Free community conference on the data platform, held Saturday 29 August 2026 at Campus Fjerdingen in Oslo. Part of the global Data Saturdays series, with sessions spanning on-premises databases and the three major clouds for data professionals.
Data Saturday Oslo 2026 is the Oslo edition of the global Data Saturdays series, a community conference format for professionals who work with the data platform on-premises or in one of the three major public clouds: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. The Saturday conference runs on 29 August 2026 from 09:00 to 17:30 at Campus Fjerdingen, Chr. Krohgs gate 32, in Oslo, and is preceded by a full-day paid workshop on the Friday. Admission to the Saturday is free, with a nominal ticket priced in Norwegian Kroner to help cover catering. The organiser figure is 300+ participants. It sits within the Developer AI circuit tracked by Events Index.
Data Saturday is a community-driven conference series that succeeded the SQL Saturday format. Events run in cities across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, each organised independently by a local volunteer group under a shared model: free or near-free admission, practitioner-led sessions, and sponsor funding in place of ticket revenue. Data Saturday Oslo is run by volunteers from the wider data and SQL community for that community, and serves data professionals in Oslo and the broader Oslofjord region. The recurring Oslo edition has run in successive Augusts, held at Campus Fjerdingen for its recent editions, and the 2026 conference continues that pattern. Because each edition is self-funded through sponsors, the programme depth in any given year tracks how many speakers and sponsors the local volunteers can bring together, rather than a fixed commercial format.
The organisers describe the event as a training day for people who use data platform capabilities either on-premises or in one or more of the three major public clouds. Content spans data management, cloud and hybrid architecture, analytics, business intelligence, and AI. That cross-cloud scope is a distinguishing feature: unlike some peers on the Developer AI circuit that centre on a single vendor, the Oslo programme deliberately covers AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud alongside on-premises and hybrid work. In practice, sessions still draw heavily on the Microsoft data platform community that anchors the Data Saturdays series, including SQL Server, Azure Data Services, and Power BI, while remaining open to the other clouds.
The 2026 format runs a paid full-day workshop on the Friday, then the free conference on the Saturday with 60-minute sessions. The Saturday programme is assembled from an open call for speakers that closed on 31 March 2026, after which the volunteers select the final line-up.
The 2026 call for speakers, run through Sessionize, drew 158 session submissions from an international field of data community speakers. Speakers who submitted or are listed for the 2026 edition include Brandon Leach, Heini Ilmarinen, Kristin Moengen, Savita Singh, Margarita Naumova, Fabiano Amorim, Ola Hallengren, Hugo Kornelis, and Erland Sommarskog, among a roster of more than 60 names. The final accepted line-up and the session schedule are published on the official site closer to the event, and speaker travel is not reimbursed, which is standard for the community-run Data Saturdays format. Readers tracking the same speaker community across nearby stops can also follow Data Saturday Gothenburg 2026 and Data Saturday Croatia 2026 on the Developer AI circuit.
The 2026 edition is funded by community sponsors rather than ticket sales. As listed on the official site at the time of verification, the sponsor tiers are:
The sponsor list is typically expanded as the event approaches, so the tiers above reflect the confirmed set as of July 2026 rather than a final roster. Anyone comparing sponsor-funded community events elsewhere can look at Data Saturday Holland 2026 and Data Saturday Rheinland 2026 on the Developer AI circuit.
No independent press or media coverage of Data Saturday Oslo was found during verification. This is expected for a small, free, volunteer-run community conference: visibility runs through the organisers' own channels (the official site, Eventbrite, and the Facebook page for the event) and through attendee and speaker posts on social media rather than through news outlets. Events Index does not claim any journalist attendance, accreditation figures, or media-partner arrangements for this event, because none are published.
Data Saturday Oslo is organised by volunteers drawn from Norway's data and SQL community, described on the official site as being run "by volunteers from the #datacommunity/#sqlcommunity for the community." There is no commercial promoter behind it. Registration is handled through Eventbrite, and the event is one stop in the global Data Saturdays framework coordinated at datasaturdays.com. The organiser contact is contactus@datasaturday.no. Alongside the Saturday sessions, the volunteers organise community touches such as a speaker dinner and an informal weekend excursion, which reflects the peer-community character of the series more than a conference-industry production.
Data Saturdays is a global series of free community conferences for data platform professionals. Events run in cities across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, each organised by local volunteers. The series succeeded the SQL Saturday brand. Editions are typically one day, free or near-free, and hosted at university or corporate venues.
No. While the series has its roots in the SQL Server community, the Oslo organisers describe the event as covering the data platform on-premises and across all three major public clouds: AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The programme reaches into data management, cloud and hybrid architecture, analytics, business intelligence, and AI, so professionals beyond the Microsoft stack will find relevant sessions.
Saturday admission is free in principle, with a nominal ticket priced in Norwegian Kroner to help cover catering. The tiers are Super Early Bird at Kr. 50, Early Bird at Kr. 100, and Normal at Kr. 250 (includes lunch). The cost is a community contribution, not a commercial gate. As of July 2026 the Super Early Bird tier is sold out.
Yes. The organisers run a paid full-day workshop, described as a training day, on the Friday. The free conference with 60-minute sessions runs on the Saturday, 29 August 2026. The workshop is a separate paid offering from the free Saturday admission.
The Saturday conference is held at Campus Fjerdingen, Chr. Krohgs gate 32, in central Oslo, a Kristiania University College campus that hosted the recent Oslo editions. The organisers describe the location as near Oslo Central Station, with speaker facilities, reliable internet, and screens for presentations. At the time of verification the public homepage still listed the venue as "to be announced" while the speaker platform and the recent editions confirm Campus Fjerdingen, so attendees should re-check the official site for the final confirmation closer to the date.
Data Saturday Oslo is a small, free, volunteer-run stop on the data platform circuit, and its value is exactly that: a full Saturday of practitioner sessions at Campus Fjerdingen for the price of lunch. What sets the Oslo edition apart from some of its peers is that the organisers frame it across on-premises and all three major clouds rather than a single vendor, even though the Microsoft data community still anchors the speaker pool. It does not carry press coverage or commercial scale, and it should not be read as if it does. For readers mapping the wider community calendar, it belongs alongside the other Nordic and European Data Saturdays on the Developer AI circuit.
Near-free admission. Register through Eventbrite at datasatoslo26.eventbrite.com. Ticket tiers: Super Early Bird Kr. 50 (sold out as of July 2026), Early Bird Kr. 100, Normal Kr. 250 (includes lunch). No refunds are offered. The Friday workshop is a separate paid offering. Other upcoming stops on the Developer AI circuit are listed on the Events Index upcoming events page.
The Saturday conference is at Campus Fjerdingen, Chr. Krohgs gate 32, in central Oslo, near Oslo Central Station. The public homepage listed the venue as "to be announced" at the time of verification, so confirm on datasaturday.no closer to the event.
The Saturday conference runs from 09:00 to 17:30 on 29 August 2026, per the Eventbrite listing. The Friday workshop is a separate full day.
Recordings are not standard for Data Saturdays community events. Check the event page and individual speaker channels after the event for any materials shared.
| Official website | https://datasaturday.no/ |
| Register | https://datasatoslo26.eventbrite.com |
| Call for speakers (Sessionize) | https://sessionize.com/data-saturday-oslo-2026/ |
| Data Saturdays series | https://datasaturdays.com/Event/20260829-datasaturday0086 |
| Developer AI circuit (Events Index) | /developer-ai.html |
| Upcoming EMEA events (Events Index) | /upcoming.html |