Boston Data and AI Saturday 2026

Connect with data professionals at every level. Learn SQL, AI, and Cloud from practitioners building production systems. Walk away with technical skills and peer connections that advance your career.

This event for the tech community is organized by SQLSatuday and NESQL User Group

We encourage you to register early. If your plans change, please cancel your registration so that others can attend.

Full-Day Workshop
Adding PostgreSQL To Your SQL Server Skill Set - Grant Fritchey and Taiob Ali

Organizations are adopting PostgreSQL faster than they're retiring SQL Server. If you manage both now, or soon will, this all-day class cuts the learning curve by showing you exactly where the platforms align and where they diverge.

You'll learn PostgreSQL fundamentals through a SQL Server lens: architecture, queries, administration, tooling, and cloud deployment. Apply your existing expertise immediately instead of starting over.

Who should attend: DBAs, architects, and developers managing SQL Server who are now responsible for PostgreSQL in hybrid environments, cloud adoption, or modernization projects.

Speakers:

Grant Fritchey is a Data Platform MVP and AWS Community Builder with over 30 years’ experience in IT, including time spent in support and development. Grant works with multiple data platforms including SQL Server and PostgreSQL as well as multiple cloud platforms. He has also developed in VB, VB.NET, C#, and Java. Grant writes books for Apress and Simple-Talk. Grant presents at conferences and user groups, large and small, all over the world. He joined Redgate Software as a product advocate in January 2011.

Taiob Ali is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with 20+ years of experience with SQL Server and Azure data services. While SQL Server remains his primary focus, he is currently learning, using, and teaching PostgreSQL, often describing himself as an accidental PostgreSQL DBA.

He is also exploring practical applications of AI in data platforms, including GitHub Copilot, Copilot agent development, and built‑in AI capabilities in SQL Server. Taiob is a frequent international speaker and an active community organizer.

Pre-con Schedule:

8:00 AM: Check-in and full breakfast

9:00 AM - 12 PM: Morning Sessions

12 PM - 1 PM: Lunch Break. Lunch provided

1 PM - 5 PM: Afternoon Sessions

The detailed schedule is coming soon

8:00 AM: Check-in is open. Enjoy coffee, tea, and pastry while you visit with our great sponsors and socialize with your peers.

12:10 PM: Lunch break. Lunch and the afternoon snack are provided

5:00 PM: End of Day Gathering & Raffles

What to bring:

You must have a valid government ID for check-in at the front desk.

Things to know:

The food and beverages fee pays for breakfast pastries, lunch, an afternoon snack, coffee, tea, and sodas.

There will be vegetarian and vegan options available.

For other dietary preferences or if you need a stipend to cover food expenses, please send us an email at [email protected]

We work with local family-owned businesses that provide high-quality food. The food will be individually packed. All unused food items will be donated to a local community of people in need.

Only registered users will be allowed to enter the Microsoft facility. Attendees must present a government-issued ID to enter Microsoft facilities.

Parking is free. The visitor parking lot is adjacent to the building.

The presentation rooms are close by, so you won't have to spend much time moving from room to room.

First Timers

Going to a new event can be intimidating, we get it. We try hard to make everyone feel welcome! Just check in between 8 and 9 am, get your badge and raffle tickets, visit the sponsors, get some coffee, then pick a session and go. If the session is full or just not quite what you wanted, you may quietly leave the room and drop into one of the other concurrent ones.

Tell/Bring a Colleague

If you are attending why not take a minute to let those you work with know about the event and invite them to go with you? Always more fun to go as a team and shared learning is a great way to bring ideas back to the office.

Sponsors

We also have great sponsors who help us offset the costs of putting together this event and who might contact you by email in the future. Visit with them to learn about what they do and maybe win a prize at the end of the day.

If you are interested in sponsoring this event, visit the SQL Saturday Sponsorship Plans

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Sponsors

SQLSaturday events seek to create a respectful, friendly, patient, considerate, and inclusive event experience, and an environment where all participants feel welcome

We, therefore, ask all participants to honor this Code of Conduct. Any kind of disruptive, intolerant or inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated, and we reserve the right to remove any participants who violate our Code of Conduct from the event.

We do not tolerate any harassment or discrimination. Although this list cannot be exhaustive, we explicitly honor diversity in age, gender, gender identity or expression, culture, ethnicity, language, national origin, profession, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical and psychological ability, and technical ability.

Please report any concerns, harassing behavior, suspicious, or disruptive activity to the event organizer or staff and send a copy to [email protected]

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