Here are my upcoming and past speaking engagements with relevant links to slide decks and demos. At the bottom of the page is my speaker bio and the sessions I have ready to go. If you would like me to speak at your event, don’t hesitate to contact me!
UPCOMING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2025
February 5-7 2025: Fabric February (Oslo, Norway)
Dodging Dax - Data Modeling by Example
January 25 2025: Data Toboggan: Winter Edition (online)
Knee-Deep in Tech Toboggan Special
January 16 2025: VizDesign User Group (online)
Putting Lipstick on a Pig: How to Improve a Terrible Power BI Report
January 14 2025: Devon and Cornwall Power BI User Group (online)
Flight Planning - How Governance Can Save You a Fortune
2024
December 19 2024: Oslo Women in Tech (online)
Sharpen Your Presentation Skills: Tips for Engaging and Impactful Delivery
PAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2024
October 7-9 2024: DataMinds Connect (Mechelen, Belgium)
Flight Planning - How Governance Can Save You a Fortune
Knee-Deep in Tech @ DataMinds Connect
October 5 2024: Data Saturday Holland (Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Not My Problem(?) - Azure Networking 101 for Azure SQL Server DBAs
Knee-Deep in Tech @ DataSaturday Holland
September 24-27 2024: _European Microsoft Fabric Community Conferencce (Stockholm, Sweden)
Dodging Dax - Data Modeling by Example
August 31 2024: Data Saturday Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
Stand Fast - How Governance Can Save You a Fortune
Roche’s Maxim of Data Transformation - By Example
July 13 2024: Data Toboggan (Online)
Knee-Deep in Tech Data Toboggan Special
June 13-14 2024: Data Platform Next Step (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Stand Fast - How Governance Can Save You a Fortune
June 6-8 2024: IglooConf (Helsinki, Finland)
The Untruthful Art - Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
May 25 2024: Data Saturday Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)
Keynote: the Butterfly Effect
Roche’s Maxim of Data Transformation - By Example
Average Fail
Knee-Deep in Tech @ Data Saturday Stockholm 2024
May 16-17 2024: DataGrillen (Lingen, Germany)
Putting Lipstick on a Pig: How to Improve a Terrible Power BI Report
March 26-28 2024: Fabric Community Conference (Las Vegas, United States)
Putting Lipstick on a Pig: How to Improve a Terrible Power BI Report
March 19-21 2024: SQL Bits (Farnborough, United Kingdom)
Making Data Matter - Combining Data, Visual Storytelling and Presentation Skills for Maximum Impact (Training day)
Roche’s Maxim of Data Transformation - by Example
Stand Fast - How Governance Can Save You a Fortune
The Untruthful Art - Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
Knee-Deep in Tech @ SQL Bits 2024
February 3 2024: Data Toboggan (Online)
Knee-Deep in Tech Data Toboggan Special
2023
October 09-10 2023: DataMinds Connect (Mechelen, Belgium)
+5 Wisdom - Learn to Ask Better Questions to Solve the Right Problems (with Linda Torrång)
Knee-Deep in Tech Live @ dataMinds Connect
October 7 2023: Data Saturday Holland (Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Hands-on Lipstick on a Pig - Improving a Power BI Report Step by Step
Knee-Deep in Tech Live @ DataSat Holland
September 11-13 2023: SQLKonferenz (Hanau, Germany)
Spell of Transmutation - Using Debezium to Transfer Near Realtime Data Changes to Event Hub
September 8 2023: DATA:Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Winds of Change - Using Debezium to Transfer Near Realtime Data Changes to Event Hub
September 2 2023: Data Saturday Oslo 2023 (Oslo, Norway)
+5 Wisdom - Learn to Ask Better Questions to Solve the Right Problems (with Linda Torrång)
May 15-17 2023: Techorama Belgium (Antwerpen, Belgium)
Hands-on Lipstick on a Pig – Improving a Power BI Report Step by Step
