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Raleigh Day of Data 2026

Raleigh 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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23Speakers
2Sponsors
24On the bill · sessions
20Companies · in total
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Speakers

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
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AMDGlobal Sponsor
MicrosoftGlobal Sponsor
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Agenda

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.

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Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
18Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers 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

Most-represented companies
  1. 01AMDSp·G
  2. 02MicrosoftSp·G
  3. 03ChannelAdvisor Corp2V
  4. 043Cloud Consulting1V
  5. 05Abarca Health1V
  6. 06Aimpoint Digital1V
  7. 07Client First Technologies1V
  8. 08ecahill.com1V
  9. 09Marathon Consulting1V
  10. 10MissionSquare Retirement1V
  11. 11Moser Consulting1V
  12. 12Ohio1V
  13. 13Pure Storage1V
  14. 14Revscale AI1V
Sponsors by tier
global sponsor2
100% of 2
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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