Speakers and sessions

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May 19, 10:00am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators, business

Opening event

Janis Volbergs, Co-founder and CEO, ZoomCharts, Renate Strazdina, Country Manager, Microsoft Baltic ,

Set the tune for the exciting and inspirational next two weeks. Join us for “hellos” and brief keynotes. Meet event organizers, moderators and speakers.

May 19, 10:30am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Power BI report creator competition: an overview

Aivis Pavlovs , Technical Sales Specialist at ZoomCharts, Latvia

Get an overview of the report competition, main rules, submission criteria and evaluation process. Learn about the main sales reporting problem areas and how to approach them in your Power BI report.

May 19, 12:45pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Introducing ZoomCharts visuals: setup, interactions, features

Aivis Pavlovs , Technical Sales Specialist at ZoomCharts, Latvia

A practical session to get acquainted with the ZoomCharts Drill Down visuals. You will leave with a much better understanding of the visuals, their features, uses cases and implementation in Power BI.

May 19, 1:15pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Data Storytelling

Rihards Garancs , Data Lab, Latvia

What visual report structures help to convey your story? How to build powerful data stories in Power BI? Join to freshen up your knowledge on the best data storytelling practices.

May 19, 2:00pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

Implementing BI: outsourcing or in-house

Rihards Garancs , Data Lab, Latvia

How easy is it to implement BI? What will it take? Do I have the necessary resources? Make sure you are asking the right questions and map a clear structure when deciding to outsource or do BI in-house.

May 19, 3:15pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Choosing the right visuals for your data

Aldis Erglis , Lead of Riga Power BI Meetup Group, Latvia

How to choose the right visualization out of hundreds of visuals? This session will be dedicated to human perception of quantitative information and making sure your reports speak to their readers.

May 20, 10:00am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

Enjoying your work with data (and how to achieve that)

Janis Volbergs , CEO, ZoomCharts, Latvia

Successful data driven cultures are formed, when data are fun and easy to use. Data visualization plays a crucial role in creating such experience. Learn how you can bring it to your organization.

May 20, 10:30 am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

Better design – better communication

Kristaps Steimanis , Cube, Latvia

When it comes to data, looking at pure numbers often are not enough. Discover why it is beneficial to leverage good design practices to communicate your data in a more efficient and engaging manner.

May 20, 1:15pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

How much BI Implementation Truly Cost?

Adas Keserauskas , Bussiness Consultant at Avalytics, Power BI Meetup Group Lead, Lithuania

Is BI really that expensive? What does it truly cost to implement next generation reporting? What resources are required? Join the session to find out!

May 20, 2:00pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Getting to know sales reporting: pipeline analysis

Aldis Erglis , Lead of Riga Power BI Meetup Group, Latvia

Deep-dive into one of the most essential sales reporting areas. Get better understanding of the business needs behind the pipeline data, understand KPIs and data challenges, that comes with the territory.

May 20, 2:30pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Getting to know sales reporting: forecasting and predictions

Aldis Erglis , Lead of Riga Power BI Meetup Group, Latvia

While highly lucrative, predictive analytics is still underused due to its complexity. Get an overview of data collection and modeling practices to tackle the issue in Power BI in areas as sales volume forecasting, demand planning, and inventory control.

May 20, 3:15pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Deep dive into ZoomCharts Drill Down Donut visual

Aivis Pavlovs , Technical Sales Specialist at ZoomCharts, Latvia

ZoomCharts Donut Visual rediscovers the most used chart types out there – pie and donut. Learn the use cases, interactions, multi-level drilldowns, data set-up and vast amount of customization options.

May 20, 3:45pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

Experience Story: Mobile Friendly Data and Reports

Vivek Patel , Microsoft MVP, Sr. Director North America at Stridely solutions, Founder of Insight2Actions Inc., Canada

Stay connected to your data wherever business takes you. Session will focus on best practices and components that influence communicating data visually using Power BI Mobile applications.

May 21, 10:30am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

How to set sales KPI’s worth tracking for different sales environments?

Arturs Lazdekalns , Business Development Manager, Molport, Latvia

There are different industries with very diverse sales cycles, channels, strategies placing emphasis on various aspects worth keeping eye on. Join the call to learn ways to identify both input and output sales metrics that would fit your business need.

May 21, 12:45pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

Sales tracking in Media and Publishing

Alex McCourty , IT Service Manager at Eurospan, UK

Providing affordable, digestible and timely business intelligence across a wide range of contacts has been historically challenging for traditional SMBs. See how the issue is tackled in the sales setting of the media and publishing industry.

