Mastering Composite Models as a Power BI Self-Service Developer (with David Hanna)

Stream Date 📅

June 5th 2025 at 9:30 AM (PT)

DESCRIPTION 📄

Unlock the power of Composite Models in Power BI to bridge the gap between self-service and enterprise reporting. In this session, we’ll explore how to enrich local data with enterprise Power BI semantic models, giving self-service Power BI developers the best of both worlds—a hybrid solution that combines flexibility with governance.

The session will provide a guided tour on how to simplify the user experience and considerations when working with Composite Models against a Power BI Semantic Model in Direct Query for example using perspectives, naming convention and the considerations on calculation groups, security and performance. And if you are a Fabric Administrator or Enterprise Semantic Model Developer and want full control and governance, I will show you how to disable it.

GUEST BIO (David Hanna)👤

David Kofod Hanna is a Senior Advisor, trainer and speaker at twoday in Denmark. David’s passion is to guide self-service Power BI developers for more enterprise manageable concepts in a consumable and practical way - because he has been on that journey for years, and still is, thus bridging the gap between classic data engineer and business analysts. With a decade of experience as a consultant and a background in master’s in business Intelligence, David have advised and trained companies on the use of data from small to enterprise organizations.