📅 Wednesday\, December 10th \| 🕢 19:30 CET \| 🌐 Online Event 🎤 Speaker: Brian Bønk (Microsoft MVP) In our third DP-600 preparation session, we shift focus to one of the most critical layers in any end-to-end analytics solution: the Semantic Model. This session is designed to help you understand not only how to build semantic models, but how to design them the right way — scalable, secure, and optimized for Power BI performance. Join Brian Bønk as he walks through practical guidance and exam-relevant techniques that every Fabric practitioner should master.

📚 What we’ll cover in Session 3

1️⃣ Add Measures to Semantic Models

How to define and structure your measures for clarity, reusability, and performance.

2️⃣ Design Scalable Semantic Models

Learn modeling strategies that support growth, multi-layer designs, and long-term maintainability.

3️⃣ Optimize a Model for Power BI Performance

Techniques to reduce dataset size, improve refresh times, and accelerate query performance.

4️⃣ Manage Power BI Assets

Understand workspaces, deployment pipelines, versioning, and governance from an engineering perspective.

5️⃣ Enforce Model Security

Row-level security, object-level security, and workspace access patterns that keep your models safe and exam-ready.

🎯 Who is this session for?

• DP-600 candidates
• Power BI developers transitioning into Fabric engineering
• Data modelers & analytics engineers
• Anyone building dashboards backed by complex semantic models

🔔 Call to Action

👉 RSVP today — spots fill quickly! 👉 Share the event with colleagues or friends working with semantic models or preparing for DP-600. Together, let’s build strong, exam-ready Fabric skills across the Athens and Berlin communities!

📅 Tuesday\, December 9th \| 🕢 19:30 CET \| 🌐 Online Event 🎤 Speaker: Brian Bønk (Microsoft MVP)

Our DP-600 preparation journey continues with a deep dive into the Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse — one of the most crucial components for the exam and for building scalable analytics solutions. In this session, Brian Bønk, Fabric expert and MVP, will guide you through the complete lifecycle of working with a Data Warehouse in Fabric, from loading data to securing and monitoring it effectively.

📚 What we’ll cover in Session 2

1️⃣ Get Started with Data Warehouses

Understand how the Fabric Data Warehouse works, its architecture, and when to use it.

2️⃣ Load Data into a Data Warehouse

Learn the core ingestion paths, loading strategies, and performance considerations.

3️⃣ Query a Data Warehouse

Best practices for querying, performance optimization, and using SQL endpoints efficiently.

4️⃣ Monitor a Data Warehouse

Explore the tools and metrics needed to ensure reliability, performance, and cost control.

5️⃣ Secure a Data Warehouse

Learn essential security concepts: roles, permissions, row-level security, and workspace governance.

🎯 Who is this session for?

• Candidates preparing for DP-600
• Data engineers, analytics engineers & BI professionals
• Power BI users transitioning into Fabric engineering
• Anyone wanting a structured, expert-led understanding of Fabric DWH

🔔 Call to Action

👉 RSVP now to reserve your virtual seat! 👉 Share this event with colleagues or community members who are preparing for DP-600 or working with Fabric in production. Let’s grow our communities in Athens and Berlin with high-quality, expert-led learning sessions!

The world of data is transforming to more and more real-time need and organizations demanding insights in faster and faster paces.

With the release of Real-Time Hub the Real-Time analytics service in Fabric takes its next step to gather all the streams and events in one service with a catalogue of data and ease of use.

In this introductory session I will walk you through the bits and bytes of the service and show you how easy it has become to ingest, categorize and work with your streaming data.

From all the newly announced sources, to categorizing the streams, from ingestion to discovery and from discovery to usage - this session will give you the needed overview to get started with the Real-Time Hub service in Fabric.

I will also touch base with how to implement the medallion architecture in real-time with sub-second processing from ingestion to gold layer and to use in analytics.

Join for a thrilling ride into the new Real-Time Hub service and when we end the session together with and round of QnA you will be ready to implement this in your own organization.

About the speaker

Brian Bønk

Brian has worked with SQL Server for more than two decades - varying projects on both size and complexity.

