19th - 21st November 2009

Celtic Manor, Newport

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Speakers

Speakers who have submitted a session for SQLBits goes West.

Martin Cairney

Right Join Consultants
Martin Cairney has over 10 years experience as a SQL Server DBA. In his time he has worked for one of the largest IT services companies in the world deploying and supporting SQL Server installations from versions 6.5 through to 2008. Martin has supported the SQL Server estate of some ... [more - bio & sessions]

Alastair Aitchison

Alastair Aitchison has over eight years experience as a management information consultant, providing data reporting and analysis for the House of Lords, the Police, and various UK media agencies. While working as a technical manager at Aviva, his principle area of interest was on ... [more - bio & sessions]

Allan Mitchell

www.konesans.com
Allan is the joint owner of Konesans Ltd, a small UK based consultancy specializing in SQL Server, and most importantly SQL Server Integration Services. Having been working with SQL Server from 6.5 onwards he has extensive experience in many aspects of SQL Server, but now focuses ... [more - bio & sessions]

Andre Kamman

http://andrekamman.com rss feed
I'm a contractor based in the Netherlands. Working with SQL Server since version 6.5 I sometimes think that I have memorized Books Online by now and can do my work on autopilot. But usually even before my first cup of coffee something strange happens and I find myself searching for ... [more - bio & sessions]

Andrew Couch

ASC associates
Andrew has been developing with Access and SQL Server for over 14 years and specialises in Client-Server design applied in the manufacturing and banking sectors. Andrew is a director and one of the founding members of the Access User Group (www.ukaug.co.uk) and technical director ... [more - bio & sessions]

Andrew Fryer

http://blogs.technet.com/Andrew
Microsoft
I am a technical evangelsit at Microsoft specialising in business intelligecne and data management. I got interested in large databases while at HM Customs in the nineties as part of the move to intelligence led resourcing, but another inititive namely outsourcing meant that my last ... [more - bio & sessions]

Anthony Howcroft

Microsoft
Anthony has more than twenty-five years’ experience in IT. He was a co-founder of DATAllegro, the Data Warehouse appliance vendor acquired by Microsoft in 2008, where he established and ran the European operation. Prior to this he launched and managed the UK subsidiary for Business ... [more - bio & sessions]

Ashwani Roy

http://ashwaniroy.spaces.live.com
Information Management Group
  Ashwani Roy is SQL Server MVP and Business Intelligence 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 ... [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]

Brent Ozar

http://www.brentozar.com/ rss feed
Quest Software
Brent Ozar is a SQL Server Domain Expert with Quest Software. He has a decade of broad IT experience, performing systems administration and project management before moving into database administration. In his current role, Brent specializes in performance tuning, disaster recovery ... [more - bio & sessions]

Chris Testa-O'Neill

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/testas/
QA
Chris Testa-O'Neill is a SQL Server Specialist at QA, the UK’s leading provider of learning services. He specialises in SQL Server Business Intelligence Solutions and teaches all Microsoft courses in the SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008 product range. He also conducts closed company sessions ... [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 has been working with SQL Server since 1999 and in 2007 became a Director and Database Architect for Coeo Ltd, a Microsoft Certified Partner focused on large scale and complex SQL Server projects in the UK. Prior to this, Christian worked for 5 years as a Senior Premier ... [more - bio & sessions]

Christian Bolton

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian
Coeo Ltd
Christian Bolton is a Director and Database Architect for Coeo Ltd, a Microsoft Gold Partner that delivers 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 ... [more - bio & sessions]

Colin Angus Mackay

http://blog.colinmackay.net
Scottish Developers
Colin Angus Mackay is a software developer specialising in Microsoft technologies located in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a Member of the British Computer Society, a Microsoft MVP (C#) for three years running, a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer, the Chairman of Scottish Developers, ... [more - bio & sessions]

Donald Farmer

http://www.beyeblogs.com/donaldfarmer
Microsoft Corporation
What do medieval archaeology, fish farming, Southwestern University of Chongqing and Microsoft Business Intelligence have in common? If you know, you should tell Donald Farmer, because he has been deeply involved in all of them at various times. Donald has worked in the Microsoft ... [more - bio & sessions]

Dr John Tunnicliffe

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/drjohn/ rss feed
Bovi BI Consultancy
John is an independent consultant with extensive experience of implementing Business Intelligence solutions on the Microsoft platform across a range of industries including financial services and professional services organisations. John designs and builds solutions based on Microsoft ... [more - bio & sessions]

Ian Marritt

http://community.altiusconsulting.com/blogs/ rss feed
Altius Consulting
I am a Principal Consultant with Altius Consulting - a leading Business Intelligence specialist consultancy. I worked as a consultant specialising in information management for over ten years most of which I have been working with SQL Server and Analysis Services. [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]

Jamie Thomson

http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson
EMC Consulting
Jamie has been a SQL Server MVP since January 2006 due largely to his contributions to the SSIS user community. [more - bio & sessions]

Jasper Smith

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/sqldbatips
Nationwide Building Society
Jasper is a member of the Database Services team at Nationwide Building Society focussed on High Availability, Scalability, Performance Tuning and Monitoring. He has been a SQL Server MVP since 2003 and runs www.sqldbatips.com with a focus on providing free tools for the SQL Server ... [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]

Martin Bell

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/martinbell/ rss feed
Carillon Software Systems Ltd
Martin Bell is a dashing and attractive redhead and you would never guess that he has been a freelance computer consultant in the UK for over 23 years. He’s worked on many relational database systems and since the 1998 has specialized in SQL Server. He was first awarded Microsoft ... [more - bio & sessions]

Matt Feltham

Altius Consulting
Matt is a Senior Consultant with Altius Consulting - a leading Business Intelligence specialist consultancy. He has developed with SQL Server and .Net technologies for the last 10 years and has recently turned his focus to data visualisation and rich user experience technologies such ... [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 Farley

http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley rss feed
LobsterPot Solutions
Rob Farley runs LobsterPot Solutions Pty Ltd, an Australian-based consultancy. He has been consulting in IT since completing a Computer Science degree with first class honours in 1997. He lives in Adelaide, but has also worked in consultancies in Melbourne and London. He is a regular ... [more - bio & sessions]

Satya Jayanty

http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/Bloggers.aspx rss feed
SSQA.net Limited
Knowledge is the power and you will gain by sharing it; Solutions Architect and Consultant for database solutions with over 18+ years of experience in Software Engineering and Database applications using industry famous technologies & software, having awarded MVP since the ... [more - bio & sessions]

Simon Munro

http://blogs.conchango.com/simonmunro
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
Microsooft
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 works for RM Education, a provider of hardware, software and hosting services to the education sector in the UK and abroad. Before that he worked for Oxfam. He is a senior DBA, with responsibilities for ... [more - bio & sessions]

Vincent Rainardi

http://www.datawarehouse.org.uk/ rss feed
Amadeus IT
Very passionate with data warehousing, Vincent works in London as data warehousing & BI consultant specialising on SQL Server platform. He currently works at a global insurer, and previously worked for Lastminute.com, Veolia, Avery Dennison and Accenture. He wrote a SQL Server ... [more - bio & sessions]