Last year I pulled together an idea that had been haunting me for a long time and started the SQLStarter track in Indy.  You can refer back to my blog post on the creation/inspiration.  I can tell you, the day of the event I watched intently the attendance for the sessions in the track.  So glad to see it was really well attended and I got great feedback!  I would really like to thank all the speakers who helped get this going.  Thank you so much to Josh Fennessy, Dave Leininger, David Maxwell, John Deardurff,  Traci Marcero, Kevin Kline, and Jim Bennett!  You guys will never know how grateful I am for your help getting this off the ground!

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I’d like to bring it back again this year so I’ll need speakers again.  All the sessions are intended to be introductions to different tracks in data related fields.  If you would like to be involved, please let me know.  I think the tracks below worked well but if you have thoughts/suggestions, I’m all ears.  Also please help get the word out to people thinking about getting into a new career or starting out.

• Intro to Big Data
• Intro to Data Science
• Intro to Database Administration
• Intro to Database Development
• Intro to Business Intelligence

And another pic from a time when my judgement was questionable (see previous blog).