Upcoming speaking engagements

Date	Location	Conference	Presentation topic(s)
August 28	Hybrid: Plovdiv, Bulgaria / Virtual	Data Saturday Plovdiv	From adaptive to intelligent: query processing in SQL 2019
September 8 – 9	Virtual	Data Platform Virtual Summit 2021	Execution plans in depth (full day workshop, delivered in two four-hour slots)
September 11	Zagreb, Croatia (see note below)	Data Saturday Croatia	Now where did THAT estimate come from?
September 13 – 18	Virtual	Data Platform Virtual Summit 2021	Now where did THAT estimate come from? (2 hour deep dive)
October 9	Hybrid: Sofia, Bulgaria / Virtual	Data Saturday Sofia	Submitted – fingers crossed!
October 11 – 12	Mechelen, Belgium (see note below)	dataMinds Connect	Five stages of grief – internals of a hash spill
November 8 – 12	Virtual	PASS Data Community Summit	Here’s the execution plan … now what? (plus perhaps more?)
January 2022 (exact date TBA)	Virtual	EightKB winter edition	Submitted – fingers crossed!

 

Note to conference organizers:

My wife has very high risk when exposed to Covid-19. Now that we are both vaccinated we feel we no longer have to be as restrictive in the risks we take, but as new variants evolve this might change. If needed, I reserve the right to cancel in-person conferences, even when all official guidelines and regulations of all countries involved are met, if I feel that the personal risk to me and my wife would be too high.

As much as I love to attend in-person conferences, I urge all organizers to have virtual events only until the pandemic is fully and worldwide under control.