Category Archives: Conferences

SQL Saturday NYC 2025 Conference, a Success!

Once again, the organizers and volunteers of SQL Saturday NYC created a wonderful experience at the Microsoft Times Square office! Continue reading

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SQL Saturdays, and Future Data Driven Summit: Networking and Learning for Data Professionals

For over ten years, the author has participated in SQL Saturdays, free one-day training events for Microsoft data platform users, featuring technical sessions on SQL topics and networking opportunities. Recently, they presented at events in Albany, Syracuse, and Boston, also attending a virtual summit, promoting local tech event involvement. Continue reading

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CDOIQ Symposium at MIT

I have the pleasure of being chosen to staff the Microsoft booth at the CDOIQ Symposium in Cambridge, MA, from July 18-20th! It will take place at the Hyatt Cambridge/Boston Hotel. I posted on LinkedIn below, and there you can … Continue reading

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SQL Saturday NYC 2023! A Success!

SQL Saturdays are an amazing, volunteer-led, conference held in various cities. The NYC 2023 SQL Saturday was great! Continue reading

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Presenting to others – Yes, you can.

Now that Covid has receded from the forefront, in-person events are getting back into the swing. October 2022! I had the great pleasure of presenting to both SQL Saturday Boston, as well as the Capital Area SQL Server user group … Continue reading

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Linkedin learning and Teams: Working remotely

I wanted to share some resources to help businesses out in this day and age. These links are both about managing and working remotely, as well as using Teams to facilitate videoconferencing. I have a previous post as well for … Continue reading

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How to have remote meetings in today’s world

Having effective remote meetings is a challenge. This guide may help you succeed in terms of procedures and tooling. Continue reading

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SQL Saturday Boston BI: Migrate to Azure

I will be talking at SQL Saturday Boston BI 2019 about migrating a SaaS application to the cloud, and the business and technical challenges. Continue reading

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Inspire 2019 is coming! Sign up!

Attention all Microsoft partners! Inspire, our partner conference, will be held in Las Vegas again July 14-18th, 2019. Why should you consider attending or sponsoring this event? We recognize there are end-customer solutions that you are expert at, and we … Continue reading

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Where are the free in-person events for Microsoft?

A friend of mine recently asked where to get free in-person training on the Microsoft cloud platform. We have tons of online training for free, so that’s easy enough. Microsoft has in-person events in various offices periodically. The Microsoft Technology … Continue reading

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