PASS Data Community Summit is celebrating a milestone most communities never reach: 25+ years of data professionals showing up for each other. From a single Microsoft-seeded user group in 1999, to the global, multi-platform conferences everyone knows today – here’s how it all unfolded.
This story was originally posted on the PASS Summit West website. It was written by the PASS Data Community Summit event team at Redgate.
Where it all began
In 1999, Andrew “Flip” Filipowski, owner of Chicago database-tools company Platinum Technology, Inc., partnered with Microsoft to launch the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) – an