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Data Platform Summit 2019
Empowering Data & AI Transformation
By DataPlatformGeeks
August 22 – 24 (Pre-Cons – Aug 19, 20 & 21)
Bangalore, India
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Contents Quick Facts - DPS 2019 ................................................................................................................................................ 3
Prologue ...................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Team DPS .................................................................................................................................................................... 5
DPS 2019 Technology Coverage ................................................................................................................................... 7
Learning @ DPS 2019................................................................................................................................................... 8
Pre-Conference Training Classes @ DPS 2019 (August 19, 20 & 21)............................................................................10
DPS 2019 Pre-Cons: ................................................................................................................................................10
DPS Keynotes (August 22, 23 & 24) ............................................................................................................................12
Round-Tables of DPS 2019 (August 22 & 23) ..............................................................................................................13
Executive Round Tables ..........................................................................................................................................13
Technology Round Tables .......................................................................................................................................13
Summit Sessions (August 22, 23 & 24) ........................................................................................................................14
Testimonials ...............................................................................................................................................................15
Participation @ DPS 2019 ...........................................................................................................................................17
Delegate Analysis .......................................................................................................................................................19
Days Leading Up To DPS 2019.....................................................................................................................................22
Epilogue ......................................................................................................................................................................23
Annexure – 1: Speakers @ DPS 2019 ..........................................................................................................................24
Annexure – 2: Historical Background ..........................................................................................................................25
Captures @ DPS 2019 .................................................................................................................................................27
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Quick Facts - DPS 2019
Theme : Empowering Data & AI Transformation
Dates : August 22, 23 & 24. Pre-Conference Training – August 19, 20 & 21
Venue : Radisson BLU, Bangalore
City : Bangalore
Attendance : 2688 (Approximately 896 each day)
Companies : 325+
Speakers : 60
Total Sessions : 105
Breakout : 75
Chalk-Talks : 15
Open-Talks : 15
Tracks : 7
DPS Keynote : Gayle Sheppard, Corporate Vice President, Azure Data, Microsoft, USA
Day 2 Keynote : Anand Raman (GM & Chief of Staff, AI CTO office, Microsoft, USA)
Day 3 Keynote : Dr. Rohini Srivathsa (National Technology Officer, Microsoft, India)
Quick Links Special Thanks to Knowledge Partners
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Prologue
A journey that started in the year 2015 reached its fifth year of glory - a global learning conference focused on the
Microsoft Data Platform. Yet again, the community-driven conference focused on Data, Advanced Analytics & AI, the
theme being "Empowering Data & AI Transformation".
DPS 2019 was a six-day global learning & networking event conceptualized and executed by the DataPlatformGeeks
community from August 19 to 24. Beyond doubt, the summit was a grand success with participation from 325+
companies, 912+ delegates per day from 21 countries. The summit was held at Radisson BLU in the silicon city of India,
Bengaluru. The keynote for DPS 2019 was delivered by Gayle Sheppard, CVP, Microsoft Azure Data.
The Pre-Cons of DPS 2019 (full-day training classes) were scheduled from August 19 to 21. Seventeen full-day training
sessions were delivered.
DPS 2019 hosted multiple Executive Round Tables for senior industry leaders. The round tables were led by Microsoft
Leadership Team from Redmond including Gayle Sheppard and Anand Raman. As a special feature, DPS 2019 organized
multiple Technical Round Tables, each led by a senior technology expert from Microsoft or the industry. The icing on the
cake for DPS 2019 delegates was the Women-In-Technology (WIT) Round-Table, which was led by Gayle Sheppard and
supported by Robin Cerka, Chief of Staff, Azure Data, Microsoft Redmond.
DPS 2019 hosted some of the biggest Microsoft customers & partners from the region comprising of largest system
integrators of the world, big government institutions, organizations from key verticals including BFSI, manufacturing,
retail, healthcare, utility, energy, etc, software houses, ISVs, captive units of large MNCs and key startups. DPS 2019 also
witnessed a strong presence of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) community.
Data Platform Summit 2019 owes its success to the community, speakers, delegates, volunteers, knowledge partners, &
DPG team members. Special thanks to Microsoft US & India for their constant support to DataPlatformGeeks community
efforts.
