Microsoft TechEd Europe - Day One

Today I arrived in Barcelona to attend TechEd Europe, thanks to the great people at Microsoft!  Barcelona is a beautiful place, lots of sunshine.

Had an interesting day of sessions and exploring the venue, and spent time doing labs on Power BI (BI means business intelligence, and allows people to generate interesting  reports and visualisation from the data they have).  The actual technologies I used were Power Query, Power View and Power Map, in Excel.  I didn't know you could do so much with Excel!

There were hundreds of machines to run labs on it was incredible.

I attended a session on Visual Studio IDE tips and tricks, to help me improve my coding with Visual Studio.  It was great.

I also attended a session on Machine Learning, but actually it was a bit too hard - very interesting - but a bit too hard.

And for tea, we went out into the middle of Barcelona for a really nice pizza!  We ate in the square at night, it was fun.

(Forgot to move from draft to post on Tuesday, oops!)