SQL MODERNIZATION WORKSHOP • BELLEVUE

Modernize SQL for an
AI-ready data estate

In-person working session for data and application leaders. Spend the morning on why your database strategy has become your AI strategy, and the afternoon in a private meeting with Microsoft and Quadrant architects on your own estate.

AI-ready infrastructure
Real business outcomes
Expert guidance from Microsoft & Quadrant
EVENT DETAILS
In-person • Bellevue
DATE

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

TIME

9:00 AM – 4:30 PM PT

Doors open 8:30 AM • Breakfast and lunch provided

WHERE

Microsoft Innovation Hub, Bellevue, WA

Full address sent with your confirmation

FORMAT

In-Person Workshop

0 %

of Chief Data and Analytics Officers say their current data architecture needs an overhaul to support new AI use cases.

“By 2027, six in ten organizations will fail to realize the value they expected from AI because their data governance is fragmented.”

Sources: Gartner, AI-ready data research (2026) and data governance research (2024)

Three reasons to be in the room

Modern data. Real outcomes. Greater possibilities.

01

AI readiness

AI is only as good as the data beneath it. A modern estate lets Microsoft IQ ground Copilot and agents in your business data, with governance intact.

02

Reporting and analytics

Near real-time reporting with no pipelines to maintain. One governed view for analysts, executives and agents.

03

Cost savings

Bring the licenses you already own to Azure, layer on savings plans for databases, and stop sizing hardware for peak demand.

WORKSHOP FACILITATORS

Meet the team

Collaborate directly with senior data architects and cloud strategists from Microsoft and Quadrant Technologies during presentations and afternoon 1:1 sessions.

Have a specific architectural challenge? Request your seat and list your topics to be paired with the right specialist for a 1:1 session.

Reserve your 1:1 slot
AGENDA

One day, two halves

Interactive briefings in the morning, private customer meetings in the afternoon. Select a session to see what it covers.

01 INTERACTIVE BRIEFING

Why your database strategy has become your AI strategy

What “AI-ready” actually requires of the data layer.

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02 INTERACTIVE BRIEFING

What legacy SQL really costs, and what modernizing frees up

Licensing, hardware, operations and the people time behind them.

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03 INTERACTIVE BRIEFING

From data estate to AI-ready platform

SQL Server 2025, Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft IQ, and how they fit together.

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04 INTERACTIVE BRIEFING

Reporting and analytics without the pipeline sprawl

Mirroring into Fabric and a single governed view.

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05 INTERACTIVE BRIEFING

Lessons from the field, then an open whiteboard

Quadrant's migration patterns, followed by a group session on where you start.

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BREAKS

Doors open 8:30 AM with breakfast provided. Lunch from 12:30 PM.

TELL US YOUR TOPICS

Tell us what you want to cover in the registration form and we will pair you with the right Microsoft and Quadrant specialists before the day.

Who should attend

Data and application leaders, architects, and technical decision makers who own data platform strategy.

✓ CIOs, CDOs and heads of data platform
✓ Database, data platform and cloud architects
✓ Application owners running business systems on SQL Server
✓ Teams with SQL Server 2012–2016 workloads facing end of support

Your hosts

Quadrant Technologies

Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner specializing in data, AI and cloud modernization. Quadrant architects share field lessons and run the estate reviews.

Microsoft

Hosted at the Microsoft Innovation Hub by the Azure Data team. Microsoft specialists lead the platform sessions and join the afternoon meetings.

Request a seat

We confirm within two business days and send venue details with your confirmation.

WHEN AND WHERE

October 28, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM PT

Microsoft Innovation Hub, Bellevue, WA

See you in Bellevue.

Please Note: This is an in-person event being held in Microsoft Innovation Hub, Bellevue, WA