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DPS 2019 Group Photo – A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words
Team DPS
A 45-member team including 30 volunteers pulled off DPS 2019. One of the DPS delegates gave feedback: “DPS 2019 was meticulously executed”. This is the true representation of the hard work and tenacity put in by the DataPlatformGeeks Team.
Team DPG
Amit Bansal Manohar Punna Sandip Pani Surbhi Agarwal Vijay Reddy Avanish Panchal Prince Rastogi
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Team eDominer
Amit Bansal
Dr. Deepti Pillai
Satya Ramesh
Rohit Reddy
Mamita Sinha
Mahua Mitra
Aarthi Nambiar
Ashwathy
Sonal Baadkar
Bindu Srinivasa
Aman Sharma
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DPS 2019 Technology Coverage
DPS 2019 covered many innovations, technologies & subjects from Microsoft Data & Artificial Intelligence stack. A few
mentions: SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Database for MySQL, Database for PostgreSQL, Database for
Maria DB, SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, HDInsight, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data
Factory, Azure Data Catalog, Microsoft’s Analytics Platform, etc. The technology stack was divided into the following
tracks:
• Data Science (including Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
• Business Intelligence & Analytics
• Cloud, IoT & NoSQL
• Big Data & VLDBs
• Database Administration
• Database Development
• Open Source
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Learning @ DPS 2019
Data Platform Summit Team designed a detailed set of learning options for the delegates ensuring a world-class learning
experience, catering to all levels of experience and expertise.
Learning Options:
1. Pre-Conference Training Classes
2. Daily keynotes
3. Round-Tables – Executive & Technical
4. Break-Out Sessions with Q&A
5. Interactive Open - Talk Sessions
6. Chalk -Talk Sessions with whiteboarding
7. Scheduled Interactions with experts
8. Ask-The-Expert Zone
EXECUTIVE/MVP/MCM/RD/WIT Round Tables
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DPS Keynote delivered by Gayle Sheppard (CVP, Azure Data)
MVP Roundtable hosted by Gayle Sheppard (CVP, Azure Data)
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Breakout Session in progress
Pre-Conference Training Classes @ DPS 2019 (August 19, 20 & 21) A DPS Pre-Conference Training class is an in-depth, day-long, demo-packed classroom training delivered by a globally
renowned expert. Pre-Cons are aligned to conference tracks and cover a wide range of topics under Microsoft Azure
Data, Analytics & AI stack.
There were sixteen Pre-Conference Training Classes spread across three days from August 19 to August 21.
DPS 2019 Pre-Cons:
• 19 Aug - Power BI Service Reporting and Dashboarding End-to-End By Reid Havens & Siva Harinath
• 19 Aug - Architecting a Modern Analytics Solution – Start To Finish By Joey D’Antoni
• 19 Aug - Building Machine Learning Solutions with Azure Machine Learning By Ginger Grant
• 19 Aug - Azure Infrastructure By Denny Cherry
• 19 Aug - Practical SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting & Tuning By Amit Bansal
• 20 Aug - Power BI Desktop Data Modeling End-to-End By Peter Myers & Siva Harinath
• 20 Aug - Automation, Builds & Containers For DevOps – The ABCD’s Of Deploying Scalable Database Solutions By Hamish Watson
• 20 Aug - Developing Your First Artificial Intelligence (AI) Application By Anupama Natarajan
• 20 Aug - Evolving Your Data Platform For The Cloud By John Q. Martin
• 20 Aug - Supervised and unsupervised Machine Learning with Python By Damian Widera
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• 21 Aug - Deploying And Managing Your SQL Server Data Platform With Powershell And DSC By John Q. Martin
• 21 Aug - Building Data Science Solutions Using Azure Data Bricks By Ginger Grant
• 21 Aug - Back to The Future: Modernizing Your ETL Solution in The Cloud with SSIS in Azure Data Factory By Sandy Winarko
• 21 Aug - App in a Day using Microsoft Power Platform By Siva Harinath
• 21 Aug - Deploying & Maintaining SQL Server on Linux Platform By Joey D’Antoni
• 21 Aug - HADR – SQL Server & Azure By Denny Cherry
Pre-Con Group Photographs
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DPS Keynotes (August 22, 23 & 24)
