Data Platform Virtual Summit 2020 turned out to be one of the largest online learning events on Azure Data, Analytics & AI. The unique conference ran continuously for 3 Days & 3 Nights (non-stop 72 hours) covering the entire globe. 214 speakers delivered 226 sessions across five parallel tracks, including the newly introduced Industry Solution. Live Technical Round Tables and Data & AI Gurukul offered unique learning and networking opportunities with Microsoft Product Team Members and Industry SMEs. 1400+ delegates joined from 48 countries. Special thanks to Microsoft Azure, DELL Technologies, Red Hat, Red Gate, SQLMaestros, Datavail & dbWatch for supporting the event as Knowledge Partners & Exhibitors.

Keynote was delivered by Rohan Kumar (CVP, Microsoft Azure Data).
Watch: https://youtu.be/z4FY85bvptM

Testimonials: https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2020/testimonials/

Official Links

DPS 2020 Website
https://www.DataPlatformGeeks.com/dps2020

Training Classes
https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2020/training-classes/

Breakout Sessions
https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2020/sessions-agenda-schedule/

Round Tables
https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2020/round-tables/

Data + AI Gurukul
https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2020/data-ai-gurukul/

Microsoft @ DPS

https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2020/microsoft-at-dps/

Keynote
https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2020/keynotes/

Watch: https://youtu.be/z4FY85bvptM

Global Execution

https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2020/truly-global/

DPS 2020 Speakers

https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2020/speakers/

DPS 2020 Advisory Council

https://dps10.com/advisory-council/

Special thanks to Dr. Greg Low, Steve Jones, Alex Whittles, Ben Weissman, Anupama Natarajan, Andy Leonard, Thomas Grohser, Anthony Nocentino & Andrew Brust.

Technology Coverage

https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2020/technology-coverage/

DPS History

https://dps10.com/our-glorious-history/

DPS Blogs News

https://dps10.com/blogs-news/

Official Hashtag

#DPS2020 #DPS10

Quick Facts

Theme: Empowering Data & AI Transformation

Dates: Summit - Dec 2, 3 & 4
Pre-Conference Training Class - Nov 30 & Dec 1

Post-Conference Training Class - Dec 7 & 8

Location Online

Attendance 1464

Speakers 214

Participating Nations 48

Total Sessions 226

Breakout Sessions 181

Round Tables 17

Gurukul 28

Tracks 7

Keynote Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President, Azure Data, Microsoft

Sponsors & Exhibitors

Diamond Partner

Microsoft Azure

Platinum Partner

DELL Technologies

Gold Partner

Red Hat

Silver Partner

SQLMaestros

Bronze Partner

Redgate

Exhibitors

dbWatch
Datavail

Special Thanks to our Sponsors & Exhibitors for helping us in making DPS 2020 affordable for the worldwide community.

Virtual Convention Centre

Watch The Tour: https://youtu.be/uMTZzapDdwo

DPS 2020 Lobby

DPS 2020 Community Zone

DPS 2020 Helpdesk

DPS 2020 Data + AI Gurukul

Keynote & Breakout Auditorium - Hydra

Breakout Room - Sphinx

Breakout Room - Shiloh

Breakout Room - Yukon

Breakout Room – Katmai

EXPO Hall

Booth – Microsoft Azure

Booth – DELL Technologies

Booth – Red Hat

Booth - Redgate

Booth - Datavail

Booth - dbWatch

Booth - SQLMaestros

Testimonials

https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2020/testimonials/

Technology Coverage

Architecture

Architecture track covered sessions related to architecting solutions & deployments around SQL Server, Azure SQL Family, Hybrid models, Linux, Containers, Kubernetes, HADR, Internals & a lot more.

Data Administration

Data Administration track covered sessions related to SQL Server, Azure SQL Family, SQL on Linux & Containers, Kubernetes, HADR, Performance Optimization, Query Tuning, Automation, Security & Auditing, Storage, Internals, SQL OS, Relational Engine, Data Modelling, Power Shell, Database Migration, Installation & Configuration & a lot more.

Database Development

Database Development track covered sessions related to application & database development against Azure SQL Family including SQL Server & Azure SQL, T-SQL Querying, Programming & Tuning, Python, JSON, XML, R, Ruby, C#, .NET EF, PHP & a lot more.

Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics

Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics track covered sessions related to Azure Synapse Analytics, Power Platform, Analysis Services, SSIS, SSRS, Azure Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics, R services, Azure Databricks, HDInsight, Data Lake Storage, Power BI Embedded & more.

Database Science (AI/ML)

Database Science track covered sessions related to ML Algorithms, Azure Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Services, Bot Services, R, Python, Cognitive Search, Databricks, Custom Vision, Speech, Q&A Maker, Deep Learning, Neural Network, Text Analytics & more.

Industry Solution

Industry Solution track covered sessions related to Data/Analytics/AI solution-ing for different industries and verticals like BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail, E-Commerce, Healthcare, Utility, Energy, Hospitality & more.

Learning Options

Training Classes (Pre-Conference & Post-Conference)

Pre-Cons & Post-Cons were collectively called as Training Classes. These were 8 hours, focused, deep-dive, demo-based virtual classroom training.

Each Training Class was designed to offer intermediate & advanced-level training on a specific topic/subject. These classes offer more knowledge, skills and expertise beyond the summit content.

[To see list of Training Classes, refer Appendix II]

Keynote

Rohan Kumar (CVP, Azure Data, Microsoft) delivered a mesmerizing keynote showcasing the latest innovations from his team.

https://dataplatformgeeks.com/dps2020/keynotes/

Breakout Sessions with Q&A

200+ Breakout Sessions were delivered covering the entire stack of Azure Data, Analytics & AI. Each breakout session spanned 75 minutes (approx.) including Q&A.

[To see list of Breakout Sessions, refer Appendix III]

Round Tables

At DPS 2020, there were 20+ Round Tables (these were similar to Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions and/or Panel Discussions). These were spread across different time zones to cover the global audience. Each of these engagement opportunities were focused on a specific technology/subject/topic – quite valuable.

[To see list of Round Tables, refer Appendix IV]

Data+AI Gurukul

Delegates got direct access to Microsoft engineers, architects & industry experts. They talked about their Azure Data projects and solutions and the real-life challenges that businesses were facing. People learnt innovative stuff about their favorite SQL Server, Power BI, Azure SQL, SQL on VM, Managed Instances, Azure Data Factory, Cosmos DB, Synapse Analytics and complete Azure Data stack.