Now he's working to support the Data & Analytics team at Intellishore. MVP on Data Platform and Microsoft Recognized Fasttrack Solution Architect.

Brian loves data and is always trying to glue the business and tech together using his knowledge and experience. He is always open to meet new people and help them to get better tomorrow.

When: Thursday 15th May 2025 Time: arrive for 5:45pm with talks starting from 6pm start prompt. Location: BJSS, 90 Victoria St, Redcliffe, BS1 6DP

Complimentary drinks & pizza provided by our hosts BJSS Social drinks afterwards will be at Ye Shakespeare (50m away) for those interested.

This #MSFABRICBRISTOL will feature Brian Bønk and Laura Graham-Brown

Session 1 - From Streaming to Insights in 60 Minutes - Brian Bønk The ever-fast-paced world demands faster insights. Getting from raw streaming data to an interactive report shouldn’t take hours or even days. In this intermediate, hands-on session, we’ll show you how to transform real-time data into actionable insights with Power BI, all live on stage, with no pre-recordings. We start with real-time data ingestion from a streaming source and take you through the Medallion Architecture, optimizing for sub-second execution. From the gold layer, we’ll build a Power BI report step-by-step, focusing on both speed and usability. Along the way, we’ll share best practices for structuring your data model, optimizing refresh times, and ensuring high performance, even with live datasets. About Brian Brian has worked with SQL Server for more than two decades - varying projects on both size and complexity. Now he's working to support the Data & Analytics team at Intellishore. MVP on Data Platform and Microsoft Recognized Fasttrack Solution Architect. Brian loves data and is always trying to glue the business and tech together using his knowledge and experience. He is always open to meet new people and help them to get better tomorrow.

Session 2 - Enhancing Microsoft Fabric with Power Automate - Laura Graham-Brown Microsoft Fabric can ingest, transform, store and then let the business analyse the data to make those important data driven decisions. The toolset includes ways to orchestrate and schedule the data journey from raw to a conformed layer and onto a reporting layer. So what does Power Automate bring to the table to enhance this? About Laura Laura is a Low-Code Advocate and Passionate Trainer, Consultant & Data Platform and Business Applications Microsoft MVP. Business solutions should solve business problems and the business should own the problem and the solution. Laura has spent her whole career empowering businesses to do that.

We all look forward to seeing you there!!

Right after all the Fabric announcements at Ignite 2024, join us for a much-awaited session on November 25th with Brian Bønk!

All the Fabric News from Ignite Date: Monday, November 25th, 2024 Time: 18:00 CET to 19:30 CET Speaker: Brian Bønk, Data Platform MVP & FTRSA

To attend, mark yourself as "Going" on the event page and add to your calendar. The join link will only be visible if you RSVP beforehand.

The event will begin at 6 PM CET. Please ensure you are muted to minimize background noise and distractions. During the presentation, type your questions and comments into the chat area, which will be monitored by the event hosts. There will be a Q&A session at the end, where you can unmute your mic to ask questions.

Join us on November 19th for a live watch party as we tune in to Microsoft Ignite’s exclusive session on Microsoft Fabric: What's New and What's Next! This is an exciting opportunity to stay on top of the latest updates and upcoming features directly from the Microsoft Ignite broadcast.

Ignite 2024 Watch Party - Microsoft Fabric: what's new and what's next! Date: Tuesday, November 19th, 2024 Time: 18.30 to 19.15 CET

Bring your curiosity and enthusiasm as we:

• Watch the official Ignite session together
• Engage in real-time discussions and chat about what’s coming to Microsoft Fabric
• Prepare for our follow-up event with Brian Bønk the following week, where we’ll go over all of Ignite’s Fabric announcements

To attend, mark yourself as "Going" on the event page and add to your calendar. The join link will only be visible if you RSVP beforehand.

The event will begin at 6.30 PM CET. Please ensure you are muted to minimize background noise and distractions. Feel free to unmute yourself during the watch party for discussions, or type your questions and comments into the chat area, which will be monitored by the event hosts.

Brian Bønk

Principal Architect, Data & Analytics Køge, Denmark Brian has worked with SQL Server for more than two decades - varying projects on both size and complexity. Now he's working to support the Data & Analytics team at Fellowmind.

