Wednesday 12:40 PM - 1:00 PM · Expo Solution Theater

How to build a 360-degree view of customers, suppliers, or contacts across OneLake

Learn how to create a 360-degree, contextual view across all your OneLake data in Microsoft Fabric. See how to perform high-quality data matching using Entity Resolution techniques across different entity types, eg. people, businesses and locations. Accurately link data across sources and enrich incomplete data. Break down silos and get your data ready for AI, powering better and faster decisions.

Wednesday 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM · Expo Insight Theater

Automate Decision Workflows in Microsoft Fabric

Organizations must act on data fast—but speed without governance creates risk. SAS® Decision Builder on Microsoft Fabric automates governed decision workflows, uniting business rules, analytics, Python, ML, and compliance in one Fabric-native experience. Deliver AI-powered insights and actions with enterprise-grade transparency and control.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · TMB 2-3

CORENOTE: The Roadmap for Microsoft SQL: Ground to Cloud to Fabric

Join us for an in-depth session on the future of Microsoft SQL—from on-premises to Azure and into Microsoft Fabric. Discover our unified, AI-ready relational database that powers modernization and next-gen AI apps. See how SQL delivers consistency, performance, and innovation everywhere you need it!

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C113-C114

CORENOTE: Maximizing developer experiences in Microsoft Fabric

Discover the latest advancements in Microsoft Fabric that provide a delightful developer experience. Explore capabilities and best practices for job scheduling, proactive and reactive monitoring, troubleshooting, versioning, and deployments.

Learn how these improvements can help you efficiently deploy, operate, troubleshoot, and optimize jobs within your data solutions.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · B308-B309

CORENOTE: The Future of AI in Microsoft Fabric: Data Agents and Beyond

This session will cover how Fabric brings AI to your data using interoperable Data Agents that work across the AI ecosystem to unlock deeper insights. You’ll also learn how AI-powered data engineering and data science capabilities help teams create intelligent, enterprise-ready solutions.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · B405-B406a

Transition from Data Analyst to Data Engineer: Upgrading Skills from DataFlows Gen2 to Notebooks

The session shows an analyst how to use notebooks to perform the same actions as Dataflow Gen2. Looking at 4 areas: source, transformation, cleansing, and destination, examples include append/merge query to dataframe joins, text replace functionality, split and concatenate columns, as well as pivot/unpivot, data type changes, and removing duplicates. We will finish off with engine optimizations.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · B406b-B407

Fabric RTI and Agents in Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Our team has built a Supply Chain Management Solution for a Customer that deals with sustainable packaging for perishable products. Learn how Microsoft Fabric along with AI Foundry Agents helped this company achieve its targets and automate the whole process. We will focus on the Customer Case Study and the technical implementation details. Customer will share their experience during this session.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · TMB 1

Building Next-Gen Apps with Power Platform and SQL Server 2025

SQL Server 2025 introduces new capabilities that make it easier than ever to build secure, scalable applications with Power Platform. We’ll explore how to connect Power Apps to SQL 2025, take advantage of improved performance and security. You’ll learn best practices and architecture patterns that let you modernize your SQL-backed Bizz Apps with low code without rewriting your data layer.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C108-C109

Guardians of the lake: securing your data with OneLake

Discover how Microsoft Fabric’s new OneLake security empowers you to protect sensitive data at scale with role-based access, row and column security, and governance best practices—turning OneLake into your secure foundation for analytics.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C208-C210

Dynamics 365 (Dataverse) integration with Fabric, and virtual tables over Fabric tables

Leverage first class integration with Dynamics 365 / Dataverse and other business data with Fabric to generate rich insights.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C101

Touch your data with Real Time Intelligence

Event driven data architectures are an easy way to drive quick insights and value. Enter real time intelligence within Fabric. This session will allow you to have a tangible experience by manipulating data within the room. Leveraging devices, you will learn how to build your own physical proof of concept that will help you get buy in from your organization to make this part of your environment!

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C301

From Pipeline to Prompt: Powering Fabric AI for Conversational AI/Analytics

Is your AI strategy built on a foundation of sand? In the rush to adopt generative AI, many organizations overlook the most critical factor: AI is only as effective as the data feeding it. Join us to explore the frontier of end-to-end solutions within Microsoft Fabric. We’ll demonstrate how to bridge the gap between fragmented data sources and sophisticated Microsoft Copilot integrations. Learn how to transform stale, siloed information into a secure, fresh, and "highly reliable" data stream—the essential fuel for conversational analytics. We’ll cover: harnessing AI and BI to move beyond static dashboards, required architecture for deep, real-time insights, and why data reliability is non-negotiable for AI success. Don’t chase the hype. Let’s push the envelope together!

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C302

Planning & Writeback on Top of Semantic Models

Unlock hidden ROI by turning your existing semantic layer into a full planning engine. This innovation eliminates duplicate EPM systems, unifies actuals and plans, and delivers real-time, governed insights. By activating write-back directly to Fabric, organizations cut cost, boost agility, and transform planning into a seamless extension of analytics.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C113-C114

CORENOTE: The Fabric Data Warehouse Future-Proof Advantage

Fabric Data Warehouse has been built from the ground up in 2020s, inspired by industry state-of-the-art. In this session we unveil new features designed to make it easier to manage and get the most out of your analytics workloads with Fabric Data Warehouse.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · B308-B309

CORENOTE: OneLake, the unified data lake for the era of AI

Microsoft OneLake eliminates data silos with a single intelligent storage system and provides a unified access point for all your data. This session will show you the latest capabilities coming to OneLake designed to help you unify data across clouds, secure, govern, and improve data discoverability in the OneLake catalog, and enable data sharing across domains—ensuring all data is AI-ready.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · B313b-B314

SSMS 22 Unlocked: Features You’ve Been Waiting For

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) saw more updates in the last two years than a developer makes before release day. Missed them? Don't worry! We’ll showcase SSMS 22 from the installer to AI features and everything in between. Expect a whirlwind tour with demos including the new connection dialog, SQL Projects enhancements, the Query Hint tool, and editor and results grid improvements.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · B405-B406a

Fabric Data Factory Orchestration: Build Pipelines + Airflow Like a Pro

Building pipelines in Fabric Data Factory is easy. But did you know that you can go beyond data pipelines and build powerful orchestration workflows in Fabric Data Factory that also include Python-based Apache Airflow DAGs? Learn everything you need to know about becoming an orchestration pro!

