dataMinds evening session – 4.02.2025

With great power comes a great bill: optimize, govern and monitor your Azure costs 

Speaker: Kristijan Shirgoski

Azure allows us to easily create an enormous amount of powerful resources and features. However, that presents its own problems. You might unknowingly create a resource, or enable a feature that shows up on the top of your costs reports very quickly, or grows uncontrollably over time. The first goal of this presentation is to provide guidelines to prevent a costs crisis in your organisation. The second goal is to better understand the cause of your currently growing costs, to monitor and to reduce them. We will cover resources that are very commonly used such as Data Factory, Databricks, SQL Databases, Synapse, Fabric, Log Analytics, Data Lake, Virtual Machines etc.

A rock-solid governance foundation for Power BI

Speaker: Jonathan Moeyersons

When providing a data environment to your business users, Data Governance is obviously key and even for data professionals, this can be an overwhelming topic. Join this session to discover how data governance is an essential foundation for any data platform and how a pragmatic governance framework can be applied to a Power BI landscape.