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Aaron Merrill
Principal Product Manager - Microsoft OneLake
Aaron is a product manager on the Microsoft OneLake team focused on security. His background is in web analytics and developing data products for Microsoft's sales and marketing teams. Since then, he has worked on Azure Synapse and OneLake, delivering security features. He lives in the greater Seattle area and enjoys running and reading science fiction.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Adam Lash
Principal Technical Program Manager, Microsoft
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Adi Regev
Partner Director Product Manager, Microsoft Fabric Platform
Partner director Product Manager at Fabric, leading a group in Fabric platform responsible for enterprise crucial areas such as data governance, information management, tenant administration, data protection, and collaboration. With vast experience in running product groups, defining product roadmaps and building large-scale offerings, while accounting for - product excellence, customer value & delighting our users, maintaining growth mindset, market impact, competitive landscape, and ambitious timeframes.
A People person who always keeps in mind also team building as well as their individual career development.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Aditya Badramraju
Microsoft, Prinicpal Product Manager
Aditya Badramraju is a Principal Program Manager with the AzureSQL team, specializing in Azure SQL Hyperscale. Before joining Microsoft, Aditya worked as a Data Platform Architect at a renowned financial firm, where they implemented SQL Servers and various data-related technologies. Aditya is a passionate data enthusiast with a deep love for all things computer science. He thrives on solving complex customer problems and have a strong passion for speaking and sharing knowledge about data and technology.
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Ajay Gollapalli
Solution Director (Azure) , Informatica
Ajay is a Data & AI Expert with 24 years of Industry knowledge in Data Warehousing, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning. Prior to his role as Azure Solutions Director at Informatica, he was working as Practice Leader with Accenture on Azure Data & AI and as an Architect at Microsoft and has also contributed to multiple patents in data engineering. Ajay provides leadership and mentoring to multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, modelers, and data scientists. He is passionate about data architecture and contributes to industry knowledge on Data to drive the next generation of Analytics. He is also a regular speaker at the NOVA SQL user group and evangelizes best practices on data architecture and decentralized technology solutions.
- Company Name
- Informatica
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Ajay Jagannathan
Principal Group Program Manager
Ajay Jagannathan is a Principal Group Program Manager for SQL Server and hybrid data services, based in Redmond. He has an MS in Computer Science and over 25 years of industry experience. He is currently responsible for driving product strategy and roadmap for SQL Server and Arc Data Services to deliver breakthrough innovations and product experiences from inception to engaged customer usage that modernize database to handle the speed, variety and scale of today's data. He partners closely with several customers to understand product usage and feedback to drive improvements in the product. He has deep experience in various features of SQL database engine spanning over several versions of SQL Server starting with 6.5 as well as Azure SQL.
- Company Name
- Microsoft Corporation
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Ajay Kavuri
PRINCIPAL ENGINEERING MANAGER
Engineering manager with OneLake Shortcuts.
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Ajay Punyapu
Managing Director and Solutions Architect, Microsoft Data & AI
Ajay brings over 22 years of experience as a Solutions Architect, specializing in designing and implementing on-premise and cloud-based solutions for ETL, database management, security, data warehousing, data strategy, and reporting across various industries. He has presented at Fabric and Microsoft Dynamics Community Conferences and has co-presented in webcasts and TSI events in collaboration with Microsoft. Ajay is also a member of the Fabric Partner Voice program, getting access to test and evaluate Private Preview features and share feedback, insights with Microsoft/Community and identify and implement potential use cases where applicable.
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Ajeta Singhal
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence | Defini ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of the product. Driving ‘How’ of the product. Delivering the vision and iterating on the delivered product.
With 13 years at Microsoft and 7 years of experience in the Real-Time Analytics space, I have contributed to the development of cutting-edge solutions, including Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence (2 years) and Azure Stream Analytics (5 years). Over my career, I have successfully shipped six products and services, driving innovation and efficiency across Microsoft.
As a passionate advocate for technology and customer-centric solutions, I have had the privilege of sharing insights at leading industry conferences, including Microsoft Build, Microsoft Ignite, Integrate, FabCon, and the European Cloud Summit. My expertise lies in solving complex customer pain points, making data more accessible, and enhancing real-time decision-making. -
Aleksi Partanen
Microsoft MVP & Data Architect
Aleksi Partanen is a Microsoft Fabric MVP, Data Architect, and Team Lead at Norrin. He helps organizations design and implement modern data platforms on Microsoft Fabric and Azure, combining architectural expertise with hands-on data engineering.
He shares knowledge through his YouTube channel Aleksi Partanen – Master Microsoft Fabric, the Master Microsoft Fabric Discord community, and active contributions on the Microsoft Fabric subreddit. His content includes tutorials, deep dives, and certification exam preparation.
Aleksi is passionate about making Fabric approachable and supporting professionals in their data journey through practical solutions, leadership, and community engagement.- Company Name
- Norrin
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Alex Carvalho
Principal Consultant (Data & AI / Data Practice)
Alex Carvalho is a Principal Consultant in Quisitive’s Data & AI Practice. He is a seasoned consultant with over 30 years of experience developing data solutions across a variety of industries and has spent the past 20 years implementing Microsoft-based data solutions. Alex’s technical and management experience helps him design, implement, and maintain scalable solutions that address critical business challenges. His recent work includes modern data platform and analytics initiatives using Power BI, SQL Server, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Databricks.
- Company Name
- Quisitive
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Alex Rostan
Microsoft Business Applications MVP
Microsoft Bizz Apps MVP and seasoned technology leader with over 16 years of global experience designing and delivering intelligent solutions across diverse industries. As an AI Solutions Specialist and Power Platform Architect, Alex has been at the forefront of integrating Cognitive Services, developing enterprise-grade chatbots and Copilot solutions, and driving automation through RPA and low-code platforms. His expertise spans cloud architecture on Azure and Microsoft 365, with a strong focus on empowering organizations through innovation, scalability, and user-centric design. A passionate advocate for digital transformation, Alex combines technical excellence with a deep understanding of business needs to create impactful solutions that bridge people and technology.
AI Solutions Specialist / Cognitive Services Integration / ChatBots / Copilot / Power Platform Architect / RPA / Cloud Architect / Azure / M365 -
Ali Hamud
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Alicia Li
Microsoft, Principal PM Manager
10+ years of Product Management experience in big data space, including Azure Databricks, Azure HDInsights, Azure Stream Analytics and Microsoft Fabric Real-time analytics
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Allan Hirt
Principal Technical Program Manager
Business continuity, infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud expert, author, bass player, Styxologist, former Microsoft MVP as well as VMware vExpert, and SQLHA founder Allan Hirt has been working with SQL Server as well as clustering in Windows Server for far too long. He currently works for Microsoft as a Principal Technical Program Manager. He loves to travel the world to empower people through sharing his knowledge.
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Alon Baram
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Embedded Analytics
Alon Baram is a leading Product Manager at Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Embedded Analytics.
A profound catalyst, possessing excellent matrix management and execution capabilities.
Vast experience in driving various products throughout their life cycle stages, from inception to successful launch.
Expertise in the areas of cloud-based enterprise services, and in particular Power BI developer scenarios.
Key specialties: market evaluation, product requirements, functional specifications, lead generation, presales activities, and event support. -
Alp Akdeniz
Director of Fabric Architecture at Acterys
Alp Akdeniz is a data and analytics consultant with over a decade of experience delivering business impact through Power BI, Azure, SQL, and DAX. He specializes in translating complex data into actionable insights, helping organizations make smarter, faster decisions at scale. Outside of work, Alp is a passionate basketball fan and an avid foodie—always on the hunt for exceptional sushi.
- Company Name
- Acterys
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Amanjeet Singh
Principal program manager (Fabric Customer Advisory team), Microsoft
Amanjeet has been an employee of Microsoft for over six years, and he is currently a principal in Fabric customer advisory team. He works directly with customers who are pushing the scale and performance boundaries of Microsoft Fabric. In his role, he is responsible in helping customers designing Fabric architecture and addressing technical roadblocks. He also works closely with Fabric OneLake product group in driving feedback; prioritising customer asks; and influencing product roadmap.
Prior to joining Fabric CAT, Amanjeet was a senior architect in the team which published prescriptive guidance for deploying landing zones on Azure; well-architected framework; and Enterprise scale analytics.
Before joining Microsoft, in a career spanning 14 years, he held various technical positions at Woolworths (Australia) and Insurance Australia Group (Australia).- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Amir Jafari
Senior Product Manager
TBD
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Amir Netz
CTO and Technical Fellow
Amir Netz is a Technical Fellow and chief architect of the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) offerings. Amir is focused on the democratization of BI through end-user self-service enablement using Microsoft Office, SharePoint and SQL Server
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Amir Sarir
Senior BI Solutions Engineer at Motio
Amir Sarir is a Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer at Motio, leading efforts to implement automated and compliance testing solutions for Analytics environments. As a Technical Product Manager, Amir spearheaded the development of a modern Angular-based UI and an ElasticSearch-powered search solution that significantly enhanced navigation. He also founded Motio’s first Customer Advisory Panel to align the product roadmap with strategic customer needs, driving adoption, engagement, and long-term value across Motio’s analytics platform. In his current position as a BI and AI Solutions Engineer, he focuses on researching and developing innovative solutions for Power BI environments. He identifies key pain points and designs tools to enhance performance, reliability, and user experience, creating an invigorating DevOps experience for an invincible Power BI.
- Company Name
- Motio
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Anavi Nahar
Head of Product, Azure Databricks, Microsoft
Anavi Nahar leads the Azure Databricks product group. With almost a decade of experience within the cloud computing industry, she has played a pivotal role in developing and scaling cloud infrastructure solutions. Anavi holds 3 patents and is a strong customer advocate.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Andre Terceros
Sr Technical Program Manager - Fabric Maps - Microsoft
Current Sr. Technical Program Manager (Maps in Fabric & Azure Maps) @Microsoft. Experienced professional with a demonstrated history of working in the private sector, federal and state government levels. Enthusiastic about customer satisfaction and finding geospatial solutions that enable users to maximize their goals and objectives. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi graduate with a Master of Science (M.S.) focused in Geospatial Surveying Engineering
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Andrew Joncas
Assistant Vice President for Enterprise Data and AI, Syracuse University
Andrew Joncas is the Assistant Vice President for Enterprise Data and AI at Syracuse University, where he leads the institution’s strategy for data modernization, responsible AI adoption, and enterprise analytics. His focus is to build a scalable, secure, and governed data and AI foundation that empowers hyper-personalized teaching and learning, strengthens research capabilities, and improves operational efficiency. He is driving the adoption of Microsoft Fabric as the University’s next-generation data platform for advanced analytics and AI.
His team recently completed a project with partners PwC and JMA Wireless that delivered real-time operational intelligence across campus, powered by edge AI vision models, thermal sensors, geospatial Wi-Fi data, and Microsoft Fabric. Syracuse University is leveraging AI technologies from Microsoft, Anthropic, and IBL.AI to accelerate institution-scale modernization.
Recently, Syracuse University’s efforts were recognized by Gartner as part of their 2025 Eye on Innovation Awards. -
Andrew Sommer
Chief Data Officer - Missouri University of Science & Technology
Andrew Sommer is a data and analytics leader who loves turning complex information into clear, useful insights that help drive strategy and results. As Chief Data Officer at Missouri S&T, he leads talented analytics and engineering teams that are changing how the university uses data to make decisions and track success.
He has deep experience in data strategy, visualization, machine learning, and enterprise analytics, especially within the Microsoft data ecosystem. Andrew is also a Microsoft Fabric Community Super User, Microsoft Enterprise Voice member, and holds certifications as a Power BI Data Analyst Associate, Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate, and Fabric Data Engineer Associate.
He’s passionate about using data to solve real challenges in higher education- improving operations, supporting strategic planning, and building a strong culture of data-driven innovation.- Company Name
- Missouri University of Science & Technolgy
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Andy Parkerson
Data Engineer
With a MS in Mathematical Sciences, Andy has spread the joy of business intelligence and analysis wherever he goes. Having transitioned from development to data engineering, he champions evidence-based programming and bringing reliable data to people who can use it.
- Company Name
- MMR Group
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Anita Ambalavanan
Senior Product Manager, Power BI, Microsoft
Anita is a Product Manager at Microsoft where she works on Power BI. She previously worked on the Fabric Customer Advisory Team leading private preview engagements and customer evidence across Fabric workloads. She holds a degree in Computer Science from Purdue University. Prior to Microsoft, she was an intern for Salesforce and the United States Department of Defense.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Anitha Adusumilli
Principal Group Product Manager, Azure SQL, Microsoft
Product leader for Azure SQL, focused on database migrations to Azure, Azure Arc, Virtual Machines, monitoring and high availability.
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Anna Gebler
Senior Manager Data Governance @ Lufthansa Group
After completing her PhD in theoretical physics, Anna embarked on a data governance journey with Lufthansa Group. As a Senior Manager Data Quality and Governance, Anna is responsible for the configuration, population, and rollout of the Lufthansa Group Data Catalog as well as for the general rollout of data governance processes and policies throughout all of the organization's subsidiaries.
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Anna Hoffman
Product @Microsoft
Principal Group Product Manager on Microsoft's SQL Engineering team. Host of Data Exposed. GT Engineering Undergrad + Data Science Masters.
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Anthony Nocentino
Senior Principal Field Solution Architect, Pure Storage
Anthony Nocentino is an accomplished technology professional, author, and speaker with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He is now a Senior Principal Field Solution Architect at Pure Storage.
He is a Microsoft Data Platform and is recognized globally for his SQL Server, Kubernetes, and Public cloud infrastructure expertise. He is the author of several technical books and dozens of Pluralsight courses, including "SQL Server on Kubernetes" and "Azure Arc-enabled Data Services Revealed."
Anthony has a Masters degree in Computer Science with research publications in data access algorithms and spatial database systems.
Anthony's passion for technology and ability to deliver engaging and informative presentations make him a sought-after conference speaker internationally at leading data and cloud conferences. Attendees can expect to leave their sessions with a deep understanding of the technology and practical tips for implementing those in their environments.- Company Name
- Pure Storage
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Anton Fritz
Principle PM manager - Microsoft
As Principal PM Manager, Anton leads all product management aspects of Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention of Power BI service and Power BI desktop.
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Anu Venkataraman
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Anu, a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, boasts over 14 years of extensive experience in the IT industry. Prior to Microsoft, she worked in Google as Senior Cloud Engineer. Her expertise spans leading Big Data projects, orchestrating Hadoop and Spark cloud migrations, and empowering large enterprise and strategic clients to harness the full potential of data and analytics through diverse Big Data technologies. Anu is also co-authoring a book titled "Dataproc Cookbook" for O'Reilly. Beyond her professional endeavors, she finds fulfillment in community engagement, dedicating time to mentor aspiring professionals and women in technology.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Anupama Natarajan
Data and AI Consultant
Anu is a Data and AI Consultant with 20+ years of experience working in design and development of Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, AI enabled applications and SaaS integrated solutions. Anu is a Microsoft Data Platform and AI MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer and really passionate in sharing knowledge. Anu loves solving complex business problems with innovative solutions using technologies.
Anu do speak at Conferences (PASS Summit, SQL Saturdays, Data Platform Summit, Difinity) and organise local user group meetups.- Company Name
- Pearl Innovations Limited
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Armando Lacerda
Cloud Data Platform Architect & Engineer
- Company Name
- MC Tech
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Arsalan Yarveisi
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Fabric
A member of Fabric Enterprise Platform product team, focused on capacity management
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Art Cabugason
Manager - Data Engineering Center of Excellence, CDW
Art has 18 years of experience in the Data Engineering and Business Intelligence space and currently Manager – Data Engineering Center of Excellence at CDW. Art led teams building Azure and Fabric data platforms.
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Arthi Ramasubramanian Iyer
Partner Director Product Manager
Partner Director Product Manager on the Fabric Platform
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Arun Ulag
President, Azure Data
The mission of Azure Data is to help customers build a new class of data-first applications and drive a data culture where every employee can make better decisions based on data. Arun leads product management, engineering, and cloud operations for databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging, business intelligence, and cognitive search. The products in his team’s portfolio include Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Previously, as the General Manager of the APAC Cloud & Enterprise Division, Arun was responsible for growing Microsoft’s Windows Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, and Business Intelligence businesses for Microsoft in the Asia Pacific region based out of Singapore. Before moving to Singapore, Arun held worldwide accountability for growing Microsoft’s SQL Server business with enterprise customers. Arun founded Think Business Networks, Inc., a vendor of specialized network management software based out of Silicon Valley. Arun grew the company profitably for six years to over 60 employees before selling his stake and heading to Stanford Graduate School of Business for his MS in Management.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Arvind Shyamsundar
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
Arvind Shyamsundar is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, working on innovations in Azure SQL Database, such as Hyperscale. Arvind taps into his rich experience working with Microsoft’s customers as part of the Customer Advisory Team (CAT) and Microsoft Services. Arvind is well known in the SQL community and has presented at conferences like PASS, SQL Saturday, DPS, Ignite and various user groups.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Ashit Gosalia
Engineering Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashit-gosalia/
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Atte Sukari
Senior Data Engineer at Cloud1
I've gained valuable experience as a data engineer with a business-oriented mindset. My expertise includes Spark, Delta Lake, and Terraform, with a focus on Microsoft Azure. While these are some areas I specialize in, I have broader knowledge beyond them. I'm passionate about empowering businesses with data-driven insights and creating user-centric solutions. Additionally, I enjoy tackling architectural challenges to ensure scalable and efficient data solutions.
- Company Name
- Norrin
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Aviv Ezrachi
Principal Group Program Manager, Fabric
Aviv Ezrachi is a Principal Group Product Manager at Microsoft, leading the team responsible for Fabric CI/CD, automation, and extensibility. His team focuses on streamlining DevOps scenarios within Microsoft Fabric, integrating agentic technologies to automate customer scenarios, and building the Fabric Marketplace where customers can discover partner solutions that extend Fabric to cover virtually any data scenario or build their own Fabric workload. He’s driven by a vision of making enterprise data platforms more open, extensible, and developer-friendly.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Avnish Rastogi
Microsoft, Principal Product Manager for Azure MySQL
Avnish Rastogi is a Principal Product Manager in Azure MySQL. He leads initiatives that improve reliability, performance, and security across Azure’s managed open‑source database services, working closely with engineering to modernize the platform through architectural improvements, high‑availability design, and large‑scale migration frameworks that help organizations adopt cloud‑native data platforms with confidence.
Before joining Microsoft, Avnish led major data modernization and integration initiatives across the broader cloud and analytics ecosystem, including database consolidation, distributed systems, healthcare data exchange, and enterprise analytics programs. He brings deep technical expertise paired with strong product strategy, with a focus on simplifying complex data challenges and enabling teams to build scalable, secure, and high‑performing data solutions.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Benjamin Ries-Roncalli
MAQ Software
Benjamin Ries-Roncalli is a data and analytics professional at MAQ Software, specializing in Fabric, Power BI, and Agents. Passionate about leveraging Fabric and agentic technologies, Benjamin helps organizations transform raw data into actionable insights and strategic decisions.
