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So we’re about 5 months out from the PASS Summit in Seattle and now that all the community, spotlight and pre-post conference sessions are announced (Congrats to everyone who made the cut!!!) I’m starting to look at how I want to approach the summit and my personal agenda.

If I were to rank my expertise when it comes to the 3 streams it would look like this:

1) Database Administration

2) Database Development

3) Business Intelligence

There are some amazing speakers on all 3 streams but I’m having a hard time deciding what mix of sessions I want to go to.  I’d obviously get the most “new material” from the BI streams, then db development, and finally db administration… but because I’m primarily focussed on the db administration side I tend to lean more heavily towards that stream and those sessions.  Then you throw in some Professional Development sessions and it gets that much more confusing LOL.

So the question for all the seasoned PASS Summit attendees out there…

How do YOU decide what sessions to go to:

• Do you like to go for as many of the sessions in your “expertise” stream to solidify your understanding on a particular subject? 
• Do you like to go out of your comfort zone and hit as many sessions that discuss items that you wouldn’t consider yourself to be well versed in?
• Do you have a “can’t miss” list of speakers and regardless of the topic you don’t miss their sessions?

Obviously everyone has their own agenda and what they’re looking to get out of the Summit this year… I’m just looking for some ideas as to how others break up their week and what they think is the most important things to get out of the Summit.

Happy Monday everyone

Enjoy!!