#PBIBRUM - October meetup with Mark Geere and Robert French & Keith Atherton

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

Agenda:

17:45 - Doors open

18:00 - Intros

18:05 - Mark Geere: Vertipaq and Query Folding

Mark is the Data Platform Engineering Manager at NFU Mutual and an experienced data leader with a passion for agile practices.

Tired of slow Power BI reports? Master the VertiPaq engine and the art of query folding! This talk is packed with practical techniques to optimize your data models and queries. Transform your Power BI skills and build reports that impress.

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

19:10 - Robert French & Keith Atherton: The Virtual Road Trip: A Power Platform Story

In this session, you will learn how Quorum used the Power Platform to create a virtual road trip across the continental United States to keep employees active and engaged during the pandemic. The team faced a difficult challenge: to create an engaging and interactive experience that could be shared with everyone in the company, regardless of their technical expertise.

Using their extensive experience with user interface design and data storytelling, the Marketing, Apps Dev, and Data Teams at Quorum produced an elegant and easy to use Power BI dashboard showing the daily progress towards the goal. The data was also distributed to Teams and SharePoint for anyone to see. Further, through the Power Platform, the team created interactive postcards as they crossed each state boundary on their USA road trip.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to use the Power Platform to create engaging and interactive experiences
• How to design user interfaces that are easy to use for everyone
• How to tell stories with data using Power BI
• How to use the Power Platform to share information and collaborate with others

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