The Agenda 2026

Learn how to design reports that matter and turn insights into action. This PreCon covers understanding your audience, creating impactful reports, and using storytelling and communication techniques to ensure long-term impact.

DAX is a simple language (but not easy at all). Its pillars, though, need to be clearly understood in order not to get confused when they interact between them in your measures, calculated columns or calculated tables. In this session the five DAX pillars (filter context, row context, context transition, iterators and expanded tables) will be explained, with examples, one by one first and then in interaction between them. Examples will be in increasing complexity order.

Power BI Desktop shines with the right tooling. This workshop dives into external tools, governance services, modern modeling features, and scalable self-service patterns so you can build reliable, high-quality semantic models end to end.

Brent Ozar loves K-Pop Demon Hunters, so this demo-driven class hunts down the real causes of production slowness. Watch dev and prod face off as Brent uncovers golden clues in plans, settings, and data that explain why the same query behaves so differently.