Valerie Junk
Creating reports with Power BI may seem easy at first. However, many people eventually discover that their reports are not being viewed, end-users are confused about navigating, and the process is more complicated than anticipated. This session will address these challenges and provide you with the skills to create visually appealing, intuitive, and actionable data visualizations that serve a clear purpose and effectively guide end-users.
In this session, I will demonstrate how to create data visualizations that are visually appealing, intuitive, and actionable, only using Power BI core visuals. Since many of us are creating reports for others who eventually need to maintain them themselves, I think it is important not to involve too many external tools and additional code, just keep it simple!
The techniques you will learn are practical and can be immediately applied to your work. You will learn how to:
- Use DAX to Enhance Visuals: Learn how to modify your visuals using DAX, such as changing colors and highlighting important information, to make critical insights stand out.
- Focus on Key Information: Learn techniques to refine your visuals so they display the most critical data, ensuring users can quickly grasp what matters most.
- Facilitate User Navigation: Explore different methods to enable smooth user navigation, allowing end-users to interact easily with your reports and find the necessary information.
Join me as we explore how to create purposeful, user-friendly visualizations using only Power BI's core features, no SVGs or external tools required. Let’s make your reports not just seen but truly understood!
Benni De Jagere
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.
Marc Lelijveld
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
Tamás Polner
Covers new capabilities of Power BI/Fabric copilot and how to use them in our everyday work both from a user or developer perspective.
Alexander Arvidsson
Microsoft Fabric is the future, no doubt about that. As a consequence, many of my clients are looking to Fabric to solve their future analytics needs. But - rarely do analytics projects begin from scratch; most often there is some kind of migration of an older technology stack involved.
Sadly, this is often overlooked in the brave new world of the cloud in general, and Microsoft Fabric in particular. In fact, there is rarely a straight shot from any current platform to Microsoft Fabric, and most any migration will involve a smaller or larger amount of code conversion.
After several migration projects from both on-prem and cloud based offerings to Microsoft Fabric, I have collected my experiences into a session that takes a long, hard look at the opportunities and challenges inherent in trying to migrate just about any existing analytics workload to Microsoft Fabric.
This session will give you a better understanding of the road ahead, the challenges lurking under the surface, and some of the decisions you face - should you wish to embark on the same journey.
David Kofod Hanna
“You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.”
In this session, you'll get hands-on methods for making documentation a natural part of your Power BI workflow.
We'll explore Power Query metadata, Table Groups and scripting in Tabular Editor, INFO.VIEW DAX functions, external tools, model layout views, VertiPaq Analyzer in DAX Query views, Semantic Link Labs, and JSON theme documentation.
Everything is tied together in a user-friendly, accessible app – where the end user meets the documentation directly.
This isn’t just inspiration – it’s a system you can take home and apply.
A Power BI documentation system – not just an afterthought
Pascal Kiefer
Think Power BI is cool? Wait until you see it Embedded! In this session, we’ll start with the basics of Power BI Embedded, showing you how to take your reports beyond the workspace and into custom apps. Then, we’ll dive into a live demo where we’ll tweak some code in a real embedded solution—always a thrill, because who knows if it’ll actually work? 😅
Whether you’re a regular Power BI user or just curious, you’ll leave knowing why Embedded is the cooler, more adventurous sibling of Power BI.
Mathias Halkjaer
In this session, we'll dive into the Direct Lake, the new Power BI storage mode that seamlessly blends DirectQuery's real-time capabilities and Import mode's performance.
We unravel how this promising technology impacts traditional data modeling approaches, posing essential questions on star schemas, relationships, keys, and other classical dimensional modeling techniques.
This session equips you with a deeper understanding of the Direct Lake landscape and its implications for data modeling, empowering you to craft performant data models.
The key areas we'll explore are:
- Overview of Direct Lake
- Impact of Direct Lake on data modeling techniques
- Redefining data transformation strategies
Injae Park
Discover how Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) can transform your Power BI reports in this 0-100 deep dive. We'll explore how SVGs integrate into native visuals to create custom charts that can take your data storytelling to the next level, taking you from beginner to expert.
