Our little “Data Geeks” Meetup group in Vancouver, Washington is growing with a line-up of heavy-hitters and bigger crowds.
This month, on April 16th, we are honored to welcome Reid Havens, Microsoft MVP and Business Intelligence superstar from the Seattle area. Reid will be presenting “Demystifying Chart Types & Report Design Principles”. Reid is the Founder of Havens Consulting Inc. He has a formal background in technology and organizational management, having obtained separate Master’s Degrees in Organizational Development & Business Analytics. He has experience working with many of the Fortune 50, 100, & 500 companies. Additionally he guest lectures at the University of Washington and other universities, teaching Business Intelligence, Reporting, & Data Visualization.
Please RSVP on the user group Meetup page for the event. Thanks to Lexicon Solutions for sponsoring this month’s meeting. Please visit their site if you would like to upgrade your career or are seeking technical talent.
We’re seeing considerable cross-pollination of complimentary user groups in the greater Portland area which gives professionals in the region several quality, free learning and networking opportunities every month. These groups include the Oregon SQL PASS Chapter, which meets downtown Portland on the second Wednesday evening and the Portland Power BI User Group, which meets on Beaverton on the 4th Wednesday evening of each month. With the Vancouver Data Geeks meeting on the 3rd Wednesday evening, if you attend these data-centric user groups three out of four Wednesday evenings each month, you will be smarter than you can imagine and should have immense career opportunities!
In February, we had international trainer and well-known conference speaker, Peter Meyers share his Power BI insights to a crowd so large that we had to find a larger venue. Indeed, our Southwest Washington technical community is growing. Little did we know that if you search the Meetup site for ‘Data Geeks’ in Vancouver, you might find the “Vancouver Data Geeks” group in that other Vancouver way up north of the 48th parallel. We didn’t plan that nor did they but it has a been a minor point of confusion. We may be the smaller of the Vancouvers but we are making a name for ourselves, even in the shadow of Portland, Oregon; our big sister city to the south, just over the river.
Thank you all for participating in our growing community and we look forward to seeing you on April 16th for Reid’s session at the Interject Data Systems Office in Salmon Creek, right off I-5, Exit 7A.
