It’s 8:15 on Wednesday and I’m at the blogger table, hoping for a good to great keynote.

First up is Bill Graziano:

• 3894 attendees at the 14th annual Summit
• Check web site for PASS TV
• Asking all the speakers from any PASS event to stand-it’s a long of people
• Now introducing the current Board of Directors (it’s interesting the use of describing their roles as ‘running’ or ‘managing’ – true, but not strategic)
• MyPASS launched at sqlpass.org, personalized landing page and ability to easily join Chapters and manage Chapter email subscriptions (kudos to Allen Kinsel)
• Went to SQLSaturday in China (China! how cool is that)
• SQLSaturday shirt day didn’t get quite the take up hoped for – bring one next year
• 79 SQLSaturday in past year
• Third annual Nordic SQLRally next year
• Portugese and Spanish versions of 24 Hours of PASS being planned
• PASS Business Analytics Conference April 10-12 in Chicago next year
• Discussing global growth; appointed Board members, Chapter growth, proposing a change to by-laws to designate seats on the Board to specific regions, planning to publish for review in next 60 days and prior to a Board vote
• Exhibit hall sold out, hours extended until mid afternoon on Friday
• Community Zone is new this year, opens at 7 am
• All session evals are online this year using Guide or kiosk