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Bob Ward
Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data
Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft Azure Data team, which owns the development for Microsoft SQL ground to cloud to fabric. Bob has worked for Microsoft for 32 years on every version of SQL Server shipped from OS/2 1.1 to SQL Server 2025 including Azure SQL and SQL database in Fabric. Bob is a well-known speaker on SQL Server, Azure SQL, AI, and Microsoft Fabric often presenting talks on new releases, internals, and specialized topics at events such as SQLBits, Microsoft Build, Microsoft Ignite, PASS Summit, Fabric Community Conference, SQLCon, and VS Live. You can follow him at @bobwardms or linkedin.com/in/bobwardms. Bob is the author of the books Pro SQL Server on Linux, SQL Server 2019 Revealed, Azure SQL Revealed, SQL Server 2022 Revealed, Azure SQL Revealed 2nd Edition, and SQL Server 2025 Unveiled available from Apress Media.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Bodhisatva Gautam
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Fabric
Senior product manager in Microsoft Fabric. Managing network security for the Fabric platform.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Brad Watts
Principal Product Manager - Fabric RTI - Microsoft
Brad Watts is a passionate and experienced product manager working on Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric. With experience in data analytics, he enjoys building user-friendly solutions that address complex business challenges. His work spans across various Microsoft products, including Azure Data Explorer, RTI Eventhouse, RTI Dashboards, and KQL Querysets.
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Bradley Ball
Microsoft - Sr. Technical Program Manager
Bradley Ball is a Sr. Technical Program Manager at Microsoft. He is a Microsoft MVP Reconnect member and former MVP. Bradley spent 8 years working as a Defense contractor for clients such as the U.S. Army and The Executive Office of the President of the United States, was the Data Platform Practice Manager for Pragmatic Works Consulting, and a Sr. Consultant for Microsoft Premier Support for Developers. He has presented at many SQL Saturdays, for PASS SSUG’s across the US from California to Puerto Rico to New Hampshire, SQL Rally, DevConnections, SQLBits 2015, TechReady 24, SQL Live 360 2011-2019, SQL Intersections 2019 - 2021, & the PASS Summit 2011-2015. He wrote Chapter 14 Page & Row Compression for PRO SQL Server 2012 Best Practices, he hosts the Tales from the Field Monthly Microsoft Fabric PG Live Stream and technical videos on https://www.youtube.com/@Tales-from-the-Field.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Bret Myers
Principal Product Manager | Fabric Data Warehouse
Bret Myers is a product manager on the Fabric Data Warehouse team at Microsoft where he focuses on workload management features of Fabric DW. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked as a consultant building and delivering data warehouse solutions to customers across many industries.
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Carl Spitzer
Vice President of Microsoft Alliance, Adastra
Carl Spitzer leads the Microsoft Alliance at Adastra, driving strategic collaboration and co-selling initiatives across data, AI, and Azure. With over 25 years of experience across hyperscale cloud ecosystems, Carl specializes in building strong partner relationships and helping organizations unlock business value through modern data platforms and AI-driven solutions.
- Company Name
- Adastra
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Carlos Robles
Microsoft - Principal Product Manager
Carlos Robles is a technology leader and Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, shaping the future of SQL development experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem. He leads the vision and delivery of the MSSQL extension for VS Code and its deep integration with GitHub Copilot, empowering developers to build intelligent, data-driven applications faster and more intuitively.
With over 16 years of experience spanning software engineering, solutions architecture, data architecture, and product strategy, Carlos combines technical depth with customer empathy to drive adoption and innovation. His expertise includes JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and SQL across multiple database systems, along with modern DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices.
An international speaker, author, and mentor, Carlos is passionate about advancing developer productivity and bridging the gap between AI and applications using SQL Server as backend databases.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Carly Newsome
Senior Program Manager | Power BI
Sr program manager focusing on Metrics and Copilot in Power BI. Design trained. User obsessed. Program manager destined. #PowerBI<3
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Chafia Aouissi
Group Product Manager
Chafia Aouissi is the Group Product Manager for digital twin products at Microsoft. She focuses on building products and experiences to help organization transform their operations with data, AI and digital twins technologies.
- Company Name
- Microsoft Corporation
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Chandler Stevens
Vice President - Solutions Engineering
Chandler Stevens is a seasoned technology leader with over three decades of experience guiding enterprise-scale digital transformations. Currently serving as Vice President of Solutions Engineering at iLink Digital, Chandler blends engineering rigor with consultative insight to help global clients accelerate innovation through Microsoft Azure, AI, analytics, automation, and cloud-native platforms.
- Company Name
- iLink Digital
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Chike Eduputa
Head of Microsoft Advisory | Capgemini Invent UK
Chike is an expert in business and technology transformation, with over a decade of experience leading global teams deliver large-scale, high-impact programmes. He combines Microsoft Solution Architecture, Agile Delivery and Product Management to deliver results on client projects across multiple sectors. Chike advises business and technology leaders on latest trends, the impact on organisational design, product design and development, and portfolio management. As an intrapreneur, he develops new digital products and services and leads the Capgemini Invent UK Microsoft Advisory team.
- Company Name
- Capgemini
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Chris Aleman
Data Analytics Manager
Chris Aleman is the Data Analytics Manager at Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative (GVEC), where he leads a team of data analysts and data engineers to deliver insights that drive data-driven decision-making and optimize business processes.
A Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate, Chris is also Co-Leader of the San Antonio Fabric+ User Group, where he helps foster community learning and collaboration. He is an active voice in the data community, having presented at Community Summit NA 2024, Spark 2024 hosted by the Alamo Regional Data Alliance, and multiple industry events. In addition, he is a returning speaker at the Fabric & Power BI Summit hosted by RADACAD, where he has presented for two consecutive years.
Outside of data, Chris enjoys traveling the world with his wife-they have visited 22 countries and logged over 61,000 miles together. At home, they share their lives with a lively family of pets, including five cats, two dogs, a turtle, and a school of fish.- Company Name
- Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative
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Chris Wagner
Kratos BI - Home of the Data Gods
Chris has been working in the Data and Analytics space for nearly 20 years. Chris has dedicated his professional career to making data and information accessible to the masses. A significant component in making data available is continually learning new things and teaching others from these experiences. To help people keep up with this ever-changing landscape, Chris frequently posts on LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter and to this blog.
- Company Name
- Baker Tilly
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Chris Webb
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
Chris Webb is a member of the Fabric Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Christian Wade
Group Product Manager at Microsoft
As Director of Product Management, Christian heads product management teams responsible for enterprise BI adoption across Microsoft's product portfolio. He drives product strategy, investment prioritization, planning, design, execution, definition of long-term vision, success criteria, performance metrics and business growth.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Christian Henrik Reich
Sr. Solution Architect at Microsoft
Sr. Solution Architect at Microsoft. I started programming as a kid and never stopped. I have worked across everything from embedded systems to large scale data platforms. My work over the past decade has focused on Data and AI with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server, Databricks, cloud scale architectures, modern data engineering, and Machine Learning. I volunteer teaching AI and Machine Learning, and I’m currently writing “The Data Engineer’s Guide to Microsoft Fabric” for O’Reilly.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Christopher Finlan
Principal PM Manager
TBA
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Christopher Marcolis
Head of Presales, CDW
Christopher Marcolis is a dynamic technology leader with a deep passion for innovation and the transformative potential of Data & AI. As a steward of technology teams, he excels at guiding the creation of solutions that align cutting-edge technologies with strategic business goals. Christopher specializes in empowering organizations to become Data & AI-ready, leveraging his expertise in data management, governance, and advanced analytics to help clients navigate the complexities of AI adoption.
- Company Name
- CDW
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Christopher Schmidt
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
Christopher Schmidt is a Principal Program Manager with deep expertise in real-time data systems, specializing in message streaming and event-driven architectures. At the forefront of Microsoft’s efforts in modern data platforms, Christopher has led initiatives that transform how organizations harness streaming data for intelligent, scalable decision-making. His work spans resilient, low-latency pipelines to AI-led consumption technologies.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Codin Pora
VP, Partner Technology at Striim
Codin Pora leads strategic collaborations with key industry partners, including Microsoft. He plays a crucial role in delivering cutting-edge real-time data streaming and integration solutions that power modern data architectures.
Earlier in his career, Codin served as lead integration architect at GoldenGate Software (later acquired by Oracle), where he developed mission-critical data integration solutions and designed high-performance replication systems that became industry standards. These foundational experiences established his deep expertise in real-time data movement and transactional consistency.
An active entrepreneur and advisor, he has founded and guided several successful technology startups focused on real-time systems and privacy-forward solutions.- Company Name
- Striim
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Cole Haddock
D365ace.com @acehaddock
I am a seasoned Solution Architect with over a decade of experience in delivering technology solutions within the Non-profit, Medical, and Investment firm industries. My expertise spans a mix of consulting and industry-specific roles. In these positions, I have successfully designed and executed numerous projects involving Microsoft products, including Dynamics CRM for Sales, Service, and Marketing, as well as Office 365 Administration. Additionally, I have been actively engaged in the community, contributing my skills and knowledge to further our collective goals.
- Company Name
- Vanguard
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Craig Gravina
Chief Technology Officer at Semarchy
Craig leads technology innovation at Semarchy. He brings 20+ years of experience leading software development and is an innovator in SaaS and AI-driven solutions. Previously, he was CTO at ObvioHealth and SPRIM Ventures.
- Company Name
- Semarchy
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Cristian Angyal
Microsoft MVP
Cristian is a “Project Management Professional turned into a Data Guy” working as a link between two worlds: Business and IT.
Having worked for the last 20+ years with data in different roles he was fascinated when he discovered Power Query and Power Pivot back in 2014 and then, Power BI in 2015.
He’s holding several Microsoft Certifications (MS Fabric Analytics Engineer, Power BI Certified Data Analyst, Trainer (MCT), MCSE Data Management and Analytics, MCSA BI Reporting, MOS Master, Excel Expert, etc) and he loves getting insights from data and then, using these insight solving real business problems.
He is the founder of Romania Power BI and Modern Excel User Group (https://www.meetup.com/romaniapug/) and has been recognized as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in 2022.- Company Name
- ETA2U
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Cristian Petculescu
Technical Fellow at Microsoft, Chief Architect of Azure Data
I am a Technical Fellow at Microsoft, and, in particular, the Chief Architect of Azure Data.
Azure Data includes:
1. Microsoft Fabric
2. The Intelligence Platform: Power BI, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Synapse (DataWarehouse, Spark, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Explorer aka Kusto), Cosmos, Azure Messaging.
3. The operational databases group: SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB, Azure MySQL, Azure PostgreSQL.
4. Azure Databricks
I have been working inside Microsoft since 1997, after I have received the MSc degree in computer science from 'Politehnica' University of Bucharest. My responsibilities include technical strategy for the products of the Azure Data, technical tactical guidance for the teams of the division, and ... well ... a lot of coding. I am an author of 49 granted patents, and many more pending. I have received my PhD degree in Computer Science from 'Politehnica' University of Bucharest in 2006.
I am one of the core co-inventors of the SQL Server in-memory technology (Vertipaq) - the technology that is the backbone of the columnar indexes, as well as of the tabular storage engine of Analysis Services -
Curtis Stallings
Sr. Architect - Baker Tilly
A data-driven architect with deep expertise in building scalable analytics environments from the ground up. With a strong foundation in Python, SQL, DAX, and Azure technologies, Curtis has led cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact financial and operational insights. He architected and scaled a CI/CD-enabled analytics platform supporting 30+ developers, producing executive-level dashboards for companies with annual revenues as large as $9 billion. His startup-relevant experience includes designing lean data models, optimizing DevOps workflows, and aligning analytics with business strategy. Curtis also brings leadership experience. He is the creator and maintainer of PyTabular, a Python package designed to streamline tabular data modeling and analytics workflows, demonstrating his commitment to building efficient, developer-friendly tools. He thrives in environments that demand agility, innovation, and end-to-end ownership of analytics solutions.
- Company Name
- Baker Tilly
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Dan English
Microsoft, Principal Program Manager | Fabric CAT
Dan is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft working on the Microsoft Fabric Customer Advisory Team (CAT) and has been working with the Microsoft Data Platform for over 20 years focusing on business intelligence, data warehousing, reporting and analytics.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Dandan Zhang
Product Manager, Microsoft Fabric, Security, Compliance, Governance
13+Years experience in Azure Data and specialized in security features with customer focus
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Daniel Coelho
Microsoft, Principal Program Manager
Responsible for building next generation of Big Data and Data Engineering products for enterprise customers. Currently focused on driving Spark and Delta features and experiences on Microsoft Fabric product team. MsC in Big Data Analytics and way over two decades career delivering data architectures and end to end solution across many verticals.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Daniel Retzner
Global Health of R&D, Hitachi Engery
Daniel E. Retzer (Dan) is a transformational technology executive with over 30 years of leadership experience building and modernizing enterprise software solutions across global markets. As Global Head of R&D for Hitachi Energy's Enterprise Software Solutions division, he directs product engineering and delivery, as well as innovation in AI and agentic AI solutions that serve the energy and power grid sectors. His expertise spans cloud computing, enterprise architecture, and digital transformation, with a proven track record of delivering sustainable, industry-leading products to utilities, public safety, financial services, and asset management markets.
Dan has held progressively senior technology leadership roles at major global enterprises. As Senior Vice President of Global Product Development at Hexagon, he led development teams serving public safety systems that protect one in nine people worldwide. His tenure as Chief Technology Officer at SunGard Financial Systems (now FIS) established a technology vision that paved the way for cloud-native and SaaS solutions in Capital Markets. Earlier, as Managing Director and CTO of XSP, he successfully built and scaled global engineering teams before orchestrating the company's acquisition by SunGard. His customer-centric approach has fostered strategic partnerships with global industry leaders across a wide swath of industries.
Dan holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UAB and Bachelors Degrees from Auburn University. Beyond his professional achievements, Dan served on multiple boards including the Hexagon Capability Center India Board of Directors, the Alzheimer's Association of America Alabama/FL Panhandle Board, the Webster University Parent Advisory Board, and Alumni Advisory Boards for both Auburn University and UAB. His commitment to technology innovation and community impact go hand in hand. -
Daniella Herskowitz
Healthcare Analytics, Supervisor at RSM
Daniella has 3.5 years of experience designing and delivering modern data solutions across cloud platforms. She has expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, and data strategy, and has led multiple client engagements focused on data modernization and analytics transformation.
She has guided clients through Proof of Concept evaluations of Microsoft Fabric, helping them validate performance, understand architectural implications, and build long term data strategy roadmaps. Her technical background spans data model design, data warehouse architecture, and advanced SQL.
Daniella is also highly proficient in Power BI and Tableau, with project experience across hospital operations, capacity management, pricing strategy, and life sciences analytics. She is known for connecting technical implementation to business value and delivering scalable analytics solutions that align with organizational goals.- Company Name
- RSM
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Danny Kruge
Data Platform MVP | Mission Critical Engineer from Schuberg Philis
Danny Kruge is a Microsoft Data Plaform MVP with a robust background in SQL Server and over a decade of experience in the field. Originally from Leicester, England, and now residing in the Netherlands, he has dedicated years to honing his skills and expanding his expertise into areas like Azure and Windows Engineering. Danny is particularly passionate about Azure Data Factory, where he leverages his deep knowledge to design efficient data workflows. As an active community leader, he organizes the Azure Heroes Netherlands Community Day and the Azure user group NL, helping to foster knowledge-sharing and collaboration among tech enthusiasts. Committed to continuous learning and community support, Danny enjoys sharing his insights to help others navigate data challenges and avoid common mistakes.
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Darren Goonawardana
Collectiv CEO
Darren Goonawardana, aka the “Cyborg CEO,” is a keynote speaker and Data & AI evangelist helping organizations unlock their AI superpowers and Lead with AI.
As co-founder of Collectiv—a Microsoft Fabric featured partner and top-tier consultancy for Fabric and Databricks—he leads one of the premier firms in the Microsoft Data & AI ecosystem, specializing in Power BI, Azure, Fabric, and enterprise planning.
With 30+ years of global experience building Data & AI companies across four continents, Darren is known for blending bold AI thinking with practical strategy.
A regular Microsoft World Tour speaker and host of the Cyborg CEO VideoPod, he explores how leaders can drive smarter decisions through generative AI, Fabric write-back, and intelligent planning. His sessions leave audiences informed, inspired, and ready to Lead with AI.- Company Name
- Collectiv
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Darren King
Turn Data into Competitive Advantage: Leverage It as a Strategic Asset
Darren is a seasoned leader in business strategy, complex deal negotiations, and strategic partnerships. With a deep expertise in entrepreneurship, business process integration, and AI-driven transformation, Darren has spent years optimizing business growth, forging trusted relationships, and driving alignment between corporate goals and market opportunities.
- Company Name
- EY
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Darren Portillo
Product Marketing for Microsoft Purview
Marketing professional within the Microsoft Purview Data Governance team
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David Hrncir
Lead Partner Sales Engineer, Fivetran
David is a software and data engineering expert. He has spent decades in the data space, where early in his career was building big data analytics architectures…before the term “big data” was coined. He has been on the forefront of numerous data integration projects for many verticals and truly understands the pain points of data replication and how to guide organizations to modern data usage patterns using automation and AI, with a keen focus on value-based business outcomes. David brings the fun, ‘no challenge is too big’ attitude to the world of data integration, and loves to discuss data architecture and philosophy!
With a passion for helping others, David currently works on numerous engagements with Fivetran technical partners such as speaking at partner conferences, proving capabilities with hands-on-labs, and showcasing how Fivetran integrations help customers solve their most cumbersome data woes.- Company Name
- Fivetran
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David Levy
Microsoft
David Levy is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, driving SQL connectivity strategy and developer experience across Azure SQL Database, SQL Server, and Microsoft Fabric. With deep expertise in cross-platform tooling and language drivers, David leads initiatives that simplify database development for modern workloads, including AI integration and cloud-native applications. A frequent speaker at community events, David is passionate about empowering developers with practical guidance, innovative tools, and best practices to build scalable, secure solutions.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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David Mills
ArcAzure IT Consulting - Senior Azure Data Architect
I am an Azure Data Architect specialising in Microsoft Fabric, with 25 years of experience designing secure, scalable analytics platforms across both on-premises and Microsoft Azure environments. As a 10x Microsoft Certified Professional, I focus heavily on Fabric Security and the emerging wave of AI-powered capabilities within the platform.
I share insights regularly on LinkedIn, deliver Microsoft Fabric Analyst in a Day (FAIAD) workshops, and speak at community events including the Manchester Power BI & Fabric User Group. My work spans end-to-end platform design from data warehousing and modelling to real-time analytics and Power BI.
My current focus area is Fabric Data Agents, and how organisations can safely leverage autonomous, AI-driven workflows to enhance productivity, governance, and data quality.
Attendees can expect clear, practical guidance drawn from real implementations and hands-on experimentation with the newest Fabric features.- Company Name
- Dufrain
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David Pless
Principal Program Manager - Microsoft Corporation
David Pless is a Principal Program Manager in Azure Data, based in CentralFlorida with over twenty years of experience in data technologies. David has been with Microsoft since 2006 and is currently responsible on Azure SQL Virtual Machines with a focus on sizing, performance, and storage. David has supported on SQL Server performance tuning and optimization, Azure Data technologies, Power BI and SQL Server Reporting Services, and High Availability solutions.
At Microsoft, David has worked as a Technology Specialist as well as a Premier Field Engineer in Customer Support Services.
Before Microsoft, David Pless was a MCS partner consultant and a Database Administrator in Atlanta, Georgia.
