PBIMCR presents Štěpán Rešl & Jake Duddy

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 Walters

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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 solutions

Jake is an active member of the Fabric community. He shares his insights through his blog, [https://evaluationcontext.github.io/](https://url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/1q8mCNzmT0XKRZWCmfNiyqVWf?domain=evaluationcontext.github.io/ "https://url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/1q8mCNzmT0XKRZWCmfNiyqVWf?domain=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