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Good Bye, 2022 and Happy New Year, 2023!

Another year passed, again in an incredible speed and there is a lot I actually did but never blogged here. In fact, in the last months, I’ve neglected my blog a bit, for many reasons. One reason was that I had some sicknesses during the year and as I don’t like to make them public, only few people of the #sqlfamily actually learned one or more of them. However, I don’t want to look back on those lows, but rather on my happy experiences I’ve had and just to sum them up for a looking back....

Jan 01 2023 19:05 Zurich, Switzerland · 5 min · Kay
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Speaking Engagements September 2021

This post was originally published on my employers blog first. September marks the end of this summer but we’ve got some exciting news about new events that we’ll be joining this month. This post is giving you an overview over these! We hope you’ve enjoyed your summer break and are ready for the new season for many new events! This September ‘21, I’ll have two very interesting events that I will attend as a speaker, panel member or a moderator apart from organizing Data TGIF this Friday:...

Sep 06 2021 09:50 Zurich, Switzerland · 2 min · Kay
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My journey to my first speaking

To give a speaking in public for the first time is always scary. At the DataWeekender in October last year, Angela Henry who was moderating some sessions together with me, mentioned that there is a website where you can look for mentors and recommended it to me if I would want to pick up speaking. The website is speakingmentors.com and was created by Alex Yates, so I’ve later learned. At the end of March this year, I’ve decided that I want to start to speak this year....

May 19 2021 00:00 Zurich, Switzerland · 3 min · Kay
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I am speaking at DataWeekender

Yes, it looks a bit funny: on this blog, the last post was about my supporting as a Moderator of DataWeekender in last October. Ever since, I’ve set up this blog and got much more active on my Twitter account. And this does not mean that I’m leaving my dev.to account, but just that I now have additionally a blog that I have more control about. This May 15, I will be debuting for speaking at conferences....

Apr 28 2021 00:00 Zurich, Switzerland · 1 min · Kay