PBIMCR presents Ant Couzens and Benni De Jagere

Join us for November's PBIMCR meet-up.
When: Thursday, 26th November 2026 Time: Arrive from 5:30pm, talks start at 6:00pm Address: Canopius Manchester HQ, 100 Barbirolli Square, Manchester M2 3AB
Drinks and pizza are free, courtesy of our host, Canopius, and our sponsor, Robert Walters.

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Ant Couzens Session Title: Pipe Dreams & Merge Conflicts: Shipping Fabric Faster with ADO
A deployment pipeline with multiple devs is just pushing changes along a chain of workspaces. Simple, right?
Then the merge conflicts arrive. Notebooks get edited by three people at once. Features pick up non-prod code from other features. And dev quietly eats your capacity on workloads nobody needs.
There's a lot more to a successful ADO deployment process if what you actually want is to move faster.
You'll leave knowing:

• The working practices that keep a multi-dev ADO pipeline sane
• Branching strategies that let you release features at your own pace
• How to assure deployments land, and what to do when the edge cases turn up

About Ant: Ant is a passionate freelance data consultant, best known for his unbridled enthusiasm for making mistakes as the most natural route to solutions that make all the difference. He works with large private hyperscalers heading towards IPO, where the outlook on ways of working is commercial and pragmatic.

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Benni De Jagere Session Title: A Whirlwind Tour of the Fabric Capacity Metrics App
Fast, practical and packed. Benni takes you through the Capacity Metrics App: the visuals that matter, the signals worth watching, and how to track down the bottleneck before your users do.
Whether you admin, build or power-use Fabric, you'll leave ready to keep your capacities healthy, efficient and ready to scale.
About Benni: Benni is a Principal Program Manager on Microsoft's Fabric Customer Advisory Team (Fabric CAT). He loves uncovering insights with customers, and he's fuelled by coffee, British comedy and dad jokes. He blogs, and helps organise community events with dataMinds. His motto: "No coffee? No insights!"

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Topics Covered: Microsoft Fabric, Azure DevOps, CI/CD and Deployment Pipelines, Git Integration, Fabric Capacity Metrics, Performance Tuning, Capacity Management
1st time attendees, what to expect: Two talks, a friendly crowd, free pizza and drinks, and plenty of time to chat with fellow Power BI and Fabric people.