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Dhyan Rathore

Dhyan Rathore

Empowering people to unlock the full power of Power BI

Stockholm, Sweden

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Hi, I'm Dhyan, and I love all things data. I help people unlock the magic of Power BI by simplifying the tricky stuff, automating the boring parts, and cheering teams on as they build solutions that actually stick. For me, data is more than numbers, it's an opportunity to inspire and create lasting impact.

If a session with me leaves data feeling lighter and more fun, mission accomplished.

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  • Most Active Speaker 2024

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  • Information & Communications Technology

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  • Microsoft Power BI
  • BI & Analytics
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Microsoft Power platform
  • Microsoft Data Platform

From Chaos to Control: 5 Tips to Tame Your Fabric Capacities

Are your Fabric capacities constantly running hot, leaving you scrambling to keep things under control? Managing a Fabric tenant doesn't have to feel chaotic. With the right strategies, you can regain control, cut unnecessary costs, and ensure smooth performance without overprovisioning.

In this session, you'll discover five practical tips every admin can use to tame their Fabric capacities. You will learn how to identify hidden inefficiencies and implement proactive approaches to mitigate capacity strain and maintain a smoothly running environment. By the end of this session, you'll have strategies that promote stability, cost-efficiency, and peace of mind in your Fabric administration.

Key Takeaways:
✅ Five practical tips to optimize and reduce Fabric capacity consumption
✅ Tools and techniques to spot optimization opportunities
✅ Important tenant settings that can make or break capacity performance
✅ Proven strategies to guide and educate developers for sustainable capacity usage

Target audience: Fabric Admin, Capacity Admin, Tech Owner, Platform Owner, Tech Lead
Session duration: 40 - 50 minutes
Session Level: Intermediate (200)

Power BI on a diet: 5 TIPS to slim down your semantic models

Is your Power BI report starting to feel like it’s dragging its feet? In this fast-paced and practical session, we’ll explore five simple yet powerful techniques to slim down your semantic model and dramatically boost performance. Learn how to identify bloated areas, reduce memory consumption, and optimize execution times with ease.

You’ll get a hands-on look at how tools like VertiPaq Analyzer can help you understand and inspect model size, plus live demos that reveal the real-world impact of each tip. Whether you’re a report author or a data modeler, these strategies will help you deliver faster, leaner, and more efficient Power BI experiences.

Key Takeaways:
✅ How data reduction directly improves DAX execution
✅ Introduction to VertiPaq Analyzer for model diagnostics
✅ Introduction to cardinality
✅ Live demonstrations of each optimization in action

Target audience: Power BI Developers, Data Analysts, Self-service users
Session duration: 40 - 50 minutes
Session Level: Beginner (100)

Level Up Your Business Users: A Practical Framework for Power BI Upskilling

What if your next Microsoft-certified Power BI Data Analyst is already in your business unit?
How do you guide enthusiastic users from casual report builders to confident, certified analysts?

At Autoliv, we designed an upskilling journey that turned everyday business users into a thriving community of Power BI experts. In this session, you'll see how we combined guided learning, self-paced study, and competency-based milestones to create measurable growth in data literacy and self-service analytics.

You'll walk away with a repeatable roadmap for your own company, including how we:

✅ leveraged free and low-cost learning content, Microsoft community programs, and official competitions,
✅ used free Microsoft learning programs, community challenges, user groups, and external events to boost engagement
✅ ran internal hackathons and friendly challenges to sustain excitement
✅ built a clear path to Microsoft's Power BI Data Analyst certification

Whether you're starting from scratch or looking to energize an existing BI community, this case study delivers practical steps to build a culture where business users level up and data truly drives decisions.

Target audience: Business leaders, BI managers, Power BI champions, Community of Practice (CoP) leaders
Session duration: 30 - 40 minutes
Session Level: Beginner (100)

Don’t Leave Quality to Chance: Power BI Best Practices with DevOps

Quality should never be left to chance—especially when it comes to your Power BI reports and semantic models. For too long, developers have struggled with overwrites, inconsistent standards, and manual checks that slow down collaboration. But with new Fabric features and Azure DevOps, those challenges are becoming a thing of the past.