For the first time in the history of Data Platform Summit, DPS keynote was delivered by a woman technology leader. Gayle Sheppard, Corporate Vice President, Azure Data, from Microsoft Redmond delivered a mind-blowing one-hour session on “The Future of Data”. Gayle began the keynote by emphasizing that 100k Microsoft employees are working with 17 million partners to serve 7 Billion people on this planet. She shared the customer story of Paychex and its Flex Time App showing how 13 million people are on Azure today. Gayle was accompanied by senior product team members from Azure Data Team including Sanjay Mishra and Rony Chaterjee who demoed the latest innovations on Azure Data. Gayle Sheppard in her keynote briefly described the roadmap for products like SQL Edge, SQL Hyperscale, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure AI. Gayle also invited Monish Darda of Icertis on stage to talk about his experience working with Microsoft. Icertis is a Microsoft customer which is also the 2019 Forrester CLM Leader of the year. In her one-hour keynote, Gayle spoke about Open Relational Databases like PostgreSQL and MariaDB too. The house-full keynote was so well appreciated by delegates
Day two keynote of DPS 2019 was delivered by Anand Raman, Product Manager, Azure AI, Microsoft Redmond. He was accompanied by his senior team members, Mercy Peter and Tulasi Menon. Anand Raman and his team spoke at large about Microsoft’s first brush with AI in the year 1995 and how Azure AI today is dominating the major chunk of projects at Microsoft. This was followed by some mind-blowing demos based on Azure AI.
Day three keynote of DPS 2019 was again a history-making episode with Dr. Rohini Srivathsa, National Technology Officer, Microsoft India, delivering a thought-provoking session on Digital Transformation. Dr. Rohini Srivathsa spoke about the “Convergence of Digital & Physical Worlds – Business Opportunities with AI, IoT & Mixed Reality". In her one-hour long keynote, Dr. Rohini enlightened the audience about Microsoft India’s work on Azure AI, Azure Cognitive Services, Bot Development, Machine Learning on Azure, DevOps, MLOps with Machine Learning and Azure IoT Edge.
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Round-Tables of DPS 2019 (August 22 & 23)
DPS 2019 introduced a new learning and knowledge-transfer feature for its senior audience - both at executive level and
technical leadership level. This new initiative was called “DPS Round Tables” which were closed-room discussions, and
these were an instant hit with the audience. There were three types of round tables designed for the delegates:
1. Executive Round Tables for Executive Leadership and Organization Heads
2. Technology Round Tables for Technology Leaders
3. Women-In-Technology Round Table for women leaders in technology
Executive Round Tables
The following Executive Round Tables were organized at DPS 2019:
• Executive Round Table for Data Leaders & Analytics Heads with Gayle Sheppard
• Executive Round Table for Executive Leadership & Organizational Heads with Gayle Sheppard
• AI Executive Round Table for AI Leaders & Heads with Anand Raman
• Executive Round Table for Technology Heads with Sandeep Alur
Technology Round Tables
1. Microsoft Redmond Led Technical Round Tables (Multiples) Aug 22, 23 & 24 – For Senior Technology Leaders/Architects.
• Azure SQL Round Table hosted by Ajay Jagannathan & Denzil Ribeiro
• Power Platform Round Table hosted by Siva Harinath & Aviv Ezrachi (Microsoft Israel)
• Azure Data Factory Round Table – Lift & Shift/Migration patterns Round Table hosted by Sandy Winarko
(MS China)
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• Azure Data Factory Round Table – Big Data/Modern Data Warehouse patterns Round Table hosted by
Abhishek Narain (MS China)
• Data Migration Round Table hosted by Raj Pochiraju (Microsoft Redmond) & Mukesh Kumar (MS
Redmond)
• Open Source Databases on Azure Round Table hosted by Sunil Agarwal & Sunil Kamath (Microsoft
Redmond)
• Artificial Intelligence Round Table hosted by Anand Raman (Microsoft Redmond)
• Sandeep Alur’s (Microsoft Technology Center India Head) Round Table for Technology Heads
• Advanced Analytics Round Table hosted by Casey Karst & Shweta Gaur (Microsoft Redmond)
