M365 Con PowerBI & Fabric Day Part 2) 📱

1 PM - Shubhangi Goyal (Admiral Group Plc, Admiral Group Plc)
Customer-First Analytics: Power BI Dashboard for Impact

Building a dashboard is easy. Building one that truly serves your customer — that's where the real work (and value) begins. In this session, we’ll walk through how to build a Power BI dashboard from scratch with a customer-first mindset. From defining the right problem to designing with empathy, this session will cover: -Understanding your audience’s pain points and priorities -Translating business questions into measurable KPIs -Structuring your data model for flexibility and performance -Designing intuitive visuals and layout for usability -Gathering feedback and driving dashboard adoption If you are looking to level up your Power BI game, you’ll leave with practical tools, techniques, and frameworks to turn your dashboards into decision-driving assets.

2 PM - Laura Graham-Brown (Problem Solver, Hat Full of Data Ltd)
Translytical Flows vs Embedding a Power App in Power BI
You create a brilliant report, it matches all the requirements and then someone asks for write back. They want to add adjustments, commentary or other random ideas. Although we would love to say no, we end up building solutions to provide write back and triggering events. Previously the obvious options have been an embedded Power App or a Power Automate button. Then Microsoft made up new words and released Translytical Flows that use Microsoft Fabric's User Defined Functions to open up the possibilities. The possibilities are endless! In this session we will demo building this new feature from scratch along side a demo of a simple Power App doing the same write back.

3 PM - Cristian Angyal (BI Consultant, ETA2U)
The Magic of Merging: Getting Friendly with Power Query Joins in Power BI
Ever hit a roadblock when trying to shape or enrich your data in Power BI? Let's shine the spotlight on Power Query Joins. These aren’t just the VLOOKUPs and XLOOKUPs from our Excel days in a fancy new suit. They're the powerhouse tools that help you mold and enhance your data, setting the stage for some killer analyses later on. In our upcoming session, we're going hands-on with these joining wonders. We'll break down the usual join suspects and then venture into the shadows where the mysterious seventh type lurks. From fuzzy-matching fun to multi-column join shenanigans, we're covering it all. But here's the thing: it's not just about making datasets play nice together.

4 PM - Christopher Wagner (Director of AI & Data, Baker Tilly)
Fabric Basics for the Power BI Developer
Microsoft Fabric is transforming what it means to be a Power BI developer. In this fast-paced, demo-driven session, we’ll break down the essential Fabric concepts you need to understand—OneLake, the Lakehouse, Dataflows Gen2, Data Pipelines, and Direct Lake—and show how they fit naturally into your existing Power BI workflow. You’ll learn how Fabric simplifies data ingestion, improves model performance, and gives you a unified platform to build scalable analytics solutions without leaving the Power BI ecosystem. If you're a Power BI developer who wants to level up and start working confidently in Fabric, this session will give you the practical foundation you need to get started today.