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Data Relay is back in Manchester on Friday, 6 October

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

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

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

In May, Microsoft announced Fabric it its new data analytics solution. So how do you get started with Fabric? This event is an “Any Questions” style panel discussion. Bring your questions about Fabric and the panel will try to answer them! The panel are:

• Ben Jarvis, CTO, Adatis
• Chris Barber, Microsoft MVP, creator of https://www.starschema.co.uk/
• Matt Gordon, Principal Data Consultant, Adatis
• Pragati Jain, Microsoft MVP, co-organiser of Microsoft Fabric UK user group, Microsoft Fabric UK \| Meetup
• Rishi Sapra, Microsoft MVP, creator of Learn Data Insights

If this event seems familiar, it is because this is an online sequel to an in-person event on July 12th which was very popular.

Great analytics teams understand that they are responsible for two things concurrently: production and consumption. Most analytics teams master the production part well. After all, that’s why they exist, to produce analytics. However, analytics only matter if someone consumes them and makes valuable decisions as a result. “Decision + value” is what we’re after. To be able to make valuable decisions from analytics, consumers must be data and analytics literate, and that often comes down to education and culture creation. So, how do you build analytics literacy in your organisation? In this episode of Leaders of Analytics, Ben Jarvis, Head of Scaled Customer Services and Operations AUNZ at Google, answers this question and many more related to building a strong analytics culture. Listen to learn: How Ben went from practicing law to becoming a senior analytics leader and operational GMHow to coach and mentor technical and non-technical stakeholders on data and analytics literacyHow do traditional businesses that aren’t born out of the internet era can transform into data-driven and analytics-literate organisations, and much more.Connect with Ben on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-stuart-jarvis/