# What happened in Last year’s Keynote: Tableau Conference 2025 San Diego

> 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:** 2025-04-14
- **Format:** Video · 11 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Industry trends, Tool strategy, Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (agent, ai, extensions, next, prep, public, pulse)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/what-happened-in-last-years-keynote-tableau-conference-2025-san-diego
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzumgcaWLeI

Ahead of Tableau Conference 2025 in San Diego, I revisit last year's keynote to check which announced features actually shipped and which are still missing. I walk through the innovation showcase, the four-waves vision, the Tableau Next direction and the devs-on-stage list, all while testing out my Meta Ray-Ban glasses for POV recording.

## Key takeaways

- Of the 140 features announced last year, almost all have shipped — composable data sources is the notable exception, likely just missing a release window.
- Einstein Copilot has been rebranded: it's now Tableau Next and Tableau Agent, and the Tableau brand now spans Salesforce analytics capabilities, not just the product you know.
- Much of the vision is underpinned by Data Cloud and Tableau Semantics — a different architecture from core Tableau, and the connection between the two ecosystems isn't yet obvious.
- Tableau Public can now save files locally to your desktop, effectively a free version of Tableau with the main limits being no database read/write.
- Prep features like the Tableau Agent inside Prep and sentiment analysis have gone quiet and not yet shipped, despite Prep being the strongest UX in the ecosystem.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Why recap last year's keynote
- 0:42 Meta Ray-Ban glasses for POV recording
- 1:38 Keynote opening and Tableau Public local saving
- 2:32 Four waves and the innovation showcase
- 3:13 The 140 features: what shipped
- 4:50 The vision and Tableau Next architecture
- 6:04 Devs on stage and feature delivery
- 9:01 What I'm hoping for this year

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/what-happened-in-last-years-keynote-tableau-conference-2025-san-diego

---
just-tim — Data and analytics, with a point of view. · https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7HYxRWmaNlJux-X7rNLZyw · https://twitter.com/TableauTim · https://www.linkedin.com/in/timngwena