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!!

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PBIMCR November 2024 Meetup

When: Thursday 28th of November 2024 Time: arrive for 5:30pm with talks starting from 6pm start prompt Location: Incspaces \| 2 Mount St \| Manchester \| M2 5WQ \| Session will not be streamed over MS Teams Complimentary Drinks and Pizza will be provided by our long-time sponsor Robert Walters https://www.robertwalters.co.uk/our-stories/power-bi-manchester-user-group.html

Speakers: Laura Graham-Brown & Sue Bayes

Topics Enhancing Power BI & Fabric with Power Automate

Power BI and Microsoft Fabric are amazing and wonderful, but sometimes they need some help. Power Automate is also amazing but it really can’t do data. When matched together correctly they enhance each other. Power Automate adds to the orchestration and reflex options within Microsoft Fabric. Power BI delivers transformed data to feed Power Automate actions. Lots of demos and laughter.

Bio Laura is an independent consultant with a job title of Problem Solver. An advocate for the business owning as much of a solution as they can and with the right governance in place low-code is awesome. She makes M365, Power Platform and Microsoft Fabric play nicely.

Unleashing Python in Fabric Join us for an immersive hour-long session showcasing the incredible power of Python within the Fabric environment, with the added capability of connecting to and using Semantic Link Labs. Discover how to effortlessly extract, clean, transform, and move data, and see how Python’s versatility can streamline data workflows while leveraging Semantic Link for enhanced semantic modeling.

In this demo-driven session, we’ll demonstrate how to seamlessly integrate Python scripts with Fabric’s Direct Lake capabilities to create lightning-fast, scalable Power BI reports, while also using Python to automate your workflow.

From data manipulation to real-time insights and semantic modeling, this session is perfect for data enthusiasts and Power BI professionals looking to take their reporting to the next level using Python. Don’t miss out on this hands-on opportunity to revolutionize your data processes!

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MeetUp Agenda

18:00 - Arrive. Networking 18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk 19:30 - Buffet. Networking 20:30 - Event Close

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Power Automate and Power BI doing what they do best

The Power Platform is an impressive toolset that can enable organisations to transform business processes in many different ways. They become even more transformational when they work together taking full advantage of what each tool does best.

In this session we will look at how Power Automate can give Power BI write back options. Moving onto how Power BI can deliver transformed data to Power Automate. Continuing to look at how Power Automate can help deliver reporting highlights in new ways. _________________

Venue Website

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MeetUp Member Resources In GitHub Here:

https://github.com/EastMidlandsData

Including introduction slides and our Code of Conduct.

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Laura Graham-Brown and Jon Lunn join us for our October meetup!

Please see the agenda below:

17:45 - Welcome & networking

18:00 - Introductions

18:05 - Laura Graham Brown: SVG in Power BI

18:50 - Break for food & drinks

19:15 - Jon Lunn: What is Microsoft Fabric?

19:30 - Panel Q&A

20:00 - Networking