Conferences / SQLBits
SQLBits 2022 (Arcade)
Mar 8–12, 2022 · ExCeL London, London, England, United Kingdom
- Conference
- SQLBits Database
- Dates
- Mar 8, 2022 – Mar 12, 2022
- Venue
- ExCeL London
- Place
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- sqlbits.com
- Recorded
- 19 sponsors · 177 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Theme: Arcade. First in-person SQLBits after COVID-19, with virtual attendance also offered (history page). xTen appeared under both Bronze and Exhibitor panes; recorded once as Bronze. Speakers: 350 approved sessions in the SQLBits session API for this edition (over the ~150 threshold), so only keynotes plus data/AI-platform sessions are recorded (130 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 | £0 | — | Virtual attendees: save 40% | web.archive.org |
| 1 day (standard) | £500 | — | Virtual attendees: save 40% | web.archive.org |
| 2 days (standard) | £900 | — | Virtual attendees: save 40% | web.archive.org |
| 3 days (standard) | £1,275 | — | Virtual attendees: save 40% | web.archive.org |
| Full conference (standard) | £1,600 | — | Virtual attendees: save 40% | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 19
Platinum 3
Silver 1
Bronze 1
Other 5
- dbWatch · Exhibitor
- EBIS · Exhibitor
- Fortified · Exhibitor
- Nigel Frank International · Exhibitor
- Venturi · Exhibitor
Speakers and talks 177
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Weissman | — | Keynote | Keynote by the Community | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote | — |
| Buck Woody | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote | — |
| Marisa Mathews | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote | — |
| Rob Sewell | — | Keynote | Keynote by the Community | — |
| Adi Polak | Microsoft | Speaker | Redesigning Scalable Machine Learning with the open source Apache Spark | — |
| Ajith Ramanath | Microsoft | Speaker | Hitting Top Speeds with Spark SQL in Azure Synapse | Video |
| Alberto Ferrari | SQLBI | Speaker | Why star schema is your best choice in Power BI | Video |
| Alpa Buddhabhatti | — | Speaker | Azure Data Factory, Azure Logic Apps and Power BI for everyone | Video |
| Alpa Buddhabhatti | — | Speaker | Azure Machine Learning for everyone | — |
| André Kamman | — | Speaker | Building your first Metadata Driven Azure Data Factory | Video |
| André Kamman | — | Speaker | Looking under the hood of the parquet format | Video |
| Andrew Isenman | — | Speaker | Heathrow’s Data Transformation – How to rapidly build out a data engineering function | — |
| Andy Cutler | — | Speaker | The Dream Team: Synapse Analytics Serverless SQL Pools and Pipelines | Video |
| Angela Henry | — | Speaker | What is Azure Purview and Why Do I Need It? | Video |
| Anna-Maria Wykes | — | Speaker | So you want to be a Data Engineer? | Video |
| Anna-Maria Wykes | — | Workshop | Achieving DevOps Nirvana: Automating Azure Data Platform Deployments with Terraform | — |
| Anna-Maria Wykes | — | Speaker | Automate the deployment of Databricks components using Terraform | Video |
| Ásgeir Gunnarsson | — | Speaker | 5 Power Automate flows that could give immediate value in your organization | Video |
| Avanade Avanade | Avanade | Speaker | Digital Twins - The need for connected data | — |
| Avanade Avanade | Avanade | Speaker | The "Meta-verse" - Using metadata to build your pipelines in less than 20 min | — |
| Ben Jarvis | Adatis | Speaker | Azure Container Apps for Data Engineers | Video |
| Ben Jarvis | Adatis | Speaker | Patterns for Master Data Management in Azure | — |
| Ben Sack | Microsoft | Speaker | Low-Code Data Preparation using Power Query Dataflows | Video |
| Ben Weissman | — | Speaker | SQL Server on Linux, Containers and Kubernetes | — |
| Ben Wright-Jones | Microsoft | Speaker | Real-world AI Architectures | Video |
| Benjamin Kettner | ML!PA Consulting GmbH | Speaker | About time: how to work with timeseries in Azure | Video |
