Conferences / DATA:Scotland
DATA:Scotland 2024
Sep 13, 2024 · University of Strathclyde Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC), Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Conference
- DATA:Scotland Database
- Dates
- Sep 13, 2024
- Venue
- University of Strathclyde Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC)
- Place
- Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —Organiser: 'over 1000 registrations' and 'lowest no-show rate ever of 33%' (implies roughly 670+ attendees; not stated directly).
- Website
- datascotland.org
- Recorded
- 9 sponsors · 66 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Free one-day conference; organiser reports 62 speakers across 9 rooms and auditoria, 9 sponsors and 6 exhibitors, plus a Glasgow City Council Tech Ecosystem Grant. Speakers from the Sessionize embed on datascotland.org/speak/2024-speakers; affiliations from Sessionize taglines where they name an employer. Sponsors and tiers as printed on the archived home page.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference day (free registration) | £0 | — | DATA:Scotland is free to attend; organiser states '£0 ticket price, every year'. | datascotland.org |
Sponsors 9
Title / headline 1
- Bridgeall · Headline Sponsor
Community 1
- Hippo Digital · Community Supporter Sponsor
Other 7
- Advancing Analytics · Exhibitor Sponsor
- Aim Ltd · Associate Sponsor
- Data Masterminds · Exhibitor Sponsor
- MySQL · Exhibitor Sponsor
- Quorum · Exhibitor Sponsor
- Tabular Editor · Exhibitor Sponsor
- Waterstons · Exhibitor Sponsor
Speakers and talks 66
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Buckley | First Central | Speaker | Query your Azure SQL Data using Natural Language | — |
| Andrew Blance | Waterstons | Speaker | How to Convince Your Boss to Take a Risk | — |
| Andy Bradley | Adatis | Speaker | The Data Goldmine: Digging Deeper for Dollars and Sense | — |
| Barry Smart | endjin | Speaker | Microsoft Fabric and Data Mesh - a perfect fit? | — |
| Bas Land | Kimura | Speaker | Your first Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse implementation | — |
| Beth Barlow | NatWest Group | Speaker | Journey to Production: Generative AI at Natwest Group | — |
| Brian Bønk | — | Speaker | The second visualization tool from Microsoft - is it actually better than PowerBI? | — |
| Brian Bønk | — | Speaker | Know the game you are in - and you will not win | — |
| Chris Webb | Microsoft | Speaker | Power BI Copilot Deep Dive | — |
| Chrissy LeMaire | dbatools | Speaker | AI at Work | — |
| Damola Obadeji | — | Speaker | Journey to Production: Generative AI at Natwest Group | — |
| David L. Bojsen | Tabular Editor | Speaker | Get better (and actionable) alerts from your orchestration pipelines | — |
| David Postlethwaite | — | Speaker | Top Ten Disasters we've dealt with in our time as DBAs | — |
| Devang Shah | Microsoft | Speaker | The second visualization tool from Microsoft - is it actually better than PowerBI? | — |
| Emma Dolling | — | Speaker | Women in Tech: Navigating Unique Journeys and Challenges | — |
| Falek Miah | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Quest to Delta Optimisation | — |
| Gabi Münster | — | Speaker | Govern your Data on Fabric and Beyond | — |
| Geremy Bantug | NatWest Group | Speaker | Journey to Production: Generative AI at Natwest Group | — |
| Gethyn Ellis | — | Speaker | Top Ten Disasters we've dealt with in our time as DBAs | — |
| Haider Raza | — | Speaker | A Game-Changing Feature of Microsoft Fabric in Our Perspective | — |
| Iain Dobson | Quorum | Speaker | Optimising Azure Architecture: A Deep Dive into Service and Private Endpoints | — |
| James Frost | Quorum | Speaker | Cracking the Code: Mastering Data Project Success | — |
| Jamie McLaughlin | Inciper | Speaker | Don't Serve the Data, Serve the Business | — |
| Javier Ramirez | QuestDB | Speaker | Ingesting and analyzing millions of events per second in real-time using open source tools | — |
| Johan Kangasniemi | Ithaca Energy | Speaker | Migrating Mapping Dataflows: From Synapse Analytics to Spark Notebooks | — |
| Johan Ludvig Brattås | — | Speaker | An introduction to Snowflake - the data cloud | — |
| John Martin | Broch Solutions | Speaker | Data Engineering and the rise of the API | — |
| John McCormack | DocuSign | Speaker | The Individual Contributor - How to progress your career without going into management | — |
| Johnny Winter | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Get started with dbt Cloud | — |
| Josh Giles | Bridgeall | Speaker | Empowering data: The real benefits of Microsoft Dataverse | — |
| Kamil Nowinski | — | Speaker | Delta Lake Tables 101 | — |
| Keith Atherton | — | Speaker | Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse | — |
| Kev Chant | — | Speaker | Navigate the analytics development lifecycle in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Kev Chant | — | Speaker | The most unique Microsoft Fabric introduction you will ever see | — |
| Liping Huang | Databricks | Speaker | The hitchhiker's Power BI guide to cross-charge and cost control on Databricks | — |
| Lisa Hoving | Rabobank | Speaker | Autism, ADHD, and the workplace: The pleasures and pain of unmasking | — |
| Lisa Hoving | Rabobank | Speaker | A Data Lake for my snake | — |
| Manish Kumar | Microsoft | Speaker | A Game-Changing Feature of Microsoft Fabric in Our Perspective | — |
| Marius Panga | Databricks | Speaker | The hitchhiker's Power BI guide to cross-charge and cost control on Databricks | — |
| Martynas Jočys | — | Speaker | Design essentials for Power BI developer | — |
| Mathias Halkjaer | — | Speaker | Organizing Your Data Lake | — |
| Matt Lakin | — | Speaker | 20 Power BI tips in 20 minutes | — |
| Matt Smith | — | Speaker | Harnessing Data and New Technology to Deliver Transformational Results in Policing | — |
| Megan Livadas | Dufrain | Speaker | Power BI Culture - Driving Adoption through Governance | — |
| Michael Cade | Veeam | Speaker | DevOps for Data Management | — |
| Michael Robson | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Bricking it to Sparking: T-SQL to Databricks SQL Transformation | — |
| Michał Dębski | ASTRAL FOREST | Speaker | Power BI Monitoring: From PBI REST API through DWH and back again to PBI | — |
| Niall Langley | — | Speaker | Introduction to Performance Tuning on Databricks | — |
| Niall Langley | — | Speaker | 5 Tips and Tricks to Make You a Wizard in Your Terminal | — |
| Oliver Glassmann | adesso | Speaker | A Song of Data and Governance: Uniting Rival Kingdoms | — |
| Reitse Eskens | Axians Business Analytics | Speaker | Code, deploy and maintain your Azure (data) Infrastructure with confidence | — |
| Rob Sewell | — | Speaker | The new era of SQL Development -sqlcmd, data api builder,azd and more | — |
| Rob Sewell | — | Speaker | What makes a good commit? Good Practices for Data Professionals | — |
| Robert French | — | Speaker | Goldilocks and the Three Business Bears: Mastering the Art of Storytelling for Success | — |
| Sarah Lean | — | Speaker | Dive into the World of Kusto Query Language | — |
| Sarath Sasidharan | Microsoft | Speaker | Govern your Data on Fabric and Beyond | — |
| Satya Jayanty | — | Speaker | Ethical Data Governance - challenges and opportunities | — |
| Sergey Olontsev | Criteo | Speaker | The Art of Seamless Data Migration: Strategies, Pitfalls, and Solutions | — |
| Sergey Olontsev | Criteo | Speaker | Let's Add AI Assistant to your Local SQL Server in 20 minutes | — |
| Shane Burns | Lenus Health | Speaker | Using data to solve real-world problems; cow health, saving the bees, helping patients | — |
| Sharon McCormack | Quorum | Speaker | Cracking the Code: Mastering Data Project Success | — |
| Sue Bayes | Databayes Ltd | Speaker | Take off with Tabular Editor | — |
| Surya Ramesh | — | Speaker | Mistakes I made while navigating a career change into Data Science | — |
| Toni Baron | Dufrain | Speaker | Empowering Business Insights: The Importance of Change Control in Report Development | — |
| Valerie Junk | — | Speaker | Visualizing Data for Non-Data Experts: Making Reports Accessible to All | — |
| Valerie Junk | — | Speaker | Paint it Black: Rocking Dark Mode Dashboards | — |