Valerie Junk

Hi there. I am Valerie Junk. I am passionate about creating insights from data and designing dashboards using Power BI. With my expertise in data analytics and visualization, I support companies in developing effective data-driven strategies that yield results and take the business to the next level. Microsoft Data Platform MVP

Valerie Junk's Sessions

Data Literacy: Navigating Your Way to Data-Driven Success!SQLBits 2025

Data literacy is essential for everyone, from enthusiasts to business leaders, ensuring they understand and can use data effectively. This leads to better decisions and diverse insights within a company. Join us to explore the importance of data literacy, how to implement it, and engage all skill levels. This interactive session includes Mentimeter polls and Q&A. Whether you're a data enthusiast or a business leader, you’re in our target audience. And yes, there will be stroopwafels!

Storytelling & Power BI - Creating Power BI reports that connect with different audiencesSQLBits 2025

Creating impactful reports for varied audiences can be tricky. This session will help you use storytelling techniques to make your Power BI reports actionable and engaging. Key Points: - Techniques to understand your audience and gather requirements - Visualization examples for effective communication - Best practices for designing clear, actionable reports By the end, you’ll know how to create Power BI reports that tell the story the business needs to hear (and can understand) to take decisions.

Visualizing Data for Non-Data Experts: Making Reports Accessible to AllSQLBits 2024

Learn how to visualize data in a way accessible to everyone, regardless of their level of expertise. In this session, you will learn to identify your audience's needs, select the appropriate visualizations for your data, and present your findings clearly and concisely.

ADHD - Failing at normal (and dealing with a mind that needs stimulation to focus)SQLBits 2023

Experience and tips and tricks on how to (better) deal with the challenges going together with ADHD. And of course, also, how to use the “positive side effects” to your advantage during your career.

Dashboard Design - The icing on the cakeSQLBits 2026

This session walks through five practical steps to design clear, engaging and action-driven Power BI dashboards, explained through a simple baking analogy. You’ll learn how to apply core design principles, communicate insights clearly and format reports so users instantly understand what matters.

Get Creative with Power BI: Make these core visuals shine!SQLBits 2026

This session shows how to create clear, intuitive and action-driven Power BI reports using only core visuals. We focus on understanding your audience, improving visual clarity with DAX, and highlighting the information that truly matters for decision-making.

My Real-Time Intelligence Journey: From Power BI Data Visualization to Streaming DataSQLBits 2026

This session shows what it takes for a Power BI professional to make the shift into Real-Time Intelligence. I share the lessons, challenges and mindset changes from moving to streaming data in Fabric, and give a clear, practical starting point for anyone ready to explore real-time reporting.

Power BI - This is Not an Art ProjectSQLBits 2026

This session shifts the focus from designing “pretty” Power BI reports to creating clear, functional dashboards that actually help people make decisions. We look at end-user-first design, choosing visuals that add real value and keeping the data, not the decoration, at the center of every report.

Power BI Tables and Matrix Visuals: The Next StepSQLBits 2026

This session shows how to move beyond basic tables and matrix visuals in Power BI and turn them into visuals that actually support decisions. We focus on cleaner layouts, meaningful formatting, smart use of DAX, and knowing when a table helps your users, and when it does not.