Welcome & Keynote (Organizers, UGISS & Lodestar)
Join us for the official opening of the Data & AI Builders Conference. The organizers, UGISS and Lodestar will welcome attendees, introduce the vision behind the event, and set the stage for a full day of technical sessions, knowledge sharing, and community.
Speaker
Francesco Diaz
Director at Insight
Francesco is the Director of Solutions and Services at Insight. Throughout his career, he has worked with several multinational companies such as Microsoft and AWS, specializing in Cloud, Data, and AI - fields he is deeply passionate about.... read more
Gianluca Hotz
Microsoft Data Platform MVP
Gianluca Hotz is a consultant, trainer and speaker specialized in architecture, database design, high availability, capacity planning, performance tuning, system integration and migrations for Microsoft SQL Server. He has been working as a consultant in the IT field since 1993 and with SQL Server since 1996. He is among the original founders of ugiss.org, where he served as vice-president from 2001 to 2016 and he is now serving as president, for his contribution to the community he has been a SQ... read more
Luca Zavarella
Microsoft MVP, Data & AI Solution Hub Lead at Lodestar
Luca holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of L'Aquila and has more than fifteen years of experience working on the Microsoft Data Platform. He started his experience as a T-SQL developer on SQL Server 2000 and 2005. He then focused on the whole Microsoft Business Intelligence stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), deepening data warehousing techniques. Recently, he has been focusing on the world of Advanced Analytics and Data Science. He contributes to the ... read more