PASS Summit 2013-Almost Final Thoughts

I’m home in Orlando, reveling in not being jet lagged for once. A great traveler I am not. I was on the Board back when the decision was made to go to Charlotte. It was a decision that came with a certain amount of fear – what if things go badly, what if attendance is […]

PASS Summit Report #16 (Mentoring)

A couple years back Steve Jones and I started The Mentoring Experiment. Our first experiments to see how effective non-local mentoring would be. Could we make it work, would people try it? They did try, and it worked, sort of. Mentoring is hard, distance makes it harder. Local is better (we thought so at the […]

PASS Summit 2013-Blogger Interview With PASS Officers

On Thursday the PASS bloggers were given the chance to meet with the PASS officers and I participated along with Tim Mitchell and Mark Vaillancourt. I went in not sure what to expect but I had prepared questions just in case. I’ll write about the results first, then I have some more thoughts about what […]

PASS Summit 2013 Report #15

Slower day today, fewer notes! Most of my morning spent on mentoring and some networking Lunch today was Birds of a Feather, as always I really really like that, it drives a lot of great conversations I sat at the Election/Governance table. Only one person joined while I was there, so that gave me time […]

PASS Summit 2013–Board Q&A

PASS Board Q&A just starting. Session is being recorded – transcript will be published, no decision on whether recording will be published. About 35 people in the audience (I think most ever?). Adam Jorgensen moderating. [This is a very rough transcript, I know I didn’t catch everything and it’s not verbatim for what I did […]

PASS Summit 2013-Board Q&A Today at

The PASS Board of Directors will be available for questions from the members from 12:30 to 1:45 in Ballroom C. It’s a good chance to ask a question or just hear what the various Board members think about the direction of PASS. I’ll be there with a couple questions, I hope you’ll attend to. Even […]

PASS Summit 2013 Report #13

Incoming President Thomas LaRock up. 3000 viewers of PASS TV yesterday. Adam Jorgensen the the new VP of Finance and Denise McInerny is the new VP of Marketing. Talking about expanding into the BA Conference. Changed the mission statement to say data professionals. Next BA Conference is in San Jose May 7-9, 2014. Interesting that […]

PASS Summit 2013 Report #12

Waiting on the second day keynote to begin. Douglas McDowell going over funding sources for PASS – primarily the Summit, but $100k from the BA Conference. Not clear if the slide/pie chart is correct, the BA funding seems larger than I’d have expected. Discussing the transformation of the budget process, also not clear on what […]

PASS Summit 2013 Report #11

Today flew by. I posted earlier about my visit with Dr. DeWitt and it’s late, so bullets for the rest of the news for today. Bagels at Einsteins are good. Not that I didn’t expect them to be, just confirming! I watched part of Windows Azure Deep Dive by Mark Russinovich. Good stuff, though I […]

PASS Summit 2013 Report #10 (Dr DeWitt)

I was lucky/thrilled to get to spend a few minutes chatting with Dr. DeWitt this afternoon (and thanks to PASS for the opportunity!). I’m struggling to decide what and how to write, feeling a bit awestruck. I walked away thinking that in person he’s just a quieter version of the presenter we’ll see tomorrow morning. […]

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