Conferences / PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit)
PASS Summit West 2026
Nov 9–11, 2026 · Hyatt Regency Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States Announced
- Conference
- PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit) Database
- Dates
- Nov 9, 2026 – Nov 11, 2026
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency Seattle
- Place
- Seattle, WA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Announced
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- passdatacommunitysummit.com
- Recorded
- 18 sponsors · 143 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Rebranded 'PASS Summit West (Seattle)' as part of a three-event 2026 series (East/Chicago, Europe/Frankfurt, West/Seattle). Shortened to three days (pre-con day Nov 9, conference Nov 10-11) and moved from the Seattle Convention Center to the Hyatt Regency Seattle (808 Howell St). Speakers: full agenda as published on the live site (fetched 2026-11-08; 101 speakers), one row per speaker per session; social events without speakers omitted; role 'keynote' for the Microsoft and Redgate keynotes and the WIT Luncheon keynote, 'precon' for Monday sessions. Abstracts truncated.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Ticket (2-day) - Launch Price | $1,790 | Mar 31, 2026 | passdatacommunitysummit.com | |
| Pre-Conference & General Ticket (3-day) - Launch Price | $2,175 | Mar 31, 2026 | passdatacommunitysummit.com | |
| General Ticket (2-day) - Standard Price | $1,990 | — | passdatacommunitysummit.com | |
| Pre-Conference & General Ticket (3-day) - Standard Price | $2,325 | — | passdatacommunitysummit.com |
Sponsors 18
Title / headline 1
- Microsoft · Sapphire sponsor
Gold 1
- Google · Gold sponsor
Silver 2
- Databricks · Silver sponsors
- WhereScape · Silver sponsors
Other 12
- Agentic Fabriq · Exhibitor sponsors
- Alkera AI · Exhibitor sponsors
- COZYROC · Exhibitor sponsors
- DBGorilla · Exhibitor sponsors
- DBHawk · Exhibitor sponsors
- dbWatch · Exhibitor sponsors
- EDB · Exhibitor sponsors
- Fortified · Exhibitor sponsors
- Fujitsu · Exhibitor sponsors
- Melissa · Exhibitor sponsors
- Smarty · Exhibitor sponsors
- Spitfyre · Exhibitor sponsors
Speakers and talks 143
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Hawkins | Redgate | Keynote | Redgate Keynote – Cleared for Takeoff: Database Estate Governance and Control Alongside AI | — |
| Ginger Grant | Desert Isle Group | Keynote | WIT Luncheon: What Do You Do When You Hear The Word "No"? | — |
| James Murtagh | Redgate | Keynote | Redgate Keynote – Cleared for Takeoff: Database Estate Governance and Control Alongside AI | — |
| Kellyn Gorman | Redgate | Keynote | Redgate Keynote – Cleared for Takeoff: Database Estate Governance and Control Alongside AI | — |
| Shelby Vaught | Redgate | Keynote | Redgate Keynote – Cleared for Takeoff: Database Estate Governance and Control Alongside AI | — |
| Shireesh Thota | Microsoft | Keynote | Microsoft Keynote – AI Starts with Data: Building the Foundation for What's Next | — |
| Steve Jones | Redgate | Keynote | Redgate Keynote – Cleared for Takeoff: Database Estate Governance and Control Alongside AI | — |
| Tom Hodgson | Redgate | Keynote | Redgate Keynote – Cleared for Takeoff: Database Estate Governance and Control Alongside AI | — |
| Tushita Gupta | Redgate | Keynote | Redgate Keynote – Cleared for Takeoff: Database Estate Governance and Control Alongside AI | — |
| Aaron Cutshall | SQLRV, LLC | Speaker | Leadership Essentials for Data Teams | — |
| Adam Machanic | Stealth Startup | Speaker | PostgreSQL Storage Internals: From MVCC to TOAST and Beyond | — |
| Akshata Revankar | Microsoft | Speaker | Secure CI/CD for Power BI with GitHub | — |