David is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and has spoken a SQLSaturdays, SQLPASS, SQLintersection, Tech Ready, and regularly speaks at the local user groups in the Southeast.- Company Name
- Microsoft Corporation
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Davide Mauri
Microsoft, Principal Product Manager
Davide Mauri is Program Manager in the Azure SQL Database product group. He has been working in the IT field since 1997 and was awarded Data Platform MVP status for 12 consecutive years. He started his career as a full-stack and back-end developer, then focused on databases and data science for 15 years while still keeping alive his passion for development (mainly in C# and Python). He then moved to the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data space where ingesting, processing, and analyzing millions of data points in near real time was his everyday challenge. Building from that experience, he joined Microsoft to help companies worldwide to leverage stream processing at scale. He now works for Azure SQL Database as the developer's voice inside the product group, working to make sure that Azure SQL Database is, and will be, the best database option for developers.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Deborah Melkin
Data Engineer, Microsoft MVP - Data Platform
Deborah Melkin has been working as a database professional with SQL Server for over 20 years. She spends her days helping programmers with all aspects of database design, queries, performance, and deployment. In 2016, she began her blog, Deb the DBA. Soon after that, she began speaking at SQL Saturdays and user groups. Deborah is a co-leader of the Data Platform Women in Tech (WIT) Virtual User Group and co-founder of WITspiration, a WIT mentorship circle. She is a former board member of the New England SQL Server User Group. She was named as One to Watch as part of the #Redgate 100 in 2022 and won Speaker Idol at PASS Summit 2019. Deborah is also a Microsoft MVP for the Data Platform (2020- ).
In her spare time, Deborah can usually be found doing something musical or something geeky with her husband, Andy, and their dog, Sebastian.- Company Name
- Advisor360
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Deepa Rajagopal
Microsoft | Senior Program Manager
Deepa is a Senior Program Manager driving AI-assisted experiences in Microsoft Fabric Notebooks. She focuses on making Copilot in Notebooks intuitive, predictable, and supportive by designing clear, trustworthy agentic workflows that are accessible to users across skill levels. Her work centers on simplifying complex interactions so people can move faster and with greater confidence. Passionate about grounding AI innovation in real customer needs, she is dedicated to elevating the everyday experience of teams working in Fabric Notebooks.
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Dennis Carriere
Collectiv, Head of Client Success
Dennis is the Head of Client Success at Collectiv, a Microsoft Solutions Partner in Data & AI and Azure with a Specialization in Analytics, a Fabric Featured Partner, and a Certified Databricks Consulting Partner. With over a decade of experience designing and implementing large-scale data solutions, Dennis has a proven track record of architecting robust, scalable data platforms that drive business transformation. His expertise spans data architecture, planning and forecasting solutions, AI integration, and advanced analytics across the Microsoft ecosystem. Dennis has led numerous high-impact projects leveraging Fabric, Databricks, Copilot, Power BI, and Azure to deliver intelligent, real-time insights that power smarter decision-making. A graduate of Louisiana State University, Dennis is passionate about helping organizations eliminate silos, modernize planning processes, and unlock the full potential of their data through innovation and automation.
- Company Name
- Collectiv LLC
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Denny Cherry
Owner and Principal Consultant, Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting
Denny Cherry is the owner and principal consultant for Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting and has over a decade of experience working with platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server, Hyper-V, vSphere, and Enterprise Storage solutions. Denny’s areas of technical expertise include system architecture, performance tuning, security, replication, and troubleshooting. Denny currently holds several Microsoft Certifications related to SQL Server 2000 through 2017, including the MCM and MVP.
- Company Name
- Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting
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Denyse Niwenshuti
Microsoft - Senior Product Manager
Denyse is a Senior PM in the Power BI PM team working on modernizing and scaling enterprise reporting experiences.
- Company Name
- Microsoft Corporation
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Derek Wilson
Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Derek is a Principal Program Manager (PM) in the Azure Data platform team at Microsoft. He is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) who started his Microsoft career as a Rapid Response Engineering (RRE)/Premier Field Engineering team member. Derek's PM contributions have primarily been focused on SQL Server on Linux, Query Processing, and T-SQL enhancements.
- Company Name
- Microsoft Corporation
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Devang Shah
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
Devang is a Principal Program Manager specializing in working on terabyte to petabyte-scale big data analytics projects in the EMEA region. He specializes in product innovation, product evangelization, community building, and product adoption strategies. With a strong educational and professional background in technology, software development, cloud adoption, and data analytics, he has spent the last decade advising clients on implementing large-scale and complex software systems, and data analytics solutions. Devang has been involved in producing training content, and tutorials for Microsoft Fabric experiences.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Dimitri Furman
Microsoft, Principal Program Manager
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- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Dinakar Nethi
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
Dinakar is a Principal Product Manager in Azure Data focused on Azure SQL DB. Dinakar has over 20 years of experience in the SQL database space with 17 of those at Microsoft in different roles such as MCS, PFE and PM.
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Dipti Borkar
Dipti Borkar is responsible for Fabric OneLake and Fabric ISV product & engineering. Dipti is a senior technology executive and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in cloud, AI, distributed systems and database tech. Prior to Microsoft, she founded Ahana (acquired by IBM) and created a cloud managed service for SQL on data lakes. Prior to Ahana, she held various executive roles across product, engineering, and world-wide solutions engineering teams at various organizations including Couchbase and IBM. She is very passionate about empowering and mentoring women in tech, and women in open source.
Dipti holds a MS in Computer Science in Databases from UC San Diego and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. -
Divakar Kumar
Technical Architect @FlyersSoft | Microsoft MVP | MCT
Divakar Kumar is a Microsoft MVP in AI and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), working as a Technical Architect at Flyerssoft. He actively shares his knowledge through blogs, talks, and training sessions, empowering developers to harness the potential of AI in real-world applications.
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Dominick Raimato
Professional Troublemaker
Microsoft Data Platform MVP and self-identified data nerd, Dominick Raimato has had a huge passion for identifying insights and building solutions. You never know what kind of data projects he might be working on such as tracking temperature and humidity trends in his house to building a database of property assessments to make sure his house is in line with other properties to avoid overpaying taxes. Passionate about people, Dominick strives to create solutions that not just help achieve business objectives, but also make people’s lives better. If he can help someone get home earlier to eat dinner with their family or eliminate time consuming tasks so they can focus on more important things, he is in his element.
Dominick currently lives in Bergen County, NJ where he can be found around the house working on projects or cooking in the kitchen. His specialty dishes include his homemade meat sauce in the winter and pulled pork bar-b-que on his smoker during the summer. -
Drew Skwiers-Koballa
Program Manager at Microsoft
Drew Skwiers-Koballa is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, focusing on building tools that make databases more accessible and powerful for developers. Before joining Microsoft in 2020, he spent nearly a decade as a developer, database administrator, and team lead. Drew immensely enjoyed being a technical reviewer for the book "Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developers." As a relentless learner and occasional developer, his work spreads across several blogs, videos, and samples linked from https://github.com/dzsquared. He has an MS in computer science from Georgia Tech and an MS in chemistry from the University of Minnesota.
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Dustin Askins
Product Manager
On the product team for Power BI and Fabric focused on content distribution and discovery.
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Edward Pollack
Data Architect | Microsoft Data Platform MVP
Ed Pollack is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with a passion for learning how Data Platforms work and sharing that knowledge with the community.
Ed has spoken at SQL Saturday events, SQL Bits, PASS Summit, EightKB, and many other regional and international events. Ed is the organizer of the Capital Area SQL Server Group, SQL Saturday Albany, and co-organizer of SQL Saturday New York City. He has published a number of books, including "Dynamic SQL: Applications, Performance, and Security in Microsoft SQL Server", "Expert Performance Indexing in Azure SQL and SQL Server 2022", and "Analytics Optimization with Columnstore Indexes in Microsoft SQL Server: Optimizing OLAP Workloads". Ed is also an active contributor of content to SimpleTalk.
In his free time, Ed enjoys video games, traveling, cooking exceptionally spicy foods, and hanging out with his amazing wife and sons.- Company Name
- Transfinder
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Edwin Van Megesen
Delivering DevOps for a Safeguarded Power BI Experience
Blazing the software solutions trail at Motio, VP of Business Development Edwin van Megesen is no stranger to the world of analytics. His previous experience as a manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers served not only as a strong foundation to bolster his versatility and knowledge but as the spark that would ignite his passion for helping others.
Whether it’s supporting customers by helping them meet internal and external regulatory requirements, exploring analytics solutions to help organizations save time and money, or caring for the environment and humanitarian causes, Edwin approaches everything he does wholeheartedly.
From previously lecturing at the University of Twente, Hogeschool in Holland, and the Intercontinental University of Curaçao (ICUC) to saving the world, Edwin works tirelessly in all he does. He is an expert on the Analytic lifecycle development process that includes CI/CD and DevOps for Power BI. He brings this passion to organizations so they can implement streamlined work processes supported by automation, which, in turn, provides guardrails for a successful PowerBI implementation.- Company Name
- Motio
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Elena Drakulevska
where Power BI meets UX Design and a little magic ✨ | Microsoft MVP
I’m Elena, a Microsoft MVP, DataViz & UX Consultant, and international speaker on a mission to balance and clarity to the dashboard universe.
Through MoonStory, I help organizations flip their Power BI reports from cluttered and confusing to accessible, engaging, and actually delightful to use.
Whether I'm designing a report, leading a workshop, or speaking on stage, I bring a little magic, a lot of joy, and a deep belief that better data design leads to better decisions—and happier users. -
Elizabeth Oldag
Principal Product Manager on Microsoft OneLake
Elizabeth Oldag has many years of experience in Big Data working on Microsoft’s data lakes. Prior to Microsoft, she analyzed large data sets and measured statistical properties of nuclear matter while pursuing her physics PhD at UT Austin.
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Emily Lisa
Principal Product Manager
Emily Lisa is a Principal Product Manager on the Microsoft Power BI team, driving features that empower Power BI creators to get more from their semantic models, visualizations, and integrations across the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. Emily is passionate about democratizing analytics and making semantic modeling accessible to everyone. Outside of work, Emily enjoys scuba diving and volunteers at the Seattle Aquarium.
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Emily Tehrani
Product Manager, Microsoft Fabric
Emily is a Product Manager under the Query Optimization team in Fabric SQL and Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools. Focusing on understanding and closing gaps in optimization, Emily currently owns features such as automatic statistics and result set caching, as well as MERGE.
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Endika Pascual
Principal Solutions Architect
Endika Pascual works with organizations to modernize their data platforms and derive greater value from their information assets. At WhereScape, he helps customers design and implement Warehouse and Lakehouse architectures that integrate advanced automation with strong governance, performance, and scalability.
He works extensively with Microsoft Fabric, leveraging Data Factory for orchestration and ingestion, Purview for metadata-driven governance, and OneLake for unified storage and sharing. His expertise includes optimizing data workloads through partitioning strategies, Delta tables, and medallion-layered architectures, ensuring efficient processing and reliable performance at scale. Endika has shared customer scenarios at industry events including FabCon and Big Data & AI World in London, demonstrating practical applications of data modeling methodologies such as Data Vault, Inmon-style enterprise warehousing, and dimensional models.- Company Name
- WhereScape - IDERA
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Eric Kopchinski
Vice President, Data Strategy at PGIM Investments
Mr. Kopchinski is a senior director of data management & governance at PGIM, the global asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. In his role, Kopchinski plays a lead role in shaping the firm’s data strategy, governance frameworks, and partners closely with business and technology leaders to advance PGIM’s data quality, stewardship, transformation, and modern data platform capabilities. Prior to assuming his current role, Kopchinski held various roles within operations, digital marketing, and technology at PGIM.
Known for his thoughtful leadership and strong communication skills, Kopchinski continues to champion transformation in data governance, fostering a culture of accountability, transparency, and innovation in data management practices.- Company Name
- PGIM Investments
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Eric Melcher
Chief Technology Officer
Eric has spent the entirety of his 10+ year career working in the enterprise information management space. As Chief Technology Officer, Eric is responsible for all aspects of product development for Profisee’s software portfolio.
Eric manages Profisee’s product strategy and roadmap, taking inputs from market trends, competitive threats, and evolving prospect and customer needs, and collaborates with Profisee’s CTO and product steering committee to drive product delivery. Eric also assists in communicating Profisee’s vision and roadmap for Master Data Management in collaboration with the CMO and sales organization.
Eric brings a uniquely customer centric focus to product management, having initially joined Profisee as the Director of Professional Services, forming and growing Profisee’s consulting division in alignment with the growth of the company. Prior to Profisee, Eric was the Practice Director for Business Intelligence at Intellinet, an Atlanta based consulting firm.- Company Name
- Profisee
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Eric Overfield
Creospark, RD, MVP, MCT
Eric Overfield is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP, a PnP team member, and a leading expert in Generative AI, Microsoft 365, data insights, and Azure architecture, strategy, and development. Chief Innovation Officer of Creospark, Eric has over 25 years' experience with web design best practices and techniques, and over 19 years' experience in digital workplace architecture and implementation. Besides his in-depth knowledge of SharePoint’s capabilities, his expertise includes AI, data, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and Azure technology, design, and architecture along with custom solutions, TypeScript, JavaScript, and React. He is a co-author of Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development (Apress 2013) and Black Magic Solutions for White Hat SharePoint (EUSP Press 2013). An engaged speaker and organizer of Microsoft 365 events as well as an active member of the PnP team.
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- Creospark, Inc
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Eric Reyhle
Senior Vice President, Global Alliances at Acterys
Eric Reyhle is a seasoned financial technology professional with over 25 years experience in various areas of the industry, including Business Reporting, Market Data, Enterprise Data Management, B2B payments, Source2Pay, and Treasury Management Systems. He is currently the Senior Vice President, Global Alliances at Acterys, which brings the most elegant Write-back and Workflow enhancements to Power BI. This empowers clients to actively collaborate across reports and even develop business applications that specifically address their operations.
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- Acterys
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Erin Stellato
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
Erin Stellato is a Principal Program Manager on the SQL Tools and Experiences team, helping advance tools that customers use daily with SQL databases. She is passionate about data and chocolate, not always in that order. She previously worked as a consultant and was a Data Platform MVP, and has been an active member of the SQL community as both a volunteer and speaker. Her areas of interest within the engine include Query Store, Extended Events, statistics, and performance tuning; and she also enjoys helping accidental/involuntary DBAs figure out how SQL Server works.
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Erwin de Kreuk
Data Platform MVP | Lead Data and AI |Public Speaker | InSpark | Innovate to Accelerate
Erwin de Kreuk is a passionate and seasoned Technology Leader in Data & AI, serving as Principal Consultant and Lead Data & AI at InSpark.
With 16 years of experience on the Microsoft Data Platform and 8 years focused on Azure, Erwin specializes in solving complex technical challenges and guiding customers in maximizing value from advanced analytics environments.
A recognized Microsoft Data Platform MVP(Fabric and Purview) and frequent speaker at national and international events, he leads a team of experts and serves on InSpark’s Technology Board. Erwin is deeply engaged in Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Fabric solutions, and plays a key role in developing InSpark’s Nitrogen Control Center, a native Fabric-based solution for seamless data integration and processing.- Company Name
- InSpark
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Eugene Grib
Director, Data Engineering and Analytics at PwC
Eugene brings over 18 years of experience leading large-scale transformations and data modernization initiatives for clients across a broad range of industries. He specializes in data modernization and data governance, and has delivered multiple end-to-end Microsoft Fabric implementations. Eugene continues to advise clients on modernizing their data platforms using this rapidly evolving technology.
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- PwC
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Eugene Paden
CTO of Ray Business Technologies USA – Leading enterprise adoption of Microsoft Fabric with metadata-driven data platforms and scalable transformation frameworks.
Eugene Paden is the Chief Technology Officer of Ray Business Technologies USA, where he leads enterprise digital transformation programs for Fortune 500 and global organizations across healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. With over two decades of experience in data engineering, cloud platforms, and AI adoption, he has architected and delivered large-scale data platforms built on the Microsoft Fabric Medallion Architecture. Eugene specializes in metadata-driven transformation frameworks, enterprise data governance, and accelerating time-to-insight for business users. A frequent advisor to CIOs and technology leaders, he is passionate about helping enterprises modernize their analytics landscape and unlock the value of their data through scalable, future-ready solutions.
- Company Name
- Ray Business Technologies USA Inc
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Eun Hee Kim
Principal Product Manager - Power BI, Microsoft
Eun Hee Kim is a Product Manager for the Power BI Product Team working on Power BI Copilot. She has spent 9 years in the BI space working across different roles in data analytics, customer engagement and product management. Her experience as both a BI user and as a product manager brings a unique perspective to share BI stories with the Fabric community. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, baking, yoga and obsessing over her dachshund.
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Fabric Partner Team
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Faisal Mohamood
VP, Data Integration
Faisal joined Microsoft in 2005 and currently leads the Data Integration product family under Azure Data, responsible for Data Factory in Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Synapse Pipelines, and Power Query. Faisal got his start with Data Integration soon after he joined Microsoft, leading the product efforts to incubate and ship Power Query as the de facto data connectivity experience in Power BI, Excel, Power Platform and Dynamics 365.
Faisal has been in a variety of engineering and business roles at Microsoft – across Developer Division, SQL Server and Business Applications. Prior to his current role, Faisal spent 4 years leading Business Applications Customer & Partner Success – responsible for scaling Dynamics 365 and Power Platform FastTrack and partner success programs. -
Farzad Sunavala
Principal Program Manager, Azure AI Search - Microsoft
Farzad is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, leading Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities on Azure AI Search. He is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to create innovative tech experiences. Before Microsoft, Farzad held various engineering and product management roles at Chevron Corporation. He holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University, with minors in Computer Science and Technical Sales, and an M.Eng. in Engineering Management from Cornell University.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Freddie Santos
Microsoft - Senior Product Manager Fabric Warehouse
Freddie Santos is a seasoned IT and Data Platform professional with over 23 years of experience.
He has a strong background in Data Analytics, Big Data, and high-performance transactional databases, collaborating with diverse stakeholders to implement, support, and optimize customer workloads.
Freddie has extensive expertise in technologies such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, and more.
Currently, he is a Product Manager on the Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse team, where he drives innovation in data management, analytics, and database security, ensuring robust protection and compliance for enterprise data solutions.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Gaston Cruz
MVP Data Platform & AI / Senior Director - Slalom USA
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Data Platform for the last 9 years, as well MVP in AI.
Over 20 years of experience in business and technology working with organizations at various stages of digital transformations.
Provided recommendations and guidance on revamping Analytics and Reporting enterprise architecture for different companies in helping drive a Customer Data Exchange working closely with the C-Suite to help them design their New Data Services Organization with Data Products. Stood up new capabilities required to effectively operate and move toward Data Monetization using advanced Data consolidation and Data Sharing capabilities focusing on Privacy/Compliance and Data Governance
YouTube channel Power Mates: https://www.youtube.com/@PowerMatesMS- Company Name
- Slalom
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Gerd Saurer
Principle Program Manager - Microsoft Fabric
Gerd is an accomplished technology executive with over 13 years of experience at Microsoft. Currently, he serves as Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Fabric, where he collaborates with partners to enhance their offerings and define product strategy. Previously, Gerd led Azure Global's Europe Retail division, addressing large-scale engineering challenges with cloud technology, AI, Big Data, and IoT.
Gerd is also dedicated to education, teaching at different Universities for more than five years. His blend of deep technical expertise and strategic leadership makes him a sought-after speaker in the tech industry, contributing significantly to advancements in cloud computing, AI, and IoT. -
Ginger Grant
Principal and Founder of Desert Isle Group
Ginger Grant is a distinguished Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), renowned for her deep expertise in advanced analytics, machine learning, AI, data warehousing, and the evolving landscape of Microsoft Fabric. As a sought-after consultant, Ginger empowers organizations to harness the full potential of their data ecosystems.
Beyond consulting, Ginger is a prolific thought leader and speaker for both keynotes and technical training. She contributes regularly as a columnist for Pure AI, authors insightful books, and shares practical knowledge on her blog, DesertIsleSQL.com. Her educational impact spans a wide range of technologies, including Azure Synapse Analytics, Python, and Azure Machine Learning, making her a trusted voice in the data community.
