DataPlatformGeeks – Recent & Past Events – 2020

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Data Platform Day (Half Day), 22 February 2020, Bengaluru, Microsoft (9:00 AM – 1:30 PM IST)

Session 1: Intelligent Query Processing
Speaker: Naga Bharan Malepati (Technical Advisor, Microsoft)
Session 2: Understanding NULLs in SQL Server
Speaker: Satya Ramesh (Sr. Consultant, SQLMaestros)

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Data Platform Day (Half Day), 25 January 2020, Hyderabad, Microsoft (9:00 AM – 1:30 PM IST)

Session 1: Gems of Power BI
Speaker: Manohar Punna (Data Platform MVP, Australia)
Session 2: Machine Learning with K-Nearest Neighbors
Speaker: Deepak Pradeep Kumar (Sr. Software Engineer, Microsoft)
Session 3: Containerization in SQL Server
Speaker: Vijay Mishra (Regional Mentor, DPG)

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Understanding Views In SQL Server (Apr 22, 2020)
Speaker: Satya Ramesh (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

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I want my model to be deployed! Why is it so difficult (Apr 22, 2020)
Speaker: Paul Peton (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

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A Dialogue with your Data - Interactive AI with Azure Cognitive Services (Apr 8, 2020)
Speaker: Matt Gordon (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

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Top 13 Best Security Practices for Azure (Mar 12, 2020)
Speaker: Radu Vunvulea (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

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Intro Into Index Analysis (Mar 5, 2020)
Speaker: Dmitri Korotkevitch (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

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Data Virtualization in SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster (Feb 25, 2020)
Speaker: Niels Berglund (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

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Machine Learning Using Python & R (Part 2) (Feb 23, 2020)
Speaker: Deepak Pradeep Kumar (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

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Understanding NULLs in SQL Server (Feb 17, 2020)
Speaker: Satya Ramesh (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

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Turn Runbooks into Notebooks: Handling Maintenance and Emergencies with Azure Data Studio by Matt (Feb 17, 2020)
Speaker: Matt Gordon (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

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Part 2 – How to Troubleshoot a Slow Running Query in SQL Server (30 Apr 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Speaker: Amit Bansal (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

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Query Diagnostics in Power BI (28 Apr 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Speaker: Colin Popell (Senior Program Manager, Microsoft) & Jorge Gomez Basanta (Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft)

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When Things go Wrong - Error Handling in SQL Server (23 Apr 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Understanding Views in SQL Server (21 Apr 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
I want my model to be deployed! Why is it so difficult (16 Apr 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
A Dialogue with your Data: Interactive AI with Azure Cognitive Services (7 Apr 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Top 13 Best Security Practices for Azure (12 Mar 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Intro Into Index Analysis (05 Mar 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Deep Dives into the Storage and Data Pools in SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster (27 Feb 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Data Virtualization in SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster (25 Feb 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Machine Learning Using Python & R (Part 2 – Classification Techniques) (20 Feb 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Understanding NULLs in SQL Server (18 Feb 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Turn Runbooks into Notebooks: Handling Maintenance and Emergencies with Azure Data Studio (13 Feb 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Part 1 - How to Troubleshoot a Slow Running Query in SQL Server (11 Feb 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
The Gremlins are attacking the Azure Cosmos DB (06 Feb 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Digging data from hard-to-reach websites with Power BI (30 Jan 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Dataflows in Power BI (28 Jan 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Getting Started with Machine Learning .Net (21 Jan 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Basic Introduction to Machine Learning (09 Jan 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
OData and .NET Core – State of the Union (07 Jan 2020, 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM IST)
Data Platform Summit 2019
August 22 – 24, 2019
Data Platform Summit 2018
August 09 – 11, 2018
Data Platform Summit 2017
August 17 – 19, 2017
SQLServerGeeks Annual Summit 2016
August 11 – 13, 2016
SQLServerGeeks Annual Summit 2015
August 27 – 29, 2015
SQL Server 2019 & Azure SQL Virtual Symposium (7 & 8 May 2020, 09:00 AM to 08:00 PM IST)
Speakers:Ruchi Tushir (Director – Data, AI & IoT Business Group Microsoft), Bob Ward (Principal Architect, Microsoft), Davide Mauri (Senior Program Manager, Microsoft), Connor Cox (Product Manager – DH2i), Amit Bansal (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros), Amit Shukla (Product Lead – Stellar Data Recovery), Ben Weissman (Data Platform MVP, Germany), Amit Bansal (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros), Arun Nagalingam (Product Advisor, Asia Pacific, erwin), Uwe Ricken (Data Platform MVP, MCM, Germany), Silvano Coriani (Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft), Danimir Ljepava (Program Manager, Microsoft) & Vladimir Ivanovic (Senior Program Manager, Microsoft), Erland Sommarskog (Data Platform MVP, Sweden), Jerod Johnson (Technology Evangelist, Cdata), Buck Woody (Applied Data Scientist, Microsoft), Thomas Grohser (Data Platform MVP, USA), Mike Salins (Principal Product Manager, Actifio), Anthony Nocentino (Data Platform MVP, USA), Anna Hoffman (Data & Applied Scientist, Microsoft), Rie Irish (Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft), Satya Ramesh (Sr. Consultant, SQLMaestros)

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Virtual Symposium 2020 - Azure Analytics & Artificial Intelligence ( 8 Oct 2020, 08:00 AM IST)
Speakers:Damian Widera (Data Platform MVP, MCT, Poland), Sandip Pani (Data Architect, NextGen Healthcare, India), Warner Chaves (Data Platform MVP, MCM, Canada), Mihail Mateev (Senior Solution Architect, EPAM Systems, Bulgaria), Saveen Reddy, Hasan Savran (Data Platform MVP, USA), Philip Seamark (Senior Program Manager, Microsoft, Zealand), Peter Myers (Data Platform MVP, Australia), Wee-Hyong Tok (Group Program Manager, Azure Data, Microsoft, USA), Stefano Tempesta (Connecting Software, CTO, Australia), Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen (Savory Data, Founder & BI Architect , Austria), Sebastiano Galazzo (CTO, SistemEvo srl, Italy), Prashant G Bhoyar (Senior Solution Architect, AI MVP, Withum Digital, USA).Session Recordings & Event Resources
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