May 13 2023: DataSaturday Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)
Keynote: AI Killed the Data Professional(?) - Staying Relevant in the Age of AI
A Bard’s Tale - My Love Letter to Violin Plots
+5 Wisdom - Learn to Ask Better Questions to Solve the Right Problems (with Linda Torrång)
April 27 2023: SweNUG (Linköping, Sweden)
Spell of Transmutation - Using Debezium to Transfer Near Realtime Data Changes to Event Hub
April 24-26 2023: Power BI Cruise (Cruise Ship)
Making Data Matter - Combining Data, Visual Storytelling and Presentation Skills for Maximum Impact
March 14-18 2023: SQLBits 2023 (Newport, United Kingdom)
Presentation Skills Masterclass (Training Day)
Spell of Transmutation - Using Debezium to Transfer Near Realtime Data Changes to Event Hub
+5 Wisdom - Learn to Ask Better Questions to Solve the Right Problems (with Linda Torrång)
KDiT LIVE @ SQLBits
January 28 2023: Data Toboggan (online)
A Bard’s Tale - My Love Letter to Violin Plots
January 27 2023: SQLFriday #99 (online)
Not my Problem(?) - Azure Networking 101 for Azure SQL Server DBAs
2022
October 10-11 2022: DataMinds Connect (Mechelen, Belgium)
Making Data Matter - Combining Data, Visual Storytelling and Presentation Skills for Maximum Impact
The Untruthful Art - Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
September 24 2022: Nordic Summit (Stockholm, Sweden)
The Untruthful Art - Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
September 20 2022: Power BI Next Step (Billund, Denmark)
Hands-on Lipstick on a Pig – Improving a Power BI Report Step by Step
September 10 2022: Data Saturday (Oslo, Norway)
Making Data Matter - Combining Data, Visual Storytelling and Presentation Skills for Maximum Impact
Not my Problem(?) - Azure Networking 101 for Azure SQL Server DBAs
September 2 2022: Data:Scotland (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
The Untruthful Art - Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
July 19 2022: Glasgow Data User Group (online)
Power BI Data Marts chat
July 09 2022: Data Toboggan (online)
Knee-Deep in Tech Special on Azure Synapse Analytics
June 2-3 2022: DataGrillen 2022 (Lingen, Germany)
The Untruthful Art - Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
May 25 2022: DataSaturday Stockholm 2022 (Stockholm, Sweden)
Keynote - the History of Business Intelligence
The Untruthful Art - Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
May 9-11 2022: Nordic Developer Conference (London, United Kingdom)
The Untruthful Art - Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
March 8-12 2022: SQLBits (London, United Kingdom)
Learning to Listen - Making the Most of Mentoring
Lipstick On a Pig - Remaking a Power BI Report in 20 Minutes
March 7-11 2022: Global Power BI Summit (Online)
The Untruthful Art - Four Ways of Misrepresenting Data
February 16 2022: Stuttgart Power Platform User Group (Online)
The Untruthful Art - Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
January 21 2022: DataMinutes #2 (online)
Three Pools, Ten Minutes - Azure Synapse Analytics Pools in a Hurry
2021
November 29-December 3 2021: Nordic Developer Conference (Oslo, Norway)
Flying Blind(?) – Lessons Learned From Presenting Online
The Untruthful Art - Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
November 20 2021: Power BI Fest (Online)
Building an Empire: Implementing Power BI Step by Step
November 8-12 2021: PASS Data Community Summit (Online)
Azure Machine Learning for the Absolute Beginner
October 11-12 2021: DataMinds Connect (Mechelen, Belgium)
The Audience Conductor - Using Senses and Emotions to Improve Your Presentations
September 4 2021: Data Saturday Oslo 2021 (Online)
The Untruthful Art – Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
August 5 2021: Birmingham Data Meetup Group (Online)
Building an Empire: Implementing Power BI Step by Step