Whether on stage, in print, or in the classroom, Ginger’s passion for data and commitment to knowledge-sharing make her a standout figure in the world of data and AI.- Company Name
- Desert Isle Group
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Gonzalo Bissio Bissio
MVP & MCT | Data & AI Head at Readymind
Gonzalo is deeply involved in the technical community: he speaks at conferences, leads workshops, and mentors others, spreading the “data word” from LATAM to the world, in areas such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure AI, and Microsoft Fabric. His strength lies in combining strategic vision with hands-on execution to deliver robust, scalable, and intelligent data solutions that drive digital transformation.
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- Readymind
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Gopal Krishnaswamy
Yash Technologies (Asst. Vice President (Analytics & AI Thought Leader)
Gopal Krishnaswamy has over 35+ years of IT experience with wide spectrum of knowledge base in the IT category. His IT journey started from Legacy all the way to Cloud. Some of the key portfolios that is under his focus are Thought Leadership, Application architecting and Providing Solution, Establish process and strategy around enterprise Data, Program Management and enable Digital journey, Establishing Governance and Metadata practice. Strong exposure in establishing Master Data strategy, Data modernization. Key player in executing complex Digital Transformational programs, analytics solutions, build roadmaps for Advance analytics strategies by bringing in Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and thus bringing a Consultative Customer Engagement flavor.
- Company Name
- YASH TECHNOLOGIES INC
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Gopi Sankaran
Vice President, Strategic Ecosystems, Informatica
Gopinath Sankaran is the Vice President Strategic Ecosystems at Informatica with a single-minded focus on helping customers and cloud ecosystem partners realize value with Informatica’s industry leading AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud. Passionate about partnerships with cloud ecosystems and inspiring teams to drive customer delight by solving critical business problems, Gopi has been instrumental in Informatica’s GTM and Cloud Solutions strategy with cloud ecosystem partners like AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Databricks, Snowflake and MongoDB. Prior to informatica, Gopi had a key leadership role in Microsoft’s Partner organization that built a transformational partner ecosystem which drove a world class partner experience with Data, AI, Analytics and Business Applications software and solution partners. Prior to Microsoft, Gopi as Head of Global Alliances at MySQL Inc played a key role in partner strategy and industrializing GTM offerings that took the company to a $1B acquisition by Sun Microsystems. Quite accustomed to entrepreneurship, Gopi was also the co-founder of open-source technology solutions company that innovated and addressed customer pain-points in life-sciences arena.
Gopi earned a Master of Business Administration from University of Washington and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Emory University, Atlanta- Company Name
- Informatica from Salesforce
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Greg Nash
MVP Data Platform | Power BI Unicorn | Power Platform & Power BI user group leader in Melbourne
Director Cloud & AI Platforms for GET AI, Greg has spent a lifetime in IT and more recently as a passionate advocate for Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Greg has extensive experience in developing and deploying data and AI solutions to a wide array of industries and organisations. Trainer, Speaker, Content Creator and Data Platform MVP since 2020
- Company Name
- GET AI
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Guy Bowerman
Group Program Manager, PostgreSQL on Azure
Guy leads the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server product team. Previously, he was a tech strategy lead for Azure App Innovation in Microsoft's Customer Success Unit (CSU), and various program manager roles including SQL Server cloud infrastructure, Azure Core Compute and the Azure Linux team. In his spare time, he likes to write code and explore the Pacific Northwest.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Hamish Watson
DevOps Alchemist
Hamish is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with a passion for efficient database & application deployments using DevOps methodologies.
He has formed his own company – Morph iT – based in Christchurch, New Zealand and provides consultancy services for many clients in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ
He has 20 years IT experience in managing and deploying large scale databases on SQL Server technologies. He has been managing SQL Server since SQL Server 2000 and pragmatic approaches to delivering business value to end users is his career passion.
Educating and helping others learn is a driver for Hamish and he is a User Group Leader, International speaker and a repeat guest lecturer at universities. -
Harleen Kaur
Microsoft, Program Manager
Harleen is a product manager with Power BI team since June 2022
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Hasan Abo Shally
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Hasan is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Fabric, leading te work on AI-automation, Fabric MCP Servers and the Fabric CLI.
With over 15 years of experience across startups, corporates, and social enterprises, he brings a unique blend of technical expertise and a passion for innovation and social impact.
Recognized on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list, Hasan has founded and led multiple initiatives that raised millions to foster entrepreneurship, STEAM education and economic growth for underrepresented communities, driving diversity and inclusive prosperity. -
Heidi Hasting
Consultant
Heidi Hasting is a Business Intelligence professional and former software developer with over seven years experience in Microsoft products. She is an ALM/DLM enthusiast and Azure DevOps fan and co-founder and organiser of the Adelaide Power BI User Group. Heidi is a regular attendee at tech events including Azure Bootcamps, DevOps days, SQLSaturdays, Difinity and PASS Summit.
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Hukum Chandu Rokkala
VP Data/Analytics Sonata Software
With over 30+ years of experience in AI-driven data solutions, specialized expertise is applied in leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to unlock new opportunities, accelerate revenue growth, and streamline operations. Strong partnerships with C-suite executives are established to translate AI innovations into strategic advantages, enabling organizations to scale, automate, and outperform competitors.
Transforming Enterprises with AI and Data-First Strategies
A visionary approach in AI and cloud data solutions leads transformative initiatives that align AI-powered insights with business objectives. From AI-powered automation and predictive analytics to machine learning models that drive real-time decision-making, the focus is on delivering tangible business value through AI.- Company Name
- Sonata Software
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Idris Motiwala
Principal Product Manager
I'm a Principal Product Manager at Micrsoft's Azure Data SQL organization with over 25+ years of experience in Information technology, product management and providing software solutions to startups, enterprises and government organizations.
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Igal Amster
Microsoft - Group Product Manager
Igal Amster is Group Product Manager for Microsoft Fabric Graph. He leads the AI-first, enterprise-grade knowledge-graph service built natively on Fabric, eliminating ETL and scaling to hundreds of billions of edges. His team empowers GenAI agents and business users to unlock connected data insights. Previously, Igal drove other GenAI related products and platforms such as Copilot Studio and Copilot for Sales and served as a product manager for products like Cortana and Dynamics mobile app
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Iqbal Khan
Product Engineer @ Microsoft
Iqbal Khan is a Product Engineer at Microsoft, helping develop the latest Power BI and Fabric features to assist organizations in their deployment of analytics-based technologies.
In his role, Iqbal serves as the technical lead for the Admin monitoring workspace feature set provided in Power BI/Fabric. The Admin monitoring workspace is designed to provide admins with cutting-edge capabilities to conduct security and governance-related tasks such as audits and usage checks.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Isaac Gritz
Lead Solutions Architect, Databricks
Isaac Gritz is a Lead Solutions Architect at Databricks and leads up our Azure SME Community.
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Italo Lima
Senior Staff Data Scientist
Italo Lima is a Senior Staff Data Scientist with extensive experience across leading tech companies. At Facebook, Italo worked in infrastructure, focusing on forecasting usage and compute growth. His tenure at Netflix saw him optimizing quality of service and enhancing user experience through precise forecasting. At Pinterest, Italo built and led a data science team dedicated to infrastructure and cost engineering. His work at Google centered on growth and AI for the Gmail platform. Currently, at Microsoft Real Time Intelligence, Italo continues leveraging his vast expertise to deliver innovative solutions.
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Iurii Iurchenko
Sr Data Engineer at Life Line Screening
Azure advocate, Senior Data Engineer & Tech Lead with 13 years of deep, hands-on expertise in Data Analytics, Microsoft Fabric and the Azure data ecosystem. 2x certified in Azure Fabric, with 6+ successfully delivered complex projects leveraging specifically Azure Fabric. Two-time SQL Saturday speaker in San Diego, Top-1% ADPList mentor, former entrepreneur, and active OHDSI CDM contributor with 7 years in consulting and 6 years in product engineering. I bring a highly practical, frontier-level skillset at the intersection of Fabric, AI, and healthcare analytics.
I am currently innovating at Life Line Screening, bringing the best of Microsoft Fabric to its modern data analytics platform.- Company Name
- Life Line Screening
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Jacinda Eng
Product Manager at Microsoft (Power BI)
Jacinda is a Product Manager on the Microsoft Power BI team driving enhancements on visuals and accessibility.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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James Dales
CEO at Tekantis
Having previously led the Power BI and Microsoft Fabric capabilities at both UK and global level for a large multi-national Microsoft consultancy, James has recently established a new, ambitious data company Tekantis, enabling him to focus on geospatial analytics and data products.
James is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and is the co-leader of the London Fabric and Power BI user group. In 2019 he became the first member of the Power BI Contributors Program, working alongside the Microsoft engineering team to build new functionality into the Power BI product codebase. He has a keen interest in geospatial and real-time analytics and is the author of the Icon Map and Icon Map Pro custom visuals.- Company Name
- Tekantis Ltd
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James Serra
Big Data/Data Warehouse Evangelist at Microsoft
James works at Microsoft as a big data and data warehousing solution architect where he has been for most of the last ten years. He is a thought leader in the use and application of Big Data and advanced analytics, including data architectures such as the modern data warehouse, data lakehouse, data fabric, and data mesh. Previously he was an independent consultant working as a Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence architect and developer. He is a prior SQL Server MVP with nearly 40 years of IT experience. He is a popular blogger (JamesSerra.com) and speaker, having presented at dozens of major events including PASS Summit, SQLBits, Data Summit, SQLDay, Enterprise Data World conference, Big Data Conference Europe, SQL Saturdays, and Informatica World. He is the author of the book “Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh”.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Jamie McGlothlin
Principal at RSM, Health Care Analytics National Lead
Jamie McGlothlin is a health care analytics expert with 34 years of experience, including 14 years in consulting for health systems. With a PhD in computer science and 17 peer-reviewed publications in leading health care conferences, Jamie has helped clients achieve millions of dollars in ROI through improvements in clinical quality, patient safety, operational efficiency, and cost reduction.
- Company Name
- RSM US LLP
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Jared Brown
Ernst &Young
Jared Brown brings over 20 years of industry experience, with the past 10 focused on Microsoft technologies. Jared has been champion for Power BI since its release, was recognized as a FastTrack solution architect, and is the leader of the Hartford Power BI User Group. One of his many roles at EY includes Microsoft Fabric enablement through our Global Fabric Center of Excellence, which aligns perfectly with his affinity for sharing knowledge with the larger Microsoft community!
- Company Name
- Ernst & Young LLP
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Jared Kuehn
Data Engineer by day, Storyteller by night
For over a decade, Jared has been a data engineering consultant implementing Microsoft products. For more than three decades, he has been honing his skills in performing arts. As a speaker, Jared marries these two disciplines together, creating dynamic presentations that add entertainment to education.
As a speaker, Jared has spoken at events such as:
-FABCON Vegas
-DataCon Seattle
-TechCon Dallas
-PASS Summit
-SQL Saturdays, Multiple
-Microsoft Fabric Global Online Conference
-Future Data Driven Summit
-GroupBy Conference
-and more!
He also runs the YouTube channel DataBard, focused on helping data professionals use tools efficiently.
Technically-speaking, Jared has multiple Microsoft certifications. He has extensive knowledge in:
-Microsoft Fabric
-T-SQL
-SSMS Copilot
-ETL design patterns
-Azure data solutions
Upon request, he would be happy to assist with more theatrical portions of events, such as performing musical numbers or fun demos.- Company Name
- Baker Tilly Advisory Group
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Jason Miles
Solution Partner - Building Data and AI Solutions that work for you
Jason is a solution-focused developer, engineer, and data specialist focusing on diverse industries. He has led data products and citizen data initiatives for almost twenty years and is an expert in enabling organizations to turn data into insight, and then into action. He holds MS in Analytics from Texas A&M, DAMA CDMP Master, and INFORMS CAP-Expert credentials.
- Company Name
- Neudesic, an IBM Company
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Jason Romans
Lifelong Learner - Microsoft MVP
Jason Romans is a Business Intelligence engineer in Nashville, TN working with the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. Jason is a Microsoft MVP who started his career as a DBA and over the years moved to working in his passion of Business Intelligence and data modeling. His first computer was a Commodore 64 and he's been hooked ever since.
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Javier Villegas
Mediterranean Shipping Company, IT Director - Microsoft MVP Data Platform
Javier Villegas is IT Director (DBA & BI Services) at Mediterranean Shipping Company with 30 years of experience working with SQL Server, Including Azure SQL.
His specialization is Administration, Performance Tuning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
Javier is a Microsoft MVP Data Platform since 2016 and MCT
He is a frequent speaker in technical conferences and events such as SQL Saturdays, PASS Virtual Groups, PASS Marathons, 24 Hours SQL PASS , vOpen , GroupBy , Data Saturdays and Azure Global Bootcamps.
He is one of the group leaders of SQL Argentina Community and former Microsoft Azure Data Advisory Board Member- Company Name
- MSC
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Jeff Taylor
Principal Data Consultant
Jeff Taylor is a Principal Data Consultant, Microsoft MVP, Redgate Community Ambassador, and Octopus Insider with over 27 years of experience specializing in performance tuning and critical data issues. He currently organizes the Jax Data and SQL Saturday Jacksonville and is the Jacksonville Development Users Group co-organizer.
- Company Name
- Database Consulting, LLC
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Jerid Fortney
Data Architect at Insight | Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Data Engineering & AI
Jerid Fortney is a Data Architect at Insight in Tampa, Florida, with deep, hands-on experience delivering enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms. He partners with large global clients through the full lifecycle—strategy, architecture, ingestion, modeling, and reporting—to build reliable, high-performance solutions in data engineering, BI, analytics, and AI. His current work centers on Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Azure services such as Azure OpenAI, enabling organizations to unify data estates, apply strong governance, and accelerate insight and innovation.
- Company Name
- Insight
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Jes Chapman
Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft
Jes Chapman is a Data & AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. With a dynamic background spanning software engineering to product management, and enriched by years as a SQL consultant and field engineer for SQL Server, Jes brings a wealth of expertise from the heart of Microsoft. A former five-time Microsoft Data Platform MVP, she's contributed to technical books and taught from stages worldwide with her passion for teaching. When not immersed in the cloud, you'll find Jes conquering trails, hiking through nature's wonders, or experimenting in the kitchen.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Jila "JJ" Yadav
Dynamics 365 Principle Solution Architect
As a Principal Solution Architect within the Dynamics 365 and solution architect helping customers implement Dynamics 365 ERP for the last 20 year - I've seen firsthand how critical Operational and Enterprise insight is for business application such as ERP and CRM for day-to-day operations and decision-makers. I've worked through the challenges from customers and guided them to build right. I'm passionate about Business applications and Data and AI and used together and I'm always excited to share and learn with customers their scenarios and use cases. Co-author of book Implementing D365 Finance and Operations apps. #MsDynAx , #solutionArchitect, #FastTrack
Co-author of book Implementing D365 Finance and Operations apps. #MsDynAx , #solutionArchitect, #FastTrack- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Jim Hill
Principal Business Intelligence Engineer - BambooHR
Jim Hill is a Principal Business Intelligence Engineer at BambooHR and a seasoned BI leader with deep expertise in Microsoft data technologies. He has led analytics strategy, modern data architecture, and enterprise reporting initiatives across industries including financial services, e-commerce, healthcare, education, and government. Previously, Jim served as Business Intelligence Practice Manager at JourneyTEAM, where he guided organizations in deploying Power BI, data governance, and data warehouse solutions. His earlier leadership roles at 1-800 CONTACTS, On Semiconductors, Motorola, and DHL focused on enabling data-driven decision-making through scalable BI platforms, real-time data integration, and impactful analytics solutions. He is passionate about BI best practices, data visualization, and advancing modern analytics capabilities with Microsoft Fabric.
- Company Name
- BambooHR
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Joanna Podgoetsky
Fabric Warehouse Product Leader
Joanna leads a team of product managers responsible for critical components of Microsoft Fabric Warehouse. Her team owns the Transactional Storage Engine and Distributed Computation Platform, as well as key capabilities including monitoring and troubleshooting, workload management, ingestion, query optimization, and storage engine innovations that power large-scale, performant analytics experiences.
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Joe Muziki
Senior Data Engineer
Joe Muziki, Senior Data Engineer at Microsoft, leads engineering efforts across Azure Data’s internal analytics platform, with a focus on scalable data pipelines and enterprise reporting. He’s been instrumental in shaping CI/CD practices for Microsoft Fabric, co-developing open-source tooling and contributing to internal best practices. Joe brings hands-on experience with real-world implementations, specializing in data engineering workloads and developer productivity.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Joey Dantoni
Principal Cloud Architect
Joseph D'Antoni is a Principal Cloud Architect, and a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and VMware vExpert with over 20 years of experience working in both Fortune 500 and smaller firms. He is a frequent speaker at major tech events like Microsoft Ignite, PASS Summit and Enterprise Data World. He blogs about all topics technology at joeydantoni.com. He believes that no single platform is the answer to all technology problems. He lives in Malvern, PA and holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from Louisiana Tech University and an MBA from North Carolina State University, and is the co-author of the Microsoft book "Introducing SQL Server 2016"
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Johannes Kebeck
Product Manager, Microsoft
Johannes is Group Product Manager in the Real-Time Intelligence organization in Microsoft Fabric.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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John Kerski
Director, Client First Technologies
John leverages his 10+ years of technical and government leadership experience to help Federal Agencies, and private sector clients utilize Microsoft products to their fullest potential. His certifications with Microsoft products offers customers a high rate of return when looking to invest in Microsoft solutions.
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John Morehouse
Principal Consultant
John Morehouse is a Principal Consultant with Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting living in Chesapeake, Virginia. Honored to be a Microsoft Data Platform MVP & former VMWare vExpert, having over 2 decades of technical experience, John now focuses on solving crucial business problems with Microsoft SQL Server oriented solutions. John has a passion around speaking, teaching technical topics and giving back to his community whenever possible. He is a blogger, avid tweeter, and a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups whenever possible. If you want to find John, you can find him on Twitter (@sqlrus) or on his blog, http://sqlrus.com.
- Company Name
- Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting
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John Sterrett
I help people solve complex SQL Server problems
John's experience leading large technical teams in complex environments has made him a global expert in performance and scalability. John speaks at conferences around the world since 2010 on topics related to database strategies on performance tuning, development, disaster recovery, high availability, security, and cloud computing. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He is the principal consultant and founder at Procure SQL.
- Company Name
- ProcureSQL
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Jon Steffey
Senior Director, Enterprise Software & Analytics at Tolmar
Jon spearheads the Data Platform Team at Tolmar, architecting the high-performance infrastructure that powers the company’s data-driven evolution. By transforming complex ecosystems into strategic assets, he ensures Tolmar leverages cutting-edge data intelligence to maintain its competitive edge in pharmaceutical innovation.
- Company Name
- Tolmar
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Jon Christian Halvorsen
Executive Consultant & Team Manager, twoday | Microsoft Fabric & Power BI
Jon Christian Halvorsen is a senior data and analytics consultant at twoday, helping teams modernize how they land and model data in Microsoft Fabric. He’s spent years debugging pipelines that “almost worked” and now advocates for practical, scalable solutions that just do. A regular community speaker and Fabric early adopter, Jon Christian blends deep technical insight with hard-won lessons from production projects - always with a bit of opinion and a lot of code.
