No 88 - Bas Land - Dashboards are Dead! Talk to your data!

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Join us for networking, drinks and a good time catching up with fellow Power BI and Microsoft Fabric enthusiasts

Agenda:
5:30PM - 6:00PM Welcome and Networking
6:00PM - 7:00PM Speaker Session

Topic: Dashboards are dead - talk to your data!

THE SPEAKER - Bas Land -
Data Solution Architect, Data Platform MVP & Microsoft Certified Trainer.
Bas founded Kimura and is an experienced Data Solution Architect with over 12 years as a consultant in various technologies, currently focusing on Microsoft Fabric.

He speaks, creates YouTube videos, and blogs about these experiences to share his knowledge with the community.

He holds a Microsoft Data Platform MVP award and is a Microsoft Certified Trainer.

In his spare time he likes to practice sports (Brazilian jiu-jitsu, running, weight lifting) and also to travel with his wife, son, and their dachshund Chester.

THE SESSION
Dashboards are dead! talk to your data!

I have spent the better part of my career designing, refining, and maintaining dashboards in Power BI to help my clients answer business questions. Until now.

In this session, we will break free from predefined visuals and fixed dashboards. It is time to talk to your data!

Over the past years, everybody has been exposed to AI LLMs such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
What if I told you that you could chat with your data, just like you can chat with your AI?

With Fabric Data Agents, you can! You get a chat interface that understands the context of your data. You can ask questions in natural language (no need to learn SQL or DAX!) and get answers, fast.

In this session we will start by explaining some of the basics behind the Fabric Data Agents.
Then we'll jump into the prerequisites in order to start using the Data Agents.

After all the boring stuff is done I will take you into a live demo of setting up the Agent, tuning it to get accurate responses, and will show how we can chat with our own data to generate insights and drive decision making.

You'll walk away from this session understanding the following:
- Why this shift from dashboards to chatting matters for you and your organisation
- How Fabric Data Agents actually work "under the hood"
- How to build, configure, and use your first Fabric Data Agent

If you are involved in building modern data platforms, please consider Data Agents as an amazing tool to help users find insights faster!

Sponsors:
Vivanti
A big thank you goes out to our sponsor, Vivanti, for their support of this Meetup; providing the venue as well as drinks for attendees.

GET AI
A big thanks to GET AI for sponsoring the food. If you are interested in an assessment to see if your data is AI ready then check out GET AI's data assessment and POV offer at https://assessment.getai.com.au