Call for Speakers
Call for Speakers is closed. Submissions are no longer possible. Sorry.
in 27 days
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
website
dayofdata.org/jax
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!
Please email Jeff@JeffTaylor.io if you have any questions.
finished 3 days ago
Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM
01 Sep 2025
Call closes at 11:59 PM
31 Mar 2026
Call closes in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04:00) timezone.
Closing time in your timezone () is .
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.
all submitted sessions
publicly listed on this page
194 submissions
Submitted sessions
Erik Darling
- Advanced T-SQL Triage: The Art of Fixing Terrible Code
- Operating & Architecting with Data Agents: Patterns, Risk, and Trust at Scale
- Fabric Data Agent Architecture Patterns: Choosing the Right Consumption Path
- Designing AI‑Ready Data Surfaces: Why Agents Expose Your Weak Spots
- From Semantic Models to Reasoning Systems: Understanding Fabric Data Agents at a Systems Level
- Accelerating Fabric and Power BI Development with MCP Servers
- Securing data in Fabric
- CICD in Fabric using Branching, Merging, Migrations and Rollbacks
- Implementing a Real-Time Intelligence solution with Microsoft Fabric
- Building an End-to-End Azure Databricks Data Pipeline
- Agent Smith from Azure AI Foundry
- ADHD and Agile, Breaking Out of the Shame Loop.
- RAG-as-a-Service: Building Reusable AI Data Pipelines for Enterprise Teams
- Back to the Future: Time Travel in Fabric OneLake
- Building on Shifting Sands: AI Integration in a Fluid World
- Against the Slop: Engineering Creative AI Workflows
- A quick 101 primer of Generative AI
- Real Time Analytics in Microsoft Fabric: From Events to Action
- Copilot Everywhere: How AI Actually Works Across Microsoft Fabric
- Semantic Models as Code: Hands On TMDL with Power BI, PBIP, and VS Code
- Inside Fabric IQ: Ontology, Agents, Graph, and Semantic Models
- AI Agents That Don't Make Things Up: Grounding with Fabric IQ, Semantic Models, and Guardrails
- Fabric Notebooks for SQL People: First Step from T-SQL to Python (Without Panic)
- Microsoft Fabric 101 Your Starting Point for Modern Analytics
- AI Coding Agent in Action: Build SQL Server Deployment Automation in Minutes with GitHub Copilot
Bradley Schacht, Daniel Taylor
- Mastering Fabric Security: Safeguarding Your Analytics
- Combat SQL Server Sprawl
- Protect your database from Ransomware
- SQL Server Security: What Actually Drives Risk in Real Environments
- Keeping SQL Server Running: An Introduction to High Availability and Disaster Recovery
- ACID Properties: An Introduction to SQL Server Internals
- Microsoft Fabric for Beginners: A FrameWork to Start & Flourish
- Unstoppable Fabric: Deep Dive into Scalable, AI-Ready Spark in Microsoft Fabric
- Unstoppable Fabric: Capacity Planning, Smart Alerting & Workload Tuning
- Creating a modern data environment in Microsoft Fabric
- Statistics Matter: How SQL Server Makes Query Decisions
- Hunting Heavy SQL Server Queries with Red Gate
- Why AI Pilots Fail Quietly: The Missing Layers Between Prototype and Business Value
- The Data Professional's Power Toolkit: Free Tools to Supercharge Your Workflow
- Full House: Making Room for Both Lakehouse and Warehouse
- DuckDB 101: No Server. No Setup. Just SQL.
- Data on Fire: A Hands-On Intro to Spark in Fabric
- Analyzing Business Data with T-SQL
- 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
- Databricks 101: Getting Started
- Getting Started with MLOps & LLMOps in Azure Databricks
- Azure Logic Apps Introduction
- VisualStudio SQL Server Projects for Devs
- SQL in the Fabric Era: Translate existing skills into the modern data platform
- SQL Server 2025 - An Introduction
- 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
- Madhav's session on Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Federated Learning and Unlearning
- Your MSSQL environment is vulnerable and I can prove it
- MSSQL Threat Hunting: Paid to Break It - A $100K+ Bug Bounty Journey
- 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
- Microsoft SQL and AMD in the Era of AI
- Azure SQL Hyperscale: The Cloud Database for the era of AI
- What is Power BI?
- Making Power BI Run Faster!!!
