It\u2019s two weeks until Pass Summit 2015!<\/p>\n
It feels a little weird this year, it\u2019s the first year in quite some time where I\u2019m not presenting in Seattle. The reason for that\u2019s pretty simple, I didn\u2019t submit any abstracts. It still feels strange to be going as an attendee, to be able to pick and chose sessions as I like, rather than having to work around the slots that I have to speak in, and to be able to spend time just wandering around the conference rather than rushing from place to place as is usual.<\/p>\n
Still, that gives me a good opportunity to attend sessions I\u2019m interested in. Looking over the schedule, my 5 must-attend sessions are (in no particular order)<\/p>\n
Plus the keynote<\/a> with Dr DeWitt and Dr Nehme is an event not to be missed!<\/p>\n Of course, there aren\u2019t just the sessions. There\u2019s the Birds of a Feather lunch, the Women in IT lunch, the SQL Clinic and the CAT team to ask difficult questions of, and the hundreds and thousands of ad-hoc conversations in the corridors, many of which may be more interesting than the sessions themselves. Not to mention the multitude of parties and events in the evenings.<\/p>\n Oh, and there will be Crazy Hat day as well. For those who don\u2019t know what I\u2019m taking about, it\u2019s Argenis Without Borders, version 2<\/a>. Please donate if you can, I really want to see Argenis dancing to music from a trombone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"