PASS Speaker Idol 2014 Review and Notes
This year the SQL PASS conference held their first Speaker Idol contest with the goal of getting new speakers into the PASS Summit on the strength of their presentation skills instead of their abstracts. And I think I can safely say that it was a resounding success. We started with 40 people who applied (38 […]
PASS Summit 2014 Speaker Idol—A Judge’s Perspective
One of the most interesting events I got to take part in during last week’s PASS Summit, was to be on the panel of judges for Speaker Idol. Denny Cherry (b|w) borrowed an idea from TechEd and sold to PASS—basically speakers who had never spoken before at PASS Summit would get the opportunity to give […]