| Alexander Perry | WhereScape | Speaker | SQL Server Isn’t Holding Back Your AI, But Your Process Might Be | — |
| Allison Harris | NFP | Speaker | Mom/Daughter Duo: DBA Teaches Data Engineer Security Secrets Worth Stealing | — |
| Amar Digamber Patil | Microsoft | Speaker | From Alerts to Agents: The Road to an Autonomous Database Estate | — |
| Amit Arora | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Ensuring Data Integrity: Validation Strategies for PostgreSQL Migrations | — |
| Amy Abel | Straight Path Solutions | Speaker | 7 Simple Strategies to Combat Imposter Syndrome | — |
| Amy Abel | Straight Path Solutions | Speaker | A GIT Journey from Foundations to Automation for Data Professionals | The Automation Engine for Modern DBAs and DBREs Using GitHub | — |
| Andreas Wolter | Sarpedon Quality Lab LLC | Speaker | Inside Real SQL Server Breaches: Privilege Escalations and How to Stop It | — |
| Andy Yun | Everpure | Speaker | Exploring SQL Server 2025's Practical Benefits for T-SQL Developers | — |
| Anna Hoffman | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Strikes Back: SQL Database Hyperscale for the Era of AI | — |
| Anna Hoffman | Microsoft | Speaker | What’s New in Microsoft SQL in 2026 | Data Exposed Live | — |
| Anthony Nocentino | Everpure | Speaker | SQL Server 2025 Vectors: Under the Hood and Into Production | — |
| Anupama Natarajan | Pearl Innovations Limited | Speaker | AI-Powered SQL Dev with VS Code and Copilot | — |
| Arneh Eskandari | Redgate | Speaker | AI Workflows with Redgate Workshop | — |
| Ben DeBow | Fortified | Speaker | FinOps for Data: Reclaiming Control Through Cost Transparency | — |
| Ben Weissman | Solisyon | Speaker | Brick by Brick – An Honest Look at Pair-Building with an AI Agent | — |
| Ben Weissman | Solisyon | Speaker | Modernize Without Moving (Yet): SQL with Azure Arc & Fabric Database Hub | — |
| Ben Weissman | Solisyon | Precon | Community Kickoff & Power Hour | — |
| Bhaskar Natarajan | Pearl Innovations Limited | Speaker | AI-Powered SQL Dev with VS Code and Copilot | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Strikes Back: SQL Database Hyperscale for the Era of AI | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | Book Signing at the Microsoft Booth | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | Breakfast with the Azure Data LT – AMA | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | An Inside Look at How Microsoft Builds SQL Features | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | Your SQL Called, It Wants More Speed | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Server Versioning Explained | — |
| Bradley Schacht | Microsoft | Speaker | Mastering Fabric Security: Safeguarding Your Analytics | — |
| Brent Meulebroeck | Fulton Analytics | Speaker | Ditch the Spreadsheet: Enterprise Planning in Microsoft Fabric IQ | — |
| Brent Ozar | Brent Ozar Unlimited | Precon | Dev-Prod Demon Hunters: Finding the Real Cause of Production Slowness | — |
| Brent Ozar | Brent Ozar Unlimited | Speaker | Pokemon, Choose Your Index: You Can't Have Them All | — |
| Bryan Nagy | CardWorks Financial Group | Speaker | Bigger Estate, Same Team: Five Ways to Stay in Control and Make Your Impact Visible | — |
| Charles Fedderson | Microsoft | Speaker | Breakfast with the Azure Data LT – AMA | — |
| Chris Madden | Speaker | Shattering Records: Architecting a 1,000,000 IOPS SQL Server | — | |
| Chris Madden | Speaker | Hands-on Lab: Part 3 – AlloyDB Agentic Operations: From Symptom to Fix | — | |
| Chris Madden | Speaker | Hands-on Lab: Part 2 – Building a Goal-Oriented AI Agent for Soccer Fans with AlloyDB | — | |
| Chris Madden | Speaker | Hands-on Lab: Part 1 – Building a Goal-Oriented AI Agent for Soccer Fans with AlloyDB | — | |
