AI-Powered Power BI: Building Custom Themes & Visuals with GitHub Copilot - with Zoe Douglas

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February 20th, 2026 - 9:30 AM (Pacific Time)

DESCRIPTION 📄

GitHub Copilot can turn Power BI customization from a tedious, manual grind into a fast, interactive workflow. In this session, you’ll see how to generate polished report themes by extracting color palettes from images, create named style presets that show up directly in Power BI’s formatting pane, and build custom visuals from scratch with Copilot as your pair programmer. From JSON theme schemas to visual implementation details, you’ll leave with practical techniques to speed up development, improve consistency, and ship better-looking reports with less trial-and-error.

GUEST BIO (Zoe Douglas)👤

I'm a product manager for Power BI working on core visuals with focus on the default and theming experience with visuals in reports. I'm also good with a semantic model and worked on features such as DAX query view, Copilot to write DAX queries, Copilot to write measure descriptions, Optimize ribbon, and more! Before coming to Power BI product group I was a Power BI consultant using Power BI everyday to bring insights to action!

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A Generated Report: How AI can make Dashboards - with Injae Park

LIVESTREAM DATE/TIME 📅

January 9th 2026 — 9:30AM (Pacific Time)

DESCRIPTION 📄

This session explores how AI can be applied to the creation and modification of Power BI visuals, focusing on the different levels at which AI tools can interact with reports and models. The session looks at emerging patterns in how AI is being used across the Power BI development lifecycle, and where each approach is most effective.

We Will Cover

• Using web-based LLMs for fast iteration, ideation, and visual exploration

• Using MCP-style setups to interact with and modify the semantic model

• The trade-offs between speed, control, and reliability across these approaches

• How to choose the right level of AI involvement for different scenarios

This will be a discussion of a few examples of how the technology is moving at a rapid pace, and how that will affect and enable Power BI Developers

GUEST BIO 👤

Injae Park is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP who combines his technical expertise with a passion for teaching by sharing his insights and practical tips through his YouTube channel @PowerBIPark. Injae's content ranges from beginner tutorials to advanced techniques, and as part of the Power BI Core Visual Representatives - he aims to bridge the MS Developer team with the Power BI community. His education in psychology and economics as well as his experience in consulting gives him a well-rounded perspective on the Power BI Developer experience, making his tutorials both engaging and accessible.

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