DATA RELAY 2023 - Manchester - talks on Azure, PBI, SQL, Bicep, Powershell & DAX

Data Relay is back in Manchester on Friday, 6 October

RSVP via website
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/datarelay-2023-manchester-tickets-636529215017

Data Relay will be in Manchester on Friday 6th October 2023, featuring top quality Microsoft Data Platform content from great speakers.
The day consists of a series of 50 minute technical presentations for all levels - beginner, intermediate and advanced. You can switch tracks throughout the day to enjoy the sessions that interest you the most.
Address: Odeon Great Northern Warehouse, 235 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 4EN
Registration: Tickets are on a first come, first served basis. Doors open at 8:30am on the day with sessions starting at 9:00am.
Competitions: If you allow a sponsor to scan your QR code you will be entered into their raffle prize draw. By doing so you opt in to receive sales and marketing information from them, using the contact details you provided during registration. All sponsors will provide an unsubscribe link in their emails.
Food: We'll be providing a light lunch, plus tea & coffee at a couple of breaks. We will be catering for vegan food, according to your food preferences during registration.
Dress Code: Casual
First time at Data Relay? Everyone has a 'first event', including the speakers and organisers of this event. We're lucky to be a part of the UK Microsoft Data Platform community, one of the most friendly and welcoming tech communities out there. Whether you're in a group or on your own, you'll be made to feel welcome and will learn lots about new and existing technology. It's a great opportunity to meet your peers and maybe even your Data Platform heroes! If you have any queries, contact us at contact@DataRelay.co.uk and we'll help you out.

Manchester Scedule
09:00 - Keynote & Welcome
09:30 1 - Saving Your Wallet from the Cloud - Kevin Feasel
09:30 2 - AI Driven Data Enrichment with Azure Cognitive Search - Matt How
09:30 3 - Automating Database Deployments using Azure DevOps - Grant Fritchey
10:45 1 - Delta Lake Tables 101 - Kamil Nowinski
10:45 2 - Get a Load of this - Realistic Load Testing for Power BI, explained! - Matt Lakin
10:45 3 - Introduction to Bicep for the Cloud DBA - Frank Geisler
11:40 1 - Getting Insight from Anything: using IoT for good! - Andrew Blance
11:40 2 - A Hybrid SQL Journey: The daily routine of a Hybrid DBA - Jose Manuel Jurado Diaz
11:40 3 - Combining web apps and AI - how to unlock the power of the Azure OpenAI Service - Ben Jarvis
12:30 Lunch
13:30 1 - Securing Data Workloads with Azure Landing Zones - Chris Murray
13:30 2 - Ned Stratton - Regex in PowerShell: How to grasp it and why you should grasp it
13:30 3 - Sweet streams (are made of this: Hubs, Stream Analytics, Datalake) - Pálmi Símonarson
14:25 1 - The Kusto experience in Fabric - Brian Bønk
14:25 2 - Cognitive Services Extravaganza! - Gosia Borzęcka
14:25 3 - Examples of query tuning in SQL Server - Torsten Strauß
15:40 1 - Model Creation in Azure AutoML and Ingestion Through Excel - Lewis Prince
15:40 2 - DAX Explained Through Dance, Memes and Dad Jokes - Barney Lawrence
15:40 3 - Real-time Fraud Detection Challenges and Solutions - Fawaz Ghali
16:35 Raffle & Close