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Data Saturday Croatia 2026

event date

13 Jun 2026

location

Hotel International Zagreb, Croatia


Data Saturday Croatia is a one day event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform.

Organizers

This event is organized by Damir Matešić, MVP, Domagoj Piškur & Dean Savović with the help of volunteers from the SQL Server User Group Croatia.

Event venue

The event will be in person, on Saturday, June 13, 2026, at the Hotel International, Miramarska Cesta 24, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia.

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Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM

01 Oct 2025

Call closes at 11:59 PM

31 Dec 2025

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Important

The event will be in person, on Saturday, June 13, 2026, at the Hotel International, Miramarska Cesta 24, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia. Please submit a session only if you plan to come to Croatia.

Topics

Any Microsoft Data Platform-related technical or non-technical subject with emphasis on MS SQL Server.

Sessions

Session Length:

  • 60 minute - standard session
  • 120 minutes - extended, in deep session

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

Tracks: Please choose the track most appropriate to your session from among: Administration, BI & Analytics, Development, Other

Difficulty level: Introductory and overview, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert

Maybe, we will host one slot lasting 60 minutes panel, "ask the expert". If you want to participate in the panel, please mark it on the form. In each room 2-3 speakers on DEV, Performance Tunning and BI.




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78 submissions
Submitted sessions
Peter Kruis
  • Waitstats for the accidental DBA
  • SQL Bad practices caught in the wild
  • An introduction to Extended Events
  • Query Store Basics: A DBA’s Best Friend
Dwarka Rao
  • Stop Leaking Secrets: Vaultify Your PostgreSQL
Marisol Steinau, Sebastian Steinau
  • Git Happens: Lessons Learned from Introducing Git in a Large Team
Kev Chant
  • Applying DevOps practices to your Power BI deployments in Microsoft Fabric
  • The ultimate showcase for implementing CI/CD in Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps
Frank Geisler
  • Building an Azure Data Resources with Biceps
  • Releasing the Potential of Microsoft Real-Time Intelligence through AI Agents
  • Automating Fabric with the PowerShell Module FabricTools
  • Real-Time Intelligence with Microsoft Fabric
Augustin Dokoza Bukvic
  • Fabric Uncorked
Carles Arnal
  • From Edge to Cloud, Creating Data Pipelines Using Open-Source Technologies
  • End-to-end security for data platforms: Lessons from Strimzi, Apicurio, and Keycloak
Gabi Münster
  • OneLake Security - Centralized Data Security for Microsoft Fabric
Gabi Münster, Thierry Houy
  • OneLake Security for the Power BI Developer
Sarath Sasidharan, Gabi Münster
  • Governing Fabric - Who needs what?
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Vitthal Mirji
  • Type-safe Data Engineering: Compile-time Data contracts & Fiber-safe Data pipelines
Francesco Bergamaschi
  • Understanding CALCULATE, the queen of all DAX functions
  • User-Defined Functions (UDFs) in Power BI: overview and applications
  • Understanding DAX Pillars
Jo David
  • A wizards guide to using semantic link for Powe BI in middle earth
  • Fabric Adoption Roadmap: Lessons from Napoleon Bonaparte
Endika Pascual
  • Building Third Normal Form Models in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse
  • Event-Driven Data Vault in Microsoft Fabric: From Stream to Structure
Erik Darling
  • A Fistful of Parameters: Take Care and Control of Unstable Plans
  • For a Few Rows More: Mastering Row Goals in SQL Server
Anastazija Crnkovic
  • Advanced DAX for Analytical Insights in Power BI with Visualization Best Practices
Matthias Nohl
  • Unraveling Cost Mysteries: Navigating Data Governance with Microsoft Purview
  • Data Governance in Fabric: When to Use OneLake Catalog, Purview, or Both
Matthias Nohl, Tim Spannagel
  • Securing Fabric from Lakehouse to Report – Why One Security Matters to Everyone
  • SAP to Fabric: A Step‑by‑Step Integration Playbook for S/4HANA & ECC
  • From Silos to Synergy: How Snowflake and Fabric Deliver Open, Interoperable Data Architectures
  • Beyond the Podium: A Data Architect's Guide to Lakehouse Architectures in Microsoft Fabric
Ojal Mapuskar
  • Power BI Copilot Demystified: From Overview to Effective Use
Mladen Prajdic
  • SQL Server 2025 Optimized Locking
  • SQL Server Accelerated Database Recovery
  • SQL Server 2025 Vector Data Type and AI Models
  • Thē wönderfűl wôrld of ćollåtions, eñcodingß and téxt sţoræge
Reitse Eskens
  • What they should have told me about being a DBA
  • SQL Copilot, what the query is this!?
  • Loadtesting Fabric II, the sequel
Cristian Prifti
  • Getting Started with the TMDL View
  • Organizational Themes and Visual Styles in Power BI
Cristian Prifti, Bogdan Donose
  • Driving Action: Power BI and Power Apps Integration via Microsoft Fabric
Oskari Heikkinen
  • User Data Functions: Development, Testing, and Integration
  • Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric: Architecture Deep Dive
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
  • Now Where Did THAT Estimate Come From?
  • Normalization beyond Third Normal Form
  • Debugging without debugger: investigating SQL Server's internal structures
  • Improve your Database Performance in Seven Simple Steps
  • Advanced Indexing
  • Five stages of grief - internals of a hash spill
  • Approximate functions: How do they work?
  • Hash Match, the Operator
  • Here’s the execution plan … now what?
  • Execution plans ... where do I start?
Magnus Ahlkvist
  • Get Started with tSQLt
  • Develop and deploy SQL Server databases using database projects
Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen
  • A Game of Hierarchies – Hierarchies in Power BI and Fabric
  • Taming Key-Value Tables in Microsoft Fabric: From Flexibility to Reporting-Ready
  • Power BI Data Modelling for the SQL Data Engineer
  • Power BI and Big Tables: Optimizing Performance with Hybrid Approaches
  • My Perfect Date (Table): Building Time Intelligence the Right Way
  • Do You Speak English? Localized Reports with Power BI
  • DAX Demystified: 5 Key Lessons Every Beginner Needs to Learn Early
  • Become a Guardian of the Star Schema with Microsoft Fabric
Brian Bønk
  • Awesome RTI session - stay tuned
  • Eventhouse - medallion architecture in sub seconds
  • The second visualization tool from Microsoft - is it actually better than PowerBI?
  • Ups and downs on PowerBI and Real-Time intelligence
Uwe Ricken
  • How to properly handle LOB data in SQL Server
  • Rebuild or Reorganize your Indexes – what’s the best approach?
  • How to handle Timeseries with Microsoft SQL Server
  • Demystifying Clustered Indexes in SQL Server