East Midlands Data

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MeetUp Agenda

18:00 - Arrive. Networking
18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk
19:30 - Buffet. Networking
20:30 - Event Close

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How Can Microsoft Fabric Have an Impact on Your Business?

All this talk about Data-Ware-Lake-Delta-Beach-House-Lakes (or some combination of that) and Data, Yarn, Fabric integration, everything has got a bit… Meshy! Yes, my friends. The beat of the technology drum is certainly relentless. And with no limits cloud scale and huge innovations from the biggest brains. Two years, it seems, has become the benchmark for tools to live and die by. Reach three years and you almost have a mature product. That said, Microsoft Fabric, the latest offering from global software giant is no exception. But what does this mean for the real world. For the data analysts, engineers and scientists that need to continue answering everyday problems to inform business decisions. In this session we will firmly ignore the hype and focus on the reality. With the pragmatic view of an experienced architect. The problem of gaining insights from our data hasn’t changed. So, what does this mean if implemented using Microsoft Fabric. What, why and how is the tooling going to change our daily deliverables in the short term, medium and long term. Join me for these answers and more as we explore the impact of Microsoft Fabric-Server, erm, Power. Resource. Thing!
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Speaker Details

Paul (AKA @mrpaulandrew) is the Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations, a specialist data consultancy based in the UK. With nearly 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Microsoft data architectures, Paul leads a passionate team of engineers, supporting businesses small and large with scalable cloud platforms. Business value delivered through data insights. Over the years, Paul has covered the breadth and depth of design patterns and industry leading concepts, including Lambda, Kappa, Delta Lake, Data Mesh and Data Fabric.

Paul is also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, director for the Data Relay community conference, East Midlands user group leader, book author and mentor. In addition to the day job(s), Paul is a father of three, husband, foodie, runner, blood donor, geek, Lego, and Star Wars fan! Lastly, Paul confesses to enjoying a Ramstein playlist when given half a chance to do some coding for a customer project.

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MeetUp Agenda

18:00 - Arrive. Networking
18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk
19:30 - Pizza. Networking
20:30 - Event Close

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Microsoft Fabric : Notes From the Field

A dive into Microsoft Fabric. Working closely with Customers to understand the benefits of using Microsoft Fabric and the learnings to get you started or avoid the pain points.

Microsoft Fabric is in preview so people are going on a journey until General Availability.

A look at the customer use cases working with UK Enterprise customers.

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Speaker Details - Ian Pike

Storytelling with customers and data tools at Microsoft. I am an Azure Technical Specialist working in Data & AI looking at Data, Databases and Cloud Technologies.
The areas he focuses on include:
► Power BI: Adoption, Implementation and Governance
► Microsoft Fabric
► Azure DevOps / DataOps
► SQL Server and Azure DB
► Azure and Cloud practices
I have been at Microsoft for over 5 years working with customers to implement and understand the technologies and solutions available.

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MeetUp Agenda

18:00 - Arrive. Networking
18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk
19:30 - Buffet. Networking
20:30 - Event Close

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Microsoft Fabric in Action - Ingesting data to Report creation

Microsoft Fabric is the current hot topic, and everyone is trying to get up to speed with this new technology. In this session, Pragati will showcase a demo on getting the data in this environment to creating a Power BI report. This is a One Slide All Demo session.
Fancy seeing some action and insights with Microsoft Fabric, join this session and take your first steps towards learning this new buzz.
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Speaker Details

Pragati is a Data Platform MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional).
Currently, she is working as a Manager at Avanade in UK and works towards generating and delivering data insights to various customers. She holds a Master’s degree in Data Science and Analytics from Royal Holloway University of London. She is skilled in various tools and technologies like Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Excel, Azure ML Studio, Azure Databricks Pyspark and SQL. She has been using Power BI for few years now and is recognised as a Superuser on the Microsoft Power BI Community.

Outside work she enjoys photography, loves hiking, she is a trained Indian classical singer and has a passion for painting. She even has her Instagram page dedicated to painting.