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SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1127

Mar 21, 2026 · Innovation Academy, Alpharetta, GA, United States

Conference
SQLSaturday Database
Dates
Mar 21, 2026
Venue
Innovation Academy
Place
Alpharetta, GA, United States
Format
In person
Status
Past
Attendance
—
Website
sqlsaturday.com
Recorded
13 sponsors · 69 speaker appearances
Notes
Official name: SQL Saturday Atlanta 2026 - AI & BI. Sessions and speakers from the event's Sessionize schedule (64 sessions, including any pre-con/workshop sessions listed there); affiliation taken from each speaker's Sessionize tagline where it names an organization, else null. Sponsors and tiers from the event page (logos only; names inferred from logo link/file). Official name 'SQL Saturday Atlanta 2026 - AI & BI'.

Ticket prices

TicketPriceValid untilNotesSource
General admission$0—Event page describes the event as free.sqlsaturday.com
Lunch (optional)$18—Listed lunch cost: $18sqlsaturday.com

Sponsorship packages

PackagePriceValid untilNotesSource
Blog$50—Logo/link on website.sqlsaturday.com
Bronze$500—Logo on emails and website, raffle item.sqlsaturday.com
Silver$750—Sponsor table, attendee list, logo on emails.sqlsaturday.com
Gold$1,000—Lunch session, sponsor table, attendee list.sqlsaturday.com
Platinum$1,500—Speaker dinner naming, 1st choice of table, lunch session, table, attendee list (name+email).sqlsaturday.com

