#PBIBRUM - June meetup with Jon Lunn & Duncan Boyne

#PBIBRUM - June meetup with Sue Bayes and Jon Lunn

Join us at the Robert Walters offices for the #PBIBRUM April meetup!

Agenda:

17:45 - Doors open

18:00 - Intros

18:05 - Duncan Boyne: When Native Visuals Aren’t Enough: Advanced Visual Architecture in Power BI

Designing Production-Grade Custom Visuals in Power BI with Deneb

As Power BI practitioners mature, many eventually hit the same wall: native visuals are powerful, but they impose structural limits. Layering complex KPIs, building precise layouts, or controlling visual behaviour beyond the format pane often requires compromise.

This session explores how to move beyond those constraints by designing production-grade custom visuals using Deneb and the Vega-Lite grammar of graphics.

18:50 - Break - free pizza and drinks 🍕🍸

19:10 - Jon Lunn: Fabric Variable Libraries - What are they and how to use them

This session is an overview of Fabric Variable Libraries, which show the features, and benefits of using them in your data pipeline and notebooks. and how to use and deploy them across multiple workspaces. It looks at the use of Value Sets in variable libraries for DEV/TST/PROD environments. It focuses on the security of the libraries, and how they should not be used like a Key Vault. This session has demos of deployment, and using them in a data pipeline and notebooks.

📍Location: Robert Walters, 9th Floor, 11 Brindley Place, Birmingham, B1 2LP