30th September - 2nd October 2010

University of York

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Speakers

Speakers from SQLBits - The 6th Sets.

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]

Bob Duffy

http://blogs.msdn.com/boduff/default.aspx rss feed
Prodata
Bob Duffy is one of a select group of Microsoft Certified Architects for SQL Server (aka SQL Ranger) around the globe. He has worked with SQL Server since 1997, and been designing database solutions ob varuous platforms for over 18 years. Bob has involved in more than 250 projects. ... [more - bio & sessions]

Chirag Roy

http://sqlking.wordpress.com
Coeo Ltd
Chirag is a Senior SQL DBA at Coeo Ltd, a Microsoft Gold Partner providing SQL Server consulting and Remote DBA services to customers who outsource management and 24x7 operations of their SQL Server platform.  Chirag works delivering and maintaining SQL Server solutions for customers ... [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]

Conor Cunningham

http://blogs.msdn.com/conor_cunningham_msft/default.aspx
Microsoft
Conor Cunningham is a Principal Software Architect at Microsoft on the SQL Server Query Processor Team.  He's worked on database technologies for Microsoft for over 10 years and is holds numerous patents related to Query Optimization and Query Processing.  Conor is the author of a ... [more - bio & sessions]

Darren Green

http://www.konesans.com rss feed
Konesans Ltd
Darren is the joint owner of Konesans Ltd, a small UK based consultancy specializing in data solutions with SQL Server. Having been working with SQL Server from 6.5 onwards he has extensive experience in many aspects of SQL Server, but now focuses on solving problems with BI and SSIS. ... [more - bio & sessions]

David Elliott

Betfair
David works in the Architecture team at Betfair dealing with Information Management and Analytics. He has worked with the Microsoft BI stack since SQL Server 2000. [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]

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]

Keith Burns

http://blogs.msdn.com/keithbu/
Microsoft
Keith began his career at Dec as a database consultant for Rdb/VMS. For the past 15 year he’s worked for Microsoft supporting SQL Server in a variety of roles. His experience goes back to V4.2 on OS/2 (before Windows NT was released). For a number of years he work with large Enterprises ... [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]

Mark Whitehorn

Penguinsoft
Dr. Mark Whitehorn specialises in database technology, data warehousing and OLAP and has written eleven books on these topics.  He runs his own consultancy company which specialises in the above and is a mentor with Solid Quality Mentors.  On the academic side he holds a research ... [more - bio & sessions]

Pablo Doval

http://geeks.ms/blogs/palvarez rss feed
Plain Concepts
I've been 'playing' with computers since I was a kid, so I've got a lot of background here: I've worked as a freelance, for my university, in several research projects, etc. Then I had the chance of join Microsoft's Premier GTSC, as SQL Server Support Engineer, where I learned to ... [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]

Rob Carrol

http://blogs.technet.com/rob rss feed
Microsoft
I have been working with SQL Server since 1999, firstly as a web developer, but primarily in a DBA and consultancy capacity. I joined Microsoft in 2008 as a SQL Server Premier Field Engineer, working with some of Microsoft's largest clients in the UK and Europe. I live in South Ayrshire, ... [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]

Thomas Kejser

http://sqlcat.com
Microsoft
Thomas has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5 and performance tuned cubes since OLAP Server 7.0. He has worked on some of the largest cubes in the world. Performing fast loading of warehousing and removing every bottleneck is one of Thomas specialties. He holds a master ... [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]

Tony Rogerson

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson
Torver Computer Consultants Ltd
Tony began his long IT career in July 86, completed an apprenticeship as a Production Systems Analyst in April 90, he has used many languages and products throughout that career the main ones being IDEF-0, Application System, PL/1, CICS, DB2, System W, Oracle, SQL Server, Visual Basic, ... [more - bio & sessions]