Sponsors 13

Speakers and talks 69

SpeakerCompanyRoleTalkLinks
Aaron Cutshall, DHA, MSHI——An Enterprise Data Architecture Framework—
Akshata RevankarMicrosoft—Power BI CI/CD Simplified: GitHub & AzureDevops Automation—
Alex Whittles——Planning, Managing and Governing your Power BI and Fabric estate—
Andy Brown——Snowflake for SQL Server DBAs—
Anouk GorrisDatalogz—Stop Firefighting: Build a Semantic Layer Ready for AI—
Anupama Natarajan——The Big Picture Session: Fabric IQ + Ontology + Data Agents (and how they fit together)—
Belinda AlleniLink Digital—AI-Ready: Preparing for and Using AI in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric—
Bob WardMicrosoft—Azure SQL Hyperscale: The Definitive SQL Cloud Database—
Bob WardMicrosoft—Microsoft SQL and AMD in the Era of AI—
Chris HydeHydrate Technologies LLC—Fabric IQ in the Real World—
Chris ReyesRedgate—DBA Survival Kit: Redgate Monitor + Toolbelt—
Christian Henrik ReichMicrosoft—Empowering Lakehouse Solutions with Python Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric—
Collin Tsui——Quickly Untangle and Navigate Complex Semantic Models in Power BI—
Damu Venkatesan——Raffles & Closing @ Auditorium—
Dean Jurecic——All about Visual Calculations in Power BI—
Doug LealCGI—Getting Started with MLOps & LLMOps in Azure Databricks—
Ed Watson——Stupid Stuff I’ve Done in Power BI So You Don’t Have To—
Elayne JonesMicrosoft—Build Your First Agent in Copilot Studio—
Erin DempsterTrean Corporation—Introduction to Automated Deployments with Azure DevOps—
Erwin de KreukInSpark—Build Your AI Foundation with Fabric Metadata-driven Framework—
Fabiano AmorimPythian—Your MSSQL environment is vulnerable and I can prove it—
Fernando Calero——Visualizing individual data points on date axes in Power BI using Deneb—
Frank GeislerGDS Business Intelligence GmbH—Advanced Timeseries Analytics and Anomaly detection in Fabric Realtime Intelligence—
Iurii IurchenkoLife Line Screening—Microsoft Fabric: How to Minimize Cost and Maximize Efficiency and Reliability—
Jackie Kiadii——Making Sense Microsoft Copilot in BI—
James McGillivrayCobalt Analytics—4 Useful DAX Solutions for Business Problems—
Jared Kuehn——Intro to PySpark in Microsoft Fabric—
Jared RhodesEPAM—Building AI Agents with Azure AI Foundry—
Jason Romans——Unlocking the Power of TMDL: Enhancing Power BI Development—
Javier VillegasMediterranean Shipping Company—The Integration Blueprint: Choosing the Right Path in Microsoft Fabric—
Jeff LevyProtiviti—End-to-End Azure DevOps for Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric—
Jeff Taylor——Fabric SQL Database: Simplifying OLTP and Real-Time Analytics—
John KerskiClient First Technologies—How AI is changing how we work with Fabric—
John KerskiClient First Technologies—What is Power BI Developer Mode?—
John MinerInsight—Introduction to the data build tool (dbt) adapter for Fabric—
Jonathan StewartSoundBI—Building Scalable Data Warehouses with Microsoft Fabric:—
Kev Chant——How AI is changing how we work with Fabric—
Kev Chant——CI/CD Supercharged: Deploy Microsoft Fabric with Azure Pipelines + AI—
Kevin ArnoldArnold Analytics—Next-Level BI Development: AI-Driven Semantic Models in Power BI—
Kevin FeaselCatallaxy Services, LLC—Getting Started with DuckDB—
Kevin JourdainImproving—Don't Be MAD: Vibe Coding is Over—
Kevin Kline——Futureproof Your Data & Analytics Career with AI—
Kevin PereiraSHI International Corp—Building a Data Quality Framework in Fabric with Great Expectations—
Kevin Wilkie——Seamlessly Integrating On-Prem SQL Server Data with Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric—
Khaled ChowdhuryDataCrafters—From Power BI to Conversational AI: Building Data Agents That Scales—
Kristyna FerrisP3 Adaptive—The Fellowship of the Star Schema: Transforming OLTP Data for Power BI—
Kyle A. Mueller——Where to Start With a Messy Model: A Practical Approach—
Lamar RhodesThe Home Depot—Building AI Agents with Azure AI Foundry—
Lenore FlowerData Plumber, LLC—Race Against the Clock: Power BI Reports to Print-Ready in 50 Minutes—
Leslie Welch——It's Only a Model - Demystifying Row Level Security in Power BI—
Louis Davidson——BI versus Relational Design—
Mala MahadevanChannelAdvisor—Demystifying vector search in SQL 2025—
Marc Lelijveld——Reaching maximum automation: Generating semantic models as part of your platform workloads—
Marcelo AdadePythian—SQL Server 2025 for DBAs—
Matt GordonApps Associates—Fabric IQ in the Real World—
Michael McKinley——Application Lifecycle Management for Business Intelligence: ALM for BI—
Mou RakshitAvanade—From Data to Decisions: Building Agentic Construction Intelligence with Databricks Agent Bricks—
Murray FifeMicrosoft—Build Your First Agent in Copilot Studio—
Nikola IlicData Mozart—Chief Data Alchemist Playbook - Crafting Medallion Architecture the Right Way!—
Pragati Jain——Stop Polling, Start Reacting: Optimising Fabric Efficiency with Event-Driven Pipelines—
Preston MesarveyImproving—Building a Modern Data Vault on Snowflake with dbt & AutomateDV—
Roberto Fonseca——SQL Server 2025 for DBAs—
Santhana Lakshmi Ponnurasan——Power BI's Built-In Features: Real-Time Hacks in Action—
Sivasai NadellaAmgen—Building a Data-Driven Organization Using SQL, BI, and Automation—
Steve Jones——Balance in Life with a Career—
Sukhwant KaurMicrosoft—Build AI applications using SQL database in Fabric—
Talles ValiattiAzure Brasil—Building agents with Microsoft Foundry IQ as a knowledge source—
Tim RayburnImproving—The Judgment Gap: Why AI Adoption Without Verification Is Worse Than No AI At All—
Vineel ArekapudiWells Fargo—Weaving RAGs into Fabric: A Governed Lakehouse Architecture for Enterprise AI Agents—

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