Do I need technical education to become technical expert?

You are planning to change your career to become a data analyst? You don’t know what is needed and how to start. And most importantly, can I do it as I'm coming from a different background?
This is a session for you.

Why do I think learning is the single most important task, and what is the recommended learning path? What obstacles do you need to avoid and what are your advantages coming from outside of technology? How to navigate the enormous analytics landscape and pick where to shine?
The session is intended to provide you with a step-by-step path on how to change your career and become a successful analyst, and most importantly how to keep growing.

Duration 60 min, intending audience: newbie analyst and wannabe analyst

Breaking (in)visible walls - how helping others may help your personal growth!

What do you do if you were a woman from a non-developed country, without equal rights for education?

What do you do if you were a woman whose parents decided what your career path is going to be?

What do you do if you're earning 300$/month and can't afford paid training to change your career?

You apply for the free Power BI Bootcamp!

Does something like this even exist?! Yes, of course! I've just run one with the helping hand of other fellow community members.

In this table talk, we want to share lessons learned from running this Bootcamp - not just how it changed the lives of these wonderful human beings (hopefully for the better), who didn't have a proper chance to achieve their professional goals, but also how this helped us in personal growth and to redefine the point of view based on living in a well-developed countries.

After this session, you'll get nothing in terms of tech knowledge, but you will walk away with a good feeling in your soul, and understand why helping others also helps YOU in breaking many (in)visible walls!

Citizen data analyst hitchiker guide to Power BI

You are passionate about data analysis and ended up installing Power BI, but what now? where to go, and what are all those terms?
Don't worry, this session will guide you through the Power BI language.

What’s the difference between the Direct Query and Live Connect? Then…Data…Dataset – Dataflow – Datamart…What are all these?! “I’ve created a wonderful dashboard”. You mean, report? No…yes…I don’t know the difference☹

Can I use DAX to create calculated columns in Power Query? And, how to create measures in Power Query? (No, you can’t do that, it’s a different language). I’ve installed the data gateway, now I need to choose the proper mode – I should go with personal, right?

In this session, we will demystify the most common sources of confusion among Power BI practitioners and explain differences and similarities between various Power BI terms and concepts. You’ll walk away with a clear understanding of the terminology and feel more confident talking Power BI!

Ambush Assassins: Secret killers of your Power BI performance and how to deal with them

Tired of slow performing Power BI solutions? Sick of user complaints that their report takes forever to render?

If you answered “YES” to either one of the questions above, join us for this session packed with best practices and tips to avoid secret (and non-secret) killers of the Power BI performance! No slides, no long story – it’s just YOU, Power BI, and us!

In this session we will reveal the most usual performance “assassins” of your Power BI reports, all the way from data loading, through avoiding non-optimal DAX code, and understanding visuals’ rendering time. After this hands-on session, you’ll walk away with a better understanding of the most common pitfalls in Power BI performance, and how to avoid them!

Power BI, good, bad and ugly

We all create reports every day, and while dealing with it full time we can simply not recognize some common mistakes that we are making. This session will disclose the most common ones and provide you with the techniques how to avoid them when creating your Power BI enterprise reports. Guiding you through all the common pitfalls all the way from data ingestion, modeling to data visualization.
With common pitfalls, there are also best practices to follow. This session guides you through the main roadblocks and gives you some useful tips and tricks to help you create stunning enterprise reports that will be performant and pleasant to use.

Day in Life of an Analytics Consultant - Lessons Learned

This session will be a retrospective of the most valuable lessons learned in the last 10 years from my own successes and mistakes made in delivering large-scale analytics and reporting projects to Fortune 500 companies. I will go through technical, life, and communication topics and give you an insight into how to deal with them

Data Democracy - Scary s**t

Data Democracy - is it a myth, or it's really possible?
What do you need to do to become a real data-driven company, how to adapt your data strategy to enable every individual with access to timely and accurate data without compromising on governance and security?
The entire session will focus on the strategic roadmap of Data Culture implementation. How to start it and not fail...

Is there any (data) Culture in your company?

Is the governance something working contrary with self-service BI?
Or can they work together?
When to start with governance and what are the first steps for enterprise deployments. Find out how to make your life with Power BI easier and what road to follow to reach a perfect harmony between data democracy and needed control.
The story is focused on Data Culture building and how to become a data-driven enterprise.