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Raleigh Day of Data 2026

aleigh Day of Data is a free one-day training event for IT professionals, data specialists, and students interested in the Microsoft data platform space, including SQL Server, Azure, data science, data engineering, AI, and more.

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23Voices

1Underwriters

0Exhibitors

24On the bill · sessions

20Companies · in total

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The Voices

Programmed at Raleigh, in alphabetical order.

Alan Ferrandiz

Data Scientist

Angel Ceballos

Founder and AI Accountability Architect, SeraphicGuardian · SeraphicGuardian

Carlos Chacon

Director of Data Solutions, Marathon Consulting · Marathon Consulting

Courtney Woolum

Sr. Database Administrator · Ohio

Elaine Cahill

AI Data Architect & Software Engineer · ecahill.com

Jared Poche

Database Engineer · ChannelAdvisor

Jeff Mlakar

Software Engineer - SMTS · Salesforce

John Kerski

Director · Client First Technologies

Jonathan Stewart

Principal Analytics Consultant · Aimpoint Digital

Kayla Boor

Site Reliability Engineer · SoftPro

Leslie Welch

Principal Architect, Data & AI · SHI

Louis Davidson

Database design writer, speaker, and doer.

Mala Mahadevan

SQL Server DBA/Database Engineer · ChannelAdvisor Corp

Mark Wilkinson

Field Solutions Architect · Pure Storage

Michael Wall

Architect/DBA · 3Cloud Consulting

Naga Chand Putta

Senior Software Engineer · MissionSquare Retirement

Nihal Kaul

Lead Software Engineer · Revscale AI

Peter Shore

Data professional

Rajesh Vayyala

Data Architect

Ray Kim

Technical writer and trainer · The Research Foundation for SUNY

Solomon Rutzky

Head Honcho · Sql Quantum Lift

Tony Wilhelm

Senior Consultant / Technology Lead · Moser Consulting

— and 1 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

AMD & MicrosoftGlobal Sponsor

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The Programme

Selected from 24 sessions on the bill.

1:00 pm → 60 min
Engineering Cost-Efficient Cloud Architectures for Financial Data Workloads
1:00 pm → 60 min
Immutable SQL Server - Pets vs Cows
1:00 pm → 60 min
Microsoft SQL and AMD in the Era of AI
1:00 pm → 60 min
The Fabric Fast Track Workbook: Deploy Enterprise Analytics in 90 Days
11:00 am → 60 min
Accidental friends: how a DBA and an SRE worked together to optimize the system.
11:00 am → 60 min
One Bite at a Time: Deleting Millions of Rows from Production Systems
11:00 am → 60 min
Tech Writing for Techies: A Primer
11:00 am → 60 min
The Self-Documenting Fabric: Automating Metadata with OpenAI and Microsoft Fabric
2:15 pm → 60 min
Regular Expressions: Beyond the Basics (Slightly)

Intermission

Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 20 companies, parsed from the program.

“Twenty companies in attendance.”

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

№ 01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House

0All threespeak · spons · exh

1Sponsoringsponsor only

0Exhibitingexhibitor only

19Speakingspeaker only

№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

13% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

Founder / Owner14%
Director / Head of29%
Manager / Lead417%
Engineer · IC1043%
Research / Science14%
Other roles522%

Of 23 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room

№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier

global sponsor1

100% of 1

Raleigh Day of Data 2026

Engineering Cost-Efficient Cloud Architectures for Financial Data Workloads

Immutable SQL Server - Pets vs Cows

Microsoft SQL and AMD in the Era of AI

The Fabric Fast Track Workbook: Deploy Enterprise Analytics in 90 Days

Accidental friends: how a DBA and an SRE worked together to optimize the system.

One Bite at a Time: Deleting Millions of Rows from Production Systems

Tech Writing for Techies: A Primer

The Self-Documenting Fabric: Automating Metadata with OpenAI and Microsoft Fabric

Regular Expressions: Beyond the Basics (Slightly)

“Twenty companies in attendance.”