It’s 8:15 on Wednesday and I’m at the blogger table, hoping for a good to great keynote.
First up is Bill Graziano:
- 3894 attendees at the 14th annual Summit
- Check web site for PASS TV
- Asking all the speakers from any PASS event to stand-it’s a long of people
- Now introducing the current Board of Directors (it’s interesting the use of describing their roles as ‘running’ or ‘managing’ – true, but not strategic)
- MyPASS launched at sqlpass.org, personalized landing page and ability to easily join Chapters and manage Chapter email subscriptions (kudos to Allen Kinsel)
- Went to SQLSaturday in China (China! how cool is that)
- SQLSaturday shirt day didn’t get quite the take up hoped for – bring one next year
- 79 SQLSaturday in past year
- Third annual Nordic SQLRally next year
- Portugese and Spanish versions of 24 Hours of PASS being planned
- PASS Business Analytics Conference April 10-12 in Chicago next year
- Discussing global growth; appointed Board members, Chapter growth, proposing a change to by-laws to designate seats on the Board to specific regions, planning to publish for review in next 60 days and prior to a Board vote
- Exhibit hall sold out, hours extended until mid afternoon on Friday
- Community Zone is new this year, opens at 7 am
- All session evals are online this year using Guide or kiosk
