This is a call for speakers for the October 11-12 2018 Reston Azure DataFest at the Microsoft Technology Center, 12012 Sunset Hills Road, 3rd floor, Reston VA 20190. This will be a two-day conference, with a focus on Azure Data Services, Analytics, and Big Data. There will be 4 general sessions on Oct 11, and then in the afternoon we will break into 3 sessions and 3 tracks (9 total afternoon sessions), from 1:15 to 4:30 or so. On day-two we will do 6 long format sessions, broken on 3 rooms, a morning session and then an afternoon session. The session formats are session and workshop. Chose workshop is you are submitting for a 1/2 workshop. Choose session if you are submitting for a technical session - 50 min to 60 min.

The topics of interest include:

• Azure Data Service
• Analytics
• Big Data
• Power BI
• HDInsight
• Stream Analytics
• Event Hubs
• Data Lake Analysis
• Data Lake Store
• Data Factory
• Azure Analysis Services
• SQL Data Warehouse
• Machine Learning
• Azure Bot Service
• Cognitive Services
• Azure Cosmos DB
• Introductory topics and deep dives