2. Industry Experts Led Technical Round Tables (Multiples) Aug 22, 23 & 24 – For Senior Technology Specialists.
• Power BI Round Table hosted by Peter Myers & Reid Havens
• Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Round Table hosted by Ginger Grant
• Azure SQL & Managed Instance Round Table hosted by John Martin & Martin Cairney
• DevOps Round Table hosted by Hamish Watson
• SQL Server Maintenance Round Table hosted by Ola Hallengren
• Artificial Intelligence Round Table (1) hosted by Jen Stirrup
• Artificial Intelligence Round Table (2) hosted by Damian Widera and Anupama Natarajan
• SQL Server Round Table (1) by William Durkin & Ben Weissman
• SQL Server Round Table (2) by Kevin Boles & Charley Hanania
• Robotics (AI & IoT) Round Table hosted by Praveen Srivatsa
Summit Sessions (August 22, 23 & 24)
Majority of learning at Data Platform Summit is dominated by the summit sessions, which include the following types of
learning delivery styles:
Breakout Sessions: Each edition of Data Platform Summit predominantly has many breakout sessions spread across the
3-days of the summit. A breakout session is a seventy five minute session delivered by a subject matter expert. At DPS
2019, there were a total of 77 breakout sessions.
Open-Talks: A concept adopted in the year 2016, at Open-Talks, delegates are encouraged to talk openly about their
projects with the experts. The objective of an Open-Talk is to foster open discussion and exchange ideas. Open-Talks are
typically 30 minutes free-flowing discussion on a specific topic. No laptops, no PPTs, no demos – only discussion and Q &
A. Topics are pre-decided and discussions take place around those topics. The objective is to make the sessions more
interactive & result oriented. At DPS 2019, there were a total of 15 Open-Talk sessions.
Chalk-Talks: The concept of Chalk-Talk was also introduced during SSGAS 2016. Needless to say, it became an instant hit
with the audience. In this learning format, data experts illustrate the knowledge that they intend to share on a
whiteboard. Essentially, this is whiteboarding. Like Open-Talks, Chalk-Talks are 30-minute sessions focusing on
conceptual & architectural understanding. At DPS 2019, there were a total of 15 Chalk-Talk sessions.
Ask-The-Experts: DPS 2019 also gave the delegates an opportunity to ask open-ended questions to a panel of experts
from Microsoft, MCM & MVP community. Delegates came in groups to discuss their project issues with Microsoft &
industry experts.
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Scheduled Interactions: DPS 2019 also offered its delegates an opportunity to spend exclusive time with select speakers,
in a one-to-one discussion model.
Testimonials
Great opportunity to meet and platform to interact with Industry best leaders, practitioners, product owners and to
top it all great opportunity to learn directly from them! Definitely good take-away at the end of each conference!
Keep up the good job DPS team!!
- Sukin Raghunathan, Senior Manager - Software & Product Development at Omega Healthcare
Management
Services
Breakout Session @ DPS 2019 Round Table Discussion @ DPS 2019 Chalk-Talk @ DPS 2019
Open-Talk @ DPS 2019 Ask-The-Expert Zone @ DPS 2019 WIT Round Table @ DPS 2019
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Excellent conference, and a great learning experience.
- Lynnette Knox, Senior DBA /Data Integration at Denver Technology
Congratulations #DPS10 you made a grand success again. I really was wowed by DPS team efforts in fulling every
Vow. Well enjoyed in the Journey of DPS 2019 with Incredible speaker sessions, interesting talks with participants
and the world class hospitality. I felt awful for two things one is for missing second day and another thing missing to
thank Amit in person. Thanks a Million to Amit and Whole DPS team for hosting a fantastic Platform. Wish all geeks
will meet and rocks again in DPS2020!!!!!!!!
- Aditya Kiran, Sr. Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services
A very well-organized event. Kudos to the organising team. You have created a great platform to understand the
tools and techniques that are available or would be available on various Microsoft offerings.
- Rajeev Rivankar, Group Manager and Lead Application Architect at Jeeves
Wonderful community to be part of, it is nice to have global conferences conducted by our own folks, pl keep it going for many more to benefit, specials kudos to organizing team. Thanks.
