Microsoft Data Insights Summit 2016 Wrap Up

Microsoft hosted and livestreamed their first ever PowerBI Data Insights Summit on 22 and 23 March 2016 out in Bellevue, Washington.

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

March 24, 2016

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Microsoft Data Insights Summit 2016 Wrap Up

If you were unable to attend the conference in person or catch the livestream, then you can consume all of that insight and data (pun intended) on your own schedule by watching all of the session on demand.

The two-day event had speakers that helped users find insights into using PowerBI in all aspects of business and understanding the data a company generates.

The featured speaker was Nate Silver, who runs the popular statistical analysis website 538, and he discussed the signal and the noise that is present in data.

Here is the schedule with each linked to its corresponding video (if available) on the PowerBI YouTube channel.

Day 1

From Insight to Action: Your Path to Modern BI

Whirlwind Tour of Power BI

Shape External Data with Unprecedented Ease and Power in Excel

From Hindsight to Foresight - Machine Learning With Excel and Power BI

Monitor Your Business Using Power BI

Executive Panel

Day 2

Power BI Insights and Analytics for Everyone: Natural Language Search, Quick Insights, and Cortana

Excel and Power BI are Better Together

Enabling Deeper Business Decisions Using Cube Formulas and Power Pivot in Excel

Create Impactful Reports with Power BI Desktop

Mashups and Data Modeling with Power BI Desktop

Nate Silver—The Signal and the Noise

The only video that is not online yet at the PowerBI YouTube channel is the featured session by Nate Silver. I will keep an eye out for that and update this post with the link when it goes live.

You can read a written wrap up of Day 1 and Day 2 of the summit if you prefer to get a shorter overview of each session.

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About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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