30th September - 2nd October 2010

University of York

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Speakers from SQLBits goes Forth.

Allan Mitchell

http://www.sqlis.com
www.konesans.com
Allan is the joint owner of Konesans Ltd, a small UK based consultancy specializing in SQL Server, and most importantly SQL Server Integration Services. Having been working with SQL Server from 6.5 onwards he has extensive experience in many aspects of SQL Server, but now focuses ... [more - bio & sessions]

Andre Kamman

http://andrekamman.com rss feed
I'm a contractor based in the Netherlands. Working with SQL Server since version 6.5 I sometimes think that I have memorized Books Online by now and can do my work on autopilot. But usually even before my first cup of coffee something strange happens and I find myself searching for ... [more - bio & sessions]

Ashwani Roy

http://ashwaniroy.spaces.live.com
Information Management Group
Ashwani Roy is SQL Server MVP and Senior Consultant with Information Management Group (IMGROUP), winners of the Microsoft Global Business Intelligence Partner of the Year award for the past four years. Ashwani has worked with SQL Server BI stack since 2003 and is Microsoft Certified ... [more - bio & sessions]

Ben Hall

http://blog.benhall.me.uk
Red Gate Software
Ben Hall is a UK C# developer\tester with a strong passion for software development and loves writing code. Ben works at Red Gate Software as a Test Engineer and enjoys exploring different ways of testing software, including both manual and automated testing, focusing on the best ... [more - bio & sessions]

Brad McGehee

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/aloha_dba/default.aspx rss feed
Red Gate Software
Professional Experience   Brad M. McGehee is a MCSE+I, MCSD, and MCT (former) with a Bachelors’ degree in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration. Currently the Director of DBA Education for Red Gate Software, Brad is an accomplished Microsoft SQL Server MVP with over ... [more - bio & sessions]

Chris Testa-O'Neill

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/testas/
EMC Consulting
Chris Testa-O'Neill is a Practise Consultant at EMC Consulting. He specialises in SQL Server Business Intelligence Solutions  in the SQL 2005 and 2008 product range. Chris is also a technical author is currently working on E-Learning courses for SQL Server 2008 with Microsoft Learning. ... [more - bio & sessions]

Chris Webb

http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com
Crossjoin Consulting
Chris Webb is an independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services and the MDX query language. He is a co-author of "Expert Cube Development with SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services", and the second edition of "MDX Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and ... [more - bio & sessions]

Christian Bolton

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian
Coeo Ltd
Christian Bolton is the Technical Director for Coeo Ltd, a leading provider of SQL Server Managed Support and Consulting to organisations in the UK and Europe. Prior to this, Christian worked for 5 years as a Senior Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft UK working with some of Microsoft’s ... [more - bio & sessions]

Davide Mauri

http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/dmauri/
Solid Quality Mentors
Davide Mauri - MCP, MCAD, MCDBA, MCT, MVP on SQL Server - works with SQL Server since version 6.5, and his interest cover the whole platform, from the Relational Engine to Analysis Services, from architecture definition to performance tuning. He also have a strong knowledge of XML, ... [more - bio & sessions]

Dr András Belokosztolszki

http://www.simple-talk.com/community/blogs/andras/default.aspx
Red Gate Software
András Belokosztolszki is a software architect at Red Gate Software Ltd. He is a frequent speaker at many UK user groups. He is primarily interested in database internals and change management. At Red Gate he has designed and led the development of many database tools that compare ... [more - bio & sessions]

Gojko Adzic

http://gojko.net
Neuri
Gojko Adzic runs Neuri Ltd, a UK-based consultancy that helps companies build better software by introducing agile practices and tools and improving communication between software teams, stakeholders and clients. His programming story so far includes equity and energy trading, mobile ... [more - bio & sessions]

Hue Holleran

http://www.hueholleran.com/
Open Action Limited
Hue Holleran is a professional consultant specialising in database-centric solutions and specifically SQL Server since v4.2 and Oracle since v7 - and all versions since!  After more than 20 years as a consultant to over 100 organisations and some of the largest global brands ... [more - bio & sessions]

James Rowland-Jones

http://blogs.conchango.com/jamesrowlandjones rss feed
EMC Consulting
James is an Advisory Consultant at EMC Consulting. His focus has been the development and technical direction of major, mission-critical, pan-European projects in the enterprise. His experience includes data and system architecture, information analysis, logical and physical database ... [more - bio & sessions]

Jamie Thomson

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jamie_thomson
Blink Tank Consulting
Jamie has been a SQL Server MVP since January 2006 due largely to his contributions to the SSIS user community. [more - bio & sessions]

