Portland Fabric User Group

Kick off your evening with a deep dive into Power BI! Gordon Chow will share how the City of Hillsboro approaches implementation and reporting. In this session, you’ll learn:

• Key differences in Power BI licensing and what they mean for your organization
• How Hillsboro structures its data for effective reporting
• Insights from their reporting user group, including design and review practices

We’ll wrap up with an open discussion—bring your wins, challenges, and questions about administering or using Power BI. This is a great opportunity to learn from real-world experience and connect with others facing similar challenges!

Conversational analytics is here! Optimize Power BI semantic models for self-service & Copilot. Through demonstration, see how to prepare data for AI & apply needed best practice design. Enhance models with verified answers & data agent instructions to improve usability, trust, and AI-driven insights. Then, use Copilot to chat, visualize & answer business questions using conversational language.

Looking to use AI to answer questions about your organization’s data? Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) makes that possible by combining large language models with enterprise information to deliver answers that are accurate, relevant, and grounded in business context. Microsoft Fabric provides a secure, easy way to orchestrate RAG pipelines, so you can generate embeddings, store them in SQL Database, and query them efficiently without complex integrations. In this session, you’ll learn what RAG is, why it’s essential for building context-aware AI solutions, and how Fabric helps you transform your data into a foundation for intelligent applications.

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