My Sketchnotes from Redgate Level Up Week 2021

Redgate regularly holds an internal conference called Level Up week. In 2020 and 2021, this conference has been scaled to include multiple Redgate offices using a remote learning approach.

While this is an internal conference, I can share my drawings and notes from sessions I attended. I hope these inspire you with ideas on how you can contribute to learning in your own organization, or perhaps simply inspire you to give sketchnoting a try.

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Help Me Not Be Selected to Speak at the Dativerse Virtual Conference

A call for speakers is open for the very first edition of the Dativerse conference, which will be held on August 13, 2021: http://dativerse.io/

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Free Virtual Event: Mental Health and Awareness Day on May 7th

I’ll be giving a 10 minute lightning talk at the upcoming Mental Health and Wellness day event on May 7, 2021, hosted by the Data Platform WIT group.

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Ten Ideas to Improve Online Tech Conferences

Amid the global pandemic, online tech conferences have had a natural surge in popularity. I’ve attended quite a few of these in 2020 across several technical areas (database tech, DevOps, privacy, tech research). The conferences have been both large and small, both free and paid, and have been held across a few different regions and time zones.

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Thoughts as Pride Month 2020 Comes to a Close

I’ve begun working on developing a couple of small habits this month, thanks largely to Andy Mallon’s helpful advocacy.

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Building My Schedule for PASS Summit 2019

It’s just ten days until PASS Summit 2019 begins in Seattle. The schedule is up and there are loads of good sessions. Here’s what I’m putting on my calendar to make sure that I don’t miss it: along with some sessions I wish I could attend that I’ll be sure to catch the videos of afterwards.

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The Best Bit About SQL Saturdays: Nearly Everyone Interacts with Other People

Today I was looped in on an email thread about the pros and cons of attending a specific event. One person on the thread asked if any of us had attended the event in the past, and whether or not event attendees were engaged with presenters and vendor representatives.

My immediate thought was: of course the attendees were engaged, because the event is a SQL Saturday.  I’ve never been to a SQL Saturday where the attendees weren’t engaged.

But, I realized that it’s a fair question.

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