Want to learn more about Power BI and Business Intelligence? Come to the Difinity Conference 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the largest Microsoft Power BI and Business Intelligence conference for the Australia and New Zealand area. During this three-day conference, 40 speakers from all around the world (U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand) will speak at Difinity Conference 2018. This conference will be held at the Cordis Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand February 12-14, 2018. If you work with Power BI or any Microsoft Data technologies, you will enjoy learning from the best. There will be 8 pre-conference full day workshops on February 12th, two will be run by Microsoft Power BI product team. Want to attend? Register by visiting http://difinity.co.nz.
Event details
When: February 12-14, 2018
Where: Cordis Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand
Microsoft Power BI product team Pre-Conference Workshops:
Power BI for Developers and Programmers
Speaker: Sergei Gundorov
Level: 300 (Advanced)
This course targets programmers who want to leverage Power BI in their applications, or want to extend Power BI features with custom visuals. It’s an advanced course where you will learn what the Power BI platform offers developers including:
- Embedding Power BI content into web applications
- Power BI REST API and using it in custom .NET applications
- Streaming data concepts; pushing data into real-time dashboards.
- Introduction to Custom Visuals; creating new visuals
Prerequisites:
- Familiarity with Power BI content creation (i.e., modeling, report building, publishing to service)
- Familiarity with .Net, PowerShell and JavaScript basics are highly desirable
- Power BI Pro account (60-day free trial is sufficient)
Data Modeling and Data Visualization using Power BI
Speaker: Siva Harinath
Level: 300 (Advanced)
Modules/Topics:
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Data Modelling – Morning
- Basis Data Modelling and PBI internals
- DAX Calculated columns and Measures
- Calculate and Evaluation contexts
Data Visualizations – Afternoon
- Storytelling with Data, Science, and art behind Data Visualization
- Layout and Structure, choosing right visuals
- Custom Visuals
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Key Takeaways:
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- Understand core data modeling concepts in Power BI
- Understand DAX and contexts
- Understand need for storying telling with data
- Gain familiarity with Power BI reports and layouts
- Understand implications of choosing the right visuals
- Gain familiarity with Custom Visuals and how to use them
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Prerequisites:
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- Good understanding of Power BI basics from data shaping, data modeling and data visualizations
- Taken Power BI Dashboard in a Day or the EDX.org course on Power BI
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Other Pre-Conference Workshops:
Regular Sessions:
At the conference, you’ll have an opportunity to select from 55 sessions scheduled in 5 tracks. View the finalized agenda with all sessions and here.
Session
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Speaker(s)
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Evaluation Contexts in DAX
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Matt Allington
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DAX as a Query Language
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Matt Allington
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Power BI Gateways as a solution
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Philip Seamark
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What are chat bots and why do we need them in Business Intelligence?
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Anupama Natarajan
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Analysis Services Data DNA
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Ásgeir Gunnarsson
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Impact of weather on English Premier League matches – Power BI analysis
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Ásgeir Gunnarsson
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SSRS and Power BI Report Server – What’s new
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Craig Bryden
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SQL Server in a multi-platform world – Windows/Linux/Mac
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David Lyth
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SQL Server 2016 Query Store
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Dharmendra Keshari
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Troubleshooting Issues with Extended Events in real time
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Dharmendra Keshari
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Designing a SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Topology Without Losing Your Sanity
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Edwin Sarmiento
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What SQL Server DBAs Need To Know About Distributed Availability Groups
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Edwin Sarmiento
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Power BI Row Level Security Made Easy
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Gilbert Quevauvilliers
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Test Driven Development in SQL Server – it will make your database deployments better
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Hamish Watson
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Dynamic charts for browser and mobile with Excel
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Ingeborg Hawighorst
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An introduction to the magical world of BIML!
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Jonathan Stewart
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Performance Tuning for the BI Professional
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Jonathan Stewart
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Polybase, SSAS and Power BI
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Kenneth Nielsen
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Data Lake Analytics – R, Python and Cognitive Services
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Kenneth Nielsen
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Azure Database Migration – Choosing the Right Tier
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Manohar Punna
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Hybrid Distributed Architecture with Azure Data Sync 2.0
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Martin Cairney
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Split, Merge and Eliminate – An Introduction to Partitioning
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Martin Cairney
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Database Monitoring and Reporting in 2018
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Patrick Flynn
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Why MDX cubes aren’t dead yet
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Philip Seamark
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Performance in 60 Seconds – SQL Tricks Everybody MUST Know
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Pinal Dave
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Secrets of SQL Server – Database Worst Practices
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Pinal Dave
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Big Data Ingestion and Analytics with Microsoft Azure
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Regan Murphy
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2,4,8 & 16 – Journey of upgrading your data platform with SQL Server
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Satya Jayanty
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Datawarehouse Lightning Performance with Columnstore!
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Stijn Wynants
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Realtime Analytics: OLAP & OLTP in the mix!
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Stijn Wynants
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Azure Cosmos DB
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Victor Isakov
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Secure your data at rest – on demand, now!
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Tobiasz Koprowski
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AD 2018. 2 AM. A New Disaster just began.
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Tobiasz Koprowski
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Performance Tuning with SQLSentry for SQL Server
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Warwick Rudd
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SQL Server Graph Database
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Dave Dustin
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Building Fast and Reliable Reporting with Power BI
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Siva Harinath , Sergei Gundorov
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Power BI Embedded; Developers Guide
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Sergei Gundorov
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Azure Machine Learning algorithm accuracy enhancement, tips, and tricks
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Leila Etaati
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Power BI Visualization Best Practices
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Reza Rad
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Technical reference and Design patterns for enterprise BI and reporting supporting data science team...
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Myles Matheson
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Endless Possibilities: R and Power BI
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Leila Etaati
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Power BI Solution Architecture; DirectQuery, LiveQuery, or Import Data
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Reza Rad
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Data Integration – preparing for the data challenges of tomorrow
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Robert Blaas
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Let’s start using Cognitive Services in our business apps!
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Gosia Borzecka
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Introducing Power BI Premium
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Siva Harinath
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Super Charge Power BI and What is new with Analysis Services
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Siva Harinath
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The last mile - Operationalization of Machine Learning
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Julian Lee
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Are you ready for Artificial Intelligence? – Bots and Cognitive Services
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Julian Lee
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What is DevOps and why do I care?
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Martin Catherall
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Data Privacy and the Data Professional
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Martin Catherall
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Correctly Architecting Availability Group Solutions
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Victor Isakov
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Azure IoT - Opportunities are Endless
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Sam Denton-Giles
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Microsoft IoT Central – Enterprise IOT as-a-Service
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Sam Denton-Giles
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Scalable Data Science with SparkR on HDInsight
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Lace Lofranco
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Adaptive Query Processing and Automatic Tuning
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Nagaraj Venkatesan
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Kerberos for BI
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Regis Baccaro
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SSIS in Azure Data Factory v2 - a game changer?
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Regis Baccaro
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Deep Learning with TensorFlow and the Data Science Virtual Machine
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Chimene Bonhomme
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Register for Difinity Conference 2018 today and join us February 12-14, 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand!