Sep'26: "Who's downloading your data?" & "BI Buddy the AI Companion for PBI"

When: Thursday 17th September 2026 Time: arrive for 5:45pm with talks starting from 6pm start prompt. Location: Ecosurety, 2nd Floor, 4 Colston Ave, Bristol BS1 4ST Complimentary drinks & pizza provided by our sponsor Method Resourcing Solutions. Please remember to RSVP to help us confirm numbers! Session 1 -Who's Downloading your Data? Insider risk management meets Power BI - Victor Wingsing Your dashboards are only as safe as the people who can open them. In this 40-minute session, we follow a departing employee's last week — viewing board reports, downloading .pbix files, exporting to Excel, and quietly downgrading sensitivity labels — and show how Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management turns each of those actions into a live alert, complete with a risk score and a user activity timeline. Using the new Microsoft Fabric indicators, now generally available, we'll walk through the exact setup: enabling indicators, creating a data-leak policy in minutes, and reading the alerts an analyst would actually see. No coding, no theory — just a real tenant, real signals, and practical steps you can take back to your own organisation. About Victor Victor is back with us speaking for the second time! He is an IT veteran and Microsoft MVP (Security) with a passion for making cloud, collaboration, data security, and compliance simpler and more effective for real-world business needs. Session 2 - How and why I built "BI Buddy"\, the user-friendly AI companion for Power BI - Mathias Halkjær In this session I go through my journey into AI and creating my own community-available AI harness for Power BI. In an age and time where the world is overflowing with AI models, MCP, agent skills and the like, I wanted an easy way to get started that bridged the gap all the way to advanced use-cases, that’s how BI Buddy came to life. Join us for this session to learn how BI Buddy could be useful for you, learn some of the AI concepts and thoughts that went into building it, and learn about various AI related topics along the way. About Mathias Mathias Halkjær is a cloud data platform expert specializing in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. Known for his slightly rebellious "data-as-a-product" approach, he designs agile workflows for fast-paced insights, always emphasizing that people are the true key to successful digital transformations. We all look forward to seeing you there!!