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London R \| Meetup \| Jan 2026 2026-01-29 · 18:00 *------ Welcome\, London R Users! ------* Happy New Year, and welcome to 2026! We’re excited to kick off 2026 with fresh energy and plenty of R fun ahead! As before, the event will be brought to you by Datacove. We are a Data and Analytics Consultancy Team based in Brighton, with experience in founding many well-attended R & Python events. Plus, home of the EARL Conference! We work across multiple streams - from marketing and customer analytics, to bespoke dashboards, process automation, and training! :) We will be supported by the generous team, organised by Matt Nixon, at Incubeta, London. Hosted by Laura Mawer and Jeremy Horne from Datacove. ------ !! Please Note !! ------ This is a paid event. Your ticket entitles you to pizza and drink options (soft and alcoholic beverages available). As standard, we cater for Vegetarian, Vegan, and GF. Please contact an organiser for any other requirements. You can book your tickets online through Ticket Pass at a discounted rate: General Admission: £8 online / £10 at the door Student Admission: £4 online / £5 at the door Students must bring an NUS card or any other form of student ID. Cash and card accepted on the door. ------ Talk Information ------ Coming soon ------ Timing Information ------ 6pm: Arrival and greetings from our team. 6:15pm: Food and drinks are served while networking. 6:40pm: Introduction to the event commences. 6:45pm: Talks commence. 8:00pm: Talks conclude. 8:10pm: Networking continues. 8:30pm: Event moves to the local pub. ------ Sponsorship Information ------ Our event relies heavily on sponsorship from companies that attend. Please contact the organisers or [email protected] to get involved. ------ Arrival Instructions ------ Please arrive at The Bower and locate the reception, where staff will be there to guide you to the correct floor. What3Words: magma.clip.achieving ------ Registration Etiquette ------ At our meetups, the event is sometimes capped by the space. We’re committed to keeping these events accessible for everyone, but to make that possible, we need your help. Please ensure your registration is kept up to date.** If your plans change, simply update your RSVP to reflect your availability. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Please feel free to spread the word. We look forward to seeing you all again!	London R \| Meetup \| Jan 2026
The State of Airflow 2026: London Airflow Meetup! 2026-01-28 · 17:30 Join fellow Airflow enthusiasts and leaders at Salisbury House for an evening of engaging talks, great food and drinks, and exclusive swag! We'll start you off with a deep dive into the Airflow 2026 survey results, and finish off with a community member presentation on the Apache TinkerPop provider. PRESENTATIONS *Talk #1: The State of Apache Airflow® 2026* Apache Airflow® continues to thrive as the world’s leading open-source data orchestration platform, with 30M downloads per month and over 3k contributors. 2025 marked a major milestone with the release of Airflow 3, which introduced DAG versioning, enhanced security and task isolation, assets, and more. These changes have reshaped how data teams build, operate, and govern their pipelines. In this session, our speaker will share insights from the State of Airflow 2026 report, including: Latest trends in how teams are using Airflow today What’s next for the project and ecosystem A discussion of emerging best practices and evolving use cases Join us to hear directly from a leader in the community and discover how to get the most out of Airflow in the year ahead. *Talk #2: Building the Apache TinkerPop Provider for Airflow* Speaker: Ahmad Farhan, Data Engineer Graph databases are powering everything from recommendation engines to fraud detection, but integrating graph operations into modern data pipelines has often required custom code and workarounds. Earlier this year, Ahmad built a new Apache TinkerPop provider for Airflow, making it easier than ever to orchestrate Gremlin queries, manage graph workloads, and connect Airflow to TinkerPop-enabled systems. In this session, you’ll learn: What the TinkerPop provider does and why it matters for graph-based workloads How to run Gremlin queries and manage graph jobs directly within Airflow Real examples from the development process, including design decisions and lessons learned How this provider opens the door for new use cases in graph analytics and data engineering Join us to explore how Airflow and TinkerPop can work together to streamline graph workflows and unlock new patterns in modern data pipelines. AGENDA 5:30-6 PM: Arrivals, networking, food & drinks 6-7PM: Presentations 7-8PM: Networking	The State of Airflow 2026: London Airflow Meetup!
PyData Slovakia & Bratislava Meetup #29 [Radovan Kavicky: Under the Hood of LLM] 2025-05-14 · 15:00 Talk Title: "Under the Hood of LLM" Description: In this talk we unveil the inner workings of Large Language Models (LLMs), explore the architecture of Transformers and how chatbots and AI agents works underneath. This talk also dives into the concept of Model Context Protocol (MCP), the limitless potential that it offers and how it differs from RAG and other protocols like A2A. Join us for an in-depth look at how these powerful AI models that you already use on daily basis really work, how they process data, generate responses and redefine and push the boundaries of artificial intelligence. Speaker/Bio: Radovan Kavicky Radovan Kavicky \\| President & Principal Data Scientist @ GapData Institute https://www.linkedin.com/in/radovankavicky/ & https://radovankavicky.substack.com/ Radovan currently works as President & Principal Data Scientist at GapData Institute/GDI Institute and is an expert in XAI (Explainable AI), i.e. the field of scientific research at the intersection of mathematics and artificial intelligence, he also works as a AI Consultant (AI IXX/Dubai, UAE) for the implementation of AI and Data Science knowledge in business, economics and public administration - in April 2025 he successfully completed the prestigious AI Connect program (nominated in 2024 as the only Slovak) under the auspices of the US Department of State (Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy) and the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center\, which aims to help countries such as Slovakia transfer technology and knowledge in the field of AI towards responsible and successful implementation in public administration and the economy - in April 2024 he was invited (keynote) to represent the CEE region and Europe as the historically first Slovak at the Global AI Show 2024 in Dubai (with 10k+ attendees one of the world's largest AI events) - previously a member of Slovak.AI and until May 2024 also worked as Data Science & AI Evangelist at AIslovakIA - National Platform for the Development of Artificial Intelligence in Slovakia and in cooperation with MIRRI/MIRDI (Ministry of Investment\, Regional Development and Informatics of the Slovak Republic) led a mission of Slovak AI researchers at University of Cambridge - Radovan is a member of several international and European professional and professional organizations in AI and data science\, such as: British Computer Society (Member\, #BCS)\, Slovak Economic Association (SEA)\, IEEE Computer Society (Member\, #IEEE)\, Slovak.AI (#SlovakAI)\, CLAIRE/CAIRNE\, European AI Alliance & TAILOR network\, AAAI\, EurAI\, AI4SK\, ELLIS\, AIDA - selected lectures from past: @Global AI Show (Dubai\, 2024\, Keynote) @WeAreDevelopers (Berlin\, 2023) @TAILOR (Brussels\, 2023) @CODECON (Bratislava\, 2023\, main talk) @DATAcated (New York\, 2022) @PyData (Hamburg\, 2022) @ML Prague (2023\, 2022) @Data Science Summit (Warsaw\, 2021) @PyData (Hong Kong\, 2021) @ODSC Europe (London\, 2021) @WeAreDevelopers (WeAreDevsLIVE\, 2021) @Data Science Conference (DSG 5.0\, 2019) @H2O.ai (Prague\, 2019) @PyCon LT (PyData track\, Vilnius\, 2019) @VDSG (Linz\, 2019) @TechSummit (Bratislava\, 2017 & 2019) @PyData (Berlin\, 2017) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radovankavicky/ Registration: @Meetup.com group's event here (https://www.meetup.com/pydata-slovakia-bratislava/events/307439940/) & @Eventbrite registration here (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pydata-slovakia-ba-meetup-29-radovan-kavicky-under-the-hood-of-llm-tickets-1335453710999). +our event you can find also @Facebook here (https://www.facebook.com/events/2193597837725593/) and LinkedIn here (https://www.linkedin.com/events/7320847136919564288/about/). [Disclaimer: If you just mark "going" @Facebook event we can't guarantee your seat] Language of the event: English PyData Bratislava [Python Data Enthusiasts and Users, Data Scientists & Statisticians of all levels from Slovakia] -- PyData is a group for users and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other. We gather to discuss how best to apply Python tools, as well as those using R and Julia, to meet the evolving challenges in data management, processing, analytics, and visualization. PyData is organized by NumFOCUS.org, a 501(c)3 non-profit in the United States. The PyData Code of Conduct governs this meetup. To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact the organizer or NumFOCUS Executive Director Leah Silen (+1512-222-5449; [email protected]). Our Facebook group you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1813599648877946/ Our Twitter account here: https://twitter.com/PyDataBA Our LinkedIn group here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13506080 Organizers: GapData Institute (https://www.gapdata.org/) (GDI) is a nonprofit nonpartisan research institution harnessing power of data & wisdom of economics for public good. \\|\\| Data. Think. Change. \\|\\| NumFOCUS (http://www.numfocus.org/) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific computing. The mission of NumFOCUS is to promote sustainable high-level programming languages, open code development, and reproducible scientific research.	PyData Slovakia & Bratislava Meetup #29 [Radovan Kavicky: Under the Hood of LLM]