| Bernhard Engleder | ACP CUBIDO | Speaker | Data Governance with Azure Purview - Theory, Customer Insights and Demos | Video |
| Bob Duffy | — | Speaker | EDW Automation in Synapse SQL Pools | Video |
| Buck Woody | Microsoft | Speaker | Machine Learning on the SQL Server Platform | Video |
| Buck Woody | Microsoft | Speaker | Developer Enhancements in SQL Server 2022 | Video |
| Buck Woody | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Server on Linux, Containers and Kubernetes | — |
| Carey Payette | Trillium Innovations | Speaker | Azure Synapse Analytics Pipelines: a 360-degree view | Video |
| Cathrine Wilhelmsen | — | Workshop | Beginner's Guide to Data Integration using Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse Analytics | — |
| Cathrine Wilhelmsen | — | Speaker | Lessons Learned: Implementing Azure Synapse Analytics in a Rapidly-Changing Startup | Video |
| Chris Webb | Microsoft | Speaker | Creating Tables In Power Query And M Using #table() | Video |
| Chris Williams | — | Speaker | "Cultivating the Catalogue" - Growing Data Governance with Azure Purview | — |
| Craig Porteous | — | Speaker | "Cultivating the Catalogue" - Growing Data Governance with Azure Purview | — |
| Daniel Harrington | Mars | Speaker | Leveraging Apache Spark for Efficient Data Encryption at Scale | Video |
| Dave Draffin | — | Speaker | Heathrow’s Data Transformation – How to rapidly build out a data engineering function | — |
| Dave Ruijter | — | Speaker | Overview of Azure Synapse Analytics | Video |
| Dave Ruijter | — | Workshop | Analytics at scale with Power BI and Azure Synapse | — |
| Dave Ruijter | — | Speaker | 10 tips for a successful migration from Databricks and ADF to Synapse | Video |
| Denny Cherry | Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting | Speaker | Selecting the correct Azure Data Solution for your application | Video |
| Dr. Victoria Holt | — | Speaker | Data Governance with Azure Purview - Ask the Experts | Video |
| Dustin Vannoy | — | Speaker | Azure Data Engineer Skills for Success | Video |
| Edward Allen | — | Speaker | Data Engineering the Hard Way: Developing Spark Applications on Kubernetes | Video |
| Erwin de Kreuk | InSpark | Speaker | Lake Database with Database Template and Mapping Data with Azure Synapse Analytics | Video |
| Erwin de Kreuk | InSpark | Speaker | Data Governance with Azure Purview - Ask the Experts | Video |
| Evangeline White | Microsoft | Speaker | Unified Data Governance with Azure Purview | Video |
| Falek Miah | — | Workshop | Achieving DevOps Nirvana: Automating Azure Data Platform Deployments with Terraform | — |
| Falek Miah | — | Speaker | Automate the deployment of Databricks components using Terraform | Video |
| Francesco Sbrescia | Adatis | Workshop | Opening the Black Box - Machine Learning on Azure | — |
| Gail Shaw | — | Speaker | Introducing Synapse Analytics Data Explorer pools | — |
| Gaurav Malhotra | Microsoft | Speaker | Unified Data Governance with Azure Purview | Video |
| Gaurav Malhotra | Microsoft | Speaker | Self Service Data Access Provisioning With Azure Purview | Video |
| Gavin Campbell | — | Speaker | Data Engineering the Hard Way: Developing Spark Applications on Kubernetes | Video |
| Gavita Regunath | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Data Science and Analytics: Real-World Experience from Diverse voices in the field | — |
| Gavita Regunath | Advancing Analytics | Workshop | Get there faster with Machine Learning in Azure Synapse | — |
| Gavita Regunath | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | AutoML: An Introduction To Get You Started | Video |
| Ginger Grant | — | Speaker | Moving away from One Model to rule them all | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Workshop | Learn Database DevOps With Redgate | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Speaker | Flyway: An Evolution in Database Deployments | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Speaker | Benefits of Using Version Control In Database Development | Video |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Speaker | What I’m telling your developers about DevOps | — |