[To see list of Gurukuls, refer Appendix V]

Community Zone

DPS 2020 Community Zone facilitated networking between the delegates. Moderated chats were setup in alignment with delegate roles and interests.

Session Title	Speaker	Unique Attendance
LIVE Keynote	Rohan Kumar	834
Keynote Replay	Rohan Kumar	576
Statistics, an Unreliable Friend	Magnus Ahlkvist	102
Building Streaming Pipeline with Azure Databricks Using Structured Streaming and Delta Lake	Mohit Batra	68
Anomaly Detection, Powered by Azure AI and Digital Twins	Mihail Mateev	58
Machine Learning in Power BI	Alex Whittles	105
Solving the dev database problem with GitHub, Docker and dbaclone	Alex Yates & Sander Stad	112
Talking to myself(?) - lessons learned from presenting online	Alexander Arvidsson	49
Data Stewardship in an AI-Driven Ecosystem: InterpretML, FairLearn, WhiteNoise	Alicia Moniz	52
Turbocharge your MySQL engine on Azure to make it fast, resilient and scalable	Amol Bhatnagar	64
Cognition for applications - Cognitive Services and Mixed Reality in action	Andreas Erben	59
AI and Analytics with Apache Spark and Azure Databricks	Andrew Brust	61
Containers - What’s Next?	Anthony Nocentino	101
SQL Server Encryption Unplugged	Ben Miller	89
Cloud-Based ETL with Azure Data Factory and Azure Functions	Benjamin Kettner	53
Kubernetes and OpenShift Infrastructure for SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters	Chris ADKIN	54
Quantum computing explained with demos!	Damian Widera	148
MS SQL New functions, syntaxes, tips & tricks	Damir Matesic	58
A Guide to Developing your Ideal Internet of Things (IoT) Architecture: Nine (9) Key Questions to ask yourself BEFORE developing your IoT solution	David Goad	46
SQL Server 2019: Building a Foundation with Persistent Memory	David Pless & Brian Carrig	74
Create secure API with .NET, Dapper and Azure SQL	Davide Mauri	72
Single Statement, Many Changes: How One Statement Can Modify Multiple Tables	Deborah Melkin	63
Text Mining with TSQL	Dejan Sarka	88
Building a Custom SQL Server on Containers Image for Deployment	Edwin Sarmiento	85
XMLA Read-Write Endpoint: The Cornerstone for Power BI as an Enterprise BI solution	Ferenc Csonka	41
How I reduced my Power BI Dataset by 60%	Gilbert Quevauvilliers	61
Really understanding character data types in SQL Server	Greg Low	136
Analyzing Execution Plans Like a Pro	Guy Glantser	104
KQL will be the next Query Language you will learn to manage Azure SQL Databases	Hamish Watson	65
What do Graph Tables bring to the table	Hasan Savran	85
Monitoring and Troubleshooting SQL Server environments using Free community tools	Javier Villegas	83
Optimizing Query Performance in Azure SQL Database	John Morehouse	67
SQL Server and Network Security	John Martin	105
Azure Data Studio Above and Beyond	Warwick Rudd	120
Matters of Concurrency	Louis Davidson	48
What You Can Learn from the Power BI Activity Log and REST APIs	Melissa Coates	65
AI-powered SharePoint Intranets	Stefano Tempesta	43
Introducing Graph Databases with Azure Cosmos DB	Will Velida	39
Advanced insides into System Versioned Temporal Tables	Uwe Ricken	54
Microsoft SQL Server - In-memory OLTP Design Principles	Torsten Strauss	78
Applied Data Science with Azure DataBricks	Tomaz Kastrun	115
DAX - Time Series Analysis, Sequences, and some other fancy stuff	Tom Martens	53
Structuring the Data Lake	Tillmann Eitelberg	75
Best practices for migrating your workloads to Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL	Sunil Agarwal & Arun Kumar Thiagarajan	83
Adopting a DevOps Process for your Database	Steve Jones	84
Building High End SQL Server Infrastructure	Thomas Grohser	95
Build Modern Cloud Native Applications with Kubernetes and OSS Databases (MySQL & Postgres)	Sunitha Muthukrishna	57
Data Leakage- Most Ignored Problem in Machine learning	Sandip Pani	42
SQL Internals - Physical Table Structure under the hood, and implementation on real case scenarios	Ronen Ariely	92
Notebooks, PowerShell and Excel Automation	Rob Sewell	82
The monster under the bed - Overengineering the cloud	Radu Vunvulea	61
Privacy in the Public Cloud - Azure SQL Private Endpoints	Rainer Stropek	84
Azure SQL: Getting started with an Intelligent Database	Pedro Lopes & Joe Sack	97
Set Your SQL Server Data Free with the Use of Apache Kafka	Niels Berglund	59
SQL Code Testing Pipeline	Paul Ou Yang	64
Modernize your data on Azure Database for Postgres and MySQL Flexible Server	Parikshit Savjani & Sunil Agarwal	91
Mastering Tempdb	Monica Rathbun	73
T-SQL Window Functions	Martin Catherall	59
My Top 5 omissions from Azure SQL Database applications and how to fix them	Martin Cairney	65
Migrate your Database Like a Rockstar	Marsha Pierce	92
A Game of Hierarchies: Advanced Graph Algorithms in T-SQL	Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen	89
Optimizing Backup Performance Using Data Science Techniques	Kevin Feasel	109
Inside the VertiPaq Engine	Marco Russo	68
Implementing SQL Server DevOps using Azure DevOps	Kevin Chant & Sander Stad	85
Azure SQL Database - Troubleshooting real world scenarios with Microsoft Support Engineers	Jose Manuel Jurado Diaz & Roberto Cavalcanti	63
IoT Edge - Overview and Case Study for Smart Buildings focused on Data	Jorge Maia	56
Demystifying SQL Server I/O To Improve Your T-SQL Performance	Andy Yun	54
Stretched Databases from Zero to Hero	Armando Lacerda	62
Manage Your Power Automate Governance Like A Rockstar	Haniel Croitoru	61
6 Query Tuning Techniques - Solve 75% SQL Server Performance Problems	Amit Bansal	59
Blogging for the Tech Professional	Steve Jones	64
Hackathons - unleashing hidden potential in organizations and empower individuals	Andreas Erben	54
Building an advanced practice using Azure Data Explorer	Richard Conway	75
How to Get and Nail Your Interviews	Paresh Motiwala	46
Accelerating Enterprise Analytics Solutions with Azure Synapse Analytics	Saveen Reddy	107
Learn How to Deploy Databases Using AWS DevOps Tools	Grant Fritchey	69
Crushing a Cloud Migration: Moving Mountains While Migrating Data	Matt Gordon	65
Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource	Tracy Boggiano	56
Cosmos DB: Jack of All Trades, Master of Many	Daron Yondem	64
Cross-Platform Management and Fun with PowerShell, the WSL, and Windows Terminal!	Mike Nelson	57
How to Remove Bias and Make Machine Learning Models Fair & Discrimination-Free at the Example of Credit Risk Data	Sray Agarwal	107
Reinforcement Learning in gaming	Eva Pardi & Alan Smith	49
Machine Learning with Spark and Azure Synapse	Ginger Grant	79
Data Science - Feature Engineering	Neil Hambly	94
Unlocking New Visualizations and Features in Power BI	Reid Havens	59
Advanced Storage Troubleshooting for SQL Server	Argenis Fernandez	87
Machine Learning - Best Practices and Vulnerabilities	Sebastiano Galazzo	53
AI Builder: AI in Power Apps and Power Automate	Leila Etaati	57
Storing and Searching Files in SQL Server FileTables	Sam Nasr	59
Working with different Power BI data model frameworks	Peter Myers	66
Query Tuning Internals for the Advanced SQL Developer	Kevin Kline	75
Power Apps and AI - A Flow of Location Events	Jeremy Frye	61
Minimizing User Impact with Advanced Restore Methods	Bob Pusateri	64
Power BI for Ticketing and Subscription: A design pattern review	Reza Rad	125
Stop looking for job, let the job finds you	Reza Rad	76
