Chris Webb

Getting an answer out of your data shouldn't mean going looking for it. Chris Webb and Liam Howlett show how Fabric IQ gives your data the context AI needs, so trusted insight can surface wherever your people already work, whether that's Microsoft 365 Copilot, Co work, or the apps and agents you build yourself. Then comes the part that matters, acting on it. Building the plan, drafting the update, kicking off the next step, without breaking your flow. Expect real world examples alongside live demos.

Join Microsoft partners, customers, and Fabric specialists for a candid discussion that cuts through the hype to reveal what’s truly delivering value and what’s still evolving in the Fabric ecosystem today.

Join us for an in-depth session on Performance Tuning Tips for Fabric Data Factory, with a focus on the Dataflow Gen2, Pipeline, and Copy Job artifacts.Discover strategies to optimize your data workflows, enhance efficiency, and maximize performance.

Everyone is excited about AI and the impact it can have on data and analytics, and in Power BI that promise is being delivered on with Copilot. In this session you'll learn everything you need to know about Copilot for Power BI: what it is, what it can and cannot do, how much it costs, and how to tune it.

One of the coolest things about Microsoft Fabric is the new Power BI Direct Lake mode, where you can build reports on data in your data lake without needing to import it. In this session you'll learn all about Direct Lake mode: how it works, why you might not get it to work, how to monitor it and more!

Power Query is the self-service data transformation tool in Power BI Desktop, Fabric Dataflows and Excel. In this session you'll find out about new user interface features, new M functions, new data sources and data destinations, and lots more new functionality that has been added in the last year.

So you’re an experienced Power BI user. You’ve heard about Fabric and it seems cool, but what’s in it for you – especially if you’re not going to start writing Python or building warehouses any time soon? In this session we’ll focus on the bits of Fabric that will make your life as a Power BI developer easier, in particular Dataflows gen2 and the new Direct Lake mode for datasets.

If you have a long memory you'll recall that 8 years ago Microsoft BI was all about Power Pivot and Power BI in Excel. Power BI is the big thing nowadays but Excel's BI features have recently had a makeover - and in this session we'll see just how much BI you can do with the Excel you already own, without paying for…

If you have a long memory you'll recall that 8 years ago Microsoft BI was all about Power Pivot and Power BI in Excel. Power BI is the big thing nowadays but Excel's BI features have recently had a makeover - and in this session we'll see just how much BI you can do with the Excel you already own, without paying for Power BI or any other BI tool. As well as seeing what's new in Power Pivot and Power BI you'll see how Office Scripts can be used to automate tasks and Data Types can bring in external data.

Once you have built a Power BI dataset there are several options for creating reports that use the data in it: classic Power BI reports, paginated reports and Excel. This session is all about the third option, Excel. You’ll learn how to connect Excel to a Power BI dataset and use PivotTables, Excel cube functions and the new Excel data types to build reports. You’ll also find out how to create Excel reports that can be viewed in the browser and not just on your desktop.