Tech Events by Power BI & Fabric Manchester User Group

Two practitioner talks on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, held as the user group's evening session at the end of day one of Data Decoded MCR. Rob Sewell explains what fabric-toolbox is and why you should care, touring Microsoft's open-source Fabric tools: FUAM for tenant monitoring, FCA for cost analysis, DAX performance testing, semantic model auditing and the MicrosoftFabricMgmt PowerShell module. Duncan Boyne, a Power BI and Fabric consultant at Tugger, shows how AI can build a whole three-page report, from data model to Figma wireframe to finished pages, including where it goes wrong. 17:30 to 19:30 in the Data Governance, Risk & Compliance Theatre, then the conference afterparty. Free, but you need a free Data Decoded ticket as well as the Meetup RSVP. Why go: hands-on Fabric tooling and an honest look at AI-built reports in one sitting. Best for Power BI developers and data platform owners.

The Fabric & Power BI Manchester User Group turns its August meetup into an interactive murder mystery built entirely on Microsoft Fabric. Across a live investigation, attendees explore reports, analyse streaming clues, interact with a grounded Data Agent and vote on the culprit — before the end-to-end Fabric architecture behind the experience is revealed, showing how batch and real-time data, Direct Lake semantic modelling, Power BI and AI combine into a single solution applicable to IoT, operational monitoring and support analytics. Doors 5:30pm, talk from 6pm, with drinks and pizza courtesy of hosts Slalom and sponsor Robert Walters.

with Obi Iheanachor (Speaker, PBIMCR) · Andy Cutler (Speaker, PBIMCR)

The long-running Fabric & Power BI Manchester User Group (PBIMCR) returns for a July evening of data and analytics talks, hosted at ANS Group in Hulme. This session features Obi Iheanachor and Andy Cutler sharing practical, hands-on insight into Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. Free to attend and going strong after nearly a decade, it's one of the North West's most established data communities — well worth it for BI developers, data analysts, engineers and anyone building analytics into their business.

Two sharp talks at Spinningfields: Alan Harman-Box explores what it means when AI agents can build Power BI reports and write DAX (and who owns the output), followed by Bob Pearman of Forge Holiday Group on implementing medallion architecture and Data Vault 2.0 in Microsoft Fabric. Drinks and pizza included.