I have spoken at various international events, both on-site conferences as well as online meetups. I mainly speak about Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.
You can find my sessions on sessionize.com/basland.
I will upload presentations (not all, but most) on my public Github: https://github.com/basland/presentations
I had the pleasure of speaking at DataMinds Connect, one of the best run data conferences I have been to. It’s hosted in the beautiful city of Mechelen, Belgium, and drew a lot of attendees. I presented a session on using Python in Microsoft Fabric, specifically looking at the Don’t Repeat Yourself pattern of coding …
I had the pleasure of speaking at DATA:SCOTLAND, a free data and analytics conference in Glasgow that brought together nearly a thousand data enthusiasts. My session, titled ‘Delta Lake Optimisation’, focused on the stuff that actually matters when your lakehouse starts dragging:• Why and when partitioning helps (until it doesn’t)• How clustering fixes what partitioning …
I spoke at Data Saturday Gothenburg 2025. Besides the great company of awesome persons, we had an incredible speaker dinner the night before the event on a small island off the coast of Sweden, called Vinga. And as the Swedish organisation told us: this was the last island before death and despair (a.k.a. Denmark). I’m …
I Just wrapped up an online session at Fabric Cafe:“Delta Table Optimisation: Improvig Queries using Delta Partitioning and Liquid Clustering” We talked about the stuff that actually matters when your lakehouse starts dragging:• Why and when partitioning helps (until it doesn’t)• How clustering fixes what partitioning can’t• Why small files are silent query killers• How …
I Just wrapped up a session at Data Toboggan:“Delta Table Optimisation: Improvig Queries using Delta Partitioning and Liquid Clustering” We talked about the stuff that actually matters when your lakehouse starts dragging:• Why and when partitioning helps (until it doesn’t)• How clustering fixes what partitioning can’t• Why small files are silent query killers• How to …
I had the pleasure of speaking at Fabric Cafe, an online community aimed at sharing knowledge about Microsoft Fabric. And I’m all in favour of that! My session, titled ‘Don’t Repeat Yourself – how custom Python modules give back hours of your time’, focused on the software engineering principle of DRY, that can be brought …
I Just wrapped up a session at Cloud Data Driven:“Delta Table Optimisation: Improvig Queries using Delta Partitioning and Liquid Clustering” We talked about the stuff that actually matters when your lakehouse starts dragging:• Why and when partitioning helps (until it doesn’t)• How clustering fixes what partitioning can’t• Why small files are silent query killers• How …
At the March 2025 edition of Get Together, held in Baarn, The Netherlands, I had the pleasure of speaking about Tabular Editor for Power BI Developers. The session was given in Dutch. I talked the ± 35 participants through the advantages of and best practices using Tabular Editor, and then showed an interactive demo. During …
My session, titled ‘Microsoft Fabric als succesfactor voor Power BI projecten’ (in Dutch), helped showcase attendees how Microsoft Fabric can be used as a success factor for Power BI projects. I demonstrated how Fabric can be used to collect and prepare data for Power BI, in a very cost efficient way. Microsoft Fabric als succesfactor …
This year was my first time speaking at PBIG, the largest Power BI Community Event My session, titled ‘Using Tabular Editor and best practices to speed up Power BI development – a live demo’, was aimed at speeding up your Power BI Semantic Modelling efforts using Tabular Editor. I started with a few slides on …
I had the pleasure of speaking at RADACAD’s Power BI & Fabric Summit 2025, probably one of the largest Fabric events worldwide. It is organised by the fine folks over at RADACAD and brought together more than 150 speakers and thousands of attendees. My session, titled ‘Analysing 4 Billion Rows Using Power BI DirectLake’, focused …
I had the pleasure of speaking at RADACAD’s Power BI & Fabric Summit 2025, probably one of the largest Fabric events worldwide. It is organised by the fine folks over at RADACAD and brought together more than 150 speakers and thousands of attendees. My session, titled ‘Don’t Repeat Yourself – how custom Python modules give …
I had the pleasure of speaking at the Danish Fabric User Group, an event hosted by community representatives and aimed at sharing knowledge between Microsoft Fabric professionals. My session, titled ‘Don’t Repeat Yourself – how custom Python modules give back hours of your time’, focused on the software engineering principle of DRY, that can be …
I had the pleasure of speaking at Data Saturday in Parma, Italy, a very nice event that brought together lots of enthusiastic, mostly Italian, data professionals. My session, titled ‘Don’t Repeat Yourself – how custom Python modules give back hours of your time’, focused on the software engineering principle of DRY, that can be brought …
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking at Cloud Data Driven, a free data and analytics user group with weekly online meetings. It brought together interested data professionals from all over the world. My session, titled ‘Don’t Repeat Yourself – how custom Python modules give back hours of your time’, focused on the software engineering …
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at DATA:SCOTLAND, a free data and analytics conference in Glasgow that brought together nearly a thousand data enthusiasts. My session, titled ‘Your first Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse implementation’, focused on practical tips for setting up lakehouses using Microsoft Fabric. Despite being relatively new to public speaking, I enjoyed …
Yesterday, I was thrilled to deliver my first public speaking session in years! I was invited by the friendly people of the Dutch Fabric User Group to present my story to a group of about 35 people interested in Microsoft Fabric.. My session, titled ‘Fabric Lakehouses for SQL Data Engineers’, was focused on helping data …