Thursday –
11 th of August, 2016

Session
Type

Break-Out
Session

Break-Out
Session

Break-Out
Session

Break-Out
Session

Break-Out
Session

 

 

Chalk Talk

Open Talk

07:30 –
16:30

Registration
& Helpdesk

08:45 –
09:15

Opening
Address

09:15 –
10:15

Keynote 1 –
Joseph Sirosh

10:15 –
10:45

Tea/Coffee Break, Sponsor/Exhibitor
Time & Networking

10:45 –
12:00

DBA – Advanced

CLOUD/DEV – Intermediate

CLOUD/DEV – Intermediate

DBA/DEV – Intermediate

 

 

10:45 –
11:15

 

 

Ajay Jagannathan – SQL Server Migration Session

Jen Stirrup – Fast Track to Implementing Open Source with SQL
Server 2016

Rimma Nehme – Enterprise NoSQL 101

Grant Fritchey – Automating Your Database Deployments

 

 

 

11:15 –
11:30

 

11:30 –
12:00

Rajesh Dadhia

Prafulla /Sanket

Large Scale Data Ingestion in Azure Cloud – Real World Tools

Deep Learning on HDInsight

12:00 –
12:15

Break

Lunch (12:00 – 15:00)

12:00 –
12:15

 

12:15 –
13:30

DBA/DEV – Intermediate/Advanced

DBA – Basic/Intermediate

BIA/CLOUD – Intermediate/Advanced

DEV/DBA – Intermediate/Advanced

CLOUD/DBA – Intermediate/Advanced

12:15 –
12:45

Nauzad Kapadia

Tomer Weisberg

Arvind Shyamsundar – SQLCAT: Top 10 Learnings from Early
Customer Adoption with SQL Server 2016

Jaywant Rao – Your Database Applications will be Never Down,
Always Fast & Scale Anywhere – Find Out How?

Satya Jayanty – Power BI-Management And Configuration Best
Practices

Andreas Wolter – SQL Server Security Black Belt Series: Securing
Operations

John Hoang – SQL DW Lessons Learned And Best Practices

XVelocity – The Secret Behind ColumnStore Indexes and Tabular
Model Performance

SQL Security, On-Premise and the Cloud – Ask Your Questions

12:45 –
13:00

 

13:00 –
13:30

Nilabja Ball

Amit Bansal

Understanding HA\DR for SQL Azure DB (PaaS)

RESOURCE SEMPAHORE Wait Internals

13:30 –
13:45

Break

13:30 –
13:45

 

13:45 –
15:00

DBA/DEV – Intermediate/Advanced

CLOUD/DBA – Intermediate/Advanced

BIA/DEV – Intermediate/Advanced

CLOUD/DBA – Intermediate/Advanced

CLOUD/BIGDATA – Advanced

13:45 –
14:15

Sudhir Rawat

Don Castelino

Bob Ward – Understanding SQL R Services: What Every SQL
Professional Should Know

Rangarajan Srirangam / Mandar Inamdar – Lessons Learnt:
Migrating to Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Siva Harinath – SQL Server Reporting Services 2016

Denny Cherry – Inside Azure Active Directory

Sanket Dhurandhar – Microsoft R Server & HDInsight :
Technical Deep Dive

Incorporating Intelligence APIs to Work Through Azure Machine
Learning

How Does a Microsoft PFE Approach a Performance Issue

14:15 –
14:30

 

14:30 –
15:00

Sunil Agarwal

Subramani Paramasivam

In-Memory OLTP: Concepts and Improvements in SQL Server 2016

Database vs BI Professional – Which is the Right Track for Me?

15:00 –
15:30

Conference
Group Photo

 

15:00 –
15:30

 

15:30 –
16:45

DEV – Intermediate

DBA/DEV – Advanced

DBA/DEV – Intermediate

BIGDATA/CLOUD – Intermediate

DBA – Intermediate

15:30 –
16:00

Vic Parmar

Joe Yong

Alex Yates – State-Based or Migrations-Based Database
Development? A Review of the Pros and Cons…

Nauzad Kapadia – Locking, Latching, Blocking and Deadlocking
Deep-Dive

Tomer Weisberg – Leverage Security Features the Right Way: Ms
Product Team Show You How

Rajesh Dadhia – Azure Data Lake: The Scalable Solution For Your
Next Big Data Project

Nilabja Ball – AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Troubleshooting
and Best Practices

Tinkering with IoT and Azure

Very Large Databases and Very Large Tables: Bring Me Your
Largest and the Issues You’re Dealing With

16:00 –
16:15

 

16:15 –
16:45

Nagaraj Venkatesan

Satya Jayanty

In-Memory OLTP: How Multiple Versions are Maintained?