| Christian Henrik Reich | Microsoft | Speaker | Empowering Lakehouse Solutions with Fabric Warehouse | — |
| Christoph Petersen | Speaker | Hands-on Lab: Part 3 – AlloyDB Agentic Operations: From Symptom to Fix | — | |
| Christoph Petersen | Speaker | Hands-on Lab: Part 2 – Building a Goal-Oriented AI Agent for Soccer Fans with AlloyDB | — | |
| Christoph Petersen | Speaker | Shattering Records: Architecting a 1,000,000 IOPS SQL Server | — | |
| Christoph Petersen | Speaker | Hands-on Lab: Part 1 – Building a Goal-Oriented AI Agent for Soccer Fans with AlloyDB | — | |
| Conor Cunningham | Microsoft | Speaker | Your SQL Called, It Wants More Speed | — |
| Dave Bland | Lexia Learning | Speaker | Migrating Your SQL Server DBA Skills to PostgreSQL | — |
| David Harmon | AMD | Speaker | Your SQL Called, It Wants More Speed | — |
| David Wagoner | EDB | Speaker | Architecting Sovereign Hybrid Postgres via Kubernetes-Native Design | — |
| Deborah Melkin | GLG | Speaker | Change Tracking in SQL Server 2025: Exploring Change Event Streaming vs CDC | — |
| Deborah Melkin | GLG | Speaker | Adapting for AI Readiness as a Data Professional | No Fluff, Just Facts: AI Essentials for Data Professionals | — |
| Deepthi Goguri | DBA | Speaker | Defense in Depth: Securing Azure SQL Databases | — |
| Denny Cherry | Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting | Speaker | Choosing the Right Data Store: An Overview of Azure Data Platform Choices | — |
| Durga Prasad | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Building Secure Text-to-SQL Chatbots with PostgreSQL RLS | — |
| Edward Pollack | Transfinder | Speaker | Native Regex on the Microsoft Data Platform | — |
| Edward Pollack | Transfinder | Speaker | Data Run | — |
| Edward Pollack | Transfinder | Speaker | Games Night | — |
| Edwin M Sarmiento | 15C | Speaker | How To Play (Almost) Any Song On The Guitar As A Beginner | — |
| Edwin M Sarmiento | 15C | Speaker | Always On Availability Groups and Failover Clustering Internals | — |
| Erik Darling | Darling Data | Precon | T-SQL That Doesn't Suck: Solving Performance and Concurrency Problems | — |
| Erik Darling | Darling Data | Speaker | Read Committed Is Cruel by Default | — |
| Fabiano Amorim | Pythian | Speaker | Your MSSQL Environment Is Vulnerable and I Can Prove It | — |
| Fabiano Amorim | Pythian | Speaker | Inside Real SQL Server Breaches: Privilege Escalations and How to Stop It | — |
| Frank Geisler | GDS Business Intelligence GmbH | Speaker | Eventhouse: The Hidden Power Behind Fabric Real-Time Intelligence | — |
| Ginger Grant | Desert Isle Group | Speaker | Creating Agentic Solutions with Fabric IQ | — |
| Ginger Grant | Desert Isle Group | Precon | Building an AI-Enabled Fabric Practice | — |
| Goran Orec | CampBrain | Speaker | Understanding Practical Indexing Rules, Tipping Point, and Consolidation | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Precon | Adding PostgreSQL to Your SQL Server Skill Set | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Speaker | Bigger Estate, Same Team: Five Ways to Stay in Control and Make Your Impact Visible | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Speaker | Preparing for the PostgreSQL Certification | — |
| InduTeja Aligeti | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Building Secure Text-to-SQL Chatbots with PostgreSQL RLS | — |
| Ishan Sinha | Microsoft | Speaker | PostgreSQL on Azure: Choosing the Right Database for Your Workload | — |
| Ishan Sinha | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure HorizonDB: Deep Dive into a New Enterprise-Scale PostgreSQL | — |
| Itay Maoz | Speaker | Turbocharge Your AI Agent with SQL Server and Google Cloud | — | |
| J.D. Walker | Everforth/ECS Federal | Speaker | Taekwondo – The Korean Martial Art | — |
