# 20 minute Tableau Conference Keynote Roundup!

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2021-11-10
- **Format:** Video · 21 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Industry trends, Data visualisation, AI & ML
- **Tools:** Tableau (actions, business science, catalog, data management, embedding, prep, public, row level security, slack)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/20-minute-tableau-conference-keynote-roundup
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnNm41ntyLI

I round up the major announcements from the Tableau Conference keynote, grouping them into four themes: Tableau for Slack, Tableau Business Science, Data Management at Scale, and the Tableau Economy/Exchange. I share my honest reactions to each and explain how the keynote signals Tableau extending the boundaries of its platform.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau for Slack is becoming the conversational analytics layer, with Ask Data, Explain Data and Einstein Analytics arriving, and similar capability expected for Microsoft Teams via APIs.
- Tableau Business Science brings AI and modelling to business users through a Tableau Prep-style browser interface, but it leans heavily on Salesforce and still requires strong knowledge of your data set.
- Data Management at Scale adds virtual connections, centralised row-level security policies, two-way metadata sync to the catalog, plus the ability to publish Prep flows to Tableau Public and build Prep extensions.
- The Tableau Exchange and 'Tableau Economy' aim to monetise and centralise community assets via accelerators, a Hire Me button and creator marketplace, making your Tableau Public profile a key global identity.
- Embedded web authoring means you may soon build Tableau dashboards without installing Tableau, signalling Tableau moving fully into the browser, and dashboard actions will trigger external workflows like Salesforce Flows.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Intro and keynote overview
- 2:00 Tableau for Slack
- 4:12 Tableau Business Science
- 7:12 Data Management at Scale
- 12:25 The Tableau Economy and Exchange
- 15:35 Embedded web authoring
- 17:32 Tableau actions and Salesforce flows
- 19:40 Wrap up and devs on stage

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/20-minute-tableau-conference-keynote-roundup

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