Become a Rock-Star DBA, Make Your Work Heard Not the Voice!

16:45 –
17:15

Tea/Coffee Break, Sponsor/Exhibitor
Time & Networking

16:45 –
17:15

 

17:15 –
18:30

DEV/DBA – Intermediate

DBA/DEV – Advanced

BIGDATA – Intermediate/Advanced

CLOUD/BIGDATA – Intermediate/Advanced

CLOUD/BIGDATA – Intermediate

17:15 –
17:45

Ajay Jagannathan

Vic Parmar

Sunil Agarwal – Operational Analytics in SQL Server 2016 and
Azure SQL Database

Joey D’Antoni – Deep Inside Compression in SQL Server

Sudhir Rawat – Improving Performance of Big Data Solution

Vineet Bhatia – Real Time Mega Event Ingestion and Analysis

Prafulla Wani – LUIS – Natural Language Processing Simplified

Background Threads – Silent Heroes of SQL Server Engine

Lets Talk about 3D Printing

17:45 –
18:00

 

18:00 –
18:30

Yogeshwar Phull

Bob Ward

SQL Server Backups: A peep behind the curtain

Troubleshooting the Top 5 Issues Seen by Customers of SQL Server

18:30 –
19:00

Raffles /
Prizes (Loads to be Won)

 



 

 

 

Friday –
12 th of August, 2016

Session
Type

Break-Out
Session

Break-Out
Session

Break-Out
Session

Break-Out
Session

Break-Out
Session

 

 

Chalk Talk

Open Talk

07:30 –
17:45

Registration
& Helpdesk

08:45 –
09:45

Keynote 2

09:45 –
10:15

Tea/Coffee Break, Sponsor/Exhibitor
Time & Networking

10:15 –
11:30

BIA/BIGDATA – Basic/Intermediate

BIA/DEV – Intermediate/Advanced

CLOUD/DBA – Intermediate

DBA – Intermediate

 

 

10:15 –
10:45

Prafulla /Sanket

Nagaraj Venkatesan

Wee Hyong Tok – Unleashing Your Data Science Super Powers

Aniruddha Deswandikar – IoT and Data Analytics: Real World
Challenges

Joe Yong – SQL Server 2016 Stretch Database: Leveraging Azure to
Solve On-Premises Challenges

Grant Fritchey – Understanding Your Servers, All Your Servers

 

Big Data Analytics Options on HDInsight

How to Identify Root Cause of Database Performance Bottleneck
within 5 Minutes!

10:45 –
11:00

 

11:00 –
11:30

Pooja / Hitesh

Yogeshwar Phull

Querying Remote Databases Using Elastic Query Overview

SQL Server Always ON and Change Data Capture: Friends or Foes?

11:30 –
11:45

Break

11:30 –
11:45

 

11:45 –
13:00

BIA/CLOUD – Intermediate/Advanced

DBA/DEV – Intermediate/Advanced

DBA/DEV – Advanced

BIA – Intermediate

DBA – Intermediate

11:45 –
12:30

Subramani Paramasivam

Sandip Pani

Anil Shah / P.C. Mustafa – KPIs and Business Insights – How
iDSpecial Uses Power BI to Get a Pulse on its Fresh Food Business

Sunil Agarwal – SQL Server 2016: Customer Success Stories With
Columnstore Index

Nauzad Kapadia – Parsing and Understanding Execution Plans –
Part I

Jen Stirrup – Intelligent Implementation of SQL Server 2016
Business Intelligence for You and Your Customers

Andreas Wolter – Performance Analyzing SQL Server Workloads With
DMVs and XEvents

Lunch (12:00 – 14:45)

Career path to become a Data Scientist

Satistics – Break All Myths

12:15 –
12:30

 

12:30 –
13:00

Prince Rastogi

Pooja / Hitesh

Things About SQL Server That Google Cannot Find for You

How to achieve Connection Resiliency with Azure SQL DB

13:00 –
13:15

Break

13:00 –
13:15

 

13:15 –
14:30

DBA/DEV – Advanced

BIA/CLOUD – Intermediate

DBA/DEV – Advanced

BIA/CLOUD – Intermediate/Advanced

BIA/DEV – Intermediate

13:15 –
13:45

Deepthi Anantharam

Ahmad Osama

Bob Ward – Inside the SQL Server Query Store

Sanket Dhurandhar – Cortana Intelligence Suite Cognitive Service
: Speech and Speaker Recognition

