Past Conference

DataTune 2024

A look back at the workshops, sessions, speakers, and sponsors that made DataTune 2024 happen.

Workshops Sponsors Sessions Speakers

Workshops

Data Management

The Foundations Of SQL Server Performance Tuning

Erik Darling

Other

Unleashing Your Influence: Mastering LinkedIn for Career and Brand Growth

Kabrina Ashley

Data Analytics

Fabric in a Day

Dan Evans

Other

Your Data Super-power: Data Storytelling

Becky Gandillon

Data Science

Data Science & Machine Learning for Python Folks Without (or With!) a Ph.D. Workshop

Douglas Starnes

Data Engineering

Building a Data Foundation from the Ground Up With Snowflake

Jeremy Lemmon

Sponsors

Thank you to everyone who supported DataTune 2024.

CGI
Acree Consulting
Advizex
Brooklyn Data Co.
Centric Consulting
DataForge
DBA Duck Consulting
DDN
Flagrant
Lovelytics
Nashville Technology Council
Nashville Software School
Onix
Royal Blue Analytics
Sigma
Vaco

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Sessions

Data Analytics

  • Power BI - How to Fix an Inherited Report Kristyna Ferris
  • Unveiling the Power of Real-Time Streaming Data Visualization Gang Tao
  • Hacking Your Vacation: Using Data for Fun Becky Gandillon
  • Microsoft Fabric for Power BI users Alex Powers
  • Power BI Unleashed: Harnessing Expert Insights for Transformative Data Visualization Akshata Revankar, Jason Romans, Matthew Hall, Michael Hewitt
  • Microsoft Fabric + Power Platform + Azure OpenAI = Magic Mix Gaston Cruz, Alex Rostan
  • Jumpstart your Tableau Journey Jim Dehner
  • Unveiling Healthcare Fraud: The Power of Analytical Visualizations Gilma Adunas-Rivas
  • Take Your Tableau Maps Further Alyssa Williams
  • Microsoft Fabric - Data Analytics in the Era of AI Dan Evans
  • The Art of Data Storytelling: Bridging the Gap Between Numbers and Impact Kabrina Ashley
  • Practical Applications for Planning and Modeling with Snowflake Bill Van Hout
  • Viz Design Flow: Build the RIGHT dashboard the first time that your users will LOVE Nathan Settembrini

Data Engineering

  • Build next generation Big Data applications with Delta Lake Theo Lebrun
  • How Kafka Works Jon Boulineau
  • Rising Tides with Radical Transparency: Why and How to Open Source Your Data Platform Tim Castillo
  • Great AI/ML Requires Great Data Engineering Jeremy Lemmon
  • The Who, What, and Why of Data Lake Table Formats Alex Merced
  • Mastering Data Governance & Security in Modern Cloud Data Platforms using Databricks and Snowflake Philip Goldman
  • The Streaming Plane Hubert Dulay
  • The Problem with Pipelines: Building Extensible Data Code Matthew Kosovec
  • Modernizing ETL: Leveraging Azure Databricks for Enhanced Data Integration Joshua Higginbotham
  • Inviting Data Orchestration to the Band Steven Johnson
  • Data: The Fabric Of Our Lives Chris Hyde
  • Transforming a data warehouse with dbt Alice Leach
  • Data Driven Automation Test Framework Pournima Kulkarni

Data Management

  • Adding PowerShell to your DBA toolbox Ben Miller
  • Storage Considerations for VLDB and High Performance Workloads Marsha Pierce
  • Ground to Cloud: Your Migration Success Checklist Matt Gordon
  • Introducing dbachecks v3 Rob Sewell
  • A deep dive into Kubernetes Andrew Pruski
  • Which Azure Database Option Should I Choose? Jes Chapman
  • The SQL Server Performance Tasting Menu Erik Darling
  • Indexing 101: How to find your data in monoliths, documents, lakes and more. Barkha Herman
  • Azure PostgreSQL for the SQL Server DBA Tim Chapman
  • Exploring Whether Storage is the Root Cause of Your Performance Woes Andy Yun
  • Four Habits of Highly Successful Database and Admin Teams Kevin Kline

Data Science

  • Keeping it Classy: Designing a Great Classifier Kevin Feasel
  • AI for Everyone with Azure AI Services Douglas Starnes
  • Synthetic Tabular Data: Applications, Methods, and Comparison Aditya Nanda
  • Advizex & Data Josh Jones, Akhil Bhargava
  • Explainability for Similarity Search Using Graphs, LLMs, and Vector Embeddings Taylor Riggan
  • Practical MLOps with GitHub and Azure ML Kevin Feasel
  • Enhance your document workflows with generative AI Suresh Patnam, Shravan Vurputoor
  • Techniques in Time Series Analysis for Machine Learning Enthusiasts Sankalp Gilda
  • Building a Do-It-Yourself, Open-Source Data Platform for Scrappy Data Professionals Matteo Vaiente
  • Databricks: The Data Intelligence Platform Allison Baker, Colton Peltier, Stephen Ronan, Kunal Marwah

Other

  • Alone Together: Team-Building for Remote Teams Elena Marquetti-Ali
  • DRD - The Data Razzle Dazzle Will Wood, James Colvin
  • Punched: How to Respond When Life Hits Your Technology Career in the Face Stuart Cooper
  • Panel - Ethics for AI? Sponsored by DDN The AI Storage Company Conway Lee, Franklin Graves
  • Navigating the Data Lifecycle Through Management, Analytics, Engineering, and Data Science Luke McConnell, Jason King, Deborah Melkin, Chris Hyde

Speakers

Conway Lee

DDN the AI Storage Company, AI Practice Manager for CSPs & Emerging Markets

LinkedIn

Stephen Ronan

Databricks Solution Architect

Colton Peltier

Senior Data Scientist @ Databricks

LinkedIn

Theo Lebrun

Senior Data Engineer at Ippon Technologies

LinkedIn

Alex Merced

Developer Advocate for Dremio

LinkedIn

Pournima Kulkarni

Senior Consultant, CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc.

