Direct Lake - The Power BI Revolution

🎯 The Problem: Import mode is fast but stale. DirectQuery is fresh but slow. You’ve been making this tradeoff for years. What if you didn’t have to choose anymore?

💡 This Evening: Direct Lake changes everything. We’ll show you how it delivers Import-speed performance with DirectQuery-level freshness - and why it’s the future of Power BI.

⏱️ Save yourself: Weeks of performance tuning. Direct Lake + proper semantic model design = reports that just work.

What you’ll learn

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• 📊 Semantic Models – Direct Lake, Import, and DirectQuery modes, and WHY Direct Lake uses Delta parquet files directly
• 📈 Reports – Best practices for Fabric-native reports, and WHY report design matters for Direct Lake performance
• 📋 Dashboards vs Reports – When to pin vs when to build, and WHY dashboards are being deprecated in favor of reports
• 📄 Paginated Reports – Pixel-perfect printing and exports, and WHY paginated reports still matter for invoices, statements
• 🎯 Scorecards – KPI tracking and goal management, and WHY metrics need a dedicated home

Mode Comparison

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Agenda

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Who should attend

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Power BI developers migrating to Fabric, Report authors optimizing performance, Architects designing semantic layer.

Part of the monthly Fabric Meetup Series by The Trusted Advisor.