Registering and setting up for Tableau conference 2021: It's Free !

0:00Hey, it's Tim here. In today's video, I'm

0:01going to be taking you through how to set

0:03yourself up for the

0:03Tableau conference. It's free this year. So

0:06all you need to do is sign up, I'm going to

0:07be walking

0:08through the signup process, and then how to

0:10set up your schedule and how to make the

0:12most of the

0:13website and all the things going on. But

0:15before I do, I just want to let you know

0:16that Ravi and I

0:17are going to be doing a live stream for

0:19each of the key events. To find out these

0:21live streams,

0:22you just go to the Tableau Tim channel page

0:24, you can find this just by clicking the

0:25face or going

0:26to any of the links you see on the video,

0:28click on the name and it'll take you to the

0:30channel page.

0:31And if you scroll down right at the top,

0:32there's an upcoming live stream section,

0:34you can see that

0:35I've just literally this minute, added all

0:37three live streams to the channel. So you

0:39can go ahead

0:40and set a reminder for any one of these.

0:42And it will of course remind you that these

0:44are happening.

0:44So you can see that I've just done that the

0:46reminders are on. And now when those events

0:48are

0:48live, you'll get notified now, because it's

0:51a live reaction, we will be talking over

0:52the main feed

0:53that's coming from Tableau. So if you don't

0:55want any interruptions, as you watch the

0:57event, then

0:57the live stream might not be for you. But

0:59if you want our live reaction, if you're

1:01familiar with

1:01conference, you want a little bit of fun

1:03and banter during the conference, this is

1:05going to

1:05be the place to be. It's as simple as that.

1:07Okay, let's get back into this video. And

1:09let me show

1:09you how to set yourself up for conference.

1:11Let's get stuck in. Okay, so the first step

1:13is to sign

1:14up for Tableau conference. Let me show you

1:16how to do that. I've got the Tableau

1:18conference page

1:18here. If you don't know how to get to this

1:20is a really easy way. If you just go to

1:22Tableau.com,

1:24and don't go to the products, I'm always

1:25going to see the coming soon page. So that

1:28's the one it

1:29goes to. If you just go to Tableau.com, on

1:31the very right hand side, there's this

1:32option here

1:33for Tableau conference. So like that, it

1:35will take you through to the main Tableau

1:37conference

1:38homepage. And you can actually sign up

1:40straight from here, there's a registration

1:42button right

1:42here on the right hand side. And you're

1:44pretty much good to go. Let me make this

1:46the full screen

1:47so we get a nice spaced out experience. Now

1:50that we're here, let's go ahead and click

1:52the register

1:53now button. And let's just go ahead and see

1:55what happens. So when we go to the

1:56registration page,

1:58gives us a little bit of a preamble. And it

2:00asks us to sign in or create an account.

2:02Essentially,

2:02what they want us to do is to create a

2:04Tableau account. So let's go ahead and do

2:06this, sign in

2:07or create an account. When we do this, it

2:10brings up this page. Now typically, this

2:13page should open

2:14should open up a Tableau credentials page.

2:16Now this is going to be an ID that you've

2:18used with

2:18Tableau before. I'm going to change this to

2:22my own login here, click Sign In. And you

2:25'll see that it

2:25basically sends you right through. Now,

2:28because I've used my Tableau login, it

2:30actually has some

2:31details about me already from previous

2:33events as well. And from my profile, so it

2:35should auto

2:36complete this as much as it can. I also get

2:38this cookie bot notification here at the

2:40top, I'm going

2:41to allow all you know, the cookie sometimes

2:44if you don't allow all you don't get the

2:46best experience.

2:47I'm also just going to disable my ad

2:49blocker here because sometimes ad blockers

2:51get in the way of

2:52forms and stuff like that. So if you're

2:54having the same issue, be sure to do that

2:55as well.

2:56Now you can see here that my personal

2:58information is there. And it says that I'm

3:00registered,

3:00that was pretty much it, I gave it my Table

3:02au ID, and I'm done. Now if I look at my

3:04contact

3:05information, you can see it has some basic

3:07information already. And there's a little

3:08bit

3:09of a survey that basically tries to find

3:11out who I am. Now what they've done is I

3:13think they've

3:13used the registration details from last

3:15year. And that's essentially what they're

3:17going with this

3:18year. So if you sign up to conference last

3:20year, you might not have to fill this in.

