Data Saturdays

Organizer

Data Saturdays community network (datasaturdays.com, hosted in the SQL Collaborative GitHub organisation); each event run by local community organizers

Category

Database

Website

datasaturdays.com

Social

X / Twitter

Typical place

Utrecht, Netherlands

Topics

BI & analyticsGovernance & qualityData engineeringWarehouse & lakehouseGenerative AIStreaming

Free (or low-cost) one-day community conferences for the Microsoft data platform, the community's successor to SQLSaturday after PASS announced its shutdown in Dec 2020: datasaturdays.com says the site 'has been established by the community as a means to continue events under the Data Saturdays name' and that it is not for profit and not owned by or associated with any organisation. Admins listed on the site: Gianluca Sartori, Rob Sewell, Johan Ludvig Brattås, Matt Gordon, Elizabeth Noble, Monica Rathbun, Warwick Rudd, Randolph West. Events are numbered (#1 Pordenone, virtual, Feb 2021); 90+ events by 2026, mostly in Europe, with others in the US, Australia/NZ, South Africa and Latin America. Social accounts: the network's own Twitter; the Austrian and Dutch events' accounts are in other_social. Many former SQLSaturday cities (Vienna, Holland, Denmark, Oslo, Croatia, Slovenia, Pordenone, etc.) moved here; see the separate `sqlsaturday` series for SQLSaturday-branded events. SCOPE (like `sqlsaturday`, only larger events are recorded): in-person events from 2021 (first year) with 40+ sessions in the Sessionize 'Sessions' view, plus every Data-Saturday-era edition of the two named flagship events folded into this series, Data Community Austria Day (Vienna, the former SQLSaturday Vienna) and Data Saturday Holland (Utrecht, the former SQL Saturday Holland, run by Stichting PASS Nederland). Session counts from Sessionize (checked 2026-11-08): Vienna 2024 #46 = 40, 2025 #63 = 39, 2026 #78 = 40, 2027 #90 = 36 so far (announced); Utrecht 2024 #59 = 38 (including 6 Friday deep dives), 2026 #87 = 42 (including 6 Friday deep dives); Utrecht 2023 and 2025 (not listed on datasaturdays.com) had schedules that could not be recovered. By the strict 40-session bar only Vienna 2024, Vienna 2026 and Utrecht 2026 qualify; the others are included as editions of the named leads. Included (8): 2023 Utrecht; 2024 Vienna #46, Utrecht #59; 2025 Vienna #63, Utrecht; 2026 Vienna #78, Utrecht #87; 2027 Vienna #90. Excluded: online-only events, even large ones (Guatemala #2 2021 with 45 sessions, Pordenone #1 2021 with 54, Data ANZ #12 2021 with 59), and every other in-person event, all under 40 sessions: e.g. Oslo (31-38 a year, 2022-2026), Denmark (24-37), Rheinland (30-36), Chicago 2026 (36), Dallas 2024 (34), Parma, Pordenone, Croatia, Slovenia, Brisbane, Melbourne, South Africa, Gothenburg (15 in 2026), Madrid 2025 (16 regular sessions in 4 tracks per Sessionize), dataMinds Saturday 2024 (51 submissions in total). Stockholm, Gothenburg 2022-2025, Sofia, Romania and Piracicaba schedules were not checked in detail (no Sessionize embed on datasaturdays.com) but are one-day local events with no sign of reaching 40 sessions. Vienna 2022 (#21) had 7 sessions.