| Hamish Watson | — | Speaker | Building and managing a Data Platform in Azure | — |
| Hamish Watson | — | Speaker | Database Reliability Engineering - the new DBA? | Video |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Polar Squad | Speaker | Less Clicking, More Coding! Data Platform Development Using Infrastructure as Code | Video |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Polar Squad | Speaker | Networking unlocked for the Azure Data Services | Video |
| Helle Normann | Elaway | Speaker | Lessons Learned: Implementing Azure Synapse Analytics in a Rapidly-Changing Startup | Video |
| Henk van der Valk | — | Speaker | Lessons learned from managing Azure Data platforms! Put your data hat on! | — |
| Henk van der Valk | — | Speaker | You CAN Run SQL at Scale in the Cloud! | — |
| Ivan Donev | The World Bank | Speaker | Practical Lakehouse implementation in the enterprise | Video |
| James Serra | Microsoft | Speaker | Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric (the alphabet soup of data architectures) | Video |
| Jamey Johnston | — | Speaker | Enterprise Row Level Security in SQL Server and Power BI | Video |
| Jean Joseph | Microsoft | Speaker | From Housekeeping to Data Engineer - My journey to find my passion | Video |
| Jennifer Stirrup | — | Speaker | Data Science and Analytics: Real-World Experience from Diverse voices in the field | — |
| Jennifer Stirrup | — | Speaker | Artificial Intelligence Ethics Frameworks and Toolkits - A Comparative Study and a Roadmap | — |
| Josie West | Avanade | Speaker | Digital Twins - The need for connected data | — |
| Just Blindbæk | — | Speaker | Architectural blueprints for the Modern Data Warehouse | Video |
| Justin Langford | Coeo | Speaker | Five steps to create a data-driven culture | — |
| Justin Langford | Coeo | Speaker | Five steps to create a data-driven culture | — |
| Kamil Nowinski | Altius | Speaker | Azure Data Factory - A deployment challenges | Video |
| Kathi Kellenberger | Redgate | Speaker | Intelligent Query Processing | Video |
| Kathi Kellenberger | Redgate | Speaker | Modern T-SQL for Better Performance | — |
| Kathi Kellenberger | Redgate | Workshop | Learn Database DevOps With Redgate | — |
| Kay Cordewener | — | Speaker | Azure DevOps trio | — |
| Kay Cordewener | — | Speaker | Azure Data Engineering services used to analyze data | Video |
| Kendal Van Dyke | Microsoft | Speaker | Developer Enhancements in SQL Server 2022 | Video |
| Kev Chant | — | Speaker | Github and Azure DevOps Duet - SQLBits edition | Video |
| Kev Chant | — | Speaker | Azure Data Engineering services used to analyze data | Video |
| Kev Chant | — | Speaker | Azure DevOps trio | — |
| Kevin Kline | — | Speaker | How to Troubleshoot SQL Server CPU Problems | — |
| Koen Verbeeck | AE | Speaker | The modern Cloud Data Warehouse - Snowflake on Azure | Video |
| Liam Doyle | Adatis | Speaker | What makes Databricks a powerful Machine Learning tool? | — |
| Liam Doyle | Adatis | Workshop | Opening the Black Box - Machine Learning on Azure | — |
| lucrecia krause | — | Speaker | Business Architecture and Power BI | Video |
| Luke Menzies | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Optimisation in Business | Video |
| Luke Moloney | Microsoft | Speaker | The fundamentals of building a lakehouse with Synapse | Video |
| Luke Moloney | Microsoft | Workshop | How to build a data warehouse solution for your analytical workloads | — |
| Marc Lelijveld | Macaw | Workshop | Analytics at scale with Power BI and Azure Synapse | — |
| Mark Broadbent | — | Speaker | Introduction to continuous integration and delivery with Azure DevOps (20 min edition) | Video |
