Tuesday, August 4, 2026 | 6:30PM to 8:00PM

This Event will be delivered via Zoom Meeting

Note: Registrants will be sent a confirmation email, and a reminder email with the Zoom link prior to the meeting!

Agenda:
6:30 - 6:45 pm – Get Connected, Introductions & Announcements
6:45 - 7:40 pm – Guest Speaker – Scott Helmers
7:40 - 7:55 pm – Q&A
7:55 - 8:00 pm – Final remarks and close out

The PM for this event is: Liz Tirado - [email protected]

Registration closes: Monday, August 3, 2026 at Midnight

Visualizing data in context for a theme park operator: A Visio-Power BI Case Study
with Scott Helmers

The key to successful data visualization is context. A collection of charts and graphs on a BI dashboard is great, but without context you’re likely to miss key insights. For example, the red bars on a hospital’s environmental monitoring dashboard may alert you that a problem exists, but when you can click the red bars and see the exact location of the problem on a floor plan, you can formulate an immediate response. Similarly, when a dashboard includes a network diagram that shows real-time server status and you can click a failed server to see the data required to initiate a fix, you’re two steps ahead. 

How do you achieve this level of insight? There’s no better way to add context than to enhance Power BI reports with floor plans, network diagrams, process maps, or org charts created in Visio. This session features multiple live demos of Visio/Power BI integration from an ongoing project. The customer’s goal was to provide frontline workers using Microsoft Teams with easy access to visualizations in Power BI. You may not manage theme parks for a living, but you and your colleagues probably do need to visualize data more effectively. 

Learning Objectives 

• Providing front-line workers with data in visual form can provide a huge productivity boost 
• A Visio diagram viewed in a web browser can be a powerful data visualization 

PDU Info: You will need to record and self-report your PDU's for this activity. Following the guidelines of the new CCR program and the PMI Talent Triangle®, the PDU's for this course can be applied as follows: 1.0 PDU - Ways of Working

Presenter: Scott Helmers
Scott A. Helmers is a Partner at the Harvard Computing Group, a software and consulting firm that assists clients with understanding and implementing business process solutions. He is a co-inventor of TaskMap® (TaskMap.com), a Visio add-in that allows anyone to document, analyze, and improve their business processes. Scott has worked with clients in ten countries on projects involving process mapping and redesign, knowledge management, and technology training.

Scott has been named a Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP) for Visio every year since 2008, one of only six people in the world to hold that distinction. He is a course author for LinkedIn Learning (bit.ly/LILearning-Author), a Senior Instructor with B2T Training, and is the author of four books from Microsoft Press, including Visio 2016 Step by Step (VisioStepByStep.com). When not at his keyboard, you’ll often find him on his bicycle or dabbling in community theater.