- Vikrenth Ramamoorthy, Technical leader at iNautix Technologies
Excellent community event with loads of information sharing and gathering. Enjoyed all individual sessions and round table meetings with various technologists and Microsoft experts from Redmond. We should grow this community and bring more awareness about it to all our friends and colleagues....this is really helpful to get to know about the latest trending technologies, its applications and business use cases. Sessions with live hands-on topics can quickly remove the entry barriers in learning and implementing new technologies and it allows us to immediately use those technologies in our job without much training on it - I would say it is an amazing way of learning without struggling much! Never miss such opportunities....
- Biju P K, Global Architect for Emerging Technologies | Innovation Leader, ABB
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Participation @ DPS 2019
At Data Platform Summit 2019, there was an interesting blend of Data, AI & Advanced Analytics enthusiasts at various
levels of experience. Most delegates participated in pre-cons as well as the regular 3-day summit. It was delighting to
see that in most cases group of delegates were led by Team Leaders and Project Managers.
Profiles included Database Administrators, Engineers, Developers, Consultants, Analysts, Architects, Managers, Project
Managers, Chief Architects, Chief Data Scientists, AVPs, VPs, CTOs.
Top Leaders @ DPS 2019
Societe Generale, Vice President Societe Generale Global Solution Centre, Vice-President, FX - IT & OPERATIONS
SwissRe, Vice President Unlimited Innovations India Pvt Ltd, Director - Business Analytics
TIBIL Solutions, Head - Technology
Inzite Global Data Science Pvt Ltd, Managing Director
Vantedge IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Director
Avantinfo, CEO
Visual BI India Ltd, Director Product Management
Amdocs, Director
Optimize Techno Services, Director
Intellify Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Director
Raj Barcode Systems Pvt Ltd, Director
EdLearnX Technologies Pvt. Ltd, CEO
Danfoss Industries India Pvt Ltd, Director
Prosys Infotech Pvt. Ltd, CEO
Prosys Infotech Pvt. Ltd, Director
Wells Fargo, Vice President
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ESQ Management Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Director - Product Development
DIVA Infotech, CEO
Nielsen, VP
Nielsen, Director
Sonee Hardware Pvt Ltd, Head of IT Network 18 Pvt Ltd, Vice President - Technology and Operations Network 18 Pvt Ltd, General Manager Technology and Operations
Aon, Director – IT
FirstSource Solutions Limited, GM Campus Management International Pvt Limited, Sr. VP of Engineering
Morgan Stanley, Vice president
GE Healthcare, Director
Times Professional Learning, Product Head - Data Sciences & AI Melissa Data Corporation, Director - Key Accounts & Partners
Ruby Growth Advisory Private Limited, Director
Microsoft, Principal Group Program Manager
Microsoft, Director - Solution Sales
Microsoft, GM, Azure Engineering
Altimetrik, Head BFS Engineering
Affine Analytics, Vice President
Affine Analytics, Vice President Non US Business
Microsoft Corporation, Director, Azure, Data & AI Nous Infosystems, Vice President, COC Strategies & Solutions Scientific Games India Pvt Ltd, Director For Technology
Aon, Director IT
Allstate Solutions Private Limited, Head - Analytics
Flipkart, Head Decision Science
InMobi Director, Data Science
Swiss Re, Regional CIO ORBCOMM Technologies India Pvt Ltd, VP India Operations
FirstSource Solutions Ltd, General Manager IT Software Campus Management International Pvt Ltd, Senior Director - Global IT
Jeeves Information Systems, Director R&D Sonata Software Limited, Client Services & Head Digital Competencies
Course5 Intelligence, Senior Vice President
HUL, Chief Data Officer
Hopscotch, Chief of data and products
Edvancer, Co-Founder
Starmark Software Pvt. Ltd, COO
EBay, Senior Director & Head, Global Analytics Center
ResolutAI, Vice President
Wells Fargo, SVP Process Excellence
Jigsaw Academy, AVP, Corporate Business
American Express, Vice President
Manipal Global, Head - Enterprise Marketing
Manthan Systems Pvt Ltd, Head of Engineering
IBM, Practice Leader -Cognitive & Analytics
JIGSAW ACADEMY, VICE PRESIDENT- SALES
Axonas Consulting and Business Services Pvt Ltd, CEO
Cognizant, Sr. Director – Marketing
Softline India, Director - Marketing (APAC)
Cognizant, Director, Predictive Analytics
LifeCell International Pvt. Ltd, Chief Digital Officer Heuristix Digital Technologies Pvt. Ltd, VP - engineering
LifeCell International Pvt. Ltd, Managing Director
GreenPoint Global, CTO
SUTHERLAND GLOBAL, AVP - ITSE
Sutherland Global Services, Director - Infrastructure Cognizant Technology Solutions, Director - Delivery Excellence
Cognizant, AI & Analytics Leader
Mphasis, Vice President COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, SENIOR DIRECTOR - DELIVERY EXCELLENCE
Future Group (Tathastu), Head Data Science
Future Group (Tathastu), Head Data engineering
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Delegate Analysis
DPS 2019 delegate profile consisted of a good mix of C-level leaders, Advisors and members of the technical staff
including those in Development, Application Development, Architects, Data Scientists, Big Data & DBAs.