3:22But if you

3:23have filled this in before, you might find

3:25that this is already done. Now once you've

3:27signed in,

3:28you're probably wondering, well, how do I

3:29know that I'm registered? Well, you can

3:31print the

3:31confirmation here on the right hand side.

3:33So let's go ahead and select that. And you

3:35can see that you

3:35get the details here to say that look, you

3:37are registered. And it is for this year,

3:39because you

3:40see everything is actually about the

3:41hashtag 21. That's pretty much the only way

3:44I could actually

3:44tell that this wasn't the previous

3:46conference. It was actually this year's

3:47conference, but it's good

3:48to know that that's there. Now the other

3:50thing you're going to need to bear in mind

3:52is that now

3:52that you signed up, there's a couple of

3:54things to do. So if you go ahead to the

3:56Tableau conference

3:57events page, let's just open that on a new

3:59tab, you'll see that now you're here,

4:00everything is

4:01pretty much good to go, we can now go ahead

4:03and start looking at our schedule. So when

4:05you start

4:05to build our schedule, again, it's going to

4:07ask us to sign in. So this time, let's sign

4:09in rather than

4:09register. And it will look at my Tableau

4:12credentials. And it should just send me

4:14straight in,

4:15I know that I'm logged in, because on the

4:16top right, you can see that it says Tn,

4:19those are my

4:19initials, Tim Neguena. So that's what it

4:22says on the top right now, what I can

4:24normally do is add

4:25a profile picture to this. And so we'll

4:26just try and go through this entire page

4:28and make sure that

4:29we're all set up for conference. Now, one

4:31of the things you'll notice is that Tableau

4:33conference is

4:34actually happening in three different time

4:36zones, essentially, there's three different

4:38broadcasts,

4:39the first of which is typically going to be

4:40in the US, the second in Europe, and the

4:42last in Asia.

4:44That's typically how it's worked in the

4:45past. And so it actually means the US

4:47conference will run

4:48from the 9th to the 11th, this will

4:50actually be the first time lots of the

4:52events are aired. Now,

4:54it's sort of difficult, because of course,

4:57it's not obvious necessarily, when you look

4:59at the page,

5:00which day it's actually referring you to.

5:01So if you see here, November the 10th, the

5:03opening keynote,

5:04November 11, those dates could be different

5:07depending on the time zone you're in. So

5:09how

5:09do you find that out? Well, the first thing

5:11to do is to just go and try and build your

5:13schedule. So

5:14well, the first thing we can do is we go

5:15here to the top menu where you can see we

5:17've got a range

5:17of options, you've got my TC 21, you've got

5:20episodes, which has a sub menu for

5:22broadcast

5:22schedule and all episodes, essentially,

5:25each event, each little thing is like an

5:27episode,

5:27each little video, each session is an

5:29episode. And there's obviously the ways to

5:31connect the help

5:32page here, which just gives you some FAQs

5:34around the Tableau conference. And then you

5:36've got some

5:37aspects beyond the conference itself. So

5:39what's happening beyond the conference that

5:42is maybe

5:42interesting to you. And these are all

5:44things that are happening all the time

5:46anyway, you don't

5:47necessarily need to come to conferences,

5:49take part in them, they happen all year

5:50round. So Tableau

5:51is just letting you know that these things

5:53exist. But let's start first with the my TC

5:5621 option. So

5:57if we click on that, you'll see that we get

5:59here and it says, Hey, let's get started.