Nauzad Kapadia – Parsing and Understanding Execution Plans –
Part II

Vic Parmar – IoT with Azure from the Wires to the Cloud Doing
Data Analytics

Narendra Angane / Mahendraprasad Dubey – Visualization Tools
That Meet Your Business Needs

The Evolving World of Business Intelligence

Stored Procedures Performance Tuning

13:45 –
14:00

 

14:00 –
14:30

Sravani Saluru

 

Top Tips to Rule Out Performance Bottlenecks in SQL Server

 

14:30 –
14:45

Break

14:30 –
14:45

 

14:45 –
16:00

DBA – Advanced

DBA/DEV – Intermediate/Advanced

BIA/DEV – Intermediate/Advanced

CLOUD/DBA – Intermediate/Advanced

DBA/DEV – Basic/Intermediate

 

14:45 –
15:15

Tomer Weisberg

Subramani Paramasivam

Ajay Jagannathan – Enhancements That Will Make Your SQL Engine
Roar

Amit Tikkiwal – Implementing India’s First Hyper Scale Analytics
with MPP (Massively Parallel Processing)

Siva Harinath – Power BI for Enterprises – Development Life
Cycle, Best Practices etc.

Morgan Oslake – Resource Management Of Multi-Database Apps Using
Elastic Pools In Azure SQL DB

Alex Yates – DevOps 101 for the DBA – how your job will change

Explain Azure Data Factory and the Programming Model Behind It

How Did I Convince My Clients to Upgrade to SQL Server 2016

15:15 –
15:30

 

15:30 –
16:00

Jen Stirrup

Manohar Punna

The Accidental BI Project Manager – How Do You Effectively
Deliver Your First BI Project?

Giving Back to the Community

16:00 –
16:30

Tea/Coffee Break, Sponsor/Exhibitor
Time & Networking

16:00 –
16:30

 

16:30 –
17:45

DBA/BIGDATA – Intermediate

BIGDATA/DEV – Intermediate

DBA/DEV – Intermediate/Advanced

CLOUD/BIGDATA – Intermediate

DBA – Advanced

16:30 –
17:00

Mahendraprasad / Narendra

Ajay /Sunil

Satya Jayanty – DBA-How Would You Handle BI, DW and Big Data
Platform?

Sunil Kumar Chakrapani – Spark SQL : Query Big Data SQL Way

Joey D’Antoni – AlwaysOn Availability Group Internals

Prafulla Wani – Azure Data Factory Deep Dive

Denny Cherry – Index Internals

A Quick Overview of Delayed Durability

TempDB Configuration and Common Issues

17:00 –
17:15

 

17:15 –
17:45

Bob Ward

Sravani Saluru

Understanding SQLOS Scheduling

All about Clustering – Concepts and Troubleshooting

17:45 –
19:00

Raffles/Prizes & Beat Boxing
Perfromance by Vineeth Vincent

 



 

 

Saturday –
13 th of August, 2016

Session
Type

Break-Out
Session

Break-Out
Session

Break-Out
Session

Break-Out
Session

Break-Out
Session

Chalk Talk

Open Talk

07:30 –
16:30

Registration
& Helpdesk

08:45 –
10:00

CLOUD/DBA – Intermediate/Advanced

DBA – Advanced

BIA/CLOUD – Intermediate

BIA/DEV – Intermediate/Advanced

CLOUD – Basic/Intermediate

 

08:45 –
09:15

Don Castelino

Mahendraprasad / Narendra

Subramani Paramasivam – Hyperscale Technology Lets a DBA Sleep,
+30 Minutes a Day!

Ajay Jagannathan – Become a Troubleshooting Ninja Using SQL
Server Extended Events

Jen Stirrup – Delivering Practical Analytics and Results with
Cortana Analytics 

Siva Harinath – SQL Server Analysis Services 2016

Kishore Shetty – Device and Data on the Cloud –  Forming
Norms for IOT Solution Realization

A Quick Overview of IIS for SQL Professionals

Buffer Pool Extension – How Can It Help SQL Memory

09:15 – 09:30

 

09:30 –
10:00

Devashish Salgaonkar

Deepthi Anantharam

Stretching Your Database to the Cloud

My First Machine Learning Project

10:00 –
10:30

Tea Break / Sponsor, Exhibitor and
Networking

10:00 –
10:30

 