June 26 2021: Cloud Community Day Cologne (Online)
Not My Problem(?) - Azure Networking 101 for Azure SQL Server DBAs
June 11 2021: DataMinutes (Online)
Average Fail - Why Averages Can Be a Terrible Idea in Data Analysis
May 26 2021: GroupBy 2021 (Online)
Not My Problem(?) - Azure Networking 101 for Azure SQL Server DBAs
May 17-19 2021: Techorama 2021 Spring Edition (Online)
Not My Problem(?) - Azure Networking 101 for Azure SQL Server DBAs
May 15 2021: Data Saturday #8 Southwest US 2021 (Online)
Not My Problem(?) - Azure Networking 101 for Azure SQL Server DBAs
May 15 2021: Data Weekender #3.1 (Online)
Not My Problem(?) - Azure Networking 101 for Azure SQL Server DBAs
April 20 2021: London Power BI User Group (Online)
The Untruthful Art – Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
April 20 2021: Dublin Power BI User Group (Online)
The Untruthful Art – Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
April 17 2021: Data Saturday #5 Redmond 2021 (Online)
Not My Problem(?) - Azure Networking 101 for Azure SQL Server DBAs
April 14 2021: Croatia SQL Server User Group (Online)
SQL Server Hates You(?) – What the DBAs Never Told the Developers
April 13 2021: Swedish SQL Server User Group (Online)
The Untruthful Art – Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
April 8 2021: CloudCamp Quarterly #1 (Online)
Building an Empire: Implementing Power BI Step by Step
March 11-12 2021: Power Platform Virtual Conference (Online)
Building an Empire: Implementing Power BI Step by Step
March 4 2021: Cloud Data Driven Meetup (Online)
The Cloud Awakens – Azure SQL Database for the On-prem DBA
February 27 2021: Scottish Summit (Online)
Talking to Myself(?) – Lessons Learned From Presenting Online
January 27-29 2021: NDC London (Online)
The Untruthful Art – Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
January 23 2021: Data Saturday Guatemala (Online)
Azure Machine Learning for the Absolute Beginner
January 15 2021: SQL Saturday #1015 Vienna (Online)
Not my problem(?) – Azure Networking 101 for Azure SQL Server DBAs
January 8 2021: Experts Live Austria (Online)
The Cloud Awakens – Azure SQL Database for the On-prem DBA
2020
December 15 2020: Virtual Hamburg Power BI Days (Online)
The Untruthful Art – Three Ways of Misrepresenting Data
December 2-4 2020: Data Platform Summit (Online)
Talking to Myself(?) – Lessons Learned From Presenting Online
November 28 2020: SQL Saturday #1019 – Singapore(Online)
The Untruthful Art – Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
November 24 2020: Power BI Days Netherlands (Online)
The Untruthful Art – Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
October 17 2020: DataWeekender 2020 (Online)
The Untruthful Art – Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
October 13 2020: DataMinds Connect (Online)
The Untruthful Art – Five Ways of Misrepresenting Data
September 10 2020: Glasgow Azure User Group (Online)
Building an Empire: Implementing Power BI Step by Step
August 18 2020: dataMinds (Online)
Building an Empire: Implementing Power BI Step by Step
July 13 2020: PASS BI Virtual Chapter (Online)
Building an Empire: Implementing Power BI Step by Step
June 25 2020: Manchester Power BI User Group (Online)
Building an Empire: Implementing Power BI Step by Step
June 8-12 2020: Nordic Developer Conference (Online)
SQL Server Hates You(?) – What the DBAs Never Told the Developers
May 2 2020: Data Weekender (Online)
SQL Server Hates You(?) – What the DBAs Never Told the Developers
April 30 2020: Data Platform Discovery Day Europe (Online)
Building an Empire: Implementing Power BI Step by Step
April 29 2020: Data Platform Discovery Day US (Online)
Azure Machine Learning for the Absolute Beginnner
March 5-6 2020: TechDays Finland (Helsinki, Finland)
Building an Empire – Implementing Power BI Step by Step
