What we’re about
The Power BI & Fabric Manchester User Group is a free to attend event that has been going for over 7 years and our members to meets every month in Manchester on a Thursday evening.
We host a variety of events including talks from expert speakers and hands-on introduction to Power BI. We are a thriving Power BI community including end users & industry experts all who use Power BI – and enjoy using it.
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Upcoming events (2)
See all- PBIMCR presents Ashley Warren and Riccardo Perico with CI/CD in PBI & TMDLRobert Walters Group, Manchester
When: Thursday 31st July 2025
Time: arrive for 530pm with talks starting from 6pm start prompt
Location: Robert Walters, Number 1 Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3HF
Session will not be streamed over MS Teams
Complimentary drinks & pizza provided by our hosts & sponsors Robert WaltersApril's PBIMCR will feature .....
Speaker Details -
Ashley Warren
Advanced Analytics Senior Consultant at Advancing Analytics# CI/CD in PowerBI: For when just hitting publish isn't good enough
### When you're first starting out with PowerBI and want to share content with other users, you probably just hit the publish button in PowerBI Desktop. If you are like me, eventually you start to think, surely there has to be a better way to do this?! Spoiler: There is and I'm here to help you explore it!
Join me in this session where we will discuss what CI/CD is and why you should care about it as a PowerBI developer, all through the lens of my personal journey with PowerBI.
We'll discuss the problems I encountered as a beginner developer. Then we'll explore the options built into PowerBI via a handful of demos, which I explored in the intermediate stage of my career. Then finally we'll touch on some of the more advanced techniques I use now via external tools like Tabular Editor, Azure DevOps & the Fabric APIs.
Together, we'll discover more mature & scalable ways for you to deploy PowerBI content to your end users. You'll unlock the power of effective multi-developer collaboration and begin to realise all the benefits that CI/CD best practices can make for a PowerBI development team.About Ashley:
Ashley Warren
Advanced Analytics Senior Consultant at Advancing Analytics
I'm a senior consultant with a focus on analytics engineering and data visualisation. In the past, I've led data teams at small and large organisations, helping unlock the power of data through storytelling.Speaker Details -
Riccardo Perico
BI Architect at Lucient Italia# TMDL, the new representation for semantic models
Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL) is the new object model definition syntax for tabular data models with compatibility level higher than 1200.
In this demo-intensive session we'll understand what it is, which are the main differences with TMSL, which development tools support it and how it could speed up your development activities.We'll talk about, Power BI Projects, measures replication, SSAS migration and much more!
- PBIMCR presents Štěpán Rešl & Jake DuddyRobert Walters Group, Manchester
When: Thursday 28th of August 2025
Time: arrive for 530pm with talks starting from 6pm start prompt
Location: Robert Walters, Number 1 Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3HF
Session will not be streamed over MS Teams
Complimentary drinks & pizza provided by our hosts & sponsors Robert WaltersAugust's PBIMCR will feature .....
Speaker Details -
Talk 1:
Štěpán Rešl Lead Technical Consultant at Data Brothers.Talk Title: Orchestration Best Practices in Microsoft Fabric
Description:
Join me for a session on mastering orchestration within Microsoft Fabric. Discover best practices for scheduling and managing your data workflows. We will be talking about native schedulers for items like semantic models, dataflows, notebooks, etc, and why using only these can bring you into specific issues that can be handled more elegantly and efficiently. Explore how to effectively schedule components with multiple dependencies like pipelines and notebooks while addressing common challenges such as dependency control and parametrization. Learn why pipelines are great for managing complex workflows, offering superior control over dependencies and execution. Finally, dive into the power of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) in tools like Apache Airflow and see how they excel at orchestrating notebooks and why this is a crucial part of orchestration in the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. Whether you’re building pipelines and notebooks or preparing complex reporting solutions with dependencies between semantic models or between Fabric items, this session will equip you with actionable strategies to achieve efficient and scalable orchestration in Microsoft Fabric.Talk 2 -
Jake Duddy
Lead Metrics Developer at HSBC# Visualize Your Connections: A Practical Guide to Power BI Graphs
Graphs are everywhere – from the intricate web of social networks to the scheduling algorithms on our devices. Yet, Power BI traditionally struggles with visualizing graphs. Discover practical strategies for structuring your data and learn how to use Deneb to create compelling, interactive graph visualizations that reveal crucial relationships within your data.
About Jake:
Jake Duddy specializes in Business Intelligence and Power BI. He administers a Power BI tenant, and develops processes and tooling to empower developers. Jake champions best practices, having established DevOps processes and robust admin monitoring solutionsJake is an active member of the Fabric community. He shares his insights through his blog, https://evaluationcontext.github.io/, where he shares his experiments and experiences with topics related to the Microsoft analytic stack. He is a Community Champion on the Fabric Forums, and he frequently presents at Power BI User Groups, sharing his knowledge with a broader audience
