6/30/2011 – My summer speaking schedule

It's summertime! That means lots of baseball (go Phillies!), BBQ cookouts, and plenty of chances to talk about SQL Server and Business Intelligence Topics.

So in between my many lives (being a daddy and a husband, an instructor, a columnist, and a sports fan), here are the places where I'll be speaking this summer:

• On Thursday evening, July 7^th, I'll be speaking for the Northern New Jersey SharePoint User Group on Integrating Reporting Services 2008R2 with SharePoint 2010. Thanks to the great video-conferencing technology offered by SetFocus, I'll be doing the presentation from my home in Central PA.
• This is such a big one that I'll blog about this separately – on Wednesday July 20^th, I'll be doing a three hour webinar for SetFocus on the Business Intelligence Master's Program. This webinar is a detailed presentation on some of the SQL and BI topics that we cover in our Master's Program. Registration is free, but you need to register to get the Live Meeting link.
• On Saturday July 30^th, I'll be doing a presentation at SharePoint Saturday in Manhattan, New York, at the Microsoft Regional Office in the Big Apple. My topic is on DAX Programming in PowerPivot and integrating PowerPivot with SharePoint.
• On Saturday, August 13, I'll be presenting at SharePoint Saturday in Washington, DC. Many people regard this as THE SharePoint Saturday event. They're expecting close to 3,000 people there. My topics haven't been set yet, but they'll be on some topic related to BI in SharePoint. As soon as the session are posted, I'll update here.
• Just three nights later (Tuesday, August 16^th) I'll be right back to a video-conferencing presentation, hosted again by SetFocus. I'll do a presentation on building maps in Reporting Services for the Northern New Jersey SQL Server User Group.
• On Saturday, September 10^th, I'll be in my own backyard for the Central PA Code Camp, hosted by the Central PA .NET User Group. My topics haven't been set yet, but they'll likely be on some SQL Server database-related topic.
• Finally, on Thursday, September 15^th, I'll be back in Manhattan, at the NYC .NET Developer User Group, doing a presentation on accessing Reporting Services and other components of the BI stack with .NET. (There's absolutely no truth to the rumor that my sole motivation for speaking in NYC is to go to the Heartland Brewery afterwards for a burger and a pint!)

Finally, once in a while I receive requests to speak in different parts of the country. I always appreciate anyone asking me to speak for them, but with my little girl growing up so fast I hate to be away for anything longer than a day. So for now, my community presentations are restricted to the Mid-Atlantic area – basically any location where I can hop on an early morning Amtrak train and get back that night.

Peace out…KG