Conferences / SQLSaturday
Day of Data Baton Rouge #1141
Jul 18, 2026 · LSU Business Education Complex, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
- Conference
- SQLSaturday Database
- Dates
- Jul 18, 2026
- Venue
- LSU Business Education Complex
- Place
- Baton Rouge, LA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —Capacity listed as 500; no actual count found.
- Website
- sqlsaturday.com
- Recorded
- 0 sponsors · 53 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Official name: Day of Data Baton Rouge 2026. Sessions and speakers from the event's Sessionize schedule (50 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). Branded 'Day of Data Baton Rouge 2026': in 2026 the SQL Saturday corporation began rebranding events as 'Day of Data' (dayofdata.org, 'the evolution of SQL Saturday'); numbering continues the SQLSaturday sequence.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General admission | $0 | — | Event page describes the event as free. | sqlsaturday.com |
Sponsors 0
No sponsors recorded
Speakers and talks 53
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andreas Wolter | Sarpedon Quality Lab LLC | — | SQL Server Security Myths: What Actually Matters in Real Environments | — |
| Austin Webre | GoValidate | — | Demystifying Agentic Software | — |
| Ava McClain | Tekchix | — | Creating a Career Roadmap and Owning Your Job Search | — |
| Ben Miller | — | — | PowerShell DBA Dream dbatools Workshop | — |
| Ben Miller | — | — | Beyond “Set and Forget”: Mastering the Ola Hallengren Maintenance Solution | — |
| Calvin Fabre | Envoc | — | Keynote: The Nature of Work in the Age of AI: Prevailing When the Brain Meets the Machine | — |
| Chris Hyde | Hydrate Technologies LLC | — | Demystifying Microsoft Fabric: Architecture and Organization 101 | — |
| Cleber Rangel | — | — | The Engineering Leaders Test | — |
| Daryl Roberts | — | — | AI for the Rest of Us: Vibe Coding & Building MCP Servers with FastMCP | — |
| David Maynor | CGI | — | From Prompt to Production: AI Across Traditional and Low-Code Development | — |
| Dominick Raimato | — | — | Basics of connecting REST APIs to Power BI | — |
| Dustin Gaspard | Excella | — | AI Made Us Faster. Data Makes Us Smarter. | — |
| George Mauer | Qventus | — | Ranking FizzBuzz for Fun Not Profit | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | — | Learning PostgreSQL as a SQL Server User | — |
| Hasan Savran | SavranWeb Consulting | — | SQL Server vs. Cosmos DB: The Definitive Decision Matrix | — |
| Ian Trimble | — | Zero to App Store | — | |
| Jacques Stafford | EisnerAmper | — | From Problem to Solution: Analytics Consulting in the Age of AI | — |
| Jaelle Scheuerman | Train with Intent | — | Intention Is All You Need: Maintaining Agency in a World of Agents | — |
| James Davis | — | — | Beyond the Hype: Practical NFT Use Cases for Data and Analytics | — |
| James Petty | TextRequest | — | PowerShell + AI: Enhancement, Not Replacement | — |
| Jared Rhodes | EPAM | — | AI Ready with Microsoft Purview and Fabric | — |
| Jason Romans | — | — | Blogging: Lessons I Learned the Hard Way | — |
| Jason Romans | — | — | Data on Fire: A Hands-On Intro to Spark in Fabric | — |
| Jeff Taylor | — | — | Fabric SQL Database: Simplifying OLTP and Real-Time Analytics | — |
| Jeremy Knight | — | — | Local AI for .NET | — |
| Joey Dantoni | — | — | Git Good: GitHub and GitHub Actions for the Rest of Us | — |
| John Kerski | Client First Technologies | — | Power Query Escape Room | — |
| Kellyn Gorman | Redgate | — | Optimizing CI/CD for Hybrid and Cloud Environments with DevOps and AI | — |
| Kevin Arnold | Arnold Analytics | — | Introduction to Microsoft Fabric Variable Library: Simplifying CI/CD Automation | — |
| Kevin Feasel | Catallaxy Services, LLC | — | Getting Started with DuckDB | — |
| Kevin Pereira | SHI International Corp | — | SQL in the Fabric Era: Translate existing skills into the modern data platform | — |
| Mary DeVlugt | Microsoft | — | Fabric Unified Admin & Monitoring (FUAM) aka.ms/FUAM | — |
| Matt Gordon | Apps Associates | — | Transactions Are Events: Event-Driven Architecture On Data In Motion | — |
| Michael McKinley | — | — | Power BI API: Automating the Analytics Lifecycle | — |
| Michael Viron | — | — | Careers in IT Baton Rouge 2026 | — |
| Michael Wall | 3Cloud | — | Azure Storage: You want to put what where? | — |
| Monica Sylvain | Train with Intent | — | Intention Is All You Need: Maintaining Agency in a World of Agents | — |
| Mou Rakshit | Avanade | — | From Data to Decisions: Building Agentic Construction Intelligence with Databricks Agent Bricks | — |
| Muralidhar Chouhan | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana | — | The Age of Agentic Engineering in SDLC | — |
| Paresh Motiwala | — | — | Guardians of the Data Galaxy: Securing SQL Server the Right Way | — |
| Pat Wright | — | — | Speaking and Community Involvement for the Introvert | — |
| Pat Wright | — | — | Master AI prompts by creating a load tester | — |
| Raymond Camden | — | — | A Beginner's Guide to Wrangling Asynchronicity in JavaScript | — |
| Renada Jackson | — | — | From Prompt to Production: AI Across Traditional and Low-Code Development | — |
| Sajitha Sritharan | — | — | AI Agents That Don't Make Things Up: Grounding with Fabric IQ, Semantic Models, and Guardrails | — |
| Shankara Krishna Teja Arra | o9 Solutions Inc | — | From Operational Data to Insights: An Agentic AI Assistant for DevOps Intelligence | — |
| Shelby Pons | EisnerAmper | — | From Problem to Solution: Analytics Consulting in the Age of AI | — |
| Steve Jones | — | — | Using Data API Builder to Speed Up Application Development | — |
| Tanya Boyd | — | — | GUMBO: The Recipe for Career Success, Personal Growth and Meaningful Work | — |
| Theresa Lubelski | — | — | Implementing Data Gateway High Availability and Redundancy | — |
| Tony Wilhelm | Moser Consulting | — | Intro to PowerShell with dbatools for the DBA | — |
| William Payne | Pathfinder Data Strategy | — | Database Commando: Tactical Maneuvers To Protect Performance | — |
| Yaamini Barathi Mohan | Dell Technologies | — | When your email security work and you still get phished. | — |