Conferences / DATA:Scotland
DATA:Scotland 2025
Sep 12, 2025 · University of Strathclyde Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC), Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Conference
- DATA:Scotland Database
- Dates
- Sep 12, 2025
- Venue
- University of Strathclyde Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC)
- Place
- Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —Organiser: peak of 1100 registrations, venue at capacity with a waiting list (registrations, not turnout).
- Website
- datascotland.org
- Recorded
- 7 sponsors · 62 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Free one-day conference; organiser reports 58 speakers across 9 spaces (56 sessions), 6 exhibitors and a Glasgow City Council Tech Ecosystem Grant. Speakers from the Sessionize embed on datascotland.org/agenda (most recent event's agenda); affiliations from Sessionize taglines where they name an employer. Sponsors and tiers as printed on the archived home page (also listed as 2025 partners on the current site).
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 7
Title / headline 1
- data.ai · Headline Sponsor
Other 6
- Advancing Analytics · Exhibitor Sponsor
- Broch Solutions · Mini Exhibitor Sponsor
- Data Masterminds · Exhibitor Sponsor
- Datahai Business Intelligence Solutions · Mini Exhibitor Sponsor
- Quorum · Exhibitor Sponsor
- Redgate · Exhibitor Sponsor
Speakers and talks 62
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aidan Maloney | Blend | Speaker | Navigating PowerBI Pitfalls: Crafting a Robust Data Analytics Platform | — |
| Aidan Maloney | Blend | Speaker | Build Better Data Platforms with Databricks x Power BI | — |
| Alan Konczak | Optima Connect | Speaker | Famous Last Words | — |
| Alex Shershebnev | Zencoder | Speaker | AI Coding Agents and how to code them | — |
| Alexander Arvidsson | — | Speaker | From SQL to Spark and Back Again - Spark and Python for SQL Users | — |
| Barry Smart | endjin | Speaker | No-Compromise Data Apps: Why Streamlit is the Missing Piece in Your Analytics Stack | — |
| Bas Land | — | Speaker | Delta Table Optimisation - Improving Queries using Delta Partitioning and Liquid Clustering | — |
| Chris Johnson | — | Speaker | Visual Studio database projects: more than just source control | — |
| Daniel Hutmacher | Structured Concepts | Speaker | Window to Success: Mastering SQL Server Window Functions | — |
| Danny de Haan | — | Speaker | Securing the SQL Server Data Platform: Preventing Data Loss and Ensuring Data Privacy | — |
| Daren Wong | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Apache Flink 101: Build a Real-time Data Stream Processing Pipeline with Apache Flink | — |
| Deepthi Popuri | QuidelOrtho | Speaker | From Legalese to LLMs: Cracking Dynamic Documents With Databricks | — |
| Elena Dumitrana | AND Digital | Speaker | Designing AI-driven products with a Human-Centred Digital approach | — |
| Emilie Rønning | Sopra Steria | Speaker | Make your solution sparkle with the medallion architecture | — |
| Gabi Münster | — | Speaker | With a little help from a mentor! | — |
| Gbenga Ayelabola | — | Speaker | Building Scalable Machine Learning Models with Copilot and Power BI | — |
| Geovanny Hernandez | Merck | Speaker | Discovering the potential of Azure Cosmos for PostgreSQL-A practical introduction | — |
| Gergely Csom | Abylon Consulting | Speaker | From SQL Server to Databricks: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | — |
| Gianluca Sartori | — | Speaker | Battle of Time Series: SQL Server 2022 vs. ADX vs. InfluxDB vs. TimescaleDB | — |
| Gregor Suttie | Intercept | Speaker | Using AI in Visual Studio Code to help get things done | — |
| Hasan Savran | Progressive Insurance | Speaker | Hold my beer; I know how to fix this with Copilot! | — |
| Ibrahim Abdullahi | John G Russell (Transport) Limited | Speaker | Data Intelligence for Sustainable Logistics with Databricks | — |
| Injae Park | — | Speaker | Power BI SVGs - messy with AI, quick with Scripting | — |
| James Bentley | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | From Legalese to LLMs: Cracking Dynamic Documents With Databricks | — |
