If you have been in Auckland for Saturday 3rd of October and you are a Data Geek you should have been attended or at least heard about our SQL Saturday event. SQL Saturday Auckland #456 has been held in Auckland University of Technology (AUT) yesterday 3rd of October with good turnout of audience and handful of great speakers from Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, and Brisbane. The event has been organized and sponsored by RADACAD team with great help from Steve Knutson (T|L) and MS Communities in New Zealand. This event was a joint event with CodeCamp Auckland 2015. Here in this post you will read an overall glance at the event and sessions.
Saturday 3rd of October was a rainy morning in Auckland, but it didn’t stopped SQL Saturday and CodeCamp to happen. Event started with Opening and keynotes from sponsors at AUT lecture room, and it has been started with Steve Knutson’s speach, and then Peter Avenant from Varigence.
SQL Saturday Registration: Aaron, Maria, and Yuan helped us through registration process.
SQL Saturday Registration: Leila and the Team
Speaker’s arrival
Organizers of the event
Keynote started with good crowd
Steve Knutson started the opening speech.
I’ve done few house keeping introduction
Peter Avenant from Varigence as part of the keynote
We had great speakers from Brisbane (Warwick Rudd B|T), Christchurch (Martin Catherall B|T), and Wellington (Dave Dustin T)
First session was Leila Etaati (T|B) with Being Smarter with Azure Machine Learning
Then Warwick talked about: Mission Critical SQL Server and You
There was a lunch break, and our sponsors presented some sessions on lunch time. Adam from Profisee presented about their products
Then Martin told us some SQL Developer Tips and Tricks
We’ve had also great SQL Saturday Volunteer team who helped us a lot, Ming helped us with session’s orientations.
Here is a picture of me and Dave Dustin before his session starts
And then Dave started the Myths and Misconceptions
Then I was on stage with Power BI Amazing Things You Can Do
And finally Prize Draws and Say Goodbye
Photos has been taken by Andrew and Thomas our great volunteer team
Hope to see you all in the next SQL Saturday Auckland October 2016.
Reza is author of more than 14 books on Microsoft Business Intelligence, most of these books are published under Power BI category. Among these are books such as Power BI DAX Simplified, Pro Power BI Architecture, Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star, Power Query books series, Row-Level Security in Power BI and etc.
He is an International Speaker in Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Data Insight Summit, PASS Summit, SQL Saturday and SQL user groups. And He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
Reza’s passion is to help you find the best data solution, he is Data enthusiast.
His articles on different aspects of technologies, especially on MS BI, can be found on his blog: https://radacad.com/blog.