Georgia O'Callaghan

Over 70% of organizations have Microsoft Power BI in their analytics landscape. As Microsoft Fabric redefines analytics within Azure’s offerings, data and analytics leaders face a pivotal decision: continue with Power BI or embrace Fabric’s unified, AI-driven platform. This session cuts through the hype and addresses the critical questions organizations must ask when considering a migration to Microsoft Fabric.

AI is accelerating new possibilities for data and analytics everywhere. Success isn’t always about being the fastest, but about finding your own path to value, while managing risk and cost. Join our Gartner’s Opening Keynote to discover how a thoughtful approach to speed and direction helps you prepare for what’s next, no matter where you are today.

CDAOs implement SSA to enable data-driven decision making across their organizations. However, SSA initiatives often fail to deliver on their full potential due to governance, trust, scalability and adoption challenges. This presentation provides a framework for CDAOs to balance control and agility within SSA to drive meaningful business value from data.

As Microsoft continues to promote and enhance their Microsoft Fabric offering, many clients are asking: How does Microsoft Fabric impact my current Power BI estate? What are some strategies for successful deployment of Microsoft Fabric? How do we scale analytics in Microsoft Fabric and leverage its native AI functionality? This session provides expert insights on Power BI to Microsoft Fabric migrations.

As Microsoft continues to promote and enhance their Microsoft Fabric offering, many clients are asking: How does Microsoft Fabric impact my current Power BI estate? What are some strategies for successful deployment of Microsoft Fabric? How do we scale analytics in Microsoft Fabric and leverage its native AI functionality? This session provides expert insights on Power BI to Microsoft Fabric migrations.

AI is accelerating new possibilities for data and analytics everywhere. Success isn’t always about being the fastest, but about finding your own path to value, while managing risk and cost. Join our Gartner’s Opening Keynote to discover how a thoughtful approach to speed and direction helps you prepare for what’s next, no matter where you are today.

Despite advancements in GenAI, self-service analytics continues to fail at delivering its expected impact to organizations due to governance, trust, accuracy, scalability and adoption challenges. This presentation provides CDAOs with strategies to derive more value from analytics investments.

The buzz: “Dashboards are dead.” Yet, they remain the backbone of enterprise analytics for operational oversight. GenAI is revolutionizing the space, promising to streamline migration and inject intelligence, but only 8% of new reports use it today. Explore the “death of dashboards” narrative, along with the opportunities and pitfalls of migrating to next-gen analytics.