February 29 2020: Scottish Summit (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Azure Machine Learning for the Absolute Beginner
February 6-7 2020: Nordic Infrastructure Conference (Oslo, Norway)
Building an Empire – Implementing Power BI Step by Step
January 14 2020: Norrköping Data Science community (Norrköping, Sweden)
Azure Machine Learning for the Absolute Beginner
January 7 2020: PASS Cloud Virtual Chapter
Azure Machine Learning for the Absolute Beginner
2019
November 20 2019: Experts Live EU (Prague, Czech Republic)
The Cloud Awakens – Azure SQL Server for the on-prem DBA
SQL Server hates you(?) – what the DBAs never told the developers
November 4-8 2019: Microsoft Ignite (Orlando, United States)
The Cloud Awakens – Azure SQL Server for the on-prem DBA
SQL Server hates you(?) – Five Things the DBAs Forgot to Explain to the DBAs
October 22-24 2019: Microsoft TechDays Sweden (Stockholm, Sweden)
Azure Machine Learning for the absolute beginner
October 9 2019: GroupBy Online Conference
Boring is stable, stable is good – best practices in practice
October 5 2019: Data Saturday Holland (Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Boring is stable, stable is good – best practices in practice
September 30-October 2 2019: Techorama NL (Ede, the Netherlands)
SQL Server hates you(?) – what the DBAs never told the developers
September 13 2019: DATA:Scotland (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Improving Your Presentation Skills – Practical Examples by Two Very Different Speakers (together with Cathrine Wilhelmsen)
Arguing with myself – self-service BI from an infrastructure perspective
August 31 2019: SQL Saturday #854 (Oslo, Norway)
Azure Machine Learning for the absolute beginner
August 5-9 2019: TechMentor (Redmond, United States)
Boring is stable, stable is good – best practices in practice
The force awakens – Azure SQL Database for the on-prem DBA
June 20-21 2019: DataGrillen (Lingen, Germany)
Arguing with myself – self-service BI from an infrastructure perspective
May 4th, 2019: SQL Saturday #851 (Stockholm, Sweden)
Arguing with myself – self-service BI from an infrastructure perspective
April 27, 2019: Global Azure Bootcamp (Linköping, Sweden)
Machine learning for the absolute beginner
April 24-25, 2019: Microsoft Ignite: The Tour (Stockholm, Sweden)
Microsoft Power BI: enterprise grade analysis services models
February 27 – March 2 2019: SQLBits (Manchester, United Kingdom)
DAX for the SQL developer
February 6-8 2019: Nordic Infrastructure Conference (Oslo, Norway)
The Force Awakens – Azure SQL Database for the on-prem DBA
Machine learning for the absolute beginner
Learning to swim – an introduction to Azure Data Lake
January 26-27 2019: Power BI Days (Mechelen, Belgium)
Arguing with myself – self-service BI from an infrastructure perspective
January 18 2019: SQL Saturday #810 (Linz, Austria)
Headless chicken – calming the sysadmin that turned DBA
2018
December 12 2018: Azure Usergroup (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Azure SQL Database – the cloud awakens
December 3 2018: UK Cloud Infrastructure Usergroup(London, United Kingdom)
Tilting at windmills – self-service BI from an infrastructure perspective
November 15 2018: Power BI Usergroup (Stockholm, Sweden)
News from PASS Summit and a look at Power BI Dataflows
October 22-26 2018: MCT Summit (Köln, Germany)
SQL Server hates you(?) – what the DBAs never told the developers
Talk tech to me – improving your technical presentation skills
October 24-25 2018: TechDays Sweden (Stockholm, Sweden)
Azure SQL Database – the cloud awakens
October 18 2018: TechUG (Leeds, United Kingdom)
Boring is stable, stable is good – best practices in practice
October 16 2018: DataMinds (Ghent, Belgium)
SQL Server hates you(?) – what the DBAs never told the developers
October 10 & 11 2018: SQLRelay (Birmingham and Reading, United Kingdom)
