Conferences / SQLBits
SQLBits 2019 (Speakeasy)
Feb 27, 2019 – Mar 2, 2019 · Manchester Central, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Conference
- SQLBits Database
- Dates
- Feb 27, 2019 – Mar 2, 2019
- Venue
- Manchester Central
- Place
- Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- sqlbits.com
- Recorded
- 15 sponsors · 53 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Theme: Speakeasy. Four days: Wed-Thu full-day training days, Fri-Sat general sessions; Saturday free. Sponsor tiers from the sponsors page (July 2019 snapshot, matching the March 2019 home-page sponsor wall). Speakers: 181 approved sessions in the SQLBits session API for this edition (over the ~150 threshold), so only keynotes plus data/AI-platform sessions are recorded (48 sessions: Fabric, Synapse, Databricks/Spark, data lake/lakehouse, data engineering/integration, streaming, AI/ML, Python and similar, selected by session tags and titles). Affiliations are taken from the speaker bios currently on sqlbits.com (may reflect a later employer than at the time of the talk); null where the bio names no employer.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday (community day) | £0 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Conference day (Friday) | £349 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Training day (Wednesday) | £475 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Training day (Thursday) | £475 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Full conference (4 days, Wed-Sat) | £1,199 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 15
Platinum 1
Bronze 2
Other 3
- Governor · Exhibitor
- Nigel Frank International · Exhibitor
- WARDY IT Solutions · Exhibitor
Speakers and talks 53
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | Microsoft | Keynote | Data Never Rests | Video |
| Alex Whittles | Purple Frog Systems | Speaker | So what's this Machine Learning all about? | Video |
| Alexander Klein | — | Workshop | BI in the cloud on the menu - Select your dish of the day | — |
| Amy Boyd | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure Machine Learning: Applying Software Engineering to ML | Video |
| Andre Kamman | — | Speaker | ETL with Azure Databricks, The Complete Introduction | — |
| Andy Yun | Pure Storage | Speaker | SentryOne Tools for Productivity and Performance | Video |
| Anna Hoffman | Microsoft | Speaker | Leveraging Prebuilt AI Models in SQL Server 2019 | Video |
| Anna Hoffman | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Server ML End-to-End | Video |
| Ben Watt | Datalineo | Speaker | From Raspberry Pi to Power BI and lots in between | Video |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Workshop | Modernize your database with SQL Server 2019 | — |
| Brynn Borton | Tekantis | Speaker | Azure Cosmos DB and Databricks for CRM Optimization | Video |
| Buck Woody | Microsoft | Workshop | Microsoft SQL Server Big Data Clusters Architecture | — |
| Buck Woody | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL 2019 Big Data Architecture Overview | Video |
| Christian Wade | Microsoft | Speaker | Power BI & Azure Data Services - Better Together | Video |
| Christina E. Leo | Microsoft | Speaker | Cognitive Services, Bots, and Search: Dev Tools for AI | Video |
| Christina E. Leo | Microsoft | Speaker | Analytics on Azure: What to Use When | — |
| Eduardo Piairo | Natixis | Speaker | Adding unit tests to the database deployment pipeline | Video |
| Gabi Münster | — | Workshop | BI in the cloud on the menu - Select your dish of the day | — |
| Gavin Campbell | — | Speaker | Disposable Dev environments with Azure DevOps and AzureRM | Video |
| James C Yarrow | — | Speaker | Partitioning Party | Video |
| Jason Horner | — | Workshop | Azure Data Factory Deep Dive | — |
| Jason Horner | — | Speaker | Data Lake Design Patterns | Video |
| Jean-Pierre Riehl | Avanade | Speaker | Azure Data Lake : SELECT * FROM DataLake WHERE People=Happy | — |
| Jennifer Stirrup | — | Speaker | The Five Cs of Artificial Intelligence for Businesses | Video |
| Joe Plumb | Microsoft | Speaker | Getting started with real-time analytics with Kafka and Spark in Microsoft Azure | Video |
| José Mendes | Adatis | Speaker | Learn how to build a real-time analytics solution | Video |
| Kamil Nowinski | Altius | Speaker | Azure Data Factory v2 with Data Flows capabilities | Video |
| Kasper de Jonge | Microsoft | Speaker | Microsoft Power BI Premium: Building enterprise-grade models | Video |
| Kate Kilgour | — | Workshop | Machine Learning - how to be a superstar | — |
| Mahesh Balija | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure Databricks for ML on Big Data workloads | — |
| Mark Whitehorn | University of Dundee | Workshop | Machine Learning - how to be a superstar | — |
| Martin Cairney | — | Speaker | Smart Alerts in SQL DB using Automation and Logic Apps | Video |
| Matt Willis | Adatis | Speaker | The Maths behind Machine Learning | — |
| Michael Johnson | — | Workshop | An absolute beginners guide to power BI | — |
| Microsoft | Microsoft | Speaker | Scalable real-time insights with Azure Stream Analytics | Video |
| Mithun Prasad | Microsoft | Workshop | Data Science from scratch with Azure Machine Learning | — |
| Mithun Prasad | Microsoft | Speaker | Implementing a CI/CD pipeline for Anomaly Detection and Predictive Maintenance on Azure | — |
| Neil M | — | Speaker | Data Integration with Azure Cosmos DB, Data Factory and Databricks | Video |
| Paul Andrew | Cloud Formations | Speaker | Complex Azure Orchestration w Dynamic Data Factory Pipelines | Video |
| Philip Beaumont | Microsoft | Speaker | A dive into the architecture that is Azure SQL DW Gen2 | — |
| Philip Beaumont | Microsoft | Speaker | Modern Data Warehousing with SQL DW and Databricks | — |
| Randolph West | — | Speaker | An overview of SQL Server 2019 for the busy DBA / developer | Video |
| Richie Lee | Mars | Speaker | Managing Tooling to Ensure a Reliable CI/CD Pipeline | — |
| Robin Lester | Microsoft | Speaker | An Introduction to AI on Azure | — |
| Robin Lester | Microsoft | Speaker | Using SQL Server and Azure SQL Database for ML workloads | — |
| Samuel Kemp | — | Workshop | Data Science from scratch with Azure Machine Learning | — |
| Sandy Winarko | Microsoft | Workshop | Deep Dive into Azure Data Factory with SSIS | — |
| Simon Hayward | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure Cosmos DB and Databricks for CRM Optimization | Video |
| Simon Whiteley | Advancing Analytics | Workshop | Azure Databricks: Engineering Vs Data Science | — |
| Simon Whiteley | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Python Pipeline Primer: Data Engineering with DataBricks | — |
| Terry McCann | — | Speaker | Deploy ML models faster with Data Science DevOps | Video |
| Terry McCann | — | Workshop | Azure Databricks: Engineering Vs Data Science | — |
| Terry McCann | — | Speaker | Using AI to write session submission to SQLBits. | — |
Sources
- https://sqlbits.com/about/history/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190723215850/https://sqlbits.com/information/sponsors
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190331161154/http://sqlbits.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190129002248/https://sqlbits.com/information/Pricing
- https://apim-sqlbits-api-management.azure-api.net/dataapi-prd/graphql