Do your Excel solutions span spreadsheets? Do you frequently work across multiple versions of workbooks? How can you trust the workbook you're working on now? Do your workbooks have sensitive data…

Every quarter, financial analysts across the company estimate revenue for the remainder of the fiscal year. Planning is done across a variety of dimensions, such as product, customer segment, and…

We all have tons of data but very little info. The goal of this sessions would be to show how to convert data to information by picking the right variables and visualize them effectively based on your…

This session will introduce you to new Excel capabilities, tips and tricks. Including how to use advanced Excel functions like OFFSET & INDIRECT to transform "troublesome" data.

If you want to uncover insights in your data and prepare reports that help you tell the story in your data, Power BI Desktop’s report canvas is the place to do it. After attending this session you’ll…

You will leave this session with an understanding of the best ways to keep your reports up-to-date and your team working at full speed. Find out about best practices and invaluable tips that will make…

In his book “Guns, Germs and Steel,” author Jared Diamond argues that bio-geographical effects can help explain why some societies prosper and others don’t: Spending an inordinate amount of time…

Power BI provides APIs, extensibility points, and tooling to help you get the most from your data. Join this session to learn how to use Power BI to add real-time dashboards, integrate charts into…

Join us in an informal conversation with the Excel Leadership Team – including leaders from Program Management, Engineering, and Marketing. Learn about the direction and strategy Excel is taking in…

Data in the real world is messy, never available in the exact form that users need for their analysis or reports. Data Analysts need to spend a significant amount of their time working on data…

Users are excited about the insights they can drive by combining Power BI with Project Online in Office 365. This combination of tools provides easy, yet powerful, reporting options to create a…

What better way to start the Summit than by reflecting on the past year and, more importantly, discussing the future of modern BI? James Phillips – corporate vice president of Microsoft’s business…

We've lined up several senior executives to share their views on how modern BI helps transform organizations and the world. Hosted by James Phillips, Microsoft corporate VP, this Microsoft-customer…

In this two-hours workshop you learn the basics of the DAX language. Alberto will introduce you to the concept of calculated columns, measures, basic data modeling with some practical examples that…

This session is a natural continuation of “DAX 101” and aims to teach you some of the advanced features of DAX. Alberto will explain in detail the concepts of filter context and row context, which are…

If you’re looking to go beyond the power of spreadsheets or databases for advanced data analysis, this tutorial will introduce you to R, the world’s most widely-used statistical programming language.…

At Power BI we hold the philosophy that our mobile customers are looking for answers - real-time answers - for their most burning business questions. Power BI Mobile set of applications (now available…

Power BI dash/dashboards help your organization to keep a finger on the pulse of your business, and monitor key metrics in a single pane of glass. The effectiveness of each step in the Power BI…

Learn how to develop your own customized forecasting models using Solver and the new Forecast function in Excel 2016, and when to use what approach.

Anton joins us from Office Envisioning to outline how the world of work is undergoing fundamental shifts that will force us to rethink our productivity tools, with an ultimate focus on using living…

This company that creates the Cherry in the Cherry Coke not only uses Power BI for their executive dashboards but also to calculate their very complex prices that are made up of hundreds of…

Big data can mean a lot of things. Come join us to hear how we see big data in the world. Then learn how Excel can help you work with a wide range of external data, including big data stores, like…

Find out how to deliver insights to your team wherever they are and across devices. Learn the best ways to create reports that work great on Power BI mobile apps. Additionally, see how you can…

At long last, major changes to Reporting Services in SQL Server 2016! Years ago with Reporting Services, we set the standard for the modern enterprise reporting solution, and with SQL Server 2016,…

Using an EPOC headset from Emotiv, I have captured 14 channels of EEG (brain waves) while subjects lied and answered truthfully to a series of questions. I fed this labelled dataset into Azure Machine…

Results are a function of what you do before and after publishing a dashboard. Following is a real life journey, from a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, on how PowerPivot and SharePoint Excel Services…

Learn about the new Office Add-ins and how they can help you extend Office with custom data integration and analysis solutions. Whether it is a third party or your own custom solution, Office add-ins…

Hear from others who have been successful evangelizing the adoption of Power BI within their business. Get some ideas for techniques you can take back and apply with your team.

In this demo rich session, you will understand the powerful relationship between Excel and Power BI. You are invited to learn how to use Excel and Power BI together to expand your effectiveness and…

We're constantly amazed at what customers do with charts in Excel. Come to learn more about tips and tricks for commonly requested visualizations scenarios in Excel.

How do you get from a sheet of raw numbers to a good visualization? How do you decide which visualizations, interactions, and linked views make the most sense for your data? Most visualization classes…

Data is critical to the running of every company, however in the world of F1 it isn’t about increasing profits but about gaining tenths of a second on the track. In this session Mark Everest will…

Are you using Excel Services for SharePoint to enable BI in your organization? Wondering what’s changed with SharePoint Server 2016? If so, then this session is for you! Discover the fundamental…

Everything you should know around security and Power BI. We will take a look at how to leverage your on premise Analysis Services security, how to share dash/dashboards outside of your organization…

Learn how to build dynamic & deep solutions in Excel using Cube formulas and advanced calculations built on Power Pivot. This session will cover some real world business problems business analysts…

Data-driven decision-making in today’s competitive climate means deploying statistical models into real-time production environments. This talk will draw on case studies from work with leading…

We welcome all users, new and experienced to this intro session of Power BI. Everything you wanted to know about Power BI but never knew who to ask. This will a fast pace session that will cover all…

Come see the innovations coming in 2016, learn how Excel can better empower you to gather the data around you, get the insights that matter, and share them to make an impact.

How do you leverage 300 terabytes of voter’s registration data along with many other public sources (Census…) to help states in local & national elections? With Power BI which is leveraged not…

Do you wonder what data scientists do all day? Do you work with one? Are you thinking of becoming one? This talk is for you. Tune in for a math-free, jargon-free, pictorial explanation of what data…

A data model is like the foundation for your house, get it right and everything else goes better. Join the Power BI desktop team in this session to learn about the key steps, and best practices, you…

Come learn about new features in Excel to help bring in and shape external data with unprecedented ease and power. We'll cover the new Get & Transform features in Excel. If you work with external…

Learn about our vision for Excel on iOS, Android, Windows mobile, Mac and Excel Online, including our approach to shared code. We'll share some of the amazing strides we have made across the mobile…

This session will focus on real use cases of how Advanced Analytic solutions from Microsoft are being applied today to: predict the impact of weather patterns on health service utilization in Norway…

Come and learn how Europe’s leading specialist electrical and telecoms retailer, Dixons Carphone, used power BI to enable fast decision making throughout their UK stores during Black Friday. Hour by…

Learn how Power Pivot simplifies data analysis. Topics include: Multiple tables and relationships, editable linked tables, DAX formulas, custom calendars, and measure concepts with a focus on…

We're constantly amazed at what customers do with charts in Excel. Come to learn more about tips and tricks for commonly requested visualization scenarios in Excel.

Excel users are great at hindsight: figuring out what happened and maybe why it happened. Machine learning applied correctly enables them to gain insight by doing predictive analytics (what will…

In Office 365, the Office team has embraced a model of continuous improvement, delivering new features monthly. At the same time, many organizations require more time and a predictable release…

In this talk we'll discuss business transformation through analytics and how organizations can run successful analytics pilots and build a thriving data science practice.

One of the world’s largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers has tackled the challenges of integrating many acquired companies with Power BI. Being able to serve 33K employees in…

You are invited to learn on R integration in Power BI. In this demo rich session, you will learn how to use R in Power BI, from getting data to advanced analytics and visualization. Come to learn how…

Why are your projects consistently behind schedule, below projection, and beyond budget? Are you reducing uncertain assumptions to single average numbers? How can you experiment with your planning…

In this workshop, get an introduction to the latest analysis and visualization capabilities in Excel 2016. See how to import data from different sources, create mash/ups between data sources, and…

In this workshop, get an introduction to the latest analysis and visualization capabilities in Excel 2016. See how to import data from different sources, create mash/ups between data sources, and…