LinkedIn

Rob Sewell

Be-Whiskered Automator of Things

LinkedIn

Gaston Cruz

MVP Data Platform / Director - Slalom USA

LinkedIn

Taylor Riggan

Graph database fanatic

LinkedIn

Marsha Pierce

Director of Solution Architecture at Pure Storage

LinkedIn

Gilma Adunas-Rivas

Statistical Research Specialist

LinkedIn

Hubert Dulay

Developer Advocate at StarTree

LinkedIn

Barkha Herman

Speaker, Developer Advocate, Technologist, Podcaster, WiT Advocate and Mentor.

LinkedIn

Andy Yun

Field Solutions Engineer

LinkedIn

Aditya Nanda

Researcher and Data-scientist

LinkedIn

Deborah Melkin

Data Engineer

LinkedIn

Jason King

Senior Director of Data Science at Xsolis

LinkedIn

Kristyna Ferris

Sr Data & Analytics Consultant at 3Cloud

LinkedIn

James Colvin

Director, Data Engineering @ Brooklyn Data Co

LinkedIn

Douglas Starnes

Technology entrepreneur, content creator and Microsoft MVP

LinkedIn

Josh Jones

Director of Solution Architecture

LinkedIn

Franklin Graves

Technology Counsel, Adjunct Professor, Creator Economy Law

LinkedIn

Kevin Feasel

Proprietor @ Catallaxy Services, LLC

LinkedIn

Shravan Vurputoor

AWS, Senior SA HCLS

LinkedIn

Matt Gordon

Senior Architect at Centric Consulting

LinkedIn

Matthew Hall

Matthew Hall BI Developer - Fencing Supply Group

LinkedIn

Allison Baker

Databricks Solutions Architect

LinkedIn

Erik Darling

Restoring tempdb since GETDATE()™

LinkedIn

Alex Powers

Sr Program Manager

LinkedIn

Luke McConnell

Building Advanced Analytics Solutions at MSH

LinkedIn

Becky Gandillon

Data strategist, storyteller, and mom

LinkedIn

Andrew Pruski

Field Solutions Architect originally from Wales but now exploring Ireland

LinkedIn

Steven Johnson

Data Community Advocate at Shipyard

LinkedIn

Nathan Settembrini

Founder & Managing Director of Allegro Analytics

LinkedIn

Alex Rostan

MS Business Applications MVP / Principal Slalom Canada

LinkedIn

Kunal Marwah

Solutions Architect - Databricks

Tim Chapman

Principal Solution Architect, Microsoft

LinkedIn

Kabrina Ashley

Creating Corporate Productivity Through Play🚂 | Speaker 🎤 | Content Creator🤳 | Podcast Host @ Top Shelf Creator🎙️ | Corporate Trainer 📈 | Positioning, Business, & Marketing Consultant and Coach

LinkedIn

Will Wood

Senior Director, Data Solutions @ Brooklyn Data Co

LinkedIn

Bill Van Hout

Sigma Computing, Sr. Solution Engineer

Philip Goldman

Sr. Solution Architect

LinkedIn

Tim Castillo

Data Engineer

Alyssa Williams

Principal Consultant, BI&A at Lovelytics

LinkedIn

Jes Chapman

Sr Program Manager @ Microsoft

LinkedIn

Jon Boulineau

Lead Architect for Citizens Bank

LinkedIn

Suresh Patnam

AWS , 15 yrs experience

LinkedIn

Stuart Cooper

Career Intuition Expert

LinkedIn

Chris Hyde

Owner and Principal Consultant, Hydrate Technologies LLC

LinkedIn

Joshua Higginbotham

Microsoft Data Platform MVP | Senior Architect Data and Analytics

LinkedIn

Matteo Vaiente

Data Dark Magician

Jim Dehner

Tableau Visionary

LinkedIn

Sankalp Gilda

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

LinkedIn

Jason Romans

Builder of models

LinkedIn

Kevin Kline

Expert at enterprise-scale database systems, in the cloud or on-premises

LinkedIn

Jeremy Lemmon

Sr. Solutions Engineer - Snowflake

LinkedIn

Michael Hewitt

BI, Data Visualization, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric

LinkedIn

Elena Marquetti-Ali

Marquetti Consulting - President & Lead Consultant

LinkedIn

Alice Leach

Data Engineer, Whatnot

LinkedIn

Akhil Bhargava

Advizex - Field CTO AI/ML

Akshata Revankar

Data Engineer, Specialist at McKinsey & Company

LinkedIn

Dan Evans

Dan the BI/Fabric Man

LinkedIn