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Microsoft BI Conference 2008 will start in just 11 days, and today I finally finished building my session list. This was really hard to do, and in most of the time slots I still have 2-3 sessions that I would like to attend. Last year Microsoft recorded Breakout sessions, so if they will do the same this year, I’ll try to attend more Chalk Talk sessions and will view sessions that I missed from a recorded DVD.

After last years BI conference I complained about a lack of technical content. But this years session list looks exceptionally good. There are plenty of sessions on SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Performance Point, Excel Services and Master Data Management. Marco Russo already blogged about the expected announcement during this BI conference regarding “Self-service BI”. I am very interested to hear what Microsoft will say about this. I’ll blog about my conference experience as soon as I’ll come back.

By the way, does anyone want to join us for a beer after the Sunday Evening Welcome Reception? We started to talk about this in this forum post and if you have no other plans then let’s meet.