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

AI for BI: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Every BI platform now includes AI—from Microsoft Fabric CoPilot to standalone chatbots. Yet without a unified strategy, these tools create fragmented user experiences and governance risks. This session introduces a clear Reference Architecture for implementing AI for BI at scale—helping enterprises eliminate silos, ensure control, and build a sustainable, scalable system.

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 Innovation Theater

Brewing Better Decisions for a Dunkin Donuts Franchisee with Microsoft Fabric

Learn how Bluemont Group transformed Data & AI across 100 Dunkin’ locations by replacing a vendor-controlled data warehouse with a modern, fully owned Microsoft Fabric platform. Learn how Collectiv helped them eliminate multi-day data delays, unlock historical insights, and empower managers with real-time, location-level visibility.

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 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM · Expo Solution Theater

Agentic way to maximize your Fabric capacity utilization

Overpaying for Fabric capacity? Discover an agentic workload that continuously right-sizes capacity, detects outlier artifacts, sends intelligent alerts, and surfaces usage trends, transforming capacity management from reactive tuning into a self-optimizing, intelligent system.

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 · B401-B402

Designing for the Right User: Why Personas Are the Secret to Better Power BI Reports

Reports don’t fail because you’re bad at design. They fail because they’re built for the wrong user. Learn how to identify the real “characters” behind your Power BI reports, from the big-picture strategist to the action-taker and the detail-obsessed analyst, and how to tailor layout, detail, and interactions so each user gets what they need to make confident decisions.

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 · B313b-B314

End-to-End Security for Data Warehousing in Microsoft Fabric

Learn how to secure Microsoft Fabric Warehouses end-to-end. Explore private links, conditional access, workspace roles, item-level permissions, and granular T-SQL controls for object, row, and column-level security. Plus, see dynamic data masking and OneLake security for SQL endpoints in action.

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 · C211-C213

Decoding Fabric Licensing

Navigate the complexities of Microsoft Fabric licensing with real-world scenarios. Learn the differences between Pro, Premium, and Fabric licenses. We will compare pricing models, estimate costs, and avoid budgeting traps to enable smarter, cost-savvy decisions about your data environment.

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 · 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 · C111-C112

CORENOTE: Power BI Roadmap: Strategy, Vision, and Demos

Power BI empowers organizations to turn insights into actions and deliver enterprise analytics at scale in Fabric. In this session discover why businesses standardize on Power BI, learn about building a data-driven culture, and get a first look at upcoming features that unlock your data’s potential.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · B401-B402

CORENOTE: Create a Single Source of Truth for Your Data, AI, and Actions

When business data, models, and AI agents operate in silos, your organization struggles with inconsistent insights and fragmented decision-making. Microsoft Fabric solves this by providing a unified semantic foundation that connects everything into a single intelligent framework. Explore customer stories and see how enterprise-wide semantic clarity improves AI agent reasoning. Learn to design semantic models that unify your data assets and enable your organization to operate with greater clarity and agility.

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 · 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 · C108-C109

Unlocking Copilot in Fabric: Administration, Governance, and Beyond!

Join us for an engaging Copilot in Fabric session covering administration, governance, enablement strategies, and capacity management. We’ll also explore Data Agent, Standalone Copilot, Power BI Copilot, and how Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI helps monitor AI use. We will cover real-world scenarios and best practices turning governance into a strategic advantage.

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 · 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 · B401-B402

Transform Your Business with Fabric Real-Time Intelligence

Real Time Intelligence helps businesses transform with real-time insights, analytics and actions built for the era of AI. This session will cover key features, capabilities, and the impact it has on operational efficiency and decision-making processes. We will also highlight customer success stories and showcase how you can revolutionize your data strategy and unlock new opportunities for growth.

