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Tag: speaking

  • The DevOps Roadshow(s) from Redgate

    I’m back from an office trip this week to Pasadena. I had the chance to go to the office, do some internal training for people, and spend time with our US reps and SEs. It’s valuable for me to get to know people better when I’m remote and I’m glad I get to the offices a time or two a year each.

    However, now I’m prepping for more travel. In case you haven’t seen, I’m taking a roadshow this fall. Not just me, but Grant and Ryan as well.

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    We’re going around the country, and here are the dates I know about:

    • Houston – Aug 24 (Steve)
    • Chicago – Aug 30 – (Steve and Ryan)
    • Manchester, UK – Sep 4 (Steve)
    • Bristol, UK – Sep 6 (Steve)
    • New York – Sep 7 (Ryan or Grant)
    • London – Sep 8 (Steve)
    • Boston – Sep 20 (Steve)
    • Atlanta – Oct 11 (TBD, not Steve)
    • Jacksonville – Oct 19 (Grant)
    • San Diego – Oct 25 (Grant)
    • San Francisco – Nov 1 (Steve)
    • Seattle – Nov 13 (Steve)

    It’s a busy travel schedule for me, but not a lot of work prepping, which is usually the hard part. Last week and this one are prepping (and likely next week), so it’s a little busy now.

    I’m excited to visit these cities. I’m a little bummed I won’t make Jacksonville or San Diego as I have friends there, but those are vacation days for me to see my daughter at university. Maybe I’ll get back to those cities next year.

    We don’t have all the links up yet (some are above), but they should be coming soon. Keep an eye on the Events page.

    If you’re coming to the PASS Data Community Summit and don’t have a pre-con on Tuesday, consider coming to see me. Hopefully the reg will go up soon.

  • Webinar: Unlock the Full Potential of Flyway to Achieve Automated Database Releases

    On Aug 22, 2023, I’m co-hosting a webinar with Anderson Rangel, Redgate Solution Engineer in Brisbane. You can register here for the 11am AEST webinar.

    No, I’m not going to Brisbane. I’d love to, but I’ll be in Colorado and hopefully I keep things straight that this is the day before for me. I’ve got a few reminders to keep me on track that I’ll be speaking after dinner in the US.

    We’re going to cover the ways in which Flyway can help you automate your database releases. If you haven’t looked at Flyway recently, or ever, this is the webinar for you in the Australia / New Zealand region. We will look at why Flyway helps and some of the new features and changes Redgate has added with our many releases. If you look at the release notes, we release a lot, often in response to feedback from our customers.

    Join us on the 22nd and learn how Flyway and Flyway Desktop can help you prevent the database from being a blocker to adopting DevOps for your software.

    Register today

  • The 2023 Redgate UK DevOps Roadshow

    Years ago Redgate did some traveling events under the SQL in the City brand. These were a lot of fun and kind of amazing. One of the longer tours also made me realize I would hate being in a musical band and touring.

    However, I enjoyed the events and while we’ve moved on from that brand, we have a new one

    The Redgate DevOps Roadshow

    The UK edition of this kicks off in September 2023 and I’ll be in these cities:

    I’ll be traveling with one of our Sales Engineers (Chris Hawkins, I hope), and doing will day sessions for customers on the Flyway suite of tools. You’ll get some practice, learn how things work, and get answers to your questions. Hopefully that day, but if Chris and I don’t know, we’ll query the brilliant engineers back in Cambridge.

    If you’ve ever attended a Redgate event, you know we put on a nice show, we take care of you, you’ll have plenty to eat and drink, and we have fun.

    Hopefully I’ll see some of you in September in the UK.

    Keep watching as well as we’re working on a US edition of this. I’ll do some of these, while Grant and Ryan will do others. I’ll keep my schedule updated as I get more info.

  • Creating a Speaking Failures Support Group

    Earlier this week the emails went out to speakers who submitted to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023 conference. These were acceptances and rejections, letting people know the results of the volunteer review.

    I got this one:

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    I had only submitted one session after being buried last year, and I assumed (we know what assume means) that this one would get picked. It wasn’t, and that’s OK.

    A Speaking Failures Support Group

    I know I’m not alone. I’ve had many speaking submissions rejected. From big conferences and little ones. It is disappointing, but I’ve learned not to take it personally.

    I know this is a hard message to get, especially for less experienced speakers. So I decided to a) publicly disclose my rejection, and b) create a place to get support.

    Since I am the editor of SQL Server Central, that’s a natural place for me to do this. I set up a forum for a Speaking Support Group, which you can use to post questions, ask for feedback on your submissions or ideas, get spell/grammar/phrasing help from others, commiserate with fellow speakers, and give them support/encouragement to try again.

    Feel free to join me there, and comment on my first post, hopefully telling me to not take this too personally.