| Mark Broadbent | — | Speaker | 2 Fast 2 Furious - designing for speed, concurrency, and correctness (20 min edition) | Video |
| Mark Pryce-Maher | Microsoft | Speaker | Reporting on 1.4B rows with Serverless SQL Pools | Video |
| Mark Pryce-Maher | Microsoft | Speaker | Dedicated SQL Pools : How some stuff 'really' works | Video |
| Mark Pryce-Maher | Microsoft | Speaker | Monster Data Loading with Synapse | — |
| Mark Pryce-Maher | Microsoft | Workshop | How to build a data warehouse solution for your analytical workloads | — |
| martin croft | — | Speaker | Dba toolset - Getting things done when the pressure is on | Video |
| Martyn Bullerwell | — | Speaker | Heathrow’s Data Transformation – How to rapidly build out a data engineering function | — |
| Matt Gordon | — | Speaker | Monitoring a growing database environment: insights for success | — |
| Matthew Roche | Microsoft | Speaker | BI Power Hour | Video |
| Matthew Roche | Microsoft | Speaker | Roche's Maxim of Data Transformation | Video |
| Michael Johnson | — | Speaker | Building a robust deployment pipeline in Power BI | Video |
| Michael Robson | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | So you want to be a Data Engineer? | Video |
| Miguel Llopis | Microsoft | Speaker | Low-Code Data Preparation using Power Query Dataflows | Video |
| Mike Diehl | Imaginet Resources | Speaker | Azure DevOps Release Pipelines for SQL Databases, Azure Data Factories, and Analysis Models | Video |
| Mike Dobing | — | Speaker | Building the Lakehouse Architecture with Azure Synapse Analytics | Video |
| Monica Rathbun | — | Speaker | Monitoring a growing database environment: insights for success | — |
| Nick Baladi | Adatis | Speaker | Heathrow’s Data Transformation – How to rapidly build out a data engineering function | — |
| Nico Botes | Montego Pet Nutrition | Speaker | Building a robust deployment pipeline in Power BI | Video |
| Niels Berglund | Derivco | Workshop | A Day of Azure Data Explorer | — |
| Niels Berglund | Derivco | Speaker | ksqlDB - The Real-Time Streaming Database | Video |
| Niels Berglund | Derivco | Speaker | Analyze Billions of Rows of Data in Real-Time Using Azure Data Explorer | Video |
| Nikola Ilic | — | Workshop | Cracking Power BI Performance Tuning in a day! | — |
| Nikola Ilic | — | Speaker | Azure Data Factory, Azure Logic Apps and Power BI for everyone | Video |
| Oliver Engels | oh22data AG | Speaker | Enterprise Scale Analytics - What's in it for me | Video |
| Paul Andrew | Cloud Formations | Speaker | Creating a Metadata Driven Orchestration Framework Using Azure Data Integration Pipelines | Video |
| Paul Andrew | Cloud Formations | Speaker | The Evolution of Data Platform Architectures in Azure - Lambda, Kappa, Delta, Data Mesh | — |
| Paul Andrew | Cloud Formations | Workshop | Azure Data Integration Pipelines - Advanced Design and Delivery | — |
| Pieter Vanhove | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure SQL Database - A true story journey from migration, through synchronization and beyond. | — |
| Piotr Mucha | Adatis | Speaker | Run your SSIS packages in Azure Data Factory | Video |
| Richard Munn | — | Speaker | An Introduction to Lambda Architectures | — |
| Robin Lester | Microsoft | Speaker | How to Run a Successful AI Project | Video |
| Rui Romano | — | Speaker | BI Power Hour | Video |
| Russ Loski | — | Speaker | Limiting permissions in Dynamic SQL with Execute As | Video |
| Ryan Dawson | — | Speaker | How to Choose an ML Platform | — |
| Sander Stad | — | Speaker | Github and Azure DevOps Duet - SQLBits edition | Video |
| Sander Stad | — | Speaker | Azure DevOps trio | — |
| Scott Bell | RapidData | Speaker | Cosmos 101 | Video |
| Scott Bell | RapidData | Speaker | Is HTAP the future? | Video |
| Scott Sewell | Microsoft | Speaker | BI Power Hour | Video |
| Sergiy Lunyakin | ITMagination | Speaker | Migrate traditional DW transformations to Spark/Scala | Video |