Paginated Reports: the New Old Operational Reporting Platform	Paul Turley	71
Functional Python for the ETL Developer	Joshua Higginbotham	56
Building an Agile Data Warehouse	Thomas Leblanc	87
Global Analytics with Azure Cosmos Db and Synapse Analytics	Warner Chaves	76
Understanding NULLs in SQL Server	Satya Ramesh	49
Cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform	Manohar Punna	43
Hey! I really need to save on SQL Server license costs, would you help me consolidate?	Michelle Gutzait	64
Upgrading/Migrating a Microsoft Data Platform Environment: Experiences from the Field	William Durkin	90
Querying best practices for Azure Synapse Analytics	Charley Hanania	96
Don't Bite Off More than You Can Chew - Take it in Chunks	Erland Sommarskog	108
Azure AI, Power new possibilities for every organization	Lindsey Allen	69
DBA to Data engineer	Harsh Chawla	52
Defeating Parameter Sniffing With Dynamic SQL	Erik Darling	99
Building Event-Driven Microservices with the Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed	Leonard Lobel	86
Applied AI Practical Use Case: Content Classification of Network drives	Prashant G Bhoyar	57
Securing SQL Server on Linux	Louis Imershein	76
Design Patterns for Machine Learning Projects	Anupama Natarajan	57
Monitor Your Data in Real-time with Microsoft Power BI	Miguel Martinez & Peter Myers	61
What is Azure Arc Enabled Managed Instance?	Vin Yu	78
Azure Arc Enabled SQL Server	Sasha Nosov	71
What is Azure Arc enabled PostgreSQL Hyperscale?	Jean-Yves Devant & Nikhil Patel	69
SQL Server Licensing: Demystified	Amit Banerjee	92
Inside Waits, Latches, and Spinlocks Returns	Bob Ward	149
Inside SQL Server on Kubernetes	Bob Ward	106
Big Data Clusters 1st Birthday	Daniel Coelho & James Rowland-Jones	82
Gain insights with SQL Server Big Data Clusters on Red Hat OpenShift	Mihaela Blendea	74
Deployment, High Availability and Performance guidance for SQL Server on Linux in Azure IaaS ecosystem	Tejas Shah	86
Azure Data Studio Notebooks Power Hour	Julie Koesmarno & Alan Yu	73
SQL Database Projects	Drew Skwiers-Koballa & Udeesha Gautam	67
State of the SQL Tools	Vicky Harp & Ken Van Hyning	62
SQL containers are ready, are you? - For DBA and Developers	Amit Khandelwal	145
How to Become an Azure Data Studio Contributor	Hannah Qin & Drew Skwiers-Koballa	74
New ways to keep your SQL databases on Azure VMs protected and available	Kevin Farlee	79
Administrating Big Data Clusters (BDC )	Melony Qin	87
Real-time data analysis using Azure SQL Edge	Vasiya Krishnan & Sourabh Agarwal	63
Understanding your SQL Server readiness to migrate databases to Azure SQL using database assessment and migration tools	Rajesh Setlem & Mohammed Kabiruddin	72
Database modernization best practices and lessons learned through customer engagements	Raj Pochiraju & Mukesh Kumar	89
App Modernization and Migration from End to end, using data migration tools and Azure SQL	Raj Pochiraju, Balmukund Lakhani & Ajay Jagannathan	97
Fine Tuning Clouds: Azure SQL Database Performance Tuning Tips and Tricks	Balmukund Lakhani & Dimitri Furman	108
Modernize your SQL applications with the recently enhanced version of Azure SQL Managed Instance	Borko Novakovic, Vladimir Ivanovic & Srdan Bozovic	84
The Future of Cloud Relational Databases	Sanjay Mishra	184
DevOps for AzureSQL	Arvind Shyamsundar	68
Azure SQL Hyperscale Deep Dive	Denzil Ribeiro	102
Azure SQL: What to use when and product updates	Ajay Jagannathan	98
Azure SQL High Availability and Disaster Recovery	Emily Lisa & Shreya Verma	76
360-degree view of Azure SQL Monitoring	Alain Dormehl & Mara Steiu	72
Leverage Azure SQL Database for Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP)	Silvano Coriani	98
SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines Reimagined	Aditya Badramraju & Pam Lahoud	89
Securing your data in Azure SQL Database	Andreas Wolter	69
HTAP Analytics with Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB	Rodrigo Souza	67
Best practices for deploying Azure Cosmos DB in enterprise mission-critical scenarios	Andy Feldman	54
Data modelling and partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB: What every relational database user needs to know	Mark Brown	67
How Delta Lake with Azure Databricks can accelerate your big data workloads	Kyle Weller	76
Migrating & Operating Business Critical Open Source Analytics Applications with Azure HDInsight	Arindam Chatterjee	84
How Data Engineers and Data Scientist can get started with Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory and Azure Machine Learning	Wee Hyong Tok & Nellie Gustafsson	78
Building a connected analytics hub with Azure Synapse Link	Arnaud Comet	91
Microsoft Power BI: Business Intelligence Strategy, Vision, and Roadmap Update	Arun Ulagaratchagan & Amir Netz	84
Building systems of insights for enterprise scale with Power BI and Azure	Priya Sathy	56
Architecture and Maintenance of VLDBs (Part 1)	Dmitri Korotkevitch	69
Architecture and Maintenance of VLDBs (Part 2)	Dmitri Korotkevitch	72
Continuous Integration for SSIS with Azure DevOps	Andy Leonard	54
Big data analytics with Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics	Vijay Gopalakrishnan	87
Updates to Power BI Composite models	Jeroen ter Heerdt	78
Responsible ML – A Peek into Model Interpretability	Sandeep Alur	56
Harnessing Data with Synapse Analytics	Shikha Agrawal	62
Architecting enterprise-grade data pipelines with Azure Data Factory	Abhishek Narain	134
Building Enterprise grade bot in no time	Sudhir Rawat	108
Blast to The Future: Accelerating Legacy SSIS Migrations into Azure Data Factory	Sandy Winarko	102
Designing for high performance in Power BI	Siva Harinath & Philip Seamark	79
Running Azure AI @ Scale	Anand Raman	87
Inside Azure Speech Services	Oliver Scholz	81
Inside Text Analytics, an Azure Cognitive service	Parashar Shah	69
Challenges to Overcome while Building Machine Translation Models for Indian Languages	Krishna Doss Mohan	72
Developing sophisticated virtual assistants using the Microsoft Conversational AI Platform	Gary Pretty	75
Inside Reinforcement Learning - how RL is powering Decision AI and the next set of Cognitive Services	Amit Bahree	61
Inside QnA Maker	Neha Rajput	56
Inside Computer Vision	Varsha Parthasarathy	67
Inside OCR and Form Recognizer	Sanjeev Jagtap	59
An Intelligent Operating systems for your data platform	Sukanta Basak & Rahul Vijayan	102
Red Hat OpenShift - Data Services Platform at Scale	Sukanta Basak & Bhargav Meka	97
Hello, world: what's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3	Adam Goossens	89
Fast Track AI/ML from Pilot to Production with Red Hat	Ken Komazawa	93
Challenges To Implementing Database DevOps	Grant Fritchey & Stuart Ainsworth	72
SQL Server storage considerations for Linux, containers, and Kubernetes environments	Doug Bernhardt	78
Enterprise Storage Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server	Udgith Mankad, Chidambara Shashikiran & Vikram Belapurkar	74
Considerations for designing a scalable and secure platform with SQL Server – for today and tomorrow	Robert Sonders & Stephen McMaster	85
Unleash the Power of SQL Server with Dell EMC PowerStore	Bryan Walsh, Doug Bernhardt & Bart Driscoll	125
Storage & Data Protection Innovations with Dell Technologies	Bryan Walsh & Doug Bernhardt	77

