No 79 - Rod Colledge - Saving Money with Microsoft Fabric, Tasty Stuff!

Another huge event! we are trying a new venue: Ventia Head Office in Cremorne!

Online Link https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZWJhY2MzMmYtOTk5MS00MmVjLWIzYzItNzdlMTI1YTMxMDdi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%223ad8f124-ce7e-433c-b2ab-bfcaa428aaea%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22be3fdb2b-dfd1-4e7d-bf98-732a3c13d47d%22%7d

Details
Join us for networking, drinks and a good time catching up with fellow Power BI enthusiasts

Agenda:
5:30-5:45PM Welcome and Networking
6:00pm - 7:00PM Speaker Session

Topic: No 79 - Rod Colledge - Transitioning to Microsoft Fabric

THE SPEAKER
Rod Colledge
Senior Technical Specialist, Data & AI | Microsoft

Based in Brisbane, Rod started working at Microsoft in 2015 when he had brown hair and Power BI was 6 months old (so cute!). Prior to that he was a SQL Server MVP and spent long summer nights playing with Project Crescent and Excel add-ins such as Power Maps (which killed his laptop's GPU).

These days, he enjoys talking about himself in the third person and spends most of his time in Microsoft Fabric and Azure Open AI.

THE SESSION

In this session, we'll unpack the announcement from earlier this year about the retirement of the Power BI Premium per Capacity SKU, and what that means as we transition to the Fabric F SKU. One half commercial, one half technical and one half demos ... wait, hold on ... We'll also address the "reports and dashboards are dead to me" sentiment Rod's increasingly hearing, and how we can utilize Fabric magic to reduce the impact on source systems from Power BI, saving money and writing less transformation code. It's tasty stuff

Sponsors:
Ventia

A big thank you goes out to our sponsor, Ventia, for their support of this Meetup; providing the venue as well as drinks for attendees.

Sirius Technology (https://www.siriuspeople.com.au/)

A big thank also to our co-sponsor, Sirius Technology, for their ongoing support of our Meetup and providing us with food for each event.

Sirius Technology recruits across all Technology Disciplines from Development (Front and back-end), Testing, Network, and Security, Project Services (PM's, BA's, Project Coordinators) & Data - across all technology stacks.

Fabric Trial Expiring Soon?
Greg has done a free online session on what to do when your Fabric trial is expiring including how to determine your usage, the different SKUS and how to reduce costs.
Head to Microsoft Fabric | Dear Watson Consulting or chat with Greg!