Of the Field

SQL Saturday South Florida 2025

S

QL Saturday is a FREE, 100% volunteer run, training event for IT data professionals, offering high-quality technical training on data analytics, SQL and No-SQL, database administration, DevOps, development, cloud platforms, business intelligence, and more. Attendees can learn from Microsoft MVPs and other local and international speakers, connect with peers…

Visit the official site
24Voices
4Underwriters
0Exhibitors
20On the bill · sessions
16Companies · in total
§I

The Voices

Programmed at SQL, in alphabetical order.
Aaron Cutshall, DHA, MSHI
Principal Data Architect, Population Health
Akshata Revankar
Senior Data & Applied Scientist · Microsoft
Cecilia Brusatori
Chris Hyde
Owner and Principal Consultant · Hydrate Technologies LLC
Christian Henrik Reich
Sr Solution Architect · Microsoft
David Cobb
Doug Leal
VP Consulting, Data & Analytics · CGI
Ed Watson
Ambassador of Mayhem · Innovative Architects
Elayne Jones
Senior Solution Engineer · Microsoft
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
Jared Kuehn
Data Engineer
Jeff Taylor
Principal Data Consultant
John Kerski
Director · Client First Technologies
John Miner
Senior Data Architect · Insight Digital Innovations
Kevin Kline
Kevin Pereira
Solutions Architect · SHI
Kevin Wilkie
Mala Mahadevan
SQL Server DBA/Database Engineer · ChannelAdvisor Corp
Marc Lelijveld
Data Platform MVP | Technical Evangelist | Solution Architect Data Solutions & Insights · Macaw
Matt Gordon
Practice Director, Data & Analytics · Apps Associates
Murray Fife
Tinkerer, Storyteller, Author & Trainer · Microsoft

— and 2 more, by name unsung —

§II

Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Dexian
MicrosoftGlobal Sponsor
Nova Southeastern UniversityHost
Xoriant
§III

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 16 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?

“Sixteen 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
3Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
12Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Microsoft

№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

21% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite14%
  • Founder / Owner14%
  • VP-level14%
  • Director / Head of28%
  • Manager / Lead417%
  • Engineer · IC729%
  • Research / Science14%
  • Other roles729%

Of 24 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01MicrosoftSp·G4V
  2. 02DexianSp
  3. 03Nova Southeastern UniversitySp·H
  4. 04XoriantSp
  5. 05Apps Associates1V
  6. 06CGI1V
  7. 07ChannelAdvisor Corp1V
  8. 08Client First Technologies1V
  9. 09GDS Business Intelligence GmbH1V
  10. 10Hydrate Technologies LLC1V
  11. 11Innovative Architects1V
  12. 12Insight Digital Innovations1V
  13. 13InSpark1V
  14. 14Macaw1V
№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier
global sponsor1
25% of 4
host1
25% of 4
unspecified2
50% of 4
№ 06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters
  • UXCON26October 8, 2026 · Silver Spring+ 2 shared

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions