Join us for our premier event of the year and take your first step on the "Road to Certification".Whether you are brand new to Tableau or building confidence towards certification, the sessions are designed with beginners in mind: practical, approachable, and encouraging.

Harim Jung presents "How to Leverage AI for conversational Dashboard using MCP".
This session explores how to build and deploy AI-native conversational dashboards using the (MCP) a new interoperability layer that enables large language models to communicate directly with data sources and visualization tools like Tableau or Streamlit. Participants will learn how MCP allows real-time querying, reasoning, and visualization through natural language, effectively transforming dashboards into intelligent agents that can answer questions, detect insights, and automate reports.
It covers:
1. Designing conversational workflows for analytics and decision support.
2. Demonstration of an AI-powered dashboard capable of interactive insight generation.

We have two #VOTD that take a deep dive into how to Viz for Social Good
• Celia Fryar will share how being an Analytics & AI Educator helped her become a Tableau Academic AmbassadorWatch the January Tableau Public TUG to learn how to tell stories for social good with Tableau.• Katherine Pillsbury – will show her Coffee and Climate Change Viz of the Day

• Agata Ketterick – will show her Access to Safe Drinking Water Viz of the Day

Join your K12 community to learn more about the features and value of Tableau Prep. We can't guarantee it will change your life, but it might.Priyanka Aggarwal (Alameda County Office of Education, California) Shares her journey with Tableau in a large K12 County of Education office.Kate Ory (Chico Unified School District, California) She's back to share how Tableau Prep helps make the work of a data analyst easier.Virginia ""Ginny"" Weaver (South Bend Community School Corporation, Indiana) Demonstrates a Tableau Prep use case for IEP data.Celebrate the start of a new year with your K12 Data Family #datafam!

"Your Technical Interview GTM: Position, Perform, and Land the Role" by Celia FryarStrategies and actionable recommendations on ways to prepare and navigate the technical interview cycles. Practical ways to prepare, practice and build a productive mental framework to be successful.

Join us for an inspiring session with Shazeera Zawawi, a human rights advocate turned data analyst and Tableau Public Ambassador.In her DataFam Europe 2025 talk, Shazeera will guide us through turning analysis into self-reflection and authentic storytelling, featuring examples from the DataFam community. Don't miss out on this chance to keep the human story alive in your data!

Tableau Visionary Hall of Famer Ann Jackson will be joining us to talk about using AI in your analytics workflow!Talk Description: AI is more than fancy autocomplete. This talk covers practical ways to integrate AI into every step of the Analytics Loop, from defining business needs to taking action. It also provides an in-depth look at what AI does within the Tableau ecosystem and how it supports analytical work at every level.

It’s been a while, but we’re back with an APAC-friendly session!This time, we’re excited to welcome Jie Liu (Product Specialist, Presales) and Yasuyuki Tominaga (Lead Solution Engineer) from Tableau.You’ll get a rare opportunity to experience three powerful Tableau innovations demo showcase— Tableau Next, Tableau Pulse, and Tableau Agent — all in a single event!After the demos, we’ll ask you to vote for your favorite.Which product or feature will capture everyone’s hearts? We can’t wait to find out!*This will be a demo-style broadcast (no hands-on work required).Agenda • 5 min – Introduction • 20 min – Demo (Tableau Next)　by Jie Liu • 20 min – Demo (Tableau Pulse & Tab Agent) by Yasuyuki Tominaga • 5 min – Voting • 5 min – Wrap-up

This is an engaging event where you will learn from Jen Shepherd about creating sophisticated tooltips in Tableau, which can enhance the user experience and interactivity of your dashboards. Following this hands-on demonstration, hear from an insightful panel discussing the evolving roles in the data industry and gain guidance on steering your career towards a future full of opportunities. Meet fellow data enthusiasts, expand your network, and exchange ideas.

You do not want to miss this guys: we have taken some time off this year and the beat of the AI drum has relentlessly continued. Our final session for the year will bring you some unique perspectives in these transitional and uncertain times.

First up: Join data-expert Andy Cotgreave (ex-Tableau, Chart Chat-er, and co-author of The Big Book of Dashboards as well as the brand new Dashboards that Deliver) to hear 'Has AI Killed Dashboards?' In this compelling presentation, Andy will speak with the perspective he has gained from a multi-decade-long career in data viz & analytics to opine on the impact AI will have on BI (Business Intelligence). People and organizations have been looking for that 'silver bullet' to solve their problem of gaining accurate and timely business intelligence from their data to answer critical business questions for centuries, and Andy is skeptical that AI will soon, or perhaps ever, play that role.

Second up: Cooper Wenhua (Senior BI Developer from Aia Inc in Chengdu China) will dazzle us with the techniques he has spent huge amounts of time developing in Claude AI to create a way to migrate dashboards from one Business Intelligence platform to another. We are talking taking Tableau dashboards and, with relative ease, turning them into Power BI dashboards (in a day?? a week?? Cooper will tell us! But can you imagine....) OR Power BI dashboards into Snowflake Streamlit applications.

The possibilities are endless when a robot is doing all the tedious mechanical hard work behind the scenes...of course the proof is in the pudding, is it accurate post-migration? And that's what Cooper is prepared to demonstrate for us!

So thank you for your patience over this summer lull, but we returned on December 4 in a big way and will continue on a quarterly basis into 2026.