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The Budapest BI Forum 2025 is a leading international Business Intelligence, Data Analytics and Data Visualization conference.
It will take place on November 17-19, offering 3 days of technical talks, case studies, workshops and roundtables.

Program Overview

The conference will be held in a hybrid format so the audience can participate either in-person or remotely. The first day will be a dedicated Workshop day which will be followed by the main in-person conference day and the closing online-only conference day.

Monday
(November 17)

Workshop Day

in-person only

Tuesday
(November 18)

Conference Day

in-person

With the Online ticket you can view the talks of the in-person day with background streaming

Wednesday
(November 19)

Conference Day

online-only

Key Topics

Our key topics include data analytics, data visualization and business intelligence.

Data-Driven Business

Case studies and best practices for driving business results with data and insights

BI Innovation

New and exciting BI solutions — from data visualization software to spreadsheets

Data Culture

Enhancing data literacy, and promoting effective data use in organizations

Generative BI

Gen AI–powered BI tools, AI data analyst assistants, and Agentic BI

Data Visualization

Effective and clear charts, data journalism, and data storytelling

Open Source BI

Python, R, and other open-source data visualization and BI technologies

Applied Analytics

Data analysis in the world of sports, HR, finance, and product development

Power BI

Power BI techniques, tools, and methods for beginners and advanced users

Workshops

On the first day, the program features in-depth, hands-on sessions designed to provide deeper professional knowledge.

Find out more about the Workshop Day on our Workshop page.

half-day · EN · intermediate
half-day · EN · intermediate
full-day · EN · intermediate
full-day · EN · intermediate
full-day · EN · intermediate
full-day · HU · beginner

Our Speakers

Among our speakers are several international experts in data visualization and Power BI.
(More information about each talk is available by clicking on its title.)

Bence Arató

Bence Arató

BI Consulting (HU)
BI & AI Trendek 2025-ben
keynote
BI & AI Trendek 2025-ben
in-person · standard talk · hu

Az előadás áttekintést ad az idei év legfontosabb BI trendjeiről és eseményeiről.

Erika Kacsó

Erika Kacsó

Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions (HU)
Bértranszparencia Power BI szemmel
ddb power bi
Bértranszparencia Power BI szemmel
in-person · standard talk · hu

A 2026-tól hatályba lépő EU-s bértranszparencia szabályozás hatással lesz az üzleti elemzésekre és riporting folyamatokra is, különös tekintettel az adatbiztonságra.

Az előadásban bemutatjuk, hogy a Power BI világában milyen megoldásokkal tudjuk összhangba hozni a transzparencia és az adatvédelem között feszülő ellentéteket. Gyakorlati tippekkel és valós példákkal - mert 2026 közelebb van, mint gondolnád!

Patrícia Rumbach

Patrícia Rumbach

Audi Hungaria (HU)
IBCS tapasztalatok az Audi Hungáriánál
dataviz case study
Hogyan válasszuk az IBCS-t? Tapasztalatok az Audi Hungáriánál
in-person · standard talk · hu

Az IBCS használatával nem ígérheted meg, hogy szebb lesz a jelentés.
Akkor mit ígérhetsz helyette? Jobb és gyorsabb megértést.

Az előadásban az AUDI Hungary IBCS bevezetésével kapcsolatos tanulságokról és tapasztalatokról fogok beszélni:
- Hogyan került az IBCS az Audi Hungariához
- Mik a hatékony jelentések jellemzői a megértés és a döntéshozatal szemszögéből
- Hogyan lehet eljutni a bevezetésig. Hogyan magyarázzuk el az IBCS hasznosságát azok számára, akik eldöntik, hogy bevezessük-e vagy sem
- Hogyan tettük számszerűsíthetővé az IBCS hatékonyságát egy saját mérésen alapuló vizsgálattal

Benni De Jagere

Benni De Jagere

Microsoft (BE)
Understanding Fabric Capacities
power bi fabric
Understanding Fabric Capacities
in-person · standard talk · en

You've heard about Microsoft Fabric, and you're ready to take it for a spin? Excellent, let's get us started off in those few advertised minutes! But hold on .. you need a capacity to actually use something, and might not be completely clear on what it actually entails? You're not alone with these questions, and it is perfectly fine to stop and think about it for a while. In fact, it's a good thing you want to understand the single most core concept of Fabric as that will hopefully allow you to make better decisions down the road.

The introduction of Fabric Capacities sparked a lot of questions with Data Architects, Engineers, and Analysts coming from an IaaS or Paas (Infrastructure or Platform as a Service) way of working. Microsoft Fabric is presented as an all-in-one Analytics SaaS (Software as a Service) solution, with a unified measure for Compute and Storage. Great, promising to make the cost and performance predictability a lot simpler. Great! But what exactly does that mean, and what will it actually cost the company?

To understand Fabric Capacities, we need to briefly look at the architecture and what exactly those unified measures look like, including how they are similar, yet different from the existing Power BI Premium Capacities. Understanding the different types and sizes of capacities will help us make the right decisions for our Data Platform solutions in the organization.