Honored with MVP on Data Platform from 2023.

Currently given the honor of being Microsoft Recognized Fasttrack Solution Architect since 2022.

Brian loves data and is always trying to glue the business and tech together using his knowledge and experience.

He is always open to meet new people and help them get better at their job or task.

Session Description: Kusto (and the Azure Data Explorer) is leveraging the possibility to report on live data from ex. telemetry, IoT devices, logs etc. the Kusto query language in itself is not that hard to understand and use, but there is some key takeaways and good things to know when starting to do analytics on the data using Power BI.

In this session I'll cover the ultimate power between Power BI and Kusto and show how the data from the Kusto cluster can be leveraged into Power BI, build a data model and show how we can help Power BI use the data correctly. Power BI needs a bit of help to give good performance when working with Kusto.

Kusto-wise this is a level 100, Power BI data model wise a level 200. The session is on a level where everyone can follow along, and use the shown methods directly in their daily work when they come home.

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When: Thursday 23rd May 2024

Time: arrive for 5:45pm with talks starting from 6pm start prompt Location: GM Digital Security Hub (DiSH) Heron House, 47 Lloyd Street M2 5LE

Session will not be streamed over MS Teams Complimentary drinks & pizza provided by our hosts & sponsors Robert Walters

May's #PBIMCR will feature Mark Endicott and Brian Bønk

Session 1 - Advanced Incremental refresh in Power BI - Mark Endicott

Incremental Refresh is nothing new in Power BI, and if you’ve got a large data model it can really help look after your Power BI environment. But what if your requirements for data refreshing are a bit more bespoke? What if you need to customise things a little bit? In this talk we’ll look at ways we can leverage the use of the XMLA Endpoint to implement Advanced Partitioning.

About Mark Mark has just over 8 years of experience in the world of data, choosing to hone his skillset in Data Visualisation, Modelling and all things Power BI, but he can also write a mean SQL query and can talk strategy & culture too. Mark’s experience was built up working in the Recruitment and Facilities Management industries, before moving into Consultancy just over 2 years ago, where he focuses on teaching best practice across both Modelling and Visualisation disciplines and delivering user centric, self-service Power BI deployments at an Enterprise and SME level.

Session 2 - The Kusto experience in Fabric - Brian Bønk Want to make a cutting edge data platform using Kusto in Fabric?

Then come along for a journey into the world and wonders of Kusto and the new Streamevent service in Fabric.

In this session I will guide you through the experience and close collaboration between Fabric and the Kusto database and querysets. Along with how to help Power BI get the most out of your Kusto database with small tweeks.

Springled with a bit of new magic in the Jupiter Notebooks for the Kusto language, we will also set a course towards how the data engineer can begin to leverage the Kusto service.

After watching this level 200 session I hope you'll have found inspiration to work with the Kusto service in Fabric and know how to give the Kusto engine the small push it needs to perform the best in close collaboration with Power BI.

About Brian Brian has worked with SQL Server for more than two decades - varying projects on both size and complexity. Now he's working to support the Data & Analytics team at Fellowmind. Honored with MVP on Data Platform from 2023. Currently given the honor of being Microsoft Recognized Fasttrack Solution Architect since 2022. Brian loves data and is always trying to glue the business and tech together using his knowledge and experience. He is always open to meet new people and help them get better at their job or task.

Data Relay is back in Manchester on Friday, 6 October

RSVP via website https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/datarelay-2023-manchester-tickets-636529215017

Data Relay will be in Manchester on Friday 6th October 2023, featuring top quality Microsoft Data Platform content from great speakers. The day consists of a series of 50 minute technical presentations for all levels - beginner, intermediate and advanced. You can switch tracks throughout the day to enjoy the sessions that interest you the most. Address: Odeon Great Northern Warehouse, 235 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 4EN Registration: Tickets are on a first come, first served basis. Doors open at 8:30am on the day with sessions starting at 9:00am. Competitions: If you allow a sponsor to scan your QR code you will be entered into their raffle prize draw. By doing so you opt in to receive sales and marketing information from them, using the contact details you provided during registration. All sponsors will provide an unsubscribe link in their emails. Food: We'll be providing a light lunch, plus tea & coffee at a couple of breaks. We will be catering for vegan food, according to your food preferences during registration. Dress Code: Casual First time at Data Relay? Everyone has a 'first event', including the speakers and organisers of this event. We're lucky to be a part of the UK Microsoft Data Platform community, one of the most friendly and welcoming tech communities out there. Whether you're in a group or on your own, you'll be made to feel welcome and will learn lots about new and existing technology. It's a great opportunity to meet your peers and maybe even your Data Platform heroes! If you have any queries, contact us at [email protected] and we'll help you out.

