PASSMN Meeting 2026-01-20 (Virtual Meeting Only)

Important Note: This meeting is online only and will not be held at the Microsoft Technology Center

Agenda:
📅 Tuesday, January 20, 2026 📅
🕜 3:30-4:00 Kickoff / Announcements
🕜 4:00-5:00 VISIBLE Leadership for Data Pros: Elevating Your Presence in the Microsoft Ecosystem (Sheena Yap Chan)
🕜 5:00-5:10 Break
🕜 5:10-6:10 Essential Concepts of Vector Databases for DBAs (Yitzhak David)
🕜 6:10-6:15 Closing

Sessions

🕜 4:00 pm
⭐️ VISIBLE Leadership for Data Pros: Elevating Your Presence in the Microsoft Ecosystem
🙂 Sheena Yap Chan
Technical skills will get your code running, but visible leadership is what gets you heard, trusted, and promoted. This session introduces the VISIBLE Framework™—Voice, Identity, Spotlight, Inner Work, Belief, Leverage, and Elevation—designed specifically for Microsoft data professionals who want to grow their influence beyond the keyboard.
We’ll explore how to:

• Define your voice and leadership identity in a technical role
• Build presence in meetings, migrations, and architectural discussions
• Leverage visibility to become the go-to expert—not just the support

Whether you’re a DBA, BI dev, data engineer, or architect, this session gives you the mindset and toolkit to lead with confidence in any technical environment.

🕜 5:10 pm
⭐️ Essential Concepts of Vector Databases for DBAs
🙂 Yitzhak David
Session especially for DBAs, developers, software engineers who want to learn about vector databases Fundamentals and their implementation in SQL Server and PostgreSQL, also you have Vector Databases Solutions that I will also introduce. Topic will be covered:

• Traditional vs Vector Databases - Differences
• Vector Databases Solutions - Top 5 Vector Databases
• Building Vector Databases - Hands-on - Chroma Vector Database
• Common Measures of Vector Similarity
• Vector Databases and LLM - the Full Workflow
• Vector Databases & the Langchain Framework
• Choosing the Right Vector Database

Speakers

🙂 Speaker 1
⚡️ VISIBLE Leadership for Data Pros: Elevating Your Presence in the Microsoft Ecosystem
Sheena Yap Chan is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, keynote speaker, strategist, and award-winning podcaster renowned for her expertise in elevating leadership and self-confidence through media. She is the founder and host of the acclaimed podcast, The Tao of Self-Confidence, where she interviews women about their journeys to self-confidence. With over one million downloads, her podcast ranks among the top 0.5% most popular shows globally and features over 800 interviews, including conversations with celebrities and eight-figure CEOs. Sheena's influence extends beyond podcasting. Her debut book, The Tao of Self-Confidence: A Guide to Moving Beyond Trauma and Awakening the Leader Within, published by Wiley, is a Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestseller. It is also recognized as one of the top 20 best self-confidence books of all time by Book Authority, the world's leading site for book recommendations. Her work has been featured on prominent platforms such as MindValley, FOX, NBC News, and the Manila Times. Sheena is dedicated to closing the gender confidence gap through her training and programs, aiming to elevate women into leadership roles across all industries. She has delivered impactful speeches for organizations like Live Nation, NASA, and UKG, sharing her insights on self-confidence and leadership.

🙂 Speaker 2
⚡️ Essential Concepts of Vector Databases for DBAs
David Yitzhak, Team leader of Big Data and Nosql databases
David Yitzhak has over 24 years of experience with SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase and PostgreSQL . He is an applicative & infrastructure DBA for relational and Nosql solutions (MongoDB, Redis), Hadoop CDH and Spark.

David is a specialist in HA and DRP solutions, tuning, Machine learning , security, High Performance Computing, replication (Oracle & SQL Server), BI infrastructure and system engineering.

David Yitzhak holds 3 Degrees from Technicon (Israel Institute of Technology): BSC Information System , MBA and ME (System engineering) and research associate in one of the enterprise Organization. He presents in Oracle open world 2010, Organize Oracle ILOUG for 3 years , SQL Server forums, Microsoft BI forums, Sqlsaturday 2016/17/18/19/20 , DATA SATURDAY , Power Camps , GroupBy Europe , Future Data Driven , Data Platforms GlobalHebrew , Code PaLOUsa 2021\2 , Pass summit 2021 and more …