Catherine Wilhelmsen| MVP | Evidi 

Cathrine loves data and coding, as well as teaching and sharing knowledge She is based in Norway and works as a Data & Analytics Lead Consultant in Evidi, focusing on Data Integration and Data Warehousing. Her core skills are Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL, SQL Server and T-SQL development, but she enjoys everything from programming to data visualization. Outside of work she’s active in the Azure and Microsoft Data communities as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, international speaker, blogger, organizer, and chronic volunteer. She blogs at cathrinew.net and tweets at @cathrinew.

Benjamin Weissman | MVP | Solisyon GmbH 

Ben has been working with SQL Server since SQL Server 6.5, mainly in the BI/Datawarehousing field.

He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, a co-author of “SQL on Kubernetes”, “Azure Arc-enabled Data Services Revealed”, “SQL Server Big Data Clusters” and “The Biml Book” as well as a regular speaker at national and international events. He has also published multiple Video courses at Pluralsight and other platforms.

Ben is also a co-organizer of DataGrillen, New Stars of Data and dativerse as well as a volunteer and mentor for many other Data Platform events.

Brian Bønk | MVP | Fellowmind 

Brian has worked with SQL Server for more than two decades – varying projects on both size and complexity. Now he’s working to support the Data & Analytics team at Fellowmind.

Honored with MVP on Data Platform from 2023.

Currently given the honor of being Microsoft Recognized Fasttrack Solution Architect since 2022.

Brian loves data and is always trying to glue the business and tech together using his knowledge and experience.

He is always open to meet new people and help them get better at their job or task.

Linda Torrang | DataMasterminds

With a diverse background in journalism and retail, Linda brings both business insight and attention to storytelling to the table as a data warehouse developer. Coupled with her passion for learning new tech and trying new things.

Heini Ilmarinen | Polar Squad

Heini is a math teacher turned Azure expert. With her background in mathematics and teaching, she has a great passion for problem solving, simplifying complex things and a unique approach to architectures.
She is a DevOps Consultant at Polar Squad and a Data Platform MVP, specializing in Azure infrastructure and the data platform. She has been working with customers large and small for the past several years to help them sort out their path to the cloud and make sense of their architecture – both hybrid and cloud. She has worked extensively with both Azure infrastructure and analytics solutions, and makes the most of this skillset in her projects, as well as while speaking. On her free time Heini spends time in the nature, either snowboarding or mountain biking, depending on the season.