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Day of Data Jacksonville #1128

May 2, 2026 · University of North Florida (UNF), Jacksonville, FL, United States

Conference
SQLSaturday Database
Dates
May 2, 2026
Venue
University of North Florida (UNF)
Place
Jacksonville, FL, United States
Format
In person
Status
Past
Attendance
—
Event page repeats the 2017-2019 claim of 'over 750 attendee registrations' and says Jacksonville hosted the largest SQL Saturday in the world in 2022-2025; capacity listed as 800. No 2026 count found.
Website
sqlsaturday.com
Recorded
11 sponsors · 66 speaker appearances
Notes
Official name: Day of Data Jacksonville 2026. Sessions and speakers from the event's Sessionize schedule (63 sessions); 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); 'Global Sponsor' is the Microsoft + AMD co-branded logo shown on every Day of Data page. Branded 'Day of Data Jacksonville 2026' (Jax Data's 18th annual data conference); in 2026 the SQL Saturday corporation began rebranding events as 'Day of Data' (dayofdata.org), keeping the SQLSaturday numbering. Session count is the Sessionize Sessions view (63, including the two paid Friday pre-cons by Erik Darling and Ginger Grant & Belinda Allen); the page's GridSmart grid also shows service slots (breaks, lunch, raffle), not counted.

Ticket prices

TicketPriceValid untilNotesSource
General admission$0—Event page describes the event as free.sqlsaturday.com
Lunch (optional)$15—Listed lunch cost: $15 (optional)sqlsaturday.com

Sponsorship packages

PackagePriceValid untilNotesSource
Bronze Sponsorship$1,000—Early bird $800 until 2026-02-01. Logo on T-shirts/website/social, flyer in bag.sqlsaturday.com
Silver Sponsorship$1,500—Early bird $1,300 until 2026-02-01. Bronze benefits plus exhibitor table and brochure in bag.sqlsaturday.com
Gold Sponsorship$2,000—Early bird $1,800 until 2026-02-01. Silver benefits plus scanned raffle QR list.sqlsaturday.com
Platinum Sponsorship$2,700—Early bird $2,500 until 2026-02-01. All Gold benefits plus full attendee list.sqlsaturday.com
Exclusive Sponsorship$25,000—Sole sponsor of the event, all benefits; only available before 2026-01-01.sqlsaturday.com

