Super Night - 3 session in one - Summer 2025 - date change

The Melbourne Data Platform User Group is changing how we run meetings. Instead of long monthly sessions, we are going to try a "Super Night" on Tuesday, 18th February 2025.

We have lined up three sessions across different topics to supercharge your learning and networking opportunities across some products or features that you might not have considered before.

The sessions and speakers are...

Daniel Savaglio - Exploring the Data and AI Melbourne Job Market
Exploring the current state of the Data and AI job Market. What roles to look for, what skills to learn and overall be an interactive discussion about what's important when applying for a role. Touching on things like, Resumes, Cover Letter, what happens behind the scenes when applying for a role and how to stand out in the interview process.
Daniel has 5+ years' experience recruiting technologists within the Data and AI Space.

Ronak Vachhani - Streamline LLM lifecycle using PromptFlow
Leverage PromptFlow to fine-tune the development cycle of AI applications powered by LLMs by prototyping, experimenting, iterating, and deploying your AI applications.
Ronak is an Azure Certified Data & AI/ML enthusiast. Engineering things @ Arinco.

Rob Farley - Ensuring your ELT integrity in Fabric SQL DB and DW with APPLY
Possibly the most important consideration in transforms for data analysis is to make sure you don’t inadvertently filter out data or load data multiple times. Sadly, whether transforms are happening in pipelines, Spark, or T-SQL, it is possible to either increase or decrease the number of rows in a table because of the way you perform joins. However, T-SQL’s APPLY can offer a solution, and now that Fabric SQL DB has joined the family of services, there is another strong platform for powerful ELT patterns using T-SQL as the transform layer. If you thought APPLY was simply to allow table-valued functions to be called, you need to reconsider this powerful tool and start creating elegant, verifiable, fast transforms that leverage the Fabric SQL DB engine.
Rob is the Owner and Principal Consultant of LobsterPot Solutions. He holds several Microsoft certifications, including Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and the Microsoft MVP Award.