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Notes from the Power BI Gebruikersdagen 2026

At the Power BI Gebruikersdagen 2026 I attended several sessions on modelling, governance, AI and the evolution of the Power BI platform.

Below is an overview of all topics in this series. Each page is a short note on a theme that stayed with me.

All topics

  • Data governance
    Why governance is becoming more relevant, what ownership means in practice, and how to get started as an organisation.
  • AI and Power BI
    Three directions in which AI is changing the platform: MCP servers, data agents in Fabric and building custom visuals with code.
  • Data products and data contracts
    What it means to treat data as a product, and how data contracts give data users predictability.
  • Data modelling
    Why a solid data model is still the most important Power BI skill, and why shortcuts make things harder later.
  • Starting small
    Why you do not need a large data team or complex infrastructure to build useful reports.
  • Power BI as a platform
    How Power BI has grown into a development platform with Git, CI/CD pipelines and code integrations.

About this series

These notes come from training sessions, events and conversations with teams. They are not summaries of sessions, but short reflections on what stayed with me. The topics covered here — governance, AI, modelling, starting small — are also the themes that come up regularly in the custom training I provide.

Created by Björn, with support of AI, owned by Dogoda. More disclaimers, here.