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · B406b-B407

Deliver Trusted Data Products for Analytics and AI in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric accelerates analytics and AI at scale but without governed, trusted data, results fall short. This session’s demo showcases how data products, and semantic models, are utilized to succeed with data and AI initiatives. Learn how modern AI-driven, DataOps-built MDM delivers trusted data products into OneLake, enabling business and agentic users to succeed with high quality data.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · TMB 4

Make Managed Self-Service BI Work for You with Power BI and Purview (the BI Mullet Approach)

When designed well, a managed self-service BI approach strikes the perfect balance between centralized data discipline and flexible self-service reporting. This session will demonstrate how smart Power BI implementation (including centrally maintained semantic models, report templates, and administration) saves time, money, and headaches when paired with Purview's Unified Catalog.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · TMB 1

Materialized Lake Views: Simplifying Your Medallion ETL

Materialized lake views turn Spark SQL into auto-orchestrated smart tables in your Fabric lakehouse. In this session, learn how to replace fragile ETL with declarative medallion layers, understand refresh and lineage, and decide when materialized lake views beat notebooks, jobs, or warehouses.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C105-C106

Build Secure, Scalable AI Applications with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale

Azure SQL Database Hyperscale eliminates the practical limits traditionally seen in cloud databases to support modern AI apps. Join us as we cover features like native vector indexes, semantic search, and low-latency RAG. We’ll show how Azure SQL Database Hyperscale can scale securely with up to 30 replicas and 150MBps log speed. We’ll show how to invoke models via T-SQL and Microsoft Foundry to modernize your mission-critical workloads.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C208-C210

Deployment Pipeline Patterns for Multi-Workspace Environments in Microsoft Fabric

Managing deployments across multiple workspaces per environment in Microsoft Fabric can be a challenge. Based on real projects, this session shows how to use Fabric Deployment Pipelines with proven patterns, tips, and best practices for handling cross workspace dependencies through autobinding and variable library strategies, supported by practical demos that highlight the most important concepts.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C211-C213

Choosing the Right Data Store--An Overview of Azure and Fabric Data Platform Choices

Choosing the right data store can make or break the performance and costs of your application. In this session, we will cover all the options available to you in the Azure and Fabric Data space. You'll learn about CosmosDB, Azure/Fabric SQL DB, Postgres, and MySQL services, as well as Databricks.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C101

Securing Your Data Estate with Purview

As AI adoption grows, so does the importance of strong governance and compliance. Let's explore how Purview can support you Fabric environment!

We’ll cover key features like Data Loss Prevention (DLP), sensitivity labeling, and data access governance. What they do, and how they work in real-world scenarios, and where there may be opportunities to further mature your implementation.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C102

Build Your AI Foundation with Fabric Metadata-driven Framework

Ready to learn how to build your AI foundation? Discover how Microsoft Fabric’s metadata-driven framework, combined with Data Factory and a Fabric database, powers automated data integration for AI-ready environments. Gain insights on governance, scalability, and accelerating AI-driven analytics.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C301

Agentic AI for data engineering and vibe analytics on MS Fabric

This session introduces how Agentic AI combined with MS Fabric transforms data engineering and vibe analytics. How autonomous, goal-driven agents automate ingestion, transformation, and data quality with adaptability and governance? With Fabric’s unified offerings and vibe analytics on sentiment and behavior, organizations gain a faster, scalable, intelligent data ecosystem for smarter decisions.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C302

Performance Management with Fabric: The Next Frontier of Organizational Intelligence

This session will explore how the principles behind "Performance Management IQ"—an analogy inspired by Microsoft’s new "Work IQ," "Fabric IQ," and "Foundry IQ" products—can be realized using Fabric as the central data platform for AI-ready insights. Finance, operations, and HR data become harmonized in Fabric to enable powerful performance management insights for analytics, data science, and AI.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C111-C112

CORENOTE: Fabric Data Engineering Roadmap

Fabric Data Engineering empowers data engineers to build out a lakehouse architecture and transform their data, at scale, using Spark. Join this session to learn more about the latest updates to Data Engineering in Fabric, as well as what's coming in the near future.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C113-C114

CORENOTE: Building Agentic apps in Fabric with Cosmos DB and User Data Functions

Join us to build a modern agentic app with Microsoft Fabric as the intelligent backend. Give your app agents memory using Cosmos DB and its fast semantic search over OneLake. Add real-time, event-driven, context-aware experiences to your app with User Data Functions, Cosmos DB two-way sync with OneLake, and Real-Time Intelligence.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · B308-B309

CORENOTE: Governing your data estate with Microsoft Purview Data Governance

Learn how Microsoft Purview Data Governance empowers users to democratize data with its enterprise catalog. This session will cover:

1. Key Data Governance challenges

2. How Purview simplifies Data Governance

3. New innovations within the Unified Catalog

4. End to end demo of Purview

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · B312-B313a

CI/CD processes in Microsoft Fabric: best practices and latest developments

Join this session to explore the latest capabilities in Fabric for establishing scalable and resilient release processes. Gain practical insights to help you streamline and optimize your CI/CD processes and learn about upcoming advancements across the Fabric platform.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · B313b-B314

Config-Driven Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric

Data-engineering often results in hundreds of one-offs with duplicate code and inconsistency, making change slow, brittle, and costly. We will introduce and demo new metadata and config-driven patterns for PySpark integration in Fabric. You will learn to implement reusable patterns that simplify development, scale reliably, cut duplication, and improve governance across Fabric environments.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · B406b-B407

From Dev to Dashboard – Azure SQL vs Fabric SQL in Practice

Should you run your analytics workloads in Azure SQL or Fabric SQL? This session compares architecture, performance, cost, and integration. Learn where each platform shines — from dev to operational reporting — and get a decision framework to choose the right SQL engine for your scenario.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C108-C109

Talk to Your Data: The Future of Data Interaction with AI

In the evolving world of data, the ability to interact with your datasets and databases using natural language is a game-changer. This session will introduce you to the power of Azure OpenAI, Azure SQL, and Microsoft Fabric, showing you how to break down barriers that have traditionally required.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C208-C210

From Transactions to Analytics: Transforming MySQL Data with Fabric Mirroring

Fabric-enabled Azure Database for MySQL lets users replicate Azure MySQL Server data into Microsoft Fabric for real-time analytics and reporting - without ETL complexity. Discover its architecture, roadmap, and a live demo showing how Mirroring in Fabric unifies transactional and analytical insights.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C101

Getting Started with Dataflow Gen2: Simple, Practical, Real

Want to get started with Dataflow Gen2 without stress? This session explains what DFG2 is, why it matters, and how it fits into Microsoft Fabric. We’ll build a dataflow from scratch, connect multiple data sources and apply proven Power Query patterns to clean messy data, consolidate files, reuse logic with parameters, publish to a Lakehouse, and configure a simple, reliable refresh.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C102

From SQL SSIS to MS Fabric: Your ETL ReImagined

You're a SQL SSIS ninja, and now Microsoft Fabric is calling your ETL pipelines to the cloud. In this session, you will learn how to bridge your SSIS skills to the more scalable and more performant and integrated SaaS environment with live demos and feature comparisons.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 2-3

AI Answers, Done Right: When to use Power BI Copilot vs. Fabric Data Agents

Business users want answers, not plumbing. In this session, we map when to use Power BI Copilot directly versus when Fabric Data Agents shine. We’ll cover the product’s current functionality to help you get started with AI, from setting up a data agent to chatting across all of your data in Power BI. We’ll highlight recent feature additions and talk about the roadmap of future investments to empower your business users in unlocking data insights with the help of Copilot.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · B401-B402

OneLake for SharePoint – From list and documents, to AI

Discover how OneLake brings SharePoint lists and documents into a unified data foundation, enabling seamless integration with Microsoft Fabric. Learn how to unlock AI-powered insights and analytics directly from your SharePoint content—transforming collaboration into intelligent decision-making.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · B308-B309

From Simple Maps to Advanced Spatial Analytics in Power BI

Explore the full spectrum of Location Intelligence in Power BI, from simple map coloring to advanced spatial analytics. Learn the core concepts behind mapping; how to choose the right geographies and map them with BI data; how to analyze data through proximity and travel times; and how to manage dynamic territories. Session will include native Power BI mapping capabilities as well as custom visuals.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · B312-B313a

AI-Powered CI/CD for Microsoft Fabric: Building Enterprise-Grade Pipelines with GitHub Copilot

Discover how AI transforms Fabric development! Learn our production-proven approach combining GitHub Copilot with Azure DevOps CI/CD for metadata-driven pipelines. We'll showcase automated notebook validation, security scanning, and AI-guided PR reviews—all without external dependencies. Real code, real results: from medallion architecture to zero-downtime deployments.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · B405-B406a

The Genesis of Fabric Warehouse: A Deep Dive into Its Foundations

Join us for an inside look at the evolution of the Fabric Warehouse. Discover how we built the industry’s first SaaS cloud-scale data warehouse built natively over an open data format and born into Microsoft Fabric. Explore innovations that deliver out-of-the-box performance at scale and get an exclusive preview of the cutting-edge features we’ve recently launched and what’s coming next.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · B406b-B407

Elevate SQL development with VS Code, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft SQL drivers

This demo-heavy session highlights the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, now more robust with new AI-driven features to streamline SQL development. With GitHub Copilot, you can move faster from schema to code, generate data, explore relationships, and keep your app in sync. What’s new in connectivity for Python and other languages, enabling faster, more secure cross-platform development.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C108-C109

Get Proactive: Building Autonomous Operations Agents with Fabric IQ

Traditional monitoring and alerting is reactive and teams spend valuable time manually analyzing data and coordinating responses. In this session, we will learn how to configure operations agents to autonomously monitor real-time data, reason over business context using semantic ontologies, and take actions automatically to optimize outcomes before issues escalate.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C208-C210

The instant insights pipeline: OneLake shortcuts + Dataverse + Power Apps

What if your business apps could power real-time analytics without complex ETL? In this session, we’ll look at how Power Apps and Dataverse connect directly to Microsoft Fabric using OneLake shortcuts, so your data is available almost in real time. You’ll learn how it works and the key tips to build solutions where everyday business actions turn into insights within seconds.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C211-C213

Spark Performance Deep Dive: Configuration, Debugging, and Performance Tuning

Unlock the full potential of Apache Spark with this in-depth session focused on performance optimization. We’ll explore advanced configuration strategies to fine-tune executors, memory, and partitioning for maximum efficiency. Learn how to leverage Spark’s built-in tools for debugging and monitoring, including the Spark UI and metrics, to identify bottlenecks and optimize workloads.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C102

Implement Enterprise Data Integration Patterns with Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric

In this session, you’ll learn how to design and implement robust data integration patterns using Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric to create powerful solutions.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C302

Accelerating Data and AI with Azure Databricks

Get the most out of your investments with Azure Databricks. Learn how the deep integration in the Azure ecosystem accelerates workloads, optimizes performance, and maximizes value. See how the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform on Azure streamlines analytics and AI.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · B404

AI Agents, Power Platform and SQL for Next Gen Automation

See how AI agents, Power Platform and SQL can replace legacy RPAs and manual processes. Learn patterns for using copilots, data agents, APIs and orchestration flows in Copilot Studio to modernize automation, reduce cost and transform business operations.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 2-3

SQL Copilots Unveiled: Architecture, Workflows, and Use Cases

SQL Copilots are reshaping how users interact with SQL databases by accelerating query development, improving workflow efficiency, and enabling natural language interaction with complex SQL databases. This session provides a technical look at the architecture powering GitHub Copilot in SSMS, the MSSQL extension for VS Code, and Copilot for SQL database in Fabric. We'll walk through top use cases and showcase real-world demos to help you maximize Copilot impact for your SQL database.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C113-C114

Accelerate Data Transformation with Dataflows Gen2 in Microsoft Fabric

Dataflows Gen2 in Fabric Data Factory provides a low-code data transformation feature in Fabric that accelerates your time to production. The Dataflows Product Team will share future product plans and provide deep dive insights into how to take advantage of Dataflows Gen2 in Fabric.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · B401-B402

Open interoperability: integrating Azure Databricks and OneLake

Discover how Microsoft and Databricks are advancing open lakehouse architecture with interoperability between Azure Databricks and OneLake. Learn how shared data access, seamless integration, and new capabilities like mirroring, native reading, and future write support empower organizations to accelerate analytics, AI, and innovation without data duplication.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · B308-B309

Fabric IQ: Unlock Enterprise AI with a Unified Semantic Layer

Without shared business definitions, AI agents give inconsistent answers and your teams waste time reconciling conflicting data. Fabric IQ creates a governed, shared semantic foundation that models your business spanning entities, relationships, and rules. See how Fabric IQ builds on existing assets like Power BI semantic models, binds with live data, and enables AI agents to answer richer questions. Learn to extend your semantic models, connect live data sources, and enable AI agents to drive intelligent, automated decisions.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · B312-B313a

