We are excited to kick of 2024 with a double session!

Session 1: Realtime Analytics in Microsoft Fabric with Devang Shah:

A LinkedIn User: “Streams come to die in a data lake”. With Fabric Real-time Analytics, you are empowered to capture, analyse, visualize and actionize your data streams in near-real time and eventually putting it to rest in a lake. Join this demo-rich and example-filled session to get answers to the fundamental questions: “Why Real-time Analytics?”, “What is it?” and “Where can I use it?”.

About Devang: Devang is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft in Fabric Customer Advisory Team focusing on evangelization, and adoption of messaging and real-time analytics suite of products across EMEA region.

Session 2: PBI Inspector with Nat Van Gulck:

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.

About Nat: 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.

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

LATEST UPDATES Before the main session starts, James and Prathy will present the latest updates to Microsoft Fabric and Power BI

OPEN DATA CHALLENGE: This is your opportunity to showcase your talent using Microsoft Fabric using Open Data. This month the theme for the challenge is Aviation data:

https://atmdata.github.io/sources/

You'll have the opportunity to present a short (max 5 minute) presentation to show road report and and other aspects of Microsoft Fabric used in creating your solution. Please bring a laptop to present, or contact us in advance.

For extra points, see if you can incorporate Realtime Streaming Data into your presentation!

VENUE: We will meet at the Nigel Frank Offices at 60 Great Tower Street. If you've not been there before, it's just a little further up the street from Brewdog. Google Maps link to help you find the building: https://goo.gl/maps/GRZWr5LfScZhApu6A