S.L. No.	Speaker Name	Country
1	Abhishek Narain	China
2	Adam Goossens	Australia
3	Aditya Badramraju	United States
4	Ajay Jagannathan	United States
5	Alain Dormehl	United States
6	Alan Smith	Sweden
7	Alan Yu	United States
8	Alex Whittles	United Kingdom
9	Alex Yates	United Kingdom
10	Alexander Arvidsson	Sweden
11	Alicia Moniz	United States
12	Amir Netz	United States
13	Amit Bahree	United States
14	Amit Banerjee	United States
15	Amit Bansal	India
16	Amit Khandelwal	India
17	Amol Bhatnagar	United States
18	Anand Raman	United States
19	Andreas Erben	United States
20	Andreas Wolter	United States
21	Andrew Brust	United States
22	Andy Feldman	United States
23	Andy Leonard	United States
24	Andy Yun	United States
25	Anna Hoffman	United States
26	Anthony Nocentino	United States
27	Anupama Natarajan	New Zealand
28	Argenis Fernandez	United States
29	Arindam Chatterjee	United States
30	Armando Lacerda	United States
31	Arnaud Comet	United States
32	Arun Kumar Thiagarajan	United States
33	Arun Ulagaratchagan	United States
34	Arvind Shyamsundar	United States
35	Ashish Khandelwal	United States
36	Balmukund Lakhani	India
37	Ben Miller	United States
38	Ben Weissman	Germany
39	Benjamin Kettner	Germany
40	Bhargav Meka	India
41	Bob Pusateri	United States
42	Bob Ward	United States
43	Borko Novakovic	Serbia
44	Brian Carrig	United States
45	Bryan Walsh	United States
46	Charley Hanania	Switzerland
47	Chidambara Shashikiran	United States
48	Chris ADKIN	United Kingdom
49	Christian Wade	United States
50	Damian Widera	Poland
51	Damir Matesic	Croatia
52	Daniel Coelho	United States
53	Daron Yondem	Turkey
54	David Goad	Australia
55	David Pless	United States
56	Davide Mauri	United States
57	Deborah Melkin	United States
58	Dejan Sarka	Slovenia
59	Denzil Ribeiro	United States
60	Dimitri Furman	United States
61	Dmitri Korotkevitch	United States
62	Doug Bernhardt	United States
63	Dr. Greg Low	Australia
64	Dr. Leila Etaati	New Zealand
65	Drew Skwiers-Koballa	United States
66	Edwin Sarmiento	Canada
67	Emily Lisa	United States
68	Erik Darling	United States
69	Erland Sommarskog	Sweden
70	Eva Pardi	Denmark
71	Ferenc Csonka	Hungary
72	Gary Pretty	United Kingdom
73	Gilbert Quevauvilliers	Australia
74	Ginger Grant	United States
75	Grant Fritchey	United States
76	Guy Glantser	Israel
77	Hamish Watson	New Zealand
78	Haniel Croitoru	Canada
79	Hannah Qin	United States
80	Harsh Chawla	India
81	Hasan Savran	United States
82	Itzik Ben-Gan	United States
83	James Rowland-Jones	United States
84	Javier Villegas	Argentina
85	Jean-Yves Devant	United States
86	Jeremy Frye	United States
87	Jeroen ter Heerdt	United States
88	Jess Promfret	United Kingdom
89	Joe Sack	United States
90	John Martin	United Kingdom
91	John Morehouse	United States
92	Jorge Maia	Brazil
93	Jose Manuel Jurado Diaz	Spain
94	Joshua Higginbotham	United States
95	Julie Koesmarno	United States
96	Kelly Kaye	United States
97	Ken Komazawa	Japan
98	Ken Van Hyning	Japan
99	Kevin Chant	Netherlands
100	Kevin Farlee	United States
101	Kevin Feasel	United States
102	Kevin Kline	United States
103	Krishna Doss Mohan	United States
104	Kyle Weller	United States
105	Leonard Lobel	United States
106	Lindsey Allen	United States
107	Louis Davidson	United States
108	Louis Imershein	United States
109	Magnus Ahlkvist	Sweden
110	Manohar Punna	Australia
111	Mara Steiu	United States
112	Marco Russo	Italy
113	Mark Brown	United States
114	Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen	Austria
115	Marsha Pierce	United States
116	Martin Cairney	Australia
117	Martin Catherall	Australia
118	Matt Gordon	United States
119	Melissa Coates	United States
120	Melony Qin	United Kingdom
121	Michelle Gutzait	Canada
122	Miguel Martinez	United States
123	Mihaela Blendea	United States
124	Mihail Mateev	Bulgaria
125	Mike Nelson	United States
126	Mohammed Kabiruddin	Australia
127	Mohit Batra	India
128	Monica Rathbun	United States
129	Mukesh Kumar	United States
130	Neha Rajput	India
131	Neil Hambly	United Kingdom
132	Nellie Gustafsson	United States
133	Niels Berglund	South Africa
134	Nikhil Patel	United States
135	Oliver Scholz	United States
136	Pam Lahoud	United States
137	Parashar Shah	United States
138	Paresh Motiwala	United States
139	Parikshit Savjani	Singapore
140	Paul Ou Yang	United States
141	Paul Turley	United States
142	Pedro Lopes	United States
143	Peter Myers	Australia
144	Phani Mutyala	United States
145	Philip Seamark	New Zealand
146	Prashant G Bhoyar	United States
147	Priya Sathy	United States
148	Radu Vunvulea	Romania
149	Rahul Ajmera	United States
150	Rahul Vijayan	Singapore
151	Rainer Stropek	Austria
152	Raj Pochiraju	United States
153	Rajesh Setlem	United States
154	Ramesh Satya	India
155	Reid Havens	United States
156	Reza Rad	New Zealand
157	Richard Conway	United Kingdom
158	Rie Irish	United States
159	Rob Sewell	United Kingdom
160	Robert Sonders	United States
161	Roberto Cavalcanti	United States
162	Rodrigo Souza	United States
163	Ronen Ariely	Israel
164	Sam Nasr	United States
165	Sandeep Alur	India
166	Sander Stad	Netherlands
167	Sandip Pani	India
168	Sandy Winarko	China
169	Sanjay Mishra	United States
170	Sanjeev Jagtap	United States
171	Sasha Nosov	United States
172	Saveen Reddy	United States
173	Sebastiano Galazzo	Italy
174	Shikha Agrawal	India
175	Shreya Verma	United States
176	Silvano Coriani	Italy
177	Siva Harinath	United States
178	Sourabh Agarwal	United States
179	Sray Agarwal	United Kingdom
180	Srdan Bozovic	Serbia
181	Stefano Tempesta	Australia
182	Stephen McMaster	United States
183	Steve Jones	United States
184	Stuart Ainsworth	United States
185	Sudhir Rawat	India
186	Sukanta Basak	India
187	Sunil Agarwal	United States
188	Sunil Sabat	United States
189	Sunitha Muthukrishna	United States
190	Tejas Shah	India
191	Thomas Grohser	United States
192	Thomas Leblanc	United States
193	Tillmann Eitelberg	Germany
194	Tom Martens	Germany
195	Tomaz Kastrun	Slovenia
196	Torsten Strauss	Germany
197	Tracy Boggiano	United States
198	Udeesha Gautam	United States
199	Udgith Mankad	United States
200	Uwe Ricken	Germany
201	Varsha Parthasarathy	United States
202	Vasiya Krishnan	United States
203	Vicky Harp	United States
204	Vijay Gopalakrishnan	United States
205	Vikram Belapurkar	United States
206	Vin Yu	United States
207	Vladimir Ivanovic	Serbia
208	Warner Chaves	Canada
209	Warwick Rudd	Australia
210	Wee Hyong Tok	United States
211	Will Velida	New Zealand
212	William Durkin	Germany
213	Yana Berkovich	United States

