Maestro Marco Russo in Toronto!

Hello everyone,

There was last minute change in agenda and Marco will be our featured speaker

We are honored and pleased to have the Power BI and DAX international guru and the bestselling books author Marco Russo. He generously accepted to visit our user group meetup to talk to us about Introducing DAX User-Defined Functions (UDF) during his short visit to Toronto to deliver his extensive Mastering DAX Workshop on Aug 19-21:
Mastering DAX Workshop – Toronto – August 19-21, 2025 - SQLBI
It's a great privilege to learn DAX from the DAX Maestro.

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Please note the deadline for the RSVPs is Aug 19 at 12 pm. You have to have your name in the list to be able to enter the building.

Agenda:

• Introduction - Vivek Patel
• Featured guest speaker : Marco Russo
• Networking break
• Featured speaker : Simon Nuss

Alberto's Topic:

Introducing DAX User-Defined Functions (UDF)
This session introduces the DAX Used-Defined Functions, the new feature announced in 2025!
A user-defined function is a DAX formula with parameters that can return values or tables. Parameters can be passed by value or by expression. In this session, you learn how to define and consume user-defined functions in your semantic model.

Marco's profile:
Marco is a business intelligence consultant and mentor. He first started working on Analysis Services in 1998, back when Analysis Services was known as OLAP Services.
A veteran of end-to-end projects, Marco wrote several books with Alberto Ferrari about Power BI, Analysis Service, and Power Pivot. They also regularly write articles and white papers that are available on sqlbi.com. Marco is a Microsoft MVP and an SSAS Maestro, the highest level of certification on Microsoft Analysis Services.
Today, Marco focuses his time with SQLBI customers, traveling extensively to train and consult on DAX and data modeling for Power BI and Analysis Services. Marco also teaches public classes worldwide.
Marco is a regular speaker at international conferences like Microsoft Ignite, PASS Summit, and Sqlbits. He also enjoys delivering evening sessions at local user groups during his trips.
When he is not working, you can find Marco fine tuning his expertise of Neapolitan pizza or test driving electric cars.
https://www.sqlbi.com/author/marco-russo/

Simon Nuss Topic

Translytical Task Flows

Simon's profile: Principal Program Manager, Fabric CAT, Microsoft

Simon is a business intelligence leader with many years of experience deploying advanced analytics, data warehousing and process automation solutions for some of the biggest companies in the world.

He is a known figurehead in the Toronto BI and analytics scene, where he enjoys giving presentations on the Microsoft business intelligence stack. He is known to be extremely passionate about Power BI, but also on-premise SQL Server Data Tools and the Azure cloud data ecosystem.

More recently, Simon has provided consulting on modern data warehouse development using many tools within the Azure cloud infrastructure, such as: DevOps, Synapse, Purview, Logic Apps, Functions (C#, PoSH, & Python), Event Hubs, Log Analytics, Data Factory, Data Lake, Databricks (Scala, Python), and Power BI.

Simon has combined these services in a variety of applications. Selected engagements include: several Big Data infrastructure deployments, real-time streaming analytics, AI chat bot implementation, real-time aggregate text analytics, business process automation, general AI/ML, and thousands of business intelligence reports.