| Jamie McLaughlin | Inciper | Speaker | Smashing the Bottleneck: Scaling Data Accessibility for an Organisation | — |
| Johan Ludvig Brattås | — | Speaker | The anatomy of a data product | — |
| John Martin | — | Speaker | Database Security is not the DBAs responsibility, change my mind. | — |
| John Martin | — | Speaker | What's going on, how to see what people are doing in your data platform. | — |
| John Martin | — | Speaker | Of course I want to let Azure SQL manage my indexes, why wouldn't I? | — |
| John McCormack | DocuSign | Speaker | Career progression for data professionals - how to secure that next promotion or pay rise | — |
| Julia Førde | Evidi | Speaker | Understanding How Databricks Integrates with Your Azure Estate | — |
| Juliana Smith | — | Speaker | Implementing alternative accessible colours in Power BI reports | — |
| Kamil Nowinski | — | Speaker | Your first SQL Database implementation in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Linda Torrång | Data Masterminds | Speaker | Microsoft Fabric Performance Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them | — |
| Lisa Hoving | Rabobank | Speaker | Help, my Azure Databricks is too expensive! Some tips and tricks. | — |
| Magnus Ahlkvist | Transmokopter SQL AB | Speaker | Everything you need to know about Temporal Tables | — |
| Mark Pryce-Maher | Microsoft | Speaker | Unlocking the Power of Open Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Martynas Jočys | — | Speaker | Mastering Bookmarks in Power BI: all you need to know | — |
| Matt Gordon | BJSS | Speaker | Real-Time Hub: Starting Point of Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric | — |
| Mihaly Kavasi | Avanade | Speaker | Excel + Power BI: Your Gateway to Organization-Wide Data Adoption | — |
| Mikael Wedham | — | Speaker | SQL Server on-premises is not dead | — |
| Mikael Wedham | — | Speaker | A masters view on Locking and blocking | — |
| Oliver Glassmann | adesso | Speaker | 5000 Years of BI - Is Business Intelligence still relevant in 2025 AD | — |
| Paul Mullen | Siemens | Speaker | Applying Kimball modelling in DBT | — |
| Pauline Cairns | Data For Knowledge Limited | Speaker | When Seeing is Deceiving: Designing Honest Data Visuals | — |
| Rune Ovlien Rakeie | Tietoevry | Speaker | Secure your data with Private Networking | — |
| Ryan Watson | BJSS | Speaker | How to Be a Better Ally in the Workplace: Your Key to Bridging the Tech Skills Gap | — |
| Saleh Seyedzadeh | data.ai | Speaker | Trust, Transparency, and the Human Factor in Data Systems | — |
| Sarah Abnett | — | Speaker | Elevate User Confidence with Automated Testing in Power BI | — |
| Sergey Olontsev | Criteo | Speaker | How Semantic Layers Improve Generative AI Data Analytics | — |
| Shubhangi Goyal | ICS AI Ltd | Speaker | Crafting LLM Applications: Design, Build, and Evaluate | — |
| Simon Whiteley | — | Speaker | Adapting to an AI-Obsessed World as a Data Engineer | — |
| Steph Martin | — | Speaker | Burnout: A personal journey to the bottom and back up again | — |
| Sue Bayes | Databayes Ltd | Speaker | Marathons, Microsoft, and Motivation: Lessons for Career Success | — |
| Surya Ramesh | — | Speaker | With a little help from a mentor! | — |
| Tim Clarke | — | Speaker | AI Literacy: Because Ignorance Isn’t a Strategy | — |
| Tonie Huizer | Promicro | Speaker | Amplify Your Experience: How to Start Writing and Speaking | — |
| Tony Davis | — | Speaker | Amplify Your Experience: How to Start Writing and Speaking | — |
| Tori Tompkins | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Unlocking the Potential of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Advanced Patterns | — |
| Traci Sewell | — | Speaker | Continuing those uncomfortable Mental Health conversations | — |
| Valerie Junk | — | Speaker | My Real-Time Intelligence Journey: From Power BI Data Visualization to Streaming Data | — |
| Valerie Junk | — | Speaker | Storytelling & Power BI - Creating Power BI reports that connect with different audiences | — |