Hi everyone!
We're back home after an intense week at Tableau Conference 2026 in San Diego, and what a week it was.
Two sessions, one hackathon win, and lots of late-night tacos… let’s recap!
Jessica's TC debut
This was a big one: Jessica's first time presenting at TC.
Her session, There's an Extension for That: Tableau Public Unlocked, started in the most unexpected way.
I’ve never seen the audience so worried, and I heavily suggest you watch the recording!
The rest of the presentation is just as fun. Jessica takes you through numerous "suspicious cases" (a donut chart without dual axis, a KPI in a single worksheet, a stream graph with curved lines, a moving network diagram) and slowly reveals the culprit: Trusted Viz Extensions.
Bold intro, great delivery, and a clever way to teach what extensions actually unlock. Really proud ❤️
Another year Beyond the Boundaries
For my session, I really wanted to have fun with my introduction and put on the craziest Tableau demo ever.
In the first three minutes, I showed how to:
Turn your data into a song 🎵
Turn your bars into lightsabers ⚔️
Have gravity impact your bar chart
Start playing Brick Breaker inside Tableau 🧱
Once the room was hooked, we got into the serious stuff:
How our Viz Extensions are changing the way you visualize data in Tableau
VizuAll, my hackathon project, focused on making data accessible (more on that below)
And how doing LESS can actually unlock your creativity
It’s always a pleasure to present at Tableau Conference, but this time there was something more…
We won the Hackathon 🏆
Two weeks ago, I shared VizuAll with you: six AI-powered tools built on the Tableau MCP to make dashboards more accessible.
Last week, and right on time for my birthday, VizuAll won the 2026 Tableau Conference Hackathon 🎉
If you missed the original announcement, here's the quick reminder of what VizuAll does:
Learn: a data literacy tutor that walks you through any Tableau dashboard
Check: accessibility auditing (color, contrast, spelling, WCAG scorecard)
Listen: turns any dashboard into a spoken summary
Annotate: collaborative drawing overlay with contextual notes
Brief: an automated podcast delivered to Slack every morning
Mobile: a mobile-first chat interface for your Tableau data
Still a hackathon project for now, but the reception has us thinking hard about what comes next.
What's next?
Back to building.
We have a long list of ideas, a few new extensions in the oven, and product work waiting for us.
After Dafam Days and Tableau Conference, presentation time is over, and it’s time to start shipping!
That's it for this week.
Thanks to everyone who came to say hi at TC.
The best part is always hanging out with you all.