Manchester Scedule 09:00 - Keynote & Welcome 09:30 1 - Saving Your Wallet from the Cloud - Kevin Feasel 09:30 2 - AI Driven Data Enrichment with Azure Cognitive Search - Matt How 09:30 3 - Automating Database Deployments using Azure DevOps - Grant Fritchey 10:45 1 - Delta Lake Tables 101 - Kamil Nowinski 10:45 2 - Get a Load of this - Realistic Load Testing for Power BI, explained! - Matt Lakin 10:45 3 - Introduction to Bicep for the Cloud DBA - Frank Geisler 11:40 1 - Getting Insight from Anything: using IoT for good! - Andrew Blance 11:40 2 - A Hybrid SQL Journey: The daily routine of a Hybrid DBA - Jose Manuel Jurado Diaz 11:40 3 - Combining web apps and AI - how to unlock the power of the Azure OpenAI Service - Ben Jarvis 12:30 Lunch 13:30 1 - Securing Data Workloads with Azure Landing Zones - Chris Murray 13:30 2 - Ned Stratton - Regex in PowerShell: How to grasp it and why you should grasp it 13:30 3 - Sweet streams (are made of this: Hubs, Stream Analytics, Datalake) - Pálmi Símonarson 14:25 1 - The Kusto experience in Fabric - Brian Bønk 14:25 2 - Cognitive Services Extravaganza! - Gosia Borzęcka 14:25 3 - Examples of query tuning in SQL Server - Torsten Strauß 15:40 1 - Model Creation in Azure AutoML and Ingestion Through Excel - Lewis Prince 15:40 2 - DAX Explained Through Dance, Memes and Dad Jokes - Barney Lawrence 15:40 3 - Real-time Fraud Detection Challenges and Solutions - Fawaz Ghali 16:35 Raffle & Close

With the integrated service of Data Warehouse in Fabric we are now able to utilise the power of SQL server directly on top of the Data Lakehouse.

I this session I will talk about the new feature set in Data Warehouse in Fabric and show a myriad of architecture blueprints on how to implement the service and use it to it full potential.

With a journey through Delta-lake parquet files, OneLake, External tables and data processing using stored procedures it will a thrilling ride to show you all the great features.

Hang tight and together with me dive into the Data Warehouse service in Microsoft Fabric.

Hi, Data Folks from Hamburg!

This will be an entire evening of content on a more deep dive in "Microsoft Fabric"!

We will keep our Hanseatic-Mini-Conference concept and have at least two experts on the topic.

And afterward, we will have a panel discussion, where you can ask all the experts present questions.

And for the first time, we offer you, in cooperation with JetBrains, the opportunity to win 1-year licenses of their products.

And as usual, cold drinks will be available again.

Reserve your seat today!

• 18:00 Open door and warm up networking round
• 18:15 Intro
• 18:30 The Data Mess in Fabric for the Data Engineer Brian Bønk Principal Architect Data & Analytics (Fellowmind)
• 19:20 Break (20min)
• 19:40 OneLake & DirectLake - GameChanger for Tabular Models: "What is OneLake & DirectLake and why will it revolutionize the BI world?" (Obungi)
• 20:30 Panel Discussion with all experts
• 21:00 The End... Hamburg's city center offers many other opportunities for further networking. ;)

The Data Mess in Fabric for the data engineer. In this session, I will guide you through the Data Engineering experience in Fabric. With a myriad of architecture blueprints and live demos on how to build, integrate and develop your data warehouse or data lake as a Data Engineer. After this session, I will hopefully have demystified the Fabric universe and given you tools and approaches to try it out yourself.

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