A week in advance annoucement. I’m very happy to be one of the speakers at upcoming SQL Saturday No 418 in Manchester (England). This conference will be hosted by my very good friend Chris Testa-O’Neill {BLOG|LINKEDIN|TWITTER} and his team in very interesting place. The event will take place at the Mechanics Institute in Manchester. Founded in 1824, it’s goal was to provide adult education to the local area, especially in the areas of science and technology. This SQL Saturday will be splitted for two days:
Friday: with six excellent pre-conf/workshops:
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SQL Server Business Intelligence | Chris Testa-O’Neill
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Database source control workshop | Alex Yates
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Practical R: A hands-on training day | Stephanie Locke
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Building Big Data Solutions with Microsoft Azure HDInsight | Graeme Malcolm
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SQL Server 2014 In-memory technologies – Columnstore, In-Memory OLTP | Tony Rogerson
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Machine Learning without a PhD in statistics | Andrew Fryer
Saturday: with twenty nice more excellent sessions focused for topics: Business Intelligence, Azure, Business Analytics, Data Practices and DBA. And list of speakers is really, really impressive:
Bob Duffy + Satya Jayanty + Chris Testa-O’Neill + Gavin Campbell + Dmytro Andriychenko + Alex Whittles + Stephane Haby + Graeme Malcolm + Stephanie Locke + John Martin + Alex Yates + Ben Cooper + Steve Wharton + Ian Macdonald + David Dye + Kevan Riley + Andrew Fryer + David Williams + Terry McCann + Uwe Ricken + James Rowland-Jones + David Morrison + Adam Aspin + Neil Hambly + Emanuele Zanchettin + Tony Rogerson + Chris Adkin
International company, many experts: MVPs, MCMs. A lot of ons of discussions, coffee, comments, swags, networking opportunities and Saturday full of knowledge.
I will present one of my favourite session AD 2015. 2AM A Disaster Just Began… at 1:30 PM in Dean Room.
More details and resitration are available at the conference page: http://www.sqlsaturday.com/418/EventHome.aspx