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Back by popular demand and in light of PASS Summit 2020 becoming a virtual conference, we have reopened our Call for Speakers!

This is a fantastic opportunity to have your voice heard on a global stage. The PASS Virtual Summit offering will reach attendees around the world and give speakers who couldn’t attend the in-person event the chance to participate and share their knowledge.

During these unprecedented circumstances, we have been working on ways to help our community to continue learning and connecting with one another. As such, we are pleased to roll out a new initiative called PASS Community Connects.

PASS Community Connects offer the opportunity for up to a maximum of 20 participants to join a 30-minute GoToMeeting session, share webcams, and connect with one another from around the world. Each session will be structured around a topic and co-hosted by two moderators to help facilitate interaction. The intent of PASS Community Connects sessions are to be casual, social online discussions. We are limiting the number of attendees to help ensure a quality conversation, where everyone has the chance to speak.

Now's your chance to help shape the content at this year's PASS Summit by joining the Program Committee! As a member of the Program Committee, you will be involved in content research and suggestions; abstract and speaker reviews and selections; presentation review and editing; speaker tools/resource development; and more.

To apply for a position on the team, click "submit application" below. The submission deadline is Wednesday, March 4 (23:00 UTC).

We’d like to thank our sponsors Microsoft and Intel®, all of our organizers, volunteers, presenters, attendees, and of course, our mascot Sandy, for making the Modern Migration Tour a success!

Over four months this spring, PASS partnered up with Microsoft and Intel® to offer a series of events, designed to prepare the community for SQL Server 2008 End of Support. These events provided expert-led training that helped the PASS community migrate to a modern data platform.