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Boston Data and AI Saturday 2026

Boston Data and AI Saturday 2026 is a free in-person event for the tech community, organized by SQLSaturday and the New England SQL Server User Group (NESQL). The event features pre-cons, technical sessions, and networking opportunities for database professionals, architects, and developers, particularly those working with SQL Server and PostgreSQL in hybrid…

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42Speakers
7Sponsors
175On the bill · sessions
24Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Boston, in alphabetical order.
Abdullah Mamun
Program Manager at Microsoft SQL Server · Microsoft
Adam Machanic
Head of Data, Stealth Startup
Amy Abel
Senior Consultant at Straight Path · Straight Path
Andrew Madson
Head of Developer Relations at Fivetran | Author of 'Apache Polaris - The Definitive Guide'. Authoring 'AI-Ready Data' for Wiley and 'Data Transformation' for O'Reilly · Fivetran
Andy Yun
Field Solutions Architect
Art Pugach
Chief Technology Officer - Microsoft MVP - Queue Associates · Queue Associates
Balazs Horvath
Founder, Lead Architect at VisualLabs · VisualLabs
Belinda Allen
Microsoft MVP, Microsoft MCT
Chris Seferlis
Transforming Business by Architecting Cloud and Data Solutions that immediately provide value
David Pless
Principal Program Manager - Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft
David Seis
Helping People Succeed
Deborah Melkin
Data Engineer, Microsoft MVP - Data Platform
Dominick Raimato
Professional Troublemaker
Edward Pollack
Data Architect | Microsoft Data Platform MVP
George Walters
Cloud Data Expert
Grant Fritchey
Data Platform MVP and AWS Community Builder · Redgate Software
Haripriya Naidu
Lead SQL Server Database Administrator
Jean Joseph
Principal Data & AI Engineer @Tech-Insight-Group LLC · Tech-Insight-Group LLC
Jeff Iannucci
Principal Consultant at Straight Path Solutions · Straight Path Solutions
Jeff Taylor
Principal Data Consultant, Microsoft Data Platform MVP
Jerry Nixon
John Miner
Insight Digital Innovations · Insight Digital Innovations
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
JAMSPlatinum
Straight Path SolutionsGold
RedgateSilver
Redgate SoftwareSilver
DevartBronze
AMDGlobal
MicrosoftGlobal
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Agenda

Selected from 175 sessions on the bill.
  • Friday, October 2, 2026 (Pre-con)

    Adding PostgreSQL To Your SQL Server Skill Set

    Organizations are adopting PostgreSQL faster than they're retiring SQL Server. If you manage both now, or soon will, this all-day class cuts the learning curve by showing you exact…

  • Friday October 2nd

    Adding PostgreSQL To Your SQL Server Skill Set

    Organizations are adopting PostgreSQL faster than they're retiring SQL Server. If you manage both now, or soon will, this all-day class cuts the learning curve by showing you exact…

  • Friday October 2nd

    Building Reliable AI Apps and Agents with Azure SQL Database

    Learn how to build production-ready AI applications and agents powered by Azure SQL. In this hands-on session, you'll prepare Azure SQL Database as a resilient Retrieval-Augmented …

  • Friday October 2nd, 2026 (Precon - all day)

    Adding PostgreSQL To Your SQL Server Skill Set

    Organizations are adopting PostgreSQL faster than they're retiring SQL Server. If you manage both now, or soon will, this all-day class cuts the learning curve by showing you exact…

  • Friday October 2nd, all day

    Adding PostgreSQL To Your SQL Server Skill Set

    Organizations are adopting PostgreSQL faster than they're retiring SQL Server. If you manage both now, or soon will, this all-day class cuts the learning curve by showing you exact…

  • Friday October 2nd, all day

    Building Reliable AI Apps and Agents with Azure SQL Database

    Learn how to build production-ready AI applications and agents powered by Azure SQL. In this hands-on session, you'll prepare Azure SQL Database as a resilient Retrieval-Augmented …

  • Friday October 2nd, all-day

    Adding PostgreSQL To Your SQL Server Skill Set

    Organizations are adopting PostgreSQL faster than they're retiring SQL Server. If you manage both now, or soon will, this all-day class cuts the learning curve by showing you exact…

  • Friday October 2nd, all-day

    Building Reliable AI Apps and Agents with Azure SQL Database

    Learn how to build production-ready AI applications and agents powered by Azure SQL. In this hands-on session, you'll prepare Azure SQL Database as a resilient Retrieval-Augmented …

  • Friday October 2nd (all-day precon)

    Adding PostgreSQL To Your SQL Server Skill Set

    Organizations are adopting PostgreSQL faster than they're retiring SQL Server. If you manage both now, or soon will, this all-day class cuts the learning curve by showing you exact…

    Precon
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 24 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?

24 companies. three 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
3All threespeak · spons · exh
4Sponsoringsponsor only
17Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Microsoft·Redgate Software·Straight Path Solutions

Speakers by seniority

21% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite25%
  • Founder / Owner25%
  • VP-level12%
  • Director / Head of410%
  • Manager / Lead819%
  • Engineer · IC717%
  • Research / Science12%
  • Other roles1740%

Of 42 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01MicrosoftSp·G2V
  2. 02Redgate SoftwareSp·S1V
  3. 03Straight Path SolutionsSp·G1V
  4. 04AMDSp·G
  5. 05DevartSp·B
  6. 06JAMSSp·P
  7. 07RedgateSp·S
  8. 08Avanade1V
  9. 09Catallaxy Services, LLC1V
  10. 10Charles River Development1V
  11. 11Data FLowe Solutions LLC1V
  12. 12Fivetran1V
  13. 13GMO LLC1V
  14. 14IATA1V
Sponsors by tier
platinum1
14% of 7
gold1
14% of 7
silver2
29% of 7
bronze1
14% of 7
global2
29% of 7
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.

Related events · by shared sponsors