Ashley Warren

Tired of the dreaded "this report is slow" feedback? Sluggish reports and long refreshes are often symptoms of unoptimised models or hidden design flaws. In this session, I'll give you the practical toolkit to find and fix them In this session I will walk you through how to approach this scenario. We'll identify the cause of poorly performing reports/models and discuss how they can be redesigned or optimised to help improve performance. I'll show you how you can use tools like DAX Studio and Tabular Editor to identify and correct issues, leveraging keys features like Best Practice Analyser & VertiPAQ analyser. We'll also dissect some of the most common causes of slow DAX queries & show you how to avoid them. You’ll leave this session with the tools and skills to build faster, more efficient models and finally silence the "slow report" complaints.

Databricks genie agents are an excellent tool for helping your business engage with your data. Having the ability to chat with your data, enables business users to get insight faster and closer to the source.

I'm a Power BI developer by trade, and for years I've refused to engage with other data visualization platforms. Every time I did, I just found it was lacking capabilities or had serious deficiencies compared to Power BI. Then 2025 hit and Databricks invested heavily in improving AI/BI, metric views and Genie. Now, AI/BI is ready to be a legitimate challenger in the Data Visualisation space. In this talk I will show you how you can use AI/BI, metric views and Genie to get the most out of your data. We will start from basics, building a metric view, using it to build a dashboard and then setting up a Genie space. I'll then walk you through my top tips on how you can get the most out of each of them. We'll talk about the types of work where AI/BI thrives and discuss where I see it going in its pursuit of being the next big data visualization platform. AI/BI is here and it's ready to be taken seriously.

Deploying Power BI content can be more mature than just hitting the ‘Publish’. Discover better, scalable deployment methods using CI/CD principles, built-in features, and advanced tools like Tabular Editor, Azure DevOps, and Fabric APIs.