- Company Name
- Twoday
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Josh Caplan
Partner Director of Product - Microsoft
Josh Caplan is the Partner Director of Product for Microsoft OneLake in Fabric. His team focuses of defining and delivering a single SAS data lake as a service for the entire organization. Prior to his role at OneLake, Josh played a pivotal role in shaping Power BI, leading the development of developer experiences, Power BI Premium, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Azure Analysis Services. Josh also spent several years on the Bing team, where he leveraged his expertise in business intelligence to drive insights from Bing's massive data.
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Jovan Popovic
Microsoft
Program Manager working on Datawarehousing in Microsoft Fabric. Prevoiusly worked on different to microsoft data products such as serverless SQL pools in Synapse analytic, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure SQL database, SQL Server 2016-2017, Parallel Data Warehouse.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Justin Cunningham
Director, Data Analytics
Justin has 15+ years of consulting experience in the Microsoft Data/BI Stack. He started out as a DBA and then shifted into the Data Analytics and Data Engineering space. He is a data enthusiast that loves to help solve complex problems and put customers' minds at ease.
- Company Name
- ProcureSQL
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Justin Fine
Microsoft- Principal Product Manager
Justin has a background in Data Science and Advanced Analytics at companies like Neo4j, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Accenture to name a few. His practical application of graph technologies and graph theory techniques spans various industries such as financial services, insurance, telecommunications and supply chain management. Currently Justin is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft focused on Graph on Fabric
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Justyna Lucznik
Director of PM
Justyna leads the Product Management team for Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering, Data Science, and AI, covering Lakehouse, notebooks, Spark jobs, models & experiments, and Fabric Data Agents. Her team empowers data engineers to build and scale Lakehouse architectures and enables data scientists to train and operationalize machine learning models. Finally with Data Agents, data analysts can build AI powered virtual analysts on top of all their organizational data, to explore data and uncover insights. Before joining Fabric, Justyna led the Power BI AI team.
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Karen Lopez
Data Evangelist for InfoAdvisors, Space Enthusiast, & TeamData Coach
Karen is a senior project manager and architect with an extensive background in development processes and information management. She specializes in taking practical approaches to systems development. She has 20+ years of public speaking. Karen is a Microsoft MVP Data Platform, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and a certified Applied Data Governance Practitioner (ADGP). She wants attendees to have fun, gain insights and take away inspiration for working with new technologies and methods.
She's known for her slightly irreverent and practical approach to IT training and speaking. She wants you to be part of #TEAMDATA.- Company Name
- InfoAdvisors
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Karl Pover
Senior Solutions Architect at Axis Group
Karl Pover is a highly regarded business intelligence consultant with 20 years of experience helping customers build effective data solutions. He has authored multiple books on the subject and, in recent years, has worked with several clients to transition from legacy BI tools to Microsoft Fabric.
- Company Name
- Axis Group
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Kati Iceva
Group Engineering Manager, Real-Time Intelligence Unified Experiences
Kati Iceva is the Group Engineering Manager of the Real-Time Intelligence Unified Experiences team at Microsoft, leading efforts on Real-Time Hub, Activator, AI capabilities, and integrations across Fabric and other Microsoft teams.
Previously, she led Azure Stream Analytics, Microsoft's mission-critical real-time analytics service, recognized as a market leader by Forrester. Her contributions also extend to data technologies, including multiple versions of the .NET Entity Framework and Power Query.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Kelly Broekstra
Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Specialist
I am an Information Management, Business Intelligence and Project Management specialist with extensive data warehouse development experience and a passion for understanding client requirements to create the best solution achievable.
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Kelly Kohlleffel
Senior Global Director, Partner Sales Engineering, Fivetran
Kelly Kohlleffel leads Fivetran’s Global Partner Sales Engineering organization, working with technology and consulting partners to deliver modern data solutions. He also hosts the Fivetran Data Podcast, where industry leaders share their data journeys, visions, and challenges. Prior to Fivetran, Kelly held leadership and sales roles at NTT Data, Hashmap, Hortonworks, and Oracle. Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn for insights on data, AI, and partnerships.
- Company Name
- Fivetran
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Kendal Van Dyke
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft SQL Server
Kendal is a Senior Program Manager on the Azure SQL team at Microsoft working on Copilot features in the SQL Server engine. He also helps document, share, and evangelize new SQL Server features with the customer community, Microsoft field, Microsoft CSS, partners, and the overall Microsoft eco-system.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Keshav Polepalle
MAQ Software - Director
Keshav Polepalle is a Solution Architect, Technology Evangelist and Director at MAQ Software focused on Data and AI helping enterprise customers modernize and transform their business.
- Company Name
- MAQ Software
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Kevin Lam
Director of Product Management for Azure Messaging and Real-Time Streaming at Microsoft
Kevin's 25+ year tenure at Microsoft has been dedicated to integration solutions and products. Continuing on that journey he is now focused on cloud middleware and real-time streaming leading Microsoft's Azure Messaging services which includes Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Event Grid, Azure Relay and Azure Stream Analytics.
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Kevin Liu
Apache Iceberg Committer, Principal Engineer at Microsoft OneLake
Working on Iceberg and OSS at Microsoft OneLake
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Kevin Pereira
Solutions Architect - SHI
I’m a data professional with nearly 20 years of experience turning data into strategic assets. My expertise spans the Microsoft data stack (SQL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Azure Data Platform, and Power BI) with the last two years focused on Microsoft Fabric.
I have 8 years of experience building CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and 3 years leading Data Engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions. Passionate about community, I co-lead the DFW Power BI User Group and speak at events including SQL Saturday, user groups, and the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in the US and Europe.- Company Name
- SHI
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Khaled Ahmed
Director Fabric Services at Acterys
Khaled Ahmed is a finance transformation and analytics leader with 10+ years of experience helping organizations improve performance through data, automation, and modern reporting. He began his career in investment banking and FP&A and now leads a team building performance management and analytics solutions in Microsoft Fabric. Khaled has delivered outcomes across manufacturing, construction, supply chain, insurance, and more.
- Company Name
- Acterys
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Kim Manis
Kim Manis is the Corporate Vice President of Product Management for Microsoft Fabric. She leads the development of Microsoft’s unified data and analytics platform, integrating data engineering, real-time analytics, and business intelligence into a single AI-powered solution. Under her leadership, Fabric has become a cornerstone of Microsoft’s data strategy, serving over 24,000 customers globally and becoming Microsoft’s fastest growing data platform.
Kim’s career spans roles across Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI, and industries including productivity software, social networks, and e-commerce. She is known for her strategic vision, user-centric approach, and passion for making data accessible.
She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University’s School of Engineering, where she served as Senior Class President. Originally from Queens, New York, Kim now lives in New York with her husband, twin boys, and corgi, Disco. She’s a frequent keynote speaker and a creative thinker—once using Power BI to track her newborns’ sleep and diaper patterns. -
Kirill Gavrylyuk
Vice President, Cosmos DB
Kirill lives in Seattle, and built a handful of products at Microsoft, including Cosmos DB, SQL, distributed systems, Mobile Services, and Functions.
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Kristyna Ferris
Solution Architect at P3 Adaptive
Kristyna Ferris is a solution architect at P3 Adaptive. Her experience includes implementing and managing enterprise-level Power BI instance, training teams on reporting best practices, and building templates for scalable analytics. Passionate about participating and growing the data community, she enjoys co-writing on Data on Wheels (dataonwheels.com) and speaking at various events. She also a co-organizer for Lexington Data Technology Group.
- Company Name
- P3 Adaptive
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Kumar Thangamuthu
Senior Product Manager, SaaS Decision Intelligence
Kumar Thangamuthu is a Senior Product Manager at SAS with over 15 years of experience building and launching enterprise-scale SaaS solutions. He leads the product strategy for a portfolio of AI-driven products, specializing in decision intelligence. His expertise lies in orchestrating AI models and business logic within complex decision workflows, helping large organizations automate their most critical operations. Kumar holds an MBA from Boston University and an MS in Computer Science.
- Company Name
- SAS
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Kumar Vellore
Managing Director of Data & AI at LevelShift
Kumar Vellore is the Managing Director of Data & AI at LevelShift, where he drives innovation through data modernization and AI-powered solutions. Kumar has been at the forefront of implementing secure data-driven solutions, including intelligent agents that revolutionize decision-making and customer personalization. Recently, he led the transformation of a leading retail giant by modernizing its data platform and integrating predictive AI models to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience. With a wealth of expertise in enterprise data solutions, Kumar is passionate about enabling businesses to achieve agility, efficiency, and competitive advantage through advanced analytics and intelligent systems. His leadership and insights have empowered organizations to make informed decisions, drive innovation, and achieve scalable growth.
- Company Name
- LevelShift
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Lalit Goyal
Data & AI leader
Lalit Goyal is a senior Data & AI leader with over 25 years of global experience helping enterprises modernize their data platforms and unlock business value through analytics, cloud, and AI.
He specializes in architecting modern data platforms on Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Databricks, AWS, and Snowflake, with deep expertise in Lakehouse modernization, real-time analytics, data governance, and AI-driven automation. Lalit has led complex migrations from legacy systems—including Synapse, ADF, SAP, Oracle, and 50+ ERP environments—into unified, governed, AI-ready architectures.
A frequent advisor to Fortune 500 organizations, focuses on building scalable data products, operationalizing AI with Copilot and Data Agents, and establishing domain-driven, governed analytics foundations. Passionate about innovation and community learning, he actively contributes thought leadership on modern data strategy, AI adoption, and cloud transformation. -
Lance Wright
Senior Product Manager @ Microsoft, Azure Databases
Lance is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience, including 10 as a product leader. At Microsoft, he's a Senior Product Manager in Azure Databases working on performance monitoring solutions across the Azure SQL and Fabric SQL portfolios. He also works on Azure Arc, helping to bring Azure cloud management capabilities to on-prem and multi-cloud enviornments.
Prior to Microsoft, Lance spent over 10 years building data-centric B2B SaaS products both as a software engineer and as a product leader. -
Lenore Flower
Consultant & Trainer - Data Plumber LLC
Lenore Flower (MBA, MCT) owns Data Plumber, LLC, a training and consulting business dedicated to helping organizations build their data people alongside their data systems on Microsoft’s data stack. An unapologetic generalist, Lenore loves helping others understand potentially intimidating concepts in data engineering and business intelligence.
While her technical “home base” is Power BI, she has experience working with SQL, Azure, Fabric, and D365 F&O—and a soft spot for paginated reports. As co-organizer of the Power BI Washington, D.C. user group, Lenore has been instrumental in helping the Power BI User Group to nearly double over the past two years, including facilitating Power BI Days DC, a free two-day conference held annually in Arlington, VA. She recently launched “Beautiful Nerds”, a podcast dedicated to extending the conversation with speakers and community leaders within the Microsoft ecosystem.- Company Name
- Data Plumber, LLC
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Leslie Welch
I solve problems.
eslie is Principal Architect, Data & AI at SHI with 18+ years of experience in automation, data analysis and visualization, and strengthening organizations’ data and AI fluency. She is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP who has worked end-to-end in the data arena - capture, engineering, analysis, dashboard design, and ML use cases with a focus on improving productivity, performance, and data quality. She has extensive experience in enterprise BI, as an admin and Power BI architect as well as trainer and community organizer. She's passionate about governance, truth-telling in data, and creating collaborative environments across data practitioners and stakeholders. Leslie co-organizes Power BI DC and attends and speaks at data meetups in the DC area, including Data Viz DC, Data Science DC, Women Who Code DC, and Generative AI DC. Leslie was recognized as a 2023 New Power Woman in Tech by DCA Live, and on the RealLIST Engineers 2024 as one of 15 technologists helping the DMV ecosystem grow.
- Company Name
- SHI International
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Li Liu
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Senior Product Manager in Microsoft Fabric engineering team
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Liran Edelist
Chief Product Officer, Lumel
Dr. Liran Edelist is Chief Product Officer for Enterprise Planning at Lumel and an Adjunct Professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. He brings over 20 years of experience in enterprise performance, data, and digital transformation as an executive, consultant, and entrepreneur.
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Logan Finke
Principal AI Data Architect, Eastman Chemical
Logan Finke is the Principal AI Data Architect on Eastman's Generative AI team, based in Kingsport, Tennessee. Before this role, Logan spent the past eight years architecting and delivering scalable data solutions in Data Science Operations and Commercial Business Intelligence.
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Loy Sikdar
Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, Microsoft Consulting
25+ years industry experience with 15+ years in Data and Analytics. Currently focused on Microsoft Fabric.
- Company Name
- Perficient
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Luis Baldini
Quality Engineering Team Coordinator, Porsche Cup
Luis Paulo Baldini is a Mechanical Engineer with over eight years of experience in the motorsport environment, currently working as Quality Engineering Team Coordinator at Porsche. Responsible for leading special projects, managing strategic indicators, and developing KPIs focused on performance and continuous improvement. Built a solid technical background starting in the maintenance area, with hands-on experience in full car overhauls, trackside technical support during competitions, and technical training of mechanics through accurate interpretation of vehicle manuals and technical documentation. Currently leading the Quality Engineering team with a strategic, people-focused leadership approach, contributing to the development of high-performance teams. Key projects include the implementation of the Boost system, an additional power solution applied to the 992 vehicles in 2025, reinforcing a strong connection between engineering, performance, and innovation in high-demand environments.
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Makena Barickman
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Makena is a Product Manager on the SQL Experiences team with a focus on all things SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). She is passionate about design, creating fantastic user experiences, and accessibility. Her previous experience includes user-experience focused growth product management and accessibility program management at Zillow. When she's not working, you can find her hitting the trails near her home in the PNW, testing out a new recipe, or traveling the globe with her husband.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Manas Maheshwari
Group Program Manager
To be updated.
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Manisha Jha
Data & AI Solutions Specialist
Accomplished cloud and AI leader with 16+ years of global experience driving digital transformation for Enterprise and SMB customers. Recognized for technical excellence, strategic vision, and a passion for enabling customer success across the US, UK and APAC regions. Have worked in International Organizations, Consulting firms, SMEs and Startups. Also worked across many industry verticals like Finance, Manufacturing, FMCG, Aviation, Healthcare, Gaming and Retail. Currently working in Microsoft as a Solutions Area Specialist in the field of Data & AI.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Manu Huygens
Cloud & Data Engineer @ KPMG Netherlands
Emmanuel (Manu) Huygens is a data engineer specializing in cloud and data solutions with Microsoft Azure and Fabric. At KPMG, he designs secure, scalable architectures that deliver real-time data pipelines, ETL/ELT pipelines using medallion architectures for secondary research use cases, and API middleware for live patient data integration using Azure Functions. Manu also develops AI-driven insights for regulated industries and has deep expertise in the Dutch healthcare IT landscape, including interoperability standards and compliance frameworks. He is certified in advanced openEHR clinical modeling, attends FHIR DevDays, and builds solutions aligned with GDPR and NEN7510. Passionate about leveraging data for impact, Manu combines technical depth with business acumen to improve care delivery. Outside work, he enjoys fitness, hiking, and windsurfing.
- Company Name
- KPMG
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Maraki Ketema
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
Maraki is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft focused on the Data Integration area in Microsoft Fabric.
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Marc Lelijveld
Data Platform MVP | Technical Evangelist | Solution Architect Data Solutions & Insights
Data Platform MVP, Power BI and Fabric enthusiastic, public speaker and passionate for everything which transforms data into action! Working at Macaw in the Netherlands as Solution Architect and Technical Evangelist in the Data Solutions & Insights team.
What I like the most? Sharing my thoughts, experience, best-practices and enthusiasm about Microsoft data platform with others. I mostly do this in public speaking at usergroups, conferences, customer presentations and end-user training. Besides that I also have my own blog which you can find at https://data-marc.com/- Company Name
- Macaw
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Marcelo Adade
Microsoft Data Platform Lead Database Consultant at The Pythian Group
Marcelo is a Microsoft Data Platform Lead Database Consultant at The Pythian Group. He has more than 15 years of experience in several Companies from different branches and sizes. Like financial companies, consultant shops, datacenters and e-commerce sites. Currently holds the MCSE, MCT and MCSA Microsoft Certifications and also the Oracle OCP. Loves technology and enjoys sharing his Database knowledge delivering presentations and official Microsoft Training Courses. Currently he is also the co-leader of the SQLMANIACS PASS User Group, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Company Name
- DBBITS
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Marcus Radue
Baker Tilly US, Senior Architect - Data and AI Solutions
Marcus is a Microsoft-certified Cloud Solution Architect with nearly 10 years of experience designing
and delivering scalable Azure-based solutions across professional services, retail, and manufacturing.
He has a proven track record in client engagement, technical leadership, and driving cloud adoption
through the Microsoft Azure Data and AI stack, Azure DevOps, and Power Platform. Marcus is
passionate about enabling data-driven decision-making and mentoring teams toward cloud maturity.- Company Name
- Baker Tilly US
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Marija Zutic
Sr. Product Manager, Data Intelligence
Marija is an AI and Commercial Product Manager with nearly 15 years of experience in business intelligence and product leadership. She specializes in designing AI-powered features that transform complex data into intuitive, actionable insights. Marija's approach centers on deep customer understanding—spending time with users to uncover their real needs and challenges. She believes the best AI solutions augment human capabilities rather than replace them, helping teams work smarter and more efficiently. In this session, she'll demonstrate how Power ON extends Microsoft Fabric's capabilities to enable sophisticated data collaboration, enterprise planning, and workflow management.
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Mario Zimmermann
Principal Software Engineer Manager
Mario is an Engineer with 20 years of experience in the tech industry, having joined Microsoft after completing his master's degree in Distributed Systems. Mario is currently a Software Engineer Manager for the Data Factory team, having been on the team since its inception. He currently owns the Apache Airflow job in Microsoft Fabric and he's helping to bridge the gap between the Fabric SaaS experience and the Open Source Airflow community.
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Marius Moscovici
CEO
Marius has over 20 years of experience in analytics and data warehousing, with roles at Oracle, Integral Results, and Linden Lab. He was co-founder and CEO of Integral Results, a leading BI consultancy that was acquired by Idea Integration. He also formed and led the analytics group at Linden Lab.
- Company Name
- Metric Insights
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Mark Brown
Principal PM Manager - Azure Cosmos DB
Mark is a 24+ year Microsoft veteran and has been on Azure since 2011 and worked on Azure App Service, Azure Networking and Azure Cosmos DB. Prior to Microsoft, Mark worked for a number of early e-commerce and dot-com startups. Mark is passionate about cloud and distributed computing and databases and teaching developers to design and build for infinite scale.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Mark Kromer
Microsoft Lead Principal PM Manager
Mark is Lead Principal Product Manager for Data Factory and has been with Microsoft for 16 years. Prior to that, Mark was also a data and analytics PM for Pentaho, Oracle, and AT&T.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Markus Weimer
Engineering lead, AI @ Fabric
I lead the Data Science and AI engineering teams in Microsoft Fabric
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Marthe Moengen
Microsoft Data Platform MVP | Managing Data Analyst at Sopra Steria
Like Beyonce but in tech.
Marthe Moengen is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with a knack for making complex topics like Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Fabric feel clear and practical. Named one of Norway’s Top 50 Women in Tech, she’s passionate about all things data governance and loves helping teams turn messy data into trusted insights.- Company Name
- Sopra Steria
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Martin Catherall
Doing data since day dot!
Martin Catherall is a Data Architect working on Microsoft Data Platform technologies. He is currently based in Brisbane, Australia.
Martin’s career has expanded from the world of SQL Server Administration and T-SQL development to encompass data engineering and architecture on the Microsoft Azure Platform.
He has over 15 years’ experience in the data industry and has been a recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award since 2014
When he is not engaged in data related activities, he can be found exploring the Queensland landscape (he’s recently escaped Melbourne), learning about Minecraft or Super Mario from his kids and learning the guitar – despite being tone deaf!
Martin is the co-host of DataPlatform downunder
https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/data-platform-downunder-meetup-group/- Company Name
- MRCS Data Intelligence
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Matt Hicks
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft OneLake
Matthew Hicks is a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft OneLake and Microsoft Fabric.
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Matt Hyon
Product Manager, SQL HA/DR
A fan of the entire Microsoft stack from the early days of .NET and SQL Server to now helping to shape the future of SQL Server and Azure SQL that will empower our customers.
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Matthew Roche
Principal Data Warrior
Matthew Roche is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Cloud + AI Group, where he focuses on data culture, business intelligence, enterprise information management, metadata, and data warehousing.
Matthew is currently a member of the Fabric CAT team, where he was saddened to learn that there were not actually any cats. Previously Matthew has worked on Power BI, Azure Data Catalog, Power BI for Office 365, SQL Server Integration Services, Master Data Services, and Data Quality Services. Before joining Microsoft, he worked as an architect, consultant, and trainer focusing on ETL, data warehousing, and business intelligence.
When he’s not enabling the world to get more value from its data, Matthew enjoys baking, heavy metal music, competitive longsword combat, and feeding the birds and squirrels who gather outside his home office window. -
Matthias Falland
Trusted Advisor and MVP @ Corporate Software
Matthias Falland is a Microsoft MVP and Trusted Advisor for the Microsoft Data & Cloud Platform. He likes to contribute to the community and is a frequent conference speaker at Ignite, Fabric Conference, Data Platform Conference and other local and global community events. He runs three Meetup groups. He lives near Basel, Switzerland.
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Matthias Nohl
b.telligent Deutschland GmbH
Matthias Nohl is a consultant focusing on cloud platform & data analytics in the Azure cloud environment, data warehouse architecture and performance optimization and advises customers from various industries on data analytics topics.
- Company Name
- b.telligent Deutschland GmbH
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Meagan Longoria
Data Engineering & Analytics Consultant
Meagan Longoria is a Data Analytics Architect with ProcureSQL who lives in Denver, Colorado. She is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Meagan spends a lot of time thinking about how to use data integration and data visualization techniques to make data useful for people. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experiences at conferences and user group meetings as well as through her blog (DataSavvy.me).
- Company Name
- ProcureSQL
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Meenal Srivastva
Principal Product Manager @ Microsoft Fabric
Product Manager for Fabric and Azure Synapse Analytics. Focusing on access control and managed identity.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Mehul Thacker
Director at DynaTech Systems Inc
Mehul Thacker is a technology professional specializing in Microsoft Fabric, delivering unified analytics, data engineering, and real-time insights at scale. Skilled in Power BI and the Power Platform, he builds intelligent, automated, and business-ready solutions that drive digital transformation. With over 14 years of experience, Mehul also brings strong domain expertise in Finance and Operations and deep knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics AX, along with hands-on proficiency in SQL Server, SSRS, SSAS, EP, and Management Reporter. His unique blend of modern data capabilities and enterprise application experience enables organizations to make faster, smarter, and more informed decisions.
- Company Name
- Dynatech Systems Inc.
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Michael Allison
Keynote Speaker Turning Adversity Into Resilience: Equipping Leaders to Perform, Lead, and Thrive Under Pressure.
Michael Allison, is a U.S. Marine Purple Heart Veteran, award-winning entrepreneur, best-selling author, and international keynote speaker. A globally recognized expert in identity-driven leadership and organizational resilience, Michael transforms adversity into strategic advantage. Over two decades, he has led Marines in combat, managed multi-million-dollar government projects, directed higher-ed programs, and scaled an INC 5000 franchise to successful exit. Michael equips leaders and teams to break internal limitations, guard energy, and thrive under pressure. His signature frameworks—Break The Bottle and Protect The House—blend combat-tested leadership, trauma-informed coaching, and enterprise execution discipline. Michael has delivered transformational keynotes, workshops, and consulting for world-class organizations globally. He empowers professionals to align technical brilliance with human resilience and lead with clarity, creativity, and conviction.
- Company Name
- Adversity Leadership Institute
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Michael Destein
VP, Technology Alliances, Quantexa
Michael Destein is the Vice President of Technology Alliances at Quantexa, leading global ecosystem strategy and partnerships that accelerate innovation through collaboration. He plays a pivotal role in advancing Quantexa Unify, a new joint initiative with Microsoft that brings contextual decision intelligence to Microsoft Fabric. With over 20 years of experience in data, analytics, and alliance leadership, Michael helps organizations bridge fragmented data to create clarity, trust, and smarter decisions. His focus on partnership-driven transformation enables enterprises to operationalize AI-powered context at scale, driving measurable business outcomes and demonstrating how collaboration between Quantexa and Microsoft is shaping the future of intelligent data unification.
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Michael Hewitt
Community Leader | Speaker | Data Analytics | Power BI | Fabric | Data Visualization | Power Platform
Michael Hewitt leads the BI and Analytics team at Hunt Brothers Pizza, based in Nashville, TN. He enjoys data visualization and working with business users to help them leverage data more effectively in their daily jobs. In previous roles, Michael has delivered Microsoft based BI solutions in the healthcare, distribution, and manufacturing industries. He has also had the privilege of developing and delivering custom Power BI training for the Department of Defense. Outside of work, Michael is a husband, father of 3 children, is a leader in his local church, co-organizes the Nashville Power BI user group, and enjoys drumming, woodworking, and hiking.
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Michael Lass
Senior Data Solution Architect at Impetus
Michael Lass is a Senior Data Solution Architect at Impetus, specializing in designing and implementing data-driven solutions that help organizations leverage analytics and cloud technologies effectively. With a degree from Kettering University and strong communication skills, he excels at bridging the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver impactful results. Based in Roanoke, Texas, Michael is recognized for his customer-focused approach and ability to translate complex requirements into clear, actionable strategies.
- Company Name
- Impetus
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Microsoft Product Team
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Miguel Llopis
Group Product Manager, Citizen Data Integration @ Microsoft
The Citizen Data Integration team at Microsoft builds the product capabilities that empower several millions of Citizen users to ingest & transform data of any shape and size within a wide range of Microsoft products: Power BI, Power Apps, Excel, Dynamics 365 Insights Applications, Azure Data Factory and more.
Technologies built by our team include Power Query, the M language and runtime, Dataflows, Connectors and the Gateway/VNet capabilities that enable best-in-class hybrid connectivity from the Microsoft Cloud to any data source.
As a Group Product Manager, I lead a world-class team of Product Managers and Technical Program Managers that drive product vision and making it a product reality.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Mihir Wagle
Principal Product Manager @ Microsoft Fabric
Mihir is a product manager on the Microsoft Fabric Data Integration team, where he drives product strategy for data integration and transformation. Mihir’s work has shaped how customers experience and scale Fabric, balancing usability with cost-efficiency. He led the design and launch of the viral Fabric trial experience, and launched the PAYG and reservation models for Fabric capacities. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota, an MBA from UT Austin, and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay.
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Mike Diehl
Director of Data Engineering and Business Intelligence
Mike Diehl is the Director of Data Engineering and Business Intelligence at Improving Winnipeg (formerly Imaginet), a Microsoft partner with offices in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada) and with Improving offices across Canada, United States, and South America. Mike has over 25 years of experience using Microsoft database technologies and is an expert in Agile Analytics and Microsoft Azure DevOps.
Mike has spoken many regional, national, and international SQL events over his long career, including the PASS Summit in Seattle Washington, SQLBITS in London UK, and at various SQL Saturday events across Canada and the USA, and other development conferences in Canada.- Company Name
- Improving
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Miles Cole
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
Miles is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, while a Spark specialist by role, he has deep knowledge and experience with everything lakehouse to data warehouse design, tuning, CI/CD automation, and API development.
He started off his career writing VB script to automate business processes and reporting then eventually Power BI was released and he quickly became shadow IT. After successfully implementing Power BI and starting a BI center of excellence, he was on-boarded into IT and given the opportunity of building his companies’ first cloud data warehouse. Now after dozens of implementations and an ever-growing love of all things Spark and OSS, he loves to share what he's learned and talk modern data architectures.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Miquella de Boer
Principal Product Manager Lead, OneLake
Unified Data and Interopable Lake
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Misha Desai
Principal Product Manager
Principal Product Manager on Fabric Data Science
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Mohan Sankaran
Microsoft, VP Engineering
Data Integration
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Monica Calleja
Product Manager @Microsoft
Product Manager @Microsoft
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Monica Morehouse (Rathbun)
Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting
Monica Morehouse (Rathbun), a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform, resides in Virginia and brings two decades of experience across various database platforms, with a particular focus on SQL Server and the Microsoft Data Platform. She is a frequent speaker at IT industry conferences, where she shares her expertise on performance tuning and configuration management for both on-premises and cloud environments. Monica leads the Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group and is passionate about SQL Server and its community, she is dedicated to giving back in any way she can. You can often find her online (@sqlespresso) offering helpful tips or blogging at sqlespresso.com.
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Mukesh Kumar
Microsoft/Partner Director, Engineering & Architecture
Mukesh leads an engineering org within Azure Data that helps Microsoft Customers & Partners adopt Azure Data and SQL Platform. His focus is to accelerate and unblock complex modernizations from Mainframe, Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, OSS, SQL sources to Azure and Data Platform.
Acceleration in revenue through these non-linear migration patterns along with bringing product truth back to engineering is his primary responsibility. He is leading a team of highly skilled product engineers, Data Platform Solutions Architects and ring-fenced Azure/MS data platform MVPs to provide technical thought leadership during customer's complex digital transformation journey.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Mwazanji Sakala
Sr Solution Architect, CDW
With 25 years transforming complex data into strategic business assets, I've journeyed from software engineering through technical leadership to architecting enterprise-scale data platforms that deliver lasting value.
As a Microsoft Certified Fabric Data Engineer Associate, I specialize in designing modern data solutions while mentoring teams for successful adoption. Working at the intersection of technology and business strategy, I help organizations transform their Azure environments and unlock the full potential of Microsoft Fabric.
What drives me is making complex systems accessible and actionable—whether collaborating with C-suite stakeholders or architecting scalable solutions with technical teams. I'm passionate about sharing practical insights on navigating the shift to Microsoft Fabric and connecting with professionals ready to transform their data strategies.- Company Name
- CDW
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Nagaraj Sastry
Senior Vice President, Data and Analytics at Encora
As a seasoned leader in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics at Encora, Nagaraj specializes in harnessing AI and Agentic systems to drive transformative business outcomes. He leads initiatives that integrate advanced AI models, autonomous agentic workflows, and predictive analytics to solve complex business challenges and accelerate digital transformation.
His expertise spans designing and deploying AI-driven solutions that enable autonomous decision-making and process optimization. By combining deep technical knowledge with strategic vision, he empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their data, delivering measurable value through enhanced efficiency, scalability, and innovation.- Company Name
- Encora
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Nathan Giullian
EnterBridge - Engagement Manager
Nathan is an Engagement Manager at EnterBridge and previous Solution Architect and resident DAX expert at JourneyTEAM. His passion for business intelligence began during his studies at Brigham Young University, where he majored in Economics. Nathan holds multiple Microsoft certifications, including Power Platform Functional Consultant, Power Platform App Maker, Power BI Data Analyst, and Fabric Analyst. He is also certified in DAX, Six Sigma, Power Platform, Azure, and Market Research.
He has become an AI enthusiast and explored leveraging AI to enhance the developer experience so everyone can level-up in their career.- Company Name
- EnterBridge
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Nathan Hombroek
VP, Innovation at Axis Group
Nathan is the Vice President of Innovation at a leading data, analytics, and AI consulting firm, where he helps organizations modernize their data and analytics ecosystems. He leads the team behind Vortex, an automated migration platform that accelerates the move from Qlik, Tableau, and Cognos into Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Nathan focuses on solving real-world migration challenges with scalable patterns that reduce complexity, shorten timelines, and unlock the full value of Fabric. He has partnered with dozens of companies across all industries and sizes, helping teams navigate modernization with clarity and confidence.
- Company Name
- Axis Group
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Naveen Samba
Naveen Samba
Naveen Samba is a Principal Engineering Architect Manager in the Azure Database Engineering team at Microsoft, specializing in the migration and modernization of mission-critical workloads to Azure SQL services. With more than 25 years of deep SQL Server experience, he partners with customers and ISVs to design and deliver scalable, resilient, and future-ready data platforms on Azure, enabling seamless adoption of Azure Data Services throughout their modernization journey.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Nellie Gustafsson
Microsoft, Principal Product Manager
Product management lead of Data Science and AI in Microsoft Fabric. Since 2016, Nellie has been defining ML experiences and capabilities in Microsoft data products like SQL Server (ML Services), Synapse and now Fabric.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Nicholas Leonhard
Machine Learning Engineer at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Nicholas Leonhard is a Machine Learning Engineer responsible for building and maintaining modern MLOps systems in Microsoft Fabric. He leads the development of end-to-end machine-learning pipelines that support student success, enrollment forecasting, and operational decision-making. Nicholas specializes in traditional ML and works extensively with Python, pandas, PySpark, scikit-learn, and MLflow. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Data Science & Analytics with an emphasis in High Performance Computing.
- Company Name
- Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Nico Cristache
Microsoft, CVP of Power BI
Nico Cristache is the Corporate Vice President of Power BI product
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Nikola Ilic
Data Mozart, Microsoft Data Platform MVP
I'm making music from the data! Power BI and Microsoft Fabric addict, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Pluralsight Author, O'Reilly Instructor, blogger, speaker...Interested in everything related to data - always eager to extract valuable info from raw data in the most effective way. Multi-year experience working with (predominantly) Microsoft Data Platform (SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, and Power BI). Father of 2 and true football (and Barca) fan!
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Nimrod Shalit
Principal Product Lead, Fabric
Nimrod Shalit is a Principal product lead at Microsoft’s Fabric team, with 7 years of experience working as a product manager at Power BI and Fabric. For the last 4 years he is leading the lifecycle management & CI/CD areas in Fabric and Power BI.
Before that, Nimrod was leading Power BI for developers, which included Power BI Embedded and Power BI APIs.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Noah Mattern
Data & AI Solution Director
Noah Mattern is a Director and Market Leader in BDO Digital’s Data & AI practice in the Oak Brook IL office with more than 25 years of experience providing data analytics and technology advisory services. Noah often works with clients to assess existing capabilities and create an action plan or roadmap to allow the organization to gain material value from key insights and knowledge.
Noah is familiar with many technologies including on-premise and cloud, dashboarding and visualizations, predictive and Generative AI frequently designing solutions which leverage these technologies to turn data into information upon which key business decisions are made.
Noah enjoys working with clients to first understand the business’s core values, culture, and key drivers. From this base, solutions can be created which address the right concerns in the right way, and to the right degree. -
Noelle Li
Microsoft. Product Manager
A PM at Microsoft with the Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Fabric Data Factory team, passionate about data and innovation.
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Omer Colakoglu
Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Trainer
Omer started as Software Developer in the sector in 2003 and met SQL Server in the following years and worked as SQL Server DBA since 2006. He is currently working as the IT Manager of a private company.
Omer is also online course instructor on a lot of online educational portal such as Udemy, Turkcell Gelecegi Yazanlar, BTK Academy.
He has more than 300.000 students from 107 countries of the world.
Also he is a member of many IT Communities and he works for educational purposes in IT Industry.
Omer spoke at two Tedx events, went to more than 40 universities as a speaker.
You can watch his short story from the Microsoft Turkey youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO5IRzp-6Yg- Company Name
- FEYOTECH
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Pam Lahoud
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Fabric Customer Advisory Team - Databases in Fabric
Pam Lahoud is a Program Manager in Microsoft Fabric, based in Redmond, WA, USA. She has been with Microsoft since 2006 and is currently leading the Fabric Databases Customer Advisory Team. She is passionate about Azure SQL and SQL Server performance and has focused on performance tuning and optimization, particularly from the developer perspective, throughout her career. She is a SQL 2008 MCM with over 20 years of experience working with Azure SQL and SQL Server and co-author of the book "Learn T-SQL Querying: A guide to developing efficient and elegant T-SQL code" (https://aka.ms/LearnTSQLQuerying).
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Pankaj Arora
Director, Microsoft
TBD
- Company Name
- Microsoft Corporation
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Pat Mahoney
Microsoft - Fabric Customer Advisory Team (CAT)
Pat Mahoney is a former Data Platform MVP and Community Super User for Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate. After being a citizen developer in the pharma industry for a long time, he is now a member of the Microsoft Fabric CAT team. He also has a blog and YouTube channel under the name of HoosierBI with content focused on Power Query, DAX/modeling, and custom visuals.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Patrick LeBlanc
Principal Program Manager, MIcrosoft
Patrick LeBlanc is a currently a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and a contributing partner to Guy in a Cube. Along with his 15+ years’ experience in IT he holds a Masters of Science degree from Louisiana State University. He is the author and co-author of five SQL Server books. Prior to joining Microsoft he was awarded Microsoft MVP award for his contributions to the community. Patrick is a regular speaker at many SQL Server Conferences and Community events.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Patrick Perrier
VP of Product Management at Wiiisdom
Patrick is a seasoned business intelligence expert with 20+ years of leadership experience in BI software vendors and U.K. consulting companies. Passionate about tackling complex technical and business challenges, Patrick has a strong background in analytics software products, including SAP BusinessObjects, Microsoft Power BI, and Tableau. Patrick's journey has led him to Wiiisdom—as the VP of Products, Patricks plays a pivotal role in driving innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions that build trust in data and analytics.
- Company Name
- Wiiisdom
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Paul Papanek Stork
Don't Pa..Panic Consulting, Owner
Paul is the Owner/Principal Architect at Don't Pa..Panic Consulting. He has been working in the information technology industry for over 35 years, and has played key roles in several enterprise SharePoint architectural design review, Intranet deployment, application development, and migration projects. he has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for the last 18 consecutive years and earned his Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters (MCSM) certification in 2013.
After working with SharePoint and Office 365 since their inception Paul has been focusing on the Power Platform for the last several years. He recently completed a book on Learning Power Automate and is a frequent contributor to the Power Platform Forums in the areas of Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio.- Company Name
- Don't Pa..Panic Consulting
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Paula Berenguel
Principal Program Manager @Microsoft
Microsoft Principal Program Manager, PostgreSQL advocate, tech enthusiast, cat lover, yoga and book enthusiast."
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Peer Grønnerup
Technical Architect & Community Advocate at Tabular Editor
Peer is a “strategically lazy” developer who automates anything repetitive. As a Technical Architect & Community Advocate at Tabular Editor, he champions great semantic models and solid CI/CD. Off stage, he’s kept busy by three kids, a dog, two cats, and a quest for good food, good wine, and well-designed automation… and his wife, of course.
- Company Name
- Tabular Editor
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Peri Rocha
Senior Product Manager
Peri is a Product Manager with 27 years in analytics, and a diverse set of experiences in the software industry across product engineering, sales, business programs and marketing. He has lived and worked in three continents, which helped him build a diverse cultural background. He is the author of "Learn Azure Synapse Data Explorer", published by Packt Publishing.
On his personal interests, Peri is a recording artist with a deep passion for writing and performing music. He also enjoys studying and practicing karate, and is an avid reader.- Company Name
- Microsoft Corp
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Philip Seamark
Microsoft Fabric CAT team
Phil Seamark works on the Microsoft Fabric CAT team and is an accomplished database and business intelligence (BI) professional. Phil has an in-depth knowledge of the Microsoft BI stack along with extensive knowledge of data warehouse (DW) methodologies and enterprise data modelling.
