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!
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What's New and What's Next for Power BI Visuals, Reporting, and Distribution
Join this session with the Power BI Product team to discover the vision, innovation, and future of Power BI visuals! Through real-world examples of recent feature releases, we'll demonstrate how to create impactful data storytelling in your Power BI reports and share them effectively with your audiences. You'll also gain an exclusive preview of what's next for Power BI reports—both in the short and long term—helping you shape your data visualization and distribution journey.
Reporting with action: Visualizations with translytical task flows in Power BI and Fabric
Join this session to learn about translytical task flows combining Power BI reports and Fabric user data functions together for actionable reports with a click of a button. We’ll demo how to set it up, the options you have, and specific examples of these reports in action. Interested in what this is or are you already using it today? We’ll have insights you don’t want to miss!
Get insights from data and analytics faster than ever before with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric
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 Power BI. Come see end to end demos of how Microsoft Fabric data engineering can be leveraged to transform data, and Power BI semantic models can layer in seamlessly to serve self-service and centralized BI to all. More than just reporting and more than just Copilot, the common AI platform in Microsoft Fabric reduces maintenance cost and delivers first in class performance while transforming your data then sharing the insights you find.
DAX queries in Power BI empowers you to get insights from your data faster
The fully unlocked DAX query is the secret to getting all the insights from your data. Writing your own DAX queries is now easier than ever with DAX query view in Power BI Desktop and web, and with Copilot to help you be as productive as possible. DAX queries can show you your data with the complete power of DAX formulas from measures and calculated columns, all together in one query. Let me show you how to use DAX queries with the skills you already have: Whether it’s from DAX measures, SQL, or Excel. Once you know how to create DAX queries, find out how to use them in Power BI, Excel, Fabric notebooks, and Power Automate. Take your data analysis skills to the next level by unlocking the full potential of DAX queries.
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!
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…
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Zoe Douglas
Product Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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