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Maestro Alberto Ferrari in Toronto!

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Maestro Alberto Ferrari in Toronto!

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Hello everyone,

We are honored and pleased to have the Fabric, Power BI and DAX international guru and the bestselling books author Alberto Ferrari. He generously accepted to visit our user group meetup to talk to us about Understanding visual calculations in Power BI 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 : Alberto Ferrari
  • Networking break
  • Featured speaker : Simon Nuss

Alberto's Topic:

Understanding visual calculations in Power BI
Visual calculations are a new 2024 feature in Power BI, aiming at making it simpler for users to develop calculations at the visual level. Visual calculations are implemented through a new set of DAX functions and the VISUAL SHAPE clause in DAX queries. In this session we introduce the feature and then we quickly go down to discover how it is implemented, when to use it and what not to expect from the feature, so to make educated choices about when to use it or not.

Alberto's profile:
Alberto published several books about Analysis Services, Power BI, and Power Pivot. He is a Microsoft MVP and he earned the SSAS Maestro title, the highest level of certification on Microsoft Analysis Services technology.

Today, Alberto's main activities are in the delivery of DAX and data modeling workshops for Power BI and Analysis Services all around the world. Alberto offers consulting services on large and complex data warehouses to provide assessments and validation of project analysis or to perform specific problem-solving activities.

Alberto is a well-known speaker at many international conferences, like PASS Summit, Sqlbits, and Microsoft Ignite. He loves to be on stage both at large events and at smaller user groups meetings, exchanging ideas with other SQL and BI fans. When traveling for work, he likes to engage with local user groups to provide evening sessions about his favorite topics. Thus, you can easily meet Alberto by looking up local Power BI user groups during scheduled courses.

Outside of SQLBI, most of Alberto's personal time is spent practicing video games, in the vain hope of eventually beating his son.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertoferrarisqlbi/

Simon Nuss Topic

Fabric implementation strategy

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.

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