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Preparations for Summit 2023 are fully underway! We thought what better way to introduce you to some of this year’s sponsors than sit down with them and find out what they have in store for you in November…
Q: What’s your top reason for attending Summit?
Our top reason for attending the SQL PASS Summit is to connect with industry professionals and thought leaders in the SQL and data management community. The Summit provides a unique opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions, share knowledge, and learn about the latest trends and innovations in the field. – Andrea Kaercher, Fortified Data
Being the second year for Power BI Sentinel to sponsor PASS Summit, this event is an important part of our continued brand-awareness efforts, drive potential engagement with companies looking to reign-in their Power BI estates, and to connect with the Microsoft Data & AI community. – Nick Harshbarger, Power BI Sentinel
PASS Data Community Summit presents a great opportunity to not only engage with the SQL Server community of IT professionals but to connect with industry partners, network with fellow subject matter experts, and share SIOS knowledge of high availability and disaster recovery for essential applications. – Natalia Casey, SIOS
AWS has a long-standing relationship with the PASS Data Community Summit. Over the years, we’ve seen this community grow and flourish and we are thrilled to continue supporting this amazing SQL Server and data community.
In fact, this year marks the 15-year anniversary of SQL Server on AWS. AWS has helped hundreds of thousands of customers transition their SQL Server workloads to the cloud since 2008, longer than anyone else. Customers continue to choose AWS for migrating and modernizing SQL Server for optimized price performance, license flexibility, ease of use, and innovation to manage, access, and scale their data. – Frank Wang, Amazon Web Services
Q: Why do you love exhibiting at Summit?
We love the intimate community feel at the PASS Data Community Summit, where everyone is so passionate to share their knowledge, experience and expertise about SQL Server and data. We are truly impressed with the energy and the level of engagement from attendees on the show floor.
The event organizer is also doing a good job supporting sponsors like us to connect with the community, such as sharing our educational materials, coming up with engaging activities during the show, event logistics and support, etc. – Frank Wang, Amazon Web Services
We were newbies last year and the PASS Data Community was brilliant – so engaged and asking all the right questions. – Tim Marshall, DBVisit
Our technology is optimized for SQL Server, so PASS Summit represents the most relevant and targeted audience that we can possibly get our software solutions in front of at an in-person event. The attendee enthusiasm is always high. – Don Boxley, DH2i
Q: Who’ll be at your booth, and what new stuff will you be demoing?
At our booth, you’ll find a team of experts, including Daniel Cai, our Managing Director; Aswin Manmadhan, our Technical Solutions Lead; and Dave Butt, our Senior Client Services Specialist, who will highlight the new features and demonstrate how our solutions can effectively address your data integration challenges, ensuring seamless and efficient data flows. – Daniel Cai, KingswaySoft
The 2024 Power BI Sentinel PASS Data Community Summit team will consist of Alex Whittles, Founder of Power BI Sentinel and 8-years Microsoft MVP – Data & AI, Joe Billingham, Power BI Developer and Support Specialist, and Nick Harshbarger, Director of Client Success. We will be demoing the latest features of Power BI Sentinel including a hybrid ABF/PBIX report back-up approach and the use of Service Principal for providing access to the Power BI estate. In addition, as Power BI plays a larger role in an enterprise through the use of Fabric, the importance of governance, audit, and back up increases the need for a solution like Power BI Sentinel.- Nick Harshbarger, Power BI Sentinel
Q: What are the new trends folks should come and chat to you about?
The modern data stack, or “Frankenstack,” is an amalgamation of various tools and platforms that can lead to a plethora of time-wasting, efficiency-killing problems, not to mention a sinkhole of cost and accessibility issues. Instead of using ten, twenty, or even thirty different tools, TimeXtender is committed to offering a singular tool that can integrate with your existing data infrastructure (on-premises, cloud, or hybrid), reducing the time it takes to build and maintain a modern data warehouse (MDW), as well as reduce costs by 70 to 80 percent. – Brenda Kubistek, TimeXtender
One of the key trends that we encourage attendees to discuss with us is the total cost of code. Many organizations accumulate vast amounts of code over time, leading to inefficiencies and increased costs. We have developed a patent-pending approach that helps businesses identify and mitigate these inefficiencies, resulting in significant cost savings. We would love to share our insights and strategies for optimizing code and reducing the total cost of ownership. – Andrea Kaercher, Fortified Data
Modernizing SQL Server with containers is the biggest trend. Our software solution makes the transition from native instances to Kubernetes clusters easy and helps ensure virtually zero downtime SQL Server in Kubernetes when you’re there. – Don Boxley, DH2i
One recent trend we’ve seen from our customers is a desire to revisit licensing needs and requirements as they migrate to the cloud. AWS offers a free Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) to both new and existing customers that can help them save 45% of SQL Server licensing costs, according to an Enterprise Strategy Group research. – Frank Wang, Amazon Web Services
Q: Got any new product releases or demos you’ll be showcasing?
