Calling all Power BI & Fabric Data enthusiasts

We've been invited back to run a special User Group event at Data Decoded 2026 conference at Manchester Central

• Enjoy thought-provoking PBI & Fabric talks and demos from industry experts and peers.

Date and Location:
📅 Date: 13th of October 2025
🕠 Time: 5:30 PM – 7:15 PM
📍 Venue: Manchester Central Convention Complex, Petersfield, M2 3GX

We are in the Data Governance, Risk & Compliance Theatre

October's PBIMCR x DataDecoded event will feature 2 talks

Speakers Duncan Boyne and Rob Sewell

Rob's talk

What is fabric-toolbox and why should I care?

The fabric-toolbox is Microsoft's growing open-source repository of accelerators, tools, and scripts built to solve real Fabric challenges. In this session we'll tour the toolbox — from FUAM, the Fabric Unified Admin Monitoring solution that gives you deep tenant visibility beyond the 14-day Capacity Metrics limit, to FCA for FinOps cost analysis, DAX performance testing, Semantic Model auditing, Data Factory migration assistance, and the MicrosoftFabricMgmt PowerShell module with 295+ cmdlets covering 48 resource types. Whether you're an admin, developer, or architect, there's something here for you. Leave knowing exactly which tools to reach for and how to get started.

Duncan's talk:
AI Can Build the Whole Report. Here's How
You've seen the demos. One model, one chart, everything works first time. Real builds don't go like that, and a room full of developers knows it.

So I built a complete three-page Power BI report through AI, end to end, without opening Desktop until the final check. This session is the honest account of how.

We'll walk the full pipeline across the three layers most AI content skips:

The model: tables, relationships, and measures, built by conversation through the Power BI modelling MCP.
The design: the step nobody covers, wireframing the report in Figma first so it looks designed, not assembled.
The report: pages, visuals, bindings, and theme generated through pbi-cli.
Then the part that earns your trust: the twelve things that broke, and the fifteen-second fixes for each. You'll leave with the real workflow, not the demo.

Three takeaways:
The three-layer pipeline for building a Power BI report with AI, including the design layer almost nobody talks about.
The specific gotchas that break a Desktop-free build, and how to fix each one fast.
A clear sense of which parts of the pipeline are ready today and which still need your hands.

Duncan's bio
Duncan is a Power BI and Fabric consultant, based in Norfolk and running Boyne

Business Intelligence. He builds reporting that reflects how a business actually
works, rather than what looks good on a dashboard. Semantic models, report design,
governance, and a fair bit of working out where AI is genuinely useful in data work
and where it's just noise. Accessibility runs through all of it, and since he's
red-blind himself, it has never been theoretical.

The community is the part he'll talk about longest. He runs the Norfolk Power
Platform User Group and is the founder of the East of England Summit, creating
spaces for people at all levels to learn, connect, and grow. He found this community
by accident, and it's still the best accident he's made.

https://datadecoded.com/

**To attend, you must sign up for free Data Decoded tickets and register on Meetup to join the community.**

Enjoy pizza, drinks, and plenty of networking with data community afterwards at Data Decoded afterparty