Talks

List of all my upcoming and past public talks | presentations.

Upcoming

TBA

Past

Tuesday May 26, 2020 GDG Ottawa | Ottawa, ON

• GDG Cloud Ottawa May Online Meetup - Real-time data ingestion with Cloud Data Fusion.

Wednesday April 22, 2020 GDG Ottawa | Ottawa, ON

• GDG Cloud Ottawa April Online Meetup - GCP Certifications and training resources.

Wednesday May 15, 2019 GDG Cloud Montreal | Montreal, QC

• Next'19 Extended Montreal | Slides

Thursday May 16, 2019 GDG Cloud Ottawa | Ottawa, ON

• Google Next'19 Extended Ottawa and BBQ on Terrace! | Slides

Tuesday March 26, 2019 GDG Cloud Ottawa | Ottawa, ON

• Google Cloud Storage and Databases | Slides

Saturday, June 2, 2018 SQLSaturday #758 | Montreal, QC

• Leverage Open Source DB as a Service: Introducing MySQL and Postgres on Azure

Tuesday, May 22, 2018 MSDEVMTL | Montreal, QC

• TimescaleDB: A scalable time-series database built on PostgreSQL | Slides

Friday, April 27, 2018 Data Camp - DevTeach | Quebec, QC

• Introducing Microsoft Azure Databricks

Thursday, April 12, 2018 Ottawa Data User Group | Ottawa, ON

• TimescaleDB: A scalable time-series database built on PostgreSQL | Slides

Friday, April 6, 2018 Data Camp - DevTeach | Montreal, QC

• Introducing Microsoft Azure Databricks

Friday, March 23, 2018 Data Camp - DevTeach | Ottawa, ON

• Introducing Microsoft Azure Databricks

Thursday, February 15, 2018 Ottawa Data User Group | Ottawa, ON

• Introducing Microsoft Azure Databricks

Thursday, November 30, 2017 1:00 - 2:00pm EST Fall 2017 Technical Webinars | MSDN Webinars

• Welcome SQL Server 2017 on … Linux!

Thursday, October 26 1:00 - 2:00pm EST Fall 2017 Technical Webinars | MSDN Webinars

• Leverage Open Source DB as a Service from Microsoft: Introducing MySQL and PostgreSQL on Azure

Thursday, October 19, 2017 Ottawa Data User Group | Ottawa, ON

• Leverage Open Source DB as a Service from Microsoft: Introducing MySQL and PostgreSQL on Azure

September 14, 2017 Ottawa Data User Group | Ottawa, ON

• SQL Graph in SQL Server 2017 | Slides

September 13, 2017 Forum TI - LesAffaires.com | Montreal, QC

• Data lake : comment casez les silos de vos systèmes d’information pour gagner en agilité

July 4-6, 2017 DevTeach Conference 2017 | Montreal, QC

• SQL Server on Linux | Slides
• Using Spark for in-memory processing on HDInsight
• Graph support in SQL Server 2017

Thursday, May 25 , 2017 DataTalk: Harnessing the Power of Intelligent Data & Analytics | Montreal, QC

• Optimize your data strategy from on-premises to cloud

Monday, May 8 , 2017 MSDEVMTL | Montreal, QC

• SQL Server on Linux | Slides

Thursday, March 30, 2017 Ottawa SQL Server User Group | Ottawa, ON

• Advanced Analytics with SQL Server R Services

Saturday, March 18, 2017 SQLSaturday #591 Montreal | Montreal, QC

• SQL Server on Linux | Slides

Thursday, January 19, 2017 Ottawa SQL Server User Group | Ottawa, ON

• SQL Server on Linux | Slides

Thursday, September 15, 2016 Ottawa SQL Server User Group | Ottawa, ON

• SQL Server 2016 What’s new in BI (SSRS, SSAS)

Thursday, July 7, 2016 DevTeach Conference Montreal | Montreal, QC

• Exploring R Services in SQL Server 2016
• Introduction to HDInsight (Hadoop) | Slides

Monday, June 13, 2016 Montreal Modern Excel and Power BI Group (MSDEVMTL) | Montreal, QC

• Groupe Excel + Power BI: Intégration avec R, Reporting Services et SharePoint

Friday, May 6, 2016 DevTeach Community Event | Quebec, QC

• Exploring R Services in SQL Server 2016

Saturday, April 23, 2016 DevTeach Community Event | Montreal, QC

• Exploring R Services in SQL Server 2016

Thursday, April 21, 2016 Ottawa SQL Server User Group (Ottawa PASS Chapter) | Ottawa, ON

