Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room G8

Data Fabric + Power BI + Copilot: Designing Low-Code AI Dashboards that Talk Back

Daniele Mario Areddu

Full-Stack Developer|CTO @ CaLab.AI |ML Developer & Data Analyst| Compter Science Student @ University of Calabria |Community Lead @ Velletri-Dev | Author

With Microsoft Fabric now GA and Copilot lighting up in Power BI, the modern data stack just fused into a single pane of glass. In this talk we’ll load a streaming dataset into Fabric’s Lakehouse, transform it with notebook shortcuts, and publish a Power BI semantic model—then ask Copilot questions in plain English to generate DAX, visuals, and executive summaries on the fly. We’ll cover governance (row-level security still matters), Direct Lake performance tricks, and prompt tuning to avoid hallucinated KPIs. Expect a live demo and a design checklist you can apply to any dashboard that needs to speak for itself.

Key Takeaways

Connect Fabric Lakehouse tables to Power BI without gateways or imports

Use Copilot to draft DAX and narrative insights—then lock them for production

Apply RLS and MIP labels so Copilot respects data boundaries

Performance tune Direct Lake queries for sub-second interactivity