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SQL Saturday Austin 2025

event starts

2 May 2025

event ends

3 May 2025

location

Austin, Texas, United States


Join us and speak at SQL Saturday Austin on May 3rd, 2025.

We are looking for speakers for 1-hour sessions and one all-day workshop. 

This is a LIVE and In-Person event at the Microsoft office in Austin, Texas.

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Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM

10 Feb 2025

Call closes at 11:59 PM

14 Mar 2025

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Hello Speakers,

This is an in-person event. If you have any questions, please email John at John @ProcureSQL.com.

Code of Conduct: https://sqlsaturday.com/coc/

Please submit your session(s) only if you are available to present the session in person in Austin, TX, on Saturday, May 3rd, 2025, and agree to the code of conduct mentioned in the above link.

Please submit sessions focused on Microsoft Data Platform, as this is an SQL Saturday. Sessions can be on PowerBI, Fabric, Data Warehousing, SQL Server, Performance Tuning, Data movement, data visualization, data modeling, cloud data analytics, or anything related to SQL Server.

Regular sessions on Saturday are 60 minutes, including delivery and demos (if any). The all-day workshop will be on Friday, May 2nd, 2025. It would run from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with an hour-long lunch break. Please submit the workshop session abstracts before Feb 28th, 2025 so we can select and start marketing your workshop before the regular call for speakers is closed.

Please include the session title, complete description of the session, level (100, 200, 300, 400, 500), Target Audience, speaker name(s), speaker bio(s)



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Submitted sessions
Ginger Grant
  • Building transformational Fabric Pipelines with Spark
  • Implementing Medallion Architecture in Microsoft Fabric
  • Understanding and Using AI for the Data Professional
  • Creating a Fabric Environment From Start to Finish
Tim Mitchell
  • SQL Server and T-SQL Developer Tricks I Wish I’d Known 20 Years Ago
Ryan Adams
  • Data Analytics Ingestion with Fabric Mirroring
  • Availability Group Listener Best Practices
  • MSDTC Highly Available
Ben Miller
  • SQL Server Migrations made easy with PowerShell
  • The Ultimate Guide to Ola Hallengren's Maintenance Solution
  • SQL Server Configuration Best Practices
  • Master SQL Server 2022 Contained Availability Groups
  • PowerShell DBA Dream dbatools Workshop
Kevin Arnold
  • Migrating Tableau to Power BI backed by Fabric
Alvaro Costa-Neto
  • "Mastering PostgreSQL: Advanced Techniques for SQL Server DBAs"
Justin Mannhardt
  • Threading the Needle: Mastering Microsoft Fabric Adoption
Suman Neela
  • Revolutionizing Payor Ops with Real-Time Data for Better Claims Processing & Eligibility Checks
Jeff Iannucci
  • Fixing Your Query Antipatterns
  • Defending Your SQL Server against Ransomware
Naveen Krishnan
  • The Evolution of AI: Agents, Autonomy, and Beyond
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Kevin Kline
  • Communication Skills for the Technology Pro
  • Query Tuning Internals for the Advanced SQL Developer
  • Four Habits of Highly Successful Database and Admin Teams
  • SQL Server Internals - 2025
Joey Dantoni
  • Building SQL databases in Fabric for Dashboards and Datamarts: Design, Indexing, and Compression
  • How to Manage Your Azure Infrastructure Like an Expert: Top Best Practices
Steve Jones
  • Using Data API Builder to Speed Up Application Development
  • Architecting Zero Downtime Database Deployments
Popoola Isiaka Olamilekan
  • Implementing Data Warehousing Solutions with Microsoft Fabric
John Deardurff
  • Getting Started: Writing Stored Procedures
  • Business Continuity in Azure SQL Databases
Russel Loski
  • Automate, Optimize, Validate: PowerShell for Power BI & SSAS Success
  • Secure Asynchronous ETL Using OAuth 2.0 in Azure Data Factory
  • Accessing Government API Data using Power BI
  • Jumpstart Your Power BI Skills: A Handson Workshop
Grant Fritchey
  • Common Backup Problems and How To Solve Them
  • Identify Poorly Performing Queries - Three Tools You Already Own
  • Learning PostgreSQL as a SQL Server User
Saumya Smriti
  • Unlocking the potential of Conversational agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio
Sudhir Amin
  • Real-time stream analytics from your transactional workload on Amazon RDS
Mike Byrd
  • A HI (Human Intelligence) Technique to Manage Missing Index Hints
Jonathan Stewart
  • Data Visualization: How to truly tell a great story!
  • Fabric Copilot: Consumption and Cost Demystified
  • Lifecycle Management and Git Integration in Microsoft Fabric
  • Building Scalable Data Warehouses with Microsoft Fabric:
Pedro Martinez
  • Fabric Fundamentals: An End-to-End Introduction
Lee Markum
  • Modern SQL Server Features That Make Life Better
Paresh Motiwala
  • Verbal Ninja for DBAs
  • 20 Stupid Things To Avoid as a DBA
  • Using Digital Forensics for Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Dominick Raimato
  • Ingesting REST API data with Microsoft Fabric
  • Extending Power BI with Power Automate
  • From the Audience to a Speaker on the Stage
  • Simulating Scenarios with Power BI
Akshay Mittal
  • Bringing DevOps to SQL Server: Automating Database Deployments and Performance Tuning
Alan Ferrandiz
  • Data-Driven Decision Excellence: Integrating Decision Analysis and Data Analytics in Business Cases
  • Visual Symphony: Crafting Elegant Visualizations with R and Power BI
  • Microsoft Fabric: Data analytics for the era of AI
  • Unified DataOps: Integrating Power BI, Azure DevOps, and Git for Advanced Analytics Workflows
Surendra Lakkaraju
  • Revolutionizing E-Commerce Fraud Detection: Real-Time AI Risk Scoring with ML & Bayesian Networks
Kevin Pereira
  • Streamlining DataOps in Fabric: Implementing Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines for Fabric SQL DB
Minesh Chande
  • Unlock Full Control: Accessing your Managed SQL Server Database on AWS Cloud
  • Resiliency and Availability options for SQL Server in AWS Cloud
Rick Lowe
  • First steps into Postgres for the SQL Server DBA
  • Keeping your DBA Happy. Why some Practices Drive DBAs Nuts.
  • Why Should I Care About ... The Plan Cache
Joseph Fleming
  • Transactional Replication - From Expletives to Excellence
Chaudhary Ahmad Ali
  • Direct Lake Best Practices and Lessons Learned from the Past Year