SQL Database You Know, The AI Skills You Need To Grow
  • Handling Data in Motion Without (much) Code
  • Agentic AI in a Chatbot Disguise: Fabric Data Agents
Hugo Kornelis
  • T-SQL User-Defined Functions, or: How to kill performance in one, easy step
  • Performance and execution plan improvements in SQL Server 2025
  • Normalization beyond Third Normal Form
  • Improve your Database Performance in Seven Simple Steps
  • Five stages of grief - internals of a hash spill
  • Debugging without debugger: investigating SQL Server's internal structures
  • Approximate functions: How do they work?
  • Here’s the execution plan … now what?
  • Execution plans ... where do I start?
  • Execution plans explained
  • Execution Plans in Depth
Belinda Allen
  • Fabric SQL for the Citizen Developer: From Queries to Data Products
  • Fabric Fast Track End-to-End Implementation in 60 Minutes
  • AI-Ready: Preparing for and Using AI in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric
  • PreCon: Getting Started with Microsoft Fabric – A Hands-On Day of Discovery
Vin Mitty, PhD
  • From Queries to Conversations: How Text-to-SQL AI Tools Are Redefining Data Access
Selvamurugan Ramamoorthy
  • Achieving GxP Compliance with AWS RDS SQL Server
Srikanth Reddy Jaidi
  • AI Middleware Mesh: GNN-Driven Compliance & Performance in Multi-Cloud