Before dashboards, automation, or AI, comes something more important — understanding and trusting your data. In this session, Elise Teixeira explores the critical early stage of any transformation: studying your data, asking the right questions, and learning how to translate them into structured solutions using Excel. Drawing from real-world experience navigating corporate silos, compliance constraints, and legacy systems, Elise shows how Excel - and its built-in tools like Power Query, data modeling, and VBA - can support data clarity, structure, and smarter decision-making. This session is ideal for teams still working in Excel who want to break down silos, improve data reliability, and lay strong, sustainable foundations for digital transformation.

Before dashboards, automation, or AI, comes something more important — understanding and trusting your data. In this session, Elise Teixeira explores the critical early stage of any transformation: studying your data, asking the right questions, and learning how to translate them into structured solutions using Excel. Drawing from real-world experience navigating corporate silos, compliance constraints, and legacy systems, Elise shows how Excel - and its built-in tools like Power Query, data modeling, and VBA - can support data clarity, structure, and smarter decision-making. This session is ideal for teams still working in Excel who want to break down silos, improve data reliability, and lay strong, sustainable foundations for digital transformation.