What we’re about
Southampton Microsoft Data Platform and Azure Cloud user group has been running since 2010 (originally Southampton SQL Server User Group). In that time we have had many local and international speakers present high-quality sessions on a range of SQL Server and data platform topics. We host the user group at Gamma House, Enterprise Rd, Chilworth, Southampton SO16 7NS, United Kingdom on the second Wednesday of each month.
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We aim to deliver high-quality training and insight for free to the Data Platform community.
The user group has been run by John Q Martin & Steph Martin since 2012, during which time we have seen the group grow significantly with members joining and moving on.
Ten years later Mikey Bronowski took over the user group.
We are sponsored by SpectrumIT which is a local recruitment company, set up by recruitment agents who have helped us by providing the location, Pizza and an Amazon voucher to raffle off each meeting.
As a member of this meetup group, you agree to follow the terms set out in the Azure Tech Groups code of conduct here.
Upcoming events
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IN-PERSON: Agentic Development for Analytics: Subagents & Skills in Analytics
Location not specified yetThis is a place for an in-person meeting in Chilworth.
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Since September, we've been having meetups at Spectrum IT's office - Gamma House, Enterprise Rd, Chilworth, Southampton SO16 7NS
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Agenda
18:00 Welcome and Intros
18:10
🎦Job market insights and forecasts for 2026
🗣️Spectrum IT (Sam)
🍕pizza/networking
🎦 Agentic Development for Analytics: Subagents & Skills in Analytics Engineering
🗣️Mihaly Kavasi
Manual DAX optimization, brittle ETL pipelines, and repetitive data quality checks consume 80% of analytics development time. The future is agentic AI—where specialized subagents autonomously handle data pipeline automation, semantic model development, and quality monitoring while portable skills provide reusable analytics expertise. Discover how this orchestrator-worker pattern can transform data engineering and BI development.
What you'll master:
- **Architect multi-agent analytics workflows** using specialized subagents for data pipeline automation, DAX generation, and semantic model optimization
- **Leverage Power BI MCP servers** that convert natural language into DAX queries and automate Tabular Object Model (TOM) development tasks
- **Build intelligent data pipelines** where AI agents detect schema changes, adapt transformations automatically, and reduce data quality incidents by 70%
- **Create portable analytics skills** packaging DAX patterns, SQL optimization techniques, and data modeling best practices into reusable agent expertise
- **Design specialized subagents** for code review (finding 31+ issues in Power BI models), testing, documentation, and end-to-end report generation
- **Automate enterprise analytics tasks** including metadata generation, data quality monitoring, exploratory data analysis, and semantic layer maintenance
Experience live demonstrations of AI agents building Power BI reports end-to-end, generating optimized DAX measures, and autonomously maintaining data pipelines that adapt to changes without breaking.
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A massive thanks to our sponsor, Spectrum IT. Without them, we could not host this event for free. Spectrum IT kindly provided funding for the room and pizza for in-person attendees.
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