PASSMN Meeting 2023-05-16

• Important Note: This meeting is *not* online. We welcome you back to the Microsoft Technology Center

Agenda:
📅 Tuesday, May 16, 2023 📅
🕜 3:30-4:00 Kickoff / Announcements / Food
🕜 4:00-5:00 Ask the Board, Alumni Edition
🕜 5:00-5:10 Break
🕜 5:10-6:10 PowerShell Hacks for Power BI (James Bartlett)
🕜 6:10-6:15 Closing

Sessions

🕜 4:00 pm
⭐️ Ask the Board, Alumni Edition
🙂 Current and former PASSMN Board Members
Find out what your favorite data community members have been up to during our in-person hiatus. Dan English, Bill Preachuck, Jim Dorame, and most of the current board will join us.

🕜 5:10 pm
⭐️ PowerShell Hacks for Power BI
🙂 James Bartlett
There's never a dull moment in the life of a Power BI Administrator. In order to protect our time and sanity, it's important to automate as many of our usual tasks and processes as possible. Additionally, since the top priority of the Power BI development team is the end user experience, there are many edge cases and "power user" type activities that cannot yet be accomplished using only Power BI Desktop and the Power BI web service. Fortunately, Microsoft has provided two priceless tools that allow us to automate and add functionality to Power BI: The Power BI REST APIs and the MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt module for PowerShell. This presentation will demonstrate several techniques for harnessing these powerful tools to make your job as a Power BI Administrator less time-consuming and more fun!

Speakers

🙂 James Bartlett
⚡️ Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Senior Business Intelligence Analyst and Power BI Administrator at Des Moines University in Iowa, USA. He started working in IT way back in 2002, while he was a student in the Business Administration program at Colorado State University. After graduation, James dabbled in banking, real estate, healthcare, and even had a short stint as a resident DJ at Denver's top nightclub, before finally stumbling upon his true calling in the Business Intelligence field in 2018. James is a blogger and co-developer of the Business Ops app on PowerBI.tips, co-leader of the Iowa Power BI User Group, and recently completed his Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification. In his spare time, James enjoys longboarding, playing the guitar, and producing electronic music in his home studio.