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SQL Saturday Minnesota 2025

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QL Saturday Minnesota 2025 is a free, in-person community event for tech professionals, focusing on SQL Server and data technology, organized by SQLSaturday and the Minnesota SQL Server User Group (PASSMN). The event includes a full day of sessions, networking, and opportunities to meet local professionals. Attendees are encouraged to register early due to…

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39Voices
4Underwriters
0Exhibitors
10On the bill · sessions
21Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at SQL, in alphabetical order.
Aaron Cutshall, DHA, MSHI
Principal Data Architect, Population Health
Alex Cook
Principal · Inspire11
Belinda Allen
Microsoft MVP, Microsoft MCT, Director of Enablement - iLink Digital · iLink Digital
Ben Johnston
Data Architect
Breanna Hansen
Principal Data Engineer
Brent Meulebroeck
Principal Data Consultant · Fulton Analytics
Brian Gorman
Microsoft Azure MVP, Speaker, Author, Trainer, and .Net Developer
Cameron Vetter
AI Practice Director and Microsoft MVP
Chad Losee
Data Solutions Architecture: Transforming Data into Strategy Through Analytics, AI, and Microsoft Cloud
Cheryl Protas
Data Architect | Data Engineer · Inspire11
Chinni Krishna Abburi
Business Intelligence Engineer · Visa
Christian Henrik Reich
Sr Solution Architect · Microsoft
Dan English
Principal Program Manager | Fabric CAT · Microsoft
Divakar Duraiyan
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, USA
Ed Watson
Ambassador of Mayhem · Innovative Architects
Elayne Jones
Sr. Solutions Engineer · Microsoft
Erin Dempster
Enterprise Architect · Trean Corporation
Erwin de Kreuk
Data Platform MVP | Lead Data and AI | Public Speaker | InSpark · InSpark
Frank Geisler
Owner and CEO, GDS Business Intelligence GmbH · GDS Business Intelligence GmbH
Greg Beaumont
Data & AI Technical Specialist · Microsoft
Jared Kuehn
Data Engineer by day, Storyteller by night
John Deardurff
SQLMCT.com

— and 17 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
O'ReillySilver
Databricks
Microsoft / AMD (MSFT-AMD)
Trace3
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The Programme

Selected from 10 sessions on the bill.
  • 8:30 am → 60 min

    Advanced Timeseries Analytics and Anomaly detection in Fabric Realtime Intelligence

  • 8:30 am → 60 min

    An Enterprise Data Architecture Framework

  • 8:30 am → 60 min

    Build Your AI Foundation with Fabric Metadata-driven Framework

  • 8:30 am → 60 min

    Build Your First Agent in Copilot Studio

  • 8:30 am → 60 min

    Empowering Lakehouse Solutions with Python Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric

  • 8:30 am → 60 min

    Futureproof Your Data & Analytics Career with AI

  • 8:30 am → 60 min

    Introduction to the data build tool (dbt) adapter for Fabric

  • 8:30 am → 60 min

    Reaching maximum automation: Generating semantic models as part of your platform workloads

  • 8:30 am → 60 min

    Seamlessly Integrating On-Prem SQL Server Data with Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 21 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

“21 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.

№ 01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
2All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
17Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Databricks·Trace3

№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

13% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite13%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • Director / Head of38%
  • Manager / Lead821%
  • Product13%
  • Engineer · IC1436%
  • Marketing / Brand13%
  • Other roles1026%

Of 39 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Microsoft7V
  2. 02DatabricksSp1V
  3. 03Trace3Sp1V
  4. 04Microsoft / AMD (MSFT-AMD)Sp
  5. 05O'ReillySp·S
  6. 06Fulton Analytics2V
  7. 07Inspire112V
  8. 08Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh1V
  9. 09Cloudtrify1V
  10. 10GDS Business Intelligence GmbH1V
  11. 11Heidelberg Materials1V
  12. 12iLink Digital1V
  13. 13Innovative Architects1V
  14. 14Insight Digital Innovation1V
№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier
silver1
25% of 4
unspecified3
75% of 4
№ 06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions