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"I can't keep up!" - Turning Discomfort into Personal Growth in a Fast-Paced World

Are you struggling to keep up with all the latest product changes and new technologies? Awesome! That means you have ambitions. You can do anything if you set your mind to it. It just might not be easy. Are you ready to turn your "I can't keep up" into "I can't believe I did all of that in just one year"?

+5 Wisdom - Learn to Ask Better Questions to Solve the Right Problems

By asking the right questions we can solve the actual problem - not only the problem we think we are facing. Take a step back, look further, and ask better questions. We'll show you how.

20 mins to git comfortable

In this new world we're all developers! Whether we're writing application code or describing our infrastructure using bicep or terraform we need to keep it safe. Git and source control is our best option for developing on our own and as part of a team… but git is scary! In this 20 min session we'll go through just enough to git you comfortable with source control.

"Beyond the barchart". Some top picks from "Get More Visuals" to enhance your reports

PowerBI has 37 visuals available to you. However, just a few clicks away, there are 200+ visuals just waiting to enhance your reports. Join me as I give you a quick tour of what is available. From awesome to downright quirky.

5 Things You Can Do to build better looking reports

Power BI Design is a lot like an art form, a mythical beast to many IT professionals. We’re generally inclined to think very analytically about our jobs, and creativity does not always come naturally. Thankfully, there are some patterns we can apply to design reports which are clean, uncluttered, and user friendly. Learn the science behind design, and a series of logical steps to follow to ensure that your reports always meet the mark.

7 Things I wish I'd known before building a 60Tb DWH on a Dedicated Pool

Lots of ADF, lots of data, lots of automation and lots of lessons learned. Backups aren't as useful as they look, dedicated pools have several "interesting" features in the small print, ADF is not always your friend and how to mitigate the sometimes deadly embrace of throughput vs concurrency trade off.

Merging Power BI into Azure Devops

From a development perspective Power BI gives you some challenges you can't overcome easily. When you and your team are continuously working on Power BI files, you need a central location, to keep track of changes, find differences between versions, check out files and deploy in an easy way. In this sessions we will see how Azure DevOps helps you with versioning, CI/CD-pipelines and tracking changes in datamodels.

Advanced Power BI refresh with ADF/Synapse

After this session, you will be able to conceptualize and implement different Power BI refresh scheduling patterns in ADF/Synapse. You’ll learn what limitations in Power BI you can overcome with an “external” orchestration tool as well as the different building blocks available. Finally, we will go through an example implementation as well as a step-by-step demo of how you can set this up yourself.

Write-back with Power Apps in Power BI

Do you want to let the business easily add targets, comments and/or change data quality issues in your Power BI reports? Then you should incorporate write-back with Power Apps to your Power BI reports.

Demystifying Power BI Slicers and filters

When it comes to Power BI Reports design, both slicers and filters have their own space and use cases. However, Slicers and filters are probably among the most frequently misused terms in Power BI design. In this session, we will start with what are Power BI Slicers and filters. What are the differences between and when to use what? We will investigate the pros and cons of each and how to get the best of both filters and slicers in Power BI. By the end of the session, attendees will get an overall view of Power BI slicers and filters in Power BI designing.

Pushing Your Power BI Potential: A Comprehensive Health Check for Improved Performance and Security

Attending this presentation will give you valuable insights into best practices for maintaining and optimising your Power BI environment, resulting in faster report processing, better security, and improved insights for your organisation. Take advantage of this opportunity to ensure you get the most out of your Power BI investment.

Power BI governance, disaster recovery and auditing

As your Power BI usage grows you need to think carefully about how to plan and manage your tenant so you don't lose control of it and end up in Power BI Hell. Including security, planning, auditing, advanced data lineage and more.

Building Multi-language Reports in Power BI

Power BI provides all the features required to design and implement multi-language reports. However, the path to success is not overly intuitive. The purpose of this Dev Camp session is to explain how to use the Power BI features for Internationalization and localization from the ground up and to provide the guidance for building reports that support multiple languages.

Power BI Meets Programmability – TOM, XMLA, and C#

Come and learn how to leverage C# to programmatically create and manage columns, measures, hierarchies, and translations within existing data models in Power BI using the XMLA endpoint. Happy coding!

The accidental administrator's guide Power BI

If not properly planned and managed, your Power BI environment quickly becomes a mess., making it hard to use and improve. Join this session where we will look at 6 key areas that you as a Power BI administrator will need to look at.

The Power BI secret sauce: Security and governance

Learn how to convince your security team that Power BI's security and governance features are secure. It's baked in features that allow your org to upload your upload your data to the cloud and enable self-service in a safe and managable way.

Power BI + Azure Synapse Analytics: Beginning your journey

Start your journey using Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics. From the options available to how to leverage effectively, this will position you well to get the most out of your data.

Combine Power BI with External Tools

In this session we will take a look into some external tools and how can they help us take the our development skills to another level. From the creation of metrics to the deployment of models the usage of Power BI can be optimize using external tools. This session is for intermediate users that already know their way into Power BI but want to increase their development skills and speed.

Designing for Accessibility

This session will cover all the tools available within Power BI Desktop that can allow us to build accessible dashboards for all end-users.

Data modeling for experts with Power BI

Want to level up your Power BI data modeling skills? During this session you will learn how to deal with different source groups, storage modes and composite models in Power BI. Also, how to avoid redundant measures by implementing calculations groups and the challenge that comes when you combine calculation groups with remote and local Power BI models.

Do You Speak English? Localized Reports with Power BI

Create a Power BI report where the user can choose the display language of headers and content.

How to Get Noticed for Power BI Job Interview?

