**Summary:**
Curious about Azure Synapse Analytics? Do you heavily utilize Power BI but find yourself spending a lot of time on the data modeling and prep steps? We'll review what Synapse Analytics is, what capabilities and benefits it provides to organizations and Power BI users, how to get started quickly, and some “gotchas” to watch out for.

**Speaker Bios:**

* Justin Moen – Director, Data Engineering Justin has a passion for working with data and working with his clients to develop opportunities to use it as a competitive advantage. Over his 20 years of experience, Justin has worked with many database solutions and tools and is always adapting to understand current trends in the industry. To compliment his technical knowledge, Justin is excellent at working with both business and IT team members to help bring both sides together to produce solutions that are in the best interest of the company.
* Eric Gleiter – Data Engineer Eric transforms organizations' data into clean, defined, and usable data. He has a knack for simplifying processes and establishing workflows that are repeatable, saving companies time and speeding up their time to value. He focuses on transferring his expertise to anyone he works with and is a natural bug-fixer and problem solver.

Livestream Links:

* [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFQ9CA1lHqA)
* [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:6953075062149107712/)