This is a guest editorial by Steve Jones (President of the SQL Saturday Corporation).
The last four years have seen a successful reboot of the SQL Saturday franchise. After Redgate Software donated the brand to a new independent nonprofit corporation in late 2020, we have run 107 events in many locations around the world, with hundreds of speakers inspiring tens of thousands of attendees.
The modern data professional industry has grown and expanded in the last decade. More and more people are being asked to work with data using multiple technologies, clouds, and platforms. This has resulted in a scattering