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Speakers

Kev Chant

Employers on the program

  1. 2025Macaw2 talks
Events8
Conferences5
Talks12
Years active2022–2026
Miles between events21,6018 in-person events · 4 countries

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)
  • SQLBits
  • Data Saturdays
  • SQL Konferenz
  • SQLSaturday

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Apr 22, 2026SQLBits 2026SQLBitsspeakerFrom Commit to Production: Chapter one of your End-to-End CI/CD Story for Microsoft Fabric with ADO
Chapter one of an end-to-end CI/CD story for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps. Starting with source control, you’ll see how Fabric Git integration,…Show less

Chapter one of an end-to-end CI/CD story for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps. Starting with source control, you’ll see how Fabric Git integration, deployment pipelines, and Azure DevOps can work together.

Video
Apr 22, 2026SQLBits 2026SQLBitsspeakerFrom Commit to Production: Chapter two of your End-to-End CI/CD Story for Microsoft Fabric with ADO

In chapter two of this session, we’ll walk through options to create an end-to-end CI/CD story for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps.

Video
Mar 21, 2026SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1127SQLSaturday—CI/CD Supercharged: Deploy Microsoft Fabric with Azure Pipelines + AI
Discover how to supercharge CI/CD for Microsoft Fabric using Azure Pipelines. This session explores deployments with PowerShell, Fabric CLI, and Fabric-cicd,…Show less

Discover how to supercharge CI/CD for Microsoft Fabric using Azure Pipelines. This session explores deployments with PowerShell, Fabric CLI, and Fabric-cicd, while showing how GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code accelerates automation and coding.

Mar 21, 2026SQLSaturday Atlanta AI & BI #1127SQLSaturday—How AI is changing how we work with Fabric
In this session, we’ll explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping the way we work with Microsoft Fabric, driven by the seamless integration of multiple Copilot…Show less

In this session, we’ll explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping the way we work with Microsoft Fabric, driven by the seamless integration of multiple Copilot experiences across the platform.

Mar 16, 2026FABCON & SQLCON 2026 (Microsoft Fabric Community Conference + SQLCON), AtlantaMicrosoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)workshopDeep dive into CI/CD strategies for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps
Take a deep dive into CI/CD strategies for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps. This session explores Git-integrated deployments, Azure Pipelines, variable…Show less

Take a deep dive into CI/CD strategies for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps. This session explores Git-integrated deployments, Azure Pipelines, variable management and various tooling's.

Sep 15, 2025European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Europe 2025)Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)speakerOperationalize Fabric-CICD to work with Microsoft Fabric and Azure DevOps
as Macaw
Fabric-CICD is a Python library initially developed by Microsoft which allows you to perform CI/CD of various Microsoft Fabric items into Microsoft Fabric…Show less

Fabric-CICD is a Python library initially developed by Microsoft which allows you to perform CI/CD of various Microsoft Fabric items into Microsoft Fabric workspaces. In this session I intend to cover how you can operationalize fabric-cicd to work with Microsoft Fabric and Azure DevOps.

Mar 29, 2025Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 (FabCon Las Vegas)Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon)workshopThe Complete Guide to Certifications for a Microsoft Fabric Professional
as Macaw
In this session we guide you through preparing for the DP-600 & DP-700 certification exams. Join two Data Platform MVPs as they use their real-world experience…Show less

In this session we guide you through preparing for the DP-600 & DP-700 certification exams. Join two Data Platform MVPs as they use their real-world experience in the Data Engineering arena to help you prepare, practice, test and become certified.

Jan 24, 2025Data Saturday #63 - Data Community Austria Day 2025Data SaturdaysspeakerFour ways to create a Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse Database Project
During a recent conference I showed three ways to create a Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse Database project. In this sequel I will show you four different ways…Show less

During a recent conference I showed three ways to create a Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse Database project. In this sequel I will show you four different ways to create a Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse Database project.

Sep 11, 2023SQL Konferenz 2023SQL KonferenztalkKevOps for analytic solutions within the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform
In this session I intend to do cover how you can manage deployment pipelines for various analytic solutions within the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform. For…Show less

In this session I intend to do cover how you can manage deployment pipelines for various analytic solutions within the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform. For example, Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse Analytics.

Slides
Mar 8, 2022SQLBits 2022 (Arcade)SQLBitsspeakerAzure Data Engineering services used to analyze data

Overview to some of the more popular Azure Data Engineering services used to analyze data

Video
Mar 8, 2022SQLBits 2022 (Arcade)SQLBitsspeakerAzure DevOps trio
Welcome to Azure DevOps trio, a tale about how a development team and an operations team have to bond together and start using Azure DevOps for Data Platform…Show less

Welcome to Azure DevOps trio, a tale about how a development team and an operations team have to bond together and start using Azure DevOps for Data Platform deployments.

Mar 8, 2022SQLBits 2022 (Arcade)SQLBitsspeakerGithub and Azure DevOps Duet - SQLBits edition
A tale about how a development team and an operations team must bond together and figure out how to use GitHub and Azure DevOps together for Data Platform…Show less

A tale about how a development team and an operations team must bond together and figure out how to use GitHub and Azure DevOps together for Data Platform deployments.

Video

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Bob Ward7—2026
Erwin de Kreuk6—2026
Frank Geisler512026
Ásgeir Gunnarsson5—2026
Gabi Münster5—2026
Grant Fritchey5—2026
Marc Lelijveld5—2026
Matt Gordon5—2026
Wolfgang Strasser5—2026
Benni De Jagere4—2026
Chris Webb4—2026
Christian Henrik Reich4—2026
Devang Shah4—2026
Elena Drakulevska4—2026
Just Blindbæk4—2026

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.