Name: A Night of Making a Name for Yourself
Start: 2025-09-08T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-08T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Awesome Inc

Welcome to our September 2025 meeting! We'll be featuring the session "Mastering the Content Snowball - Turning Tiny Efforts into Big Opportunities" and our very own Kristyna Ferris will be our presenter. Along with being a co-organizer of our group, Kristyna speaks at major international conferences quite often so it's great to have a session of hers here at home!

As always, we'll have food and drinks courtesy of TEKsystems Lexington and use of a great facility courtesy of Awesome Inc.

Matt Gordon

Kristyna Hughes

Lexington Data Technology Group

Azure Data Tech Groups

Technology

Database Professionals

Software Development

Business Intelligence

Cloud Computing

Big Data

Database Development

Machine Learning

Data Analytics

Data Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Data Mining

Database Administrator

Data Science

Eoin McDonnell

Jeremy Miller

Don StDenis

Vanessa Joy Kesten

Rohit

Bryan Campbell

John

Kristyna's title: Mastering the Content Snowball - Turning Tiny Efforts into Big Opportunities

Kristyna's abstract: Speaking and blogging can be extremely intimidating, especially in the face of imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limited free time. But community visibility compounds opportunities for jobs, meeting amazing people, and traveling the world, so how can we overcome those fears to get to the good stuff?




Breaking into the data community doesn’t require a huge following or a million unique ideas, it only requires passion and consistency. To tackle those common blockers, we'll utilize a number of concepts including the Content Snowball, the Tiny Topic Picker, and the LEGO Method of creating new shapes with the same blocks.

By the end of this session, attendees will know how to:
\- Pick a topic
\- Set up a free blog
\- Craft presentations for conferences
\- Submit sessions
\- Establish patterns of posting to build your presence in the data community
\- Measure meaningful KPIs
\- Keep the passion alive

This session is for everyone who is looking to get off the starting block or past a plateau. Bring all your concerns and questions about getting involved in this incredible data community.

Kristyna's bio: Kristyna Ferris is a solution architect at P3 Adaptive. Her experience includes implementing and managing enterprise-level Power BI instance, training teams on reporting best practices, and building templates for scalable analytics. Passionate about participating and growing the data community, she enjoys co-writing on Data on Wheels (dataonwheels.com) and speaking at various events. She is also a co-organizer for Lexington Data Technology Group.

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