When clients ask how to export your dashboard to Excel, the dashboard is not giving them what they need.

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Marcin Kubica sits down with UX UI Designer Natalia Przybyłkiewicz to break down why BI reports end up unused, and what changes when you design a dashboard with the client instead of for them.

Hear why correct numbers are not enough, how to answer a request for ten more charts on one page, why a change in Figma takes minutes where Power BI takes days, and how usage statistics show whether a redesign worked.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro

0:49 Why reports go unused

1:41 The export button warning sign

2:20 Designing with the client, not for the client

3:39 Handling difficult requests

5:06 Design first, build second

6:45 Measuring impact

7:34 Wrap-up

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At FabCon Europe 2026, data engineering moved from writing code to defining the outcome. Estera Kot explains what that means for your data team and for governance.

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Marcin Kubica sits down with Clouds on Mars CTO Estera Kot to unpack her FabCon Europe 2026 takeaways, from agentic data engineering to governing AI agents in Microsoft Fabric.

Hear how the Data Engineering Agent behind Project Osmos plans and validates Apache Spark work, how the operations agent explains a pipeline that failed at 3 AM, why AI agents need their own identity like employees, and why a core MCP server that can delete workspaces calls for clear access policies.

Mentioned in this episode:

-FabCon Europe 2026 recap with Injae Park https://youtu.be/oPvHypIAwnM

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro and why FabCon matters

(01:18) Project Osmos: from Copilot to outcomes

(02:30) How the data engineer's job changes

(03:16) Agentic AI and new governance questions

(04:02) Observability and the operations agent

(04:38) A short break with Elton the dog

(05:17) Failed pipelines and pre-approved actions

(06:10) Governance: from people to agents

(07:03) Data agents, core MCP server, audit logs

(07:34) Treating AI agents like employees

(08:37) Where Clouds on Mars can help

(09:15) Mapping agents, policies and access

(09:48) Closing and the next FabCon locations

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Note: Clouds on Mars is a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner. This episode was not commissioned or sponsored by Microsoft.

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A Power BI report that used to take three weeks might take a day or two. That is Injae Park's estimate after FabCon in Barcelona, and it covers the front end only.

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Marcin Kubica sits down with Data Platform Consultant and MVP Injae Park to unpack the Power BI news from FabCon in Barcelona, from prompt-built modern reports to the role of the semantic model.

Hear how Fabric Apps bring write-back and full workflows without embedded Power Apps, why Injae expects customer-facing apps on a Fabric data model, why he calls AI hallucinations largely a thing of the past yet still tests results without AI, and why the semantic model is where the value comes from.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(00:54) Report building

(04:09) Data visualization

(05:50) Write-back

(07:57) AI hallucinations

(10:49) Semantic models

(12:11) Outro

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This episode is provided for general information purposes only and does not constitute legal, tax, financial or other professional advice. Nothing herein should be relied upon as a substitute for advice from a qualified professional. Views expressed are the speakers' own. Product features, availability and licensing details may change over time, and any client results shown are illustrative only and are not a guarantee or promise of similar outcomes. © Clouds on Mars. All rights reserved. This content is the property of Clouds on Mars and may not be reproduced or distributed without permission.