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Announcing The 2019 Power BI User Group Global Hackathon Champions!

Headshot of article author Kelly Kaye

It is with great pleasure that the Power BI User Group announced the 2019 Power BI User Group Global Hackathon winning team as…

Team Hydro-Québec of the Montreal Power BI User Group! Congratulations to our Power BI User Group World Champs!

Members of Team Hydro-Québec:

  • William Martin (Team Captain)
  • Maxime Tremblay
  • Francis Quenneville
  • France Cano

The Global Hackathon Judging Committee – consisting of Microsoft Product Team members Amanda Cofsky, Tessa Hurr, Kelly Kaye, and Will Thompson and 2018 Global Hackathon Winning Denmark Power BI User Group Leaders Erik Svensen and Just Thorning Blindbæk – remarked that the Team’s solution was visually very compelling, with a well-presented story. Great, easy to follow navigation around the report and beautiful drillthroughs. View Team Hydro-Québec’s winning dashboard and video overview to learn more!

The global hackathon has provided our worldwide Power BI User Group community with a fun and competitive opportunity to use Power BI to entertain, educate, and inspire people and facilitate positive change through the data stories that are visualized. Starting with local competitions, these teams were selected as the top teams in their local Power BI User Groups hackathon challenges. Teams were instructed to use data sets from public data sources only, and solutions could be built with either Desktop, Excel, Power BI Service, Embedded, or with any combination of these options.

Review all the final solutions here: Power BI Exchange
Local Finalists Include:

Thank you to all the competing teams, Power BI User Group Leaders, Judging Committee and community of voters for participating and making this challenge possible! Stay tuned for more insights about this Team’s hackathon adventure, as Team Hyrdo-Québec won passes to a Power Platform World Tour location of their choice.

While the Canadian stops may have passes, there are still opportunities to engage with experts and great users like these at upcoming Power Platform World Tour locations happening around the world during the next 3 months:

Don’t miss your chance to connect, engage and learn from your fellow Power BI community members at an upcoming event near you. Get engaged and join your local Power BI User Group community for FREE today!

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