6:00If we scroll

6:02down, you'll see that I haven't added any

6:04episodes to watch, I haven't planned any

6:05brain dates,

6:06and I haven't booked any Tableau doctor

6:08appointments. I'm seeing this on the right

6:10hand side of the page. So let's go ahead

6:12and search and browse episodes. And let's

6:14start

6:14adding our first thing to the schedule. Now

6:16, now that we're here, you can see that at

6:18the top,

6:18it gives me the option to see the broadcast

6:21schedule. And on the left hand side, I've

6:23got

6:23some filters. Okay, so you can see here

6:26that the Tableau conference, the 2021

6:28keynote is showing

6:30here on November the ninth. So if you saw

6:33the landing page that I went to, it was

6:35telling me

6:36November the 10th. And that is primarily

6:38because I think what the website is doing

6:40is it showing me

6:41the time zones relevant to where I'm

6:43looking at the website from. So November 10

6:46is technically

6:47the date that I'd be seeing the keynote, if

6:49I was actually watching it using the UK

6:52time zones,

6:52but I'm not going to be I'm going to be

6:53using the American time zones because I'm

6:55going to be doing

6:55a live stream. I've already suggested with

6:58Ravi. So these times here are actually the

7:00American times,

7:01and it's just showing us all the events. If

7:03you want to filter this, you can obviously

7:05go here

7:06to the left hand side, select the broadcast

7:08regions. And you can see here the first

7:10broadcast

7:10is in the Americas. If I go ahead and take

7:12that, you'll see that now I'm only seeing

7:15the Americas

7:15broadcast and everything I see here should

7:18basically be consistent with that. If

7:20however,

7:20I was to deselect that and I'll select the

7:22I was let's say I select the second

7:24broadcast,

7:25which is Asia Pacific. If we look at the

7:27times, you'll see that it goes to November

7:29the 10th at

7:301am to 2.15. And if I again, the select

7:33that and we go to the final broadcast, you

7:35can see the time

7:36has changed again, from 9am to 10.15. If I

7:39use Europe, Middle East and Africa, okay,

7:42so they're

7:42slightly different time zones. And I think

7:44these time zones are based on my time,

7:46essentially where

7:47I'm looking at this website from. So I'm

7:50going to go ahead and take the Americas

7:52broadcast, because

7:52that's the one I'm actually going to be

7:54using. And now that I've done that, I can

7:56sort of collapse

7:56this little filter pane on the right hand

7:58side, it doesn't want to collapse properly,

7:59you can see it's

8:00kind of playing around there, they're going

8:02to be bugs, these things get fixed. But

8:03essentially,

8:04we're going to go back to the right hand

8:05side here, and I'm going to add the

8:07conference

8:07keynote to my list. So let's go ahead and

8:10add that. Now that we've done that, let's

8:13go down,

8:14and we can also go down to the episode type

8:16. Now the episode type tends to be some sort

8:19of

8:19grouping that's essentially been selected

8:21by Tableau. You've also got themes, which

8:24are tend

8:24to be sort of around different aspects. So

8:27think of the themes as tracks, and think of

8:29the episode

8:30types as more of a format. So let's say a

8:33discussion is more about an episode type,

8:36but the theme is more about, you know, the

8:38high level topic, are we talking about

8:40customer success? Are we talking about

8:43design? Are we talking about technical

8:45things? Are we

8:45talking about soft skills, all of those

8:47tend to be themes. You've then of course

8:49got the category

8:50and industry. These are pretty

8:51straightforward. I don't need to explain

8:53these. And the last one

8:54here is role. This is really interesting

8:56because Tableau is deliberately trying to

8:58do something

8:58that I think Salesforce does really well

9:00here. And that is to tell you look what

9:02content is pitched

9:03at your level. If you're the analyst, they

9:05've got something for you. If you're the

9:06business user,

9:07data leader, developer, decision maker,

9:09professional, or if you're new to Tableau,

9:13there's even an option for you there. So

9:15these are all great filters. And what I

9:17will say to you

9:18is use them with caution. Because you see,

9:20the thing is with conference this year is

9:22that it's

9:23virtual. So of course, these things are

9:25going to be broadcast at Pacific times. But

9:28after conference,

9:29this tends to be available to everyone. So

9:31what you should really do is go to the

9:33sessions that

9:34you want to participate in actively during

9:36the conference, the stuff you want to be

9:38tweeting

9:39about the stuff you want to be sharing with

9:40your colleagues, the stuff that someone was

9:42going to

9:42ask you, hey, what's come from conference?

9:44What did you learn from the session, go to

9:46the sessions

9:47are going to arm you with knowledge to do

9:48that. Because you can always go back and

9:50watch the other

9:51things that you wanted to catch a little

9:53bit later on, they tend to do that a week

9:55or two afterwards,

9:56they tend to put all the sessions back up

9:58online through the same sort of interface,

10:00and you can

10:00just play them and watch them as videos. So

10:03that's pretty much how to sort of navigate

10:05this page.

