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Boston Data and AI Saturday 2026

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Boston Data and AI Saturday 2026

event date

3 Oct 2026

location

5 Wayside Road Burlington, Massachusetts, United States


The Boston Data and AI Saturday event will be hosted at the Microsoft Technology Center in Burlington, MA.

This global, community-driven initiative offers a free day of technical training for Information Technology speakers and professionals, covering a wide range of subjects including SQL Server, Artificial Intelligence, Career & Professional Growth, Data Science, Analytics & Data Engineering, and more.


Code of Conduct for Boston Data and AI Saturday.

open, 17 days left
Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM

16 Apr 2026

Call closes at 11:59 PM

31 May 2026

Call closes in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04:00) timezone.
Closing time in your timezone () is .

This is an in-person event.

We are now accepting submissions for one-hour, regular session talks. We welcome topics across the entire Microsoft Data Platform, with a strong focus on how modern data technologies and AI are converging.

We assume that robust security and governance are not separate disciplines but are fundamental components of every topic. Submissions should reflect this principle, demonstrating how to build solutions that are not only powerful but also secure and well-managed.

Share your knowledge on subjects such as:

  • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: From foundational models to building intelligent, AI-driven applications.
  •  Unified Analytics & Data Engineering: Best practices for using Microsoft Fabric, and defining the role of SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Cosmos DB in the age of AI.
  • Advanced Data Science: Techniques and methodologies that drive business value.
  • SQL Server, Managed Instance, AzureSQL Hyperscale, PostgreSQL, CosmosDB
  • Career & Professional Growth: Leadership, personal branding (speaking, blogging), networking, and maintaining mental wellness in a fast-paced industry.


Presenters will be informed of the final session schedule by June 15th, 2026, if their submissions have been accepted. Accepted speakers will also receive an email with a discount code for lunch when they register as an attendee through Eventbrite.

