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18:15- 18:30 - Networking 18:30: VisOps with PBI Inspector – Nat Van Gulck 19:30: Break 19:35: Fabric for the Power BI User – Chris Webb

Session details: 1. VisOps with PBI Inspector Testing the visual layer of Power BI reports has usually been a manual task. Thanks to the new Power BI Project file format however there is an opportunity to automatically check for visuals' issues around accessibility, consistency and performance and thereby align with your organizations Power BI Centre of Excellence guidelines. In this session we will see how PBI Inspector, an open-source community tool, supports this process. PBI Inspector GitHub repository -- https://github.com/NatVanG/PBI-Inspector Tutorial: PBI Inspector as part of an Azure DevOps pipeline: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/projects/projects-build-pipelines

2. Fabric for the Power BI user 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.

Bios: Nat Van Gulck I started my career over twenty years ago as a .NET Software Developer while also developing an interest for Data Visualization. This led me to work on Qlik and Tableau data projects. Then Power BI became so compelling that I had to join Microsoft. As a Cloud Solutions Architect I help customers be successful with Power BI; PBI Inspector is part of this endeavour. The adventure continues with Microsoft Fabric.

Chris Webb Chris is a member of the Fabric Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. He has been using Microsoft BI tools for over twenty years and is a regular speaker at conferences and user groups all over the world. He blogs about Microsoft BI at https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/