SQL Social No. 19
Date and time
Description
SQL Social: Australia's Premier Data Networking event!
When: 2013/10/09 From 5:30pm - 9pm
Where: The Royal Melbourne Hotel, 629 Bourke Street Melbourne, VIC, Austrlalia
Cost: Free!
Food & Drinks will be provided.
SQL Social brings together Database & BI professionals, industry experts and those with an appetite for learning more about data & information management, in a relaxed atmosphere to network, share ideas, impart knowledge, and have a great time whilst doing so.
We will provide you with plenty of food and drinks for the evening, all thanks to our fantastic sponsors (see below).
This Month's Speaker: Balaji Navaneethan
Balaji Navaneethan is an Exchange Field Engineer at Microsoft Australia. Balaji has been with Microsoft for over 9 years supporting Exchange. Started within the MS support organization providing phone and email support for the Exchange product to global customers, before moving on to the current field engineer role. Balaji's skillset includes Cloud services –quite natural for exchange guys, and has hands-on experience in Office 365 and Exchange online projects. Other than that he currently delivers Workshops on Exchange and O365:Exchange online for MS customers.
This month Balaji will be providing and overview of the Office 365, what services are currently offered and how Office 365 data is managed. He will then discuss the recently launched BI solution for Office 365: "Power BI" and demonstrate its data anaylsis and visualisation capabilities.
Networking
This is not your usual SQL Server User Group event. At SQL Social our aim is to give YOU the opportunity to meet with MVPs, well-known speakers, experienced professionals & industry experts and ask them about the data-related topics that matter to you. It is an opportunity to meet new people, make new friendships and find out what is going on in the data industry in Melbourne.
Our Sponsors:
Once again we are fortunate to have wonderful sponsors on board who will ensure that we are suitably fed and watered. A big thank you to Lobsterpot Solutions, Red Gate and Pluralsight for their ongoing support of this great community event!
LobsterPot Solutions is an Australian company with staff in Adelaide and Melbourne, offering consultancy and training services around Australia. LobsterPot Solutions specialises in SQL Server, including performance tuning, Business Intelligence, and more.
Pluralsight:
Pluralsight is the global leader in high-quality online training for hardcore developers. The revolutionary Pluralsight training library provides developers with instant access to a rich collection of online training courses delivered by industry authorities. See what you can learn at pluralsight.com and join the @pluralsight community on Twitter.
See you there!