January meetup with Microsoft

We will start 2016 with an exciting session. Shashank from Microsoft will give us some updates about Power BI and the overall Microsoft BI roadmap.

Then Travis (Microsoft) will demonstrate custom visuals with some interesting samples and Gin (Agile BI) will discuss about visual analytics with practical business scenarios.

About the speakers:

Shashank Pawar, Microsoft ( http://blogs.technet.com/sqlman )

A data solutions specialist, with 15 years at Microsoft Corporation. Constantly delivering solutions to help organisations innovate with their data including Tier 1 industry applications on the Microsoft platform, such as online banking, enterprise data-warehouses, BI and Advanced analytics solutions. Shashank is also active in the community through participation in local industry events, professional user groups, and the online community.

Jixin (Gin) Jia, Agile BI (http://www.agilebi.com.au)

(MCSE, TQA, MBA) is a highly focused professional who achieved many successful BI implementation for visualization and analytics projects.

With a strong background in mathematics, Jixin combines conventional analytics, statistics and machine learning practices with modern BI visualization technique to deliver an intelligent decision making. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Expert in Business Intelligence

Travis Sansome, Microsoft

Technical Solution Professional for Microsoft Australia covering all things data. From Power BI to Machine Learning to Real Time Analytics to Backend SQL. Discussing & Helping craft interesting analytic and data solutions for all different types of customers.