Megan Livadas
Head of Data & Analytics @ Advania UK
London, United Kingdom
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Power BI fangirl since 2018, leading end-to-end Fabric and BI implementations across industries including Insurance and Retail. On a mission to help organisations create a Data Culture, and drive adoption through proper governance.
Blogging at Livadata.com
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Auditing your Power BI Platform: A Practical Route from Red to Green
Power BI platforms rarely fail overnight… they drift. In this session, I share the recurring patterns I see when auditing Power BI and Fabric platforms for large organisations, across People, Process, and Technology. You’ll learn where platforms most commonly go wrong, why issues emerge organically, and the early warning signs to watch for. Expect an interactive session (including Power BI Audit Bingo!) as we spot red flags and take back control before they become business‑critical.
You'll learn how I use my 3x3 Governance & Adoption Framework, developed and refined through repeated real-world platform audits, along with the reporting principles I use to stabilise and scale modern data platforms.
I'll share how to take control by systematically auditing your Fabric environment end-to-end using a repeatable, field-tested methodology and defining a clear, prioritised route forward.
Using a structured framework spanning People, Process, and Technology, we will work through a practical audit of a Fabric platform, including:
• Roles, skills, and operating models across BI, data engineering, including platform ownership and CoE advice
• Platform structure, including domains, workspaces, and access strategies
• End-to-end development and deployment practices across semantic models, notebooks, and pipelines
• Tenant configuration, capacity planning, and cost control
• Security, governance, and observability across the platform
Power BI Culture - Driving Adoption through Governance
Power BI is often something that organisations allow to grow organically - which is great, but can lead to a headache when no formal Power BI Governance plan has been adopted, and users are self-taught. Other organisations invest considerably in a BI Implementation, only to find they aren't seeing the adoption levels they hoped for.
This session is aimed at provoking thought on how to implement a Power BI Culture, using governance as a gateway to drive adoption.
Agenda:
Why do we need a Power BI specific governance strategy
Examining the relationship between controls and innovation
The Power BI Self-Service pyramid
The 3 Pillars of Power BI Governance
4 Guiding Principles of a Power BI Culture
Building your BI Team in a Fabric world
Whether you’re a part of a large BI team, or the sole Power BI champion for your business, there are many hats to be worn to deliver success in Power BI.
Who owns the platform and what are their responsibilities?
Who are your core developers and what standards should they adhere to?
Who are the super users in your business and how can you best utilise them?
How can you identify your champion end users who are the key to driving true adoption?
These have always been key talking points for those growing a career or building out teams of Power BI specialists, but in a Fabric world it’s all the more important to establish. How can you ready yourself and your team to unlock the innovation that will come with growing Fabric implementations?
This session will delve into the crucial people pillar of my Power BI Adoption framework, which I’ve been delivering to organisations across the UK since the launch of Microsoft Fabric. With over 6 years experience delivering end-to-end Power BI implementations, I specialise in helping BI teams drive adoption, see ROI for their deliveries and implement governance on out of control Power BI platforms.
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