Sponsors 11

Silver 1

Bronze 1

Other 4

Speakers and talks 66

SpeakerCompanyRoleTalkLinks
Aaron Cutshall, DHA, MSHI——An Enterprise Data Architecture Framework—
Aaron Cutshall, DHA, MSHI——SQL Team Six: How to Build Effective Teams—
Andreas Erbendaenet—A quick 101 primer of Generative AI—
Andy Levy——Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations—
Belinda AlleniLink Digital—Creating a modern data environment in Microsoft Fabric—
Belinda AlleniLink Digital—Fabric Fast Track End-to-End Implementation in 60 Minutes—
Bob WardMicrosoft—Azure SQL Hyperscale: The Cloud Database for the era of AI—
Bob WardMicrosoft—Microsoft SQL and AMD in the Era of AI—
Bradley SchachtMicrosoft—Microsoft Fabric 101 Your Starting Point for Modern Analytics—
Cecilia Brusatori——AI-Powered Analytics: Copilot and Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric—
Charles Lakes IIThe II Lakes Group—Let’s Architect Your App: Microsoft Dataverse 101—
Daniel TaylorMicrosoft—Microsoft Fabric 101 Your Starting Point for Modern Analytics—
David BerminghamSIOS Technology—How the Internet Stays Online: The Basics of High Availability—
David BerminghamSIOS Technology—Building Resilient SQL Server HA/DR in a Multi-Cloud World—
David PlessMicrosoft—Tame the Beast: Scaling Azure SQL VM with Premium Storage—
David PlessMicrosoft—So, You Want to Be a SQL Server DBA—
Devin KnightPragmatic Works—Transforming Power BI Development: Connecting AI to Your Semantic Models with Power BI MCP—
Ed Watson——Stupid Stuff I’ve Done in Power BI So You Don’t Have To—
Erik Darling——Advanced T-SQL Triage: The Art of Fixing Terrible Code—
Fabiano AmorimPythian—Hacking MSSQL on Cloud. All of them. How I became sysadmin on Azure, AWS, GCP and Alibaba.—
Fabiano AmorimPythian—Exploring the new performance "bugs", I mean, "features" of SQL2022 and SQL2025—
Ginger GrantDesert Isle Group—Accelerating Fabric and Power BI Development with MCP Servers—
Ginger GrantDesert Isle Group—Creating a modern data environment in Microsoft Fabric—
Iurii IurchenkoLife Line Screening—Unstoppable Fabric: Capacity Planning, Smart Alerting & Workload Tuning—
Iurii IurchenkoLife Line Screening—Unstoppable Fabric: Deep Dive into Scalable, AI-Ready Spark in Microsoft Fabric—
James SerraMicrosoft—Using Generative AI on Structured Data (to query or modify data)—
James SerraMicrosoft—Learning to present and becoming good at it—
Jared RhodesEPAM—Private AI - Home Lab on a budget—
Jason Romans——Data on Fire: A Hands-On Intro to Spark in Fabric—
Jeff FousheeHumana—The T-SQL JSON Index—
Jeff FousheeHumana—The T-SQL JSON Operators—
Jennifer Ratten——From Semantic Models to Reasoning Systems: Understanding Fabric Data Agents at a Systems Level—
John MinerInsight—Many ways to track changes in SQL Server—
Juan Pablo TarquinoSouthState Bank—VisualStudio SQL Server Projects for Devs—
Kevin FeaselCatallaxy Services, LLC—Now You Have Two Problems: Regular Expressions in SQL Server 2025—
Kevin FeaselCatallaxy Services, LLC—Analyzing Business Data with T-SQL—
Kevin PereiraSHI International Corp—SQL in the Fabric Era: Translate existing skills into the modern data platform—
Kristyna FerrisP3 Adaptive—Decoding Fabric Licensing—
Kristyna FerrisP3 Adaptive—Stop Hoping for a Raise and Start Engineering One—
Louis Davidson——Relational Database Design Fundamentals—
Marc BushongMicrosoft—Configuring Fabric Data Agent to Accelerate Data to Decisions—
Marc BushongMicrosoft—Unify Your Data Estate with Microsoft Fabric - Without Replatforming—
Matt GordonApps Associates—The SQL Database You Know, The AI Skills You Need To Grow—
Matt GordonApps Associates—SQL Server 2025 - An Introduction—
Mou RakshitAvanade—Designing Conversational BI: How Databricks AI/BI Genie Unlocks Self-Service Insights—
Nem SchlechtBorder States—Maximizing SSMS for Developers and DBAs—
Peter Shore——Infrastructure for Data Professionals: An Introduction—
Peter Shore——Wait Wait Do Tell Me: A Look At SQL Server Wait Stats—
Preston MesarveyImproving—Modern Data Quality Practices For Your Analytics Environment—
Rajeshkanna KrishnanEXL—AI Coding Agent in Action: Build SQL Server Deployment Automation in Minutes with GitHub Copilot—
Rick LoweData FLowe Solutions LLC—First steps into Postgres for the SQL Server DBA—
Rick LoweData FLowe Solutions LLC—Query Hints ... What’s the Worst That Can Happen—
Rob Volk——DeepSQL: How To Discover SQL Server Internals—
Rob Volk——Revenge: The SQL!—
Shawn MeyersNutanix—Combat SQL Server Sprawl—
Shawn MeyersNutanix—Protect your database from Ransomware—
Sukhwant KaurMicrosoft—SQL database in Fabric - Vector Search and RAG—
Terence (T.J.) Brown——Databricks Visualization for Power BI Developers—
Thomas LeBlanc——Making Power BI Run Faster!!!—
Tim Radney——So, You Want to Be a SQL Server DBA—
Tim Radney——Common SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—
Tim RayburnImproving—Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers—
Tony WilhelmMoser Consulting—Intro to PowerShell with dbatools for the DBA—
Tony WilhelmMoser Consulting—My Brain Has Blue Screened - Let’s Laugh—
Victor Ivantsov——My Toolbox of SQL Tricks—
Warren SifreCrosswave Solutions Inc—Data Platform - Framework Philosophy—

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