Devon and Cornwall Microsoft Power BI User Group

Tired of the limitations of standard Power BI visuals? Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) are a versatile tool for enhancing reports beyond what is possible with the core Power BI visuals.

This session will empower you to harness the full potential of SVGs, starting with a clear exploration of their underlying structure and key features, and demonstrating straightforward methods for seamless integration into your Power BI environment.

Discover how to forge a direct connection between your Power BI data and SVG elements to create insightful sparklines, interactive graphs, and more. We will analyze Microsoft's own implementation of Sparklines within Power BI, extracting valuable lessons in optimizing DAX measures for better performance.

Finally, we will explore how leveraging more advanced SVG elements and techniques can significantly simplify and compact your SVG definitions, leading to cleaner, more maintainable, and performant visuals.

Jake Duddy specializes in Business Intelligence and Power BI. He administers a Fabric tenant, and develops processes and tooling to empower developers. Jake champions best practices, having established DevOps processes and robust admin monitoring solutions

Jake is an active member of the Fabric community. He shares his insights through his blog, evaluationcontext.github.io, where posts on his experiments and experiences with topics related to the Microsoft analytic stack. He presents at Fabric User Groups, and recently got the opportunity to present at the Fabric Power Hour at SQL Bits. He also frequents the Fabric forums, offering solutions where possible.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeduddy/ https://evaluationcontext.github.io/ https://github.com/EvaluationContext/Sessions

Roster & timesheet reporting in Power BI - during this session Kane will cover:

✅ Real-world use cases
✅ Modelling considerations
✅ Pro tips from the field
✅ DAX patterns for cost, minutes & headcount when you only have start/end times
✅ Report examples—including a translytical workflow

I’m Kane Snyder, a Head of Analytics, Principal Fabric Architect and Analytics Practice Lead with deep expertise in Power BI, DAX and Microsoft Fabric. I’ve guided multiple organisations—across banking and finance, tourism, risk management, environmental emissions, HR, IT governance, law, freight, transport and sales—to build end-to-end analytics solutions that balance cost efficiency with business value. I have a background in business management and have held numerous leadership roles both in business and the analytics space. I live on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia where I spend my time surfing, camping, 4 wheel driving and playing music.

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Jeroen ter Heerdt is a Product Manager with Microsoft.

He works on Power BI and is passionate about "all things data"; whether it is about databases, data warehousing, BI, big data, data visualizations, self-service BI, advanced analytics, real-time BI or anything even remotely related to data or insight.

He strives to apply these concepts in his life as much as possible. Jeroen combines enthusiasm, vision, and hands-on experience into his talks. His blog is http://www.dutchdatadude.com and he can be found on social media at @jaypowerbi.