Registration is entirely free, so go take a look at what sessions would suit your needs and sign up. There are several tracks that are covered in this event: Business Intelligence (BI), Database Administration (DBA), Development (DEV), Professional Development (PD) – each of which have several sessions devoted to them. You can see the list of available sessions here, but some to note are:

• (BI) Solving common business problems with Microsoft PowerPivot – Donald Farmer (Blog | @Donalddotfarmer)
• (BI) Easier than ever Report Authoring in SSRS 2008 – Jessica M. Moss (Blog | @jessicammoss)
• (BI) Reporting Services Enhancements in SQL Server 2008 – Greg Low (Blog | @Greg_Low)
• (DBA) What’s really happening on Your Server? 15 Powerful SQL Server Data Management Objects – Adam Machanic (Blog | @AdamMachanic)
• (DBA) Top 10 Mistakes on SQL Server – Kevin Kline (Blog | @kekline)
• (DBA) BLITZ! 60 Minute Server Takeovers – Brent Ozar (Blog | @BrentO)
• (DEV) High Performance Functions – Simon Sabin (Blog | @simon_sabin)
• (PD) Manage your DBA Career, Don’t Let it Manage You – Brad McGehee (Blog | @bradmcgehee)

So what are you waiting for? Go tell your boss you’re taking a training day. In fact tell him/her that you are going to get 3 days of training all packed into a single day and all he/she has to pay for is your time away from your desk. Considering what you are going to take away from this event, that’s a pretty good deal. By any standard. So stock up on whatever [legal] stimulants you are partial to (coffee/bacon/etc) and register for one, several, or if your name is Thomas LaRock, every single session and then screen cast your efforts using UStream. Read the 24 HOP Team’s interview with Tom for more insight.

Oh, and if you are going to follow (or indeed tweet about) the event on Twitter, use the #24HOP hashtag.