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New Stars of Data 2026

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ew Stars of Data is an event designed to help find and promote new speakers in the Microsoft Data Platform arena. Run by Ben Weissman and William Durkin, it provides mentorship for newcomers presenting at the event. The conference is a natural extension of the “Newcomer Track” from DataGrillen, focusing exclusively on fostering and giving a platform to new…

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11Voices
3Underwriters
0Exhibitors
11On the bill · sessions
3Companies · in total
§I

The Voices

Programmed at New, in alphabetical order.
Benito van Breugel
Goran Orec
Gregor Prohaska
Karin Szilágyi
Kayla Boor
Kristian Johannesen
Liza Malinina
Michal Pardej
Robert Mondrik
Rudolf Hummer
Varun Goguri
§II

Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
DataMasterminds
Redgate
Solisyon
§III

The Programme

Selected from 11 sessions on the bill.
  • 03:00

    Mastering Power BI Model Types – Import, DirectQuery, or Composite?

    William’s Room
  • 04:15

    Is this Real-Time? Or is this just Fantasy?

    William’s Room
  • 04:15

    Medallion Magic: Turning Data Layers into Stories That Stick

    Ben’s Room
  • 05:30

    Think Before You Code: Avoiding Pitfalls in T-SQL and Building Analytical Data Solutions

    Ben’s Room
  • 07:00

    Master Governance in Databricks Unity Catalog

    William’s Room
  • 07:00

    Mastering Spark: Lazy Evaluation and Intelligent Partitioning

    Ben’s Room
  • 08:15

    From Chaos to Control: Making Power BI Governance Work for Everyone

    William’s Room
  • 08:15

    Time-Series Showdown: SQL Server vs PostgreSQL + TimescaleDB for Speed, Compression, and Operations

    Ben’s Room
  • 09:30

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

    Ben’s Room
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 3 companies, parsed from the program.

“Three 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
3Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
0Speakingspeaker only
№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority
  • Other roles11100%

Of 11 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Data MastermindsSp
  2. 02RedgateSp
  3. 03solisyonSp
№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier
unspecified3
100% of 3
№ 06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters