Hands on LLMs for Power BI Devs

Proposed session for SQLBits 2026

TL; DR

In this session we will cover all of the groundwork you need to use LLMs to speed up your work with Power BI development. We'll cover getting your environment set up, basic LLM theory, and getting an intuition for model strengths and weaknesses. By the end of the session you'll feel comfortable getting started.

Session Details

In this session, we are going see how LLMs can make you faster with Power BI development from a daily development perspective. We will walk you through the process from start to finish, focusing on:

1) Getting set up, LLM theory, building an intuition
2) Legacy report discovery
3) Modeling cleanup and enhancements with LLMS
4) Advanced LLM use

3 things you'll get out of this session

Learn how to get set up with Chat web UIs, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, and MCP Servers Understand fundamental theory of LLMs and how they work under the hood Understand how to compare model strength and capability