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SQL Saturday Minnesota 2026 #1153

SQL Saturday Minnesota 2026 is a free in-person event for the tech community, organized by the Minnesota SQL Server User Group (PASSMN). The event features sessions and networking opportunities focused on SQL Server and data platform technologies. Attendees can expect a full day of presentations, sponsor exhibits, and interaction with local professionals. Re…

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32Speakers
3Sponsors
30Sessions
21Companies · in total

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Speakers

Programmed at SQL, in alphabetical order.

Aaron Cutshall, DHA, MSHI
Principal Data Architect, Population Health
Akshata Revankar
Senior Data & Applied Scientist · Microsoft
Andy Brown
Snowflake Data and AI Architect
Belinda Allen
Director of Enablement · iLink Digital
Chris Hyde
Owner and Principal Consultant · Hydrate Technologies LLC
Christian Henrik Reich
Sr Solution Architect · Microsoft
Doug Leal
VP Consulting, Data & Analytics · CGI
Ed Watson
Ambassador of Mayhem · Innovative Architects
Elayne Jones
Sr. Solutions Engineer · Microsoft
Erwin de Kreuk
Principal Consultant and Lead Data and AI, InSpark · InSpark
Fabiano Amorim
Principal Consultant · Pythian
Frank Geisler
Owner and CEO, GDS Business Intelligence GmbH · GDS Business Intelligence GmbH
Jared Kuehn
Data Engineer
Javier Villegas
IT Director - Microsoft MVP Data Platform · Mediterranean Shipping Company
Jeff Taylor
Principal Data Consultant
John Kerski
Director · Client First Technologies
John Miner
Senior Data Architect · Insight Digital Innovation
Kevin Feasel
Proprietor · Catallaxy Services, LLC
Kevin Kline
Kevin Pereira
Solutions Architect · SHI
Kevin Wilkie
Kyle Mueller

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

ImprovingGold
AMDGlobal Sponsor
MicrosoftGlobal Sponsor

Agenda

Selected from 30 sessions.

  • 11:00 am → 60 min

    AI-Ready: Preparing for and Using AI in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric

  • 11:00 am → 60 min

    Balance in Life with a Career

  • 11:00 am → 60 min

    Build AI applications using SQL database in Fabric

  • 11:00 am → 60 min

    Building agents with Microsoft Foundry IQ as a knowledge source

  • 11:00 am → 60 min

    Getting Started with DuckDB

  • 11:00 am → 60 min

    It's Only a Model - Demystifying Row Level Security in Power BI

  • 11:00 am → 60 min

    Snowflake for SQL Server DBAs

  • 11:00 am → 60 min

    The Integration Blueprint: Choosing the Right Path in Microsoft Fabric

  • 11:00 am → 60 min

    Where to Start With a Messy Model: A Practical Approach

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 21 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

21 companies. one 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
1All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
18Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Microsoft

Speakers by seniority

22% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite13%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of413%
  • Manager / Lead722%
  • Engineer · IC825%
  • Research / Science13%
  • Other roles928%

Of 32 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1MicrosoftSponsor · Global Sponsor5
2AMDSponsor · Global Sponsor-
3ImprovingSponsor · Gold-
4SHI2
5Apps Associates1
6Azure Brasil1
7Catallaxy Services, LLC1
8CGI1
9ChannelAdvisor Corp1
10Client First Technologies1
11Data Mozart1
12GDS Business Intelligence GmbH1
13Hydrate Technologies LLC1
14iLink Digital1
Sponsors by tier
gold1
33% of 3
global sponsor2
67% of 3
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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