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Raleigh Day of Data 2026

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Raleigh Day of Data 2026 ran on May 23, 2026 at Duke Health in Durham, United States. It is a Technology conference that expected about 275 attendees. ConferenceGrid lists 23 speakers, 2 sponsors and 24 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Aug 7, 2026 · dates verified May 6, 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
24Sessions
20Companies · in total

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

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

AMDGlobal Sponsor
MicrosoftGlobal Sponsor

Agenda

Selected from 24 sessions.

  • 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)

Quick answers

When is Raleigh Day of Data 2026?
Raleigh Day of Data 2026 ran on May 23, 2026 at Duke Health in Durham, United States.
Where is Raleigh Day of Data 2026 held?
Raleigh Day of Data 2026 was held at Duke Health in Durham, United States.
Who is speaking at Raleigh Day of Data 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 23 speakers, including Alan Ferrandiz (Data Scientist), Angel Ceballos (Founder and AI Accountability Architect, SeraphicGuardian, SeraphicGuardian) and Carlos Chacon (Director of Data Solutions, Marathon Consulting, Marathon Consulting).
Who sponsors Raleigh Day of Data 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 2 sponsors: AMD and Microsoft.
Company intelligence

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.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
18Speakingspeaker 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 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1AMDSponsor · Global Sponsor-
2MicrosoftSponsor · Global Sponsor-
3ChannelAdvisor Corp2
43Cloud Consulting1
5Abarca Health1
6Aimpoint Digital1
7Client First Technologies1
8ecahill.com1
9Marathon Consulting1
10MissionSquare Retirement1
11Moser Consulting1
12Ohio1
13Pure Storage1
14Revscale AI1
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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