Jun'26: "Monitoring Queries & Refreshes" & "Applications with Microsoft Foundry"

When: Thursday 18th June 2026
Time: arrive for 5:45pm with talks starting from 6pm start prompt.
Location: Ecosurety, 2nd Floor, 4 Colston Ave, Bristol BS1 4ST

Complimentary drinks & pizza provided by our sponsor Method Resourcing Solutions. Please remember to RSVP to help us confirm numbers!

Session 1 - Monitoring queries and refreshes using Workspace
Monitoring, Log Analytics, Profiler and DAX Studio - Chris Webb

When you're performance tuning a slow Power BI report or refresh you need to know what happens inside the engine, and the good news is that the Power BI engine can give you all kinds of detailed information on its internals. But how do you get access to this? How can you understand it? In this session you'll find out: how you can get (almost) the same information on internals from Workspace Monitoring, Log Analytics, SQL Server Profiler and DAX Studio and when to use which; which engine events are relevant to queries and which ones are relevant to refreshes; and how you can interpret this information for tuning.

About Chris
Chris is a Principal Program Manager on the Power BI Customer Advisory Team. He has over 20 years of experience as a consultant and trainer specializing in the Microsoft BI stack, with expertise in Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services, MDX, DAX, M, Power Pivot and Power Query.

Session 2 - Applications with Microsoft Foundry - Shubhangi Goyal
In this session, we’ll explore how Azure AI Foundry helps developers and data professionals build, customize, and operationalize AI solutions using the latest in large language models (LLMs) and Azure’s trusted infrastructure. From prompt engineering to context management, model evaluation, and deployment, we’ll walk through how the Foundry enables you to move from experimentation to production faster and more securely.

Whether you’re building copilots, domain-specific agents, or generative AI apps, this session will help you understand how Azure AI Foundry streamlines the journey from idea to impact.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the core components of Azure AI Foundry (projects, hubs, model catalog, orchestration).
• Learn how to integrate OpenAI and custom models into Azure-based applications.
• Explore responsible AI, governance, and monitoring within the Foundry ecosystem.
• See a demo or architecture walkthrough for deploying a contextual AI app or copilot.
• Discover how Foundry connects with Azure Machine Learning, AI Studio, and Fabric for end-to-end innovation.

About Shubhangi
Shubhangi is a multi-award-winning tech leader, Microsoft MVP, and TechWomen100 winner with a decade of enterprise experience across BI, Data Science, and AI. Her global career spans Fortune 500s, FTSE 100s, and agile startups, including leading large-scale NLP deployments for 20+ UK public sector clients at ICS.AI and spearheading major Digital Store Analytics initiatives at Tata (TCS).

A prominent voice in the global data community, she is the London Chapter Lead for Women in Data and an international speaker who has delivered over 90 sessions across 13 countries at premier industry conferences like SQLBits and GenAI Zurich.

We all look forward to seeing you there!!