• SQL Server 2016 - New Features

Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Ottawa Graph Meetup | Ottawa, ON

• Graph Databases for Data Professionals

Thursday, January 21, 2016 Ottawa SQL Server User Group (Ottawa PASS Chapter) | Ottawa, ON

• Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse Overview

Saturday, November 21, 2015 SQLSaturday # 466 Montreal | Montreal, QC

• Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse Overview

Thursday, September 17, 2015 Ottawa SQL Server User Group (Ottawa PASS Chapter) | Ottawa, ON

• Back to the future - Temporal Tables in SQL Server 2016 | Slides

Saturday, May 30 , 2015 SQLSaturday #380 New York | New York, NY

• Graph Databases for SQL Server Professionals

Monday, April 20, 2015 MSDEVMTL | Montreal, QC

• Graph Databases for SQL Server Professionals | Slides

Saturday, April 18, 2015 SQLSaturday #364 Boston | Boston, MA

• Self-Service Data Integration with Power Query | Slides

Saturday, April 11, 2015 Ottawa Windows Server User Group (OWSUG)| Ottawa, ON

• Power BI - Bring your data together | Slides

Thursday, March 19, 2015 Ottawa SQL Server User Group (Ottawa PASS Chapter) | Ottawa, ON

• Data Analytics with R and SQL Server | Slides

March 13 - 14, 2015 Microsoft Big Data Hackathon | Mississauga, ON

• Microsoft Big Data Hackathon - Event judge, participated has a partner and community expert; running Q&A sessions and assisting groups with their projects.

Thursday, February 19, 2015 Ottawa SQL Server User Group (Ottawa PASS Chapter) | Ottawa, ON

• Self-Service Data Integration with Power Query | Slides

Saturday, February 7, 2015 MSDEVMTL, Samedi SQL - SQL et Azure | Montreal, QC

• Introduction to Azure HDInsight | Slides

Friday, January 16, 2015 Salon des Entreprises de Gatineau - Édition 2015 | Gatineau, QC

• Le journalisme de données… par où commencer? | Slides

Saturday, November 22, 2014 SQLSaturday #350 | Winnipeg, MB

• Graph Databases for SQL Server Professionals | Slides

Thursday, September 18, 2014 Ottawa SQL Server User Group (Ottawa PASS Chapter) | Ottawa, ON

• Graph Databases for SQL Server Professionals | Slides

Friday, May 9, 2014 Ottawa IT Community - SQLTeach Ottawa SQL Server 2014 Day | Ottawa, ON

• SQL Server 2014 Faster Insights from Any Data | Slides
• On the move with Big Data (Hadoop, Pig, Sqoop, SSIS…) | Slides

Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Ottawa Tableau User Group | Ottawa, ON

• Building Network Graphs with Tableau | Slides

Thursday, February 13, 2014 Ottawa IT Community, SQL Server | Ottawa, ON

• On the move with Big Data (Hadoop, Pig, Sqoop, SSIS…) | Slides

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 DevTeach Conference Vancouver | Vancouver, BC

• Tableau and Microsoft - Best of both worlds! | Slides
• Power BI | Slides
• Master Data Services in SQL Server 2012 (An Introduction | Slides

Thursday, September 19, 2013 Ottawa IT Community, SQL Server | Ottawa, ON

• Power BI | Slides

Thursday, June 13, 2013 Causerie casse-croûte de Créagora | Gatineau, QC

• Le phénomème TED, un “propagateur d’idées” pour changer le monde! | Slides

Thursday, May 30, 2013 DevTeach Conference Toronto | Toronto, ON

• Master Data Services in SQL Server 2012 (An Introduction) | Slides
• Microsoft Business Intelligence in Excel 2013 | Slides

Friday, April 26, 2013 Ottawa IT Community - SQLTeach Ottawa BI Day with SQL Server 2012 | Ottawa, ON

• Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012 An Introduction | Slides
• Business Intelligence in Excel 2013 | Slides

Thursday, March 21, 2013 Ottawa IT Community, SQL Server | Ottawa, ON

• Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012 (An Introduction) | Slides

Thursday, January 24, 2013 Ottawa IT Community, SQL Server | Ottawa, ON

• Business Intelligence in Excel 2013 | Slides

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Gatineau Ouverte, troisième rencontre publique | Gatineau, QC

• Gatineau Ouverte troisième rencontre publique | Slides

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - Gatineau Ouverte, première rencontre publique | Gatineau, QC

• Gatineau Ouverte première rencontre publique | Slides