Lydia Helle is Manager of Data & Business Intelligence at Odfjell, where she leads BI development for Nexus, the company’s Microsoft Fabric transformation. She defines BI standards and report design practices across the platform and applies AI-first development using GitHub Copilot from day one. Building custom agents, codified instruction sets, and MCP integrations that embed AI across semantic modeling, DAX development, data validation, and automated report testing. Lydia has presented on Shift Left principles at the Make Data Smart Conference, with a focus on moving quality assurance earlier in the data value chain.