Lenore Flower

Lenore Flower (MBA, MCT) is the owner of Data Plumber, LLC, a training-first consulting business that helps small-to-medium businesses grow their data teams alongside their data ecosystems on the Microsoft stack. After leading BI on the client side of a challenging D365 F&O implementation, Lenore made the leap to consulting with one clear mission: become the kind of data consultant she'd desperately needed herself. Today, she specializes in hands-on collaboration with data professionals building and maintaining systems that span D365 F&O, Fabric, Power BI, and Dataverse. Whether it's architecting real-time analytics pipelines or troubleshooting a tricky data model, Lenore believes the best consulting happens when knowledge transfer is built in from day one. Beyond client work, Lenore is deeply involved in the data community. She co-organizes the Power BI Washington DC User Group (since 2022) and DUG DC (since 2025), and recently launched Beautiful Nerds—The Podcast to keep the conversation going between events. When she's not wrangling data or community events, you'll find her applying IoT sensors and Fabric Real-Time Analytics to her chaotic 20×40 garden allotment—because if you're going to fail at growing tomatoes, you might as well have telemetry to explain why.

Sessions for 2026

Garden Math: IoT Sensors, Fabric Eventhouses, and Data Engineering in Action

See how telemetry, Raspberry Pis, and Fabric Eventhouses turned a struggling garden into a streaming-data experiment—with patterns you can apply far beyond soil and sunshine.

Learn Fabric Lakehouse Security Through Your Existing Power BI Skills

Already comfortable with RLS and OLS in Power BI? Use those skills to master Fabric Lakehouse security. This demo-heavy session translates familiar Power BI security patterns into Fabric equivalents, showing where they align, differ, and what's new.

Mastering the BI Mullet Part 1: Concepts & Strategy

Learn how Managed self-service BI balances centralized governance with user flexibility. We'll cover the key architecture decisions that help small data teams use Power BI, Purview, and Power Automate to enable self-service reporting without losing control.

Mastering the BI Mullet Part 2: Implementation & Demos

See Managed self-service BI in action. Transform a semantic model to streamline report writing. Choose admin features aligned with your data culture and build custom themes. Leverage Purview for discovery and data quality. Practical demos for small teams.

Stop Guessing: A Decision Framework for Fabric Tool Selection

Fabric offers multiple ways to store and process data—but which should you choose? This session provides a practical decision framework for selecting between Lakehouse, Warehouse, Eventhouse, ingestion patterns, and transformation tools based on your needs.

Beyond Manual Drudgery: Automating Annual Report Production with Power BI Paginated Reports

Annual reports are tedious and time-consuming to produce manually. This session demonstrates how to automate the repetitive portions using Power BI Paginated Reports, dramatically reducing production time and eliminating copy-paste errors.

Building Community In Tech - Lessons from the Power BI DC User Group

Building tech community is powerful & rewarding, but where do you start? After 2+ years organizing Power BI DC and Power BI Days DC, we share answers on speakers, formats, time investment & setting your community up for success.

Race Against the Clock: Power BI to Print-Ready in 50 Minutes!

Live conversion demo: Watch a Power BI report transform into a paginated .rdl in real time. No skipping steps—see actual layout decisions, problem-solving, and time-saving techniques as the clock runs out. Learn what works and what doesn't when pixel-perfect meets urgent demand.