- Time Intelligence in Power BI
- Enhancing Power BI with Copilot
- Stop Hoping for a Raise and Start Engineering One
- Power BI 101 - From Zero to Published
- From Hype to Habit - Making AI Work for You
- Exploring Real-Time Horizons with Microsoft Fabric
- Fabric Admin 101: Settings, Tools, and Monitoring That Keep the Lights On and the Bills Down
- 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
- Understanding Azure SQL
- Common SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- Understanding SQL Server Backup and Restore
- How the Internet Stays Online: The Basics of High Availability
- Building Resilient SQL Server HA/DR in a Multi-Cloud World
- The T-SQL JSON Index
- The T-SQL JSON Operators
- Implementing cloud Native ELT Architecture
- From Idea to AI Platform: Building a Data-Driven System as a Solo Data Professional
- Fabric & AIO: Unified Device Data
- Private AI - Home Lab on a budget
- Microsoft Fabric and Azure Health Data Services
- AI Ready with Microsoft Purview and Fabric
- From Legacy to Modern: Your Data Platform Migration Strategy Guide
- Building Scalable Data Warehouses with Microsoft Fabric:
- Unlocking AI-Assisted Database Migration with Amazon Q Developer
- A Modernization Blueprint for Large-Scale Java Applications
- Stop Chasing Growth and Start Leading It
- SQL Triage: Where to Start When the Proverbial Excrement Hits the Rotating Oscillator
- Wait Wait Do Tell Me: A Look At SQL Server Wait Stats
- Infrastructure for Data Professionals: An Introduction
- Data Data Everywhere: A Look At Data Hoarding
- Stupid Stuff I’ve Done in Power BI So You Don’t Have To
- First steps into Postgres for the SQL Server DBA
- Query Hints ... What’s the Worst That Can Happen
- Knowledge Co‑Creation Between Employers and Higher Education Institutions in the Sultanate of Oman:
- Enhancing Stakeholder Collaboration to advance Information Management process within projects
- JSON-LD Is Great (and Here's How We're Improving It): Building jsonld-ex
- Relational Database Design Fundamentals
- SQL Techniques You Should Know
- When email security works and you still get phished
- Unify Your Data Estate with Microsoft Fabric - Without Replatforming
- Configuring Fabric Data Agent to Accelerate Data to Decisions
- So, You Want to Be a SQL Server DBA
- Tame the Beast: Scaling Azure SQL VM with Premium Storage
- Best Practices Assessment (BPA) for SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc
- Queries over encrypted data in Postgres
- Utilize Dataverse to Create Model Driven Apps
- AI-Powered Analytics: Copilot and Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric
- From Iceberg to Intelligence: Your First Lakehouse Data Pipeline For AI
- Zero to Insights: Build an End-To-End Data Pipeline for AI in Snowflake in Under 60 Minutes
- Transforming Power BI Development: Connecting AI to Your Semantic Models with Power BI MCP
- Revenge: The SQL!
- DeepSQL: How To Discover SQL Server Internals
- Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers
- Vibes Aren’t a Strategy: Engineering Context in the Age of AI
- Garbage in, hallucinations out: designing data for GenAI agents
- Moving to Azure SQL from VM-based SQL
- Maximizing SSMS for Developers and DBAs
- Working Genius Uncovered
- Data Platform - Framework Philosophy
- My Toolbox of SQL Tricks
- Architecting Enterprise Cloud Transformation: Innovations in Cloud-Native Automation & Multi-Cluster
- Keynote: Legacy Modernization: Turning Enterprise Risk Into Controlled, Agile Transformation
- 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
- Rearchitecting Financial Data Processing for Petabyte-Scale Allocation
- Scalable Customer Lifecycle Intelligence
- 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
- Databricks Visualization for Power BI Developers
- Beyond Traditional DBA Practices - Transforming T-SQL Scripting Expertise into AI Agents
- Hierarchical Agentic RAG for Cloud Neutral Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Reasoning.
- “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
- Building Agentic AI Workflows with xAI on Vertex AI: From Code to Action
- My Brain Has Blue Screened - Let’s Laugh
- Intro to PowerShell with dbatools for the DBA
- T-SQL to PostgreSQL Leveraging Amazon Q CLI and AWS DMS SC
- HA/DR options on Amazon RDS and RDS Custom for SQL Server
- Why AI Fails at the Data Layer and How to Architect It Right
- 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
- SQL database in Fabric - Vector Search and RAG
- 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
- Why you should build your Power BI reports differently for Copilot!?!
- Why you need Fabric IQ as the Foundation for your AI!
- Let’s Architect Your App: Microsoft Dataverse 101
- 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
- Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations
- Modern Data Quality Practices For Your Analytics Environment
- Building a Modern Data Vault on Snowflake with dbt & AutomateDV
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- From Queries to Conversations: How Text-to-SQL AI Tools Are Redefining Data Access
- Achieving GxP Compliance with AWS RDS SQL Server
- AI Middleware Mesh: GNN-Driven Compliance & Performance in Multi-Cloud