10:06I tend to do this in a very sort of

10:07organized way, I tend to come back to this

10:09page, and I just

10:10search for things. Because I've been to

10:12conference pretty much for the last six

10:14years, I've been very

10:15fortunate to have been able to go to it at

10:17both in person. And also last year, I can't

10:19went to it

10:19virtually, I really enjoyed it last year.

10:21So what I tend to do is I just go in here

10:23and search a few

10:24things. So the three sessions that I'll be

10:26live streaming with Ravi are the keynote,

10:28which I've

10:29already added to my schedule. Let's look up

10:31devs on stage, I'm just going to search

10:32devs, and you'll

10:33see that it comes up. I'll add that to my

10:35list. Don't forget, I'm looking at the

10:37Americas time

10:37zone. So be sure to check the time zone

10:39that you're adding this from I've got the

10:41filter,

10:41hey, you can see it on the left. And then

10:44the last stage is iron viz. iron viz. Let's

10:48go ahead and

10:49search that I didn't type that properly,

10:50because I think it's spelled as one word,

10:52no, still nothing.

10:53So let's now you can see that I've searched

10:55for iron viz already, let's go ahead and

10:57hit enter.

10:58And I think what was going on before the

11:00reason I couldn't find it before is because

11:02I did actually

11:02have a filter enabled. But you can see here

11:04, I have the three different times now. This

11:07is sort

11:07of bizarre, you really want to watch this

11:09live, you don't want to watch this the next

11:11day, if that

11:12makes sense. So you kind of really do need

11:15to watch it on November the 10th,

11:18regardless of where

11:20you are in the world, because watching the

11:22replay is not going to make any sense

11:24because you've

11:26already like Twitter will have sportless

11:27for you. Most of the people watching the

11:29conference are

11:30going to be on Twitter, and LinkedIn. Trust

11:32me, you just need to watch this in the

11:35American time

11:36zone, wherever you are in the world, wake

11:38up early, and vote as well. Because of

11:39course,

11:40you can't vote if you're not watching it

11:42live. So definitely be sure to check this

11:44out. And so now

11:45if I go to my schedule, and we go to my

11:48events, actually, let's just go to my TC 21

11:51. You can see

11:52that here it is, it's actually on November

11:54the 10th itself. I should have added devs

11:56on stage,

11:57I'm not sure I actually did add it. So let

11:59's, let's search it again here, devs on

12:01stage. Let's go to

12:04Americas and search devs. This is this has

12:07been added. So it's added on November the

12:1111th,

12:115pm to 5.5. That is UK time, if that makes

12:14sense. So when you look at these times,

12:18it's important to factor in that these are

12:21basically showing you the times in your

12:25current

12:25time zone. So this this is it's sort of it

12:28's really strange to sort of understand this

12:31really

12:32clearly. But basically, this is the time it

12:34would be for you in your current time zone.

12:37It's not the

12:37American time, if that makes sense. Okay.

12:40So let's go ahead, reset all the filters.

12:42And let's just

12:44see what's in my TC 21 schedule. So of

12:46course, the reason I wasn't seeing it

12:48before is actually

12:49because it's on a different day. So you can

12:51see devs on stage here is on the next day.

