David Postlethwaite

Berry Wand, the new Chief Data Officer for a leading police force, embarks on a journey to transform her organisation with a data-driven culture. After attending a conference talk on building a data culture with Power BI, Berry discovers actionable strategies and techniques to overcome challenges, foster leadership support, implement governance, and inspire her team. Armed with a clear blueprint for success, she leaves the event energised and ready to implement her vision for leveraging data to drive organisational transformation.

The CIS Benchmarks, from the Centre of Internet Security (CIS), are a set of globally recognized and consensus-driven best practices to help us implement and manage our cybersecurity defences. In this 20-minute session, listen to David and Gethyn discussing these best practices, see if you agree with them, and see how many you have implemented.

Come and hear our top five disasters and how we managed them (or not)

This talk sets out to explain some of the terminology, the differences and the similarities between Oracle and SQL Server and hopefully make Oracle not look quite so intimidating.

In this 20 minute session we will have an overview and demos of Dynamic Data Masking which allows us to obfuscate data in real time

The word Kerberos can strike fear into a SQL DBA as well as many Windows Server Administrators. This talk looks at the principle of Kerberos, how it applies to SQL Server and what we need to do ensure it works

This talk takes a look at Cloud Computing – what it is, the types of Cloud available and their advantages and disadvantages along with what Microsoft Azure has to offer.