Chris Cusumano
Chris Cusumano, Senior Data Engineer, Microsoft
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Since discovering Power BI in 2018, Chris Cusumano has believed that data should make people's jobs easier - not harder. Since then, he's helped teams in airline operations, engineering consulting, Saas, and auto repair turn messy datasets into meaningful stories through clean models, clear visuals, and practical analytics.
A self-taught data nerd with a knack for storytelling, Chris specialized in making analytics approachable and actionable.
Beginning in March 2026, he joined Microsoft as a Senior Data Engineer, helping drive internal reporting with Power BI and Fabric alongside AI Data Agents.
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Breaking Bad….Governance in Power BI: Free & Open-Source Solution
As Power BI usage grows across your organization, even small changes — like renaming a field, moving a measure, or removing a column — can trigger a domino effect of broken visuals and failed refreshes. At scale, tracking down what broke (and why) can feel impossible.
This session shows how to take back control with a free, open-source toolkit that gives you full visibility across your workspaces — all the way down to the visual.
Built for everyone — no setup, no permissions, no hassle. Just one click, and you’re off!
You’ll see how it:
• Automatically backs up every report, model, and dataflow
• Maps dependencies across measures, visuals, and pages
• Shows exactly what will break before deploying changes
• Tracks refresh history and model health across all workspaces
• Delivers everything in an interactive Power BI dashboard
Walk away knowing how to see every connection, prevent breakages, and bring true transparency to your Power BI environment.
Power Query Secrets: Unlocking Low-Code Data Transformation
Power Query is where most Power BI solutions truly begin. While upstream transformations are always ideal, Power BI wouldn’t be what it is today without the flexibility and magic of Power Query.
In this session, we’ll focus on practical, real-world tips and patterns that help Power Query solutions in Power BI and Dataflows stay reliable as data evolves. You’ll learn ways to make queries easier to read, easier to troubleshoot, and far less likely to break when a data source changes unexpectedly.
We’ll also explore some more advanced Power Query ideas that will feel familiar to DAX and SQL users, offering a fresh perspective on how you approach and organize logic as your data needs grow.
Walk away feeling more comfortable and confident in Power Query, ready for whatever your data throws at you next.
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