Category Archives: Data Céilí

Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers!

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Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live!

Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is Ireland’s free, community led, Microsoft Data Platform event.

We had a fantastic event this year so…we’re back in the summer of 2026!

The event will run be held at Trinity College in the centre of Dublin, with pre-cons on the 11th of June and the main event on the 12th.

The Call for Speakers has opened and can be found here: –
https://sessionize.com/data-ceili-2026/

We’re looking for anything covering the Microsoft Data Platform, from beginner sessions to expert! So calling all you fantastic speakers out there, we would love for you to come and speak at Ireland’s best Microsoft Data Platform conference.

Hope to see you there!

Data Ceili 2023 – Schedule and Registration

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Today we have announced the schedule for Data Céilí 2023 and have opened registration!

We have two days of great sessions for you, the 8th of June will have full day training sessions and then on the 9th of June we’ll have a full day conference of regular one hour sessions!

The schedule for the conference is: –

Information and registration for the full day training sessions is available here: –
https://www.dataceili.io/precons-2023

Registration for the conference is available (completely free) here: –
https://www.dataceili.io/registration

Hope to see you there!

Data Céilí 2020 Cancelled

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Yesterday we announced that Data Céilí 2020 has been cancelled due to the continuing threat of COVID-19.

As much as we wanted to put this event on, the safety of all attendees is paramount and we can’t guarantee that at this moment in time.

I want to thank all the speakers who submitted to our event. I’m pretty sure a lot of you got sick of me badgering you to submit 🙂

This would have been the first year we were to run and the response we had absolutely blew us away. We wanted Data Céilí to be the biggest and best MS Data Platform event in Ireland and I’m certain with the quality of submissions that we had, that would have been the case.

We’re going to regroup and start planning, because Data Céilí will be back in 2021.

In the meantime, the Irish SQL User Groups have come together to run regular virtual meetups

If you would like to present please contact me on twitter @dbafromthecold or at dbafromthecold@gmail.com

Thank you, and stay safe.

Andrew

Looking forward to 2020

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2019 was a busy year for me. I presented sessions in over 10 countries, averaging speaking at two conferences per month. I also helped organise Data Relay and attended all five days which is always a fun (yet tiring) experience.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed myself last year and I hope 2020 brings more of the same! I do intend on not speaking at as many conferences this year although to be honest I did say that at the start of 2019.

I do want to get back into blogging more often this year. I didn’t publish as often as I wanted to last year and the simple reason for that was….time. So this year I plan on getting some cool stuff out there.

I’m currently writing this in Dublin airport waiting to head over to London to present my Chaos Engineering for SQL Server session at Conf42.com. I’ve been diving into the world of Chaos Engineering recently so hope to get a few posts out about it in the next few months.

I’ll also be continuing to explore running SQL Server in Docker containers and on Kubernetes. There’s so much great stuff happening in those areas that it can be difficult to keep up at times! The two main things I’m looking forward to are running SQL Server Edge on a Raspberry Pi (if they ever give me access to the container image) and WSL 2 going GA.

Another thing I’ve been enjoying is delving into the world of Linux. I’ve been using Ubuntu as my primary OS for a while now but had to refresh my laptop over Christmas in order to install Windows 10 as it’s needed for an upcoming project that I’m working on (can’t say too much about that at the moment but it’s quite exciting!). So I installed Windows 10 and then decided to install Fedora 31 instead of re-installing Ubuntu.

I can’t really say why I went for Fedora. There’s a tonne of distros out there (I seriously looked at Manjaro) but I guess the main reason was that Microsoft has two linux SQL Server 2019 container images, one for Ubuntu and one for Red Hat. Plus I suffer from Shiny Tech Syndrome so wanted to try something new.

I’ve also recently purchased a Pinebook Pro. I needed a backup laptop for when I travel (at least that’s what I’m telling myself) so nabbed one. The price can’t be argued with ($200) and the reviews online are all very positive so am looking forward to getting my hands on it. One of the really cool things is that it will boot from a SD card so I’ll get to try out Manjaro after all! 🙂 I’ll definitely be posting a review about it once I’ve had it for a couple of weeks (in fact that might get wrapped up into a larger post about either my linux experiences so far or my current travel kit…haven’t decided yet).

Finally to mention, I’ve also started helping organise a brand new conference in Ireland, Data Céilí. This conference is run by the team behind SQL Saturday Dublin and the response we’ve had so far as been amazing. We’ll be selecting sessions in the next couple of weeks and then prompting the heck out of it!

I reckon that should be enough projects to keep me occupied for the foreseeable future.

Thanks for reading and I hope 2020 is a blast.

Remote sessions at Data Céilí

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At Data Céilí 2020 we want to be as green as possible and one idea we’ve had is to run a Green Track that will host remote sessions from speakers around the world.

This track will allow speakers to present without clocking up the associated air miles. It will also allow for speakers who can’t make the trip to Ireland to present their sessions from the comfort of their own home.

If you’d like to submit a session for our Green Track, the call for speakers is open until the 31st of January. Select the Green Session option from the drop down: –

The Green Track sessions are completely separate from the other on-site sessions, so if you’ve submitted a regular session it won’t be considered for the Green Track.

We think this will be a great way of expanding the range of speakers that we can host at our first event and should be good fun!

Data Céilí is brought to you by the team behind SQL Saturday Dublin and Cork, the event will run be held at Trinity College in the centre of Dublin, with pre-cons on the 9th of July 2020 and the main event on the 10th.

Hope to see you there!