To AI or Not to AI with Kicki F. and AI for Power BI Professionals with Duncan B
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To AI or Not to AI - how to use AI sustainably in development, avoid the hype and set healthy expectations on productivity and cognitive load.
Reflections by a (formerly) AI-sceptic engineering manager on the psychology and behavioural mechanisms behind development, and how to get AI to reduce cognitive load instead of adding to it.
This talk won’t tell you anything you didn’t already know about agentic AI or efficient prompting.
Instead, we’ll talk about the human behaviour of coding, and how to use this new tool in a healthy way to improve engineers’ lives – without burning out in the process.
Kicki Frisch
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Kicki currently works as a senior engineering manager in Investment Risk at global asset management company in London.
Her background is as a as C++/C#/.Net/Python developer and architect in FinTech, medical devices and structural engineering.
She is focused on enabling well functioning agile teams to successfully deliver quality products - while having fun.
Also a proficient knitter, language geek, mum and animal lover, in no particular priority order.
## Duncan Boyne
AI for Power BI Professionals: The Prompt Pack That Actually Makes You Better at Your Job
AI isn’t here to replace Power BI developers, it’s here to make us dangerously efficient. And while everyone is talking about Copilot, the reality is that ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and even Gemini can massively accelerate modelling, DAX writing, documentation, design, debugging, and stakeholder communication.
This session is a hands-on, example-packed tour of AI workflows that Power BI people can use today. I’ll show the prompts I genuinely rely on: generating DAX variations, validating logic, rewriting gnarly measures, designing report layouts, creating SVG wireframes, summarising datasets, explaining model choices, generating test data, accelerating requirements workshops, and even turning stakeholder rambling into structured acceptance criteria.
Duncan is a Power BI specialist working with businesses that run Sage, Dynamics 365, and other ERP systems.
✦ Power BI Consultant at CPiO, helping SMEs build connected reporting across Sage and Microsoft ecosystems.
✦ Founder of the Norfolk Power Platform User Group.
✦ Co-founder of the East of England Power Platform Summit.
✦ International speaker at user groups and conferences across the UK & Europe.