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79 submissions
Submitted sessions
Christian Cote
  • Accelerating Lakehouse ETL with Fabric’s Low‑Code Tooling
Merin Gazell
  • Orchestrating Multi-Agent AI Workflows with Squad
Andy Yun
  • A Practical Introduction to Vector Search in SQL Server 2025
  • Is Storage to Blame? A Practical Deep Dive into I/O
George Walters
  • Migrate SaaS application with SQL Server to the cloud!
Beth Iaciofano N/A
  • From Doubt to Trust: Building Self-Trust for Confident Decision-Making
Andrew Madson
  • Data-Centric AI: Accelerate Success with Apache Iceberg Data Products
  • The Who, What, and Why of Data Lake Table Formats
  • Iceberg for Agents - Elevate Data to Context For Modern AI Systems
Sonal Kalra
  • Mindful Leadership in the Age of Data and AI
Balazs Horvath
  • Agents 006: The license to build. Picking the right Microsoft agent for your mission
Swapna Chimanchodkar
  • AI Driven Digital and Process Transformation in Sepsis Management
Sonali Kothari
  • AI-Driven Automation for Modern CCAR Reporting, Risk Analytics, and Regulatory Compliance
  • AI-Powered Metadata Management for Scalable Financial Crime Detection and Compliance
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Akhil Sharma
  • From Intent-Based to Reasoning-Based: Migrating Assistant Actions to Agents
Kevin Feasel
  • Microsoft Foundry for the Skeptical Developer
  • The Basics of Speech and Natural Language Processing
  • Hello, Computer: An Introduction to Azure AI Speech
Sajitha Sritharan
  • The Sponsorship Gap: Why Mentorship Isn't Enough for Women in Technical Roles
  • Your AI Agent Is Dumb (And How Semantic Kernel Fixes It)
  • Semantic Layers: The Missing Foundation for Agentic AI in Enterprise
Juan Pablo Garcia Gonzalez
  • Solving AI Context Window Overflow: Implementing the Memory Pointer Pattern for Token-Bounded Agent
Indraneel Borgohain
  • From Clinical LLMs to Trustworthy Clinical AGI: Building Safe AI Driven Healthcare Systems
Jaydeep Taralkar
  • Responsible AI in Finance: Expanding Financial Inclusion Through Ethical Data Innovation
Krishna Sai Sevilimedu Veeravalli
  • Micro-Operating System Paradigms for AI-Driven Cloud Data Platforms and Distributed Analytics
David Seis
  • Approval Flows That Think: Adding AI Decision Support to Human-in-the-Loop Workflows
  • Intro to PowerShell Automation for the SQL Server DBA
Dominick Raimato
  • Extending Power BI with Power Automate
  • Fabric and Copilot Studio - A Perfect Pair
  • Hey Real-Time Intelligence - should I go outside today?
Gethyn Ellis
  • The Hidden Cost of Bad Prompts: A Practical Guide to Prompt Engineering for Data Professionals
Jeremy Doran
  • Storytelling: Your Secret Superpower
  • Lost in Translation: How to Communicate with People Who Think Nothing Like You
  • D$I : The Business Case for Cognitive Diversity
Ramprasad reddy Mittana
  • AI Driven HR Transformation: A Scalable Roadmap Delivering Measurable Impact
Srinivasa Rao Gunda
  • Scalable AI Framework for Intelligent Financial Decision Making in Wealth Systems
Thomas Johnson
  • From alert to action: redesigning your observability stack for agentic AI
  • Your agentic stack has a day-2 problem
Sudhir Amin
  • Autonomous Database Operations using Agentic AI for SQL Server
  • Beyond Traditional DBA Practices - Transforming T-SQL Script Expertise into AI Agents
John Miner
  • Many ways to track changes in SQL Server
  • Fabric Data Engineering with Python Notebooks
  • Introduction to the data build tool (dbt)
Selvamurugan Ramamoorthy
  • From Compliance to Intelligence: Building GxP-Ready Data Platforms with SQL Server
Nilton Kazuyuki Ueda
  • Databricks Lakeflow: Simplifying Data Integration for the AI Era
  • Unlocking Databricks AI/BI Genie: Redefining Business Intelligence with Generative Intelligence
Edward Pollack
  • Parameter Sniffing: Everything You Have Been Told is Wrong!
  • Advanced OLAP Optimization with Columnstore Indexes
  • My Favorite New T-SQL in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL Database
Ray Kim
  • Networking 101: Building professional relationships
  • I lost my job! Now what?!? A survival guide for the unemployed
  • SQL101 -- Learning about SQL: Building a Sandbox Using the Free Developer Edition
Karthikeyan Sundar Raj
  • Embedding Generative AI into Financial Data Platforms with Trust and Governance
Chetan Nandikanti, Alvaro Costa-Neto
  • Autonomous Database Operations using Agentic AI for SQL Server
Alvaro Costa-Neto
  • Mastering PostgreSQL: Advanced Techniques for SQL Server DBAs
Christopher Schmidt
  • Beyond the Star Schema: Augmenting Power BI with an Ontology and Real-Time Events in Fabric
Tomislav Hlupić
  • Degrees, Diplomas or Digital Badges – ways to formalize your education
  • Building smarter pipelines with metadata and a dash of Fabric
  • Airflow & dbt: The hipsters of data integration meet Azure
Sunil Kadimdiwan
  • AI‑Powered Analytics using Power BI MCP Server and Claude
Belinda Allen
  • Beyond the Algorithm: Women, Diversity & the Future of Tech
  • Model Smart, Perform Fast: Power BI Data Modeling for Performance & AI Readiness
  • From Wild West to Well-Run: An Introduction to Power BI Governance
Jean Joseph
  • Designing for Speed: Mastering Spark SQL Joins, Partitions, and Execution Plans
  • NotebookUtils in Action: Orchestrating Reliable ETL Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric
  • Vibe Coding in Microsoft Fabric: Transform Data Faster with Natural Language
Nirmal Jingar
  • Building Autonomous Decision Systems for Real World Operations
Madiha Shakil Mirza
  • From MCP to A2A: Building the Foundation for Enterprise Agentic Systems
Marcelo Bursztein
  • Human-Governed Agentic AI: Turning Fragmented Legacy Data into Trusted Workflows
Maria Alejandra Restrepo
  • From Chaos to the Couch: Bring Your Data to Therapy to Kickstart Governance with a Real Roadmap
Mou Rakshit
  • Designing Conversational BI: How Azure Databricks AI/BI Genie Unlocks Self-Service Insights
  • AI-Powered Real-Time Intelligence: Transforming Data-Driven Decisions with Microsoft Fabric & GenAI
  • From Data to Decisions: Building Agentic Construction Intel using Azure Databricks Agent Bricks
Jonathan Stewart
  • Governance as Code: Triage an Inherited Fabric Tenant
  • Autonomous Power BI Governance with Microsoft's Modeling MCP
  • Building Scalable Data Warehouses with Microsoft Fabric:
Paresh Motiwala
  • The 48 Laws of Power: Essential Lessons for Techhies
  • PostGres: The Elephant in the Room You Can't Ignore
  • Getting and Nailing AI Interviews