Click on 'Learn More' to RSVP! The use of containers in the Federal Government is exploding as it looks for better ways to improve the performance, scalability, and portability of their applications in secure cloud environments. Despite the promise of containers, deploying SQL Server AGs in Kubernetes remains a hurdle that organizations struggle to overcome.

Join Jeff Estes of Software AG Government Solutions for breakfast to learn how he used DH2i’s DxEnterprise to jump the hurdle and deploy highly available SQL Server Availability Groups (AGs) in EKS certified for FedRAMP.

Click on 'Learn More' to RSVP! Join InfluxData for a session where we share how to take charge of your time series data with InfluxDB and our full platform of tools. In this session, you’ll learn what makes the InfluxDB platform unique, and how open-source tools like Telegraf and InfluxDB can help you build applications faster and with less effort. Finally, a demo that will show you how you can use InfluxDB to gain visibility and insight into your time-stamped data from the edge to the cloud.

Speaker: Zoe Steinkamp, Developer Advocate Engineer

How do you stay up to date and keep your skills relevant in an ever changing technology landscape? In this panel session data professionals with different backgrounds will discuss their experience and perspective on how to navigate the evolving universe of the data profession and technology.

Speakers:

Andy Yun, Field Solutions Architect, Pure Storage

Steve Hall, Senior Database Administrator, GBG PLC

Monica Rathbun, Consultant , Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting

Click on the link below to add to your schedule and save your spot!

Click on 'Learn More' to RSVP! Come learn futures and strategy SQL Edge to Cloud from the Microsoft leadership team in this interactive panel format hosted by Bob Ward, Principal Architect. Bring all of your questions about strategy and the future of SQL and get answers straight from the leadership of the Microsoft engineering team.

Speakers: Bob Ward, Asad Khan, Sanjay Mishra, Muazma Zahid, Ajay Jagannatha, Joachim Hammer.

Click on 'Learn More' to RSVP! Join Dell and AMD and see how a Dell Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI running 3rd generation AMD EPYCTM 3D V-CacheTM processors can simplify your deployment and operations for running SQL Server 2022. In this session, we will demonstrate its ease of use and flexibility as a DBaaS platform for addressing your database management challenges. As an all-in-one validated HCI system that includes full-stack life cycle management, native integration into Azure, and support Azure Arc on-demand services, it enables organizations to create modern cloud-native applications that deliver exceptional customer value. We will be sharing reference architecture details and performance testing results, and some delicious breakfast… and coffee… definitely coffee.

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• Apple iPad Air 5th Generation
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Women in tech are gaining ground as the technology industry—or at least its largest players—makes slow but steady progress in shrinking its gender gap, and women in tech leadership are making the fastest advances. Deloitte Global predicts that large global technology firms, on average, will reach nearly 33% overall female representation in their workforces in 2022, up slightly more than 2 percentage points from 2019. (https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/technology/women-tech-leadership.html)

But many women still struggle to deal with challenges such as:

• Stereotyped false notions about their technical abilities
• Overlooked for opportunities because of gender (or other biases based on race, age, and appearance)
• Significantly less pay in comparison to men in similar roles
• Lack of mentorship and imposter syndrome

Speakers:
Shabnam Watson, Data Architect, ABI Cube Corp
Jen McCown, CEO, MinionWare, LLC
Anna Hoffman, Senior PM Manager, Microsoft
Blythe Morrow, Managing Director , SolarWinds
Leslie Andrews, Lead Data Architect, 3Cloud

This panel discussion tackles important questions related to women’s pathways to leadership, what cultural and structural changes are needed, the challenges a woman tech lead has around persistent gender inequity in tech world, fixing the 'not technical enough' line and how women can model new paradigms of compassionate leadership and power.

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