Ashley Warren
Advanced Analytics Senior Consultant at Advancing Analytics
Bath, United Kingdom
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I'm a senior consultant with a focus on analytics engineering and data visualisation. In the past, I've led data teams at small and large organisations, helping unlock the power of data through storytelling.
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Agentic Development in Power BI
Agentic development practices has arrived in the software engineer space. Claude Code has taken the world by storm, allowing people to develop new software at lightning speed. It is becoming increasingly clear, that developers that lean into these practices are increasing their productivity by multiples.
For years, trends in the software engineering world have slowly trickled down to the data world. Naturally, this begs the question, how can we as Power BI developers take that and apply these agentic development practices to speed up our Power BI development?
In this intermediate to advanced level talk I take you through a number of different options for how you can make your development faster using Agents and AI, that I have been using to help me build, test and ship faster than ever before. We'll talk through how to get started, what tools you can leverage and the problems you experience on a daily basis that they can help you solve. We'll also discuss the pain points of agentic development and I'll share my top tips on how you can avoid the many pitfalls that I have already fallen into.
The future of development is Agentic, and for Power BI developers that future is now!
CI/CD in PowerBI: For when just hitting publish isn't good enough
When you're first starting out with PowerBI and want to share content with other users, you probably just hit the publish button in PowerBI Desktop. If you are like me, eventually you start to think, surely there has to be a better way to do this?! Spoiler: There is and I'm here to help you explore it!
Join me in this session where we will discuss what CI/CD is and why you should care about it as a PowerBI developer, all through the lens of my personal journey with PowerBI.
We'll discuss the problems I encountered as a beginner developer. Then we'll explore the options built into PowerBI via a handful of demos, which I explored in the intermediate stage of my career. Then finally we'll touch on some of the more advanced techniques I use now via external tools like Tabular Editor, Azure DevOps & the Fabric APIs.
Together, we'll discover more mature & scalable ways for you to deploy PowerBI content to your end users. You'll unlock the power of effective multi-developer collaboration and begin to realise all the benefits that CI/CD best practices can make for a PowerBI development team.
How to make your Power BI Semantic Models faster!
Tired of the dreaded "this report is slow" feedback? Sluggish reports and long refreshes are often symptoms of unoptimised models or hidden design flaws. In this session, I'll give you the practical toolkit to find and fix them
Join me for this demo-filled, intermediate-level session, where I will walk you through how to approach this scenario. We'll work through examples of poorly performing reports/models, identify the cause of the issue and discuss how they can be redesigned or optimised to help improve performance.
I'll show you how you can use tools like DAX Studio and Tabular Editor to identify and correct issues, leveraging keys features like Best Practice Analyser, VertiPAQ analyser & DAX Traces. We'll also dissect some of the most common causes of slow DAX queries & show you how to avoid them.
You’ll leave this session with the tools and skills to build faster, more efficient models and finally silence the "slow report" complaints.
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