Talks

Talks and workshops

Sessions on Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and data engineering, on stage and online. Organising an event? I'd like to hear about it.

Where I've spoken

Write-ups of my sessions at conferences and user groups, newest first.

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Speaking at Queensland Power BI & Fabric User Group

I presented a session on Fabric Lakehouses at the Queensland Power BI & Fabric User Group. This was a fun one, presenting literally from the other side of the world.

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Speaking at PBIUG Italy on Fabric Data Agents

It is time to talk about AI some more! Seriously, Bas? Oh yeah! AI is all the rage, and Power BI and Fabric cannot be left behind.

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Speaking at Power BI Gebruikersdagen 2026

The yearly Power BI conference in Utrecht (Power BI Gebruikersdagen or ‘User Days’) are held in March, as per tradition. This edition I was invited to speak again, and I loved it.

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Speaking at Cloud Tech Tallinn 2026

This was my first time at Cloud Tech Tallinn (or CTTT as it’s called, why is there an extra “T”?).

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Speaking at Data Community Day Austria 2026

In the beautiful city of Vienna a Data Community Day was held. I was invited to speak about my work around Fabric Data Agents.

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Speakin DataMinds Connect 2025

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.

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Speaking at DATA:SCOTLAND 2025

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.

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Speaking at Data Saturday Gothenburg 2025

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,…

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Speaking at Fabric Cafe on Delta Optimisation

I Just wrapped up an online session at Fabric Cafe: “Delta Table Optimisation: Improvig Queries using Delta Partitioning and Liquid Clustering”

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Speaking at Data Toboggan – Cool Runnings 2025

I Just wrapped up a session at Data Toboggan: “Delta Table Optimisation: Improvig Queries using Delta Partitioning and Liquid Clustering”

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Speaking at Fabric Cafe – Don’t Repeat Yourself

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!

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Speaking at Cloud Data Driven (May 2025)

I Just wrapped up a session at Cloud Data Driven: “Delta Table Optimisation: Improvig Queries using Delta Partitioning and Liquid Clustering”

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Speaking at Fabric User Group Denmark January 2025

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.

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Speaking at Data Saturday Parma 2024

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.

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Speaking at Cloud Data Driven user group meeting

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking at Cloud Data Driven, a free data and analytics user group with weekly online meetings.

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Speaking at DATA:SCOTLAND 2024

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.

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Speaking at Dutch Fabric User Group June 2024

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…

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Bas Land is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer with more than 12 years in the Microsoft data stack. As co-owner of Kimura Data Intelligence he builds data platforms on Microsoft Fabric, and as ThatFabricGuy he shares what he learns on YouTube and his blog.

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