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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Empowering Users: Driving Adoption Using Low-Code with Fabric - with Laura Graham-Brown

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January 23rd, 2026 - 9:30AM (Pacific Time)

DESCRIPTION 📄

Microsoft Fabric and the Power Platform give business users low-code entry points to build solutions that solve real problems fast. These solutions may not always align with long-term architectural ideals or developer preferences, but they drive adoption, unblock teams, and often succeed where more “perfect” solutions stall.

In this session, we’ll explore how Fabric and Power Platform can work together to empower users while still keeping IT sane. Examples include lightweight databases backing Power Apps for small teams, or semantic models feeding automations that deliver insights directly to sales teams.

The focus is not on replacing professional development practices, but on enabling business developers to build responsibly, in ways that IT can support rather than clean up later. Expect practical examples, a realistic view of trade-offs, and a few short demos showing how low-code solutions can deliver value quickly without becoming tomorrow’s problem.

GUEST BIO 👤

Laura GB has spent over 30 years training and consulting with business developers, helping them design and own the solutions they build. Her work sits at the intersection of low-code development, governance, and practical enablement, with a strong focus on empowering users to build safely in ways IT can support.

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(Livestream Replay) Power BI Automation With Semantic Link - Sandeep Pawar

DESCRIPTION 📄

Semantic Link in Microsoft Fabric offers a new way to access the data and semantic information contained in a semantic model. This allows data scientists, data engineers and data analysts to preserve and re-use the business and domain knowledge in creating enterprise solutions.

In this session, Sandeep will give you an overview of Semantic Link and provide practical use cases to use Semantic Link in your development workflow to automate common Power BI tasks, optimize the semantic models and also monitor/manage the tenant. He will also show Semantic Link Labs, an open-source Python library with hundreds of useful utilities.

GUEST BIO 👤

Sandeep is a Sr Power BI Architect at Hitachi Solutions America where he helps organizations build enterprise analytics solutions using Microsoft data stack. He blogs about Data Engineering, Data Science and Power BI at fabric.guru

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(Livestream Replay) Quick Insights & Story Telling Utilizing InfoRiver Advanced Charts - with Gopal

With Inforiver Charts all users (even end-users) can build, visualize and share actionable insights in minutes using the No-Code toolbar User Experience(UX).  Inforiver follows standards and best practices automatically for you to build high-quality visualizations without the need of any coding or DAX scripting.  

The key use cases that can be achieved using Inforiver Charts are:  

• Exploratory Analysis with comprehensive drill-down, drill-up and drill-across navigation across dimensions. Works in small multiple mode as well. 

• Story Telling and Data-point Annotations to tell compelling stories using dynamic data-level comments. Supports several options such as small-multiples, vertical text orientation, dynamic data tags, and more. 

• Multi-Measure Charts to build advanced visual layouts with your comparative and non-comparative measures with the right visualizations in 1-click. Automatic variances for Prior Year, Budget and Forecast data are calculated. 

• Advanced Small Multiples / Trellis to Analyze trends across various data categories in 1-click with highly responsive layouts and context based titles, analytics and comments.  

• Small form factor (SFF) UX design allows usage of Inforiver Charts with applications across all devices including mobiles and tablets. It also maintains an optimal data-ink ratio for all types of visualizations.  

Inforiver Charts visual is also IBCS-certified and offers few flexibility and customizations on top of IBCS Standards with Inforiver theme. This allows you to communicate and convey actionable insights visually to all users in your teams and organization.  

Rich Feature set which includes many advanced features that are frequently requested in Power BI community.  

Some of the features are:  

• Measure-driven data labels 

• 1-click Variance analysis  

• Flexible Number Formatting  

• Highlight variances between any two data points 

• 100% stacked bar with column totals 

• Stacked waterfall chart 

• Gradient Line chart 

• Dynamic axis break 

• Scale bands  

…and more 

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