Meetup #5 - Focus on AI Fluency 2025-05-01 · 17:00 AI for the rest of us is on a mission to make AI easier to understand. AI is ready for everyone. No matter who you are. No matter what your role. We promise no hype, no jargon and no confusing terminology. We meet you where you are, to get you where you want to be! Join us for our next in-person meetup in London on Thursday May 1st At this event we focus on AI Fluency! We go back to the roots of this community with an event designed to help you have better conversations about AI, with a solid grounding in the new terminology you need to know. You don't need to be a machine learning engineer to benefit from these AI basics!! Shanthi Nachiappan (VP Data & Analytics, London Stock Exchange Group) will be giving us an Introduction to Graph Databases. As founder of Women in Graph DB who better to help us understand what they are and why we should care? Then we'll be hosting a fascinating fireside chat with Peter Morgan (CEO & Founder of Data Learning Partnership). Peter delivers AI education at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University and will be sharing his experiences as both an educator and entrepreneur, reflecting on the importance of "learning by doing". Of course, we'll also have plenty of time for the most important part of any community - meeting and learning from each other! Massive thanks to our hosts Narus and our AMAZING NEW SPONSOR DevRev! Where and When? Thursday, May 1st 18:00 - 21:00 Talks start at 19:00 Adaptavist, 28 Scrutton St, London EC2A 4RP Talk 1: Introduction to Data Management Through Graph DB with Shanthi Nachiappan What are Graph Databases and why should I care? Drawing on her experiences in Data Management at scale Shanthi will take us on a journey from traditional Data Management technologies into a new world of Graph Databases, where Data no longer exists in siloes but in a graph of interconnected relationships. Shanthi Nachiappan is a visionary leader with 25 years of expertise spanning various all aspects of data management. She is passionate about mentoring emerging leaders and enjoys reading, hiking, and volunteering in community tech education programs. Fireside Discussion: Learning By Doing, Reflections on AI as a Founder and Lecturer with Peter Morgan Peter is passionate about artificial intelligence and quantum computing and the positive changes these powerful technologies are bringing to society. He is author of the popular report, “Machine Learning is Changing the Rules: Ways Businesses Can Utilize AI to Innovate”, published by O’Reilly. Peter founded the consulting company, Deep Learning Partnership, www.deeplp.com in 2012 to carry out his mission of helping to bring AI, and more recently quantum computing, to the world. Code of Conduct This event has a code of conduct that you can review here.	Meetup #5 - Focus on AI Fluency
London dbt Meetup 2025-04-07 · 16:00 What are dbt meetups? dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures. 🤝Organizer: dbt Labs (Amada Echeverría, Community Team) 🏠Venue/Host: Snowflake Office (Room: the Lodge on the 5th floor) @ One Crown Place, London EC2A 4EF, UK 🍕Catering: Refreshments will be provided To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy 📝Agenda 5:00 - 5:40 \\| Check in/Registration (40 min) 5:40 - 5:45 \\| Welcome Remarks by our meetup host\, Snowflake (5 min) and dbt Labs’ Community Team 5:45 - 6:05 \\| Presentation 1: Kshitij Aranke (Senior Software Engineer @ dbt Labs) on ‘Hands-on with our latest innovations in dbt Core 1.10” (20 min) 6:05 - 6:15 \\| Presentation 1 Q&A (10 min) 6:15 - 6:35 \\| Fireside chat with Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO @ dbt Labs) and Alex Lambert (Director Solution Engineering UK @ Snowflake) on The Analytics Development Lifecycle (20 min) 6:35 - 6:45 \\| Q&A for Tristan and Alex (10 min) 6:45 -6:50 \\| Closing Remarks by Snowflake and dbt Labs’ Community Team (5 min) 6:50 - 8:00 \\| Reception (Please be mindful that we need to leave the space by 8:30) EVENT DETAILS: The doors open at 5pm. Presentations begin at 5:40pm. Food and refreshments will be provided. The venue has capacity limits, so please update your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going" if you are unable to attend. DIRECTIONS: Please bring an ID. The Snowflake office is located on the 5th and 6th floor of a multi-tenant building. Upon arrival visitors are greeted at ground floor reception and asked to check-in and sign Snowflake’s NDA via the Envoy check-in system. Visitors are either escorted to the lift area or await the host to pick them up. ➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/ 🤝For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-ldn channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/). ---------------------------------- dbt is the standard in data transformation, used by over 40,000 organizations worldwide. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: https://www.getdbt.com/	London dbt Meetup
#MSFABRICBRISTOL - Feb 25 - P&L Models & Financial Reporting in PBI 2025-02-20 · 17:45 When: Thursday 20th February 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 Chris Barber and Rishi Sapra Session 1 - P&L Models - Chris Barber Profitability is a key metric; any profits can be distributed back to shareholders (owners) either directly or indirectly. A profit and loss (P&L) statement answers high level questions - such as “what was net profit last year?” - and summarises key revenue (i.e., product revenue) and expense (i.e., Research & Development) items. Unlike static reports, a P&L semantic model contains the detail; this allows end-users to ask questions such as “what was R&D spending broken down by a particular research project, fiscal period, or legal entity?” A semantic model also allows end-users to consume information using Copilot prompts, Power BI reports, or Pivot Tables and formulas in Excel. In this session, we will go through: Why you should build an income statement semantic model How to use an accelerator to speed up development. The key questions you need to ask stakeholders. The challenges in building a P&L income statement About Chris Chris Barber is a chartered accountant (ACMA, CGMA), 4 times Microsoft MVP, author of Income Statement Semantic Models, runs StarSchema.co.uk, and has popular YouTube videos (over 100k views) and courses (over 1k participants) on the topic of Profit and Loss (P&L) using Power BI. Session 2 - Financial Reporting in PBI - Rishi Sapra This session will explore how to transform a traditional Excel-based credit rating model for countries into a modern, interactive, and scalable solution using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Participants will discover innovative techniques to enhance financial modelling and storytelling by leveraging advanced analytics and integration capabilities. Hear from Power Platform in Finance specialist and Microsoft MVP, Rishi Sapra, as we delve into the following areas: Replicating Complex Rating Logic: Translating intricate credit rating formulas and methodologies from Excel into DAX to ensure consistency and accuracy. Interactive Insights: Using slicers, bookmarks, and contextual visualizations in Power BI to enable dynamic comparisons and highlight key drivers of credit ratings. Streamlined Reporting: Designing intuitive and user-friendly reports that empower stakeholders to explore insights interactively. Scalability with Microsoft Fabric: Harnessing the Medallion Lakehouse architecture to enable seamless data integration, metadata management, and collaboration at an enterprise level. This session is particularly beneficial for finance professionals and analysts who are seeking to modernize their financial or operational models. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to maintain model accuracy, enhance interactivity, and scale their solutions to meet the evolving demands of modern analytics. About Rishi Rishi has a unique blend of technical and commercial skills - he is a 5x Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), a Chartered Accountant, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and an Executive MBA (Hons) holder with a first class degree from the London School of Economics. He currently works as a Data & AI Strategic Project lead at Avanade - a Joint Venture between Accenture and Microsoft which been awarded Microsoft Partner of the Year 18 times! In this role he focuses on Microsoft Fabric Go To Market (GTM) offerings including those around Security & Governance, Industry/Functional accelerators and Azure/BI migration. Prior to joining Altius in 2017 (Which was acquired by Avanade in 2020), he spent 12 years in the Big 4 /Financial Services (Deloitte, HSBC, Barclays, KPMG) and has a strong background in Business modelling and process improvement. He is actively involved in the Fabric Community in London/globally and has presented at Meetup groups and several large-scale conferences. His passion is in helping organisations achieve the holy grail of Self-Service BI and helping individuals learn the necessary skills to succeed. Under his community Learn Data Insights (www.learndatainsights.com), he runs Microsoft Fabric Training (www.msfabrictraining.com) and Power Platform Finance (www.powerplatformfinance.com) with e-learning courses and quizzes for Analytics and Finance professionals. We all look forward to seeing you there!!	#MSFABRICBRISTOL - Feb 25 - P&L Models & Financial Reporting in PBI
Navigating the Data Landscape 2024-10-16 · 05:00 Ganesh Prasad – Senior Product Lead, Data Analytics division @ Salesforce , Nick Zervoudis – Head of Product @ CKDelta The Data Product Management In Action podcast, brought to you by Soda and executive producer Scott Hirleman, is a platform for data product management practitioners to share insights and experiences. In Season 01, Episode 20, Nick is back and this time he is chatting with Ganesh Prasad. They dive into Ganesh's background as a data product manager and his journey from data science to product management. The discussion leads into the differences between internal and external products, the importance of user interviews and discovery, and the challenges and advantages of working in big tech and financial industries. Follow along as Ganesh shares some valuable tips and explains the importance of having a product mindset. About our host Nick Zervoudis: Nick is Head of Product at CKDelta, an AI software business within the CK Hutchison Holdings group. Nick oversees a portfolio of data products and works with sister companies to uncover new opportunities to innovate using data, analytics, and machine learning. Nick's career has revolved around data and advanced analytics from day one, having worked as an analyst, consultant, product manager, and instructor for startups, SMEs, and enterprises including PepsiCo, Sainsbury's, Lloyds Banking Group, IKEA, Capgemini Invent, BrainStation, QuantSpark, and Hg Capital. Nick is also the co-host of London's Data Product Management meetup, and speaks and writes regularly about data and AI product management. Connect with Nick on LinkedIn. About our guest Ganesh Prasad: Ganesh is a Senior Product Lead in the Data Analytics division at Salesforce, bringing over 5 years of experience in data product management from both Salesforce and Mastercard. He has a proven track record of successfully launching and scaling products that meet customer needs. Ganesh has successfully managed and developed analytics, ML, and AI products across various domains, including marketing analytics, fraud detection, revenue forecasting, and platform optimization. Transitioning from a data scientist to a product manager, Ganesh is passionate about the intersection of data and product development. He leads the PM Community of Practice for the Data Analytics division at Salesforce and dedicates his spare time to mentoring others in the field. Connect with Ganesh on LinkedIn. All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect their employers or anyone else. Join the conversation on LinkedIn. Apply to be a guest or nominate someone that you know. Do you love what you're listening to? Please rate and review the podcast, and share it with fellow practitioners you know. Your support helps us reach more listeners and continue providing valuable insights! AI/ML Analytics Data Analytics Data Science Marketing	Data Product Management in Action: The Practitioner's Podcast Listen
London Power BI & Fabric User Group - February Double Session 2024-02-22 · 18:30 For our February meetup we're exciting to announce that we now have a double session. First off Barry Smart will be presenting Microsoft Fabric & Your Data Strategy: A Decision Makers Guide Barry has worked in the technology industry for almost 30 years. During the early stage of his career he worked in Australia for 3 years delivering a new system to automate Sydney's water treatment and distribution network. He then returned to Scotland where he spent his formative years as chief architect for ScottishPower's energy trading business. He then moved into a leadership role with Hymans Robertson, the UK's largest independent firm of consulting actuaries, where he spearheaded their adoption of cloud technology. In 2019 he took a career break to complete a Masters in Artificial Intelligence. He now works as Director for Data and AI at endjin, where he helps organisations around the world to deliver impact through data. He specialises in harnessing cloud technology and the latest developments in analytics, machine learning and AI. In his spare time, Barry enjoys mountain biking and playing the trombone in a big band. Our 2nd session for the evening: Microsoft Power BI Usage Analysis: a practical approach to measuring and improving BI performance Achieving success with Power BI within an organization goes beyond the initial implementation and maintenance. To unlock its full strategic potential, we must ensure it's not only properly implemented but also widely adopted and effectively used. In thier presentation, Anna and Gennadii will discuss how Power BI usage data can be analysed to provide a solid ground for optimising the Power BI environment and facilitate a wide range of data and analytics initiatives. They will share a few client stories, the fundamental questions that usage analysis should answer, the key metrics and KPIs that should be tracked, and actionable strategies to transform Power BI experience. To demonstrate their approach, they will introduce Accton Auditor, a comprehensive BI usage analysis solution tightly integrated with 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, rolling over from last month: 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. AGENDA: 1830 - 18:45 : Introduction, networking, pizza & drinks 18:45 - 19:00 : Open Data Challenge 19:00 - 20:00 : Microsoft Fabric & Your Data Strategy: A Decision Makers Guide 20:00 - 20:45 : Microsoft Power BI Usage Analysis: a practical approach to measuring and improving BI performance 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	London Power BI & Fabric User Group - February Double Session
London Fabric User Group - Fabric Notebooks for the Power BI Professional 2023-11-09 · 18:30 We are excited to welcome Simon Whiteley and Terry McCann for our November meetup. Fabric Notebooks for the Power BI Professional Microsoft Fabric combines the worlds of Power BI and Data Platforms, and there is a huge array of powerful tools at your now at your fingertips - but if you've never written python, how do you even begin to use the Notebook experience? What is a DataFrame and how do you use them? How can you avoid Python and use SQL instead? In this session, we'll take a look at how the Spark engine is surprisingly similar to Power Query. We'll load some files into our OneLake, write some PySpark to read the data, transform it a little, and save it as a Lakehouse table that we can then use datasets, warehouses and more. We’ll look at some of the tips and tricks for using a little bit of Spark to speed up your data curation, as well as some of the neat new tools that come in the Fabric experience. Finally, we'll discuss using notebooks as part of your end-to-end data process, and answer your Fabric design questions! Simon Whiteley Data Platform MVP. Databricks Beacon. Cloud Architect, Nerd Director of Engineering for Advancing Analytics Ltd, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Databricks Beacon. Simon is a seasoned solution architect & technical lead with well over a decade of Microsoft Analytics experience, who spends an inordinate amount of time running the Advancing Spark YouTube series. A deep techie with a focus on emerging cloud technologies and applying "big data" thinking to traditional analytics problems, Simon also has a passion for bringing it back to the high level and making sense of the bigger picture. When not tinkering with tech, Simon is a death-dodging London cyclist, a sampler of craft beers, an avid chef and a generally nerdy person. Terry McCann Microsoft MVP & CEO Microsoft MVP. CEO & Owner of Advancing Analytics. A consultancy who helps businesses advance their analytics and better understand their data. Frequent speaker at events across the globe. Organiser of the Global AI Bootcamp London, Data Science user group in Exeter, UK and previous co-organiser of SQL Saturday Exeter, UK. OPEN DATA CHALLENGE: Before our main session we are bringing back the Open Data Challenge. Your opportunity to showcase your talent to the audience. This month's challenge is Women's Football World Cup 2023 data from StatsBomb. https://statsbomb.com/news/statsbomb-release-free-2023-womens-world-cup-data/ 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. 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	London Fabric User Group - Fabric Notebooks for the Power BI Professional
London Analytics Meetup #5 2023-09-27 · 17:00 London Analytics Meetup #5 at Funding Circle's office in the City of London near Bank! Please bring some ID. Please register with first and last name so that we can match to the guest list on the day. Please fill in this form so we can continue to keep this Meetup and it's topics relevant to you! Please unRSVP if you find you can't make it nearer the time. We'll have some food and drink courtesy of Funding Circle, who are our gracious hosts! Talks: Maiara Reinaldo - DE @ Funding Circle - "Self-serve data with dbt & DataHub" George Apps - Staff BI Developer @ TravelPerk - "To Manage or not to Manage?" Adam Timlett - Analytics Manager @ PPL - "How to Image Your Organisation's Dragon"	London Analytics Meetup #5
Big PyData BBQ #5: Large Language Models 2023-09-21 · 16:00 If you like cool talks about 🧑‍🔬 Data Science, 🤖Artificial Intelligence, 🐍 coding or 🤗 community, the Big PyData BBQ is the place to be! 🔥 KÖNIGSWEG and hei_INNOVATION invite you to join the 5️⃣th edition of the annual big gathering of the PyData Südwest community. Besides talks there will be a lot of time for networking over a delicious 🥦+🍖 BBQ . This year's topic: Large Language Models 🔥🤩 Confirmed Speakers Ines Montani (ExplosionAI / spaCy) Alejandro Saucedo (Director of Eng, Science, Product & Analytics Zalando / Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning) Michael Gertz (Institute of Computer Science, Heidelberg University) Alina Lenhardt (Cerence) The event will be live streamed and published on PyDataTV. 18:00 Welcome 👋 📺 18:20 Talk Ines Montani 📺 19:00 BBQ 🍖🥦 UPDATE: 20:30 🛋️ Panel: Alejandro, Alexander, Alina, Ines, Michael 📺 UPDATE: 21:30 ⚡ Lightning Talks. 📺 UPDATE: 21:30 Networking. 🍻 UPDATE: 22:00 End. 📺 = live stream 🍖🥦, 🍻 = locally, only About our speakers: Ines Montani, a renowned software developer, is a co-founder of Explosion AI, a digital laboratory specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning. She is a lead developer of spaCy, a widely used open-source library for advanced natural language processing (NLP) in Python. Together with Matthew Honnibal, she also developed Prodigy, a machine learning annotation tool that aids in the efficient creation of training data. Montani is an advocate for OSS, working tirelessly to make the fields of AI and ML more accessible. Alejandro Saucedo is a technology entrepreneur and software engineer known for his work in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is Director of Eng, Science, Product & Analytics at Zalando and the Chief Scientist at The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning, a London-based research organization focused on developing best practices for machine learning and artificial intelligence, among others. Saucedo has a strong technical background and has worked in software development, ML and data science. He has spoken at numerous events and is promoting ethical practices in AI development Michael Gertz is a full professor at Heidelberg University where he heads the Database Systems Research Group at the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. He received his diploma in Computer Science from the TU Dortmund University, and his Dr. rer. nat. from the Leibniz University of Hannover in 1996. From 1997 until 2008 he was a faculty at Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis. His interdisciplinary research interests include text analytics, data mining, complex networks, and scientific data management, with applications in the medical sciences, law, physics, political sciences, and economics. Alina Lenhardt is a computational linguistat at Cerence and Program Committee Chair at PyConDE & PyData Berlin 2023. Alexander Hendorf is one of the organizers of PyData Südwest and is heavily involved in the Python & PyData community. For him, contributing to open source and the community means giving something back, as his company Königsweg uses open source to implement Data Science & AI for its customers. ⚡️ Lightning Talks (5 min. each) 1. Alessandro Angioi - Supercharge your language learning journey with Python 2. Bela Stoyan - Automatically transform complex python methods to polars expressions 3. Irina Smirnova-Pinchukova - Croshapes - using graph to design a toy 😍 A big thank you to our sponsors: hei_INNOVATION, for hosting the meetup. KÖNIGSWEG, for supporting the organization. NUMFOCUS, for promoting open source software. Python Softwareverband e.V., for support. Contact If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us via: Meetup Want to speak? Submit a talk here. Interested in hosting an event? Here's our Info-Deck & contact to the organisers!	Big PyData BBQ #5: Large Language Models
#PBIMCR July 23 - Rishi Sapra & Mathias Thierbach @Bruntwood Sci-Tech (M1 7ED) 2023-07-27 · 16:30 PBI Manchester 27th July 2023 Location: Bruntwood Sci-Tech - 103, Oxford House, Oxford Rd, Manchester M1 7ED 5:40pm for a 6pm start (event will wrap up around 8:15pm) Key note guest speakers Rishi Sapra - Mathias Thierbach Who is Rishi ? He works as a Group Manager at Avanade - a Joint Venture between Accenture and Microsoft which has been MS Partner of the Year for the last 15 Years - specialising in Power BI. Prior to this he has spent 12 years in Consulting /Financial Services (Deloitte, HSBC, Barclays, KPMG) and is a qualified accountant with a background in Business modelling and process improvement. He is actively involved in the Power BI Community in London and has presented at Meetup groups and several global conferences. He also runs two core communities - LDI (www.learndatainsights.com) for people to take data analytics quizzes and courses and PPF (www.powerplatformfinance.com) for helping finance professionals apply the Power Platform technology stack in their roles. Topic wise Rishi is planning on showing the (new) back end behind the Fabric quizzes he has on his LDI site https://learndatainsights.com/ - xml files for each quiz attempt pushed through real-time analytics in fabric with direct lake PBI on top What's new for Power BI Source Control Learn about three recent substantial innovations for Power BI Pro Developers: TMDL, Power BI Developer Mode, and Workspace Git Integration. TMDL, the new Tabular Model Definition Language, was announced in Public Preview in April 2023. It is a new declarative format for Power BI tabular models that is designed to be human readable and editable as well as collaborative. It is perfectly suited for use of source control and CI/CD when developing tabular models in a professional environment. Mathias contributed the language design and implementation to the Power BI product team as part of their Community Contributor Program. Learn from him, first-hand, what it is all about, how TMDL works, what problems it solves, and which tools are available. Power BI Developer Mode, released in Preview in Power BI Desktop June 2023, enables developer-centric workflows for reports and datasets. Instead of binary .PBIX files, Power BI projects are saved into a source-control friendly text format. Many people have been waiting for this feature for years! See how works, and what workflows it enables. Thirdly, the recent release of Microsoft Fabric has brought native git integration to Fabric/Power BI workspaces. Initially limited to Power BI reports and datasets, alongside Power BI Desktop Developer Mode. How is it enabled, what are the limitations during Preview, and what's coming? TMDL Announcement learn.microsoft.com: TMDL Overview Power BI Developer Mode (Release Plan) Introducing Git Integration Fabric Git Integration Docs Bio Owner of pbi-tools Ltd, Data Platform MVP, and Developer of pbi-tools and TMDL In 2015, after having spent over ten years as a Software Developer and Architect with Microsoft technologies, Mathias Thierbach moved into the Microsoft BI space. He soon landed on Power BI, but also realized quickly that the development and engineering tools and practices were nothing like the ones well established in software development. This is how pbi-tools started as a project, the only complete source control solution for Power BI. During seven years of leading a data management team at YouGov, he experienced the benefits of those efforts every day. Having open sourced the project in fall of 2021, Mathias spends a lot of his free time bringing source control and DevOps practices to the wider Power BI community now. In addition to his open source engagements, Mathias cares deeply about his role as an enterprise technology leader. Like many, once having started as a single contributor technologist, he had to pivot significantly when he moved into a manager role, responsible for building, stabilizing and growing a team of data engineers, analysts and architects. Mathias is now passionately sharing the many experiences and learnings that came out of that journey with the community.	#PBIMCR July 23 - Rishi Sapra & Mathias Thierbach @Bruntwood Sci-Tech (M1 7ED)

London R | Meetup | Jan 2026 2026-01-29 · 18:00

------ Welcome\, London R Users! ------

Happy New Year, and welcome to 2026!

We’re excited to kick off 2026 with fresh energy and plenty of R fun ahead!

As before, the event will be brought to you by Datacove. We are a Data and Analytics Consultancy Team based in Brighton, with experience in founding many well-attended R & Python events. Plus, home of the EARL Conference! We work across multiple streams - from marketing and customer analytics, to bespoke dashboards, process automation, and training! :)

We will be supported by the generous team, organised by Matt Nixon, at Incubeta, London. Hosted by Laura Mawer and Jeremy Horne from Datacove.

------ !! Please Note !! *------ This is a paid event.* Your ticket entitles you to pizza and drink options (soft and alcoholic beverages available).

As standard, we cater for Vegetarian, Vegan, and GF. Please contact an organiser for any other requirements.

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General Admission: £8 online / £10 at the door
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------ Timing Information ------ 6pm: Arrival and greetings from our team. 6:15pm: Food and drinks are served while networking. 6:40pm: Introduction to the event commences. 6:45pm: Talks commence. 8:00pm: Talks conclude. 8:10pm: Networking continues. 8:30pm: Event moves to the local pub.

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London R | Meetup | Jan 2026

The State of Airflow 2026: London Airflow Meetup! 2026-01-28 · 17:30

Join fellow Airflow enthusiasts and leaders at Salisbury House for an evening of engaging talks, great food and drinks, and exclusive swag!

We'll start you off with a deep dive into the Airflow 2026 survey results, and finish off with a community member presentation on the Apache TinkerPop provider.

PRESENTATIONS

Talk #1: The State of Apache Airflow® 2026

Apache Airflow® continues to thrive as the world’s leading open-source data orchestration platform, with 30M downloads per month and over 3k contributors. 2025 marked a major milestone with the release of Airflow 3, which introduced DAG versioning, enhanced security and task isolation, assets, and more. These changes have reshaped how data teams build, operate, and govern their pipelines.

In this session, our speaker will share insights from the State of Airflow 2026 report, including:

Latest trends in how teams are using Airflow today
What’s next for the project and ecosystem
A discussion of emerging best practices and evolving use cases

Join us to hear directly from a leader in the community and discover how to get the most out of Airflow in the year ahead.

Talk #2: Building the Apache TinkerPop Provider for Airflow

Speaker: Ahmad Farhan, Data Engineer

Graph databases are powering everything from recommendation engines to fraud detection, but integrating graph operations into modern data pipelines has often required custom code and workarounds. Earlier this year, Ahmad built a new Apache TinkerPop provider for Airflow, making it easier than ever to orchestrate Gremlin queries, manage graph workloads, and connect Airflow to TinkerPop-enabled systems. In this session, you’ll learn:

What the TinkerPop provider does and why it matters for graph-based workloads
How to run Gremlin queries and manage graph jobs directly within Airflow
Real examples from the development process, including design decisions and lessons learned
How this provider opens the door for new use cases in graph analytics and data engineering

Join us to explore how Airflow and TinkerPop can work together to streamline graph workflows and unlock new patterns in modern data pipelines.

AGENDA

5:30-6 PM: Arrivals, networking, food & drinks
6-7PM: Presentations
7-8PM: Networking

The State of Airflow 2026: London Airflow Meetup!

PyData Slovakia & Bratislava Meetup #29 [Radovan Kavicky: Under the Hood of LLM] 2025-05-14 · 15:00

Talk Title: "Under the Hood of LLM"

Description: In this talk we unveil the inner workings of Large Language Models (LLMs), explore the architecture of Transformers and how chatbots and AI agents works underneath. This talk also dives into the concept of Model Context Protocol (MCP), the limitless potential that it offers and how it differs from RAG and other protocols like A2A. Join us for an in-depth look at how these powerful AI models that you already use on daily basis really work, how they process data, generate responses and redefine and push the boundaries of artificial intelligence.

Speaker/Bio: Radovan Kavicky Radovan Kavicky \| President & Principal Data Scientist @ GapData Institute https://www.linkedin.com/in/radovankavicky/ & https://radovankavicky.substack.com/

Radovan currently works as President & Principal Data Scientist at GapData Institute/GDI Institute and is an expert in XAI (Explainable AI), i.e. the field of scientific research at the intersection of mathematics and artificial intelligence, he also works as a AI Consultant (AI IXX/Dubai, UAE) for the implementation of AI and Data Science knowledge in business, economics and public administration

- in April 2025 he successfully completed the prestigious AI Connect program (nominated in 2024 as the only Slovak) under the auspices of the US Department of State (Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy) and the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center\, which aims to help countries such as Slovakia transfer technology and knowledge in the field of AI towards responsible and successful implementation in public administration and the economy

- in April 2024 he was invited (keynote) to represent the CEE region and Europe as the historically first Slovak at the Global AI Show 2024 in Dubai (with 10k+ attendees one of the world's largest AI events)

- previously a member of Slovak.AI and until May 2024 also worked as Data Science & AI Evangelist at AIslovakIA - National Platform for the Development of Artificial Intelligence in Slovakia and in cooperation with MIRRI/MIRDI (Ministry of Investment\, Regional Development and Informatics of the Slovak Republic) led a mission of Slovak AI researchers at University of Cambridge

- Radovan is a member of several international and European professional and professional organizations in AI and data science\, such as: British Computer Society (Member\, #BCS)\, Slovak Economic Association (SEA)\, IEEE Computer Society (Member\, #IEEE)\, Slovak.AI (#SlovakAI)\, CLAIRE/CAIRNE\, European AI Alliance & TAILOR network\, AAAI\, EurAI\, AI4SK\, ELLIS\, AIDA

- selected lectures from past: @Global AI Show (Dubai\, 2024\, Keynote) @WeAreDevelopers (Berlin\, 2023) @TAILOR (Brussels\, 2023) @CODECON (Bratislava\, 2023\, main talk) @DATAcated (New York\, 2022) @PyData (Hamburg\, 2022) @ML Prague (2023\, 2022) @Data Science Summit (Warsaw\, 2021) @PyData (Hong Kong\, 2021) @ODSC Europe (London\, 2021) @WeAreDevelopers (WeAreDevsLIVE\, 2021) @Data Science Conference (DSG 5.0\, 2019) @H2O.ai (Prague\, 2019) @PyCon LT (PyData track\, Vilnius\, 2019) @VDSG (Linz\, 2019) @TechSummit (Bratislava\, 2017 & 2019) @PyData (Berlin\, 2017)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radovankavicky/

Registration:

@Meetup.com group's event here (https://www.meetup.com/pydata-slovakia-bratislava/events/307439940/) & @Eventbrite registration here (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pydata-slovakia-ba-meetup-29-radovan-kavicky-under-the-hood-of-llm-tickets-1335453710999). +our event you can find also @Facebook here (https://www.facebook.com/events/2193597837725593/) and LinkedIn here (https://www.linkedin.com/events/7320847136919564288/about/).

[Disclaimer: If you just mark "going" @Facebook event we can't guarantee your seat]

Language of the event: English

PyData Bratislava [Python Data Enthusiasts and Users, Data Scientists & Statisticians of all levels from Slovakia]

-- PyData is a group for users and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other. We gather to discuss how best to apply Python tools, as well as those using R and Julia, to meet the evolving challenges in data management, processing, analytics, and visualization. PyData is organized by NumFOCUS.org, a 501(c)3 non-profit in the United States.

The PyData Code of Conduct governs this meetup. To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact the organizer or NumFOCUS Executive Director Leah Silen (+1512-222-5449; [email protected]).

Our Facebook group you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1813599648877946/

Our Twitter account here: https://twitter.com/PyDataBA

Our LinkedIn group here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13506080

Organizers: GapData Institute (https://www.gapdata.org/) (GDI) is a nonprofit nonpartisan research institution harnessing power of data & wisdom of economics for public good.

\|\| Data. Think. Change. \|\|

NumFOCUS (http://www.numfocus.org/) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific computing. The mission of NumFOCUS is to promote sustainable high-level programming languages, open code development, and reproducible scientific research.

PyData Slovakia & Bratislava Meetup #29 [Radovan Kavicky: Under the Hood of LLM]

Meetup #5 - Focus on AI Fluency 2025-05-01 · 17:00

AI for the rest of us is on a mission to make AI easier to understand.

AI is ready for everyone. No matter who you are. No matter what your role. We promise no hype, no jargon and no confusing terminology. We meet you where you are, to get you where you want to be!

Join us for our next in-person meetup in London on Thursday May 1st

At this event we focus on AI Fluency! We go back to the roots of this community with an event designed to help you have better conversations about AI, with a solid grounding in the new terminology you need to know. You don't need to be a machine learning engineer to benefit from these AI basics!!

Shanthi Nachiappan (VP Data & Analytics, London Stock Exchange Group) will be giving us an Introduction to Graph Databases. As founder of Women in Graph DB who better to help us understand what they are and why we should care?

Then we'll be hosting a fascinating fireside chat with Peter Morgan (CEO & Founder of Data Learning Partnership). Peter delivers AI education at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University and will be sharing his experiences as both an educator and entrepreneur, reflecting on the importance of "learning by doing".

Of course, we'll also have plenty of time for the most important part of any community - meeting and learning from each other! Massive thanks to our hosts Narus and our AMAZING NEW SPONSOR DevRev!

Where and When?

Thursday, May 1st
18:00 - 21:00
Talks start at 19:00
Adaptavist, 28 Scrutton St, London EC2A 4RP

Talk 1: Introduction to Data Management Through Graph DB with Shanthi Nachiappan

What are Graph Databases and why should I care? Drawing on her experiences in Data Management at scale Shanthi will take us on a journey from traditional Data Management technologies into a new world of Graph Databases, where Data no longer exists in siloes but in a graph of interconnected relationships.

Shanthi Nachiappan is a visionary leader with 25 years of expertise spanning various all aspects of data management. She is passionate about mentoring emerging leaders and enjoys reading, hiking, and volunteering in community tech education programs.

Fireside Discussion: Learning By Doing, Reflections on AI as a Founder and Lecturer with Peter Morgan

Peter is passionate about artificial intelligence and quantum computing and the positive changes these powerful technologies are bringing to society. He is author of the popular report, “Machine Learning is Changing the Rules: Ways Businesses Can Utilize AI to Innovate”, published by O’Reilly. Peter founded the consulting company, Deep Learning Partnership, www.deeplp.com in 2012 to carry out his mission of helping to bring AI, and more recently quantum computing, to the world.

Code of Conduct This event has a code of conduct that you can review here.

Meetup #5 - Focus on AI Fluency

London dbt Meetup 2025-04-07 · 16:00

What are dbt meetups? dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures.

🤝Organizer: dbt Labs (Amada Echeverría, Community Team) 🏠Venue/Host: Snowflake Office (Room: the Lodge on the 5th floor) @ One Crown Place, London EC2A 4EF, UK 🍕Catering: Refreshments will be provided

To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy

📝Agenda

5:00 - 5:40 \| Check in/Registration (40 min)
5:40 - 5:45 \| Welcome Remarks by our meetup host\, Snowflake (5 min) and dbt Labs’ Community Team
5:45 - 6:05 \| Presentation 1: Kshitij Aranke (Senior Software Engineer @ dbt Labs) on ‘Hands-on with our latest innovations in dbt Core 1.10” (20 min)
6:05 - 6:15 \| Presentation 1 Q&A (10 min)
6:15 - 6:35 \| Fireside chat with Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO @ dbt Labs) and Alex Lambert (Director Solution Engineering UK @ Snowflake) on The Analytics Development Lifecycle (20 min)
6:35 - 6:45 \| Q&A for Tristan and Alex (10 min)
6:45 -6:50 \| Closing Remarks by Snowflake and dbt Labs’ Community Team (5 min)
6:50 - 8:00 \| Reception (Please be mindful that we need to leave the space by 8:30)

EVENT DETAILS: The doors open at 5pm. Presentations begin at 5:40pm. Food and refreshments will be provided. The venue has capacity limits, so please update your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going" if you are unable to attend.

DIRECTIONS: Please bring an ID. The Snowflake office is located on the 5th and 6th floor of a multi-tenant building. Upon arrival visitors are greeted at ground floor reception and asked to check-in and sign Snowflake’s NDA via the Envoy check-in system. Visitors are either escorted to the lift area or await the host to pick them up.

➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/ 🤝For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-ldn channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/). ---------------------------------- dbt is the standard in data transformation, used by over 40,000 organizations worldwide. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: https://www.getdbt.com/

London dbt Meetup

#MSFABRICBRISTOL - Feb 25 - P&L Models & Financial Reporting in PBI 2025-02-20 · 17:45

When: Thursday 20th February 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 Chris Barber and Rishi Sapra

Session 1 - P&L Models - Chris Barber Profitability is a key metric; any profits can be distributed back to shareholders (owners) either directly or indirectly. A profit and loss (P&L) statement answers high level questions - such as “what was net profit last year?” - and summarises key revenue (i.e., product revenue) and expense (i.e., Research & Development) items. Unlike static reports, a P&L semantic model contains the detail; this allows end-users to ask questions such as “what was R&D spending broken down by a particular research project, fiscal period, or legal entity?” A semantic model also allows end-users to consume information using Copilot prompts, Power BI reports, or Pivot Tables and formulas in Excel. In this session, we will go through:

Why you should build an income statement semantic model
How to use an accelerator to speed up development.
The key questions you need to ask stakeholders.
The challenges in building a P&L income statement

About Chris Chris Barber is a chartered accountant (ACMA, CGMA), 4 times Microsoft MVP, author of Income Statement Semantic Models, runs StarSchema.co.uk, and has popular YouTube videos (over 100k views) and courses (over 1k participants) on the topic of Profit and Loss (P&L) using Power BI.

Session 2 - Financial Reporting in PBI - Rishi Sapra This session will explore how to transform a traditional Excel-based credit rating model for countries into a modern, interactive, and scalable solution using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Participants will discover innovative techniques to enhance financial modelling and storytelling by leveraging advanced analytics and integration capabilities.

Hear from Power Platform in Finance specialist and Microsoft MVP, Rishi Sapra, as we delve into the following areas:

Replicating Complex Rating Logic: Translating intricate credit rating formulas and methodologies from Excel into DAX to ensure consistency and accuracy.
Interactive Insights: Using slicers, bookmarks, and contextual visualizations in Power BI to enable dynamic comparisons and highlight key drivers of credit ratings.
Streamlined Reporting: Designing intuitive and user-friendly reports that empower stakeholders to explore insights interactively.
Scalability with Microsoft Fabric: Harnessing the Medallion Lakehouse architecture to enable seamless data integration, metadata management, and collaboration at an enterprise level.

This session is particularly beneficial for finance professionals and analysts who are seeking to modernize their financial or operational models. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to maintain model accuracy, enhance interactivity, and scale their solutions to meet the evolving demands of modern analytics.

