Power BI World Tour 2018 - Melbourne: Full Schedule

10:45 AEST

Power BI API For Beginners

Do you want to learn more about the Power BI API? Do you want to know how to take advantage of the Power BI API? Do you want to start using the Power BI API but you don’t know where to start? This session is for you.

This session will cover the fundamentals of using the Power BI API. I will cover the different scenarios where the Power BI API is the masterpiece for solving the problem. I will also cover the main characteristics such as creating data sets, types of datasets and streaming real time information with the API.

Speakers

David Alzamendi

Data Analytics & Cloud Consultant, Wardy IT

Tuesday August 21, 2018 10:45 - 11:45 AEST
Promenade 3

Technical

13:30 AEST

Power Query and M Beyond Limit

Speakers

Reza Rad

Power Query and M Beyond Limits Reza Rad pdf

Tuesday August 21, 2018 13:30 - 14:30 AEST
Promenade 3

Technical

14:45 AEST

Introduction to DAX

DAX is the formula language used for aggregating data in Power BI, Power Pivot and Analysis Services Tabular. While there are many similarities between Excel and DAX, there are some crucial differences to understand before you can really leverage the incredible power it has to offer. This session will point out some of those differences and introduce you to the concepts you'll need to kick off your journey to becoming a DAX jedi.

Speakers

André de Lange

Manufacturing Data Manager, Blundstone

André has been working with Power Pivot, Power Query and later Power BI in a consumer goods manufacturing industry for the past four years, developing sales progress reports, manufacturing and materials forecasts and cash flow forecasts. He leads the Hobart Power BI User Group.

Tuesday August 21, 2018 14:45 - 15:45 AEST
Promenade 3

New Business User

16:00 AEST

Power BI Performance Tips and Techniques

Power BI gives end users unprecedented business analytics tools to analyze data and share insights. You can easily load and report on a large volume of data. At what price however? Will performance be adequate? Will it scale well as your data volume increases. In this session we will focus on performance in Power BI, especially when working with large volumes of data. We will discuss different techniques of how data can be consumed and in particular focus on Direct Query and how to optimize it’s performance. Make sure you understand the different ways in which you can consume data and how to optimize performance of large data sets.

Speakers

Victor Isakov

Tuesday August 21, 2018 16:00 - 17:00 AEST
Promenade 3

Technical

09:00 AEST

Power BI For DBAs

Do you need to look after the performance of your databases? Looking for a dashboard that can display the status of your databases? Are you a DBA? This session is for you.

Through this session you will learn how to build Power BI solutions to monitor the performance of your environments keeping it simple and low-cost. We will cover the different options for collecting and displaying the information such as using Power BI Desktop application, Power BI API and Power BI Services for streaming and displaying the information in real time.

Speakers

David Alzamendi

Data Analytics & Cloud Consultant, Wardy IT

Wednesday August 22, 2018 09:00 - 10:00 AEST
Promenade 3

Technical

10:15 AEST

Advanced DAX

Speakers

Reza Rad

Advanced DAX Reza Rad pdf

Wednesday August 22, 2018 10:15 - 11:15 AEST
Promenade 3

Technical

13:00 AEST

A 3PL story of Analysis Services for web-based Power BI

My intention is to provide a case study for users that may be considering upgrading their Power BI models into Azure Analysis Services. I will give examples of the challenges faced, and examples of our live project in different stages. I will aslo show examples of writing and deploying measures to the Azure stack and some of the APIs I use to solve these functions. This is targeted to users who may have a need to upgrade their exiting models and real life examples of what to expect and the cost in development time. This case study is centered around the logistics industry and the result of this development is power BI reports embedded into a custom website.

Speakers

Chris Nash

Navia

Wednesday August 22, 2018 13:00 - 14:00 AEST
Promenade 3

New Business User

14:15 AEST

Certification Exam Prep Session

Speakers

Ali Noorani

Wednesday August 22, 2018 14:15 - 15:15 AEST
Promenade 3

Technical