May 21, 1:15pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Linking datasets to find correlations and predict future

Aldis Erglis , Lead of Riga Power BI Meetup Group, Latvia

Join for practical tips and tricks on predictive analytics. The session will focus on aspects you need to keep in mind when working with multiple datasets to detect correlations and causation.

May 21, 2:00pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Setting targets in Power BI

Aldis Erglis , Lead of Riga Power BI Meetup Group, Latvia

Tracking progress towards meting a target is a common request for Power BI reports. Get a quick overview of the best practices for calculating and displaying various target types.

May 21, 2:30pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

Connecting sales and marketing data for meaningful insights

Aleksandrs Pasters , Head of iProspect Latvia

Data-driven decisions are as good as the data you have. Explore data strategy framework and see real-life examples of connecting marketing, website and business internal for improved decision making.

May 21, 3:15pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Deep dive into ZoomCharts Drill Down Combo visual

Aivis Pavlovs , Technical Sales Specialist at ZoomCharts, Latvia

ZoomCharts Combo Visual provides immense amount of chart combinations - lines, areas, columns, stacking, clustering, thresholds and more. On top of that – user friendly interactions and rich customization. Learn to implement it in you Power BI reports.

May 22, 10:00am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

Account based marketing. Using Power BI to help your B2B sales team.

Pal Orosz , Corporate Account Marcom Eastern Europe, Microsoft, Hungary

Large sales team, diverse marketing activities and multiple target audiences – it can be a communication nightmare. See how one Power BI report can turn it into highly effective, well managed business activity.

May 22, 10:30am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Measure calculation with advanced DAX

Rihards Garancs , Data Lab, Latvia

Learn to leverage report visualizations and features through advanced DAX by creating dynamic measures. Dynamic values, cascade measures, dynamic titles and more.

May 22, 11:15am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

M language for data transformation in Power BI

Rihards Garancs , Data Lab, Latvia

Make sure your data helps you building your reports. A quick overview of rookie mistakes to avoid, building rigid queries and combining data effectively.

May 22, 12:45pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Deep dive into ZoomCharts Drill Down Waterfall visual

Aivis Pavlovs , Technical Sales Specialist at ZoomCharts, Latvia

In addition to ZoomCharts signature drill downs and on-chart interactions, waterfall visual also offers data driven controls over totals, subtotals and columns sequence. Join to learn more.

May 25, 10:00am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

Using BI to predict future

Aldis Erglis , Lead of Riga Power BI Meetup Group, Latvia

Predictive analytics is a cornerstone of the modern BI. It has several essential use-cases in sales as well. Let’s look at the role predictive analytics plays in sales analytics and how to use data from unusual data sources for analysis.

May 25, 10:30am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Making application-like Power BI reports that users love

Aldis Erglis , Lead of Riga Power BI Meetup Group, Latvia

It’s not just about the data. When it comes to report acceptance by the end user, report exploration and navigation experience matters too. Tune in to make sure your reports are user friendly.

May 25, 11:15am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

The Importance of Diverse Sales Metrics

Seda Sahradyan , Product Manager, Pipedrive, Estonia

Although outcomes are undoubtedly important, focusing on and measuring the other aspects of sales can and will lead to better results. Discover the details that you may be missing.

May 25, 12:45pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Q&A session for report creators

Aivis Pavlovs, ZoomCharts, & Aldis Erglis, Riga Power BI Meetup Group, Latvia ,

A dedicated Q8A session for report creators participating in the report competition. Ask questions about Power BI, sales or ZoomCharts Drill Down Visuals to our BI experts.

May 25, 1:15pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Deep dive into ZoomCharts Drill Down TimeSeries visual

Aivis Pavlovs , Technical Sales Specialist, ZoomCharts, Latvia

TimeSeries visual makes time-based data exploration intuitive and easy down to each millisecond. See how to set it up, customize, apply in different reporting scenarios or even use as a date slicer.

May 26, 10:00am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

Microsoft 365 – the world’s productivity cloud

Tanya Iostman , Modern Workplace Specialist, Microsoft, Russia

Remote Teamwork is on agenda for everyone. Discover how simplify the processes, stay productive and get more done with AI-enabled tools. Raise your personal and organizational productivity!

May 26, 10:30am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Making actionable reports with Power BI and Power Apps

Yulia Alekhina , Power Platform Technical Specialist Microsoft, Russia

Both Power BI and Power Apps work effectively on their own. But what if we can create request right from our Power BI dashboard? Or organize write-back capabilities? All of these are possible with Power Apps integration to Power BI. Join to learn more.

May 26, 12:45pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Deep dive into ZoomCharts Drill Down Network visual

Aivis Pavlovs , Technical Sales Specialist at ZoomCharts, Latvia

Drill Down Network is easy to create and explore. See how it can be used to demonstrate relations among categories, spot outliers and examine data in detail.

May 26, 1:15pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Exciting Power Platform

Yulia Alekhina , Power Platform Technical Specialist Microsoft, Russia

Get introduced to the main components of Power Platform: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent and Power BI. See main applications and use cases.

May 27, 10:30am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Deep dive into ZoomCharts Drill Down Graph visual

Aivis Pavlovs , Technical Sales Specialist at ZoomCharts, Latvia

Drill Down Graph is the first visual for Power BI truly supporting the graph data structure. Learn to use data driven set-up to map and explore relations among data points, identify outliers, discover patterns and exploit rich customization options.

May 27, 1:15pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators, business

Using Power BI to visualize a value chain

Scott Mihlon , Decision Analyst, Chevron

Power BI and other visualization tools have always excelled in aggregations across strict hierarchies, but not all data relationships follow that single parent structure. Join this session to learn how graph structures apply to complex value chains and about the visuals that help to unearth insight from these complex relationships.

May 27, 2:00pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

Sales reporting: tracking customer behavior

Vivek Patel , Microsoft MVP, Sr. Director North America at Stridely solutions, Founder of Insight2Actions Inc., Canada

Learn to design Power BI sales reports and dashboards that help companies to understand their customers behavior, build customer relationships and ensure excellent customer service.

May 28, 10:00am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Azure cognitive services and machine learning

Aigars Macins , Head Of Engineering Excellence, Emergn, Latvia

Gain understanding of how to leverage different pre-built capabilities on Microsoft Azure cloud without having machine learning engineers around.

May 28, 11:15am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators, business

Developing a custom visual for your company: why and how

Aivis Pavlovs , Technical Sales Specialist at ZoomCharts, Latvia

Having a visual that meets your specific business use case can make all the difference in making data work for you. See what it takes to make a custom visual for your organization.

May 28, 1:15pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

Distance contracts for selling goods or services online

Rolands Zigurs , Chief Risk Officer, BDO Law

If you are in the business of selling goods or services online, you will need to comply with specific legislation protecting the consumer’s rights. This session will cover the essential requirements for distance contracts and, more specifically, for contracts for the supply of digital content.

May 28, 2:00pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

BI as a service. Building reports inhouse vs outsourcing.

Roberto Bentsen , Co-owner and Director, Virkplan, Denmark

Being a company that helps organizations to handle their data reporting, Roberto will demonstrate some of the benefits of report outsourcing vs handling it in-house.And, explain why end-user experience (including visuals like ZoomCharts) matters, when it comes to exploring the data

May 29, 10:30am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators, business

What`s new and exciting are coming to Power BI

Yulia Alekhina , Power Platform Technical Specialist, Microsoft , Russia

Get a sneak peek into the future roadmap of Microsoft Power BI. Discover what better data experiences are in the works, and what to expect in the area of the modern enterprise BI.

May 29, 11:15am | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators

Q&A for report creators

Aivis Pavlovs, ZoomCharts& Aldis Erglis, Riga Power BI Meetup Group, Latvia ,

A dedicated Q&A session for report creators participating in the report competition. Ask questions about Power BI, sales or ZoomCharts Drill Down Visuals to our BI experts.

May 29, 12:45pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

business

Analyze data with AI in Power BI

Yulia Alekhina , Power Platform Technical Specialist, Microsoft , Russia

AI is changing BI. It can process more data, identify patterns quicker and even ask questions for you. See what else AI can do to provide better insights for the users.

May 29, 1:15pm | GMT+3

Duration:

20 min

Track:

report creators, business

In a nutshell: key takeaways from Power BI Zoom Factor

Davis Suneps , Power BI Zoom Factor moderator, technology enthusiast

Relax, sit back and look back at the last two weeks. Our amazing event moderator will take you through the key takeaways, highlights and last minute updates.

Jun 3, 3:00pm | GMT+3

Duration:

2 h

Track:

business

Business Masterclass: Top 10 Sales Reports for the Win

ZoomCharts , Microsoft, BI community

Having data is not enough. Data driven mindset and tools that makes insights available for everyone matter the most. Join the masterclass to see how you can take your sales reporting to the next...

Jun 5, 1:00pm | GMT+3

Duration:

Track:

report creators, business

Award Ceremony

ZoomCharts,Microsoft, BI community ,

Join us for the closing event to congratulate the winners of the report competition, see the best next generation sales reports, and share your feedback about the bootcamp.