Difinity Conference 2018 | February 12-14, 2018 | Auckland, New Zealand

Want to learn more about Power BI and Business Intelligence?  Come to the Difinity Conference 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand.  It is the largest Microsoft Power BI and Business Intelligence conference for the Australia and New Zealand area. During this three-day conference, 40 speakers from all around the world (U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand) will speak at Difinity Conference 2018. This conference will be held at the Cordis Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand February 12-14, 2018.  If you work with Power BI or any Microsoft Data technologies, you will enjoy learning from the best. There will be 8 pre-conference full day workshops on February 12th, two will be run by Microsoft Power BI product team.  Want to attend? Register by visiting http://difinity.co.nz.

 

Event details

When: February 12-14, 2018

Where: Cordis Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand

 

Microsoft Power BI product team Pre-Conference Workshops: 

 

Power BI for Developers and Programmers

Speaker: Sergei Gundorov

Level: 300 (Advanced)

This course targets programmers who want to leverage Power BI in their applications, or want to extend Power BI features with custom visuals. It’s an advanced course where you will learn what the Power BI platform offers developers including:

 

• Embedding Power BI content into web applications
• Power BI REST API and using it in custom .NET applications
• Streaming data concepts; pushing data into real-time dashboards.
• Introduction to Custom Visuals; creating new visuals

 

Prerequisites:

• Familiarity with Power BI content creation (i.e., modeling, report building, publishing to service)
• Familiarity with .Net, PowerShell and JavaScript basics are highly desirable
• Power BI Pro account (60-day free trial is sufficient)

 

Data Modeling and Data Visualization using Power BI

Speaker: Siva Harinath

Level: 300 (Advanced)

Modules/Topics:	Data Modelling – Morning Basis Data Modelling and PBI internals DAX Calculated columns and Measures Calculate and Evaluation contexts Data Visualizations – Afternoon Storytelling with Data, Science, and art behind Data Visualization Layout and Structure, choosing right visuals Custom Visuals
Key Takeaways:	Understand core data modeling concepts in Power BI Understand DAX and contexts Understand need for storying telling with data Gain familiarity with Power BI reports and layouts Understand implications of choosing the right visuals Gain familiarity with Custom Visuals and how to use them
Prerequisites:	Good understanding of Power BI basics from data shaping, data modeling and data visualizations Taken Power BI Dashboard in a Day or the EDX.org course on Power BI

 

Other Pre-Conference Workshops:

Session	Speaker(s)
Design & Implement SQL Server HA/DR Hybrid Solutions with Microsoft Azure	Edwin Sarmiento
Demystifying the DAX Language	Matt Allington
36 Scripts: Performance Tricks Jedi Master Wants You to Know	Pinal Dave
Agile Data warehouse design with BIML	Regis Baccaro
Power BI for Developers and Programmers	Sergei Gundorov
Analytics and Machine Learning with Power BI and R	Leila Etaati
Ultimate Architecture, Security, Sharing and Governance for Power BI Solution	Reza Rad
Data Modeling and Data Visualization using Power BI	Siva Harinath

 

 

 

Regular Sessions:

At the conference, you’ll have an opportunity to select from 55 sessions scheduled in 5 tracks.  View the finalized agenda with all sessions and here.

 

Session	Speaker(s)
Evaluation Contexts in DAX	Matt Allington
DAX as a Query Language	Matt Allington
Power BI Gateways as a solution	Philip Seamark
What are chat bots and why do we need them in Business Intelligence?	Anupama Natarajan
Analysis Services Data DNA	Ásgeir Gunnarsson
Impact of weather on English Premier League matches – Power BI analysis	Ásgeir Gunnarsson
SSRS and Power BI Report Server – What’s new	Craig Bryden
SQL Server in a multi-platform world – Windows/Linux/Mac	David Lyth
SQL Server 2016 Query Store	Dharmendra Keshari
Troubleshooting Issues with Extended Events in real time	Dharmendra Keshari
Designing a SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Topology Without Losing Your Sanity	Edwin Sarmiento
What SQL Server DBAs Need To Know About Distributed Availability Groups	Edwin Sarmiento
Power BI Row Level Security Made Easy	Gilbert Quevauvilliers
Test Driven Development in SQL Server – it will make your database deployments better	Hamish Watson
Dynamic charts for browser and mobile with Excel	Ingeborg Hawighorst
An introduction to the magical world of BIML!	Jonathan Stewart
Performance Tuning for the BI Professional	Jonathan Stewart
Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Polybase, SSAS and Power BI	Kenneth Nielsen
Data Lake Analytics – R, Python and Cognitive Services	Kenneth Nielsen
Azure Database Migration – Choosing the Right Tier	Manohar Punna
Hybrid Distributed Architecture with Azure Data Sync 2.0	Martin Cairney
Split, Merge and Eliminate – An Introduction to Partitioning	Martin Cairney
Database Monitoring and Reporting in 2018	Patrick Flynn
Why MDX cubes aren’t dead yet	Philip Seamark
Performance in 60 Seconds – SQL Tricks Everybody MUST Know	Pinal Dave
Secrets of SQL Server – Database Worst Practices	Pinal Dave
Big Data Ingestion and Analytics with Microsoft Azure	Regan Murphy
2,4,8 & 16 – Journey of upgrading your data platform with SQL Server	Satya Jayanty
Datawarehouse Lightning Performance with Columnstore!	Stijn Wynants
Realtime Analytics: OLAP & OLTP in the mix!	Stijn Wynants
Azure Cosmos DB	Victor Isakov
Secure your data at rest – on demand, now!	Tobiasz Koprowski
AD 2018. 2 AM. A New Disaster just began.	Tobiasz Koprowski
Performance Tuning with SQLSentry for SQL Server	Warwick Rudd
SQL Server Graph Database	Dave Dustin
Building Fast and Reliable Reporting with Power BI	Siva Harinath , Sergei Gundorov
Power BI Embedded; Developers Guide	Sergei Gundorov
Azure Machine Learning algorithm accuracy enhancement, tips, and tricks	Leila Etaati
Power BI Visualization Best Practices	Reza Rad
Technical reference and Design patterns for enterprise BI and reporting supporting data science teams	Myles Matheson
Endless Possibilities: R and Power BI	Leila Etaati
Power BI Solution Architecture; DirectQuery, LiveQuery, or Import Data	Reza Rad
Data Integration – preparing for the data challenges of tomorrow	Robert Blaas
Let’s start using Cognitive Services in our business apps!	Gosia Borzecka
Introducing Power BI Premium	Siva Harinath
Super Charge Power BI and What is new with Analysis Services	Siva Harinath
The last mile - Operationalization of Machine Learning	Julian Lee
Are you ready for Artificial Intelligence? – Bots and Cognitive Services	Julian Lee
What is DevOps and why do I care?	Martin Catherall
Data Privacy and the Data Professional	Martin Catherall
Correctly Architecting Availability Group Solutions	Victor Isakov
Azure IoT - Opportunities are Endless	Sam Denton-Giles
Microsoft IoT Central – Enterprise IOT as-a-Service	Sam Denton-Giles
Scalable Data Science with SparkR on HDInsight	Lace Lofranco
Adaptive Query Processing and Automatic Tuning	Nagaraj Venkatesan
Kerberos for BI	Regis Baccaro
SSIS in Azure Data Factory v2 - a game changer?	Regis Baccaro
Deep Learning with TensorFlow and the Data Science Virtual Machine	Chimene Bonhomme

 

Register for Difinity Conference 2018 today and join us February 12-14, 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand!