Data Relay

Organizer

Data Relay (volunteer community organisers; UK Microsoft Data Platform community)

Category

Database

Website

datarelay.co.uk

Social

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Typical place

Birmingham, United Kingdom + 7 other cities

Topics

BI & analyticsData engineeringWarehouse & lakehouse

Free, community-led touring conference for the Microsoft Data Platform: a week of one-day events in different English cities, with a coach carrying speakers between stops. Renamed from SQL Relay to Data Relay in 2018. Editions are recorded one per city stop (id_suffix = city), because each stop publishes its own agenda with its own rooms and partly different speakers and sessions (many talks repeat across stops, but line-ups differ). Sponsors are sold tour-wide, so each stop carries the same year's sponsor list. History: 2019 Newcastle/Gateshead, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham, Bristol (7-11 Oct); 2020 tour (Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham, Reading, Bristol) postponed in March 2020 to free its dates for SQLBits and not held; 2021 online-only 'Broadcast' evenings (not recorded, out of scope); 2022 Leeds, Birmingham, Reading, Bristol (4-7 Oct); 2023 Bletchley Park, Reading, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester (2-6 Oct; >500 attendees across the tour); 2024 (planned 30 Sep-4 Oct, cities never announced) and 2025 (Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, 29 Apr-1 May) cancelled for lack of sponsorship. 2024 has no edition file because no stops were ever published.