Alumni
Every year, DPS attracts past delegates in large numbers. At DPS, there are delegates who have attended all five years of
the summit.
Among the current delegates of DPS 2019, many were new to the summit and had never attended Data Platform
Summit previous editions. The count of DPS alumni was not far behind.
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
Learned About The Conference
Fresher 6% 2 - 5 yrs
12%
6 - 10 yrs29%
11 - 15 yrs28%
16 - 20 yrs15%
20 & above yrs10%
Experience Level
Fresher 2 - 5 yrs 6 - 10 yrs
11 - 15 yrs 16 - 20 yrs 20 & above yrs0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Advisor
App Dev
Achitect
Big Data
Data Scientist
DBA
Dev
Mgmt
Profile Role
In short, at DPS 2019 Developers were leading the pack,
followed by DBAs, Data Scientists, Advisors and Architects.
Majority of DPS 2019 delegates had experience level ranging
from 6 to 15 years, followed by senior delegates with
experience level ranging from 16 to 20+ years.
Yes41%
No59%
Attended Previous Summits
Yes No
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When these delegates were asked, how they learned about Data Platform Summit 2019, majority said that they
attended past conference had hence wanted to attend the summit. Another major chunk of delegates were
DataPlatformGeeks members and had heard about the summit via its free community events across various Indian cities
& webinars.
Geographic Distribution
DPS 2019 played host to delegates from 18 countries including India. It is important to note here that DPS promotion
was only done in India, and the global delegates heard about DPS purely through word-of-mouth and
DataPlatformGeeks webinars.
Apart from India, the next highest delegate sending countries included: USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
2%1%0%0%0%6%
2%
85%0%1%0%0%
0%0%
1%
1% 0%
0%
2%
Countries At DPS 2019
Australia Belgium China Germany Hong Kong USA
UK India Israel Maldives Mauritius Netherlands
New Zealand Poland Portugal Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland
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Industry Verticals and DPS Delegates
The IT industry was leading the brigade at DPS 2019, followed by Finance, Healthcare & Pharma, Engineering,
Communications, Education, Consulting & Advisory, Manufacturing and E-commerce. Apart from these, there was a
good response from companies catering to the following segments - BPO, Retail, Security, Lottery, Legal, HR Services and
Professional services.
Company Sizes
DPS 2019 participating companies included large corporations, as well as startups.
Large companies dominated DPS 2019, whereas small companies and start-ups were also well represented.
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
E-Commerce
Finance
Biotechnology
Communications
Consulting & Advisory
Education
Energy - Oil & Gas
Engineering
Healthcare & Pharma
IT/ITES
Logistics, Utility & Transport
Manufacturing
Others (BPO, Retail, Security, Lottery, Legal, HR Services,…
DPS Delegate & Industry
1 - 100
100 - 500
500 - 1000
1000 - 5000
5000+
10000+
Not Given
Company Size
1 - 100 100 - 500 500 - 1000 1000 - 5000 5000+ 10000+ Not Given
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Days Leading Up To DPS 2019 DataPlatformGeeks conducted free community learning events and webinars round-the-year. More than 9 cities in India
were touched and 91+ countries participated in the webinars. Multiple topics under Azure Data stack were covered at
each event. This was massive evangelism and knowledge sharing activity. DataPlatformGeeks (DPG) team organized 28
in-person events (Data Platform Day) in various parts of India in run up to DPS 2019, touching more than 12,500 Data &
Analytics professionals. Close to 32 webinars were conducted with global and Indian data & analytics experts.
