Name: Portland Fabric User Group Virtual Meetup
Start: 2025-10-22T17:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-22T19:00:00-07:00

**Collect, Combine, and Transform Data using Power Query in Power BI and Excel**

Join Gil Raviv, co-author of the 2nd edition of *Collect, Combine, and Transform Data using Power Query in Power BI and Excel*, for a hands-on and forward-looking session.

We will focus on three key areas:

1. What the book has to offer – Get an overview of the chapters, with practical takeaways you can apply immediately. You’ll see how each part of the book can help you prepare, combine, and transform data more effectively and boost your career.
2. Hands-on learning – Walk through three carefully selected exercises from the book, designed to sharpen your skills in solving real-world data preparation challenges.
3. Why this knowledge matters now – Understand why mastering Power Query is more important than ever in the era of Microsoft Fabric and AI. We’ll explore the opportunities this skillset opens up for organizations looking to streamline analytics, improve governance, and unlock more value from their data.

Whether you’re just getting started or already experienced with Power BI, you’ll leave this session with practical techniques and a clear vision of how Power Query skills can set you apart in today’s data landscape.

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Gil Raviv is a Microsoft MVP, founder of DataChant Consulting, and the creator of BI Pixie, a groundbreaking solution built to optimize Power BI adoption and trust.

As a thought-leader in Microsoft Data & AI space Gil helps global organizations to accelerate their digital transformation and time to insight.

Gil published a best-selling Microsoft Press book (available in 5 languages) and developed innovative Power BI dashboards and analytics tool including 10 leading business apps on Microsoft AppSource. In his former roles as a BI practice lead at AWS and earlier at Avanade, Gil had led global practices of BI consultants and served Fortune-1000 enterprises in architecture and advisory for complex BI migrations, kickstarting center of excellence teams and has developed countless mission-critical analytic platforms.

With 2+ decades of software development and product management in Microsoft, AWS, and other companies, Gil has achieved many recognitions for his achievements and contributions - including 6 years Microsoft MVP award, 2 years as a Microsoft Fast Track Solution Architect and four U.S. patents in the fields of computer networks, cyber security, and analytics. Gil has held a variety of innovative roles in data analytics, and cyber security and has delivered a wide range of software products from advanced threat detection systems to the protection of kids on Facebook.

Today, Gil helps organizations maximize their ROI in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI and offers BI Pixie to optimize their mission-critical BI and analytic products.

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