Never Say Never - when does advice become dogma?

Special Guest: Cristian Angyal  Question of the week: How has technology changed the way you work in the last 12 months 😠Grumpy Giles 🐶Wyn's "big" news 🪫Sue is feeling re-charged 🪃Aussie Lingo quiz 🧦Tight Socks   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

Special Guest Fay Bordbar  Question of the week: What are our AI predictions 💃🏻 Barcelona FabCon ✌🏻 Is VLOOKUP making a comeback? 🤓 Alex Powers & Greg Baldini shout-outs 🔁 Power Automate Love 📊 Canvas in Excel 🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️ Turns out Sue is Competitive ⁉️ Is Giles a "S**k" ? 🪃 Aussie Lingo quiz Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

QotW: Lists in Excel? Other topics: 🎂 Birthdays 🤖 Is Copilot actually good now? 📢 Power BI Announcements 🤯 2 Million Billion Calculations per second 🪃 Aussie Lingo Quiz   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

Thanks to special guest Oz du Soleil  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozdata/ QotW: My way or the highway: When does advice become dogma and how to find the balance. Other topics: 🏯Japan 🔍Kaleidoscopes 🏊🏻Mile Swim 🦘Word of the week 🙊Do we need an opinion on everything?   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

QOTW: Why are Tables so important?   Other nonsense: 🎂🍾Birthdays 🗣️🌎Foreign Languages 🐿️ 🐀Unnatural Habitats 🙈🫥Embarrassing events 🧞‍♂️🪔Wish Lists 🗞️⚡Breaking News 🐨🦘Aussie Word of the Week    Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

QOTW: What Personal Projects have use built with Excel or Power BI   Other nonsense: 🖥️🖥️🖥️ How many MONITORS is too many? 👰🏻‍♀️💍Weddings! 👮🏻🎶 Theme Tune Copyright Violation 🐿️ Is AI diverting us to lower priority activity? 🆑Power BI Bookmark Bliss with Claude Code? 🎼🎸Macro Chords 🐕Pomeranian Technique 🚽Schrodinger's Toilet   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

Special Guest Rob Collie New Book:   Fair Game 🟢 Working on the Excel Team 📖 The Original Power Pivot Book 🚿 Fawcett First 🤖 Customising AI 📖 Rob's new book: FAIR GAME 🧐 Hoity Toity Agentic Agents   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.  

QOTW: Where Do You Start with AI? Special Guest Fay Bordbar Other nonsense: 🏄🏻‍♂️ Mark's away and we've got Fay 🐟 Start Small and Snowball 🎯 You're Not as Far Behind as You Think 💰 The Hidden Cost of AI ( burnt dinners? ) 🧠 Data Literacy Before AI Hype 🤖 Agents, Copilot and Automation ⚠️ The Promise and Risk of Vibe Coding 📊 AI for Finance and Budgeting 🔍 Semantic Models and Business Context 🛠️ VS Code, GitHub Copilot and MCP Servers   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

QOTW: What does success look like on Excel and Power BI projects? Other nonsense: 🎉 Hitting 1,000 YouTube subscribers  Mark's break dancing outfit 🍻 Lithuania trip and alcohol consumption facts 🏷️ Excel name tag fail at a spreadsheet event ⚽ World Cup Permissions 🕵️ Fraud and impersonation targeting content creators 📋 Custom skills in Excel Copilot 💸 Microsoft's confusing Copilot credit pricing (CCCUs) 🪓Prompting in Mandarin to save tokens 🤖 AI auditability and safety concerns 🐹 Lemmings nostalgia ❓ Fabric's SharePoint-to-Delta-table feature 🎂 Two years of the podcast 🤫 Mystery guest teased for next episode   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.

Special Guest : Deb Ashby TIKTOK QOTW:  What is Cowork and Credits? Plus, we go off on tangents (as usual) 🎥 Camtasia tips 💡 Solving long-standing problems 🛍️ Ultimate goodie bags 😧 Forgetting you already did it… 10 months ago! ⏰ All managers wait until 5PM 🚐 Excel NOT On The Road 🔥 Burning tokens 😨 Tech company FOMO   Unpivot Show Links Page Hosts Wyn Hopkins, Mark Proctor,  Sue Bayes and Giles Male.