Appendix II - Training Classes

Pre-Conference Training Classes @ DPS 2020 (November 30 & December 1)
1	An Enterprise-Friendly Framework for Implementing Power BI Projects (What Comes After The 5 Minutes to Wow for An Enterprise) by Dr. Greg Low
2	Performance-Centric T-SQL by Itzik Ben-Gan
3	Build Your Own End to End SQL Server Deployment Pipeline (For Under $1 A Day) by Alex Yates
4	SQL Server: Advanced Training for Azure VM Deployments by Microsoft (David Pless, Pam Lahoud, Amit Khandelwal, Tejas Shah, Aditya Badramraju)
5	The Azure SQL Workshop by Bob Ward & Anna Hoffman
6	Mastering T-SQL Querying Fundamentals by Itzik Ben-Gan
7	Self-Service AI with Power BI Desktop by Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen
8	The SQL Server DBA’s Guide to Docker Containers by Edwin Sarmiento
9	Getting Started with Azure Data Factory by Andy Leonard
10	Practical Data Engineering with Azure Synapse Analytics by Warner Chaves
11	Power BI – Data Visualization by Yana Berkovich
12	Power BI Desktop Data Modeling End-to-End by Peter Myers
13	Kubernetes Zero to Hero - Installation, Configuration, and Application Deployment by Anthony Nocentino
14	Deep Dive SQL Server Migration to Azure SQL by Raj Pochiraju & Team

Post-Conference Training Classes @ DPS 2020 (December 7 & 8)
1	Analyze and Optimize Your SQL Server by Uwe Ricken
2	Data Science Algorithms by Dejan Sarka
3	Dashboard in A Day by Sivakumar Harinath
4	Building Enterprise-Grade Data Pipelines Using Synapse Pipelines In Azure Synapse Analytics by Abhishek Narain
5	SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters in A Day by Ben Weissman
6	PowerShell And SQL Server With DBATools by Rob Sewell
7	Data-Loading and Transformation Strategies for Modern Cloud-Based Data Warehouses by Benjamin Kettner
8	Microsoft Conversational AI Master Class by Prashant G Bhoyar
9	The Beginner’s Guide to Advanced Performance Tuning by Erik Darling
10	Applying Forensic Accounting Techniques to Data Analysis in Python and SQL by Kevin Feasel
11	A to Z Azure Cosmos DB by Hasan Savran
12	Machine Learning for Developers by Anupama Natarajan
13	Maximum ROI - How to Optimize Your Azure SQL Database Platform and Applications by Martin Cairney
14	DAX In A Day by Philip Seamark

