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Data Community Austria Day 2024

event date

26 Jan 2024

location

JUFA Wien City Vienna, Austria

website

datacommunity.at

Data Community Day Austria (fka SQL Saturday Vienna) is back!

For 2024 we are going in-person again - and are organizing a full day of sessions at JUFA Wien City. We are looking for technical sessions all around Microsoft's Data Platform and Power BI.

This event is an IN-PERSON event in Vienna, Austria, Europe. We are not planning for hybrid/remote options (presenters). 

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Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM

20 Jun 2023

Call closes at 11:59 PM

03 Aug 2023

Call closes in W. Europe Daylight Time (UTC+02:00) timezone.
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We are looking for talks (60min sessions and 10min lightning talks) all about Microsoft's Data Platform and Power BI and moderators.

We are encouraging both experienced and new speakers to submit sessions.

The Call 4 Speaker will close on July 31 2023.

The conference will take place at JUFA Wien City (https://www.jufahotels.com/hotel/wien/).


As this is a community-driven, free event, we are tight on budget and cannot cover any speaker's expenses. If budget allows, there will be food, coffee and tea all day long, we will invite all speakers to a dinner the day before the conference and invite all attendees (including speakers) to a community party at the end of the conference day and organize a sight-seeing tour on the day after the conference.

all submitted sessions

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event fee

free for speakers

free event - no speaker's expenses can be covered

230 submissions
Submitted sessions
Ynte Jan Kuindersma
  • Work with Power BI API’s through Power Automate. Export data and start and stop embedded capacity
  • Arbeiten mit Power BI APIs über Power Automate: Daten exportieren und embedded Kapazitäten steuern
  • A Citizen Developers DatawareHouse in Dataverse
Just Blindbæk
  • Transforming Data into Gold: A Live Demonstration of Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse
Alex Yates
  • Shared dev servers suck: Go faster, cheaper, and safer with self-service test data management
Frank Wagner, Felix Kefer
  • Take raw data to curated (cloud) data in under 60 minutes with TimeXtender
Wolfgang Strasser, Chris Hamill, Benni De Jagere, Lars Andersen, Gabi Münster, Filip Popović
  • Ask them Anything: Microsoft Fabric, Power BI
Alexander Thiede
  • Road to Net Zero enabled by data
Stefan Kummert
  • Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability powered by ESG Lake
Dan Mallott
  • Let's Get Scary and Continuously Deploy Database Changes!
  • Entity Framework (Core) Unchained: Getting the Best Performance from Your ORM
  • ORMs and the DBA: How to Make Both Happy
  • High Concurrency Table Hijinks
Paul Turley
  • Using Power BI with Lots of Data
Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen
  • Placeholder
  • Lightning Talks
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Matt Gordon
  • Data Exploration Accelerated: Power BI and Azure Data Explorer Unleashed
  • Who Is On Call For You?
  • Use AI To Make Your Data Job Easier (and More Fun)
  • Ground to Cloud: Your Migration Success Checklist
Johan Ludvig Brattås
  • Building your lakehouse in Azure
  • Azure Data Explorer - the new star in your data platform
Augustin Dokoza Bukvic
  • From Salesman to Analytics CoE Director
  • Start talking Power BI!
Rainer Stropek
  • Develop AI-powered Applications with OpenAI Embeddings and Azure Search
Nicky van Vroenhoven
  • A Form, a Flow and a Power BI Streaming Dataset Walk Into a Bar
  • Making The Most Out of The Power Platform
  • Write-back with Power Apps in Power BI
  • A Deep Dive Into The Power BI Direct Lake
  • (Back) In Control Of Your Power BI Tenant?
Michaela Berndl
  • Powerful Performance - Unleash the potential of Power BI with DAX Studio!
Tomaž Kaštrun
  • Azure Machine Learning Service with Python
  • Writing boardgames with T-SQL for SQL Server and Azure SQL
Cathrine Wilhelmsen
  • Uhms and Bunny Hands: Tips for Improving Your Presentation Skills