Some of the demos we’ll be showcasing include but not limited to: AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator to streamline SQL Server migrations, AWS Compute Optimizer to rightsize SQL Server workloads and reduce licensing costs, migrate on-premises SQL Server to Amazon RDS Custom using distributed availability groups, modernize SQL Server to Amazon Aurora with Babelfish, and use Generative AI to accelerate SQL development with Amazon CodeWhisperer. – Frank Wang, Amazon Web Services
COZYROC has been providing SSIS solutions for the past 16 years. As a proud exhibitor at the PASS Data Community Summit we are thrilled to showcase our new game-changing Data Integration components and COZYROC’s Cloud Integration Platform. Connect, retrieve and transform data seamlessly from a variety of Web API’s, optimizing your business workflows by using any of the 240 components, connectors and tasks included in the COZYROC SSIS+ components suite. – Ivan Peev, CozyRoc
Jeff Garbus, CEO, will be demoing the new SaaS product that previously has only been available to his Managed services Clients.
FLIGHT- Provides a unique Gestalt view of your ENTIRE SQL, MySQL, and Oracle environment in a web portal accessible from anywhere. At a glance you can see the relative health and performance of every instance of your databases, then drill down with predictive analytics to help prevent future problems. The automation of tedious, time consuming, and often forgotten tasks is going to be transformative in the maintenance of your data environment. – Devon Garbus, Soaring Eagle Data Solutions
Application Redirection for SQL Server
We listened to what the folks told us at PASS Summit 2022… StandbyMP can now automatically redirect the application upon database Switchover using automated or one-click Custom User Scripts. This is another feature to help DBA’s save time associated with Log Shipping and Asynchronous AGs. – Tim Marshall, DBVisit
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Welcome to the PASS Data Community Summit, where innovation, education, and networking converge! As an event sponsor, you have the unique opportunity to showcase your brand and connect with a vibrant community of Azure and PostgreSQL enthusiasts and experts.
With PostgreSQL rated the most-desired database in the world, along with 20% of Summit attendees having noted PostgreSQL as a database of interest, we have bolstered our educational program with Postgres specific sessions.
These leading-edge sessions, featuring renowned experts and community leaders, will be a highlight of our event alongside our 40,000 sq. ft. expo hall.
To provide a deep dive into Postgres for our attendees, we’re offering two full day pre-conference sessions.
The Monday pre-conference session will be delivered by Ryan Lambert, an esteemed member of the community, geared towards users with existing SQL experience that want an in-depth guide to open-source geospatial technology.
Tuesday’s pre-conference session will be led by our team at Redgate with Ryan Booz and Grant Fritchey, discussing the most important metrics to monitor across SQL Server and PostgreSQL, on-prem and in the cloud.
Thursday’s Day 2 Keynote session sets the stage for a transformative journey with an edge on PostgreSQL.
In addition, we’ve curated a dedicated learning pathway consisting of five sessions specifically tailored for beginners to advanced (Level 100 up to 300). Our carefully-crafted content will equip attendees with the fundamental knowledge necessary to unlock the full potential of PostgreSQL.
Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to connect with the Azure and PostgreSQL community. Join us at the PASS Data Community Summit by visiting today. Secure your spot early for preferred booth location.
Reply or click here to get more information and our sponsorship prospectus.
The wait is finally over! This year’s PASS Data Community Summit sessions are now live and available to view in the Catalog Preview!
We were absolutely blown away, and humbled, by the almost 900 submissions by over 350 speakers that we received in the call for speakers earlier this year. The breadth and quality of sessions were outstanding and made the selection process one of the most difficult to date.
This year’s program consists of 170 technical sessions over three days (Nov 15-17). We’ll see a comprehensive collection of sessions by both community experts and industry engineers. This release of sessions comes from our community call for speakers, so you can expect more sessions to appear over the coming months from our top-tier partners.
