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Events: DevOpsHeroes 2017 and SQL Saturday Parma 2017

It’s September, a month whose the start is the beginning of many things, especially in Italy. Kids start over the schools, Companies invest, and what about projects and events?

You know, I really love to do both. But in this post I’d let you know how I feel proud about my work in the past four years. Thanks to the help of my employees and co-ops, I did organise four SQL Saturdays in Parma (2014/355, 2015/462 and 2016/566), making our small town a big SQL Server City. Who would’ve thought it? Yes, maybe in my mind, there was something that pushed me to try, but it could have an epic fail. However, I did it, and it was an astonishing set of records. It started as a quest in an Role Play game, and now we’re in front of this great SQL Saturday. Something to be really proud of.

Two years ago, I felt the need to add a new event, which would have to support a new way of thinking about the IT roles that I was aware of. And that was when DevOps came out. A new buzzword that needed to get a deep explanation, in terms of culture and approach. Combining my passion to The Simpsons series (especially considering Homer Simpson) and DevOps stuff, I’ve made up DevOpsHeroes, whose acronym is DOH, the Homer’s exclamation. And now, for the second year, Developers, IT Operations people, DBAs and PMOs will share their experience about how to integrate, cooperate and make IT world more productive. Another event, another thing to be proud of.

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After the introduction, let me give you some important details about these events, sorted by upcoming date:

DevOpsHeroes 2017 – Parma (http://www.devops-heroes.net/)

Sql Saturday 2017 – Parma (http://www.sqlsaturday.com/675)

  • Date and Location: Saturday, 18th November @ Univeristy of Parma
  • Hashtag: #SQLSAT675
  • Entrance fee: free (lunch included)
  • Duration: from 8am (registrations until 9am) to 6.30pm
  • Registration link: https://www.sqlsaturday.com/675/registernow.aspx
  • At the registration desk:
    • you will use the SpeedPASS
    • you will receive the lunch ticket
    • you will receive the welcome kit
  • session languages: ITA/ENG

However, this year I’d to thank my helpers at Engage IT Services Srl,  the great support of Upgrade Srl (Andrea, Federica and Riccardo, that organised with us the DOH event), HPE and also many communities, like DotDotNet.org and mostly our great community GetLatestVersion.it. A special thanks goes to Windowserver.it, which will record sessions, live streaming and interviews. Speaking about SQLSaturday, the sponsor page depicts how the event is supported. A big thank goes to all of them!

What the future will reserve to us in Parma? I think that I could try to add another event, maybe on IoT topics, because I feel that the world will change following that direction and also, hopefully, my newborn Giulio will play with my and some robot 🙂

Alternatives could be changing the format, like with a TED event or something like it. Who knows? I’m pretty sure that I’ll get a lot of help from now on. This year has been a demonstration of it. I started alone, and now we work in five. The last thing to be proud of. Wonderful!