22-25 April 2026

Alberto Ferrari

Alberto started working with SQL Server in 2000 and immediately his interest focused on Business Intelligence. He and Marco Russo created sqlbi.com, where they publish extensive content about Business Intelligence. Alberto published several books about Analysis Services, Power BI, and Power Pivot. He is a Microsoft MVP and he earned the SSAS Maestro title, the highest level of certification on Microsoft Analysis Services technology. Today, Alberto's main activities are in the delivery of DAX and data modeling workshops for Power BI and Analysis Services all around the world. Alberto offers consulting services on large and complex data warehouses to provide assessments and validation of project analysis or to perform specific problem-solving activities. Alberto is a well-known speaker at many international conferences, like PASS Summit, Sqlbits, and Microsoft Ignite. He loves to be on stage both at large events and at smaller user groups meetings, exchanging ideas with other SQL and BI fans. When traveling for work, he likes to engage with local user groups to provide evening sessions about his favorite topics. Thus, you can easily meet Alberto by looking up local Power BI user groups during scheduled courses. Outside of SQLBI, most of Alberto's personal time is spent practicing video games, in the vain hope of eventually beating his son.

Proposed Sessions for 2026

DAX Optimization
 

Two hours of intense DAX optimization techniques

First Steps in DAX Optimization
 

A full day dedicated to optimize DAX code and semantic models in Power BI

Introducing DAX user-defined functions
 

When and how to use suer-defined functions in DAX

Time Intelligence in Power BI
 

Learn the best practices of using both the classic and the new time intelligence functions in DAX

Why star schema is your best choice in Power BI
 

Discover why a star schema is the best choice as the data model for Power BI

Previous Sessions