10:30 –
11:45

DBA/DEV – Intermediate/Advanced

DBA – Intermediate

DEV/CLOUD – Basic/Intermediate

BIA/CLOUD – Intermediate/Advanced

 

10:30 –
11:00

Satya Jayanty

Nagaraj Venkatesan

Bob Ward – SQL Server 2016: It Just Runs Faster

Nilabja Ball – Polybase in SQL Server – Bridge Between
Relational and Bigdata World

Aditee Rele – Data is the New "Electricity"

Sudhir Rawat – Incorporating Intelligence APIs to Work Through
Azure Machine Learning

 

Tips to Build a Career in Big Data Analytics, Must Have Skills
and Tools of the Trade

CPU Performance Troubleshooting: 5 Important Things to Do!

11:00 – 11:15

 

11:15 –
11:45

Sravani Saluru

Alex Yates

SQL Server Memory – Concepts and Troubleshooting Tips

Why Can’t We All Get Along? – Developers and DBA in Harmony

11:45 –
12:00

Break

11:45 –
12:00

 

12:00 –
13:15

CLOUD/DBA – Intermediate/Advanced

DBA/DEV – Intermediate/Advanced

DBA/DEV – Basic/Intermediate

DBA/DEV – Intermediate

DBA/DEV – Intermediate/Advanced

Lunch (12:00 – 14:45)

12:00 –
12:30

Manohar Punna

Amit Bansal

Devashish Salgaonkar – SQL Server On Azure IaaS  –
Performance Best Practices and Lessons Learnt from the Field

Don Rohan Castelino – SQL Connectivity Troubleshooting Tips and
Tricks

Lakshmana Kothapalli – How to be a Rich DBA

Avanish Panchal – SQL Build, No More Next, Next 

Nagaraj Venkatesan – How Your Queries Automatically Tune Using
the New Cardinality Estimator

Approach to Building a Centralized DBA Solution

Presentation Skills – 5 Most Important Things

12:30 – 12:45

 

12:45 –
13:15

Andreas Wolter

Prince Rastogi

How Columnstore and In-Memory Change Modern Database Design – or
Will They?

Checkpoint & Challenges Faced During Database Recovery

13:15 – 13:30

Break

13:15 –
13:30

 

13:30 –
14:45

DBA/DEV – Advanced

DBA – Intermediate

DBA – Intermediate/Advanced

CLOUD/BIGDATA – Basic/Intermediate

BIA/CLOUD – Intermediate

13:30 –
14:00

Sandip Pani

Sravani Saluru

Sunil Agarwal – In-Memory OLTP: Concepts and Improvements in SQL
Server 2016

Jayaraj Vemula –  Automating a SQL DBA’S Day With
Powershell

Joey D’Antoni / Denny Cherry – Modern Storage Architecture for
DBAs

Deepthi Anantharam – Start to Finish with Azure Data Factory

Ahmad Osama – Real Time Analytics With Storm and Power BI

Fill Factor – Let’s Look at Few Internals

SQL Server Availability Groups – Configuration and
Troubleshooting

14:00 – 14:15

 

14:15 –
14:45

Subramani Paramasivam

Nilabja Ball

What Makes me a Data Architect? How Can You Become One?

Improving Backup Performance

14:45 –
15:15

Break / Sponsor, Exhibitor and
Networking

 

14:45 –
15:15

 

15:15 –
16:30

DBA/CLOUD – Intermediate/Advanced

BIGDATA/DEV – Intermediate

DEV/BIA – Advanced

DBA – Intermediate/Advanced

BIA/CLOUD – Intermediate

15:15 –
15:45

Alex Yates

Devashish Salgaonkar

Pooja Kamath / Hitesh Chouhan – Top Tricks to Evaluate
Performance Bottlenecks and Improve Performance in Azure SQL Database.

Satya Jayanty – Big Data Integration-Rewards of Getting it Right

Muthukumaran Arumugam – A Peek Into Temporal Tables and Change
Tracking in SQL 2016

Gaurav Mathur – Transactional Replication (One-way) Internals

Anil Maharjan – Using Power Query to Tell Your Story form Your
Facebook Data

Continuous Integration and Databases – “It Works on My Machine!”
Sound Familiar?

How Columnstore Indexes Can Speed Up Your Query Performance

15:45 – 16:00

 

16:00 –
16:30

 

 

 

 

16:30 –
17:30

Closing Note
/ Raffles/ Prizes