DataPlatformGeeks Past Events: https://www.dataplatformgeeks.com/dataplatformgeeks-recent-past-events/
Data Platform Day - Hyderabad Data Platform Day - Bangalore Data Platform Day - Chennai
Data Platform Day - Mumbai Data Platform Day - Gurgaon Data Platform Day - Kolkata
DPG Webinar by Bob Ward – 12 Nov 2018 DPG Webinar by Pedro Lopes – 12 Dec 2018
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Epilogue Data Platform Summit 2019 was a week-long learning & knowledge-sharing event with participation from 21 countries
and close to 900 working professionals from the field of Data, AI & Advanced Analytics. Delegates gave extraordinary
feedback and their words are embossed in the reader's minds. Data Platform Summit is the largest community-driven
event of Asia focusing on Microsoft Data & AI Technologies. The summit offered more than 100 Breakout Sessions,
Open-Talks & Chalk-Talks and deep dive pre-con sessions on SQL Server, Azure, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,
BI & Analytics, Big Data & related technologies. In addition, executive and technical round tables were icing on the cake.
DPS speakers included the world's best from Microsoft, industry experts and the global MVP community. Multiple tracks
were: Data Science (including Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning), Database Administration, Database
Development, Business Intelligence, Cloud & Big Data. The sessions scaled out on knowledge level from 200 through
400. The conference was for the Data/AI/Analytics community to learn new skills and technologies and enhance existing
skills. The conference also hosted MCMs, MVPs and Microsoft experts from across the globe. Hundreds of attendees had
the unique opportunity to network with their peers/colleagues, Microsoft experts, global speakers, and Knowledge
Partners.
50+ speakers from across the globe were the stalwarts at Data Platform Summit 2019. As always, Azure Data Team from
Redmond led by Gayle Sheppard was the highlight of the summit. Women-In-Technology Round Table was so well
appreciated as participants discussed the much-needed diversity and inclusion topic. Special thanks to Microsoft,
Altimetrik and eDominer for supporting DPS 2019.
Gayle, along with Vineet Bansal (CEO, eDominer) & Amit Bansal (DPS Chairperson)
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Annexure – 1: Speakers @ DPS 2019
Abhishek Narain - China
Ajay Jagannathan - USA
Alicia Moniz - USA
Amit Banerjee - USA
Amit Bansal - India
Anand Raman - USA
André Melancia - Portugal Anupama Natarajan - New Zealand
Aviv Ezrachi - Israel
Ben Weissman - Germany
Casey Karst - USA
Charley Hanania - Switzerland
Damian Widera - Poland
Denny Cherry - USA
Denzil Ribeiro - USA
Devashish Salgaonkar - India Gayle Sheppard - USA Ginger Grant - USA
Gogula Aryalingam - Sri Lanka
Hamish Watson - New Zealand
Harsh Raj Thakur - India
Heidi Hasting - Australia
Hugo Kornelis - Netherlands
Janusz Rokicki - UK
Jennifer Stirrup - UK
Joey Dántoni - USA
John Q Martin - UK
Kanika Gera - USA
Kevin Boles - USA
Kranthi Kumar - India
Manik Jindal - India
Manohar Punna - Australia
Martin Cairney - Australia
Martin Catherall - Australia
Matt Gordon - USA
Mercy Ranjit - India
Mia Chang - Germany
Monica Rathbun - USA
Mukesh Kumar -USA
Muniraju Pulipalyam - India
Ola Hallengren - Sweden
Peter Myers -Australia
Praveen Srivatsa - India
Raj Pochiraju - USA
Reid Havens - USA
Rony Chatterjee - USA
Sandeep Alur - India
Sandip Pani - India
Sandy Winarko - China
Sanjay Mishra - USA
Shweta Gaur - India
Shweta Gupta - India
Siva Harinath - USA
Sunil Agarwal - USA
Sunil Kamath - USA
Tejas Shah - India
Tulasi Menon - India
Vijay Reddy - India
William Durkin - Germany
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Annexure – 2: Historical Background SQL community initiatives were started in 2004 by Amit Bansal. He travelled the length and breadth of India delivering
free sessions on SQL Server. The organic growth led to the formation of SQLServerGeeks (SSG) in 2010 which gave a
professional shape and structure to the community work. Under SSG, SQL Server Day events were most popular and saw
a huge fan following. In 2015, SSG organized Asia’s First SQL Conference. 50+ speakers delivered 70+ sessions in 5 tracks
across 3 days for 600+ attendees. SQLServerGeeks Annual Summit 2015.
