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Recent Presentations

• Scoping Data and AI Projects – Ross McNeely
  • SQLSaturday MN
  • September 27th, 2025
• Fabric Analysts in a Day (FAIAD) HLS Themed
  • Microsoft FAIAD Series: Mountain View, CA MTC April 2025
  • Microsoft FAIAD Series: Edina, MN MTC January 2025
• Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) Implementation
  • Midwest Architecture Community Collaboration, MN Nov 2024
• Fabric Implementations
  • SQL Saturday MN, St. Paul MN September 2024
• Reference Architecture for Databricks, Snowflake, and MS Fabric
  • MinneAnalytics Data Tech, Richfield, MN 2024

Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence

• Tail Wind Talker (Live Teams Event)
  • Building a Successful Data Lakehouse with Databricks
  • Data Fabric and Data Mesh
  • Adding Azure Purview to your Data Strategy
  • Data Strategy and Healthcare Alignment
  • 0 to Snowflake in 90 Minutes
• Microsoft Tech Center (Edina, MN)
  • Purview, Azure Synapse, & Power BI Compliance
  • Healthcare Analytics Use Case
  • Modeling the Business with SSAS and Azure Analysis Services
  • Spatial Data: Deep Dive
  • SQL Server Security
• Minne Analytics (FARCON)
  • Spatial Analytics: Retail and Financial Services Use Case
  • Analytics in Azure Cloud
• Midwest Architecture Community Collaboration
  • Azure Security Architecture
  • Aligning Business & Data Strategy
• ERwin’s ERWorld Conference
  • Top Down Data Modeling
  • Data Model Gap Analysis
• SQL Saturday
  • GeoGRAPHY Spatial Analysis (IA)
  • Minimal Processing for Large SSAS Cubes (MN)
  • Information Framework (MN)
  • Azure Sentinel Overview (MN)

Microsoft Fabric and Power Platform

• Tail Wind Talker (Live Teams Event)
  • Self-Service PBI Scenarios and Enterprise Scaling
  • Microsoft Fabric Alignment Strategy
  • Power BI Performance Analysis
  • Architecting Power BI + Power Apps + Power Automate
  • Migrating to Power BI  
  • Power BI Security
• Microsoft Tech Center (Edina, MN)
  • Power Platform Center of Excellence
  • Power BI Architecture
  • Power BI Dashboard in a Day
  • Power BI Data Modeling Workshop
• SQL Saturday
  • Power BI in Healthcare (WI)
  • Power BI Premium Use Cases (MN)          
• Other
  • Power BI Premium with Dataflows @ Microsoft BI User Group MN           
  • Data Visualization Best Practices @ Client Lunch and Learn