Thursday! Kilt day.
We start with Grant Fritchey (PASS’ VP of Finance, in a kilt), talking about the various metrics of PASS, which show that the community is growing both numerically and graphically, reaching 87% of countries now. It’s good to know that things are going well. This is all public information, and I’m not going to go into the details here.
He also announces that PASS will have a BA Day – Jan 11th in Chicago. More information on this will follow.
Grant hands over to Denise McInerney (PASS’ VP of Marketing). She announces new branding for the PASS organisation – logo and website (website launching early next year) – and the dates for next year’s summit.
David DeWitt, Adjunct Professor at MIT (previously of Microsoft Research) comes up. He’s going to talk about data warehouse technologies, including cloud and scaling. Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, and SQL DW.
A great session, which will have helped a lot of people appreciate SQL DW more than ever.
