Upcoming speaking engagements
The list below shows my future speaking engagements. Sessions are normal length presentations (60 – 75 minutes), unless marked differently.
| Date | Location | Conference | Presentation topic(s) |
| July 19 – 20, 2024 | Brisbane, Australia | Data Saturday Brisbane | Execution plans in depth (full day precon) Advanced indexing Here’s the execution plan … now what? |
| July 26 – 27, 2024 | Christchurch, New Zealand (Saturday schedule not yet published) |
Data Saturday South Island / SQL Saturday South Island | Execution plans in depth (full day precon)
Improve your SQL Server performance in 7 simple steps |
| August 2 – 3, 2024 | Wellington, New Zealand (schedule not yet published) |
SQL Saturday Wellington | Execution plans in depth (full day precon) Here’s the execution plan … now what? |
| August 31, 2024 | Oslo, Norway | Data Saturday Oslo | Here’s the execution plan … now what? |
| September 3, 2024 | Virtual | SQL Ireland User Group | Here’s the execution plan … now what? |
| September 7, 2024 | Gothenburg, Sweden | Data Saturday Gothenburg | Submitted … fingers crossed! |
| September 30 – October 2, 2024 | Hanau, Germany | SQL Konferenz | Here’s the execution plan … now what? |
| October 5, 2024 | Utrecht, the Netherlands | Data Saturday Holland | Submitted … fingers crossed! |
| October 7 – 9, 2024 | Mechelen, Belgium | dataMinds Connect | Approximate functions: How do they work? |
| October 8, 2024 | Virtual | Triangle Area SQL Server User Group (TriPASS) | Five stages of grief – internals of a hash spill |
| October 25, 2024 | Zurich, Switzerland | Data Platform Conference Switzerland | Submitted … fingers crossed! |
| November 2, 2024 | Vancouver, WA | SQL Saturday Oregon & SW Washington | Submitted … fingers crossed! |
| November 4 – 8, 2024 | Seattle, WA | PASS Data Community Summit | Execution plans in depth (full day precon) Normalization Demystified (extra length deep dive session) |
| January 24, 2025 | Wien, Austria | Data Community Day Austria | Submitted … fingers crossed! |
| Various dates | Groningen, Netherlands | Groningen Microsoft Data Meetup-groep | Submitted … fingers crossed! |
| Various dates | Virtual | Data Platform Downunder Meetup | Submitted … fingers crossed! |
| Various dates | Virtual | PASSMN Monthly Meeting | Submitted … fingers crossed! |
(*) For smaller events outside of Europe, I cannot guarantee at this time that I can justify the travel cost. I might have to retract these submissions.
(**) When multiple events are on the same date, I can of course only attend one. Which one depends on which sessions (if any) are picked, and when the session selection is known