Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · TMB 2-3

Modern Data Warehousing in Microsoft Fabric

Learn how to design and manage data warehouses in Microsoft Fabric by exploring proven patterns, practical techniques, and common pitfalls to avoid. Topics include dimensional modeling, data warehousing fundamentals, ingestion strategies, medallion architecture, change detection, lifecycle management with CI/CD, monitoring, administration, and migrations.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · TMB 1

Hands-On Workshop: Data Science & Machine Learning with Microsoft Fabric

Explore Microsoft Fabric’s integrated Data Science experience across ideation, preprocessing, modeling, & deployment. Learn how to ingest and prepare data via OneLake and Lakehouse, leverage Notebooks, Data Wrangler, Spark, SynapseML, MLflow for experimentation, & operationalize predictions with batch scoring and Power BI direct integration. Also, learn to build generative AI Q&A systems using Fabric Data Agents.. Participants will receive access to Microsoft Fabric & Azure to perform the labs.

*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C208-210

Real-Time Intelligence Masterclass with Microsoft Fabric

Today’s organizations need real-time insights. This hands-on workshop guides data pros in building event-driven solutions with Microsoft Fabric. In a full-day lab, you’ll use Real-Time Intelligence (Eventstream, Eventhouse, Lakehouse, Dashboards, Activator, Agents, Digital Twin Builder) to create end-to-end architectures. Learn CDC streams, streaming data, schema drift, real-time dashboards, alerts, agents, ML scoring, plus cost & performance insights.

*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C108-109

Hands-On Fabric Security: Protecting Data, Access, and Compliance

This hands-on workshop is designed for data engineers, architects, and security professionals. With a blend of demonstrations, hands-on labs, and real-world scenarios, you’ll leave with a clear understanding of Fabric security. By the end of the session, you will: Learn to protect network traffic in and out of Fabric; Manage user access with OneLake security; Apply compliance best practices with built-in governance and auditing tools by leveraging Microsoft Purview and Sensitivity Labels.

*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C301

SQL Server 2025 Deep Dive: Essential Innovations for DBAs and Database Developers

SQL Server 2025 is the AI database for enterprises. But there are more new things than just AI—in this demo filled, full-day workshop, you will learn about: • Engine improvements that make everything just run faster • How SQL Server 2025 helps you operate more securely • Further enhancements to high availability • Building event-driven architectures with change event streaming

Master the benefits of the latest release of SQL Server and how to deploy it in your organization.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C113-114

Architecting Data Warehouse Medallion Architecture: From Ingestion to Security at Lightning Speed

Building a high-performing, secure, and future-ready data warehouse requires more than just loading data—it demands a well-structured architecture that balances speed, governance, and scalability. In this workshop, we’ll walk through how to design and implement a medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) in Microsoft Fabric, taking you end-to-end from raw data ingestion to refined, governed, and consumable insights.

*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C202-204

Beyond Buzzwords: Hands-On Agentic Patterns for Power BI

This full-day workshop explores agentic development patterns for Power BI projects. You’ll learn how GitHub Copilot and MCP servers can accelerate modeling, reporting, and deployment, while also examining their current limits and best-fit scenarios. Through guided, end-to-end exercises, attendees will gain hands-on experience applying agentic practices to Power BI, leaving with practical insights on where these approaches add value—and where traditional methods still matter.

*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · TMB 1

Mastering Fabric Capacities: Governance, Optimization & Real-Time Insights

This workshop equips Capacity and Fabric Administrators with practical skills to manage and govern Fabric Capacities. Agenda includes:

• Licensing models, Capacity Units, bursting, throttling
• Roles, permissions, metrics app, labs
• RTH events, throttling recovery, surge protection
• Governance strategies and capacity planning Learn to provision, monitor, and govern Fabric Capacities with hands-on labs. Ideal for admins seeking to optimize performance and scale responsibly.

*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · TMB 4

Mastering Dataflow Gen2 for ETL in Microsoft Fabric

Dataflow Gen2 is the core data transformation tool in Microsoft Fabric, powered by the Power Query engine. In this hands-on workshop, attendees will learn to build scalable solutions by extracting data from diverse sources, implementing data transformation and ETL patterns, optimizing performance, leveraging query folding, using parameters and custom functions, utilizing M scripting, applying best practices, debugging techniques, and integrating with pipelines for end-to-end data integration.

*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C211-C213

Engineering Excellence with Fabric Spark - Test, Model, Predict, and Scale

Join this hands-on workshop to learn how a Microsoft engineering team uses Fabric Spark to tackle real-world data engineering challenges. Learn to build scalable data pipelines with Spark Structured Streaming, ML augmentation, and STAR Schema-based dimensional modeling. The workshop covers an end-to-end medallion architecture, leaving you with reusable code assets, patterns, and tips, to accelerate building your own enterprise-ready data pipelines that can be debugged, deployed, and tested.

*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C108-109

Building your data catalog with Microsoft Purview

Join us in a hands-on lab to create your data catalog. This lab will include Data Map, Unified Catalog and a lab for Data Security.

Cataloging

1. Ingesting metadata
2. Curating and creating business concepts

Data Health

1. Configuring rules, scheduling, profiling and scans
2. Applying controls and viewing reports
3. Exporting metadata to Fabric

Workflows

1. Customizing access request and curation workflows

Data Security:

1. Applying MIP labels and DLP policies
2. Setting up IRM and DSPM

*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C302

Building Scalable Real-Time Solutions using Event-Driven Architectures with Microsoft Fabric

In this workshop, participants will build end-to-end solution using Microsoft Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence capabilities using: Real-Time Hub, Eventstream, Eventhouse, Lakehouse, Real-Time Dashboards, Power BI, Activator, AI Agents including: • Connecting to diverse data sources • Developing data transformation and enrichment logic • Building operational monitoring real-time dashboards and actions • Setting up AI agents • Learn about Event driven architectures optimization best practices

*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C301

From Vectors to Agents: Building AI-Powered Solutions with Microsoft SQL

Unlock the power of your own data by combining Microsoft SQL (SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, or SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric) with cutting-edge AI techniques. In this workshop, you’ll learn about embeddings and vector search and why they matter for modern AI applications. We’ll guide you through generating embeddings using similarity search to retrieve the most relevant data. We’ll implement the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern by calling a Chat model, then explore its limitations. Evolve into Agentic RAG and create an orchestrator to intelligently choose between running semantic search or writing a SQL query to answer complex requests. Learn to secure data access so that only authorized information is available to AI agents using Row-Level Security. By the end, you’ll have built an end-to-end solution that combines SQL’s reliability with AI’s intelligence and be well prepared for SQL AI Developer certification exam.