Twenty sessions. Four days. One short link!
The Microsoft SQL product team is heading to Barcelona for SQLCon Europe 2026, September 28 to October 1, co-located with FabCon Europe. The people building SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Fabric are presenting what's new and the roadmap, and then sticking around to answer your questions and discuss your ideas and problems-to-solve.
Bookmark this or remember to URL to find it later: aka.ms/sqlsessions
By the way, if you haven't registered yet and have decided you want to come, you can register online now!
Find the SQL team
Here's where we will be, broken down by day. SQLCon TV topics and guests are still being finalized. The times are included in the following schedule so you can save the slots and check back for details.
Monday, 28 September
| Time | Session | Speakers | ID |
| 09:00-17:00 | Modernizing Your SQL Estate: From SQL Server to Azure SQL and Fabric for AI-Ready Applications (full day workshop) |
Borko Novakovic, Dr. Dani Ljepava, Vladimir Ivanovic | E |
Tuesday, 29 September
|
Time |
Session |
Speakers |
ID |
|
11:15-12:15 |
CORENOTE: The Roadmap for Microsoft SQL: Ground to Cloud to Fabric |
Priya Sathy, Bob Ward, Anna Hoffman |
T03 |
|
13:30-14:30 |
Database Hub in Fabric: A Control Plane for your Entire Database Estate |
Patrick LeBlanc, Charles Webb |
T14 |
|
14:45-15:45 |
Pam Lahoud |
T28 | |
|
16:15-17:15 |
Vandana Mahtani, Kedar Dubhashi |
T46 | |
|
17:00-17:20 |
SQLCon TV: Community leaders react to keynote announcements at SQLCon |
Anna Hoffman, Monica Moorehouse, Rob Sewell |
SQLCon TV |
Wednesday, 30 September
|
Time |
Session |
Speakers |
ID |
|
08:45-09:45 |
Nikola Zagorac, Anna Hoffman |
W05 | |
|
10:00-11:00 |
Running Mission-Critical Systems on Azure SQL Hyperscale- Enable AI, CoPilot, & Enterprise Features |
Mukesh Kumar, Priya Sathy |
W15 |
|
10:30-10:50 |
SQLCon TV: Shireesh Thota, Microsoft VP + Matt Aslett from ISG |
Shireesh Thota, Matt Aslett |
SQLCon TV |
|
11:30-11:50 |
SQLCon TV: SQL VP, Priya and Bob talk winning with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale |
Priya Sathy, Bob Ward, Anna Hoffman |
SQLCon TV |
|
11:30-12:30 |
Patrick LeBlanc, Derek Wilson |
W24 | |
|
11:30-12:30 |
Erin Stellato |
W26 | |
|
13:00-13:20 |
SQLCon TV: What happened: 10 years in 20 minutes |
Bob Ward, Patrick LeBlanc, Anna Hoffman |
SQLCon TV |
|
14:00-14:20 |
SQLCon TV segment, details coming soon |
Jesse Sullivan |
SQLCon TV |
|
15:00-16:00 |
Pooja Kamath |
W48 | |
|
15:00-16:00 |
AI Threats, Stronger Security: New Data Security Innovations in Azure SQL |
Pieter Vanhove, Sravani Saluru |
W54 |
Thursday, 1 October
|
Time |
Session |
Speakers |
ID |
|
09:15-10:15 |
TBA |
N/A | |
|
10:30-11:30 |
Erin Stellato, Anna Hoffman |
TH02 | |
|
12:00-13:00 |
Meet & Greet with the hosts of “Guy in a Cube” and “Data Exposed” |
Adam, Marthe, Patrick, and Anna |
CZ |
|
12:00-13:00 |
Bob Ward, Borko Novakovic |
TH15 | |
|
13:00-13:20 |
SQLCon TV x Data Exposed: A look back with SQL LT, what’s new across Microsoft SQL at SQLCon/FabCon |
Anna Hoffman, Priya Sathy, Charles Webb, Mukesh Kumar, Borko Novakovic |
SQLCon TV |
|
15:30-16:30 |
Unlock SQL Server Migration and Modernization in the Era of AI |
Dr. Dani Ljepava, Vladimir Ivanovic |
TH39 |
Where to start
Start with the corenote on Tuesday at 11:15. Priya Sathy, VP of Microsoft SQL, will join Bob and me to cover where SQL is going across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Fabric SQL. Everything else on this schedule goes deeper.
Between sessions
Come find us at the Microsoft booth and in the Community zone. Bring the migration you’re stuck on, the query that won’t go faster, or the feature request you’ve been sitting on. The booth conversations are always the highlight of the trip for me, so please stop by.
Room assignments are not published yet. The venue signage maps sessions with session IDs like T03 and W54, so note the ID rather than a room number, and check aka.ms/sqlsessions onsite.
Explore the full conference details for the latest information: FabCon Europe & SQLCon Europe 2026 programme.
See you in Barcelona.
Microsoft Employee