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Mark Theissen – Principal GPM, Data Warehousing Product Unit

Kamal Hath – Product Unit Manager, SQL Server Analysis Services

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Donald Farmer – Principal Program Manager

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Topic:

Microsoft Business Intelligence

Summary:

Join us for an overview of the Microsoft Business Intelligence strategy including an integrated view with Power BI, SSAS, and SSRS. We will demo the latest and greatest scenarios across major BI workloads.

Presenter(s):

Jen Underwood – Principal Program Manager, BI

Jen Underwood is a Microsoft Sr. Program Manager of Business Intelligence & Analytics. She works with external groups, customers, channel partners, MVPs, BI professionals and application developers to better connect the outside world to engineering. Throughout most of her ~20 year career she has been researching, designing and implementing data warehousing, business intelligence and predictive analytics solutions across a variety of open source, niche and enterprise vendor landscapes.

Kamal Hathi – Partner Director, Program Management

Kamal Hathi, Director of the BI Group for Microsoft SQL Server, is responsible for managing the overall strategy, design, development, and delivery of SQL Server business intelligence technologies. The foundation of Microsoft’s end-to-end BI solutions, SQL Server delivers an innovative platform and tools that help organizations worldwide easily build and deploy robust BI solutions at all scales with low total cost of ownership.

Since joining Microsoft in 1996, Kamal has served in engineering management roles in various product groups and was one of the founding members of Microsoft’s BI efforts. Prior to Microsoft, Kamal had a diverse work history, including experiences in research and consulting. He has a graduate degree in engineering from Case Western Reserve University.

Company Profile:

Microsoft is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Microsoft Power BI transforms your company’s data into rich visuals for you to collect and organize so you can focus on what matters to you. Stay in the know, spot trends as they happen, and push your business further.

Case Studies:

Ziosk

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Fort Worth, Texas

Conde Nast

Metro Bank

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Topic:

Microsoft Power BI

Summary:

Come hear about our latest innovations with Power Bi as we build on our consistent formula:

• Deep IP

• Frictionless adoption

• Single global system

• Disruptive economics, and

• Rapid innovation

Presenter(s):

Arun Ulagaratchagan – General Manager, Power BI Engineering

As the General Manager of Power BI Engineering, Arun leads product development for Microsoft’s Business Intelligence product portfolio. This includes Power BI, Azure Analysis Services, Dynamics Customer Insights, SQL Server Analysis Services, and SQL Server Reporting Services.

Amir Netz – Technical Fellow

Amir Netz is a Technical Fellow and chief architect of the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) offerings. Amir is focused on the democratization of BI through end-user self-service enablement using Microsoft Office, SharePoint and SQL Server.

Amir holding over 40 patents in BI and Business Analytics technology. The products designed and developed by Amir have repeatedly defined the business analytics market. Some of his latest contributions include VertiPaq, the in-memory column-oriented data engine that at the foundation of the Microsoft BI stack, PowerPivot – a breakthrough self-service BI system for Excel, Power View – an interactive ad-hoc data visualization and exploration tool and Power BI.

Christian Wade – Senior Program Manager

Justyna Lucznik – Program Manager

Company Profile:

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Case Studies:

Heathrow Airport

Associated Press

Adobe