About Rishi Rishi has a unique blend of technical and commercial skills - he is a 5x Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), a Chartered Accountant, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and an Executive MBA (Hons) holder with a first class degree from the London School of Economics.

He currently works as a Data & AI Strategic Project lead at Avanade - a Joint Venture between Accenture and Microsoft which been awarded Microsoft Partner of the Year 18 times! In this role he focuses on Microsoft Fabric Go To Market (GTM) offerings including those around Security & Governance, Industry/Functional accelerators and Azure/BI migration.

Prior to joining Altius in 2017 (Which was acquired by Avanade in 2020), he spent 12 years in the Big 4 /Financial Services (Deloitte, HSBC, Barclays, KPMG) and has a strong background in Business modelling and process improvement.

He is actively involved in the Fabric Community in London/globally and has presented at Meetup groups and several large-scale conferences. His passion is in helping organisations achieve the holy grail of Self-Service BI and helping individuals learn the necessary skills to succeed. Under his community Learn Data Insights (www.learndatainsights.com), he runs Microsoft Fabric Training (www.msfabrictraining.com) and Power Platform Finance (www.powerplatformfinance.com) with e-learning courses and quizzes for Analytics and Finance professionals.

We all look forward to seeing you there!!

#MSFABRICBRISTOL - Feb 25 - P&L Models & Financial Reporting in PBI

Navigating the Data Landscape 2024-10-16 · 05:00

Ganesh Prasad – Senior Product Lead, Data Analytics division @ Salesforce , Nick Zervoudis – Head of Product @ CKDelta

The Data Product Management In Action podcast, brought to you by Soda and executive producer Scott Hirleman, is a platform for data product management practitioners to share insights and experiences. In Season 01, Episode 20, Nick is back and this time he is chatting with Ganesh Prasad. They dive into Ganesh's background as a data product manager and his journey from data science to product management. The discussion leads into the differences between internal and external products, the importance of user interviews and discovery, and the challenges and advantages of working in big tech and financial industries. Follow along as Ganesh shares some valuable tips and explains the importance of having a product mindset. About our host Nick Zervoudis: Nick is Head of Product at CKDelta, an AI software business within the CK Hutchison Holdings group. Nick oversees a portfolio of data products and works with sister companies to uncover new opportunities to innovate using data, analytics, and machine learning. Nick's career has revolved around data and advanced analytics from day one, having worked as an analyst, consultant, product manager, and instructor for startups, SMEs, and enterprises including PepsiCo, Sainsbury's, Lloyds Banking Group, IKEA, Capgemini Invent, BrainStation, QuantSpark, and Hg Capital. Nick is also the co-host of London's Data Product Management meetup, and speaks and writes regularly about data and AI product management. Connect with Nick on LinkedIn. About our guest Ganesh Prasad: Ganesh is a Senior Product Lead in the Data Analytics division at Salesforce, bringing over 5 years of experience in data product management from both Salesforce and Mastercard. He has a proven track record of successfully launching and scaling products that meet customer needs. Ganesh has successfully managed and developed analytics, ML, and AI products across various domains, including marketing analytics, fraud detection, revenue forecasting, and platform optimization. Transitioning from a data scientist to a product manager, Ganesh is passionate about the intersection of data and product development. He leads the PM Community of Practice for the Data Analytics division at Salesforce and dedicates his spare time to mentoring others in the field. Connect with Ganesh on LinkedIn. All views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect their employers or anyone else. Join the conversation on LinkedIn. Apply to be a guest or nominate someone that you know. Do you love what you're listening to? Please rate and review the podcast, and share it with fellow practitioners you know. Your support helps us reach more listeners and continue providing valuable insights!

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London Power BI & Fabric User Group - February Double Session 2024-02-22 · 18:30

For our February meetup we're exciting to announce that we now have a double session.

First off Barry Smart will be presenting Microsoft Fabric & Your Data Strategy: A Decision Makers Guide

Barry has worked in the technology industry for almost 30 years. During the early stage of his career he worked in Australia for 3 years delivering a new system to automate Sydney's water treatment and distribution network. He then returned to Scotland where he spent his formative years as chief architect for ScottishPower's energy trading business. He then moved into a leadership role with Hymans Robertson, the UK's largest independent firm of consulting actuaries, where he spearheaded their adoption of cloud technology. In 2019 he took a career break to complete a Masters in Artificial Intelligence. He now works as Director for Data and AI at endjin, where he helps organisations around the world to deliver impact through data. He specialises in harnessing cloud technology and the latest developments in analytics, machine learning and AI. In his spare time, Barry enjoys mountain biking and playing the trombone in a big band.

Our 2nd session for the evening: Microsoft Power BI Usage Analysis: a practical approach to measuring and improving BI performance

Achieving success with Power BI within an organization goes beyond the initial implementation and maintenance. To unlock its full strategic potential, we must ensure it's not only properly implemented but also widely adopted and effectively used.

In thier presentation, Anna and Gennadii will discuss how Power BI usage data can be analysed to provide a solid ground for optimising the Power BI environment and facilitate a wide range of data and analytics initiatives.

They will share a few client stories, the fundamental questions that usage analysis should answer, the key metrics and KPIs that should be tracked, and actionable strategies to transform Power BI experience.

To demonstrate their approach, they will introduce Accton Auditor, a comprehensive BI usage analysis solution tightly integrated with 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, rolling over from last month:

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.

AGENDA: 1830 - 18:45 : Introduction, networking, pizza & drinks 18:45 - 19:00 : Open Data Challenge 19:00 - 20:00 : Microsoft Fabric & Your Data Strategy: A Decision Makers Guide 20:00 - 20:45 : Microsoft Power BI Usage Analysis: a practical approach to measuring and improving BI performance

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

London Power BI & Fabric User Group - February Double Session

London Fabric User Group - Fabric Notebooks for the Power BI Professional 2023-11-09 · 18:30

We are excited to welcome Simon Whiteley and Terry McCann for our November meetup.

Fabric Notebooks for the Power BI Professional

Microsoft Fabric combines the worlds of Power BI and Data Platforms, and there is a huge array of powerful tools at your now at your fingertips - but if you've never written python, how do you even begin to use the Notebook experience? What is a DataFrame and how do you use them? How can you avoid Python and use SQL instead?

In this session, we'll take a look at how the Spark engine is surprisingly similar to Power Query. We'll load some files into our OneLake, write some PySpark to read the data, transform it a little, and save it as a Lakehouse table that we can then use datasets, warehouses and more. We’ll look at some of the tips and tricks for using a little bit of Spark to speed up your data curation, as well as some of the neat new tools that come in the Fabric experience.

Finally, we'll discuss using notebooks as part of your end-to-end data process, and answer your Fabric design questions!

Simon Whiteley

Data Platform MVP. Databricks Beacon. Cloud Architect, Nerd

Director of Engineering for Advancing Analytics Ltd, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Databricks Beacon. Simon is a seasoned solution architect & technical lead with well over a decade of Microsoft Analytics experience, who spends an inordinate amount of time running the Advancing Spark YouTube series. A deep techie with a focus on emerging cloud technologies and applying "big data" thinking to traditional analytics problems, Simon also has a passion for bringing it back to the high level and making sense of the bigger picture. When not tinkering with tech, Simon is a death-dodging London cyclist, a sampler of craft beers, an avid chef and a generally nerdy person.

Terry McCann

Microsoft MVP & CEO

Microsoft MVP. CEO & Owner of Advancing Analytics. A consultancy who helps businesses advance their analytics and better understand their data. Frequent speaker at events across the globe. Organiser of the Global AI Bootcamp London, Data Science user group in Exeter, UK and previous co-organiser of SQL Saturday Exeter, UK.

OPEN DATA CHALLENGE: Before our main session we are bringing back the Open Data Challenge. Your opportunity to showcase your talent to the audience. This month's challenge is Women's Football World Cup 2023 data from StatsBomb.

https://statsbomb.com/news/statsbomb-release-free-2023-womens-world-cup-data/

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.

