Conferences / Data Platform Next Step
Data Platform Next Step 2026
Jun 1–2, 2026 · Clarion Hotel & Congress Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup, Denmark
- Conference
- Data Platform Next Step Database
- Dates
- Jun 1, 2026 – Jun 2, 2026
- Venue
- Clarion Hotel & Congress Copenhagen Airport
- Place
- Kastrup, Denmark
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —Site says 'together with 200+ attendees' (marketing copy, repeated every year); stats block shows 250 participants.
- Website
- dataplatformnextstep.com
- Recorded
- 9 sponsors · 40 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Conference program from the Sessionize embed on the event site (24 sessions with speakers, incl. full-day trainings where listed, the keynote and the Ask-Me-Anything panel). Training day June 1 (Spark Performance Engineering, Automating Microsoft Fabric, Practical AI Augmented Data Engineering), conference June 2 with sponsor lunch sessions; keynote by Tino Tereshko (Fabric Data Warehouse). Affiliations parsed from Sessionize speaker taglines where they name an employer. Sponsor names from logo files/links on the home page (no alt text). Ticket prices as shown on the ticket page ('kr.' = DKK); VAT treatment not stated. The site body text still says 'Billund' but the venue page and Sessionize give Clarion Hotel & Congress Copenhagen Airport (Ellehammersvej 20, 2770 Kastrup).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference only | DKK 1,500 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Full package (training day + conference) | DKK 4,500 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 9
Speakers and talks 40
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tino Tereshko | — | Keynote | Keynote: Fabric Data Warehouse's Ultra-Modern Architecture | Slides |
| Alexander Falk | Eddytor | Sponsor session | Sponsor session (Eddytor) - Master Data Editing Made Easy — A Live Demo of Eddytor | — |
| Benni De Jagere | — | Panelist | Ask me Anything | — |
| Benni De Jagere | — | Talk | Mastering Fabric Capacities: Advanced Strategies for Planning, Monitoring, and Scaling | Slides |
| Clemens Vasters | Microsoft | Panelist | Ask me Anything | — |
| Clemens Vasters | Microsoft | Talk | Adventures in Real-Time Data Analysis! | — |
| Craig Porteous | Analytics Masterminds | Talk | Centralise or Federate - How to Scale your Lakehouse | Slides |
| Elisabeth Falck | Inspari | Talk | Agentic Coding in a Real-Life Data Platform Migration | Slides |
| Erwin de Kreuk | — | Talk | Protect, Discover & Understand data with Microsoft Fabric & Microsoft Purview | Slides |
| Erwin de Kreuk | — | Workshop | Automating Microsoft Fabric – Build Faster, Deploy Smarter | — |
| Falek Miah | Advancing Analytics | Talk | Databricks Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines from Code to Flows | Slides |
| Filip Popović | Microsoft | Panelist | Ask me Anything | — |
| Filip Popović | Microsoft | Talk | When “fast” isn’t enough: pushing Microsoft Fabric Warehouse to its limits | — |
| Frederick Jensen | dataon | Sponsor session | Sponsor session (dataon) - Gamification of Governance in Data & Analytics | — |
| Isi Turner | Advancing Analytics | Talk | Your Neuro-Inclusive Workplace Toolkit | Slides |
| Jon Vöge | Inspari | Sponsor session | Sponsor session (Inspari - VENZO) - PowerPoint Karaoke🎤 | — |
| Jorge Docampo Carro | — | Panelist | Ask me Anything | — |
| Jorge Docampo Carro | — | Workshop | Spark Performance Engineering: Tuning, Optimization, Debugging & Beyond | Slides |
| Julius Bech | — | Sponsor session | Sponsor session (Eddytor) - Master Data Editing Made Easy — A Live Demo of Eddytor | — |
| Kenneth Kelly | Inspari | Talk | Agentic Coding in a Real-Life Data Platform Migration | Slides |
| Kevin Thomas | Microsoft | Talk | Deep insights in your Microsoft Fabric landscape with FUAM | Slides |
| Lars Andersen | Microsoft | Panelist | Ask me Anything | — |
| Marco Österlin | twoday | Talk | Protect, Discover & Understand data with Microsoft Fabric & Microsoft Purview | Slides |
| Mathias Halkjaer | — | Sponsor session | Sponsor session (Inspari - VENZO) - PowerPoint Karaoke🎤 | — |
| Michael Brodersen | — | Sponsor session | Sponsor session (itm8) - Illuminate - plug & play dataplatfrom | — |
| Michael Johnson | — | Talk | Using execution plans to write efficient Spark code. | Slides |
| Mihaly Kavasi | Avanade | Workshop | Building Context, Not Vibes Practical AI Augmented Data Engineering | — |
| Miles Cole | Microsoft | Workshop | Spark Performance Engineering: Tuning, Optimization, Debugging & Beyond | Slides |
| Miles Cole | Microsoft | Panelist | Ask me Anything | — |
| Peer Grønnerup | Tabular Editor | Workshop | Automating Microsoft Fabric – Build Faster, Deploy Smarter | — |
| Peer Grønnerup | Tabular Editor | Talk | Fabric Automation at Scale: From Chaos to Confidence | Slides |
| Rolf Nielsen | — | Sponsor session | Sponsor session (dataon) - Gamification of Governance in Data & Analytics | — |
| Sam Debruyn | — | Talk | From Flat to Sparkling: Monitoring Data Quality with Soda in Microsoft Fabric | Slides |
| Sander van de Velde | SDG Group | Talk | Build your ontology in a no-code way using Microsoft Fabric Ontology | Slides |
| Scott Bell | — | Workshop | Building Context, Not Vibes Practical AI Augmented Data Engineering | — |
| Srdjan Matin | Microsoft | Panelist | Ask me Anything | — |
| Srdjan Matin | Microsoft | Talk | When “fast” isn’t enough: pushing Microsoft Fabric Warehouse to its limits | — |
| Stijn Wynants | Microsoft | Talk | OneLake Security: A Deep Dive | — |
| Tino Tereshko | — | Panelist | Ask me Anything | — |
| Wolfgang Strasser | — | Talk | AI-Powered Data Engineering with Microsoft Fabric — From Code Gen to Column-Level Impact Analysis | Slides |