TechCon 365 &amp; PWRCON,&nbsp;is a Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Training Conference that brings you the world’s leading experts in&nbsp;Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Azure, &amp; AI.&nbsp;Whether you are new to Microsoft 365 and Power Platform or an experienced power user, admin, or developer,&nbsp;TechCon 365 &amp; PWRCON&nbsp;has content designed to fit your experience level and area of interest. Our workshops and sessions are taught by&nbsp;Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Regional Directors and Microsoft product group members.
At Microsoft&nbsp;TechCon 365 &amp; PWRCON, the&nbsp;sessions are offered for the following subjects:&nbsp;Microsoft 365, Copilot, Microsoft Teams, Teams Development, Teams Architecture &amp; Administration, Microsoft Fabric, Dataverse, Syntex/SharePoint Premium, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Power Pages, SharePoint Administration &amp; Development, Azure OpenAI, OneDrive, Purview, Loop, Search, Content Management, Power Users, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Workflow, Business Intelligence,&nbsp;and more. Choose one complete learning track or mix and match based on what content best meets you and your organization’s current needs!

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TechCon 365 and PWRCON Seattle 2025

Room 345-346

NOTE: YOU WILL NEED A COMPUTER WITH THE LATEST VERSION OF POWER BI DESKTOP INSTALLED PRIOR TO WORKSHOP TIME. THIS IS A HANDS ON BOOTCAMP.

Need to create stunning dashboards from your SharePoint data?

Yes, you do!

In this bootcamp, we’ll show you:
• How should I approach my BI need?
• What things should be considered when creating dashboards?
• What are the best practices?
• How much is this going to cost me to license?
• What security aspects should concern me?

Who should take this course:
If your company uses Office 365 or SharePoint 2013/2016 and you are a:
• Manager
• Business Analyst
• Power User
• SharePoint Administrator
• Consultant

If you work in these areas, you will see value:
• Marketing
• Information Technology
• Finance
• Sales
• Social Media

The class assumes no prior knowledge of Power BI and Data Concepts.

What is required for this class:
Install Microsoft Power BI Desktop on your laptop 
We'll provide an Office 365 site for you to use for exercises

In this workshop you will:
• Learn how to create Production Dashboards using Power BI, from SharePoint list and document library data
• How to use Power BI in a multitude of situations, including ad hoc analysis and the creation of formal dashboard.
• Learn the Power BI components: Power BI Desktop, PowerBI.com, Power BI mobile applications and how they can be used with Office 365 and SharePoint
• Receive an introduction into the core functions of Power BI; Data extraction, loading and transformation using Power Query Formula Language (“M”) and DAX.
• Receive some guidelines on how to extract Project data in fast manner.
• Discover some data modeling practices that will ensure you have maximum flexibility in analysis. You'll also learn some visualization best practices to ensure you can tell your digital story effectively
• Learn best practices for maintaining content with your organization

This workshop provides an end-to-end view of Power BI for SharePoint reporting, so that you are able to use Power BI immediately for your needs.

Power BI Bootcamp for SharePoint Professionals

"Everything You Wanted to Know About Fabric and Power BI" is an intensive, full-day tutorial designed to equip participants with a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Fabric, which includes Power BI. This tutorial delves into the core functionalities and advanced features of the platform, enabling attendees to harness its full potential for their organizational needs.

Participants will explore the robust capabilities of Microsoft Fabric, including its seamless integration with various Microsoft services, advanced data management, and analytics tools. The tutorial covers essential topics such as creating and managing fabric instances, deploying and configuring Fabric applications, and utilizing built-in security and compliance features to ensure data integrity and privacy.

The session is structured to cater to a diverse audience, from IT professionals and data analysts to software developers and business managers. Through interactive demonstrations, real-world scenarios, and practical exercises, attendees will gain practical skills and insights to effectively implement and manage Microsoft Fabric in their respective environments.

By the end of the day, participants will have a solid foundation in Microsoft Fabric, empowering them to drive innovation, enhance productivity, and achieve their business objectives with confidence.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, But Were Afraid to Ask.

This session will provide you with the knowledge that you need to quickly become productive using Power BI.

You will be introduced to:
  - Power BI licensing
  - Power BI Components
  - Using the Power BI Desktop app
  - Using the Power BI Service
  - How to create reports and dashboards
  - Learning Resources

Don't have a Power BI license?  You can start using Power BI for free!

Attend this demo-rich session and get started with Power BI!