But then, how do you manage those capacities and assess if they are in a healthy state? What are some of the options to follow the demands and needs of your business users to allocate the right resources to them? Most importantly, what options do I have to automate the majority of these tasks?

Walking out of the session, you should understand the key concept of Fabric Capacities and how they are at the core of everything you'll do in Microsoft Fabric, be able to choose the one that is right for you, periodically assess if the choice was right, and act where needed.

Tamás Polner

Tamás Polner

Microsoft (USA)
Power BI & Fabric Copilot
power bi fabric ai
What's New in Copilot and How to Optimize It
online · standard talk · en

Covers new capabilities of Power BI/Fabric copilot and how to use them in our everyday work both from a user or developer perspective.

Marc Lelijveld

Marc Lelijveld

Macaw (NL)
Reinventing Data Interaction with AI
power bi fabric ai
From Dashboards to Dialogues: Reinventing Data Interaction with AI
in-person · standard talk · en

Why spend time digging through dashboards to find a KPI when you could just ask a question and get the answer instantly?

In this session, we’ll explore how Microsoft Fabric is changing the way we work with data — moving away from static reports toward dynamic conversations. You don’t need to click through filters or build visuals — just ask your question and get straight to the answer.

We’ll walk through the tools that make this possible, including:
- Natural language to SQL, KQL and DAX capabilities in Fabric
- Copilot in Power BI
- Data Agents (AI Skills) to create your own chat-based data experiences
- Copilot Studio & AI Foundry to enrich these experiences

You’ll leave with practical examples and ideas to help you rethink how users engage with data in your own use cases

Saloni Shah

Saloni Shah

Cloudflare (USA)
Building a Data Visualization System at Cloudflare
dataviz case study
Designing Clarity at Scale: Building a Data Visualization System at Cloudflare
in-person · standard talk · en

When I joined Cloudflare, there was no centralized design system for data visualizations—just a patchwork of dashboards with inconsistent styles and usability.

In this session, I’ll share how I audited existing visualizations, gathered insights from users across the company, and initiated a cross-functional focus team to build a scalable, cohesive visualization design system. You'll hear about the challenges of aligning stakeholders, driving adoption in a large organization, and designing for clarity, flexibility, and performance in complex data environments.

Andy Cotgreave

Andy Cotgreave

Independent (UK)
Has AI Killed The Data Dashboard?
dataviz ai
Has AI Killed The Data Dashboard?
in-person · standard talk · en

"Dashboards are dead!" cry the AI advocates. But are they? What role does the dashboard have in this age of AI?

In this talk, Andy will explore the changes that AI is bringing to dashboards, and how to adopt Gen AI *and* traditional dashboards to fit a modern data analytics strategy.

Amanda Makulec

Amanda Makulec

Independent (USA)
Designing Dashboards that Deliver
dataviz
Designing Dashboards that Deliver
online · standard talk · en

We surveyed over 450 dashboard creators when writing Dashboards That Deliver and asked a big picture question: do you agree with the statement ‘most dashboards fail’? More than 70% of the respondents agreed, and that’s among people with a vested interest in seeing dashboards succeed.

The secret to designing a dashboard that has an impact?

Start with understanding your users deeply, then design with them as partners.

During this talk, you’ll learn the Dashboards That Deliver design framework, which blends user-centered design, Agile, and data viz practices and the authors’ experiences designing thousands of dashboards across industries.

Then we’ll dive into a few practical examples to see how the framework applies in practice and what lessons you can apply to the next dashboard you design, whether you’re a team of one or an enterprise analytics team..

Venue

The Budapest BI Forum moves to the Hotel Helia

The in-person part of the conference will be hosted at the 4-star Danubius Hotel Helia. The hotel is easily accessible by public transport and located on the banks of the Danube in the XIII. district of Budapest.

The naturally-lit and air-conditioned event halls, along with the latest in modern technical equipment, offer excellent opportunities to host high-quality professional events, conferences, and exhibitions.

Tickets

The registration is closed.

All-Inclusive Tickets

Hybrid

Late Bird:
900.00 EUR

Online

Late Bird:
720.00 EUR

2-Day Tickets

Hybrid

Late Bird:
540.00 EUR

Online

Late Bird:
360.00 EUR

Workshop Tickets

Workshop

Late Bird:
360.00 EUR

Throwback to 2024

Last year the Budapest BI Forum 2024 featured more than 40 speakers, including experts from Continental Autonomous Mobility Hungary, Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions, EPAM Hungary, Microsoft, Tableau, and Tabular Editor.

More than 120 organizations represented various sectors with 250+ BI professionals in attendance.

For those curious about the types of sessions and content our conference offers, we recommend visiting last year’s conference page. Until this year’s program and speaker lineup are announced, you can explore the detailed schedule and access publicly available presentation materials from the previous event as a reference.

3 DAYS
OF CONFERENCE
250+
ATTENDEES
120+
COMPANIES
40+
SPEAKERS
8
WORKSHOPS
4.4/5
AVG. SCORE OF TALKS

Conference Updates

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Exhibitors and Sponsors

Gold

Silver

If you are interested in participating as a sponsor and/or exhibitor at our conference, feel free to reach out to us at office@budapestbi25.com!

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