SQLSaturday #199 Bulgaria Event Recap and Follow-up

After the first successful SQLSaturday # 152 in 2012  Infragistics was host and sponsor the conference in SQLSaturday #199   for the second time.

SQLSaturday #199 Bulgaria was held on 26 of October, 2013  at Infragistics Bulgaria office: 110 B, Simeonovsko Shosse Bul., Office Floors II and III

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Infragistics Bulgaria Office

What is SQL Saturday:

• SQL Saturday is a conference of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) www.sqlpass.org,www.sqlsaturday.com
• The event was announced officially on site SQL Saturday: http://www.sqlsaturday.com/199/

Infragistics as a company that develops solutions for data visualization and business solutions has many common points in with areas covered from the  conference: BI, Reporting, SQL Server related solutions

Our plan was to have:

• More than 200 attendees
• Up to 30 sessions in 5 Tracks
• More than 15 speakers

Registration:

Keynote:

Volunteers from Infragistics

Sessions:

Sponsors:

Lunch:

SQLSaturday Raffle:

The actual statistics looks much better than SQLSaturday Bulgaria Team Expected

Our statistics:

• 350 registrations.
• 210 real attendees from 11 countries (USA, UK, Portugal, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria and Serbia).
• 20 speakers from 10 different countries (USA, UK, Portugal, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia and Bulgaria).
• 30 sessions in 5 tracks

You can see more pictures from the conference here:

Feedbak in Twitter about SQLSaturday #199 Bulgaria

Some Twitter statistics  about SQLSaturday #Bulgaria 2013

Infragistics participation in the event:

• Infragistics was SQLSaturday Bulgaria  conference host and gold sponsor.
• Administrators at the conference were Jason Beres and I – Mihail Mateev
• There was more than 15 volunteers from Infragistics who helped  the conference to be held
• There was 2 technical presentation from Infragistics:
  - Windows Azure SQL Reporting for App developers : Mihail Mateev
  - Power BI for Office 365 - a Complete Self-Service BI in the Cloud : Mihail Mateev

Now SQLSaturday Bulgaria Team is looking for appropriate dates for SQLSaturday Bulgaria 2014.

More information about SQLSaturday Bulgaria is available  on the website of the conference http://www.sqlsaturday.com/199 ,  SQL Saturday Bulgaria Facebook page and you can follow #sqlsat199 on Twitter.

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Warm Regards,
SQLSaturday Bulgaria Team

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