Delta Lake in Fabric: Internals, Innovations, and What’s New in Delta 4.0

From Delta 4.0 to Microsoft’s latest runtime innovations, dive into how Delta features really work. Learn Liquid Clustering and when to use it, why file size matters and how to put table tuning on autopilot, how to compact tables dramatically faster, and much more. Leave a time-traveling Delta Lake wizard ready to build fast, flexible, and scalable tables that deliver high-performance at any scale

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · B405-B406a

SQL database in Fabric: The unified database for AI apps and analytics

Discover how SQL database in Fabric brings transactional and analytical workloads together in one cloud-native database. In this session, learn what's new from the product team, see demos and customer stories/scenarios, and take a look at the roadmap.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 4

Building and Deploying Smarter Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric

Learn how to build and deploy smarter data agents in Fabric. We’ll show how to add richer context, connect new data sources, and use the latest intelligent capabilities. You’ll also see how to enable your agent in MCP, Teams, M365, Foundry, and more—making insights available to users wherever they work.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C211-C213

Trusted Analytics: Data Quality in Microsoft Fabric & Purview

Unlock next-level data quality with the combined power of Microsoft Purview and Fabric. Discover how Fabric’s built-in governance creates truly trusted data assets, while Purview’s profiling, rules, scoring, and alerts deliver end-to-end visibility across lakehouses, warehouses, and semantic models. Leave with practical steps to confidently govern, monitor, and elevate your data quality.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C301

Unity in Action – Building Enterprise AI on a Unified Semantic Foundation

Enterprise AI requires unified semantic foundations where governance and intelligence flow seamlessly. Learn to architect data platform that use Ontology as your semantic backbone, Data Agents for insights, and Operational Agents for action. Through real-world examples, discover how organizations use AI agents to reliably detect, contextualize, attribute, and act on governed data.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · B404

Optimizing Workloads on Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server: Best Practices for Speed & Scale

Explore how to get peak performance from Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server. We cover compute tiers, storage tuning, autoscaling, connection management, and monitoring essentials to ensure your PostgreSQL workloads run reliably and efficiently at any scale.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C111-C112

New in modern Developer Experiences in SQL

Discover the most developer-focused SQL Server release in a decade! Explore new capabilities like JSON and Vector data types, advanced functions and indexing, Change Event Streams, improvement to query optimizer, plus powerful string functions like regular expression and string similarity search. Better integrate compute with data for improved efficiency and scalability of your solutions.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B401-B402

Monitor and troubleshoot your data solution in Microsoft Fabric

This session explores how users can monitor job statuses, understand the performance of their data solutions, and diagnose and address health issues in Fabric. We'll give you best practices and highlight the latest capabilities in Fabric to help you efficiently monitor and troubleshoot your data solutions.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B405-B406a

Azure SQL Database vs. SQL Database in Fabric: Key Differences for Developers and DBAs

Curious about the differences between Azure SQL Database and SQL database in Fabric? This session is perfect for developers and DBAs looking to understand the core architecture differences of these two platforms. Whether you’re optimizing an existing solution or planning your next project, this session will help you make informed decisions & maximize the value of these services.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B406b-B407

Blueprint for Modern Data Teams: A Customer Story with Mirroring, Warehouse, and dbt

Learn how a real customer unlocked fast, reliable analytics by combining Mirroring, Fabric Warehouse, and dbt. They’ll share their challenges, architecture, and business outcomes—plus the patterns you can take back to your own organization to accelerate your data journey.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · TMB 4

Building a Microsoft Fabric CoE That Works: What We Learned and How You Can Start

Whether you’re a Microsoft Fabric/Power BI enterprise architect or a grassroots champion, learn how you can take steps towards establishing an approachable Microsoft Fabric Center of Excellence that grows with your organization. We’ll share real lessons on enablement, distributing best practices, hosting office hours, and how a simple start became a launchpad for inclusive community & governance.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C108-C109

Adapting to Fabric Spark: A SQL Server Practitioner’s Path Forward

This workshop is for SQL Server practitioners, used to reading query plans and caring about stats, stepping into Fabric. It covers Lakehouses and Spark, showing how your skills still apply in:

• Understanding the Spark engine
• Reading query plans and statistics
• Using the Delta Lake engine

The takeaway is that approaches might differ, but the knowledge carries over.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C202-C204

Performance Tuning Tips for Fabric Data Factory

Join us for an in-depth session on Performance Tuning Tips for Fabric Data Factory, with a focus on the Dataflow Gen2, Pipeline, and Copy Job artifacts.

Discover strategies to optimize your data workflows, enhance efficiency, and maximize performance. Don’t miss out on expert insights that can revolutionize your data management practices.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C211-C213

Peachy Migrations: Sweet Moves from Synapse to Fabric

Ready to make your analytics sweeter? Learn why migrating to Fabric’s OneLake architecture and AI-driven features beats Synapse for speed, governance, and insights. In this demo-driven session based on real-world migrations, learn practical steps, compatibility fixes, and how tools like the Fabric Migration Assistant make moving to Fabric Data Warehouse as smooth as a Georgia peach.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C101

Busy is a Four-Letter Word

If I ask you, "How are you?", is your default answer, "I'm so busy!"? Why do we measure our worth by how much we are doing, rather than by the value of what we do? What does this have to do with a technical conference? Join me as I share with you how I, too, was too busy for too long, but am learning how to do less, be more productive, and have bigger impact at work, the community, and at home.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C301

SAP Data Integration Made Easy: From SAP to Fabric in Real Time

In this session, we showcase our SAP Clean Core Certified integration with Microsoft Fabric, enabling seamless, real-time replication into OneLake. Discover how to simplify SAP data workflows, accelerate insights with ready-to-use pipelines, and apply proven best practices—supported by a live demo and guidance from dab experts.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B404

Bulletproof Your Dataflows: Error Handling and Data Quality in Fabric

Modern data solutions depend on reliable pipelines, yet error handling and data quality checks are often overlooked until failures occur in production. This session dives deep into building resilient Dataflows Gen2 solutions leveraging try/otherwise, structured error outputs, custom error messages, and partial failure patterns, centralizing error logs in dedicated tables for downstream monitoring.

Thursday 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM · Expo Innovation Theater

Where Data Meets Opportunity: Drive Business Value with Location Insights

Join Esri to see how location intelligence can revolutionize your data strategy and give your organization a competitive edge. Esri's ArcGIS technology brings interactive mapping and advanced location-based analytics to Microsoft Fabric. Discover real-world success stories and learn how organizations are using location intelligence to uncover patterns, predict trends, and make smarter decisions.

Thursday 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM · Expo Insight Theater

Closing AI Data Compliance Gaps in Microsoft Fabric

AI workloads on Microsoft Fabric require faster and broader access to enterprise data, increasing data privacy and compliance risk. This session explores privacy-first Fabric architectures that embed governance and security into analytics and AI workflows, ensuring data quality, performance, and reliable AI outcomes while supporting scalable, governed self-service analytics.

Thursday 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM · Expo Solution Theater

How Impetus LeapLogic Automates the Move from Legacy Systems to Microsoft Fabric

Discover how Impetus LeapLogic helps teams embrace Microsoft Fabric’s unified, AI-driven architecture with speed and confidence. Join Impetus session to see up to 95% automated conversion of SQL, ETL, and BI logic—plus optimization, lineage, and validation mapped to Fabric-native patterns. Learn proven migration strategies, governance insights, and faster onboarding for Copilot-powered analytics.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · TMB 2-3

SQL vs. Fabric? Why Not Both! A Practical and Entertaining Guide for All

Do you have to be experts like Bob Ward and Anna Hoffman to use SQL? What about Fabric? Do you have to know everything the Guy in a Cube knows to take advantage the power of Fabric? Why not both? Come join Bob, Patrick, and friends from Microsoft in this entertaining and educational session where the worlds of SQL and Fabric come to together in way you never knew existed.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C113-C114

Best Practices for Library Management with Microsoft Fabric Spark Environments

Managing Python and JAR library dependencies is key to building reliable, performant, and maintainable Spark workflows.

Learn how to ensure reproducibility through consistent dependency handling, use lightweight setups to accelerate development and testing, enable inline installs for ad-hoc workloads, and integrate private repositories for secure, compliant library management.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · B401-B402

Performance monitoring for SQL, from ground to cloud

Managing SQL performance across your environments can be complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Introducing a fully managed performance monitoring solution that provides near real-time data, scales effortlessly, and delivers actionable insights for all workloads on Azure SQL and SQL Server. You’ll see just how fast and easy it is to monitor SQL performance, without any operational overhead.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · B308-B309

Unify your data estate across clouds and on-premises with Shortcuts and Mirrori

As data volumes grow, managing an organization-wide data estate is increasingly complex. This session will deep dive into the latest capabilities to unify your data in OneLake via shortcuts and mirroring. Join us to learn how to unify your data estate, streamline ingestion, and unlock new business insights using AI and analytics.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · B313b-B314

SQL + AI: Building Agentic Apps with SQL MCP Server + Microsoft Foundry

Future applications will combine intuitive UI with powerful AI interactions, enabling AI agents to on our behalf for the best experience. At the heart of this transformation is AI Foundry. In this session, we’ll explore how to integrate AI Foundry with Azure SQL, from architecture deep dive through security considerations, to give you the best knowledge to bring your solutions to the next level.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · B405-B406a

Enterprise security in OneLake: fine-grained access control with OneLake security

Deep dive into OneLake security including new features and how it fits in the overall Fabric security stack to get a comprehensive look at how OneLake is built to keep your data secure.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · B406b-B407

Connect Your Data with Graph: Why Relationships Matter for AI

AI makes poor business decisions when it can't see how things connect - customers to orders, assets to events, signals to root causes. Graph captures these relationships and lets you explore them with natural language, no queries needed. See how Graph surfaces hidden patterns and enriches AI reasoning. Learn to model entity relationships, query connections using natural language, and turn complex data into clear, actionable insights for your AI agents.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · TMB 1

Fabric Under the Hood: Performance-Driven Architecture for Data Warehouse & Lakehouse SQL

Discover the powerhouse engine behind Fabric Data Warehouse and Lakehouse SQL Analytics Endpoint. We’ll trace the query journey from optimization to execution, unpack design patterns that deliver high-performance analytics, and spotlight both recent and upcoming enhancements to continue delivering fast and scalable analytics. Perfect for those who want actionable, performance-first guidance.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C105-C106

Powering Data with AI Functions in Fabric

Explore how AI functions in Microsoft Fabric can enhance the way you work with data. In this session, we’ll share the latest updates, highlight new capabilities, and walk through practical examples that demonstrate how AI functions can enrich datasets, surface insights, and streamline workflows.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C202-C204

Govern, manage, and protect your data in Microsoft Fabric

Learn how you can govern and protect your data at every step of its journey with powerful, built-in tools in Fabric. Plus, see how Fabric integrates with other industry-leading governance and security solutions like Microsoft Purview for estate-wide and advanced capabilities.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C101

Fabric Extensibility Toolkit: Build your own Fabric item in minutes with AI

In this session, we'll show how any developer can use the Fabric Extensibility Toolkit, an evolution of the Workload Development Kit, to bring thier own data applications into Fabric within minutes. We'll also highlight how the Toolkit has been redesigned with a simplified architecture and AI to drastically streamline development.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C102

Fabric Development: Repos, Collaboration and Deployments

Are you a Fabric developer and struggling with using good development practices? Implementing practices such as source code control, branching strategies, code reviews (PRs), and automated deployments to independent environments (ie. workspaces) can transform how you work with Fabric. We'll show how to implement them and work around the gotchas that will bite you in your Fabric projects.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C301

How Health Systems Can Join the EMR Cloud Journey

Major electronic medical records (EMRs) including Epic are transitioning their data offerings to Fabric. This session will investigate how to integrate this data with client data and platforms. We will describe the journey of Corewell Health including Cogito Cloud, a clinical Fabric instance, bi-directional shortcuts, Snowflake integration, and AI-enabled migration to PowerBi.