Appendix III - Breakout Sessions

S.L. No.	Speaker Name	Session Title
1	Magnus Ahlkvist	Statistics, an Unreliable Friend
2	Mohit Batra	Building Streaming Pipeline with Azure Databricks Using Structured Streaming and Delta Lake
3	Mihail Mateev	Anomaly Detection, Powered by Azure AI and Digital Twins
4	Alex Whittles	Machine Learning in Power BI
5	Alex Yates Sander Stad	Solving the dev database problem with GitHub, Docker and dbaclone
6	Alexander Arvidsson	Talking to myself(?) - lessons learned from presenting online
7	Alicia Moniz	Data Stewardship in an AI-Driven Ecosystem: InterpretML, FairLearn, WhiteNoise
8	Amol Bhatnagar	Turbocharge your MySQL engine on Azure to make it fast, resilient and scalable
9	Andreas Erben	Cognition for applications - Cognitive Services and Mixed Reality in action
10	Andrew Brust	AI and Analytics with Apache Spark and Azure Databricks
11	Anthony Nocentino	Containers - What’s Next?
12	Ben Miller	SQL Server Encryption Unplugged
13	Benjamin Kettner	Cloud-Based ETL with Azure Data Factory and Azure Functions
14	Chris ADKIN	Kubernetes and OpenShift Infrastructure for SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters
15	Damian Widera	Quantum computing explained with demos!
16	Damir Matesic	MS SQL New functions, syntaxes, tips & tricks
17	David Goad	A Guide to Developing your Ideal Internet of Things (IoT) Architecture: Nine (9) Key Questions to ask yourself BEFORE developing your IoT solution
18	David Pless Brian Carrig	SQL Server 2019: Building a Foundation with Persistent Memory
19	Davide Mauri	Create secure API with .NET, Dapper and Azure SQL
20	Deborah Melkin	Single Statement, Many Changes: How One Statement Can Modify Multiple Tables
21	Dejan Sarka	Text Mining with TSQL
22	Edwin Sarmiento	Building a Custom SQL Server on Containers Image for Deployment
23	Ferenc Csonka	XMLA Read-Write Endpoint: The Cornerstone for Power BI as an Enterprise BI solution
24	Gilbert Quevauvilliers	How I reduced my Power BI Dataset by 60%
25	Greg Low	Really understanding character data types in SQL Server
26	Guy Glantser	Analyzing Execution Plans Like a Pro
27	Hamish Watson	KQL will be the next Query Language you will learn to manage Azure SQL Databases
28	Hasan Savran	What do Graph Tables bring to the table
29	Javier Villegas	Monitoring and Troubleshooting SQL Server environments using Free community tools
30	John Morehouse	Optimizing Query Performance in Azure SQL Database
31	John Martin	SQL Server and Network Security
32	Warwick Rudd	Azure Data Studio Above and Beyond
33	Louis Davidson	Matters of Concurrency
34	Melissa Coates	What You Can Learn from the Power BI Activity Log and REST APIs
35	Stefano Tempesta	AI-powered SharePoint Intranets
36	Will Velida	Introducing Graph Databases with Azure Cosmos DB
37	Uwe Ricken	Advanced insides into System Versioned Temporal Tables
38	Torsten Strauss	Microsoft SQL Server - In-memory OLTP Design Principles
39	Tomaz Kastrun	Applied Data Science with Azure DataBricks
40	Tom Martens	DAX - Time Series Analysis, Sequences, and some other fancy stuff
41	Tillmann Eitelberg	Structuring the Data Lake
42	Sunil Agarwal Arun Kumar Thiagarajan	Best practices for migrating your workloads to Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL
43	Steve Jones	Adopting a DevOps Process for your Database
44	Thomas Grohser	Building High End SQL Server Infrastructure
45	Sunitha Muthukrishna	Build Modern Cloud Native Applications with Kubernetes and OSS Databases (MySQL Postgres)
46	Sandip Pani	Data Leakage- Most Ignored Problem in Machine learning
47	Ronen Ariely	SQL Internals - Physical Table Structure under the hood, and implementation on real case scenarios
48	Rob Sewell	Notebooks, PowerShell and Excel Automation
49	Radu Vunvulea	The monster under the bed - Overengineering the cloud
50	Rainer Stropek	Privacy in the Public Cloud - Azure SQL Private Endpoints
51	Pedro Lopes Joe Sack	Azure SQL: Getting started with an Intelligent Database
52	Niels Berglund	Set Your SQL Server Data Free with the Use of Apache Kafka
53	Paul Ou Yang	SQL Code Testing Pipeline
54	Parikshit Savjani Sunil Agarwal	Modernize your data on Azure Database for Postgres and MySQL Flexible Server
55	Monica Rathbun	Mastering Tempdb
56	Martin Catherall	T-SQL Window Functions
57	Martin Cairney	My Top 5 omissions from Azure SQL Database applications and how to fix them
58	Marsha Pierce	Migrate your Database Like a Rockstar
59	Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen	A Game of Hierarchies: Advanced Graph Algorithms in T-SQL
60	Kevin Feasel	Optimizing Backup Performance Using Data Science Techniques
61	Marco Russo	Inside the VertiPaq Engine
62	Kevin Chant Sander Stad	Implementing SQL Server DevOps using Azure DevOps
63	Jose Manuel Jurado Diaz Roberto Cavalcanti	Azure SQL Database - Troubleshooting real world scenarios with Microsoft Support Engineers
64	Jorge Maia	IoT Edge - Overview and Case Study for Smart Buildings focused on Data
65	Andy Yun	Demystifying SQL Server I/O To Improve Your T-SQL Performance
66	Armando Lacerda	Stretched Databases from Zero to Hero
67	Haniel Croitoru	Manage Your Power Automate Governance Like A Rockstar
68	Amit Bansal	6 Query Tuning Techniques - Solve 75% SQL Server Performance Problems
69	Steve Jones	Blogging for the Tech Professional
70	Andreas Erben	Hackathons - unleashing hidden potential in organizations and empower individuals
71	Richard Conway	Building an advanced practice using Azure Data Explorer
72	Paresh Motiwala	How to Get and Nail Your Interviews
73	Grant Fritchey	Learn How to Deploy Databases Using AWS DevOps Tools
74	Matt Gordon	Crushing a Cloud Migration: Moving Mountains While Migrating Data
75	Tracy Boggiano	Mental Health and Wellness in IT: Safeguarding our most precious resource
76	Daron Yondem	Cosmos DB: Jack of All Trades, Master of Many
77	Mike Nelson	Cross-Platform Management and Fun with PowerShell, the WSL, and Windows Terminal!
78	Sray Agarwal	How to Remove Bias and Make Machine Learning Models Fair Discrimination-Free at the Example of Credit Risk Data
79	Eva Pardi Alan Smith	Reinforcement Learning in gaming
80	Ginger Grant	Machine Learning with Spark and Azure Synapse
81	Neil Hambly	Data Science - Feature Engineering
82	Reid Havens	Unlocking New Visualizations and Features in Power BI
83	Argenis Fernandez	Advanced Storage Troubleshooting for SQL Server
84	Sebastiano Galazzo	Machine Learning - Best Practices and Vulnerabilities
85	Leila Etaati	AI Builder: AI in Power Apps and Power Automate
86	Sam Nasr	Storing and Searching Files in SQL Server FileTables
87	Peter Myers	Working with different Power BI data model frameworks
88	Kevin Kline	Query Tuning Internals for the Advanced SQL Developer
89	Jeremy Frye	Power Apps and AI - A Flow of Location Events
90	Bob Pusateri	Minimizing User Impact with Advanced Restore Methods
91	Reza Rad	Power BI for Ticketing and Subscription: A design pattern review
92	Reza Rad	Stop looking for job, let the job finds you
93	Paul Turley	Paginated Reports: the New Old Operational Reporting Platform
94	Joshua Higginbotham	Functional Python for the ETL Developer
95	Thomas Leblanc	Building an Agile Data Warehouse
96	Warner Chaves	Global Analytics with Azure Cosmos Db and Synapse Analytics
