Chris Cusumano
Chris Cusumano, Business Intelligence Architect, Quickbase
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Since discovering Power BI in 2018, Chris Cusumano has helped teams in airline ops, engineering consulting, and the auto repair industry make sense of their data through clean models, sharp visuals, and scalable solutions. A self-taught data nerd with a knack for storytelling, Chris specializes in making analytics approachable and actionable. In 2025, he joined SaaS leader Quickbase to grow Power BI and Microsoft Fabric across the organization—bringing customer insights to life, one story at a time.
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Supercharge Your Power BI Report Search Experience with a Fabric Data Agent
Finding the right Power BI report is often frustrating—the built-in search makes even general discovery tough.
Learn how a Fabric Data Agent can use visual detail & frequency, model info, and direct URLs to power a smart search, helping both users and developers uncover existing insights instantly.
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 BI Governance - All-In-One Solution for Impact Analysis & Backups
In this session, we’ll walk through the real-world challenges organizations face when making changes to Power BI models, dataflows, or data sources — from broken reports and unclear dependencies to lack of version control and overall governance. Then, we’ll shift gears and explore a free, open-source solution designed to work for anyone that acts as an all-in-one toolkit for:
1. Automatically backing up all Power BI reports, models, and dataflows
2. Extracting metadata from all Power BI workspaces
3. Performing true impact analysis to see what breaks before it breaks
4. Enabling workspace-level governance and transparency at scale
By the end of this 1-hour session, you'll see how to set up this solution for your own environment and gain practical strategies for taming Power BI sprawl and enforcing governance — without relying on paid third-party tools.
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