Craig Porteous

Everyone has good intentions when it comes to inclusivity, but good intentions don’t necessarily lead to the right actions. You can care deeply about inclusion and still get things wrong - not out of malice, but out of busy-ness, assumption, and being unaware of how people are affected.

Everyone has good intentions when it comes to inclusivity, but good intentions don’t necessarily lead to the right actions. You can care deeply about inclusion and still get things wrong – not out of malice, but out of busy-ness, assumption, and being unaware of how people are affected.

As organisations modernise their data platforms, one key question always surfaces: How do we scale this to serve the business? Should you maintain a central Data Lakehouse for consistency and control, or federate it to empower teams and scale with agility?

Sharing any data is fraught with risk - who has access, what are we actually sharing, how long have we been sharing that!!?? Oh and...leaving that USB stick on the train!

Fabric is Microsoft's unified software as a service data platform, built around a Data Lakehouse architecture. In this session I'll share an array of data Lakehouse architecture patterns, and demonstrate how you can build a full Data Lakehouse platform without ever touching an Azure resource.

Building your data platform in the cloud is easy, but as soon as that dreaded word "security" becomes involved it suddenly becomes incredibly painful. How do you go about integrating it with your existing networking, how do you manage user security, what on earth is a private endpoint?

This session session aims to give you that context. We'll look at how spark-based engines work and how we can use them within Synapse Analytics. We'll dig into Delta, the underlying file format that enables the Lakehouse, and take a tour of how the Synapse compute engines interact with it....

In this session I'll guide you from through a secure reference architecture with Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, and Azure Synapse, working together as a secure, fully productionised platform. Each has their own idiosyncrasies, but this session will teach you the options available and the...

Ben and Rob have found some wonderful folk to actually do the important parts of the community keynote. on the theme of How to be a nonpassive member of the data community

In this session I'll cover what the Data Lakehouse architecture is, where it fits against existing architectures like a data warehouse, and why you should build one. We'll also cover the underlying technology options to arm you with all of the information you need to plan your next data platform.

Providing a business with an organized and propagated data catalogue is essential with ever growing demands and questions about your data platform. How are your data assets organised and how can you track lineage? In this session we will demonstrate how data landscaping can be achieved with...