DAMA QLD: 2026 Winter Professional Meet Up
About this Event
We are continuing our traditional "two presenter eventer" format, and asking two seasoned Data Management professionals to come and present their topics.
Following our presentations and Q&A sessions there will be plenty of time for networking. Pizzas and drinks will be provided for refreshments.
Agenda
?: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Welcome notes, housekeeping, DAMA updates, Membership Updates
Host: DAMA QLD
?: 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Automation of Fabric Management with Semantic Link Labs (technical demo)
Host: Jack MacCormack
Info: One of the main challenges with Power BI / Fabric administration is managing Workspace permissions & ensuring appropriate access controls are in-place. With Workspaces, EDIT rights are co-bundled with access management, allowing users with Edit rights to add others.
Fabric tenants typically devolve from Workspaces with a few well defined Entra-ID groups at the start, into a random people & groups with inconsistent or unexplained permissions months down the line.
With the upgrade from Power BI Premium SKUs to Microsoft Fabric, comes the ability to use Semantic Link functions in Fabric Notebooks, which allows for programmatic modification of environments right inside the Fabric web-client, providing admins with a way to manage Fabric as Infrastructure As Code.
?: 05:30 PM - 06:15 PM
Reality has a Surprising Amount of Detail
Host: Ross Gundry
Info: Generative AI is all around us, but has 24/7 access to plausible answers without the need for understanding compromised our ability to handle necessary complexity when it arises? When simplicity & elegance of explanations are no longer a sign of deep expertise but of false confidence in an LLM's output, how do we as data management professionals prevent the inherent complexity of real life from being minimised & dismissed by stakeholders whose curated experiences usually shield them from these details.
Inspired by the essay of the same name, this is an exploration of cognitive blind spots & pragmatic ways to handle allergic reactions to technical detail.
?: 06:15 PM - 07:00 PM
Networking: Food and beverage package
Host: DAMA QLD
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
AUD 0.00 to AUD 15.00
