The document introduces how to build a dashboard in an hour using Microsoft PowerPivot and Power BI. It provides an agenda that covers an introduction to dashboards, building a dashboard with PowerPivot and PowerBI, and a demo and Q&A. It describes PowerPivot and Power BI as tools to import data, create relationships, measures and calculations, and visualize data through pivot tables, pivot charts, and slicers. It includes a sample dataset and example questions to demonstrate how to summarize and analyze the data to create a dashboard.