| Jackson Kleeman | Redgate | Speaker | Redgate Devour Hour – Move Fast, Govern at Scale: Taming Database Change in the Age of AI | — |
| James Serra | Microsoft | Speaker | Learning to Present and Becoming Good At It | — |
| Jared Kuehn | JourneyTeam | Speaker | Theater Lessons to Help You Speak in Front of a Crowd | — |
| Joey D'Antoni | DCAC | Speaker | Git Good: GitHub and GitHub Actions for the Rest of Us | — |
| Joey D'Antoni | DCAC | Precon | Learning the Cloud: From Managing Resources to Designing Solutions | — |
| John Martin | Redgate | Speaker | Who's Really Logged In? Practical Governance for AI in Your Database Estate | — |
| Jonathan Stewart | SQLBites | Speaker | Redgate Luncheon – AI;BDR (AI; Because Didn't Read) | — |
| Jonathan Stewart | SQLBites | Speaker | Observability for Microsoft Fabric: What's Happening in Your Platform | — |
| Jordan Brennan (Sassi) | The Boston Beer Company | Speaker | How to "Excel" as a Solo DBA | — |
| Justin Wilkes | Idera | Speaker | AI in the Real World: Smarter SQL Server Performance Tuning with SQL Diagnostic Manager | — |
| Kellyn Gorman | Redgate | Speaker | Who's Really Logged In? Practical Governance for AI in Your Database Estate | — |
| Kellyn Gorman | Redgate | Speaker | My House Floats- Living on a Floating Home | — |
| Kellyn Gorman | Redgate | Speaker | Redgate Luncheon – AI;BDR (AI; Because Didn't Read) | — |
| Kevin Feasel | Catallaxy Services, LLC | Speaker | Pick Your Poison: Choosing the Right Edition of SQL Server | — |
| Kevin Feasel | Catallaxy Services, LLC | Speaker | Redgate Luncheon – AI;BDR (AI; Because Didn't Read) | — |
| Kevin Wilkie | Sherpa of Data | Speaker | The Architecture Gap: Why Your AI Strategy Is Slower Than You Think | — |
| Kristyna Ferris | P3 Adaptive | Precon | Community Kickoff & Power Hour | — |
| Kristyna Ferris | P3 Adaptive | Speaker | The Fellowship of the Star Schema: Transforming OLTP Data for Power BI | — |
| Lenore Flower | Data Plumber, LLC | Speaker | The Recovering Shy Person's Guide to Putting Yourself Forward | — |
| Marcelo Adade | DBBITS | Speaker | SQL Server Always On Deployments: What Works, What Breaks, and What to Do | — |
| Marcelo Fernandes | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | GenAI for Schema Conversion: What It Actually Gets Right (and Wrong) | — |
| Matt Gordon | Lean TECHniques | Speaker | Adapting for AI Readiness as a Data Professional | Keeping Up Without Falling Down: AI's Future for Data Professionals | — |
| Matthew Gantz | Versant | Speaker | DIY Log Shipping for RDS | — |
| Michael D'Spain | Walmart Vizio | Speaker | A GIT Journey from Foundations to Automation for Data Professionals | From Commit to Pull Request: Practical GitHub Skills for the Modern Data Professional | — |
| Mikey Bronowski | DataPopkorn.com | Speaker | Azure PowerShell for DBAs: Stop Clicking, Start Scripting | — |
| Mohammad Ali | Microsoft | Speaker | Fabric IQ: Bringing Conversational Analytics to Where Decisions Happen | — |
| Mohammad Ali | Microsoft | Speaker | Breakfast with the Azure Data LT – AMA | — |
| Naveen Prakash | Mircrosoft | Speaker | An Inside Look at How Microsoft Builds SQL Features | — |
| Nellie Gustafsson | Microsoft | Speaker | Fabric IQ: Bringing Conversational Analytics to Where Decisions Happen | — |
| Noah Sommerfeld | Databricks | Speaker | How Agentic Memory Requirements Break Traditional Databases (And What to do About It) | — |
| Paresh Motiwala | Harris County, TX | Speaker | Thriving in a Tough Job Market: Résumés, Interviews, and Career Strategy | — |
| Pat Wright | Redgate | Speaker | Just Start Peddling | — |
| Pat Wright | Redgate | Speaker | Preparing for the PostgreSQL Certification | — |
| Pat Wright | Redgate | Precon | Adding PostgreSQL to Your SQL Server Skill Set | — |
| Patrick LeBlanc | Microsoft | Speaker | From Alerts to Agents: The Road to an Autonomous Database Estate | — |
| Paul Randal | SQLskills | Precon | Performance Troubleshooting Using Waits and Latches | — |
| Paul Randal | SQLskills | Speaker | Advanced Data Recovery Techniques | — |
| Peter Kruis | Kruis Database Consultancy | Speaker | From Disarray to Hooray: SQL Server Functions That Simplify T-SQL | — |
| Priya Sathy | Microsoft | Speaker | Breakfast with the Azure Data LT – AMA | — |
| Reid Havens | Analytic Endeavors | Speaker | AI-Assisted BI (AIBI): Using LLMs to Build and Maintain Semantic Models | — |
| Reid Havens | Analytic Endeavors | Speaker | I Let an LLM Build My Semantic Model (Here's What Happened) | — |
| Rene Garza | Redgate | Speaker | Redgate Devour Hour – From Alerts to Answers: Database Intelligence with Redgate Monitor | — |
| Rene Garza | Redgate | Speaker | Who Reviewed That Migration? Database Change Control in the Age of AI | — |
| Rick Lowe | Data FLowe Solutions LLC | Speaker | PostgreSQL Indexes for the SQL Server DBA | — |
| Rob Newman | JAMS | Speaker | The 2 A.M. Job Failure: Rethinking How DBAs Get Alerted | — |
| Robert Volk | Rob Volk | Speaker | DeepSQL: How To Discover SQL Server Internals | — |
| Robert Volk | Rob Volk | Speaker | A GIT Journey from Foundations to Automation for Data Professionals | From Zero to Heck Yeah! with Git and GitHub | — |
| Rodney Kidd | Still Looking | Speaker | Photography – The Quick and the Slow of It | — |
| Sajitha Sritharan | Yazaki | Speaker | Stop AI Hallucinations: Grounding Agents with Fabric Semantic Models | — |
| Savannah Longoria | Databricks | Speaker | Inside Lakebase: Postgres, Separation of Storage and Compute, and LTAP | — |
| Sharon Reid | NISA | Speaker | Mom/Daughter Duo: DBA Teaches Data Engineer Security Secrets Worth Stealing | — |
| Shireesh Thota | Microsoft | Speaker | Breakfast with the Azure Data LT – AMA | — |
| Stephanie Reis | AAA Washington | Speaker | From Disarray to Hooray: SQL Server Functions That Simplify T-SQL | — |
| Stephen Nolan | DBGorilla | Speaker | Send In The Clones: Shrink the Agent, Not the Database | — |
| Taiob Ali | GMO LLC | Speaker | Adapting for AI Readiness as a Data Professional | AI in the SQL World: Tools We Have & Tips for Using Them | — |
| Theodoros Katsimanis | KaizenGaming.com | Speaker | Synchronous Availability Groups Don’t Always Mean Zero Data Loss | — |
| Tim Chapman | Speaker | Turbocharge Your AI Agent with SQL Server and Google Cloud | — | |
| Tomislav Hlupić | Solvership | Speaker | Airflow & dbt: The Hipsters of Data Integration Meet Azure | — |
| Travis Wright | Microsoft | Speaker | An Inside Look at How Microsoft Builds SQL Features | — |
| Tyler Garner | X-Energy | Speaker | Governing AI Agents: Designing Skills for Control and Trust | — |
| Vanshika Nigam | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Ensuring Data Integrity: Validation Strategies for PostgreSQL Migrations | — |
| Xiaoyu Li | Microsoft | Speaker | How Should We Think About Performance | — |
Sources
- https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/west/
- https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/west/agenda/
- https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/west/tickets-prices/
- https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/west/sponsors/
- https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/about/news/pass-summit-west-is-getting-a-new-home-in-2026/
- https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/west/general-session-speakers/
- https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/about/news/pre-conference-sessions-announced-for-pass-summit-west-seattle/