In this session, you'll learn how to embed Power BI best practices directly into Azure DevOps pipelines. We'll walk through strategies and demos that demonstrate how automation, integration, and governance can safeguard report quality, prevent common mistakes, and enable your team to move quickly without compromising standards. By enforcing best practices at scale, you'll not only protect quality but also boost team efficiency and confidence in every deployment.

Key Takeaways
✅ Automate enforcement of Power BI best practices in Azure DevOps pipelines
✅ Prevent overwrites and errors through structured integration and governance
✅ Improve efficiency by removing manual checks and repetitive tasks
✅ Guarantee consistent quality across reports and semantic models at scale

Target audience: Power BI Developers, DevOps Professionals
Session duration: 40 - 50 minutes
Session Level: Intermediate (200)

The Future of Power BI Collaboration: DevOps Done Right

Collaboration shouldn't feel like walking on eggshells—especially not for Power BI teams. Yet, overwriting each other's work, losing changes, and lacking version control have all been too common headaches. But that's changing.

With the rise of Microsoft Fabric and the growing power of Azure DevOps, Power BI developers finally have the tools to ditch chaotic workflows and embrace structured, scalable collaboration. The only challenge? Figuring out the strategy that actually fits your team.

In this session, we'll cut through the noise and explore practical DevOps approaches tailored to Power BI. We'll break down the pros and cons of different strategies—from lightweight setups to full-blown pipelines—so you can find the right balance between control and complexity.

By the end, you'll know how to:
✅ Unlock Azure DevOps features specifically for Power BI
✅ Choose a DevOps path that aligns with your team's skills and tools
✅ Build a process that prevents overwrites and promotes true teamwork

Whether you're just starting your DevOps journey or looking to upgrade your current setup, this session will arm you with the strategies your Power BI team truly deserves.

Target audience: Power BI Developers, DevOps Professionals
Session duration: 50 - 60 minutes
Session Level: Intermediate (200)

Power BI’s Hottest Upgrade - Developer Mode with TMDL

Power BI development just got a significant upgrade—and it's about to change the way you work.

Imagine bulk-copying entire tables and measures between models in seconds. Renaming dozens of measures or applying find-and-replace logic across your DAX—all at once. Or creating perspectives and implementing object-level security without ever leaving Power BI Desktop. Now, imagine publishing changes to measures and tables without having to republish the entire PBIX file. It's not a fantasy—it's TMDL.

Welcome to the Power BI developer mode, we've all been waiting for. With TMDL (Tabular Model Definition Language) and the sleek power of Fabric Studio, you'll unlock a new level of productivity, precision, and control.

In this session, you'll learn how to:
✅ Differentiate between TMDL and TMDL scripts
✅ Accelerate your Power BI workflow with real-world TMDL techniques and tips
✅ Edit and manage models with surgical precision using Fabric Studio

Whether you're a seasoned developer or just diving into Power BI's modeling layer, this session will equip you with tools and tips to transform the way you build.

Say goodbye to repetitive tasks and hello to true Power BI development freedom.

Target audience: Power BI Developers, Data Analysts, Self-Service Power BI Users
Session duration: 40 - 50 minutes
Session Level: Intermediate (200)

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Global Power Platform Bootcamp 2025 - Manila Philippines Sessionize Event

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Data Saturday #49 - Denmark - 2025 Sessionize Event

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AI42 Conference Sessionize Event

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Global Power Platform Bootcamp 2024 Philippines

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PASSMN Monthly Meeting 2024 User group Sessionize Event

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Microsoft Fabric Day

February 2024 Stockholm, Sweden

Swedish Power BI User Group

January 2024 Stockholm, Sweden

Dhyan Rathore

Empowering people to unlock the full power of Power BI

Stockholm, Sweden

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