Its been an odd 18 months and while we’ve all been staying at home the Data Relay team have been hard at work – getting ready to relaunch our unique, free to attend community conference. With that in mind in 2021 we want and hope to deliver the following for the Microsoft Data Platform and …
Data Relay is very excited to announce it’s new leadership team. Alex Paul Stuart Long term helpers, event owners and committee members Alex Yates, Paul Andrew and Stuart Moore have now stepped up as the official directors of Data Relay. The new blood are currently busy getting the Data Relay house in order ready to …
Our friends at SQLBits let us know late last week that due to the current COVID-19 outbreak they were going to have to postpone their event. The only feasible alternative date for their venue and suppliers, unfortunately, clashed with Data Relay. We agreed that we would work together to make this happen. As Data Relay …
We’re happy to announce the dates and venues for DataRelay for 2020. This year we’re pleased to be heading back to Microsoft HQ in Reading on the Thursday. The dates and cities for Data Relay 2020 are: Leeds – Monday 28th September Nottingham – Tuesday 29th September Birmingham – Wednesday 30th September Reading – Thursday …
There’s been lots of talk recently about the optimum length for a conference sessions. Some people have been saying the standard 50 minute session is great, other saying that a 20 minute session works better Not being afraid of a bit of A/B testing Data Relay has decided to open up our session submissions to …
We’re aware that some of you may not have been aware of our rebranding last year. For the last 10 years SQL Relay have been crossing the country bringing free quality SQL Server sessions and workshops as part of a week long tour. As I’m sure most of our attendees are aware, SQL Server is …
Data Relay’s unique selling point is that we’re a travelling conference. Every day we setup in a new city, present great Microsoft Data Platform content, take everything down and move onto another city. This means moving our crew, our speakers and the conference paraphernalia every night How do we get to the next city? We …
Data Relay is a week long event, where we do 5 one day conferences, each of which is in a different city So do we expect speakers to commit to a full week of 5 events? Of course not! We understand that this is a major commitment from the speaker, the speaker’s family and their …
We’ve opened our 2019 Call for Papers The Call for Papers for Data Relay 2019 is now open. We’re looking for high quality sessions covering any topic related to the Microsoft Data Platform. If you can think of a topic we’ve either had it or accept it. Over the last couple of tours the topics …
This year we have been having a lot of discussions about diversity and what this means and how we can improve our conference to be more inclusive for all. Diversity encompasses many areas. A few of them are race, ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, gender, education, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, geographic location. The major changes we …