Phil has expert knowledge in all facets of BI/DW including planning architecture, project management, dimensional modelling, performance tuning, ETL design, development and optimisation, report and dashboard design as well as installation and administration.
Phil has written several books DAX and Data modelling and has also blogged extensively at dax.tips- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Philipp Kiencke
Global Partner Manager @ dab
Philipp Kiencke works as the Global Partner Manager at dab GmbH, supporting customers and partners worldwide in projects involving the utilization of data from SAP systems. His main goal is to make the data available to everyone and to facilitate access, regardless of whether IT knowledge is available or specialist departments require specific analyses.
- Company Name
- dab: Daten - Analysen & Beratung GmbH
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Piero Morano
Principal PM Manager - PM Lead Data engineering Developer experience
Piero Morano is a Product Leader focused on enhancing the developer experience for Data Scientists and Data Engineers in Microsoft Fabric.
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Pierre LaFromboise
Covenant Technology Partners - Senior Architect Data & AI
Pierre LaFromboise is a Senior Architect at Covenant Technology Partners, where he leads the Data & AI solutions group. With over 25 years of experience designing and delivering data-driven solutions, Pierre specializes in helping organizations get the most out of Microsoft technologies. His recent focus is on Microsoft Fabric, but his background spans a wide range of platforms and tools across the data and analytics landscape.
- Company Name
- Covenant Technology Partners
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Piotr Prussak
Sr Delivery Director & Architect
I don't just know the Microsoft stack technically - I've lived the customer journey. I understand the organizational change management, the data governance challenges, the integration complexity, and how to translate business requirements into scalable Azure solutions. I can walk into a customer engagement and immediately identify where they are in their journey and what they need next.
- Company Name
- Imidia
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Pragati Jain
Microsoft MVP, Fabric Consultant
Pragati is a Data Platform MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional).
Currently, she is working as a Manager at Avanade in UK and works towards generating and delivering data insights to various customers. She holds a Master’s degree in Data Science and Analytics from Royal Holloway University of London.
She is skilled in various tools and technologies like Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Excel, Azure ML Studio, Azure Databricks Pyspark and SQL.
She has been using Power BI for few years now and is recognized as a Superuser on the Microsoft Fabric Community.
Outside work she enjoys photography, loves hiking, she is a trained Indian classical singer and has a passion for painting. She even has her Instagram page dedicated to painting.
Microsoft MVP: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5004163?fullName=Pragati%20Jain -
Pranay Desai
Senior Director Financial Services Capgemini
Pranay Desai has 20+ years of experience working within public and private sector organisations in functional and leadership positions across Australia and North America. He has equipped him with strong strategy and architecture experience coupled with pragmatic approach towards project and program management and application maintenance and support. He is a TOGAF® Certified Enterprise Architect as well as a Prince2® Certified Practitioner. Designing and executing various enterprise rules/process/data integration strategies for a number of businesses is his forte. Finally, as a bridge that brings Business and IT together, Pranay has skills to liaison with business to define vision, goals, decisions and outcomes and work closely with IT service delivery teams to ensure expected benefits and outcomes are realised.
Pranay has sound understanding of ISO 9001 quality procedures and possess good communication, presentation and leadership skills, enable him to meet the high standards defined by the business and expected by customers. On a technical note he has worked extensively with Microsoft and other technologies softwares like .Net, SRSS, SSIS, and has a very good knowledge of database systems like SQL Server and Oracle.- Company Name
- Capgemini
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Priya Sathy
Partner Director of Product, SQL Databases at Microsoft
Priya Sathy brings over 25 years of experience in the data and analytics space focusing on building capabilities that meet the needs and complexities of large-scale data platforms at enterprises. She currently is head of product for SQL Databases at Microsoft including Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL and Fabric SQL Database. Prior to this, Priya was head of product for Data Warehousing, Enterprise BI in Power BI and various other data and analytics products.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Rahul Athalye
Vice President and Service Line Head, Data & Analytics
Rahul Athalye is Vice President and Service Line Head, Data & Analytics at Bitwise, where he leads the creation of Capability, Competency, and Capacity for the company’s Data & Analytics Service Line. With more than two decades of experience in data engineering, analytics, AI–led transformation, and large–scale digital initiatives, Rahul drives initiatives that help clients modernize their data ecosystems and build scalable AI foundations for growth.
- Company Name
- Bitwise
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Rajesh Setlem
Microsoft, Principal Product Manager
Working as Principal Product Manager in Azure SQL DB and currently focusing on business continuity pillar for all up SQL DB across all of it's service tiers.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Rana Singh
AI Engineering Manager - Microsoft Fabric
AI Functions, SynapseML OSS, DataWrangler, Code First on Microsoft Fabric
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Ranjan Sinha
Axis Group - President
Ranjan is passionate about developing teams that grow, innovate, and confidently tackle complex challenges that drive meaningful business outcomes. By empowering talent, establishing clear and repeatable practices, and applying technology thoughtfully, he helps clients transform data into actionable insights. This approach consistently delivers solutions that streamline operations, spark innovation, and create lasting value.
- Company Name
- Axis Group
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Ravi Gunturu
VP of Data & AI @ Bitwise
Ravi Gunturu is Vice President and Market Head of Data and AI at Bitwise, where he strengthens go-to-market strategy for Data & AI and drives customer solutioning across multiple modern data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake amongst others. He has 30+ years of rich experience in the consulting & systems integration industry and is a passionate Data and AI expert.
- Company Name
- Bitwise
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Richard Lamorena
Practice Leader, Data & AI
Rich leads the BDO Digital Data & AI practice, consisting of consulting professionals certified and proficient in data architecture, data engineering, data science, and the full stack development of applied AI applications.
- Company Name
- BDO USA
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Rick Weber
Sr. Director - Enterprise Insights & Analytics
- Company Name
- Caplugs
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Rick Xu
Product Manager, Microsoft Fabric, Security, Compliance, Governance
Rick is a PM working on Fabric Core Platform, in the areas of resilience, regional and cloud presence.
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Rie Merritt
Principal PM Manager, MVP & Data Community for Microsoft, Organizer
Rie Merritt has been working with SQL Server since 1999, when she started as a data analyst for a non-profit. She has worked in many industries over the years including pharmaceutical, e-commerce, legal, financial, education and both federal & state government. She is currently Principal PM Manager with Microsoft Azure Data, serving as the Influencers, Community & Events lead. She is liaison between the product group and Influencers, User Groups, MVPs & Super Users, and her team owns the FabCon workstream for Engineering. She is based out of Redmond, but works remotely from her home near Atlanta.
Since 2010, Rie has done extensive work with the SQL Community. She was an MVP in the Data Platform for three years, speaking frequently at conferences across the US and moderating webinars, WIT panels and career panels. She has also served co-leader of the Women in Technology Virtual Group and Executive Director of SQL Saturday Atlanta. Currently, Rie helps run the Atlanta Azure Data User Group heading up Microsoft’s efforts for the Azure Data Community. -
Rob Carrol
Principal Data Platform Consultant, Coeo
I've been working in the Microsoft Data Platform for over 20 years, firstly as a DBA and now as a consultant. I joined Coeo as a Principal Data Platform Consultant in 2021 providing advice and guidance to customers modernising their SQL Server and analytics estates. I previously worked for Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) and as an independent database consultant, working across various sectors including financial services, retail and defence. When I'm not working with data, I'm a keen runner and enjoy spending time with my family.
- Company Name
- Coeo
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Robert Saxby
Director of Product Management, Databricks
Robert Saxby is a Director of Product Management at Databricks, focused on data engineering. Prior to joining Databricks, Robert worked on big data technologies at Google Cloud.
- Company Name
- Databricks
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Robert Leal
Robert Leal – Microsoft Data & AI Consultant, KPMG NL
I am an Azure Data Engineer and Data & AI Consultant with expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Platform, and Python. I design and implement scalable, secure data architectures, specializing in ETL pipelines and data migration for complex business solutions. My experience spans global banking M&A projects, IoT network analytics, and healthcare data processing. I’ve built Power BI dashboards for enterprise reporting, automated network topology generation using graph theory, and developed NLP pipelines for sensitive medical data. I have hands-on experience training and deploying machine learning models, including logistic regression and neural networks, and I’m passionate about leveraging AI Foundry and real-time intelligence to unlock actionable insights. With a strong foundation in data engineering and a focus on innovation, I aim to bridge technology and business value through modern data platforms and AI-driven solutions.
- Company Name
- KPMG NL
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Roberto Cervantes
Sr. Product Manager (Azure Messaging)
Roberto has 18 years of experience in the software industry, he is a Sr. Product Manager in the Azure Messaging team, specialized in designing, architecting and developing enterprise applications.
In 2012, he joined Microsoft, in the last years he has been focused on developing cloud native solutions based on a wide stack of technologies for app innovation, microservices, serverless, messaging and containers. Roberto has been working across multiple organizations: Microsoft Consulting Services, Developer Experience (DX) - Visual Studio, Xamarin, Global Black Belts and Azure Event Grid, where he plays a key role enhancing the service's scalability and reliability, enabling event-driven features and capabilities for hundreds of customers around the globe. -
Roberto Fonseca
Microsoft Data Platform MVP
I´m the founder of a professional company specialized in SQL Server that help companies to achieve a better database infrastructure and experience. I'm a specialist in SQL Server Database Administration and Business Intelligence projects to businesses of all sizes.
I hold a bachelor’s degree in computing science and more than 15 years of experience in the field with multiple awards, including the MVP - Microsoft Most Valuable Professional since 2015 and the PASSion Award awarded by PASS in 2017. I also hold the MCSE – Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert and the MCT – Microsoft Certified Trainer credentials since 2006.
I was born and raised in south region of Brazil and I have learned English and Spanish in school and also because of the proximity of countries like Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay.- Company Name
- Pythian
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Rohith Sai Chetla
Product Manager
PM @ Agent 365 team
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Rui Romano
Principal Product Manager @ Microsoft, Power BI | Microsoft Fabric
With 20+ years in data and analytics, I bring deep experience from consulting to product.
I’m passionate about building scalable, developer-friendly data solutions - and turning customer needs into powerful features. Today, I'm a PM helping shape Power BI within Microsoft Fabric.
As a seasoned speaker, I love sharing insights and continuously learning from the Microsoft data community.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Sadiq Ahmed
Quantum Technology Inc
I am a Sr. Consultant at Quantum Technology Inc, where I provide software consultancy services for Architecture, Design and Development of Enterprise-level applications and system integration solutions using Microsoft and open-source technologies. Master's in computer science (MCS), ML & AI Specialization from MIT Professional Education and have over 2 decades of experience in multiple domains of business, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, data science, cloud, big data, and mixed reality.
My mission is to leverage my expertise in AI and ML to build cutting-edge solutions that solve real-world problems and create value for my clients. I am proficient in C#, Python, Unity, Azure, OpenAI, and other tools and frameworks that enable me to design and implement innovative and scalable solutions. I am also a certified programmer, developer, and AI specialist, as well as a speaker, trainer, and visiting faculty in the field of AI and ML. -
Sam Debruyn
Microsoft Data Platform MVP, cloud & data platform architect
Sam Debruyn is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Cloud & Data Platform Architect passionate about modern data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric. In his day-to-day, he designs and implements data platforms that support customers in harvesting the full potential of their data. Sam has over 10 years of experience with Microsoft Azure and often blogs about his adventures in data. He contributes to the data community through blog posts, open-source projects, and speaking engagements at data meetups and conferences.
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Sam Kelly
Senior Consultant - Microsoft AI & Data
Sam Kelly is a Fabric and Power BI enthusiast with over eight years of experience working with Power BI and the latest advancements in Microsoft Fabric. He is passionate about solution design utilizing Fabric and Power BI, as well as general governance design for the Power BI platform. He has been a part of building multiple communities of Power BI enthusiasts, including global centers of excellence and casual knowledge sharing groups.
- Company Name
- Ernst & Young
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Sandeep Pawar
Principal Program Manager
Principal PM, Fabric CAT | Data Science and AI
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Santhana Lakshmi Ponnurasan
Data Analyst | Power BI Specialist
Lakshmi is a Microsoft MVP (Data Platform) and a Certified Power BI Data Analyst, currently working in the Institutional Effectiveness department at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She is passionate about creating creative and innovative Power BI reports that not only make data pop but also provide actionable insights. She was a Finalist in the Microsoft Power BI DataViz World Championships 2025, showcasing her ability to combine technical expertise with storytelling. An engaging speaker, she frequently speaks about all things Power BI at user groups and conferences, and also shares tips and best practices on her Medium blog.
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Santhosh Kumar Ravindran
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering
Product Manager @ Microsoft Corporation with over 7 years of software engineering (full stack) and deep knowledge and experience in data science.
Currently leading the Spark compute platform for Microsoft Fabric.
Prior to my current role was responsible for the Microsoft Data Governance Platform, which included Governance Catalog (Purview), Data Estate Insights, and Lineage tracing platform.
I lead high-performance teams and various projects in developing large-scale Data Platforms, Distributed Systems, and Machine Learning Services.- Company Name
- Microsoft Corporation
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Sara Lammini Rodriguez
Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Sara Vredevoogd
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
My team is focused on improving the discoverability of data content within Power BI from across Fabric. I love connecting with customers to learn how they use data to drive better decisions and how we can better support their goals.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Sarab Dua
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Fabric
Sarab Dua is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, leading strategic initiatives across the Fabric platform with a focus on enterprise-grade security and customer-centric innovation. With over a decade of experience in designing cloud and data infrastructure, Sarab has helped shape the future of unified data experiences.
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Scott Cameron
Principal Consultant, Data and Analytics
Scott has over 25 years of experience in data transformation, data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytics with an emphasis on bridging the gap between business and technology and helping organizations adopt new technology. He has worked with clients in many sectors including healthcare, software and high tech, telecommunications, manufacturing, finance and insurance, and aerospace and defense. He is a published author, presenter, and helped develop and teach Microsoft data and analytics platform curriculum.
- Company Name
- Independent Consultant
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Scott Shearer
Microsoft 365 Evangelist, MVP and MCT
Scott Shearer is a Microsoft 365 evangelist, Microsoft MVP and MCT. Scott has over 35 years' experience in the IT industry implementing Microsoft products and technologies. He has held positions ranging from systems administrator to developer to trainer. Scott is a regular speaker at M365 community events and a top contributor to the Microsoft Power Automate Power Users Community site.
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Sean McGinnis
Esri Principal Product Manager, ArcGIS for Microsoft product family
Sean McGinnis is a principal product manager at Esri who focuses on the ArcGIS for Microsoft product family. Sean applies his more than 25 years of real-world experience using geospatial technologies to help organizations achieve and sustain valuable outcomes based on best practices.
- Company Name
- Esri
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Sean Mirabile
Microsoft Senior Program Manager Fabric CAT Data Integration
From SSRS to Power BI... SSIS to Fabric Data Factory. 10 years as a BI Professional with a mission to Learn, Teach, and Repeat.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Shabnam Watson
Data & Solution Architect
Shabnam is a business intelligence consultant and owner of ABI Cube, a company that specializes in delivering data solutions using the Microsoft Data Platform. She has over 20 years of experience and is recognized as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP for her technical excellence and community involvement.
She is passionate about helping organizations harness the power of data to drive insights and innovation. She has a deep expertise in Microsoft Analysis Services, Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Microsoft Fabric. She is also a speaker, blogger, and organizer for SQL Saturday Atlanta - BI version, where she shares her knowledge and best practices with the data community.- Company Name
- ABI Cube
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Shafiq Mannan
Principal Product Manager, Purview Unified Catalog. Microsoft Purview
Experienced product manager specializing in data quality and data governance solutions, with over 10 years of expertise in data quality management and data management.
- Company Name
- Microsoft Corporation
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Shireen Bahadur
Product Manager, Microsoft
Shireen Bahadur is a Product Manager on the Microsoft Data Integration team. She has worked as a Cloud Solution Architect in the past, empowering customers to build strong data solutions on Azure. Shireen is passionate about giving back to the community, teaching, and being a mentor to students who want to pursue a career in technology.
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Shireesh Thota
Corporate Vice President, Azure Databases
The mission of Azure Data is to help customers build a new class of data-first applications and drive a data culture where every employee can make better decisions based on data.
Shireesh leads product management, engineering, and cloud operations for Azure Databases as well as App Development for Microsoft Fabric. The products in his team’s portfolio include Azure SQL Database (on-prem, Hybrid and Cloud), Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, and Azure MySQL.
Previously, as the Senior Vice President at SingleStore, Shireesh was responsible for end-to-end engineering and product vision of the company.
Before moving to SingleStore, Shireesh was a founding member of Cosmos DB, where he architected, designed, and directly contributed to multiple key pieces of the services.
Shireesh has 20+ years of experience on large scale, big data, scale-out, relational and schema agnostic distributed systems across SQL, Azure Cosmos DB and PostgreSQL/Citus.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Shishir Tejpal
Principal Data Architect, Esri
Shishir has over 20 years of experience in the technology sector and holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in computer science. His career has spanned roles as an automation and data specialist, where he has designed and implemented robust frameworks and data models across on-prem and cloud environments. Currently, he serves as a Principal Data Architect, leveraging his deep expertise to drive data strategy, architecture, and innovation for enterprise-scale solutions for esri.
- Company Name
- Esri
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Shiv Narayanan
Product Manager for OneLake Shortcuts
Shiv brings over 22 years of experience delivering end‑to‑end data management and machine learning initiatives for Fortune 500 enterprises. He has led the design and execution of large‑scale data platforms that turn complex, distributed data into business impact. Today, Shiv is a Product Manager for OneLake, focused on helping customers unlock hidden data and securely share it across the organization using Shortcuts.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Shoham Dasgupta
Principal Product Manager, Azure Databases Security at Microsoft
Shoham Dasgupta is a Product Manager in the Azure Databases Security team at Microsoft, primarily focusing on data security and data governance for the SQL product family.
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Shuaijun Ye
Product manager, Microsoft
Product Manager at Microsoft, currently working on Fabric. Deeply involved in the developer experience on Fabric, focusing on Environment, library management, Python compute&Notebook
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Sid Vemuri
Product Manager at Power BI
Sid is a Product Manager on the Power BI Chat with your Data team. With a Master's degree specialized in Machine Learning and expertise in Data Science, Sid has a deep understanding of advanced data analysis and visualization techniques.
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Sita Dontharaju
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Purview
Product Manager within Microsoft Purview Data Governance
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Slava Oks
Slava Oks is a Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Databases at Microsoft and VP of SQL Engineering, where he leads innovation across Azure Databases family of products. A visionary architect advancing large-scale databases and system runtimes, Slava has shaped many of Microsoft’s most advanced data platform capabilities. He is currently driving a transformation of engineering teams into one of the largest AI-enabled engineering organizations, applying AI to push the boundaries of productivity and quality in massive codebases. His leadership consistently delivers advances in performance, reliability, and cloud-native data systems.
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Sowmya Sivaraman
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Sowmya Sivaraman is a Senior Product Manager on the Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse team focusing on experiences like billing, cost monitoring and other user consumption experiences via SQL Query editor
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Stuti Singh
Partner Alliances- Quadrant Technologies
Stuti is a business-focused data strategist who helps organizations turn Microsoft Fabric migrations into measurable business impact. She specializes in linking data initiatives to ROI, adoption, and decision-making speed, ensuring technology investments deliver real value. Passionate about bridging strategy and execution, Stuti empowers teams to leverage data for smarter, faster business outcomes.