12:53And then

12:53on the November 12, I have nothing else

12:56selected. So what you want to do is go to

12:59my TC 21 goes to

13:00the right hand side here, put a bunch of

13:02stuff in your schedule, do the stuff that

13:03you want to go

13:04check out. Also be sure to check out Ravi

13:07Indice talks if I just search Ravi, it will

13:09probably come

13:10up with hit tablet drill down how to level

13:12up and tab. As this is the session that R

13:15avi and I have

13:16done, you can see here the three different

13:17times zones, I've deliberately searched it

13:19like this,

13:19so you can find out which one best matches

13:22you. I'm going to go ahead and add all of

13:24these to my

13:25list just so that I remember when it's

13:27streaming in different periods. Because of

13:29course,

13:29these sessions are being streamed as if

13:31they're live. But of course, it won't be

13:33live. So I need

13:34to know when people are tweeting about it,

13:35what's actually going on. So by putting in

13:37my schedule,

13:38I'm actually aware that it's streaming and

13:40therefore I can take part in any

13:41discussions going

13:42on elsewhere. So that's pretty much it for

13:44the my TC session, you can see that it

13:47works pretty,

13:48pretty well. Now, if we go to the next page

13:50, you can obviously look at the broadcast

13:52schedule and

13:53all the episodes, you can filter those to

13:55your heart content. Now, one of the other

13:58things you

13:58want to do at conferences connect with

14:01people. So the tableau community or tableau

14:03in general,

14:04have used this hashtag data fan. So if you

14:07were just to search on Twitter data fan

14:09hashtag days,

14:09if I need to find a whole load of people

14:11from the tablet community taking part in

14:13that hashtag,

14:14especially during conference, because of

14:16course, that's the conference that we use.

14:17In fact,

14:18there I am, you can just see that I've

14:20popped through the little shortcuts on the

14:23little not

14:24shortcuts, the little Instagram images.

14:26That's kind of funny. The perfect timing. I

14:28don't know,

14:28I don't know if that's just the loop or

14:30something. I also know quite a few people

14:32that are popping

14:33up here. I won't bother naming them. But it

14:34's kind of nice to see that. But if I go

14:36down,

14:36you can do this thing called brain dates.

14:39Now brain dates are a great way to meet new

14:41people.

14:42And also talk about things that you might

14:44be passionate about. It might be events,

14:45it might be issues at work, challenges,

14:47whether they're soft challenges, skilling

14:50people up,

14:50training people, all of these things get

14:52discussed at brain dates. The other thing

14:54you can do is you

14:55can talk to other people. Essentially,

14:57there's a slack channel that's been set up

15:00to essentially

15:00allow you to talk to other people at

15:02conference. So rather than all talking on

15:04Twitter and creating

15:05this noisy space, they've actually set up a

15:07slack channel that you can get into and

15:08meet and talk to

15:09other people. This is kind of nice, because

15:12you can also set up sort of individual

15:13threads from

15:14that. I'll maybe do that in a separate

15:16video, it doesn't sort of make sense here.

15:18But then the last

15:19thing to do is obviously taking any selfies

15:20that you want to share on the Twitter feed,

15:22like you

15:23saw on the top of the page. And what they

15:24're doing is they're generally capturing

15:26everything from

15:26these hashtags and putting them together in

15:28this nice space. So here you can start to

15:30see a sense

15:31of excitement of what's going on around

15:33conference. I'll be using this throughout

15:35conference, so be

15:35sure to check in on my Twitter feed to see

15:37what's happening there. You can also just

15:39go see the

15:40photo gallery separately. So if you click

15:42on the photo gallery, all those photos that

15:44people are

15:44taking pop up here. So I always find this

15:46interesting. Tablets do warn you that this

15:49is

15:49public. So I love going through this and

15:52just seeing who's taking photos and seeing

15:54all the

15:55familiar faces and seeing people have lots

15:57of different attempts and try different

15:58things out.

15:59We even have pets coming up on this page.

16:01It's such a great way to get to know people

16:04in the

16:04community. And it just shows you the vibr

16:06ance, like everyone's smiling, everyone's

16:08got energy.

16:08We're not going to physical conferences,

16:10this is all remote and people are putting

16:11in great effort

16:12and to sort of get excited for conference.

16:14So I really like this page. This is a nice

16:16way of

16:17having an activity that we can all do

16:18virtually. So that's pretty much everything

16:21on the Connect

16:21page. If I go to the Help page, you've got

16:24technical support essentially for the

16:26conference.

16:27Now the Slack channel is going to be a

16:28really good place to find lots of this

16:29stuff. There's a great

16:32set of videos by Tableau about brain dates,

16:34joining Slack and booking Tableau doctor

16:37appointments.

16:38Go check these videos out. They're really,

16:40really good. I encourage you to check them

16:42out. If you've

16:42never been to conference before, be also

16:44sure to check out the FAQ. You've got the

16:46general technical

16:47episodes, all of this stuff is here.

16:49Honestly, there's no point asking me

16:51because it is all here.

16:53But of course, if there is something that

16:55you don't find on here, be sure to reach

16:57out on

16:57Twitter and my Discord or anywhere else.