Thursday 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM · Expo Innovation Theater

Autonomous AI Agents in Production: Komatsu with CluedIn, Fabric & Purview

This session presents Komatsu’s production deployment of autonomous AI agents over a governed Microsoft Fabric estate integrated with Purview and CluedIn. We cover the architecture, agent execution model and parallelism, governance and audit controls, and concrete lessons learned from operating agents at 3–10M records/day, including failure modes and rule-performance tuning.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C111-C112

Microsoft Fabric Security: Best Practices for Network, Data and Governance

Security is foundational in Microsoft Fabric. While Fabric offers defense-in-depth by default, enterprises need clear practices to align with organizational policies. This session provides end-to-end best practices and patterns for securing Fabric through inbound controls, outbound protections, RBAC for workspaces, OneLake security, customer-managed keys, and data governance with Purview.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C113-C114

What's new in Mirroring SQL to Fabric: The Fast Track to Modern Data Integration & Analytics

As organizations navigate the era of generative AI, advanced analytics, and rapid digital transformation, the ability to extract timely business insights is more critical than ever. This session deep dives into SQL Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric that enables organizations with near real-time data replication from source SQL databases to OneLake, all without building intricate ETL processes.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B401-B402

Unlocking T-SQL Surface Area in Microsoft Fabric: Where It Works, Where It Doesn’t and Why

Microsoft Fabric relational engines support T-SQL, but not always the same way. Why? This session explains SQL surface area, explores Fabric's engines (warehouses, databases, endpoints, etc.), and shows where T-SQL works - Helping you design smarter with supported features and architecture in mind.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B308-B309

What's new in the SQL core engine - the 2026 edition

With all the news about developer and AI features in SQL, you might wonder if we had any time to invest in the RDBMS core. We certainly did! If you are a DBA, a data engineer, or a developer interested in the new performance and reliability features in query processing and all the way down into the storage engine, join us to learn what's new. We guarantee you'll walk away with new ideas!

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B406b-B407

Microsoft Purview Data Security protections in the Age of AI

Learn how Microsoft Purview Data Security helps you discover risks and protect data consistently across your entire estate, with a focus on your Fabric estate. This session will introduce newer innovations and cover capabilities such as Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention and Data Security Posture Management.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · TMB 4

The AI-Native Data Engineer

This session explores how AI is transforming data engineering. We’ll walk through the latest AI innovations in Microsoft Fabric including AI‑powered notebooks, deep Copilot integration in VS Code, and CLI workflow. We will explore how these capabilities are changing how data engineers build, iterate, and operate day to day. Discover how agentic Copilot across Fabric Web, VS Code, and CLI removes coding barriers, accelerates time to value and automates repetitive tasks, leaving engineers to focus on higher-order problems.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C105-C106

Own Your Workflow: Build Notebooks Locally & Deploy Them to Fabric

Break free from browser IDE in Fabric Python and PySpark Notebooks! Learn to install Python and Spark, create your own local lakehouse, and develop Python and PySpark Notebooks in Visual Studio, VSCode, or whatever IDE you're used to. We'll start with a clean machine and download, install and configure everything we need. We will create a feature-rich notebook, and wrap up by deploying to Fabric.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C108-C109

Building an AutoML Pipeline for Vector Data in Azure SQL

This session demonstrates how to build an AutoML-driven pipeline inside Azure SQL to process and optimize vector data. Learn how to automatically profile datasets, select the best embedding model and parameters, and improve retrieval accuracy using adaptive evaluation and feedback loops.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C211-C213

DAX 201: CALCULATE, Unfolding the Swiss Army Knife of DAX Functions

This session unfolds evaluation context and the logic behind CALCULATE(). Through examples, we'll demystify how row context, filter context, and CALCULATE() work together to produce dynamic calculation results. You'll gain confidence to tackle advanced calculations and optimize measure performance.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C101

Talking about mental health - For you and for them

Looking after more than just 1's and 0's is important for us all.

Everyone experiences, or is adjacent to people who experience, challenges with mental health. In both the workplace and personal life, it can feel very difficult to talk with people about these challenges.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C301

SQL Database in Fabric: Modern Operational & Analytical Apps at Scale

Explore how SQL database in Fabric powers modern operational and analytical workloads in a single platform. Through a global automotive dealership network, learn how inventory, service records, test-drive logs, and customer activity are unified into Fabric to build high-performance apps, real-time insights, and AI-assisted analytics.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C302

Connected Data Meets Business Context: Driving Outcomes with FabricIQ

EY’s work with FabricIQ and Ontology shows how enterprises can unify data across silos, embed agents into operations, and create a live, knowledge-rich view of the business. In this session, we’ll share EY’s own journey as “client zero” alongside client scenarios, focusing on real-world outcomes: improved responsiveness, reduced manual effort, and trusted governance at scale.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 2-3

Intelligent analytics in real-world scenarios

In today’s AI-driven world, the integration of data, analytics tools, and AI agents is more critical than ever. This session focuses on how AI agents, Power BI, and other Fabric capabilities can be integrated to implement a real-world solution. We will demonstrate how to ingest and process data, train and deploy predictive models, create conversational experiences, and perform intelligent analytics to address a common business challenge. Join us to explore how these technologies work together to deliver impactful, production-ready solutions.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C113-C114

SAP, Oracle, Google BigQuery, Dataverse - Unify the business data estate with OneLake

Join us to see how Microsoft Fabric and OneLake unify your business data estate with petabyte-scale data movement and Mirroring. Discover best practices for copying, replicating, and virtualizing data from SAP, Oracle, Google BigQuery, Dataverse, and more—leveraging enterprise proven patterns to accelerate analytics and unlock actionable insights.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 4

Hardening Fabric Warehouse Security

Learn how to secure Fabric Data Warehouse from the ground up. This session covers end-to-end practices—from secure connectivity and authentication to auditing, monitoring, and governance—highlighting new features that strengthen compliance, visibility, and trust at scale.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C105-C106

SQL database in Fabric: The Fast Path to Modern, Scalable Analytics

Learn how SQL databases deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective analytics in Microsoft Fabric. Explore design patterns, migration strategies, and performance tuning to modernize your data platform while ensuring governance, AI readiness, and seamless Power BI integration.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C108-C109

The Ultimate "NO ETL" Show Down: Shortcuts vs Mirroring vs Copy Job

No ETL - no problem! Fabric introduced several innovative features to access external data without spending time on building complex ETL.

But, which one is right for YOU? We'll examine various data movement strategies, their pros and cons, so you'll feel more confident picking the right one

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C202-C204

Proven Fabric Architecture Patterns to Minimize Refactoring

Expensive refactoring from poor architecture is avoidable. Discover architecture patterns from 20+ implementations: workspace topology, medallion layers, and cross-workspace sharing. Learn how these strategies minimize refactoring by 60%, accelerating time-to-production.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C208-C210

SQL Database in Fabric: Simplifying OLTP and Enabling Rapid Analytics

New to Fabric - or just new to Databases in Fabric? See how SQL database in Fabric merges OLTP and analytics workloads into one cloud-native solution. Learn how it replicates data to OneLake, supports familiar tools, and simplifies architecture—boosting insights without added complexity.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C211-C213

Modern Data Protection Strategies with SQL Server

Today, we handle increasing volumes of sensitive data. DBAs and Data Engineers must protect their data from external attackers, employees, and privileged admins like themselves. This session will teach you how to protect your data while maintaining functionality and performance. The session focuses on using column-level encryption, row-level security, and auditing to secure your data.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C102

Inside of OneLake Spark Catalog and migration to schema-enabled lakehouses

Discover the capabilities of the OneLake Spark Catalog, which supports Lakehouse schemas, cross-workspace querying, row- and column-level security, and more. Examine techniques for querying objects using Spark within Fabric, including simultaneous access to Data Warehouses, Mirror Databases, and Lakehouses. Finally, review best practices and strategies for enabling OneLake Spark Catalog for all Spark runs and migrating to schema-enabled lakehouses.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C301

Trusted Contextual Data Foundation for reliable AI outcomes

Organizations struggle to trust their data - to contextualize and operationalize it safely for AI driven decision-making. As enterprises move beyond dashboards and reports towards agentic AI systems that reason, decide and act, the limitations of fragmented data platforms, inconsistent definitions and disconnected governance are impossible to ignore. Trusted context enabled by clean, governed and connected data is the critical ingredient in enterprise AI success.

This session highlights strategies for bringing multi-domain master data management, data quality, governance, privacy and policy enforcement, and end to end lineage to ensure that every dataset consumed by analytics, BI and AI agents is trusted, governed and ready for AI agents to reason with enterprise truth.

Friday 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM · Expo Solution Theater

From Dashboard to Executive Business Reviews in Seconds

Discover how data leaders at companies like Equality Health, Tripadvisor, and T. Rowe Price automatically create thousands of executive and client ready slide decks. This session will teach you how to programmatically generate and update PowerPoint and Google Slides directly from your Power BI data—ensuring your stakeholders and customers get reports in the slide format they need, all while eliminating extra work and governance risk for your data team.

You’ll learn to: -Automate recurring reports (QBRs, Client Updates, Financial Decks). -Keep your slides in perfect sync with your semantic models. -Instantly generate hundreds of personalized deck variations (e.g., one unique deck per region or client) from a single Power BI report.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 2-3

Taking Direct Lake to the Next Level

See what's new for Direct Lake semantic modeling, then dive into the technical details that matter most for enterprise scale. Learn how cardinality, monitoring, and V‑Order influence performance, with practical demos and guidance you can apply straight away.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 4

Build Trustworthy Real-Time AI Applications with Eventstream in Real-Time Intelligence

Real-time AI is only as trustworthy as the streaming infrastructure behind it. Discover innovations in Eventstream for building secure, governed streaming architectures that feed your AI systems reliable data. Learn to ingest from VNet-isolated environments, monitor pipelines with full observability, process CDC streams at scale, and see new connectors in action.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 1

Making AI Agents Smarter with Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ

Connecting AI agents to company data across SharePoint, databases, and documents is complex. Foundry IQ + Fabric IQ provide secure, unified access through one API. Learn to connect agents to multiple sources, configure permissions, use Agent Factory for deployment, and ensure agents understand business context, not just raw data.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C202-C204

Simplify management of hybrid and multi-cloud SQL Server using Azure Arc

Managing SQL Server in hybrid and multi-cloud environments can be challenging. Azure Arc streamlines SQL Server operations across on-prem, edge, and even other public clouds. Discover how to use built-in capabilities like best practices assessment, performance monitoring, and migration tools to centralize insights, simplify daily operations, and get ready for migration to Azure.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C208-C210

The Fabric Access Puzzle: Cracking Permission Problems with Confidence

Permissions got you puzzled? Discover how to crack common access problems, streamline permissions and implement best practices for a secure, well-managed and collaboration-ready Fabric environment; because permissions can make or break your Fabric setup.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C211-C213

Microsoft Fabric Essentials: No-Code to Pro-Code with Dataflows Gen2

Microsoft Fabric Dataflows Gen2 empowers everyone to prepare data efficiently. In this session, learn no-code steps for quick wins, low-code techniques with Power Query for flexibility, and pro-code customization with M for full control. Discover practical strategies to simplify data prep and enable governed, reusable data at scale.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C102

Unstoppable Fabric: Capacity Planning, Smart Alerting & Workload Tuning

Learn how to make Microsoft Fabric unstoppable by combining capacity planning, smart alerting, and workload tuning. We’ll use the Fabric Capacity Metrics app and API to read CU usage and throttling, plan and schedule ETL/Spark/refresh workloads, configure alerts (incl. Data Activator), and apply Spark/Warehouse best practices so Fabric stays fast, predictable, and cost-efficient.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C301

90 Days, 1 Fabric Foundation: Delivering SQL Mirroring at Scale

In this case study, Caplugs transformed fragile pipelines by shifting architecture—not the business. See how Fabric SQL Mirroring replaced brittle ingestion, cut technical debt, and delivered a stable, low-latency foundation. Learn how unified ERP analytics, governance, and scalable patterns created a sustainable, enterprise-ready Fabric implementation.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C111-C112

SQL Performance Supercharged: Strategies for Azure SQL Performance Optimization

Discover how the Azure SQL PG Engineering team tackles complex, mission-critical performance challenges across Azure SQL DB and Managed Instance. Through real customer cases and practical demos, learn sharp diagnostic techniques, hidden optimization opportunities, and the most common pitfalls to avoid when tuning workloads pre- or post-migration.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C113-C114

Mastering Fabric Data Engineering Admin and Capacity Management

Optimize Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering for production. Learn about governance controls for Notebooks, Lakehouses, and Spark Job Definitions. We'll cover administrative roles, capacity management for cost and performance, and scaling best practices.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C105-C106

Autonomous Fabric: Agentic Data Quality Using Fabric Data Agents

Data Quality issues drain engineering time and weaken business confidence in data platforms.

What if Fabric Data Agents could detect DQ issues autonomously, analyse their root cause, and guide engineers directly to a fix?