  • Building a Microsoft Fabric End-to-End Solution in 1-2-3!
Lars Andersen
  • External sharing with Power BI
  • Optimize KPI reporting using Power BI metrics
  • Driving alerts and actions on your data
Diana Diaz Bisbe
  • Chatbots and Pythonic AI in the Microsoft Data Realm
Alexander Klein
  • Power Virtual Agents in 10 Minuten
  • Power Universe or the unknown tools in M365
  • Power Virtual Agents – 101
  • Power Automate 101
David Weber
  • Lessons learned: Rolling out Power Platform across large organizations
  • Supercharging Data Transformation with dbt and Azure Synapse
  • Rust on Cloud: Optimizing serverless computing
  • Building a scalable analytics platform with Databricks on Azure
Erik Svensen
  • Different ways to get data out of your Power BI datasets
  • Connect to API's in Power Query
  • Introduction to Power BI developers to develop Power Apps
Tillmann Eitelberg, Oliver Engels
  • Git for data - verwalte deine Daten wie Code
Marjolein Opsteegh
  • DOD, Definition of Done, when is your dashboard ready
  • How to build an end-user friendly dashboard
Rui Carvalho
  • Build Your Data Pipeline with Fabric Data Factory
Ines Pascual Iglesias, Ana Maria Bisbe York
  • What are we doing to achieve greater visibility of female talent in technology?
Tom Martens
  • I can, I want, I must not - an overview of the current state of Access Management in Fabric
  • Data mesh, data product, data WTF with Microsoft Fabric
Rob Sewell
  • Introducing dbachecks v3
  • Old Name - New CLI - why you should take a look at sqlcmd
  • Old Name - New CLI - why you should take a look at sqlcmd
Valerie Junk
  • From data to action: Driving decision-making with Power BI
  • Visualizing Data for Non-Data Experts: Making Reports Accessible to All
  • Storytelling & Power BI - Creating Power BI reports that connect with different audiences
Ásgeir Gunnarsson
  • Is the Power BI admin now a Fabric admin? What has changed for the admin?
  • Are you (A)zure about your analytical choses? What to choose for analytics on Azure
  • Working with JSON files in Microsoft Fabric
  • Power BI Governance quick start
  • Implementing a successful user engagement during Power BI rollout
Hugo Kornelis
  • Now Where Did THAT Estimate Come From?
  • Normalization beyond Third Normal Form
  • Five stages of grief - internals of a hash spill
  • Managing Execution Plans
  • Here’s the execution plan … now what?
  • Execution plans ... where do I start?
Odeta Jankaitienė
  • Enhancing User Experience with Embedded Power BI Content
  • Making Your Life Easier with Power BI Rest API
  • Unlock the Power of Power BI with the Design
  • From Chaos to Control: How to Govern Your Power BI Environment
Rutuja Pawar
  • Design for All: Increase the Accessibility of your Power BI Dashboards
  • Visual Design: Do not let Data be your cul-de-sac!
Elena Drakulevska
  • Gestalt: The Jedi Mind Trick of Power BI Design
  • Power BI meets UX Design Principles: Creating accessible, intuitive, and visually appealing reports
Ust Oldfield
  • Data Modelling Showdown: Unravelling the Mysteries of Different Data Modelling Approaches
  • Don't be afraid of change! Learn about schema evolution and watch your data grow and evolve
Ioana Bouariu
  • The future is here. Will AI replace us? How to unleash your true potential with human - AI teamwork.
  • Power BI Blueprint: A Framework for Mapping and Prioritizing Business Needs with Power BI
  • Power BI and beyond: User Adoption Strategies and Real-World Examples
  • Power Up Your Power BI: Unlock the Magic of Automation with PowerShell and become a data wizard
Ben Watt
  • Power BI dataflows: building your own refresh orchestration
  • Power BI Deployment, Workspaces, Apps - getting it right
  • Power Automate your way to Cognitive Services and Power BI
  • Automate your Power BI data validation
Miguel Félix
  • Think inside the box
  • Power Query - Going Back to Basics
  • Power BI Developer Mode - Non technical
  • Combine the Power of Power BI with External Tools
Kristina Preuer, Theresa Hirz
  • Beyond Words: Azure OpenAI Embeddings - Turning Language into Calculations
Štěpán Rešl
  • Level-Up your Power Query game with Custom Functions
