22-25 April 2026

Eugene Meidinger

Eugene Meidinger works as a BI consultant and Pluralsight author, specializing in Power BI and Azure. He has been working with data for 10 years.

Proposed Sessions for 2026

Fabric for SQL Server Devs and DBAs
 

Fabric has a lot of sources of T-SQL and they aren't all created equally. Learn all the places you can use T-SQL in Fabric and the various limitations compared to on-prem.

Fabric Licensing, Pricing, and Cost management - In Plain English
 

Fabric licensing is confusing. We'll talk about it in plain English, from complete scratch. By the end you'll know what you need to get started.

Hands on LLMS for Power BI Devs
 

In this session, we'll present a framework for what tasks should be outsourced to and LLM and what should not. We'll walk you through a sample project of having to clean up a legacy Power BI report based on the Adventureworks sample database. This session go from report discovery to data access to data modeling to data layout.

Hands on LLMs for Power BI Devs
 

In this session we will cover all of the groundwork you need to use LLMs to speed up your work with Power BI development. We'll cover getting your environment set up, basic LLM theory, and getting an intuition for model strengths and weaknesses. By the end of the session you'll feel comfortable getting started.

How I Deal with Depression
 

In this session, I'll talk about my own experiences with depression and how you can take a data-based approach to deal with it. We'll cover how it comes from cognitive distortions and how to treat it.

Keeping up with Technology: Drinking from the Firehose
 

In this session we'll make a framework on how to keep up with technology. We talk about the types of investments you can make and how that impact learning. And we'll see how AI is making that slightly easier but also a lot worse.

Optimizing SQL Server Performance for Power BI
 

Power BI can often place unwanted load on SQL Server. There are a number of things you can optimize Power BI refreshes on the SQL Side. There are also unique challenges with DirectQuery mode for PBI.

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