Wednesday 12:40 PM - 1:00 PM · Expo Innovation Theater

AI for BI: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Every BI platform now includes AI—from Microsoft Fabric CoPilot to standalone chatbots. Yet without a unified strategy, these tools create fragmented user experiences and governance risks. This session introduces a clear Reference Architecture for implementing AI for BI at scale—helping enterprises eliminate silos, ensure control, and build a sustainable, scalable system.

Wednesday 12:40 PM - 1:00 PM · Expo Insight Theater

Vortex: AI-Powered Migration to Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Made Simple

Legacy platforms create data silos blocking innovation. Manual migrations take 12+ months with 83% failing. See how AI automation transforms this: smart rationalization prioritizes assets, automated conversion handles apps and pipelines, and optimization ensures quality. Watch live demos and hear how one organization migrated an app portfolio in months, unlocking Fabric's modern capabilities.

Wednesday 12:40 PM - 1:00 PM · Expo Solution Theater

How to build a 360-degree view of customers, suppliers, or contacts across OneLake

Learn how to create a 360-degree, contextual view across all your OneLake data in Microsoft Fabric. See how to perform high-quality data matching using Entity Resolution techniques across different entity types, eg. people, businesses and locations. Accurately link data across sources and enrich incomplete data. Break down silos and get your data ready for AI, powering better and faster decisions.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · B401-B402

Designing for the Right User: Why Personas Are the Secret to Better Power BI Reports

Reports don’t fail because you’re bad at design. They fail because they’re built for the wrong user. Learn how to identify the real “characters” behind your Power BI reports, from the big-picture strategist to the action-taker and the detail-obsessed analyst, and how to tailor layout, detail, and interactions so each user gets what they need to make confident decisions.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C105-C106

Power Query Escape Room

The villainous Lord Taart Chart has stolen your curated data and locked it in his Azure Vault! Your mission: face 10 Power Query Puzzles that challenge your skills to wrangle, transform, and tame messy data. Can you outsmart him and reclaim your data before it’s lost forever?

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C302

Planning & Writeback on Top of Semantic Models

Unlock hidden ROI by turning your existing semantic layer into a full planning engine. This innovation eliminates duplicate EPM systems, unifies actuals and plans, and delivers real-time, governed insights. By activating write-back directly to Fabric, organizations cut cost, boost agility, and transform planning into a seamless extension of analytics.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C111-C112

CORENOTE: Power BI Roadmap: Strategy, Vision, and Demos

Power BI empowers organizations to turn insights into actions and deliver enterprise analytics at scale in Fabric. In this session discover why businesses standardize on Power BI, learn about building a data-driven culture, and get a first look at upcoming features that unlock your data’s potential.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · TMB 4

Make Managed Self-Service BI Work for You with Power BI and Purview (the BI Mullet Approach)

When designed well, a managed self-service BI approach strikes the perfect balance between centralized data discipline and flexible self-service reporting. This session will demonstrate how smart Power BI implementation (including centrally maintained semantic models, report templates, and administration) saves time, money, and headaches when paired with Purview's Unified Catalog.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C302

CI/CD and DevOps for Power BI: Beyond the Happy Path

CI/CD is vital to efficient and governed Power BI delivery, yet Azure DevOps rarely follows the “happy path.” This session exposes the burden of manual steps, merge conflicts, and the limitations of GIT. Next, full-automated alternatives will be evaluated, covering zero-touch version control, enhanced lineage, advanced deployment workflows, and some of the associated pitfalls.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 2-3

AI Answers, Done Right: When to use Power BI Copilot vs. Fabric Data Agents

Business users want answers, not plumbing. In this session, we map when to use Power BI Copilot directly versus when Fabric Data Agents shine. We’ll cover the product’s current functionality to help you get started with AI, from setting up a data agent to chatting across all of your data in Power BI. We’ll highlight recent feature additions and talk about the roadmap of future investments to empower your business users in unlocking data insights with the help of Copilot.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · B308-B309

From Simple Maps to Advanced Spatial Analytics in Power BI

Explore the full spectrum of Location Intelligence in Power BI, from simple map coloring to advanced spatial analytics. Learn the core concepts behind mapping; how to choose the right geographies and map them with BI data; how to analyze data through proximity and travel times; and how to manage dynamic territories. Session will include native Power BI mapping capabilities as well as custom visuals.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C302

Accelerating Data and AI with Azure Databricks

Get the most out of your investments with Azure Databricks. Learn how the deep integration in the Azure ecosystem accelerates workloads, optimizes performance, and maximizes value. See how the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform on Azure streamlines analytics and AI.