  • Unlock endless possibilities with SVGs in Power BI
  • Custom Query doesn't have to End of time for Query Folding!
  • Fabric Domains
Ana Maria Bisbe York
  • What are we doing to achieve greater visibility of female talent in technology?
  • Let's define Entities and attributes for tabular models in 10 minutes.
Ana Maria Bisbe York, Diana Diaz Bisbe
  • Cleansing and formatting data with Power Query options, M, and Python languages
Erik Hamoen
  • How to set-up and get the most out of your Center of Excellence
Odeta Jankaitienė, Mantas Umbrasas
  • Double Power: Power BI and Power Apps Integration
Chris Hamill
  • Effective report design - from blank canvas to polished report in 7 easy steps
  • Building App-like reporting for high quality user experiences
Stijn Wynants, Filip Popović
  • Fabric Espresso: Lungo Edition!
Injae Park
  • Generative AI for the Power BI Developer
Taras Kloba
  • PostgreSQL Security: Defending Againstst External Attacks
Oliver Engels, Tillmann Eitelberg
  • Data Quality Roundtrip 2023 in the Microsoft Data Platform
Gabi Münster
  • Storage Modes in Power BI
  • 10 minutes to Fabric
Gabi Münster, Oliver Engels
  • Extended Governance of Microsoft Fabric with Microsoft Purview
Bernhard Engleder, Wolfgang Strasser
  • Data Governance with Azure Purview - Theory, Customer Insights and Demos
Bernhard Engleder
  • Onboarding - so gelingt der Start deines neuen Team-Mitglieds
  • Speed up your development with metadata-based ETL processes
Denis Selimovic
  • Beyond the Logs: Find out what's really going on in your tenant with the Power BI Scanner API
  • Stop compromising: How Hybrid Tables revolutionize your data access in Power BI
  • The Gitfather: Power BI's new deployment possibility you can't refuse
  • Who says you can't do that in Power BI? Do you already know XMLA endpoints?
  • Mastering the fundamentals: why the basics are the key to success in Power BI
Ben Weissman (he/him), Wolfgang Strasser, Nikola Ilic, Elena Drakulevska
  • Community Stories - to be continued...
Kevin Chant
  • KevOps for Microsoft Fabric
Henk Vlootman
  • Custom functions in Power Query
  • The secrets of Power BI - understanding context.
  • Advanced Interaction in Power BI Visual Reports: Drill-Through Deep Dive
Erland Sommarskog
  • Don't Bite Off More You Can Chew - Take it in Chunks
  • Dynamic Search Conditions
  • Don’t Let Your Permissions Be Hijacked!
  • All You Wanted to Know About Collations
Torsten Strauß
  • Rapid SQL Database Development with SSDT Templates and Code Snippets
  • Memory-Optimized Tempdb Metadata in Microsoft SQL Server
  • Locking and Blocking in SQL Server
  • Query tuning in Azure SQL
  • Intelligent Query Processing - Table variable deferred compilation in Azure SQL
  • Intelligent Query Processing - Approximate count distinct in Microsoft SQL Server
  • Defeat Page Latches in Microsoft SQL Server
  • Create Azure SQL Database Alerts with a bicep template
  • Parallelism in Microsoft SQL Server
Martynas Jočys
  • I have always asked for export to Excel. What can you do to avoid this request?
  • The 5 UX design principles which boost the quality of data products
  • Make users master your dashboard quickly: how to create an "intuitive" report?
  • From visualization to storytelling: creating a story-like experience in Power BI
Paul Andrew
  • Building an Azure Data Analytics Platform End-to-End
  • Implementing a Data Mesh Architecture in Azure
  • The Evolution of Data Platform Architectures in Azure - Lambda, Kappa, Delta, Data Mesh
  • How Can Microsoft Fabric Have an Impact on Your Business?
Frank Geisler
  • Introduction to Bicep for the Cloud DBA
  • Automating Power BI with PowerShell
  • ADX and the last crusade
Pragati Jain
  • Public Speaking and where it gets you
  • Cracking Mystery Behind Data Visualization
  • Microsoft Fabric in Action - Ingesting data to Report creation
Geovanny Hernandez
  • Career change: From DB Engineer to Data Engineer with less pain
  • Branching strategy for DB development: A practical case of GIT and Azure DevOps
  • Building a strategy for migrating our Database to Azure Cloud
  • Building a reliable Database Pipeline with Liquibase and SSDT
Namrata Agrawal
