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Training Days 2025

Welcome to our amazong three pre-conference training day offerings!. Please see a summary of each sesssion and the booking option for each one

Speaker

Ginger Grant

Title

Incorporating AI in Data Analysis

Summary

Jump start your understanding of AI with this crash course in everything you need to know to start using AI every day for many different purposes..

Data professionals need this information and this session was designed for you, not for an app developer. Here you will receive explanations of the important parts of AI in order to implement AI in many different aspects of your job from writing emails to developing ETL or Power BI reports.

You will learn all about generative AI, prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Vector Databases.

The demonstrations will show you how to implement the skills so you will leave knowing how to b use AI. The best part is you will learn how to improve your productivity with AI without any compute costs.

This session will also provide an understanding the basics of Azure AI and the many Microsoft Copilots, particularly the ones integrated with Fabric and Power BI.

Speaker

Luke Moloney and Frederic Van Kelecom

 

Title

Hands on with Fabric: end to end data engineering

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Summary

Are you wanting to learn how to use Microsoft Fabric for data engineering, data warehousing or other data projects? Then this is the session for you!

Luke and Fred bring recent experience working with some of the largest and most complex Fabric customers across the different components including: Data Engineering, Data Factory, Data Warehousing and Real Time Intelligence. This session is informed by their experience and real-world experience.

In this hands-on workshop we will:

  • Ingest data from a range of sources using Data Factory and Fabric Mirroring

  • Transform data with Spark and Data Warehouse

  • Orchestrate with complex and parallel pipelines

  • Explore different options for querying and consumption

  • Ingest and transform streaming data

  • Demonstrate ways to OneLake with Fabric engines, and external engines

  • Work through options to monitor your solution, including how you can make your Fabric components more resilient and gain visibility into Fabric capacities.

  • Deploy Fabric environments with command line interfaces which enable automation.

Attendees are expected to bring laptops. Sandbox environments will be provided. At least basic knowledge of Fabric and/or Data Engineering / Data Warehousing is helpful. This session is intermediate but will be guided.

Note - Power BI will not be covered in a meaningful way.

Speaker

Kerry Kolosko

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Title

Beyond Click & Viz: Advanced Data Visualisation in Power BI

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Summary

This workshop is for participants with 12months+ experience with Power BI looking to gain more advanced Data Visualisation skill.

Participants will explore principles of advanced data visualisation, understand common data analysis techniques beyond counts and averages, become familiar with the Grammar of Graphics, and develop hands-on experience with Vega-Lite visual analysis grammar.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to create a variety of data visualisations, from basic to complex, with SVG and the Deneb custom visual to enhance their data storytelling capabilities.

These skills will be transferrable to other toolsets including notebooks.

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