This is a demo-first session, and will explore different stages of using SVGs. We cover SVGs in native visuals, LLM-Powered SVG Creation, and go heavily into C# scripts to Automate SVGs and declare "default" settings to aid SVG implementation - especially using a library of ready made SVG scripts. We will also showcase how to use TMDL and UDF as features that can support similar efficiencies.
The target audience for this session are experienced Power BI developers and report designers who are familiar with Advanced Scripting with Tabular Editor and TMDL, who want to push the boundaries of native visuals.
The goal is for attendees to leave with a deep understanding of using SVGs in Power BI - and how to utilize them in the most efficient manner.
Dhyan Rathore
Power BI development just got a significant upgrade—and it's about to change the way you work.
Imagine bulk-copying entire tables and measures between models in seconds. Renaming dozens of measures or applying find-and-replace logic across your DAX—all at once. Or creating perspectives and implementing object-level security without ever leaving Power BI Desktop. Now, imagine publishing changes to measures and tables without having to republish the entire PBIX file. It's not a fantasy—it's TMDL.
Welcome to the Power BI developer mode, we've all been waiting for. With TMDL (Tabular Model Definition Language) and the sleek power of Fabric Studio, you'll unlock a new level of productivity, precision, and control.
Whether you're a seasoned developer or just diving into Power BI's modeling layer, this session will equip you with tools and tips to transform the way you build.
Say goodbye to repetitive tasks and hello to true Power BI development freedom.
Alberto Ferrari
The new DAX feature we all wanted for years is now available: user-defined functions! A function is a DAX formula with parameters that can return values or tables. Parameters can be passed by value or by expressions.
In this session, you learn how to define and consume user-defined functions in your semantic model.
Neil Rowlands
Teams in our organisations have both data and business requirements… all we have to do is train our colleagues how to use Power BI Desktop/Power Query and they can rapidly author their own MIBI reporting. By upskilling your existing staff your organisation will gain ownership of the outputs and reduce the need for contractors.
In this interactive session we will structure a 2-day Power BI training plan outline, giving all attendees an effective framework to use to deliver to their colleagues.
Victor Rivas
Synoptic Panel by OKVIZ just shipped its most significant release since winning Microsoft’s Best Visual Contest in 2015, making it a go-to choice for turning complex layouts into interactive, data-driven experiences. This demo-heavy session demonstrates how to convert SVG floor plans and anatomical diagrams into responsive visuals that instantly respond to report filters.
We’ll walk through the 2025 features in depth: multi-level maps for intuitive drill and drill-down paths; dynamic measure binding so one diagram can adapt to different user selections; and a new in-visual editor to create, manage, preview, and fine-tune maps directly on the report canvas. You’ll also pick up practical tips for performance, authoring, and governance to help your report stay fast and maintainable at scale.
If you build Power BI reports and want your reports to inform clearly and engage decisively, this session will show you how to get the most out of Synoptic Panel
Jo David
Managing a Power BI environment can be frustrating.
Our database changes a name of a column, where is that used in our reports? Do I need to open them all? Who do I contact?
We know that bi-directional filtering is best not-done, but how do we know it is used? Can we find that?
Using Semantic link, a free python library we can use in Fabric Notebooks, even someone with little to no Python experience can save a lot of time finding answers to these questions.
Come and see how semantic link can help you out like it did for me.
The Yellow wizard will take you along on a managing tour of the Power BI environment of Middle Earth.
Francesco Bergamaschi
Visual Calculations (VCalcs) are not only a new Power BI feature that can facilitate access to Power BI for DAX beginners, but also – digging deeper – a complex calculation system based on a new DAX evaluation context: the Visual Context (VContx). If you are not satisfied with the built-in formulas created in VCalcs but want to know how to customize the underlying DAX code to go further, this session is for you. We will see how to use CALCULATE to generate the VCalcs we want and how to interact with the VContx in detail, even discovering hierarchical structures typical of the Multidimensional Analysis Services models... in Tabular!