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

London Fabric User Group - Fabric Notebooks for the Power BI Professional

London Analytics Meetup #5 2023-09-27 · 17:00

London Analytics Meetup #5 at Funding Circle's office in the City of London near Bank!

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We'll have some food and drink courtesy of Funding Circle, who are our gracious hosts!

Talks:

Maiara Reinaldo - DE @ Funding Circle - "Self-serve data with dbt & DataHub"

George Apps - Staff BI Developer @ TravelPerk - "To Manage or not to Manage?"

Adam Timlett - Analytics Manager @ PPL - "How to Image Your Organisation's Dragon"

London Analytics Meetup #5

Big PyData BBQ #5: Large Language Models 2023-09-21 · 16:00

If you like cool talks about 🧑‍🔬 Data Science, 🤖Artificial Intelligence, 🐍 coding or 🤗 community, the Big PyData BBQ is the place to be! 🔥

KÖNIGSWEG and hei_INNOVATION invite you to join the 5️⃣th edition of the annual big gathering of the PyData Südwest community. Besides talks there will be a lot of time for networking over a delicious 🥦+🍖 BBQ .

This year's topic: Large Language Models 🔥🤩

Confirmed Speakers

Ines Montani (ExplosionAI / spaCy)
Alejandro Saucedo (Director of Eng, Science, Product & Analytics Zalando / Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning)
Michael Gertz (Institute of Computer Science, Heidelberg University)
Alina Lenhardt (Cerence)

The event will be live streamed and published on PyDataTV.

18:00 Welcome 👋 📺 18:20 Talk Ines Montani 📺 19:00 BBQ 🍖🥦 UPDATE: 20:30 🛋️ Panel: Alejandro, Alexander, Alina, Ines, Michael 📺 UPDATE: 21:30 ⚡ Lightning Talks. 📺 UPDATE: 21:30 Networking. 🍻 UPDATE: 22:00 End. 📺 = live stream 🍖🥦, 🍻 = locally, only

About our speakers:

Ines Montani, a renowned software developer, is a co-founder of Explosion AI, a digital laboratory specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning. She is a lead developer of spaCy, a widely used open-source library for advanced natural language processing (NLP) in Python. Together with Matthew Honnibal, she also developed Prodigy, a machine learning annotation tool that aids in the efficient creation of training data. Montani is an advocate for OSS, working tirelessly to make the fields of AI and ML more accessible.

Alejandro Saucedo is a technology entrepreneur and software engineer known for his work in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is Director of Eng, Science, Product & Analytics at Zalando and the Chief Scientist at The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning, a London-based research organization focused on developing best practices for machine learning and artificial intelligence, among others. Saucedo has a strong technical background and has worked in software development, ML and data science. He has spoken at numerous events and is promoting ethical practices in AI development

Michael Gertz is a full professor at Heidelberg University where he heads the Database Systems Research Group at the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. He received his diploma in Computer Science from the TU Dortmund University, and his Dr. rer. nat. from the Leibniz University of Hannover in 1996. From 1997 until 2008 he was a faculty at Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis. His interdisciplinary research interests include text analytics, data mining, complex networks, and scientific data management, with applications in the medical sciences, law, physics, political sciences, and economics.

Alina Lenhardt is a computational linguistat at Cerence and Program Committee Chair at PyConDE & PyData Berlin 2023.

Alexander Hendorf is one of the organizers of PyData Südwest and is heavily involved in the Python & PyData community. For him, contributing to open source and the community means giving something back, as his company Königsweg uses open source to implement Data Science & AI for its customers.

⚡️ Lightning Talks (5 min. each)

1. Alessandro Angioi - Supercharge your language learning journey with Python 2. Bela Stoyan - Automatically transform complex python methods to polars expressions 3. Irina Smirnova-Pinchukova - Croshapes - using graph to design a toy

😍 A big thank you to our sponsors:

hei_INNOVATION, for hosting the meetup.
KÖNIGSWEG, for supporting the organization.
NUMFOCUS, for promoting open source software.
Python Softwareverband e.V., for support.

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#PBIMCR July 23 - Rishi Sapra & Mathias Thierbach @Bruntwood Sci-Tech (M1 7ED) 2023-07-27 · 16:30

PBI Manchester 27th July 2023 Location: Bruntwood Sci-Tech - 103, Oxford House, Oxford Rd, Manchester M1 7ED 5:40pm for a 6pm start (event will wrap up around 8:15pm)

Key note guest speakers

Rishi Sapra -
Mathias Thierbach

Who is Rishi ? He works as a Group Manager at Avanade - a Joint Venture between Accenture and Microsoft which has been MS Partner of the Year for the last 15 Years - specialising in Power BI. Prior to this he has spent 12 years in Consulting /Financial Services (Deloitte, HSBC, Barclays, KPMG) and is a qualified accountant with a background in Business modelling and process improvement. He is actively involved in the Power BI Community in London and has presented at Meetup groups and several global conferences. He also runs two core communities - LDI (www.learndatainsights.com) for people to take data analytics quizzes and courses and PPF (www.powerplatformfinance.com) for helping finance professionals apply the Power Platform technology stack in their roles.

Topic wise Rishi is planning on showing the (new) back end behind the Fabric quizzes he has on his LDI site https://learndatainsights.com/ - xml files for each quiz attempt pushed through real-time analytics in fabric with direct lake PBI on top

What's new for Power BI Source Control

Learn about three recent substantial innovations for Power BI Pro Developers: TMDL, Power BI Developer Mode, and Workspace Git Integration. TMDL, the new Tabular Model Definition Language, was announced in Public Preview in April 2023. It is a new declarative format for Power BI tabular models that is designed to be human readable and editable as well as collaborative. It is perfectly suited for use of source control and CI/CD when developing tabular models in a professional environment. Mathias contributed the language design and implementation to the Power BI product team as part of their Community Contributor Program. Learn from him, first-hand, what it is all about, how TMDL works, what problems it solves, and which tools are available. Power BI Developer Mode, released in Preview in Power BI Desktop June 2023, enables developer-centric workflows for reports and datasets. Instead of binary .PBIX files, Power BI projects are saved into a source-control friendly text format. Many people have been waiting for this feature for years! See how works, and what workflows it enables. Thirdly, the recent release of Microsoft Fabric has brought native git integration to Fabric/Power BI workspaces. Initially limited to Power BI reports and datasets, alongside Power BI Desktop Developer Mode. How is it enabled, what are the limitations during Preview, and what's coming?

Bio

Owner of pbi-tools Ltd, Data Platform MVP, and Developer of pbi-tools and TMDL In 2015, after having spent over ten years as a Software Developer and Architect with Microsoft technologies, Mathias Thierbach moved into the Microsoft BI space. He soon landed on Power BI, but also realized quickly that the development and engineering tools and practices were nothing like the ones well established in software development. This is how pbi-tools started as a project, the only complete source control solution for Power BI. During seven years of leading a data management team at YouGov, he experienced the benefits of those efforts every day. Having open sourced the project in fall of 2021, Mathias spends a lot of his free time bringing source control and DevOps practices to the wider Power BI community now. In addition to his open source engagements, Mathias cares deeply about his role as an enterprise technology leader. Like many, once having started as a single contributor technologist, he had to pivot significantly when he moved into a manager role, responsible for building, stabilizing and growing a team of data engineers, analysts and architects. Mathias is now passionately sharing the many experiences and learnings that came out of that journey with the community.

#PBIMCR July 23 - Rishi Sapra & Mathias Thierbach @Bruntwood Sci-Tech (M1 7ED)

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The PyData Code of Conduct governs this meetup. To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact the organizer or NumFOCUS Executive Director Leah Silen (+1512-222-5449; [email protected]).