22-25 April 2026 Zach Stagers
Zach has well over a decade of experience across a range of industries, currently working as Principal Consultant with Advancing Analytics. Throughout his career, he has implemented a range of analytical platforms from traditional Microsoft Business Intelligence to cutting edge Data Lakehouse platforms, tackling a huge variety of complicated problems. One of Zach's main passions is digging into the hype of new technology to find out what helps to make analytics easier and faster to implement.
Zach Stagers's Sessions
A Data Engineer's Guide to Azure SynapseSQLBits 2022
Azure Synapse Analytics has been steadily maturing and growing since it's release, but it's still hard to know where to start! This introductory training session will give you a grounding in all of the Synapse engines so you'll know your Spark Pool from your SQL Pools and be ready to hit the ground running!
Synapse Data Flows - Will Citizen ETL Replace the Data Engineer?SQLBits 2022
In this session we'll talk about what Mapping Data Flows can do, what it can't do and how far you can take them in building a data platform framework.