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SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 – Goa – Day 3

Posted in Database, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged , on November 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Yesterday was our last day at South Asia MVP Open Day. For three days continuously we are having great time along with fellow MVP. Every MVP was having great time because the way whole event was planned. We had plenty of time for networking as well lots of interesting sessions were going on.

Most of the MVPs had slept late the day before because everybody was preparing their presentation for community buzz. The day before we had wonderful Open Space sessions at Midnight. The most avaited sessions was Nitin Paranjape – Do’s and Dont’s of being an entrepreneur (Monetizing your expertise). I have requested PPT to Nitin (as we were coming back in the same flight to Mumbai), as soon as I receive the PPT I will share with everybody on this blog.

I visited for long walk by myself on beach. From last two days I was so busy that I hardly had a single min with myself. My phone was showing full battery after end of the second day as it was absolutely not used. I enjoyed long walk on beach. I had discussion about India and Russian economy with one of the Russian visitor on beach. If I had more time, I might have discussed with him for little longer.

I had to get back to attend excellent session of Blogging Workshop by Abhishek Kant. The reason I like this session as it has given all the blogger to share their thoughts with everybody. Whole group listened suggestions carefully and agreed with each other. Abhishek has made some notes about all the suggestions, once I receive the copy of it, I will share with everybody.

Workshop was followed up with community activity, where four team proposed their agenda of promoting MS product. Winner team promoted IE8 and won MP4 players. It was great team building activity and extremely hilarious as well. We all end up discussing and laughing at presentation. Hats off to everybody who took part in this team activity.

Abhishek thanked all the MVPs for their tremendous response to the event. Closing notes were presented by Howard Lo. All MPVs ended event with three cheers to MS team.

Overall, South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 was very successful event. What I have covered in my three days notes is actually very small percentage of what actually was happening at event. There were parallel technical sessions and lots of discussion among technology experts. I will write more about different sessions and other technical discussion in next few days. I am also waiting for few PPTs and demos to share with all of you. There were few sessions which shared information which I can not disclose here as we are under NDA. Only thing I will say that Microsoft is coming out with lots of exciting features and products.

Pinal at Sea Shore

Abhishek on Blog Workshop

Allen from Nepal and Pinal

Pinal discussing Blog Buzz

MVP Group Photo

Howard Lo – Closing Notes

Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

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SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 – Goa – Day 2

Posted in About Me, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged , on November 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

At MVP Open Day we were promised that we will have 8 to 8 action packed day but we all observed much longer hours where we all MVP’s were busy with activity. I will say instead of 8 AM to 8 PM we actually had fun from 8 AM to 2 AM (next day).

Day 2 at MVP Open day was filled with technical sessions followed by River Cruise and Dance party at Casino. On day 2 we had team photo, as I was part of team photo I could not take this photo myself. I will request Abhishek Kant to send me the team photo of all the MVP who came to MVP OpenDay and post on this blog.

We all MVP were thinking that we will not enjoy the River Cruise but when party started on Cruise we all were so much into it that we wanted to take one more round of the cruise. As we had to get back to Casino Dance Party we all decided to come back to our hotel. Out Hotel Kenilworth Resorts, Goa is indeed good hotel with all the fun stuff available right of there.

Read more about Day 1 at SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 – Goa – Day 1. One thing which was most important was Community Buzz. We all MVP has to promote campaign plan for one MS product. Our strong team was assigned color green and Windows Server 2008. My team member really worked hard and prepared the documentation. We have presentation to do tomorrow about the same. I am very excited to do the same. We hope to win but if we do not win, it is still lots of fun.

There were lots of other activity we did but one of the most interesting activity was NETWORKING with other MVPs. I want to congratulate Microsoft MVP Leads ( Abhishek Kant and Abhishek Baxi) for arranging the event such a way that there was plenty of opportunity of the networking with everybody. MVPs mingled and learned about each other. Let us see some of the snaps which I took at event.

Again, I am waiting for group photo to receive from any member who took it.

At hotel large Chess ground

All MVP Same T-Shirt

Santa Monica of Goat

R.E.D.

Casino Night

Pool – where is the cue?

MVP background

All MVPs

At Cruise Night

At Cruise Night – happy MVPs

At R.E.D.

My Beach Clothes!

MVP Background

Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

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SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 – Goa – Day 1

Posted in About Me, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged , on November 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »

It is great fun! Perfect Event and Great start.

Yesterday I wrote about agenda of South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 which is at Hotel Kenilworth Resorts, Goa. November 15 – Day 1 of Open Day started with plain journey and ended with Goan Team Party at beach with fellow MVP.

I have more than hundreds of the photos of this event. I will share few of the them with you.

First of all let me thank three four people, without their support this event might have not possible.