17:00And I'll be pretty happy to respond. I will

17:02say don't send

17:03me private messages because they don't help

17:05people. If I just have a one on one

17:06conversation,

17:07other people can't benefit. So if you're

17:09going to message me, definitely always send

17:11me something

17:11public. And if it can't be public for

17:13whatever reason, just say that in the

17:15private message,

17:15and we can go from there. But nonetheless,

17:18this is the best way to sort of get help

17:20and support

17:20for conference. Now I've already gone

17:22through the beyond TC page, this is pretty

17:24obvious.

17:24But on the top right hand side, you can see

17:26that you have essentially your profile. So

17:28Timothy

17:28Negreno, my schedule, view my on demand

17:31episodes view Tableau cam, all of this

17:33stuff is all there.

17:35My on demand episodes will happen after the

17:37event. So the full library of on demand

17:40episodes will be

17:40available in all episodes as soon as the

17:42conference starts. Until then check out

17:44some of the episodes

17:45that our data partners have sponsored. So

17:47essentially on demand episodes are just

17:49stuff

17:49that you can just go in and watch. And then

17:51they've also got Tableau partners who are

17:53sponsoring their

17:53own episodes. This will sort of fill up as

17:56stuff starts to happen on the actual

17:57conference. So these

17:59are the Tableau partners, Tableau partners

18:01do a great. So these are the Tableau

18:04partners, Tableau

18:05partners do lots of great things with Table

18:08au and alongside Tableau as well, and can

18:10elaborate on

18:11Tableau and go ahead and check all of these

18:13out. These people are all doing really

18:15exciting things.

18:16So by all means, go and find out what each

18:18of them is about. Snowflake is obviously

18:21one I'm pretty

18:21passionate about. We might have seen Altery

18:23x on here. Did we see Alteryx on here?

18:25Sometimes

18:25Alteryx have been a pretty big sponsor.

18:28There it is. Alteryx is on demand level

18:30partners. So there

18:31you go, the two products that I think I'm

18:33going to be talking a lot about are going

18:34to be on there,

18:35which is great. They're also filtered into

18:37these different categories as well in case

18:39you want to

18:39sort of make them easier to sort of filter.

18:42So that's pretty much the Tableau

18:43conference web page

18:45set up. Everything is pretty much good to

18:47go. And now you're ready for conference. So

18:49last things.

18:50So last few things before we go, make sure

18:53you go on, make sure you register, set

18:56yourself up,

18:56get your schedule set up. Once you've set

18:59up your schedule, I encourage you to put it

19:01in your

19:02calendar. Now in past years, you've

19:04actually been able to send yourself a

19:07calendar invite for each

19:08of these events. If I go to this particular

19:10one, here's the opening keynote. You can

19:12see the

19:13additional times for different time zones.

19:15So that makes a lot of sense. But if I go

19:17back,

19:18this doesn't seem to be a way you can add

19:19this to your calendar invite. Oh, there it

19:22is. It's on the

19:22top left, I was being blind. So what I

19:25recommend you do is you do do this because

19:27what this will

19:28do is it will actually open up your

19:30calendar and put it into the right time

19:31zone. So earlier on,

19:32when I said that this was actually the UK

19:35time, this time here, 5pm to 615. It is

19:38correct,

19:39even though this is the American broadcast,

19:41this is the UK time. So the tableau doing

19:44some good

19:44things with this time to make sure that it

19:46's showing me the relevant time. Even though

19:50the

19:50American session is an American time is

19:52sort of a weird thing to explain. But this

19:55is a great way of

19:55adding it to your calendar. And then once

19:57you've added it to your calendar, it's

19:58pretty much good

19:59to go and you're ready to take part in the

20:02conference. So go to your schedule. Once

20:04you've

20:05added everything in religiously go and add

20:07them to your calendar. Okay. But

20:10nonetheless, that's

20:10pretty much it. We've got the keynote, we

20:13've got devs on stage on November the 11th.

20:15And yeah,

20:16we'll catch you at conference. Be sure to

20:18catch our live stream, we have so much

20:19planned, we think

20:20it's going to be so much fun. We're going

20:22to be on on the streams, doing as much as

20:24we can to

20:25entertain you just to give a bit of an

20:27alternative perspective to the conference.

20:29But until then,

20:30hopefully we'll catch you soon.