Alongside our release of community Summit sessions, we are pleased to announce two additional Pre-Cons from Microsoft:
Join us in congratulating this year’s speakers on Twitter using the hashtag #PASSDataSummit, and thank them for sharing their knowledge and expertise. Check out this sampling of sessions that will be presented across five tracks, before heading over to the Catalog Preview to discover what else we have in store:
Analytics
Architecture
Database Management
Development
Professional Development
Again, this is just a sample of what has been released, in addition to sessions that support our efforts in expanding the program to satisfy a growing appetite for other platforms and technologies.
Progress and Growth
It’s no secret that businesses and organizations are now using multiple databases to manage the changing volume, nature, and location of data. We’re learning that more data professionals are increasingly using multiple databases from project to project and, while traditionally focused on the Microsoft stack, our long-term goal with PASS Data Community Summit is to broaden and diversify the sessions so our community and attendees are supported to navigate this shift.
With this in mind, we’re taking small steps and focusing on slowly adding other technologies and platforms, beginning with an emphasis on PostgreSQL sessions, such as:
Not unlike our own community, PostgreSQL has a large and active global population of engineers and users who contribute to its development and also provide support to others. The inclusion of other technologies and platforms only widens our network allowing us to further connect, share, and learn.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB)
In a continued effort to make Summit a diverse, accessible, and inclusive conference, we are actively working with a community-driven DEIB steering group, to help us steadfastly improve on our review and selection process year over year.
Diversity represents more than the inclusion of women, people of varying ethnicities, those with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, neurodivergent individuals, citizens of non-western countries, those with invisible differences, and more. It’s about creating an event where everyone can show up as their authentic self and where people with different identities feel welcomed, valued, and safe.
To make sure we deliver on our commitment, we aim to realize a 40% goal of diversity amongst our final speakers, based on our voluntary diversity questions across geographical location, gender, pronouns, marginalized groups, and disability. We’re still gathering this voluntary data but the team are feeling confident about meeting this goal, and we’ll share an update in due course. In the meantime, we’re interested to know what makes an inclusive event for you, so please feel free to reach out to us with your thoughts at speakers@passsummit.com.
Find out more about our approach to DEIB.
We can’t wait for you to experience Summit live, and in-person, at the Seattle Convention Center this November 13-17. Register now before prices increase on July 27th!
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You’ve heard who the Pre-Con speakers are and what they’re teaching. You’ve heard about the five amazing Learning Pathways and the stellar line-up of speakers who are developing and curating the content.
Ready for the next announcement?
That’s right – three keynotes from industry-leading experts to kick off each day at Summit!
On Wednesday, we’re honored to welcome Microsoft back to open the conference and are eager for what they’ve planned. Never a dull moment with plenty of news and excitement – stay tuned for what Microsoft has in store.
Thursday opens with Redgate Chief Product Officer, David Gummer, and Ryan Booz, Redgate PostgreSQL Advocate, taking to the stage to share the latest market trends, how these are shaping the technology landscape, and opportunities for data professionals in the future. There should also be an announcement or two about the latest ways Redgate will be supporting database professionals as the technology landscape evolves.
As is tradition, Friday will open with the Community Keynote – this year brought to you by Melody Zacharias and Ben Weissman. Melody is a Data Platform MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, and Director of Solutions and Strategy at Pure Storage. Ben is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, a co-author of ”SQL Server on Kubernetes”, ”Azure Arc-enabled Data Services Revealed”, ”SQL Server Big Data Clusters” and ”The Biml Book”, a regular blogger and speaker on national and international events. He has also published multiple online courses. We’re thrilled Melody and Ben are returning to Summit to share insights and real-world use cases, so data professionals can feel confident leveraging the latest technology advancements.
More exciting PASS Data Community Summit news is just around the corner! In two weeks, we’ll unveil the full program of speakers and sessions. You can look forward to a diverse range of content, ensuring there’s something for everyone. Tracks have been organized and weighted in line with community feedback to include:
Sessions will range from introductory to expert level with a variety of formats, from lightning talks to deep dive half-day sessions, to suit different learning styles.
Registration is open now
If you’re ready to connect, share, and learn with fellow data professionals and industry leaders in Seattle this November, register now at the Early Bird rate, only available until July 26!
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