Continuing the success, SQLServerGeeks Annual Summit 2016 (SSGAS 2016) witnessed a bigger and better conference. 3
days, 5 tracks, 70+ speakers, 130+ sessions, 800+ attendees – the learning event was a grand success and embarked its
position as a signature tech event of India. While SQLServerGeeks (SSG) continued its focus on the SQL Community, Amit
& his Team carved out a new community called DataPlatformGeeks (DPG), covering 30+ technologies in Microsoft Data
Stack including Azure Data Services, ML, Cloud AI & Open Source Stack. And in parallel to SQL Server Day events, a new
event was born under DataPlatformGeeks, titled Data Platform Day.
The third edition of Asia’s largest SQL conference was renamed to Data Platform Summit (DPS) where
DataPlatformGeeks & SQLServerGeeks community was brought in together on single platform. DPS 2017 was Asia’s
largest Data & Analytics Conference executed in Bangalore in the month of August 2017. 3 Days, 7 Tracks, 80+ Speakers,
200 Sessions, 300 Participating Companies and 900 unique attendees.
The fourth year, we broke many barriers. DPS was shifted to a five-star property with a world-class infrastructure, more
Pre-Cons were added and summit sessions were highly curated. DPS 2018 set new standards for the industry to follow
by making the conference sponsor-free. 0% Marketing, 100% Learning. The best from the industry & Microsoft joined us,
and it was mind-blowing. Five days of non-stop learning, and our delegates wanted more. DPS 2018 was majestically
executed and feedbacks from delegates were overwhelming. Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President, Azure Data
Group, from Redmond along with his team delivered a marvelous keynote, much-awaited by the industry.
DataPlatformGeeks continues the journey of imparting free education around Data & Analytics in more than one ways.
Data Platform Day events & webinars are more popular than ever before. With 295000+ subscribers,
www.DataPlatformGeeks.com offers many free learning resources for the community.
SQLServerGeeks continues the journey of imparting free education around SQL Server. DataPlatformGeeks.com and
SQLServerGeeks.com are community initiatives by Amit Bansal, supported by Microsoft & eDominer.
SSGAS 2015 Group Photo T.K. Rengarajan @ SSGAS 2015
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SSGAS 2016 Group Photo Dr. Joseph Sirosh @ SSGAS 2016
DPS 2017 Group Photo
DPS 2018 Group Photo Rohan Kumar @ DPS 2018
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Captures @ DPS 2019
WIT with Gayle Sheppard @ DPS 2019 A Light Moment before Keynote @ DPS 2019
Executive Round Table @ DPS 2019 A Candid Moment during Speaker Dinner @ DPS 2019
Sanjay Mishra during Keynote @ DPS 2019 Anand Raman leading AI Round Table Discussion @ DPS 2019
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Dr. Rohini Srivathsa during Day-3 Keynote @ DPS 2019
SQL Server & Azure SQL Round Table @ DPS 2019 Data Migration Services Round Table @ DPS 2019
A Light Moment before Day-3 Keynote @ DPS 2019
Amit, Felicitating Dr. Rohini Srivathsa @ DPS 2019 Dr. Rohini Srivathsa Interview @ DPS 2019
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Stalwarts during Keynote @ DPS 2019 Sanjay Mishra Addressing Delegates @ DPS 2019
A Grand Welcome @ DPS 2019 Delegates Networking During Breaks @ DPS 2019
Engaged Audience @ DPS 2019 Tons of SQL Server Experience in Single Pic @ DPS 2019
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MVPs are waiting to get into keynote hall @ DPS 2019 A Light Moment from Speaker Dinner @ DPS 2019
Speakers during keynote @ DPS 2019 Microsoft Stall @ DPS 2019
A Grand Billboard of Stalwarts @ DPS 2019 Delegates with Speakers @ DPS 2019