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November 2026 Meetup

Thursday 19 November 2026·5:30pm·100 Barbirolli Square
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Date & Time

Thursday 19 November 2026

5:30pm – 8:00pm

Location

100 Barbirolli Square

100 Barbirolli Square, Manchester, M2 3AB

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Free

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Manchester Databricks User Group

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The November edition of the Manchester Databricks User Group, hosted at Canopius Group on Barbirolli Square. Alex Cole, Principal Databricks Architect and Databricks MVP, opens with a year of Databricks release data and what it says about where the platform is going. David McDwyer, Head of Data & Analytics at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, follows on moving a fragmented hospital data estate onto a Databricks lakehouse. Barry Regan of Databricks closes with Lakebase, which brings PostgreSQL transactional databases into the Databricks ecosystem. Runs 17:30 to 20:00, free, with networking either side.

Speakers

AC

Alex Cole

Principal Databricks Architect and Databricks MVP, Databricks Release Hub

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David McDwyer

Head of Data & Analytics, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

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Barry Regan

Lakebase Specialist, Databricks

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