  • Vision to Diagnosis: Detecting Diabetic Retinopathy with Power App
Mladen Prajdic
  • SQL Server 2019 Always Encrypted: The Searchable Encryption!
  • Optimizing SQL Server Row Level Security
  • Thē wönderfűl wôrld of ćollåtions, eñcodingß and téxt sţoræge
Rob Litjens
  • Open up your database by API
  • Defender for SQL as part of your Defense in Depth strategy
Michael Schwaenen
  • 'Excel' in Power BI, or rather don't
  • Creating multi-language reports in Power BI, from start to finish.
Andrew Pruski
  • Running powershell in Vim
  • SQL Server and Kubernetes
  • A deep dive into Docker
  • Running SQL Server on Linux
Strahinja Rodic
  • SQL MI “Secrets”: Top Features you (probably) never heard of
  • Uncovering Azure SQL MI’s latest Backup and Recovery features
  • BCDR 101 in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Sameer Paradkar
  • Modern Data Platforms
Rajendra Ongole
  • Domains (preview)
Rifat Jahan Azad
  • Azure synapse for Integrated ML and Data Science
Uwe Ricken
  • User Definied Functions – From SQL 2000 – SQL 2019
  • Simplify data management with partitioning
  • Security techniques for cross database access
  • How to handle Timeseries with Microsoft SQL Server
Gethyn Ellis
  • Moneyball – Build a killer Fantasy Football Team with Power BI
  • A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Data-Driven Culture in Your Business Using Power BI
Gethyn Ellis, David Postlethwaite
  • From Zero to Hero: Accidental SQL Server DBAs Survival Guide
Pieter Vanhove
  • Confidential computing with Always Encrypted using enclaves
  • Bringing the Power of Blockchain to SQL with Ledger
David Postlethwaite, Gethyn Ellis
  • What you can do to protect your SQL Server and why it matters
  • Top Ten Disasters we've dealt with in our time as DBAs
David Postlethwaite
  • Control and audit your Azure resources with Azure Policies
Erwin de Kreuk, Marc Lelijveld
  • Extending Power BI governance with Microsoft Purview
Klaus Aschenbrenner
  • UNIQUEIDENTIFIERs as Primary Keys in SQL Server
  • Myths and Misconceptions about Locking & Blocking
  • Docker for the SQL Server Developer
Brian Bønk
  • The Kusto experience in Fabric
  • The Data Warehouse in Fabric
  • Azure Synapse serverless vs Fabric
Magnus Ahlkvist
  • Eight hours of work in 20 minutes.
  • DBA? Sure. But you're also a developer
  • Build an Availability Group in ten minutes using SQL containers
Jens Vestergaard
  • Streamlining Your Data Loading Workflows with Azure Event Grid
  • Introducing KQL
  • Abusing a Tabular Model - For fun
Erwin de Kreuk
  • Getting started with building your Azure Synapse environment
  • Unleashing the Potential of Metadata-Driven ELT Framework
  • Streamline Data Governance with Microsoft Purview
  • Onelake with Fabric, The Data Lake-as-a-Service Platform
  • Real-Time Analytics in Microsoft Fabric, a real game changer?
Benni De Jagere
  • How to write a Session Abstract, to get chosen to speak
  • Pie Charts. Friend or Foe?!
  • Power BI Premium - Practical Tips for making the most of it
  • Troubleshooting Power BI Reports
  • You're a Power BI Admin? Let's get your threads aligned for Fabric!
  • Using Lakehouse Data at scale with Power BI, featuring Direct Lake mode
  • Keeping the "Direct" in Power BI DirectQuery
Mihail Mateev
  • Building Automated Flows using Power Automate and Office Scripts
  • Azure Cosmos DB Serverless Unleashed
  • Boosting Power Platform with ChatGPT Capabilities.
Alexander Korn
  • How to apply IBCS with Power BI
  • Power BI Report Server Troubleshooting and Monitoring
  • "My Report is Slow" - Data Modeling and Report Design Basics
Christian Henrik Reich
  • What is a DTU? And how to right-size an Azure SQL Database
  • Modelling and indexing your dataware house
Marc Lelijveld
  • Unified Governance in Microsoft Fabric
  • Power BI refreshes - reinvented!
  • Overcoming the Fear: Exploring Microsoft Fabric from a Power BI Angle
Olivier Van Steenlandt
  • Improving Team Collaboration Using Database Projects and Azure DevOps
Dejan Sarka
  • Clustering in Core Power BI and with R and Python
  • Optimizing Power BI: a Holistic View
  • SQL Ledger - a New Security Feature
  • Association Rules Step by Step