{"id":188,"date":"2009-10-18T21:05:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T02:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2010-10-17T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T18:42:36","slug":"pass-community-summit-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ssas-info.com\/VidasMatelisBlog\/188_pass-community-summit-2009","title":{"rendered":"PASS Community Summit 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last 2 years I attended the Microsoft BI conference which I enjoyed very much. This year I’ll be going to Seattle to attend the PASS Community Summit 2009<\/a>\u00a0(Nov 3-5th, 2009). \u00a0Although the PASS Community Summit is not a BI specific conference, I am quite surprised that there will be so many BI sessions. In my event planner I added 3-4 sessions that I would love to attend for almost each time slot . The good news is that all of the sessions will be recorded and attendees have a choice – watch them for free later online, or just buy the DVD with recordings.<\/p>\n

This year, I’ll be volunteering at some of the PASS Community Summit events.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, November 3rd during lunch (between 11:45am and 1:00pm) there will be a “Birds of a Feather<\/a>” event. That is a topic-based luncheon where a number of tables will be marked and discussion facilitated by MVPs or Microsoft employees. I will be volunteering at this event and for my table I choose the topic: “Gemini’s <\/strong>impact on SSAS\/Data Warehouse projects<\/strong>“. As you know, with the release of Gemini, power Excel users will be able load data from different sources and build very powerful pivot reports without any help from IT.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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At this table we will discuss:<\/p>\n