Kristyna Ferris

The Community Kickoff opens PASS Summit West with an easy, welcoming start to connect, share, and learn. Join us for a welcome drink and time to reconnect, meet new faces, and ease into the rhythm of the event. After a short networking warm‑up, we’ll gather for a fun, community‑driven hour...

One does not simply build reports on OLTP data. Join us on an epic journey from the depths of raw, normalized tables to the shining halls of a well-modeled star schema fit for Power BI greatness. We will demystify the differences between OLTP and OLAP, walk through star schema vs snowflake (and...

Stop by the Ask the Experts booth in the Expo Hall to engage in one-on-one conversations with subject matter experts - our speakers! Participants can sit down with an expert and receive immediate answers or feedback to their questions on a specific topic of interest.

Embark on a journey through the layered landscape of Microsoft Fabric licensing, where cryptic SKUs, hidden costs, and mysterious capacities await. This session sheds light on the most misunderstood parts of the licensing maze, using real-world examples to bring clarity to the chaos.

Being a Fabric tenant admin can feel like flying blind until something breaks and capacity disappears faster than your budget. This session gives you the practical foundation to stay ahead of the chaos.

Join us for an engaging and informal gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Roundtable Discussions are a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences with other attendees.

Learn how to design and manage data warehouses in Microsoft Fabric by exploring proven patterns, practical techniques, and common pitfalls to avoid. Topics include dimensional modeling, data warehousing fundamentals, ingestion strategies, medallion architecture, change detection, lifecycle...

A common request in the realm of reporting is "hey, we have this report that a previous VIP used, but the report is really slow and the new VIP would like to revamp the report to answer their questions". Great, you think, I can knock this out no problem! Then, you open the report. Fifty tables,...

Embark on a journey through the layered landscape of Microsoft Fabric licensing, where cryptic SKUs, hidden costs, and mysterious capacities await. This session sheds light on the most misunderstood parts of the licensing maze, using real-world examples to bring clarity to the chaos.

One does not simply build reports on OLTP data. Join us on an epic journey from the depths of raw, normalized tables to the shining halls of a well-modeled star schema fit for Power BI greatness.

In the age of cloud analytics, today’s best practice is tomorrow’s legacy. Microsoft Fabric positions itself as the rebel alliance to this chaos, a single platform uniting data engineering, warehousing, and visualization in one SaaS package.

During this session, we’ll dive into a range of helpful tips and tricks that I wish I had known when starting out with Microsoft Fabric data warehouses. These insights are designed to save you time, optimize performance, and make managing your data warehouse more efficient.

During this session, we’ll dive into a range of helpful tips and tricks that I wish I had known when starting out with Microsoft Fabric data warehouses. These insights are designed to save you time, optimize performance, and make managing your data warehouse more efficient.

Blast off into the future of analytics with this interstellar session on real-time data processing in Microsoft Fabric! From setting up KQL databases to capturing data streams from the International Space Station (yes, really!), this session is packed with hands-on tips and tricks.

Picture this: you’ve just inherited a Power BI report, and your task is to perform data quality checks. Simple enough, until you’re told that every measure in the report must be validated against the source database.

As data continues to get more attention from executives and a wider range of industries, getting data in the hands of business leaders faster and more accurately has become a common request. Real-time analytics in Fabric allows us to get data streamed to a Power BI report for your end users to consume.

Picture this, you have a report in Power BI that someone passes off to you for data quality checks. Simple enough until they clarify they need every measure checked against the source database.

A common request in the realm of reporting is "hey, we have this report that a previous VIP used, but the report is really slow and the new VIP would like to revamp the report to answer their questions". Great, you think, I can knock this out no problem!

It is rare to find a Power BI developer who has a background in C#, but C# and other programming languages offer a lot of automation and scalability that is lacking in Power BI.