Greetings! I’m excited for some of the technical posts that I’m working on, but before I’m able to publish those I wanted to share the details of my speaking schedule for May. I’m incredibly fortunate to have these speaking opportunities, and I’m incredibly excited to share them with you and to share my presentations with the attendees at these events!
My epic May begins this weekend with SQL Saturday Jacksonville on May 5th. I’m looking forward to catching up with some friends in the area, but I’m also looking forward to my first presentation in Florida! I’ll be presenting my “How to Keep Your Database Servers Out of the News” session. I really enjoy this session because it lends itself to a lot of interactivity with the group as we talk through various challenges people have had and the questions those challenges bring to their mind. If you’re attending, I look forward to seeing you and hearing your questions. If you’re not attending, click here to register and I’ll see you there!
The following weekend, on May 12th, I’ll be presenting at SQL Saturday Finland in Helsinki. It is an understatement to say that I’m excited for this one. My wife has requested that I bring Kimi Raikkonen home with me, and while I’m pretty sure she’s going to be disappointed in my failure to do that, I’m thrilled that I’m meeting my goal by speaking there! I set a personal goal to do at least one international presentation in 2018 and I’m incredibly grateful to the organizers of SQL Saturday Finland for selecting my session on “New Features and New Speed in SQL Server 2016 (and 2017) Always On Availability Groups”. I last presented this session at SQL Saturday Cleveland in February and it went really well and seemed to help some folks with challenges they were having, so I’m excited to bring this one to an international audience. If you’d like to register, click here to do that.
Following my presentation in Finland, I’m hopping a quick 3-hour flight to England to present “Feelings Quantified – Ranking Football Clubs By Supporter Sentiment” to Tech Nottingham. I’m thrilled that I was able to work this out with the organizers and they’ve been absolutely wonderful to me as we’ve worked to get this setup. This will be the second time I present on the Azure Logic Apps and Azure SQL DB guts of the Men in Blazers Mood Table I blogged about here in December and the first time it will be to a crowd who calls it football instead of soccer. 🙂 When I arrive in London on 5/13 I’m taking a few hours out, before hopping the train to Nottingham, to catch Tottenham’s (my favorite English football club) final match of the season and final match at Wembley Stadium before moving to their new stadium in the fall, so it’s going to be a soccer-ful/football-ful couple of days! Come On You Spurs! If you’re interested in learning more about this event, information can be found here.
After that journey, I head back stateside for a couple days off in New York City before presenting my “Data To Impress Those That Sign The Checks – Azure Logic Apps, Social Media, and Sentiment Analysis” session at SQL Saturday New York City. This session is the American-ized version of my mood table presentation (less soccer emphasis and slightly more technical focus) so it will be interesting for me to present both versions of this talk a few days apart. Also, it is no exaggeration to say that attending SQL Saturday NYC in 2015 changed the course of my career, so I definitely encourage you to register. Click here to do that. The organizers do a great job with this event, it’s in a great city, and I’m very appreciative of being invited to speak at an event that’s been so significant in my professional growth. I hope to see you there!
Lastly, I wrap up my journey right where I’m sitting as I finish this blog: my home office. IDERA Software has been kind enough to invite me to present a Geek Sync on 5/23 with my “Where Should My Data Live (and Why)?”. This session is great for data professionals in an environment where they’re being encouraged to expand the organization’s data estate to the cloud. It offers several real-world examples of how cloud and on-premises deployments can work together and complement each other. We also go over some pros and cons of the cloud vs. on-premises and dispel some myths as well. I hope to “see” you there. Click here to register and hear my run my mouth for an hour on May 23rd!
I know I keep saying it, but I am grateful to the organizers of all of these events for allowing me to speak to their groups. I can’t wait to meet #sqlfamily from other parts of the world, see places I’ve never been, and hopefully share a little knowledge along the way. Thanks for reading and hope to see you at one of these events!