- Company Name
- Quadrant Technologies
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Subbu Muthukrishnan
Democratizing Data to Drive Actionable Insights
Subbu Muthukrishnan leads Data & AI Solutions Engineering at iLink Digital, a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner. He drives global technical strategy for Fabric implementations across Fortune 500 clients in Energy, Manufacturing, Retail, and Healthcare. A Columbia University graduate, Subbu co-innovated Project Green Sky with Microsoft's Energy team, demonstrating Real-Time Intelligence for environmental monitoring.
- Company Name
- iLink Digital
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Sudhir Kumar Raparla
Microsoft, Principal Product Manager
Sudhir Raparla is a Principal Product Manager in Azure Data Platform team at Microsoft. Sudhir currently handles Azure SQL Migration Services portfolio in Azure SQL Database and has 14 years of experience in building in Enterprise scale Database and Analytics PaaS platforms.
- Company Name
- Microsoft India R&D Pvt Ltd
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Sujata Narayana
Principal GPM at Power BI
Sujata Narayana, a data nerd at heart, joined Microsoft’s user analytics team in 2016 and Power BI team in 2018. She leads Power BI's Creator experiences and Fabric integrations. Sujata strives to democratize analytics by empowering everyone to make data-driven decisions.
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Sukhwant Kaur
Program Manager in SQL database in Fabric Team @Microsoft
I am a Product Manager with the SQL database in Fabric team at Microsoft. My focus is on the entire product management lifecycle, from working with development teams and user experience to collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive customer satisfaction by ensuring our products not only meet but exceed customer expectations.
Prior to joining Microsoft, I held various full time/consulting roles as a technology leader for over two decades in software lifecycle development, system integration, and enterprise architecture design. My expertise extends to Data Strategy, Analytics, and Web Content Management. Throughout my career, I have successfully led numerous projects, both small and large, from inception through to implementation. I am a proponent of the servant-leader philosophy, committed to continuous learning and empowering others to excel in their endeavors.- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Surbhi Pokharna
Charles River Development, Director, Global Cloud Data Platform & AI Solution Delivery
I spent my career in designing and managing enterprise scale data solutions with fundamental building blocks of Reliability, Security, Scalability, Governance and Maintainability in business-critical private and public cloud data platforms in financial domain.
Architecting the operationalization aspect in a client facing role, delivering relational and advanced analytics solution for large scale Operational and Data Warehouse implementations with focus on learning and innovation remained a constant part of my data journey.
Currently I am leading enterprise scale cloud data migrations in SQL Server/Snowflake/Azure SQL/Managed Instance/PostgreSQL and am involved with delivery of next generation Data & AI solutions using various data platforms. As a woman in tech and part of data community, I have advanced with grit to create an impact, work with the mindset of ‘how I can’, passion for continuous learning and delivering results. -
Tami Mahadevan
JetBlue
Tami Mahadevan is a senior technology leader with over 28 years of experience in enterprise data and software engineering, including more than 16 years at JetBlue Airways. She has helped transform JetBlue’s data ecosystem from traditional batch systems to modern, cloud-enabled platforms that power Real-Time Intelligence across the airline.
Tami leads teams delivering event-driven architectures, Operational Data Store (ODS) domains, enterprise integrations, robotic process automation, and master data management. Her work enables real-time data ingestion, trusted governance, and actionable insights that support mission-critical airline operations. She is known for developing strong engineering talent and leading high-performing teams through large-scale data transformation in fast-moving operational environments. -
Tammiraju Prasanth
Technical Director, Quadrant Technologies
I’m Prasanth Tammiraju, Technical Director at Quadrant Technologies. My core focus is Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). With over 20 years in the industry, I’ve been passionate about creating innovative solutions that leverage cloud computing to transform how businesses operate.
Technical Expertise
My experience varies across multiple cutting edge technologies
• Cloud Computing: I thrive on using cloud platforms to build scalable and efficient data analytics solutions. My goal is to help businesses seamlessly integrate, process, and analyze their data.
• Advanced Analytics and AI: I enjoy diving into complex business problems and using advanced analytics and AI to solve them. Whether it’s optimizing processes or extracting valuable insights from large datasets.
• Cross-functional Collaboration
Thought Leadership and Contributions
I love sharing knowledge and staying involved in the community
• Speaking Engagements
• Community Involvement- Company Name
- Quadrant Technologies
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Ted Pattison
Principal Program Manager - Power BI Team
Ted Pattison is a software developer that works on the Azure Data CAT team as a Principal Program Manager.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Ted Vilutis
Product Manager
BIg data
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Teddy Bercovitz
Principal Lead Product Manager
Teddy brings over 15 years of experience in engineering and product management to his current role as the leader of the Microsoft Fabric Extensibility framework. His focus is on developing robust frameworks and seamless commerce integrations that empower Microsoft partners. Under his guidance, partners are equipped to navigate the complexities of the marketplace and achieve sustained success through innovative solutions.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Tessa Kloster
Principal Product Manager @ Microsoft
Tessa Kloster is a passionate and experienced product manager working on Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric. With experience in data integration, modeling, and business intelligence, she enjoys building user-friendly solutions that address complex business challenges. Her work spans across various Microsoft products, including Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dynamics 365, focused on development of AI and BI insights features.
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Thibauld Croonenborghs
Data Engineer at AE
Thibauld Croonenborghs (29/06/1989) started his studies at the Belgian Royal Military Academy and worked as an army officer for several years while simultaneously studying computer science.
He started as a software engineer at TomTom working on map data, but has now transitioned to a data engineer and Python/Azure enthousiast.- Company Name
- AE NV
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Thomas LeBlanc
Business Intelligence Architect | Microsoft Data Platform MVP
Thomas LeBlanc is a business intelligence architect, trainer and author. He has been building performant data warehouse solutions for the past 20+ years has certifications in Power BI, Fabric, Dimensional Modeling and Data Vault 2.0. He graduated from LSU in Quantitative Business Analysis with a concentration in Management Information Systems. Microsoft awarded him Data Platform MVP in 2017 and has been renewed every year since.
He has focused on data warehouse solutions(on-premises and Azure) using tools like SSIS, SSAS, Power BI, Synapse, Fabric and Data Factory. He recently published the 2nd edition Power BI Performance Best Practices.
Involved in the data community since 2012, he helps the Baton Rouge User Groups and hosting SQLSaturday. Has spoken at PASS Summit, SQLSaturday, Live360, VSLive, Dynamics Community and Power Platform.
Visit his website at Thomas-LeBlanc.com, articles on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaslleblanc/) or follow him on Bluesky (@PowerBIDude).- Company Name
- SHI
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Tim Arif
Microsoft Global Black Belt Analytics
Tim Arif is a seasoned technical leader with extensive experience in designing and optimizing data engineering solutions at scale. With a strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, Tim has led initiatives that modernize data platforms using technologies like Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and Microsoft Fabric. Passionate about performance tuning and automation, Tim specializes in building resilient, high-performance pipelines that enable actionable insights for enterprise customers. As a GBB, Tim combines deep technical expertise with a strategic approach to help organizations unlock the full value of their data.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Tim Ward
CEO and Co-founder, CluedIn
Tim Ward is the CEO and Co-Founder of CluedIn. With a background in software engineering, Tim spent his early career developing digital content management solutions that allowed non-technical users to create meaningful and engaging online brand experiences. In 2015 Tim, along with CluedIn’s CTO and CPO, founded CluedIn to solve the fundamental problem of how to equip business users to prepare data to deliver the insights that enterprises need to be successful. Now, CluedIn pioneers trusted AI agents in charge of data operations at scale, safely, transparently, and under full governance, so data stays clean, compliant and ready for the business at all times.
Under Tim’s leadership, CluedIn has delivered impressive year-on-year growth, been recognised for innovation, secured Series A funding and experienced significant analyst praise. He is a regular speaker on all things related to enterprise data management, AI and enjoys spirited discussions on how to move the industry forward.- Company Name
- CluedIn
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Tino Tereshko
Partner Director of Product Management, Fabric Data Warehouse
Tino is the Director of Product for Fabric Data Warehouse. In the past, Tino spent nearly a decade building Google BigQuery and co-founded MotherDuck, a database startup funded by a16z, Redpoint, Altimeter, and Felicis. When not at work, Tino spends time with his family and doing various outdoors activities like road cycling, gravel cycling, and other types of cycling. His key to success is drinking copious amounts of espresso.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Tobias Eld
General Manager, Analytics - Fresche Solutions
Tobias Eld helps businesses modernize their data strategy—from siloed systems to fully integrated analytics in the Azure cloud and advanced AI solutions. A 20-year technology leader and former CTO at OmniData, Tobias has deep expertise in cloud migration, data architecture, and business intelligence. His work consistently drives faster insights, better decisions, and real business impact. Now at Fresche, he leads Analytics Operations with a focus on building smart, scalable data and AI platforms that fuel growth.
- Company Name
- Fresche Solutions
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Tom Eastlake
Senior Solution Partner, Data & AI
Executive leader, Data, AI, and Governance strategist, and analytics and integration architect.
For thirty years, has developed key customer relationships, led data and AI governance and strategy for those customers, led successful services programs, built practice capabilities, and mentored and developed colleagues. Utilizing a broad variety of data-focused strategic and technical skills and methodologies, he has specialized in MS Azure OpenAI, Fabric, Databricks, Oracle, Teradata, and other data and analytics platforms.
He is adept at understanding, envisioning, designing, and fully realizing the most complex systems, combining pure computer science background with decades of business experience across many industries. Passionate about understanding the client's needs and providing and executing on strategic technical roadmaps that are focused on business value.- Company Name
- IBM/Neudesic
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Tom Peplow
Principal Product Manager - OneLake
Tom Peplow is Principal Product Manager for Microsoft OneLake, driving innovation in scale, performance, observability, and APIs that ensure seamless interoperability with existing tools like Spark while laying the foundation for future agent-driven experiences. Before joining Microsoft, Tom led product and engineering at Milliman, where he built one of the first hyperscale compute platforms and a complete end-to-end data platform used by actuaries at the world’s largest insurers. Passionate about simplifying complexity, Tom joined Fabric to help organizations worldwide unify and streamline their data estates for analytics and AI at scale.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Tori Pinheiro
Power BI Product team
Principal PM for Copilot in Power BI
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Traci Sewell
Tech-adjacent mind fixer
Traci joined the community to take the tech down a notch! She lives in Somerset with some (very cute) cats, some horses, some sheep, and her husband, Rob. When not looking after all of those, she also works to sooth people's minds as a psychotherapist. Being tech-adjacent she has been drawn into the tech event organising world and the wider community, where she brings her life long knowledge, expertise and fearsome determination to empower and protect those who are outside of the generic majority box. Over the past few years she has also found a voice as a speaker, sharing information and insights into all things mental health and wellbeing.
- Company Name
- Sewell Consulting ltd
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Treb Gatte
Microsoft MVP, MCP, MCTS, MBA, CEO, Marquee Insights
Treb is a Power BI MVP and business intelligence expert with 24 years of experience.
Prior to becoming CEO of Marquee Insights, he worked in leadership positions at Microsoft, Starbucks, Wachovia (now Wells Fargo). He has been recognized as Data Platform MVP from Microsoft.
Treb lives in the Seattle area with his wife, children and corgi and holds an MBA from Wake Forest University.- Company Name
- Marquee Insights
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Trilok Rajesh
Microsoft - Global Fabric Migration & Modernization Program Lead
Global Microsoft Fabric Migration & Modernization Program Leader
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Vengatesh Parasuraman
Principal Program Manager (Security Specialist) at Microsoft Fabric
I specialize in helping our customers on various security features that we build to protect their data estate in the analytical platform and work with cutting edge product teams to constantly improve our suite of products to meet our customers' ever increasing security demands. I have over 18 years of experience in building and securing analytical platforms.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Venkata Satya Pradeep Srikakolapu
Senior Program Manager
Building world class data products & solutions
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Vincent Dechandon
Product & Marketing Lead at Galigeo, The Where Company
Vincent leads Product and Marketing at Galigeo, the Where Company. With 12+ years of experience in Location Intelligence, GIS, Remote Sensing and Analytics, he has helped hundreds of customers and partners turn complex location-driven use cases into measurable business outcomes. He works closely with leading technology partners such as Microsoft, SAP, IBM and Salesforce, and with major customers including GE Healthcare, Air Liquide, TotalEnergies, the French Police and Walmart. He has deep expertise in the BI ecosystem: particularly Power BI and the broader Microsoft Fabric suite ; as well as the GIS ecosystem, from private solutions like Esri to open source (GeoServer, QGIS ...).
- Company Name
- Galigeo
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Virginia Roman
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Virginia Roman is a Product Manager on the Microsoft Fabric Data Science and AI team. She has a background in computer science and six years of experience at Microsoft, ranging from automating data collection in the network infrastructure space, to building AI features in Microsoft Office, to now empowering Fabric users to adopt AI to streamline their workflows.
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Vishnu Vasanth
Founder and CEO, E6data
Vishnu Vasanth is Co-Founder and CEO of e6data, a next-generation lakehouse compute engine built for high-concurrency analytics and complex SQL and AI workloads that delivers dramatically faster performance and lower total cost of ownership.
With over 20 years of experience across technology, finance, investment, and go-to-market leadership, Vishnu has built and scaled data-centric businesses across industries. Prior to e6data, he held leadership roles including Director of Investments at Equicap Asia and co-founder of RenewGEN.- Company Name
- E6data
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Vladimir Ivanovic
Principal Program Manager, SQL Managed Instance
Part of Microsoft SQL Server team for 12 years, now in Azure SQL Managed Instance engineering team.
Primary focus on cloud platform aspects of SQL MI (compute, storage and Service Fabric)- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Wangui McKelvey
Microsoft, VP Product Marketing
Wangui leads enterprise product marketing for the Data Analytics business at Microsoft. Data analytics sits within the Azure portfolio which includes technologies like Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. Prior to her current role, Wangui led enterprise product marketing for Windows, Windows 365, Office and Intune. Since joining Microsoft, Wangui has also served as Executive Sponsor for the Black at Microsoft Atlanta Employee Resource Group. Before joining Microsoft in 2021, Wangui spent 13 years at IBM in various marketing leadership roles. Wangui received her Bachelor of Science from Florida A&M University and Master of Business Administration from Emory University.
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Warwick Rudd
SQL Masters Consulting, Principal Consultant, MVP, MCM
Warwick Rudd is a Data Platform MVP, Microsoft Certified Master – SQL Server 2008, Founder and Principal Consultant at SQL Masters Consulting. With 20+ years of experience beginning with the release of SQL Server 6.5, he has worked in both Australia and England from small start-ups to Multi-National Corporations. He is a frequent speaker at local SQL Server User Groups / Meetups & SQL Saturday events in Australia and New Zealand as well as many international in-person and remote presentations. When not playing with the SQL stack, Warwick likes to get away to the cold and spend time snowboarding.
- Company Name
- SQL Masters Consulting
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Wee Hyong Tok
Microsoft, Partner Director, Products
Wee Hyong is Partner, Director Product Management, with Azure Data organization at Microsoft, responsible for the Data Integration experiences in Microsoft Fabric. Wee Hyong has a PhD in Computer Science from National University of Singapore.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Wilson Lee
Principal Product Manager
Wilson is a passionate and capable professional, with a range of technical and customer experience. He strongly believes that artificial intelligence and machine learning innovation paired with great software engineering fundamentals can create real change in the world, making the impossible possible. He thoroughly enjoys solving complex challenges, with focuses on business impact and results. He is also well versed in all stages of software design, development and deployment in a highly competitive and challenging market.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Wolfgang Strasser
data juggler
Wolfgang Strasser, an experienced data consultant at ACP CUBIDO in Austria, specializes in leveraging the Microsoft Data Platform to drive analytics and data strategy transformations. With extensive experience in SQL Server, Azure Data Services, Power BI, and Microsoft Fabric, Wolfgang has established himself as a key resource for businesses aiming to optimize their data processes.
As a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Wolfgang has a proven track record of excellence in data architecture, analytics, and data governance. He first was awarded in 2015 and since then rewarded every year.
Wolfgang's commitment to the data community is evident through his active participation in national and international conferences, workshops, and online platforms, where he shares insights, best practices, and technical knowledge. He is one of the organizers of Data Community Austria Day (Data Saturday Vienna). -
Yael Biss
Microsoft, Senior Product Manager
Yael is a Senior PM in the Fabric Platform Data Protection team, and leads Data Loss Prevention policies for Onelake, as well as other Classification and
Security efforts in Fabric.
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Yaron Canari
Product manager, Power BI, Microsoft
I am a Product manager in Power BI for almost 10 years now. I worked on many areas of the product in Power BI service and Power BI mobile app. My main focus in these days is about how to make data more accessible for analysts and information workers to find existing organization data and reuse it. In addition I am working on some governance capabilities - data lineage and artifacts endorsement. I love speaking with customers to help me understand where are their pain points so we can design and build solutions to solve them.
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Yasaswi Akkaraju
Quadrant, Architect
Experience in designing and architecting the enterprise scale Data, ML & AI Systems
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Yitzhak Kesselman
CVP - Messaging & Real-Time Analytics Platform
Yitzhak Kesselman is Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, leading the Messaging & Real-Time Analytics and Microsoft Monitoring product suites. His team's mission is to enable businesses to make operations highly data-driven by getting insights and taking action in real time. The team delivers Fabric Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric, alongside key Azure services including Azure Data Explorer, Stream Analytics, Event Hub, Event Grid, and Service Bus.
Prior to that, Yitzhak led Alphabet’s Monitoring products, critical for the reliability of its production infrastructure. The products provide actionable insights into service health, impacting all products from Google search to autonomous vehicles serving 4B+ users.
Prior to Google, Yitzhak led the Power BI Platform team (now Fabric Platform), scaling the service more than 12x and helping it achieve best-in-class service recognition by Gartner and Forrester. -
Yo-Lei Chen
Product Manager, Microsoft SQL
Yo-Lei is a Product Manager on the SQL Tools, Experiences, and Fabric Databases team. With an educational background in Human-Computer Interaction, she leverages her expertise in UX research and design to drive product innovation, focusing on creating intuitive and user-friendly solutions. Her work encompasses developing web and developer experiences and integrating AI and natural language processing to simplify complex data tasks.
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Younes Jallouli
Chief Product Officer Rollstack
Younes Jallouli is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Rollstack, a platform that automates the creation of data-driven slide decks and documents. At Rollstack, Younes focuses on solving the "last mile" of analytics by helping teams seamlessly inject governed data into their workflows. Prior to founding his own company, he spent four years bridging engineering and product roles at SlimPay and worked as a Systems Integration Engineer at Tesla. Younes holds a degree from ENSEEIHT and is an active member of the Y Combinator community.
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- Rollstack
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Yulia Turchin
Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
Yulia Turchin is a Principal Program Manager based in Redmond, WA, driving strategic initiatives in enterprise data governance and analytics. Yulia is passionate about enabling organizations to thrive in a modern data-driven environment.
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Zoe Douglas
Product Manager at Microsoft
I am a product manager for Power BI Analysis Services at Microsoft. I focus on unlocking big data scenarios but dedicated to helping all customers get the most out of their data!
- Company Name
- Microsoft
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Zohra Ladha
AVP, Data & AI solutions, Hexaware Technologies
Zohra Ladha is the Head of AI Solutions at Hexaware. She is responsible for the designing and GTM strategy pf Hexaware’s Agentic AI service offerings specifically for agentic data engineering and date readiness for AI. Zohra’s 22-year career has spanned both industry and consulting, giving her a unique end-to-end perspective on AI transformation—from model development to enterprise integration. She holds a master’s degree in Statistics from India, where her passion for all things data first took root. Deeply curious and future-focused, Zohra is passionate about exploring how data, AI, and human creativity converge to solve real-world challenges.
- Company Name
- Hexaware