IBM Think 2026
2026-05-04 - 2026-05-07

Tableau Conference 2026
2026-05-05 - 2026-05-07

From Vibe Coding to Control: Increase the Value of AI Across the Qlik Lifecycle
2026-05-14 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago)
Description

AI is already part of how Qlik teams develop. It helps create apps and dashboards faster, but speed comes with tradeoffs. More output, less clarity. It’s not always obvious what was built, how reliable it is, or who owns it. That’s where quality drops and governance starts to drift.
This session focuses on using AI beyond creation. With a metadata catalog, AI can help Qlik teams understand how work unfolds, catch issues early, and keep testing, quality, and governance on track. It’s about the value of AI to manage the lifecycle, not just for vibe coding.
What you’ll learn:

How AI helps to catch issues while development is still in motion
How metadata and AI keep context around changes without digging for it
Where AI surfaces patterns across apps, reloads, and support activity
How to keep quality and governance tight without adding more processes

Power BI Governance in the Age of Self-Service and AI
2026-05-28 10:00 - 11:00
At FabCon, one thing kept coming up in conversations with BI and Data & Analytics Managers: the level of control they expected from DevOps and governance just isn’t there.
Power BI environments don’t usually break all at once. They degrade gradually, and most teams don’t notice until the damage is already done.
Self-service analytics, small differences in DAX, and AI-generated models all introduce variation across reports and semantic models. Over time, that builds up. It gets harder to trace what changed, and eventually, numbers stop lining up the way people expect.
As self-service and AI adoption grow, keeping things consistent only gets harder. Many teams rely on Azure DevOps and Git. They help in some areas, but they don’t reflect the full environment. Gaps in metadata and limited visibility across workspaces make it tough to see what’s actually changing.
This session looks at those patterns more closely:

where consistency starts to break across reports and models, and how that impacts trust
why Azure DevOps leaves gaps in visibility and control
how self-service growth and Power BI development introduce risk
what a practical path forward looks like without adding more process

If you’re responsible for Power BI performance, cost, or reliability, this is meant to help you step back and understand what’s really happening in your environment before things get harder to untangle.
10 AM – 11 AM CDT / 16:00 – 17:00 UK / 17:00 – 18:00 Berlin/Paris

The Qlik App Quality Check You Wish You Had Yesterday
2026-07-09 10:00 - 11:00
As Qlik environments grow, so do the headaches: performance issues, inconsistent development practices, and dashboards that leave users with more questions than answers.
Join us July 9, 10:00 to 11:00 AM CDT / 16:00 to 17:00 BST / 17:00 to 18:00 CEST to see how QSDA Pro and Guided Tour help teams build better Qlik apps with less rework.
QSDA Pro surfaces hidden errors, optimizes app size and performance, identifies bottlenecks, and enforces development standards so teams can monitor quality continuously and stop fixing the same problems twice.
Guided Tour embeds guidance directly into your apps: AI-generated descriptions, interactive tooltips, and KPI definitions that help users actually understand what they’re looking at without pinging a developer every time.
You’ll walk away knowing how to:

Improve app quality and performance
Enforce consistent development standards
Cut support requests and manual review time
Boost onboarding and user adoption

Governing Power BI Without Slowing It Down
2026-07-22 13:00 - 14:00
Join PMsquare and Motio for a session on modern analytics governance strategies designed for organizations that rely on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Self-service BI moves fast, and governance doesn’t have to slow it down. This session is structured to give you both the strategic context and a real-world view of how these principles work in practice.

Session Agenda:

Analytics Governance, Self-Service BI & AI Readiness
Why governance is no longer optional and why it’s become foundational to AI initiatives in Power BI and Fabric environments.
Common Governance Challenges
The pain points organizations consistently face as Power BI and Fabric environments grow: duplicated metrics, inconsistent business logic, ungoverned deployments, and limited visibility into downstream impacts.
Practical Governance Approaches
Ondrej walks through real approaches for version control, deployment governance, metadata intelligence, and consistency monitoring without requiring Git or developer-centric workflows.
Soterre Demo
A live walkthrough of Soterre showing how the complete governance workflow operates in a real-world Power BI environment.
Live Q&A

Whether you’re a BI lead, data architect, or analytics manager, you’ll leave with a clear picture of how organizations are governing Power BI today and what that could look like in your environment.

Modernizing Cognos Operations in the Era of Multi-BI Platforms
2026-08-20 08:30 - 10:30
Organizations today are balancing growing demand for self-service and AI-driven analytics across Cognos, Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, and other BI platforms. At the same time, teams are being asked to maintain governance, implement DevOps methodologies, and manage operational change without disrupting delivery to the business.
As teams work toward more unified user experiences through initiatives such as IBM Analytics Content Hub, they are also seeking ways to create more consistent and manageable operations across increasingly complex BI ecosystems.
During the Business Analytics User Group, we’ll discuss three key areas that organizations are focusing on as they modernize their analytics operations.

First, we’ll explore how organizations are supporting more unified experiences across BI platforms while enabling growing self-service and AI-driven initiatives.
Secondly, we’ll examine how teams are implementing governance strategies, DevOps methodologies, automation, and operational processes to improve consistency, visibility, and control across analytics environments.
Finally, we’ll discuss how organizations are managing operational disruptors such as upgrades, cloud migrations, changes in security providers (e.g., moving to OKTA), and containerization initiatives, while minimizing impact on business delivery.

We’ll also examine the evolving role of AI in governance and platform management, including how AI can support deployment analysis, operational coordination, and governance visibility across increasingly complex environments.
IBM Business Analytics Product Management will join the session to discuss current industry direction around AI, automation, Analytics Content Hub, governance, and enterprise BI strategy.
Whether your organization is modernizing Cognos environments, improving governance practices, or working to reduce operational disruption across BI platforms, this session will provide practical approaches for building more manageable and resilient operations.
We look forward to having you join us on Thursday, August 20, 2026, from 8:30 – 10:30 AM CDT / 15:30 – 17:30 BST / 16:30 – 18:30 CEST.

European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference
2026-09-28 - 2026-10-01 | Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB), Spain
Motio is excited to be a Platinum Sponsor at the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, happening September 28–October 1. Be sure to save 10% with our discount code FABCONSP, and if you’re attending, come say hi at Booth 7!