Thursday 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM · Expo Insight Theater

The Fabric Effect at CDW: Built by the Business, Supercharged by IT

See how CDW brought business and IT together to build something bigger. Christopher shows how he used Fabric to turn scattered data into a single operational portal that runs the business. Julie adds technical insights and reveals how partnership unlocked even more value. A fast, energetic look at the power user revolution inside Fabric.

Thursday 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM · Expo Solution Theater

Fabric Capacity Under Control: Reduced Costs, Less Outages, Better User Experience

Everyone struggles with rising Power BI capacity costs, rogue behaviors, outage risks, and badly designed reports reaching the platform. This session shows how predictive monitoring helps you prevent issues early and optimize for capacity costs. With Wiiisdom’s insights, you’ll keep Power BI stable, efficient, and delivering a better user experience.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C111-C112

What's New and What's Next for Power BI Visuals

Join this session with the Power BI Product team to discover the vision, innovation, and future of Power BI visuals! We'll dive into how our overarching goals and strategies shape our decision-making to build user-focused features. Through real-world examples of recent feature releases, we'll demonstrate how to enable impactful data storytelling. You'll also gain an exclusive preview of what’s next for Power BI visuals—both in the short and long term—helping you shape your data visualization journey.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 1

Power BI in Higher Education: Real Use Cases from Enrollment to Graduation

Higher ed generates massive data across admissions, enrollment, advising, and alumni, often stuck in silos. This session shows how Power BI unifies it through real examples: funnels, trends, retention, student success, faculty workload, and outcomes. Learn to model complex structures, clean data, and build clear visuals you can apply immediately.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C101

Redefining Enterprise Planning for the Era of AI

Enterprises face growing pressure to make faster, better decisions, yet many operate across fragmented systems and siloed data. In this session, we’ll explore how Microsoft Fabric brings data, insights, and action together on a unified platform—reducing complexity and accelerating decision making. In this session, we will explore the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric designed to assist organizations in transitioning from fragmented analysis to coordinated execution. These tools empower leaders to respond efficiently to change, extend intelligence throughout teams, and establish a robust foundation for AI-driven growth.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · TMB 2-3

Agentic Development in Power BI for the Non-Developer

Feeling underwater keeping up with AI change? This session breaks the buzzwords into clear, practical ideas. We explain what agentic development means for Power BI today, how large language models, skills, and tools work together, and how these capabilities show up in GitHub Copilot and web experiences. We’ll demo going from raw data to a usable model and show how the same foundations power reporting, chat with your data, and data agents

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B308-B309

Enterprise Row-Level Security: A Blueprint for Scale in Fabric

Managing RLS for 100s of users across multiple semantic models becomes chaos fast. We'll share a proven architecture for complex security—VPs see regions, managers see departments, reps see customers. Learn reusable RLS table design, AD Group patterns to prevent role sprawl, performance tips, and self-service access reports. Walk away with a blueprint from production managing 500+ users.

Thursday 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM · Expo Insight Theater

Enterprise Write-back: Driving Data-Driven Transformation with Power BI

Ready to see how modern planning is being redefined? Acterys showcases how a leading manufacturer moved from fragmented, Excel-based planning to streamlined, data-driven decision-making. Discover how Enterprise Write-Back in Power BI enables faster processes, greater accuracy, and efficiency—plus a live demo of the architecture, workflows, and best practices behind the transformation.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C111-C112

Expert vs. AI: The Power BI Turing Test

Come witness a Power BI showdown between an expert developer vs. intermediate developer supercharged by AI. Both tackle real-world challenges like designing good data models and polished reports. Like a modern Turing test, you become the judge: can AI-augmented development produce solutions indistinguishable from expert craftsmanship? Or will the subtle nuances of true mastery still stand apart?

Thursday 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM · Expo Insight Theater

Scaling Fabric Write Back for Real-Time Collaboration & Data Enrichment

Fabric's native writeback excels at single-record forms, but teams often need to enrich multiple data points, add context across records, or collaborate in real-time. Learn how to extend Fabric's writeback from forms to Excel-like tabular editing that scales. Walk away understanding how to transform your Fabric environment into an active, collaborative decision-making platform.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C211-C213

DAX 201: CALCULATE, Unfolding the Swiss Army Knife of DAX Functions

This session unfolds evaluation context and the logic behind CALCULATE(). Through examples, we'll demystify how row context, filter context, and CALCULATE() work together to produce dynamic calculation results. You'll gain confidence to tackle advanced calculations and optimize measure performance.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B404

Make your Power BI Desktop report print-ready (in one hour or less)

Need a printable version of an existing Power BI report fast? Learn how to convert a .pbix into a paginated .rdl by using the same semantic model in Power BI Report Builder. This session walks you through each step of converting an existing Power BI report into its paginated equivalent, then reviews how to address common paginated report issues with parameters, print layout, and grouping.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 2-3

Intelligent analytics in real-world scenarios

In today’s AI-driven world, the integration of data, analytics tools, and AI agents is more critical than ever. This session focuses on how AI agents, Power BI, and other Fabric capabilities can be integrated to implement a real-world solution. We will demonstrate how to ingest and process data, train and deploy predictive models, create conversational experiences, and perform intelligent analytics to address a common business challenge. Join us to explore how these technologies work together to deliver impactful, production-ready solutions.

Friday 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM · Expo Solution Theater

From Dashboard to Executive Business Reviews in Seconds

Discover how data leaders at companies like Equality Health, Tripadvisor, and T. Rowe Price automatically create thousands of executive and client ready slide decks. This session will teach you how to programmatically generate and update PowerPoint and Google Slides directly from your Power BI data—ensuring your stakeholders and customers get reports in the slide format they need, all while eliminating extra work and governance risk for your data team.

You’ll learn to: -Automate recurring reports (QBRs, Client Updates, Financial Decks). -Keep your slides in perfect sync with your semantic models. -Instantly generate hundreds of personalized deck variations (e.g., one unique deck per region or client) from a single Power BI report.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 2-3

Taking Direct Lake to the Next Level

See what's new for Direct Lake semantic modeling, then dive into the technical details that matter most for enterprise scale. Learn how cardinality, monitoring, and V‑Order influence performance, with practical demos and guidance you can apply straight away.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · TMB 2-3

Reporting with action: Visualizations with translytical task flows in Power BI and Fabric

Join this session to learn about translytical task flows combining Power BI reports and Fabric user data functions together for actionable reports with a click of a button. We’ll demo how to set it up, the options you have, and specific examples of these reports in action. Interested in what this is or are you already using it today? We’ll have insights you don’t want to miss!

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C302

From Legacy BI to Insight at Speed: How PGIM Rebuilt Analytics with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI

When analytics can’t answer “what’s happening right now?” without manual effort, organizations lose time and momentum. PGIM modernized its fragmented BI environment into a unified analytics platform on Microsoft Fabric to deliver real-time insight and scale AI. By unifying data ingestion, modeling, and reporting—and integrating Snowflake data—PGIM built a governed, high-performance foundation for self-service analytics. Power BI reporting with Exploration View replaced legacy Cognos logic, streamlined pipelines, and reduced technical debt. Copilot now accelerates development and AI-assisted discovery. This session covers the architecture, design decisions, and lessons learned.

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · TMB 2-3

Data Modeling Like a Pro in Fabric

Join the Fabric product team for an in-depth session to learn about data modeling in Fabric, including Direct Lake and composite models for scale and flexibility, and AI-first workflows to achieve 10x productivity. Get ready for mind-blowing demos and sneak peaks into upcoming capabilities so you can develop semantic models like the experts.

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · TMB 1

Semantic Link Labs: The Data Detective’s Toolkit

Every data detective needs the right toolkit—and Semantic Link Labs delivers. In this demo-heavy session, you’ll see it link Power BI datasets with Python notebooks for deeper diagnostics. Learn to trace relationships, uncover hidden dependencies, validate measures, and resolve issues that impact report quality, performance, and reliability. Get patterns for monitoring, validating, and correcting.

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · TMB 2-3

Delivering Insights Where Your Users Work

Learn practical strategies for sharing Power BI content across your company. We’ll cover distributing insights through apps (including organizational apps), and how business users can access Power BI directly from their M365 tools and Copilot to boost productivity and make informed decisions. You’ll get a deep look at current capabilities as well as what’s coming next.

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C208-C210

Vibe Coding a Power BI Embedded Portal - From Zero to Hero in 60 Minutes

Power BI Embedded isn’t just for developers.

In this fast-paced vibe-coding session, we’ll demystify it by building a real custom portal in 60 minutes, using AI to speed things up.

See how to set Power BI Embedded up quickly, craft a user-centric experience, improve navigation beyond the service, and unlock powerful opportunities without heavy coding, giving you a fresh view of what’s truly possible.