Beginners Guide to Power BI

Power BI has always provided a rich set of tools for analyzing data at rest. For data in motion, there are approaches to help reduce or eliminate data latency, but many of them require tradeoffs. The Real Time Intelligence (RTI) workload within Microsoft is designed to meet this challenge. RTI is focused on monitoring with near zero data latency to address the needs of data in Motion.

In this session we will demonstrate a real world scenario which will relate to everyone - pulling data from home automation systems including security, thermostats, entertainment, lighting and weather. We will stream all of thise signals into an eventhouse using event streams, and monitor this data with real time dashboards. 

Real Time Intelligence is a new paradigm, and does for data in motion what Power BI does for data at rest. If you have data monitoring needs, this session is for you.

I want it NOW! The impact of Real Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric on Power BI

Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, have the potential to transform how you develop and deliver Power BI solutions. In this session, you'll learn how to integrate Azure OpenAI and GitHub Copilot into your Power BI development process, leveraging prompt engineering techniques to improve your solutions.

Leveraging Large Language Models with Power BI

Power BI has revolutionized the industry by accelerating our ability to deliver Data Analytics solutions.  But how do we ensure the code we build is reliable and the data is produced in a timely and trustworthy manner? Enter DataOps, a better way to develop and deliver Data Analytics Solutions.  In this session, I’ll cover the concept of DataOps, why it matters to Power BI, and the principles that can drive you to continuously improve.

DataOps 101 – A Better Way to Develop and Deliver Data Analytics

Many of us have heard that we should be performing as many transformations upstream when using Power Query.  While this is a noble cause, it is not always practical.  For many, Power Query is a tool that can help extract data from different sources that might not be within our control.  The result requires you to leverage Power Query for your transformations.  But with a few adjustments, you could end up getting the most out of the tool.

In this session, we will explore some of the hidden secrets of Power Query that can transform how you manage data in Power BI.  We will explore how to manipulate data connections, aggregate data, merge/append queries, create dimensions, invoke custom functions, and manage queries with parameters.  We will even dive into how to modify some of our transformations within the advanced editor by writing a few lines of code.  We will also explore some best practices to help optimize our queries.

At the end of this sessions, attendees will understand some of the techniques to help expand their utilization of Power Query as they go to create their own solutions in Power BI.

Harnessing Hidden Potential in Power Query

Microsoft Teams,  SharePoint and Power BI can be tightly integrated within Microsoft Fabric. SharePoint can be a data source (lists), a container for data files (Excel. CSV etc in libraries), and as a dashboarding platform (pages). Teams can be a complete front end for reports, and host content contextually. Fabric can take your SharePoint data to new heights altogether. 
 
This demo rich session will explore all of these scenarios in great depth. SharePoint data can be finicky to retrieve, and this session will show examples and suggest a few best practices for doing so. In addition, connecting Fabric to SharePoint opens up a whole new world for Excel. 

Deep Dive on Power BI, Teams and SharePoint

In this presentation, we will explore how to create effective shared semantic models in Power BI and how to manage them in the Power BI Service. Shared semantic models can help reduce the cost and complexity of fragmented data, also known as data silos, within an organization. By using shared semantic models, developers can save time and resources by only having to maintain a single semantic model instead of multiple unique ones. Additionally, shared semantic models can prevent discrepancies and ensure consistent logic across reports. We will also cover how to configure semantic models for enhanced user experiences, enable row level security (RLS) to protect sensitive data, publish semantic models for optimal sharing and distribution, and promote or certify semantic models for increased exposure.

Avoid Data Silos! Best Practices for Implementing Shared Semantic Models

Automation is designed to simplify how you perform tasks every day.  You probably have noticed the Power Automate icon in the Power BI visualization pane, but probably struggle to understand how it works.  Believe it or not, there are some use cases that would streamline processes and make the process of managing your data easier.  

If you have ever wondered how you could integrate Power Automate with Power BI and Fabric, then this session is for you!  We will walk through the basics of Power BI actions within Power Automate, how to integrate these actions within a Power BI report, and review use cases that help you extend automation to simplify your life. 

At the end of this session, you will feel comfortable with integrating Power Automate into your Power BI reports.  You will even learn about the only acceptable use case for exporting data into Excel from a Power BI report!

Extending Power BI with Power Automate

Have you ever updated a semantic model/dataset and didn't realize it broke a visual in a Power BI report? Have you ever seen that "grey box of death" (or your customers call you about it) after making an update to Power BI?  In this session, I demonstrate a way to combine Microsoft Playwright and Azure DevOps to automatically test for broken visuals and notify you about those issues.