Data Saturday South Island 2026 is happening on Saturday 21 February, bringing the data community together in the South Island for a full day of learning, sharing, and connection across the Microsoft data platform, Fabric, SQL, analytics, AI, and data engineering.
It will be held at Ara Institute of Canterbury – K Block
We’re also thrilled to welcome Ben De Bow from Fortified, who is making the trip over to New Zealand to speak.
It’s always great to have international voices sharing real-world experience and fresh perspectives with our local data community.
Register to attend:
Want to speak?
If you work with data — engineering, analytics, databases, cloud, or AI — we’d love to hear from you.
Submit a session here:
https://sessionize.com/data-
Data Saturday events are community-run, practical, and welcoming — whether you’re just starting out or deep in production systems.
Please share this with anyone who should be there.
Let’s make Data Saturday South Island 2026 a standout event for the NZ data community.
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