Power BI Unpacked: Reverse Engineering a Dashboard

Ever looked at a Power BI dashboard and wondered, "How did they build that?"

In this session, we'll take an existing Power BI dashboard and reverse engineer it to uncover what makes it work. We'll go beyond the visuals to explore the underlying data model, report structure, layout, interactivity, and storytelling techniques that bring everything together. Along the way, we'll break down the design decisions, explore how different elements work together, and discuss practical tips for building reports that are both visually appealing and easy to understand.

Whether you're new to Power BI or have been building reports for years, you'll walk away with fresh ideas, useful techniques, and a better understanding of what goes into creating an effective dashboard.

Sometimes the best way to learn how to build something is to take it apart!

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BONUS - ⚡Lightning Talk
Speaker: Nicholas Leonhard

Title: Metadata-Driven Ingestion from Slate CRM into Microsoft Fabric

Description: Learn how to build an automated, metadata-driven pipeline in Microsoft Fabric that incrementally ingests CSV exports from Slate CRM using last-modified timestamps. See how a centralized configuration file controls both data ingestion and transformation, turning raw CRM exports into structured Delta tables in a Lakehouse.