Conferences / DataGrillen
DataGrillen 2026
May 21–22, 2026 · IT-Zentrum Lingen, Lingen (Ems), Lower Saxony, Germany
- Conference
- DataGrillen Database
- Dates
- May 21, 2026 – May 22, 2026
- Venue
- IT-Zentrum Lingen
- Place
- Lingen (Ems), Lower Saxony, Germany
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- datagrillen.com
- Recorded
- 11 sponsors · 65 speaker appearances
- Notes
- No 2025 edition. Sessionize calls 2026 the 8th edition. Four tracks (Anzünder, Grillrost, Holzkohle, Zange). Venue: the site's venue page (IT-Zentrum Lingen, 'the spiritual home of DataGrillen'); Sessionize lists only 'Lingen, Germany'. Speakers and talks from the Sessionize schedule embed on datagrillen.com/theschedule; affiliations from Sessionize taglines only where they name an employer. Sponsors (tiered) from the home page archived 11 days before the event; names from logo links (Daten-WG = daten-wg.com, tec networks = tec-networks.com).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free admission | €0 | — | Free to attend; event financed by sponsors and volunteers. | sessionize.com |
Sponsors 11
Gold 2
- Daten-WG · Grillrost / Gold Sponsors
- tec networks · Grillrost / Gold Sponsors
Silver 5
- CloudRede · Anzünder / Silver Sponsors
- dataciders · Anzünder / Silver Sponsors
- Devart · Anzünder / Silver Sponsors
- InSpark · Anzünder / Silver Sponsors
- Rosen · Anzünder / Silver Sponsors
Other 2
- Data Masterminds · Foundation Sponsors
- Solisyon · Foundation Sponsors
Speakers and talks 65
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abhi Jayanty | — | Speaker | Sizzling Hot Insights: Getting Started with Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric | — |
| André Kamman | — | Speaker | You're Completely Right! The Good, The Bad, and The Hallucinated | — |
| Artur König | — | Speaker | Power BI Triggered Robots: Translytical to the 3rd Dimension | — |
| Artur Tyvaert | element61 | Speaker | Conversational BI: A comparison between environments and key decisions to be made | — |
| Barbara Herendi | BI Consulting | Speaker | From Noise to Clarity: Why We Need Visual Standards — An Introduction to IBCS | — |
| Benedict Albrecht | Birdt | Speaker | Dynamics 365 Meets Microsoft Fabric: Lessons, Pitfalls, and Best Practices | — |
| Benni De Jagere | — | Speaker | Exploring permission boundaries in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Cláudio Silva | — | Speaker | Performance of a T-SQL query - The mystery, the investigation and the root cause! | — |
| Craig Porteous | Analytics Masterminds | Speaker | Centralise or Federate - How to Scale your Lakehouse | — |
| Daniel Hutmacher | — | Speaker | SQL Injection – The Old Dog of Data Security | — |
| Danny de Haan | Redgate | Speaker | Database Development with a Security-First Mentality | — |
| Diana Ackermann | — | Speaker | Beyond the blank page: Building your Power BI inspiration repository | — |
| Emilie Rønning | Sopra Steria | Speaker | Become the data transformation hero using Microsoft Fabric! | — |
| Erwin de Kreuk | — | Speaker | From Insight to Oversight: Securing Power BI with Purview | — |
| Evgeniya Alekseeva | Daikin Europe | Speaker | Why Data Governance Initiatives Succeed and Fail | — |
| Gabi Münster | — | Speaker | OneLake Security - Centralized Data Security for Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Gianluca Sartori | — | Speaker | Babelfish: The SQL Server Killer? | — |
| Giulia Cancian | b.telligent | Speaker | The Writeback Smackdown: Power Apps vs. Translytical Task Flows | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Speaker | PostgreSQL For Those Who Know SQL Server | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Speaker | Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026: The Fight for Control | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Bruvo | Speaker | Speak Your Truth: Finding Your Voice as a Data Professional | — |
| Irena Hartmann | — | Speaker | The Trouble With Governance of Azure Functions | — |
| Isi Turner | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Crafting a Personal Brand: Your Career Deserves More Than Just a CV | — |
| Jess Pomfret | — | Speaker | Data API Builder – Create an API for Your Database in Seconds | — |
| Jochen Schroeer | Microsoft | Speaker | OneLake Security - Centralized Data Security for Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Joey Dantoni | — | Speaker | Cloud Strategy in a Turbulent World | — |
| John Morehouse | — | Speaker | Better or Wurst For Your Workloads: Azure SQL vs. SQL in Fabric | — |
| Johnny Winter | Greyskull Analytics | Speaker | Data Modelling for Super Stars! How to collaboratively design your star schema with end users | — |
| Julia Førde | Evidi | Speaker | How Databricks Integrates with You Azure Estate | — |
| Juliana Smith | — | Speaker | Beyond Red, Amber, Green: Building Colour-Accessible Dashboards | — |
| Juliana Smith | — | Speaker | WIT Uncensored. Unapologetic. | — |
| Koen Verbeeck | AE | Speaker | Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform | — |
| Lars Andersen | Microsoft | Speaker | Your ultimate guide to consuming content in Power BI & Fabric | — |
| Linda Torrång | — | Speaker | Adapt your communication for success | — |
| Lisa Hoving | — | Speaker | I’m never enough: Embracing Neurodiversity | — |
| Liz Hardy | — | Speaker | Adapt your communication for success | — |
| Louise Domeisen | — | Speaker | Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026: The Fight for Control | — |
| Marc Lelijveld | — | Speaker | Reaching maximum automation: Generating semantic models as part of your platform workloads | — |
| Marcus Wegener | — | Speaker | Power BI Triggered Robots: Translytical to the 3rd Dimension | — |
| Margarita Neumueller | ALDI Sued | Speaker | Leading with AI - what actually helps | — |
| Margarita Neumueller | ALDI Sued | Speaker | WIT Uncensored. Unapologetic. | — |
| Marjolein Opsteegh | — | Speaker | Deep dive into Power BI theming: from modern defaults to custom JSON | — |
| Matt Gordon | Apps Associates | Speaker | Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026: The Fight for Control | — |
| Matt Gordon | Apps Associates | Speaker | Better or Wurst For Your Workloads: Azure SQL vs. SQL in Fabric | — |
| Michael Tenner | Daten-WG | Speaker | Is a Morally Aligned AI Our Only Chance? | — |
| Mladen Prajdic | — | Speaker | SQL Server 2025 Optimized Locking | — |
| Monica Bagga | — | Speaker | Azure AI Foundry : Generative AI Development Hub | — |
| Monica Morehouse (Rathbun) | — | Speaker | Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026: The Fight for Control | — |
| Monica Morehouse (Rathbun) | — | Speaker | Top 5 Performance Considerations for Database Cloud Environments | — |
| Oliver Engels | — | Speaker | Garbage In, Hallucinations Out: Data Quality in the Age of AI | — |
| Oliver Engels | — | Speaker | From Chaos to Clarity: Architecting Automated Data Quality with HEDDA.IO | — |
| Olivier Van Steenlandt | Datashift | Speaker | Apache Spark for SQL Data Warehouse Developers | — |
| Oskari Heikkinen | Datablinc | Speaker | User Data Functions: Development, Testing, and Integration | — |
| Paulina Jędrzejewska | — | Speaker | From C# Spells to TMDL Sorcery: Evolving Your Power BI Magic | — |
| Reitse Eskens | Axians Business Analytics | Speaker | Loadtesting Fabric II, the sequel | — |
| Rob Sewell | — | Speaker | What A Data Nerd Learnt by Automating Their Home (Besides Annoying Their Family) | — |
| Sander Stad | — | Speaker | DevOops: What Not to Do in DevOps | — |
| Štěpán Rešl | DataBrothers | Speaker | What Retro Games Taught Me About Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Thomas Kronawitter | — | Speaker | Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026: The Fight for Control | — |
| Tillmann Eitelberg | — | Speaker | Garbage In, Hallucinations Out: Data Quality in the Age of AI | — |
| Tillmann Eitelberg | — | Speaker | From Chaos to Clarity: Architecting Automated Data Quality with HEDDA.IO | — |
| Tom Huntley | CloudRede | Speaker | Accidental Data Engineer: A DBA’s First Data Pipeline | — |
| Traci Sewell | — | Speaker | When the firehose causes the Burnout | — |
| Traci Sewell | — | Speaker | WIT Uncensored. Unapologetic. | — |
| Uwe Ricken | db Berater GmbH | Speaker | Evolution of User-Defined Functions in Microsoft SQL Server | — |