Howard Lo - Microsoft, Singapore – Regional Manager, Asia Pacific and Greater China
Abhishek Kant - Microsoft, India – MVP Lead
Abhishek Baxi - Microsoft, India – MVP Program Specialist
Tanuj Vohra - Microsoft, India – Partner Director, Visual Studio Test Business

I met all of them personally and had wonderful connection with them. I want to personally thank all of them for their extra ordinary support for this excellent event to happen. Haward were in the same plane from Mumbai to Goa and we had some good discussion about open day when we were together going to hotel.

Hotel Kenilworth Resort is amazingly beautiful hotel and it is very hard to describe in words. I will share few of the photos here to give you some idea about the place. Very clear goan beach is just adjoining to this hotel.

After quick introduction to program we had demo of Windows 7 and goan theme party at beach, followed by open space presentation. Open space presentation were presentation by fellow MVP for other MVPs and they started at midnight 12. You can image how action packed days we all MVP had at Open Day 2008.

Following image I found on Mumbai Airport.

MVP Open Day Logo

My room at hotel

My room at hotel

Hotel Kenilworth Resort

Pinal at event

Hotel Kenilworth Resort

Abhishek Kant Presenting

Howard Lo Presenting

Pradeep Presenting

Tanuj Vohra Presenting

Abhishek Baxi Presenting

Goan Night Theme

Pinal, Suprotim, Rahul, Abhishek K

Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

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SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 – Goa – Link List

Posted in About Me, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged , on November 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Today is very exciting day as I will start my trip to South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 – Goa. Yesterday I wrote about my visit. I will be attending South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 on November 15 – 17, 2008 at Hotel Kenilworth Resorts, Goa. Those who have asked how can they meet me in Goa is that you will have to send me email and I will respond to them.

At this moment I have reached goa and writing using my new USB Data Card internet.

I will post more photos and event details as I receive them. Following is proposed agenda of this event. I am publishing this agenda with verbal approval of MVP Team Lead Abhishek.

Nov 15, Saturday
16:30 – 17:00: Welcome Note, Howard Lo*
17:00 – 18:00: MVP Lead Briefing, Abhishek Kant*
18:00 – 19:00: Windows 7 Demo – PDC Build, Pradeep Parappil
19:00 – 20:00: Team Activity – Community Buzz
20:00 – PARTY with Goan Theme
00:00 – After Hours Open Space

Nov 16, Sunday
9:00 – 9:30: MVPs WorldWide, Nestor Portillo*
9:30 – 11:00: [Main Conference Room] Rosario: What’s Coming?, Ashwini Gupta & Tanuj Vohra
9:30 – 11:00: [BreakAway Room] IW & Client Community Plans & Participation, Pradeep Parappil
11:00 – 11:15: TEAM PHOTOS
11:15 – 11:30: BREAK
11:30 – 12:30: [Main Conference Room] Microsoft’s Community Plan for the fiscal, Deepak Rajendran*
12:30 – 13:30: [Main Conference Room] DPE Audience Marketing Rhythms, Deepak Rajendran*
12:30 – 13:30: [BreakAway Room] Immersion into Groove Technologies, Ashok Hingorani
13:30 – 14:30: LUNCH
14:30 – 15:30: [Main Conference Room] Feedback from Quarter 1 & 2 & Plan for Quarter 3 & 4– Mitigation plan
14:30 – 15:30: [BreakAway Room] Blogging Brainstorming
15:30 – 16:30: Team Activity – Community Buzz
16:30 – 17:00: BREAK
17:00 – 20:00: River Cruise
20:00 – PARTY – Casino, Kenilworth
00:00 – After Hours Open Space

Nov 17, Monday
9:00 – 10:00: Blogging Workshop
10:00 – 11:00: Team Presentations
11:00 – 11:30: BREAK
11:30 – 13:00: Open Session with MVP Program Team, Abhishek Kant, Abhishek Baxi and Howard Lo
13:00 – 13:30: Closing Note, Howard Lo
13:30: LUNCH

Reference : Pinal Dave (http://www.SQLAuthority.com)

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SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 – Goa

Posted in About Me, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Author Visit, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged , on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I will be attending South Asia MVP Open Day 2008 on November 15 – 17, 2008 at Hotel Kenilworth Resorts, Goa. I am very excited as this will be my first Open Day event after being MVP. Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select group of experts that represents the technical community’s best and brightest, and they share a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.

There will be lots of events at South Asia MVP Open Day and lots of opportunity to meet smartest experts of Microsoft Technology. I will be writing article about how event is going everyday from Goa. If you are in Goa and want to meet me and few of the other Industry Leaders please send me email and we can meet at Hotel Kenilworth Resort after the event. Hotel Kenilworth Resort is known for its guest services and wonderful environment. You can look at some of the photos of Hotel here.

Reference : Pinal Dave (http://www.SQLAuthority.com)

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