Apply the principles of scalability and testing to your architecture to meet users’ demands efficiently.

"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.

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.

How changes to Azure Synapse Analytics impact data architecture designs

Explore the changes that have been made to Azure Synapse Analytics and how this has changed it’s use over time. We will review how these feature additions have impacted the methods used for transforming, storing, and querying data so that you can evaluate whether it would be a good fit for your data environment.

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.

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.

Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse Implementation

The aim of this session is to highlight the process of implementing Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse and to discuss the reality of working with the data as it is incrementally updated in Azure.

Using Automated ML models in Azure Synapse Analytics

In this session, you will get to learn how to enrich your data in spark tables with models created using Automated ML in Azure Synapse Analytics. We will be looking at a demo where we will create regression and classification models using Automated ML and how to use these models for prediction in Azure Synapse Analytics.

What's New and Cool in Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics is a unified platform for end-to-end analytics. Join this session to find out about recently announced updates to Azure Synapse and to see the new features in action and learn in which scenarios and how you can use them.

Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, or Azure Synapse Analytics? When to use what.

Have you ever found yourself at the start of an Azure data engineering project, unsure about what tool to choose? Speak no more! In this session we will discuss three often used data engineering tools on Azure: - Azure Data Factory - Azure Databricks - Azure Synapse Analytics

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!

Building an Azure Data Analytics Platform End-to-End

Based on real world experience let’s think about just how far the breadth of our knowledge now needs to reach when starting from nothing and building a complete Microsoft Azure Data Analytics solution.

Building trust in your data. Why data governance is the key to success.

Join us to learn why data governance is increasing in popularity and what you need to know about what data governance really is.

Designing Data Architectures that InfoSec will actually approve

In this session I'll guide you from through a secure reference architecture with Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, and Azure Synapse, working together as a secure, fully productionised platform. Each has their own idiosyncrasies, but this session will teach you the options available and the pitfalls to avoid.

Never ETL again, thanks to Synapse Link. Really?

Let's take a look at Synapse Link - it's capabilities and restrictions! Synapse Link is Microsoft's new solution to push your OLTP data in near-real time to Azure Synapse for analytical purposes.

Using Automated ML models in Azure Synapse Analytics

Govern your self-service integration processes

Gain insight into how data can be loaded, processed, and uploaded to other environments in a self-service process from a wide variety of environments in a fully controlled and audited manner. Whether SQL Server, Data Lake, Delta Lake, SAP HANA or many other data sources and targets, WOODY.IO helps you implement clear governance processes into your self-service integration processes.

How to Architect your Data Platform for Success

In this session we will look to understand the components and patterns that are required to set your data platform up for success when defining a high-level architecture. At a high-level we will cover areas from ingestion through to transformation and serving and look to identify the key components and architectural considerations required at each stage. During the session we’ll cover areas from security to error handling and metadata-driven execution to give you an understanding of the basics required to put a successful data platform solution together. This session is suitable for anybody that has a basic understanding of the components in the Azure data stack who wants to understand how to put them together to build a best-practice solution.

Azure Data Explorer - a Torch in the Dungeon of Observational Analytics

Join this session to learn what Azure Data Explorer (aka Kusto) is, see it in action and get a quick start in this great platform for observational analytics.

Data Observability with HEDDA.IO

Are you able to fully understand the state of your data in your systems? Are you able to evaluate the quality of your data in all processes? In this session you will learn how easy it is to integrate HEDDA.IO into your existing processes, how it can provide you with a continuous view of the quality of your data and how it can inform you directly in the event of errors, warnings or major changes to individual parameters. HEDDA.IO brings data observability to your process and platforms.