97	Satya Ramesh	Understanding NULLs in SQL Server
98	Manohar Punna	Cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
99	Michelle Gutzait	Hey! I really need to save on SQL Server license costs, would you help me consolidate?
100	William Durkin	Upgrading/Migrating a Microsoft Data Platform Environment: Experiences from the Field
101	Charley Hanania	Querying best practices for Azure Synapse Analytics
102	Erland Sommarskog	Don't Bite Off More than You Can Chew - Take it in Chunks
103	Andre Melancia	I'm not sorry, Dave... ML.Net can do that!
104	Lindsey Allen	Azure AI, Power new possibilities for every organization
105	Harsh Chawla	DBA to Data engineer
106	Erik Darling	Defeating Parameter Sniffing With Dynamic SQL
107	Leonard Lobel	Building Event-Driven Microservices with the Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed
108	Prashant G Bhoyar	Applied AI Practical Use Case : Content Classification of Network drives
109	Louis Imershein	Securing SQL Server on Linux
110	Anupama Natarajan	Design Patterns for Machine Learning Projects
111	Miguel Martinez Peter Myers	Monitor Your Data in Real-time with Microsoft Power BI
112	Vin Yu	What is Azure Arc Enabled Managed Instance?
113	Sasha Nosov	Azure Arc Enabled SQL Server
114	Jean-Yves Devant Nikhil Patel	What is Azure Arc enabled PostgreSQL Hyperscale?
115	Amit Banerjee	SQL Server Licensing: Demystified
116	Bob Ward	Inside Waits, Latches, and Spinlocks Returns
117	Bob Ward	Inside SQL Server on Kubernetes
118	Daniel Coelho James Rowland-Jones	Big Data Clusters 1st Birthday
119	Mihaela Blendea	Gain insights with SQL Server Big Data Clusters on Red Hat OpenShift
120	Tejas Shah	Deployment, High Availability and Performance guidance for SQL Server on Linux in Azure IaaS ecosystem
121	Julie Koesmarno Alan Yu	Azure Data Studio Notebooks Power Hour
122	Drew Skwiers-Koballa Udeesha Gautam	SQL Database Projects
123	Vicky Harp Ken Van Hyning	State of the SQL Tools
124	Amit Khandelwal	SQL containers are ready, are you? - For DBA and Developers
125	Hannah Qin Drew Skwiers-Koballa	How to Become an Azure Data Studio Contributor
126	Kevin Farlee	New ways to keep your SQL databases on Azure VMs protected and available
127	Melony Qin	Administrating Big Data Clusters (BDC)
128	Vasiya Krishnan Sourabh Agarwal	Real-time data analysis using Azure SQL Edge
129	Rajesh Setlem Mohammed Kabiruddin	Understanding your SQL Server readiness to migrate databases to Azure SQL using database assessment and migration tools
130	Raj Pochiraju Mukesh Kumar	Database modernization best practices and lessons learned through customer engagements
131	Raj Pochiraju, Balmukund Lakhani Ajay Jagannathan	App Modernization and Migration from End to end, using data migration tools and Azure SQL
132	Balmukund Lakhani Dimitri Furman	Fine Tuning Clouds: Azure SQL Database Performance Tuning Tips and Tricks
133	Borko Novakovic Vladimir Ivanovic Srdan Bozovic	Modernize your SQL applications with the recently enhanced version of Azure SQL Managed Instance
134	Sanjay Mishra	The Future of Cloud Relational Databases
135	Arvind Shyamsundar	DevOps for AzureSQL
136	Denzil Ribeiro	Azure SQL Hyperscale Deep Dive
137	Ajay Jagannathan	Azure SQL: What to use when and product updates
138	Emily Lisa Shreya Verma	Azure SQL High Availability and Disaster Recovery
139	Alain Dormehl Mara Steiu	360-degree view of Azure SQL Monitoring
140	Silvano Coriani	Leverage Azure SQL Database for Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP)
141	Aditya Badramraju Pam Lahoud	SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines Reimagined
142	Andreas Wolter	Securing your data in Azure SQL Database
143	Rodrigo Souza	HTAP Analytics with Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB
144	Andy Feldman	Best practices for deploying Azure Cosmos DB in enterprise mission-critical scenarios
145	Mark Brown	Data modelling and partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB: What every relational database user needs to know
146	Kyle Weller	How Delta Lake with Azure Databricks can accelerate your big data workloads
147	Arindam Chatterjee	Migrating & Operating Business Critical Open Source Analytics Applications with Azure HDInsight
148	Wee Hyong Tok Nellie Gustafsson	How Data Engineers and Data Scientist can get started with Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory and Azure Machine Learning
149	Arnaud Comet	Building a connected analytics hub with Azure Synapse Link
150	Arun Ulagaratchagan Amir Netz	Microsoft Power BI: Business Intelligence Strategy, Vision, and Roadmap Update
151	Priya Sathy	Building systems of insights for enterprise scale with Power BI and Azure
152	Dmitri Korotkevitch	Architecture and Maintenance of VLDBs (Part 1)
153	Dmitri Korotkevitch	Architecture and Maintenance of VLDBs (Part 2)
154	Andy Leonard	Continuous Integration for SSIS with Azure DevOps
155	Vijay Gopalakrishnan	Big data analytics with Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics
156	Jeroen ter Heerdt	Updates to Power BI Composite models
157	Sandeep Alur	Responsible ML – A Peek into Model Interpretability
158	Shikha Agrawal	Harnessing Data With Synapse Analytics
159	Abhishek Narain	Architecting enterprise-grade data pipelines with Azure Data Factory
160	Sudhir Rawat	Building Enterprise grade bot in no time
161	Sandy Winarko	Blast to The Future: Accelerating Legacy SSIS Migrations into Azure Data Factory
162	Siva Harinath Philip Seamark	Designing for high performance in Power BI
163	Anand Raman	Running Azure AI @ Scale
164	Oliver Scholz	Inside Azure Speech Services
165	Parashar Shah	Inside Text Analytics, an Azure Cognitive service
166	Krishna Doss Mohan	Challenges to Overcome while Building Machine Translation Models for Indian Languages
167	Gary Pretty	Developing sophisticated virtual assistants using the Microsoft Conversational AI Platform
168	Amit Bahree	Inside Reinforcement Learning - how RL is powering Decision AI and the next set of Cognitive Services
169	Neha Rajput	Inside QnA Maker
170	Varsha Parthasarathy	Inside Computer Vision
171	Sanjeev Jagtap	Inside OCR and Form Recognizer
172	Sukanta Basak Rahul Vijayan	An Intelligent Operating system for your data platform
173	Sukanta Basak Bhargav Meka	Red Hat OpenShift - Data Services Platform at Scale
174	Adam Goossens	Hello, world: what's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3
175	Ken Komazawa	Fast Track AI/ML from Pilot to Production with Red Hat
176	Grant Fritchey Stuart Ainsworth	Challenges to Implementing Database DevOps
177	Doug Bernhardt	SQL Server storage considerations for Linux, containers, and Kubernetes environments
178	Udgith Mankad Chidambara Shashikiran Vikram Belapurkar	Enterprise Storage Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server
179	Robert Sonders Stephen McMaster	Considerations for designing a scalable and secure platform with SQL Server – for today and tomorrow
180	Bryan Walsh Doug Bernhardt Bart Driscoll	Unleash the Power of SQL Server with Dell EMC PowerStore
181	Bryan Walsh Doug Bernhardt	Storage & Data Protection Innovations with Dell Technologies
182	Saveen Reddy	Accelerating Enterprise Analytics Solutions with Azure Synapse Analytics