Are you planning to apply for a data analyst job where you need to use Power BI but don't have any or minimal experience? Let me help you! In this session, I will show you one trick on how to stand out even without experience. The trick is simple but effective. It will help you demonstrate that you can create a Power BI report, and you will catch the eye of the recruiter.

Power BI Composite and Hybrid Models

Take Power BI to the next level to support real-time and BIG data, and find out how hybrid and composite models can open up unlimited flexibility and scalability.

Power BI Datamart - What, How and Why?

In this short session, we will go through the what, how and why of Power BI Datamarts. What is this feature you can find in Power BI Service? How can you use it to model your data, improve control and enable self-service? Why should you use Power BI Datamarts?

Power BI Model Development Best Practices in a Team

The session presents and explains the components required to establish a highly effective team developing Power BI models: Processes, Tools, Deployment Automation, and Documentation. Attendees will be able to take away plenty of proven ideas and patterns, including a source control based development model, a change management system using release pipelines, and a CI/CD setup providing automation at all possible stages. The key focus will be on the right processes to implement within the team.

Power BI + Azure Synapse Analytics. All you need to start creating a unified analytics solution

Join this session to start your journey to unified analytics using Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics.

A Form, a Flow and a Power BI Streaming Dataset Walk Into a Bar

Learn how to integrate Microsoft Forms, Power Automate and Power BI into a live interactive data application!

Extended Governance of Power BI with Microsoft Purview

Extend your Power BI governance functionality with Microsoft Purview. This session will show you how, what's in it for your PBI Landscape in terms of data catalog, -map and -lineage, data loss prevention, life cycles management and information protection. You will see live demos, watch outs and implementation best practises.

No more data quality surprises in your Databricks, Synapse or Power BI solutions!

In this demo-rich session you will learn how you can implement a framework for data quality validation and monitoring, spanning your end-to-end data platform including Power BI!

Become a Power BI Data Modeling Wizard using Tabular Editor 3

In this quest, we will investigate what kind of tool Tabular Editor is and how it can help you become a more efficient Power BI Wizard

Create Your Own Epic Adventure with PowerApps and Power BI: Dungeon and Dragons Edition!

Gather your party and set forth on an epic quest to build a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired game using PowerApps! Learn how to create an adventurous dungeon, arm yourself with powerful weapons, and defeat monsters with a peek into the custom components and methods we used to deliver a bespoke PowerApps experience. Plus, discover the steps we took, using Power Automate, Azure SQL Database and Power BI to create an impressive leaderboard. Get ready for an unforgettable experience!

Identifying and Preventing Unauthorized Power BI Gateways

If you need to easily identify all your on-premises data gateways or prevent gateways from being installed in your Power BI tenant, then you don't want to miss this quick tip session.

Me, Myself and UI: Applying UI style guides to Power BI reports

Ever come across a Power BI report that looks like it was built by 20 different people? Avoid report noise and learn how to build your very own Power BI UI templates by creating standardised visuals, slicers, colour palettes and more!

Supercharge Power BI Tooltips

Discover secrets of tooltip design in Power BI. Learn how to upgrade your tooltips with DAX, add dynamic charts to report page tooltips, and add design elements to information/help tooltips.

The Power BI Engine in 20 minutes

In this action-packed session we will investigate how the Power BI engine works. From loading the data through M to its fast vertipaq engine.

Understanding and Managing Data Lineage in Power BI

Learn to monitor and manage data in Power BI from its source to the end-users who are consuming it.

Focusing on the why - Power BI User Journeys

In this session, I'm going to share with you all my secrets about defining user journeys in Power BI. By understanding the journey your users will take when they open the report, the first place they will look at, the first click, and so on, you can build data products that will delight your end users, answer their business questions, and provide the insights they need.

Go With The (data)Flow

What are Power BI Dataflows? Who is affected? Who benefits? Where is this taking place? When does it make sense? Why is this important in the big picture? How to do it? Attend this session for an overview of Power BI Dataflows and to understand how this piece fits into a Business Intelligence architecture. Some use cases will be presented, and we will let the data flow!

Troubleshooting Power BI Reports

Starting off with the new Performance Analyzer Pane, we'll demonstrate how you can pinpoint bottlenecks in your report, and take actions on these insights. With the myriad of root causes that are out there, an elimination approach might suit us very well. Some of the main causes will be explained, and we'll get you going on how you can fix it for yourselves.

Power BI Incremental refresh made simple.

Power BI has many amazing features that will make life much easier and more efficient. Yes, incremental refresh is one of them, so you read the official Microsoft documentation. Maybe once, then again, just a few more times. Now you have more questions than answers. Or was that just how I felt? If you thought the same thing or want to ask questions, this session is for you. This session will look at setting up incremental refreshes for both Dataflows and Datasets. Explain what ALL the different settings mean and words we can all understand. How will I perform this daring feat? Using a combination of words, pictures and examples. As part of the presentation, I will share the demo code so you can try this at home. Leaving this session, you will understand how to configure Incremental Refresh and use it when you return to your office. You will have a link to the code shown as part of the session. So that you to can see how it works.

5 Things You Can Do to build better looking reports

Financial Statements with Power BI - Part 1 P&L/BS

I will show the “secret sauce” to financial modelling for General Ledger (GL) structures such as Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet. included is PBIX so you can follow.

Take a self-taught journey into the world of Data

In this session I will talk about my experience in changing careers, from Online English Teacher to Business Intelligence Developer. I will share my advice on how you too can be self taught and how the tech community really is the best place to be.

BI Power Hour

Oh my goodness - the BI Power Hour is back!!