Log in to like this post! SQLSaturday #152 Bulgaria Event Recap and Follow-up [Infragistics] Mihail Mateev / Sunday, October 14, 2012 On September 29, 2012 Infragistics was host and sponsor the first conference in Bulgaria SQLSaturday. SQLSaturday#152 Bulgaria was held at Infragistics Bulgaria office: 110 B, Simeonovsko Shosse Bul., Office Floors II and III 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/152/eventhome.aspx 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 Preparation: In the morning before the event: The entire office layout was completely changed overnight from the work environment to a nice conference layout. The SQLSaturday Bulgaria conference: Infragistics speakers in action: SQLSaturday #152 Bulgaria Event Recap: 219 registered for the event About 150 participants 21 presentations in 4 tracks: Development, DBA, BI and Windows Azure SQL Database & Personal Development 15 speakers from 6 countries: USA, UK, Austria, Denmark, Poland and Bulgaria The conference schedule could be found here: 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 3 technical presentation from Infragistics:- Practical methods for OLAP Data Visualization : Jason Beres- Spatial Data with SQL Server Reporting Services : Mihail Mateev- Using SQL Local Database in Mobile Applications : Mihail Mateev The conference was held with the help of: PASS: Gold sponsor and SQLSaturday organizer Infragistics: Gold sponsor and SQLSaturday #152 Bulgaria host ICB, HP, Microsoft, SQL Master Academy – Gold sponsors JobTiger: Silver sposor Cozyroc: Bronze sponsor IDG: Media partner I want to share with you some good news: There is reserved date for SQLSaturday Bulgaria 2013 - 26 October 2013 with a host of Infragistics office in Sofia. I hope soon to have final approval for the conference. See all news about SQLSaturday Bulgaria on SQL Saturday #152 Facebook page and follow #sqlsat152 on Twitter. Follow news from Infragistics for more information about new Infragistics events. As always, you can follow us on Twitter @mihailmateev and @Infragistics and stay in touch on Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn!