March 2020 Meetup: Power BI Updates, Power Virtual Agenda and Governance

March 2020 Meetup: Power BI Updates, Power Virtual Agent and Power BI Governance

Agenda:

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm: Arrival and Pizza and Drinks

5:30 pm - 5:45 pm: Speed Networking

5:45 pm - 6:00 pm: Introduction and Updates

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Power BI presentations

7:00 pm - Closing

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You can register through Meetup, however, we also need your registration in the Eventbrite too. To avoid lines when you come for the meeting, make sure to register in the Eventbrite page here: please REGISTER HERE for FREE:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/power-bi-user-group-auckland-mar-2020-tickets-97618376191

Session 1 Title:

Power BI Governance, Why it is important for organisations to think about Power BI governance

Session 1 Description:

The world of business intelligence and analytics has changed from one that IT was providing the information in an organisation to more self-service data analytics that the end user has the ability to access and consume the data from a platform such as a data warehouse, as well as being able to enhance their data analytics with other data sources. In addition, the users now can easily share content and collaborate with other users.

This has enabled businesses to leverage from making better decisions more quickly that is good for businesses. However, giving the users a lot of freedom in accessing and sharing data without any governance can expose the businesses to serious security and privacy risks.​

In this session, we will discuss how to implement an organisation-wide governance framework for Power BI ecosystem, without preventing the business to naturally grow in its analytics capability a long with some real-world examples and good practices.

Session 1 Speaker:
Soheil Bakhshi is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with more than 18 years of experience in database design/architecture, business intelligence, data warehousing and data visualisation. Having a lot of experience in Power BI implementation he identifies the gaps in following best practices in Power BI adoption and development. Soheil is the founder of DataVizioner. He also works as a BI and Analytics Technical Lead Consultant at Theta consulting.
Website: https://www.biinsight.com
https://www.datavizioner.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakhshi/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/biinsightnz

Session 2 title: Power Virtual Agents & Power Platform

Session 2 Description:
Hamid will provide some description of the solutions embedded in the Microsoft power platform and specifically presenting more details about Microsoft power agent and Microsoft dynamic 365. He will have a demo of how to employ power virtual agents to establish a bot to answer potential patients who have concerns about getting infected by coronavirus!

Session 2 Speaker:
Hamid Sha
Dr. Hamidreza Shahbaznezhad is a senior data scientist, data consultant, and a researcher in the field of information science. He is an active researcher in the area of digital technologies, social networks, and knowledge transfer and could successfully publish several quality journal papers. He is passionate to research in the field of machine learning and the application of new digital technologies in the industry.

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamid-sha-phd-aa322a4a/

You can register through Meetup, however, we also need your registration in the Eventbrite too. To avoid lines when you come for the meeting, make sure to register in the Eventbrite page here: please REGISTER HERE for FREE:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/power-bi-user-group-auckland-mar-2020-tickets-97618376191