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SQL Saturday San Diego 2025

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QL Saturday SD is a FREE, 100% volunteer ran, training event for IT data professionals. This event offers high-quality technical training on a variety of data-related topics such as data analytics, SQL and No-SQL, database administration, DevOps, development, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Databricks, data science, and machine…

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23Voices
7Underwriters
0Exhibitors
20On the bill · sessions
18Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at SQL, in alphabetical order.
Aaron Cutshall, DHA, MSHI
Principal Data Architect, Population Health
Akshata Revankar
Senior Data & Applied Scientist · Microsoft
Armando Lacerda
Cloud Architect and Engineer
Chris Hyde
Hydrate Technologies LLC
Christian Henrik Reich
Microsoft
Doug Leal
CGI
Ed Watson
Innovative Architects
Elayne Jones
Microsoft
Erwin de Kreuk
InSpark
Frank Geisler
GDS Business Intelligence GmbH
Jared Kuehn
Jeff Taylor
John Kerski
John Miner
Insight Digital Innovations
Kevin Kline
Kevin Pereira
SHI
Kevin Wilkie
Mala Mahadevan
ChannelAdvisor Corp
Marc Lelijveld
Macaw
Matt Gordon
Apps Associates
Murray Fife
Microsoft
Nikola Ilic

— and 1 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
CozyrocSilver
DatabricksSilver
TessellSilver
UC San Diego Extended StudiesSilver
MicrosoftGlobal Sponsor
O'ReillyVIK
SQLskillsVIK
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The Programme

Selected from 20 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 18 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?

“Eighteen 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.

№ 01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
1All threespeak · spons · exh
6Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
11Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Microsoft

№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority
  • Manager / Lead14%
  • Engineer · IC14%
  • Research / Science14%
  • Other roles2087%

Of 23 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01MicrosoftSp·G4V
  2. 02CozyrocSp·S
  3. 03DatabricksSp·S
  4. 04O'ReillySp·V
  5. 05SQLskillsSp·V
  6. 06TessellSp·S
  7. 07UC San Diego Extended StudiesSp·S
  8. 08Apps Associates1V
  9. 09CGI1V
  10. 10ChannelAdvisor Corp1V
  11. 11GDS Business Intelligence GmbH1V
  12. 12Hydrate Technologies LLC1V
  13. 13Innovative Architects1V
  14. 14Insight Digital Innovations1V
№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier
silver4
57% of 7
global sponsor1
14% of 7
vik2
29% of 7
№ 05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's 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.

№ 06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions