Meet the Azure SQL Database team at PASS Summit 2018

Azure SQL Database Engineering team (@azuresqldb) represented by Lindsey Allen,  Joachim Hammer, Ajay Jagannathan, Joe Sack, Borko Novakovic, Mine Tokus, Kevin Farlee, Xiaochen Wu, Alice Kupcik, Jakub Szymaszek, Shreya Verma, Perry Skountrianos, Alain Dormehl, Mirek Sztajno will be in full force speaking at several sessions at the PASS Summit 2018 conference (the Largest Technical Conference for the Microsoft Data Platform Community). The conference will take place Nov 6-9, 2018, in Seattle, WA.

The team will present several sessions and share some of the cool new innovations in Azure SQL Database to help you with your cloud journey. In addition, through some of these sessions, we will also share success stories from several customers that have successfully deployed and are running their mission critical workloads on Azure SQL Database. Feel free to stop by to attend and learn from our sessions as well as interact with the team to share your feedback, and any questions that you may have on your on-going projects with Azure SQL Database.

Here is a complete list of sessions that we will be presenting.

Breakout sessions:

Date Time Session Room Speaker Co Presenters
2018/11/07 10:15 - 11:30 Introducing Azure SQL Database Hyperscale TCC Tahoma 5 Ajay Jagannathan Xiaochen Wu,Kevin Farlee,Lindsey Allen
2018/11/07 13:30 - 14:45 Improving Availability in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database 606 Perry Skountrianos Mirek Sztajno
2018/11/07 16:45 - 18:00 SQL DB Security Overview 606 Joachim Hammer Mirek Sztajno,Alice Kupcik
2018/11/08 10:15 - 11:30 Meet the Modern SQL Server: Graph and Machine Learning Services 606 Nellie Gustafsson Shreya Verma
2018/11/08 10:15 - 11:30 What's New - Query Performance Insights 2AB Pedro Lopes Joseph Sack
2018/11/08 10:45 - 12:00 Azure SQL DB Managed Instances - Built to Easily Modernize Application Data Layer TCC Skagit 4 Borko Novakovic
2018/11/08 13:30 - 14:45 Enhanced SQL Server on Azure VM Service TCC Yakima 1 Mine Tokus
2018/11/09 09:30 - 10:45 SQL DB Managed Instance - Best Practices and Lessons Learned TCC Tahoma 5 Dimitri Furman Mike Weiner,Kun Cheng

Theater sessions:

Date Time Session Room Speaker
2018/11/07 14:00 - 14:20 Use Azure SQL Data Sync to build a Hybrid SQL data platform Microsoft Booth #505 Xiaochen Wu
2018/11/08 10:00 - 10:20 Confidential computing with Always Encrypted with secure enclaves in SQL Server Microsoft Booth #505 Jakub Szymaszek
2018/11/08 14:30 - 14:50 (Repeat Session) Use Azure SQL Data Sync to build a Hybrid SQL data platform Microsoft Booth #505 Xiaochen Wu
2018/11/09 11:00 - 11:20 (Repeat Session) Confidential computing with Always Encrypted with secure enclaves in SQL Server Microsoft Booth #505 Jakub Szymaszek

In addition to these sessions, you can interact with various members of our engineering team at

  • Birds of a feather luncheon - Azure SQL Database table (Dining Hall 4EF, W/Th – 11:30-1:30, Fri 12-2)
  • Microsoft Data Clinic (4C – W/Th 9:30-6, Fri 10-2)
  • Azure SQL Database booth (4B - Exhibit Hall W/Th 9:45-3:30, Fri 10:30-2)