Justin Langford

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/justinl
Coeo Ltd
Justin is a Principal Consultant for Coeo Ltd, a Microsoft Gold Partner providing SQL Server consulting services for upgrade, performance tuning, scalability and availability solutions for all versions of SQL Server.  Coeo also offer Remote DBA services to customers who outsource ... [more - bio & sessions]

Klaus Aschenbrenner

http://www.csharp.at
Klaus Aschenbrenner works as a Software Architect for in Vienna - Austria. Klaus has worked with the .NET Framework and especially with SQL Server 2008 from the very beginning. In the years 2004 - 2005 Klaus was honored with MVP awards from Microsoft for his tremendous support of ... [more - bio & sessions]

Martin Bell

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/martinbell/ rss feed
Carillon Software Systems Ltd
Martin Bell is a dashing and attractive redhead and you would never guess that he has been a freelance computer consultant in the UK for over 23 years. He’s worked on many relational database systems and since the 1998 has specialized in SQL Server. He was first awarded Microsoft ... [more - bio & sessions]

Peter Doyle

Ibersoft Ltd
I have been an independent contractor for 15 years and before that I worked for Software House for 5 years, before that I was an accountant (for my sins).  For the last 10 years I have worked with SQL Server as both a DBA and Developer.  I now tend to pigeon-hole myself ... [more - bio & sessions]

R Meyyappan

http://www.sqlworkshops.com
www.sqlworkshops.com
R Meyyappan is a SQL Server specialist with expertise in Performance Tuning. Ramesh worked at Microsoft Corporation from 1994 to 2004. Nearly half of that time he worked in Redmond in the development teams - specifically as Program Manager in the SQL Server Development Team responsible ... [more - bio & sessions]

Richard Fennell

http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/rfennell/
Black Marble
Richard is the Engineering Director of Black Marble Ltd a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble specialises in BizTalk & SharePoint based business automation. As Engineering Director Richard is responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow ... [more - bio & sessions]

Ross Mistry

http://www.networkworld.com/community/mistry
Convergent Computing, (CCO)
Ross Mistry is a consultant, bestselling author and SQL Server MVP.  As a consultant in the Silicon Valley, he design and implements solutions for fortune 500 organizations with Microsoft technologies.  His specialties include migrations, high availability, security and virtualization.  ... [more - bio & sessions]

Satya Jayanty

http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/Bloggers.aspx rss feed
D Bi A Solutions Limited
Knowledge is the power and you will gain by sharing it; Subject Matter Expert, Consulting & technical expertise for Databases, Business Intelligence & Architecture solutions. Working as Solutions Architect & Consultant for database solutions with over 18+ years of experience ... [more - bio & sessions]

Simon Munro

http://simonmunro.com
EMC Consulting
Simon Munro is a Senior Practice Consultant with EMC Consulting.  Currently doing solution architecture on the Microsoft stack, Simon has spent more than fifteen years straddling the line between application and database development.  Over the years he has worked on a wide range of ... [more - bio & sessions]

Simon Sabin

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons rss feed
Onarc Consulting Limited
Simon is an independent Database consultant specialising in the world of search, distributed architectures, business intelligence and application development. He has worked with SQL Server since 1998 and has always focused on high performance reliable systems. He was awarded as an ... [more - bio & sessions]

Tom Pullen

http://thomaspullen.spaces.live.com/blog/
RM Education
Tom has been a DBA since 1998, he started out using SQL Server 4.2 and 6.5. He currently works for Helveta, a small company providing asset tracking software. He has previously worked for RM Education and Oxfam. He is a Senior DBA, with responsibility for system design, maintenance, database ... [more - bio & sessions]

Tomislav Piasevoli

http://tomislavpiasevoli.spaces.live.com/
SoftPro Tetral d.o.o.
Tomislav is a Business Intelligence Specialist focused on Microsoft platform. He lives in Croatia and works for SoftPro Tetral company known for its two OLAP clients: Manager and CubePlayer. Tomislav's specialty is cube design and MDX. However, working in a small company for the ... [more - bio & sessions]

Vincent Rainardi

http://www.datawarehouse.org.uk/ rss feed
Amadeus IT
Very passionate with data warehousing, Vincent works in London as data warehousing & BI architect specialising on SQL Server BI. He currently works at IMS, and previously for Catlin, lastminute.com, Veolia, Avery Dennison and Accenture. He wrote a book on SQL Server data warehousing, ... [more - bio & sessions]