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Zoe Douglas

Zoe Douglas

Product Manager at Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, United States

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I am a product manager for Power BI at Microsoft. I focus on unlocking awesome features for visuals and dedicated to helping all customers get the most out of their data!

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Analysis Services
  • SQL Server Analysis Services
  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • power bi premium
  • power bi desktop
  • power bi service
  • Data Visualization
  • Data Visualization Tools
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Direct Lake
  • DAX
  • DAX query view
  • Semantic models
  • Data Analytics
  • Azure Data & AI
  • Big Data Analytics

Semantic Modeling with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric

Join the Product Group for an in-depth session on new and upcoming capabilities of semantic data modeling within Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Learn how to enhance your data modeling workflows and achieve greater efficiency in your data analysis and reporting tasks with Power BI. This demo-packed session will show you how by using Power BI Desktop with live edit, DAX query view, and TMDL view and using the Power BI or Fabric workspace with web modeling, writing DAX queries, and Fabric notebooks. Whether you are using the revolutionary new Direct Lake or the popular import storage mode, you don’t want to miss this opportunity to elevate your data modeling and reporting in Power BI to the next level with the latest features and the vision of what is coming next.

Semantic modeling in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric to get the insights out of your data faster

Empower yourself and everyone working with your data to do more with reporting, exploring, and asking Copilot with amazing new features changing how you think and deliver analytics with Power BI. Deep dive into all the new ways you can work with Power BI to have the best experiences with Copilot and Data Agents and the latest features in Power BI visuals. Learn about the many new tools to work faster than ever before -- Direct Lake, Direct Lake + Import, DAX query view, TMDL view, Semantic Link Labs, Translytical apps, Git, web modeling, OneLake — and many more, now available and coming soon to Power BI semantic models and reporting with Microsoft Fabric.

Power BI semantic models with Direct Lake and Microsoft Fabric

Get all the latest info on how to get the most out of Power BI semantic models and reports when using Microsoft Fabric. When and how to use Direct Lake, what to be aware of, and how to provide the best user experiences with reporting. And also what's coming next on our roadmap!

Scenarios to create Direct Lake semantic models to get the most out of Power BI and Microsoft Fabric

Learn how to get the most out of Direct Lake storage mode in Power BI with some step-by-step examples of how to create them and different techniques to get the most out of Power BI for your reports. Direct Lake works with field parameters, calculated tables, calculated columns, calculation groups, DAX queries, and more. Get the most out of your OneLake data today!

Demystifying Semantic Modeling in Microsoft Fabric

Join the Product Group for a demo-rich session focused on the latest and upcoming capabilities for semantic modeling in Microsoft Fabric with Direct Lake. Learn how to build high-performance, real-time models using web modeling, live editing in Power BI Desktop, and more!
We’ll also explore how Fabric capabilities like semantic link, notebooks, and pipelines expand what’s possible with semantic models - enabling advanced refresh scenarios and providing rich, flexible code-based experiences for analyzing and editing semantic models. Plus, see how composite models can extend Direct Lake by combining it with Import tables to support more agile and customizable solutions.
Whether you're already using Direct Lake or planning to adopt it, you don’t want to miss this opportunity to elevate your semantic modeling and reporting to the next level with the latest features and the vision of what is coming next.

Keynote: Microsoft Fabric team (Auckland)

Learn the most recent updates from the Microsoft Fabric team

Power BI with Direct Lake, DAX query view, and Microsoft Fabric (Sydney)

As an integral part of Microsoft Fabric, Power BI has amazing updates. The revolutionary Direct Lake storage mode for semantic models offers massive scale with lightning-fast performance of Power BI reports. DAX query view is also here to let you query your semantic model without even creating a report and offers a whole new way of creating and editing DAX formulas in measures. And Microsoft Fabric offers not only Direct Lake mode, but new ways to create semantic models in Direct Lake, Import, and DirectQuery storage modes. And that is not all, Fabric is also available to existing import semantic models with OneLake integration -- taking your analysts into all Fabric can offer with a click of a button. Power BI offers more than ever before with Microsoft Fabric. Learn about what is possible now and where we are headed in the future on this exciting BI journey!

Harness the Power of Microsoft Fabric for Power BI Users

Dive into the world of Microsoft Fabric and discover how you can leverage its capabilities to enhance your data analytics workflows. Learn all about the revolutionary Direct Lake storage mode and all of it's benefits. Learn about how you approach semantic modeling to set your business users up for success, what you need to keep in mind, and where we are going with Power BI in Microsoft Fabric. We will touch also on how this works with import and Direct Query semantic models and OneLake integration.

Writing DAX queries with DAX Query View

Get the most out of DAX queries with DAX query view in Power BI Desktop.

What's new and coming to unlock massive data with Power BI semantic data models and report authoring

With exponential growth in data volumes and complexity, Power BI customers demand enterprise BI solutions that scale to petabytes, are secure, easy to manage, and accessible to all users across the largest organizations. This session will dive into some of the latest Power BI investments for analytics over big data. Learn new query reduction techniques to minimize overhead on source systems and author massive semantic data models with beautiful Power BI reports faster than ever before!

Modeling with Power BI Product Team

Come meet the Power BI product team to talk about modeling

Professional Power BI Experiences with Product Team

This is your opportunity to ask your questions to the Power BI team product managers working on professional Power BI experiences like Model Explorer, DAX Query View, Desktop Developer Mode, Fabric Git Integration…

Power BI & Fabric Summit 2026 Sessionize Event

February 2026

Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Sessionize Event

March 2025 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Power BI & Fabric Summit 2025 Sessionize Event

February 2025

Difinity Conference - Fabric Tour ANZ 2024 Sessionize Event

November 2024 Auckland, New Zealand

European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Sessionize Event

September 2024 Stockholm, Sweden

Microsoft Fabric Global Online Conference Sessionize Event

September 2024

Power BI & Fabric Summit 2024 Sessionize Event

February 2024

Power BI Summit 2023 Sessionize Event

March 2023

Zoe Douglas

Product Manager at Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, United States

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