Appendix IV - Round Tables

Topic
DevOps	Brian Carrig/Hamish Watson
Power BI	Sivakumar Harinath/Marco Russo/Paul Turley
Database Development	Damian Widera/Michelle Gutzait/Drew Skwiers Koballa
Azure SQL Family	Anna Hoffman/Roberto Cavalcanti/Jose Manuel Jurado
PowerShell and Database Management	Ben Miller
Modern Data Warehouse	Thomas Grohser/Wee Hyong Tok/Mohit Batra/Sandy Winarko/Arnaud Comet
Azure SQL Family	Parikshit Savjani/Sunil Agarwal/Ronen Ariely
Database Performance Tuning	Brian Carrig/Magnus Ahlkvist
Modern Data Warehouse	Thomas Grohser/Harsh Chawla/Sudhir Rawat
Power BI	Sivakumar Harinath/Reid Havens
Advanced Analytics	Damian Widera/Andre Melancia/Sudhir Rawat
Data Engineering	Joshua Higginbotham/Abhishek Narain/Richard Conway
Data Science, ML and AI	Damian Widera/Andre Melancia/Dejan Sarka
Diversity and Inclusion	Tracy Boggiano/Michelle Gutzait/Jess Pomfret/Hamish Watson
DevOps	Grant Fritchey/Brian Carrig/Hamish Watson
Database Performance Tuning	Brian Carrig/Erland Sommarskog/Michelle Gutzait
Women in Technology	Rie Irish/Anna Hoffman/Pam Lahoud/Vasiya Krishnan/Julie Koesmarno

Appendix V - Data + AI Gurukul

S.L. No.	Topic	Speaker
1	Power BI	Marco Russo
2	Big Data Analytics and BI: Individually and together	Andrew Brust
3	SQL Scaling and Availability	Brian Carrig
4	Azure Data Factory, Synapse Pipelines	Abhishek Narain
5	Managing Infrastructure (Building, Automating, Managing, Ground and Cloud)	Thomas Grohser
6	Azure SQL Family Q&A	Jose Manuel Jurado
7	SSIS in ADF	Sandy Winarko
8	Azure SQL App Development	Silvano Coriani
9	Azure SQL Family	Matt Gordon
10	SQL Server on Containers	Edwin M Sarmiento
11	Azure Databricks and Delta Lake	Mohit Batra
12	Execution Plans: What Do You Want To Know?	Grant Fritchey
13	Power BI	Jeroen ter Heerdt
14	Power BI Report & Visual Design	Reid Havens
15	PolyBase	Kevin Feasel
16	Access Control and Separation of Duties in Azure SQL and SQL Server	Andreas Wolter
17	AMA with Bob Ward	Bob Ward
18	Azure Data Factory	Wee Hyong Tok
19	Data Movement for Cloud	Brian Carrig
20	AMA: Azure Database for MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB & Hyperscale (Citus)	Sunil Agarwal and Parikshit Savjani
21	Managing Infrastructure (Building, Automating, Managing, Ground and Cloud)	Thomas Grohser
22	Database Development / Modern DW	Damian Widera
23	Database design	Dejan Sarka
24	TSQL	Erland Sommarskog
25	Power BI	Ferenc Csonka
26	Power BI	Jeroen ter Heerdt
27	Azure SQL, Migrations, and Learning	Anna hoffman
28	Data Streaming and Timeseries in SQL Edge	Saurabh Agarwal

Appendix VI - DPS Team

Amit Bansal

Manohar Punna

Sandip Pani

Surbhi Agarwal

Satya Ramesh

Mamita Sinha

Mahua Mitra

Aarthi Nambiar

Rohit Reddy

Vamsi Ramisetty

Yogesh Kumar

Gowtham R S

Shrestaa S Nahar

Payal Maity

Abhijit Bose