SQL Server hates you(?) – what the DBAs never told the developers
September 15 2018: SQL Saturday #775 (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Headless chicken – calming the sysadmin that turned DBA
September 13 2018: PASS Professional Development Virtual Chapter
Talk tech to me – improving your technical presentation skills
July 14 2018: SQL Saturday #730 (Manchester, United Kingdom)
SQL Server hates you(?) – what the DBAs never told the developers
June 21 2018: SQLGrillen (Lingen, Germany)
The force awakens – Azure SQL Server for the on-prem DBA
June 19 2018: Sao Paulo SQL Server User Group (remote to Brazil)
SQL Server hates you(?) – what the DBAs never told the developers
May 29 2018: Intelligent Cloud Conference (Copenhagen, Denmark)
SQL Server hates you(?) – what the DBAs never told the developers
May 26 2018: Azure Saturday (Munich, Germany)
The Force Awakens – Azure SQL Server for the on-prem DBA
May 12 2018: SQL Saturday #735 (Helsinki, Finland)
Boring is stable, stable is good – best practices in practice
April 26 2018: SQL Saturday #738 (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Speak your hands
April 21 2018: Global Azure Bootcamp (Linköping, Sweden)
Azure SQL Database – the cloud awakens
March 21-22 2018: TechDays Finland (Helsinki, Finland)
SQL Server hates you(?) – what the DBAs never told the developers
March 14 2018: ITProud (Antwerpen, Belgium)
Azure SQL Database – the cloud awakens
March 10 2018: SQLSaturday #704 (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Boring is stable, stable is good – best practices in practice
January 30-February 2 2018: Nordic Infrastructure Conference, (Oslo, Norway)
Boring is stable, stable is good – best practices in practice
Azure SQL Database – the cloud awakens
January 19 2018: SQLSaturday #679, (Vienna, Austria)
Speak your hands
2017
November 27 2017: SQLUG Sweden (Stockholm, Sweden)
Abuse your SQL Server for fun and profit
September 23 2017: SQLSaturday #657 Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Abuse your SQL Server for fun and profit
May 18 2017: .NET developers User Group (Linköping, Sweden)
Abuse your SQL Server for fun and profit
2016
November 16-17th, 2016: Microsoft TechDays (Stockholm, Sweden)
Azure SQL Database: The Cloud Awakens
October 17th, 2016: SQLHangout #28
Career transitions
August 27th, 2016: SQLSaturday #536 Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Unicorn Safari: alleviating consolidation pains with SQL Server 2016
SPEAKER BIO: ALEXANDER ARVIDSSON
Alexander is a principal solutions architect at Data Masterminds. Nobody really knows what that means to be a principal solutions architect, but he spends his days helping clients of all shapes make their data matter.
He has spent the last 25 years working with data, databases and related infrastructure services such as storage, networking and virtualization, occasionally emerging from the technical darkness to attend a Star Wars convention somewhere in the world.
He is a frequent international speaker, podcaster, Pluralsight author, blogger and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, focusing on the Microsoft data platform stack.
Sessions:
Making Data Matter - Combining Data, Visual Storytelling and Presentation Skills for Maximum Impact
Presentation Skills Masterclass
Spell of Transmutation - Using Debezium to Transfer Realtime Data Changes to Event Hub
Speaking Human - Learn to Ask Better Questions to Solve the Right Problems (with Linda Torrång)
The Cloud Awakens – Azure SQL Server for the on-prem DBA
SQL Server hates you(?) – what the DBAs never told the developers
Talk tech to me – improving your technical presentation skills
Not My Problem(?) - Azure Networking 101 for the Azure SQL DBA
Building an Empire - Implementing Power BI Step by Step
Flying Blind(?) – Lessons Learned From Presenting Online