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

LIVESTREAM DATE/TIME 📅

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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Fabric Data Agents & Beyond - with Mathias Halkjær

LIVESTREAM DATE/TIME 📅

December 12th, 9:30 AM (Pacific Time)

DESCRIPTION 📄

In the era of AI, the ability to quickly and easily draw insights and answers from our data, is as important than ever, and being able to ask those questions in plain human language.In this session we'll uncover the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric Data Agents, what they are, how they work, and more. We’ll also explore bringing data agents to light outside of Fabric, opening up a whole new world of data utilization.

We'll touch upon topics like the data modelling for AI, data agents, prompt context, MCPs,After watching the livestream, you’ll be able to leverage your data with AI agents inside and outside of Fabric, and you be up to date on the newest tool for AI-powered BI, and ready to advice clients or colleagues on how to use AI with Power BI and Fabric.

GUEST BIO 👤

Mathias is a dedicated data leader with a deep commitment to the intersection of data engineering, BI, AI, and modern data platforms.

Day to day, he helps enterprises elevate their data maturity, implement scalable data platform solutions, and ultimately realize greater value from their data and AI investments.

As a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Mathias is highly engaged in the global community and is driven by a strong belief in sharing knowledge that empowers others.

With a background in Product Development and Innovation, he brings a distinct data product mindset to data architecture, combining strategic vision with practical execution. Known for his willingness to challenge convention, Mathias pushes past traditional thinking to uncover more effective, forward-looking solutions.

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Communication is the New Code: Beyond Copy/Paste with GPT's (w/ Kurt Buhler)

LIVESTREAM DATE/TIME 🗓️

October 17th 8:30 AM

DESCRIPTION 📄

The landscape of Power BI development is rapidly evolving as AI tools transform how we approach data modeling, DAX development, and report creation. While many professionals are familiar with ChatGPT, the ecosystem of AI assistance has expanded dramatically, offering specialized tools that can revolutionize your Power BI workflow.

In this comprehensive session, we'll explore cutting-edge AI tools that go far beyond basic chatbots:

🤖 Claude Desktop & MCP Servers - Discover how Claude's advanced reasoning capabilities and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers can provide deeper insights into your data models, suggest optimizations, and help debug complex DAX expressions with unprecedented accuracy.

⚡ GitHub Copilot for Power BI - Learn how this code completion tool adapts to Power BI development, accelerating DAX writing, M queries, and even documentation generation.

🔍 Advanced AI Workflows - See real-world demonstrations of AI-assisted Power BI development, from automated measure generation to intelligent data modeling suggestions.

We'll provide an honest assessment of these tools - the goods (incredible productivity gains), the bads (current limitations), and the uglies (potential pitfalls and over-reliance risks). You'll leave with practical strategies to integrate these AI tools into your daily Power BI development process.

Whether you're a seasoned Power BI developer or just getting started, this session will show you how "communication truly is the new code" in our AI-augmented world.

GUEST BIO 👤

Kurt Buhler is a renowned Power BI expert and prolific content creator. Follow his insights and tutorials at [Kurt's Blog] and connect with the community using #PowerBI #AITools #DataAnalytics #DAX #PowerPlatform #ArtificialIntelligence #DataModeling #BusinessIntelligence

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