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SQL Saturday Boston 2025 (#1119)

SQL Saturday Boston 2025 is a free, in-person event for the tech community organized by SQLSaturday and New England SQL Server User Group (NESQL). The event focuses on Microsoft SQL Server and related technologies, featuring community sessions and networking opportunities. Attendees are encouraged to register early due to a 300-person capacity limit. The eve…

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66Speakers
9Sponsors
63On the bill · sessions
47Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at SQL, in alphabetical order.
Aaron Cutshall, DHA, MSHI
Principal Data Architect, Population Health
Akshata Revankar
Senior Data & Applied Scientist · Microsoft
Alex Whittles
Chief Frog, Data Platform MVP · Purple Frog
Andy Brown
Snowflake Data and AI Architect
Anouk Gorris
Director of Product · Datalogz
Anupama Natarajan
Data and AI Consultant
Belinda Allen
Director of Enablement · iLink Digital
Bob Ward
Principal Architect · Microsoft Azure Data
Brent Ozar
Chris Hyde
Owner and Principal Consultant · Hydrate Technologies LLC
Chris Reyes
Solutions Engineer · Redgate
Christian Henrik Reich
Sr Solution Architect · Microsoft
Collin Tsui
Dean Jurecic
Business Intelligence Analyst, Microsoft Certified, Fabric Community Super User
Doug Leal
VP Consulting, Data & Analytics · CGI
Ed Watson
Ambassador of Mayhem · Innovative Architects
Elayne Jones
Sr. Solutions Engineer · Microsoft
Erin Dempster
Enterprise Architect · Trean Corporation
Erwin de Kreuk
Lead Data and AI, Principal Consultant at InSpark · InSpark
Fabiano Amorim
Principal Consultant · Pythian
Fernando Calero
Data Analytics Consultant
Frank Geisler
Owner and CEO, GDS Business Intelligence GmbH · GDS Business Intelligence GmbH
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
SIOS TechnologyPlatinum
JAMS SchedulerGold
SolarWindsGold
Straight Path SolutionsGold
TessellGold
Centric ConsultingSilver
COZYROCSilver
RedgateBronze
MicrosoftGlobal Sponsor
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Agenda

Selected from 63 sessions on the bill.
  • Saturday, March 21, 2026 11:00 am → 60 min

    AI-Ready: Preparing for and Using AI in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric

  • Saturday, March 21, 2026 11:00 am → 60 min

    Balance in Life with a Career

  • Saturday, March 21, 2026 11:00 am → 60 min

    Build AI applications using SQL database in Fabric

  • Saturday, March 21, 2026 11:00 am → 60 min

    Building agents with Microsoft Foundry IQ as a knowledge source

  • Saturday, March 21, 2026 11:00 am → 60 min

    Getting Started with DuckDB

  • Saturday, March 21, 2026 11:00 am → 60 min

    It's Only a Model - Demystifying Row Level Security in Power BI

  • Saturday, March 21, 2026 11:00 am → 60 min

    Snowflake for SQL Server DBAs

  • Saturday, March 21, 2026 11:00 am → 60 min

    The Integration Blueprint: Choosing the Right Path in Microsoft Fabric

  • Saturday, March 21, 2026 11:00 am → 60 min

    Where to Start With a Messy Model: A Practical Approach

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 47 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

47 companies. two are betting more than once.

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.

Who's in the room
2All threespeak · spons · exh
7Sponsoringsponsor only
38Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Microsoft·Redgate

Speakers by seniority

24% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite23%
  • Founder / Owner46%
  • VP-level23%
  • Director / Head of812%
  • Manager / Lead1320%
  • Engineer · IC2132%
  • Research / Science12%
  • Other roles1523%

Of 66 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01MicrosoftSp·G5V
  2. 02RedgateSp·B1V
  3. 03Centric ConsultingSp·S
  4. 04CozyrocSp·S
  5. 05JAMS SchedulerSp·G
  6. 06SIOS TechnologySp·P
  7. 07SolarWindsSp·G
  8. 08Straight Path SolutionsSp·G
  9. 09TessellSp·G
  10. 10Improving2V
  11. 11SHI2V
  12. 12Amgen1V
  13. 13Apps Associates1V
  14. 14Arnold Analytics1V
Sponsors by tier
platinum1
11% of 9
gold4
44% of 9
silver2
22% of 9
bronze1
11% of 9
global sponsor1
11% of 9
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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