This session demonstrates the full architecture with a live demo - capturing DQ signals, triggering agent-led investigations, and integrating agent outputs into ETL pipelines.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C202-C204

Patterns and Best Practice with Fabric CI/CD

This session teaches best practices with Fabric GIT integration to ensure changes to Fabric projects are automatically tested and deployed, leading to faster and more reliable releases. Attendees will learn effective branching strategies for merging changes from feature workspaces into production.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C208-C210

Smart Routing: Real-Time Transport Optimization with Fabric

Discover how Microsoft Fabric enables real-time transportation optimization. Learn to ingest GPS data with Eventstream, visualize routes on live maps, and integrate linear optimization models to minimize cost and emissions. Explore how data agents and AI Foundry can help in identifying EV-ready routes based on charging infrastructure.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C211-C213

Modern Data Warehousing in Fabric: Cost, Scale, and Control

Want to learn how to get the best performance while keeping control of cost? In this session we'll go into the details of controlling the underlying compute resource with custom sql pools and understanding the impact they have on billing.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C101

SQL in the Fabric Era: Practical Techniques for Modern Data Integration

SQL pros, meet Fabric! This session shares hands-on examples of SQL database in Fabric in action with analytics, governance, and Power BI integration included. Discover how to extend your SQL skills into a modern data ecosystem without leaving your comfort zone.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C301

Empowering Lakehouse Solutions with Fabric Warehouse

Microsoft Fabric Lakehouses get lots of attention, yet the Warehouse’s evolution and true potential in a lakehouse solution are often overlooked.

This session covers:

• Engine deep dive
• Performance
• Warehouse’s role in lakehouse solutions
• Interoperability with Spark and lakehouses

Attendees will see how the Warehouse has evolved and how to apply it effectively in a lakehouse solution.

Friday 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM · Expo Insight Theater

The Hybrid Data Future: When to Persist, When to Let Agents Fetch

The "persist everything" era of data architecture is ending. Microsoft Fabric is the first platform that lets organizations make a genuine choice: persist strategically in OneLake, access external data via shortcuts and mirroring, or let AI agents retrieve directly from source systems at runtime - all under one security and governance model. This session explores the decision framework: when does persistence remain critical, and when can agents reason on-demand? Learn how the semantic layer - the Fabric IQ that grounds agents in trusted business data - becomes the governance backbone for agentic queries, and how leading organizations are compressing implementation timelines from months to weeks - shifting from project delivery to efficient, repeatable, scalable outcomes.

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C111-C112

Forget Prompts: Building Declarative AI Pipelines in Fabric

Prompt engineering is powerful but brittle. Hard to scale, harder to maintain. Learn how to build declarative AI pipelines in Microsoft Fabric to tame unstructured data and unlock insights. Discover pitfalls, tools, and techniques to optimize and deliver successful solutions

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · TMB 1

Semantic Link Labs: The Data Detective’s Toolkit

Every data detective needs the right toolkit—and Semantic Link Labs delivers. In this demo-heavy session, you’ll see it link Power BI datasets with Python notebooks for deeper diagnostics. Learn to trace relationships, uncover hidden dependencies, validate measures, and resolve issues that impact report quality, performance, and reliability. Get patterns for monitoring, validating, and correcting.

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C108-C109

Securing all of your OneLake data

Fabric includes multiple layers of security across OneLake. This session breaks down RBAC, sharing permissions, shortcut behaviors, Semantic model Row Level Security and OneLake security and shows how they interact in real-world architectures. Learn how to design secure, least-privilege data access in Fabric throughout your data estate and more importantly the steps you need to employ to test it.

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C211-C213

My Favorite New T-SQL in SQL Server 2025

This session is a dive into everything new that appears in SQL Server 2025 and are already available in Azure SQL Database.

Looking to use the new Regex functions? There is a surprising upgrade snuck in there for STRING_SPLIT().

Is PRODUCT() really useful? Yes. Yes it is!

What is fuzzy string matching all about?

JSON support is finally here!

There's more to be had, waiting for you right here!

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C101

If You’re Not Using Open Mirroring Yet, You’re Doing It the Hard Way

Still landing data the old way? You’re paying too much for it.

Open Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric is faster, simpler and free as in free beer.

In this deep-dive, learn how to build and tune open-mirroring pipelines with Python, measure real-world performance, and see why this cost-free pattern should be your default for data landing.

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C102

Beyond Monitoring: AI-Driven Spark Optimization in Microsoft Fabric

Join this demo by Microsoft AI and Spark experts to see how Fabric takes Spark observability to the next level! Learn how to stream Spark logs to Eventhouse using Diagnostic Emitter. See Fabric AI/ML tooling in action to detect bottlenecks, predict resource impact, and suggest code improvements to optimize performance and cost. Visualize the insights and recommendations in Real Time Dashboard.

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C302

Real Time Reporting with D365 Data Events and Fabric

In this session, we will explore how Dynamics 365 Data Events enables the generation of event messages triggered by CRUD operations on data entities. These messages can be streamed to Azure Event Hubs, consumed by a Fabric Event Stream, and ultimately fed into an Eventhouse that serves as the data source for live Power BI reports.

We will dive into several practical use cases for real-time reporting, then guide you through the setup and configuration process for this powerful solution.

This session provides a technical deep dive into the integration of Dynamics 365, Azure, and Fabric, covering key components, architectural best practices, and real-world considerations.

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · TMB 2-3

Delivering Insights Where Your Users Work

Learn practical strategies for sharing Power BI content across your company. We’ll cover distributing insights through apps (including organizational apps), and how business users can access Power BI directly from their M365 tools and Copilot to boost productivity and make informed decisions. You’ll get a deep look at current capabilities as well as what’s coming next.

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C113-C114

Automate at Scale with Event-Driven Architectures and Business Events

Disconnected systems and manual processes slow your business response time. Event-driven architectures solve this by enabling real-time responsiveness across your organization. Discover how Activator orchestrates event flows and integrates diverse sources, while Business Events provide instant visibility and trigger automated workflows. Learn to configure event-driven pipelines, set up Business Events for monitoring, and enable AI-driven decisions at scale.

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · TMB 4

Building modern data architectures with Microsoft Fabric

Learn how Microsoft Fabric can be leveraged with the architectures: Data fabric, data lakehouse, and data mesh. Get a tour of each architecture and explore their pros and cons. By the end of the session, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to use Microsoft Fabric to build and optimize these diverse data architectures.

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C108-C109

Demystifying Spark Profile Optimizations in Microsoft Fabric

Optimizing Spark workloads in Microsoft Fabric can be a complex endeavor, given the array of available configurations and techniques. Terms like V-Order, Z-Order, and considerations for read-heavy versus write-heavy profiles often add to the confusion. In this session, we'll bring clarity to these concepts, offering a structured overview of each optimization strategy.​

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C101

Architecting Zero ETL: Real-Time Analytics from Azure Database for PostgreSQL using Fabric Mirroring

What is new with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Mirroring in Fabric? Explore the latest enhancements that simplify data movement and integration. We’ll take a deep dive into the zero-copy, live replication architecture—showing how PostgreSQL data flows seamlessly into OneLake without ETL. Plus, see it in action with a live demo!