Speaking and Community Involvement for the Introvert
Presented by:
pwright8088
Pat Wright has been a DBA for the past 20+ years and working in the Big Data space with Hadoop/Elastic search for the past 5 years. Pat has been working on Postgres for the last 5 years and runs the local postgres users group. Pat currently supports sponsors and events for PG US in both New York City and Chicago. Pat has been a SQL Server MVP, PASS Board of director and organizer of several users groups.
Pat has a night job running Utah Geek Events(501c(3)). Which helps to run events for the community. Utah Geek Events partners with Utah SQL Saturday, Sharepoint Saturday, Utah game jam and many other conferences and user groups.
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Let’s be serious, I understand 99% of the audience for a technical conference will be introverted. I’m not here to disagree with that, I'm here to talk about the introvert inside of me and how I quiet it just enough to truly improve my life. We will discuss why the idea of speaking and community involvement is important to you. If you think all you need is technical skills in this market then please join me in the session so you can see why you need so much more than that. The Database community is still growing very quickly and you can capitalize on this right now. We will go in-depth on the key things you need to be successful in Networking, Presenting, and working with others in companies The audience for this presentation is anyone that would like to be an expert in the industry and would want to worry less about the future employment opportunities.
- Date:
- Duration:
- 45 min
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- Conference:
- PGConf India, 2025
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- Track:
- Case Study
- Difficulty:
- Easy