SQL Saturday 53 Birds of a Feather luncheon

One of the things that I really enjoyed at Summit 2009 was the Birds of a Feather luncheon.  BoF was an optional activity but in the luncheon area they had set aside particular tables with table tents on them describing a topic and had a volunteer there to get the ball rolling, provide insight and what not.  It was easily one of my favorite activities there as it allowed me to meet folks and have easy material to get the conversation rolling.  Todd McDermid chaired one on SSIS scripts and custom objects and it was great because I had gotten to connect a face to one of the people that always seemed to answer msdn forums before I could put my $.02 in.   With that said and based on Andy Warren's suggestion to up the social/networking aspect of SQL Saturdays, plus the on-going twitter chat, I want to see if we can recreate that magic at my event, SQL Saturday 53.  Not only will it be an opportunity for free SQL Server training in the Kansas City area, it'll be an avenue for you to connect with other like-minded professionals and to grow your professional network. Below is a representation of what I started to come up with and then gave up and cribbed from the topics available at SQL Pass 2009.  If someone is interested in chairing a table on one of these topics or something else they'd want to anchor a discussion table on, please give me a shout out and we'll see what we can do. Table topics

SSIS

Query tuning

PD

Storage

Azure

SSRS

SSAS

security

HA

CLR

SSIS scripts and custom objects

Extended Events

Networking

Self-marketing/brand management

Independent consulting

DMO (DMF, DMV)

Agile development in BI

Data Mining

Data Warehouse concepts

DBA best practices

DBA dashboards

Don't be afraid of XML

Failover Clustering

Full text search and file stream

Getting started with TSQL

Query plan reuse

BI

Indexing

Multi-server management

CMS Central Management Server

Performance analysis/tuning

PBM Policy Based management

Powershell in SQL Server

Relational database design

Social Networking:  DBA to butterfly

SQL Azure

Storage best practices

Table Partitioning

Thinking in MDX

Troubleshooting SSIS

Virtualization

VSDB edition

PD