| Shinduri Srinatha Reddy | — | Speaker | Big Data Implementation in AWS Cloud through the lens of Security and Privacy | Video |
| Simon Lidberg | — | Speaker | Real-world AI Architectures | Video |
| Simon Whiteley | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Bringing Data Lakes to your Purview | Video |
| Simon Whiteley | Advancing Analytics | Workshop | A Data Engineer's Guide to Azure Synapse | — |
| Simon Whiteley | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Lessons in Lakehouse Automation | — |
| Steph Locke | — | Speaker | Coding from scratch a realtime Azure data and AI pipeline | — |
| Steph Locke | — | Speaker | Practical DataOps for data scientists | — |
| Steve Jones | Redgate | Workshop | Learn Database DevOps With Redgate | — |
| Steve Jones | Redgate | Speaker | Monitoring a growing database environment: insights for success | — |
| Stijn Wynants | — | Speaker | Reporting on 1.4B rows with Serverless SQL Pools | Video |
| Stijn Wynants | — | Workshop | A Data Engineer's Guide to Azure Synapse | — |
| Stuart Moore | — | Speaker | Embedding SQL security practices in your pipelines | Video |
| Terry McCann | — | Workshop | Get there faster with Machine Learning in Azure Synapse | — |
| Terry McCann | — | Speaker | Machine Learning in Azure Synapse | Video |
| Terry McCann | — | Speaker | Docker & Kubernetes for the Data Scientist | Video |
| Theodorus Leonardus van Kraay | Microsoft | Speaker | How to build HTAP workloads using Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Synapse Link | Video |
| Thomas Hütter | — | Speaker | Hunting for fraud with Benford's law in R | — |
| Tillmann Eitelberg | oh22information services GmbH | Speaker | Enterprise Scale Analytics - What's in it for me | Video |
| Timothy Spann | StreamNative | Speaker | Apache NiFi 101: Introduction and Best Practices | Video |
| Tom Jordan | Adatis | Workshop | Opening the Black Box - Machine Learning on Azure | — |
| Tomaž Kaštrun | — | Workshop | Spark for Data engineers | — |
| Tomaž Kaštrun | — | Speaker | Notebooks - standardized enterprise solution for better story telling. | Video |
| Tori Tompkins | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Data Science and Analytics: Real-World Experience from Diverse voices in the field | — |
| Ust Oldfield | — | Speaker | So you want to be a Data Engineer? | Video |
| Ust Oldfield | — | Speaker | Implementing a Data Quality Framework in Purview | Video |
| Uwe Ricken | — | Speaker | Partitioning for Beginners | Video |
| Uwe Ricken | — | Speaker | Monitoring a growing database environment: insights for success | — |
| Vanessa Araújo | Microsoft | Speaker | Spring clean your data lake with Database Templates for Synapse Analytics | — |
| Various Speakers | — | Speaker | Lightning Talk - Friday | Video |
| Vivian Paiva | — | Speaker | Azure SQL Database - A true story journey from migration, through synchronization and beyond. | — |
| Wolfgang Strasser | — | Workshop | Data Governance in a Nutshell – From Theory to Hands-On with Azure Purview | — |
| Wolfgang Strasser | — | Speaker | Data Governance with Azure Purview - Ask the Experts | Video |
| Wolfgang Strasser | — | Speaker | Data Governance with Azure Purview - Theory, Customer Insights and Demos | Video |
| Zach Stagers | Advancing Analytics | Workshop | A Data Engineer's Guide to Azure Synapse | — |
| Zach Stagers | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Synapse Data Flows - Will Citizen ETL Replace the Data Engineer? | — |
Sources
- https://sqlbits.com/about/history/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220516074204/https://sqlbits.com/information/sponsors
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220305083039/https://arcade.sqlbits.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220305083039/https://arcade.sqlbits.com/
- https://apim-sqlbits-api-management.azure-api.net/dataapi-prd/graphql