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 · B405-B406a

Accelerate Your Move to Microsoft Fabric: Key Steps, Common Pitfalls, and Best Practices

Curious about how organizations cut months off their Microsoft Fabric migration timelines? We’ll share a proven roadmap, highlighting the stages of planning, migration, and optimization. We’ll also delve into common pitfalls to avoid—ensuring your journey remains on track and under budget.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · TMB 4

Driving Cost-Efficient Data Architectures for SQL Server, Azure SQL and Fabric using FinOps

Learn how to optimise SQL Server, Azure SQL and Fabric costs using FinOps practices and AI-driven insights. We’ll explore key cost drivers, show how AI detects inefficiencies, forecasts spend, recommends right-sizing, and helps design smarter, cost-efficient data architectures across hybrid and cloud environments.

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 · C301

AI-Driven MDM on Microsoft Fabric: Build the Intelligent Golden Record

Discover how to build an AI-powered Master Data Management solution on Microsoft Fabric. Learn how AI models identify duplicates, enrich data, and create a reliable golden record. See practical patterns that improve data quality, downstream analytics, and enterprise operational efficiency.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C302

CI/CD and DevOps for Power BI: Beyond the Happy Path

CI/CD is vital to efficient and governed Power BI delivery, yet Azure DevOps rarely follows the “happy path.” This session exposes the burden of manual steps, merge conflicts, and the limitations of GIT. Next, full-automated alternatives will be evaluated, covering zero-touch version control, enhanced lineage, advanced deployment workflows, and some of the associated pitfalls.

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 · C113-C114

What’s new in Fabric capacities and capacity monitoring

Capacities are the foundation for all Microsoft Fabric workloads. This session will provide an overview of what’s new in Fabric capacities including new capacity governance capabilities that help you get ahead of outages and improvements to monitoring experiences in the Capacity Metrics App and Real Time Hub. We will also share best practices to help you better manage your capacities at scale.

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 · 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 · 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 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM · Expo Innovation Theater

Transform your data platform into an AI-ready foundation for growth

Modernize your end-to-end data platform to Fabric and unlock AI/ML enabled potential in workloads, analytics, and collaboration. During this session, we will focus on agentic AI methods of automation during the migration process, achieving 60% improvement in productivity.

Thursday 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM · Expo Insight Theater

The Fabric Effect at CDW: Built by the Business, Supercharged by IT

See how CDW brought business and IT together to build something bigger. Christopher shows how he used Fabric to turn scattered data into a single operational portal that runs the business. Julie adds technical insights and reveals how partnership unlocked even more value. A fast, energetic look at the power user revolution inside Fabric.

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 · 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 · 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 · C108-C109

How Much is Fabric | Strategies for Managing and Estimating Fabric Capacity Expense

Learn how to accurately estimate and control Microsoft Fabric capacity costs in today’s cloud‑driven world. We’ll cover key drivers like workload patterns, utilization, and scaling, and walk through practical models, examples, and best practices to align Fabric spend with your organization’s performance and budget goals.

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

Best Practices for SQL Database Backup Configuration, Immutability, and Ransomware Protection

Learn best practices for Azure SQL Database backup configuration and ransomware protection. Explore PITR and LTR strategies, backup immutability, and deletion safeguards to ensure compliance and resilience. Gain actionable insights to secure data, prevent tampering, and maintain business continuity.

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

Turn It On: The Power of Query Store for Rapid Performance Tuning

I rely on Query Store every day—it lets me uncover performance issues in minutes, even without knowing the app code. If you want real insight into plan choices, regressions, and control over execution plans, you need to turn it on. Learn how to configure it, use its DMVs, spot plan changes fast, and finally answer, “Why was my query slow?”

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 · B313b-B314

Build Your First Digital Employee: A Guide to Operations Agent in Fabric

Manually monitoring pipelines, handling incidents, and executing workflows doesn't scale and it burns out your team. Operations agents in Microsoft Fabric provide true autonomy by handling these tasks independently. Explore how to architect agents that monitor pipelines, respond to incidents, and execute complex workflows without human intervention. Learn to configure agent rules, establish governance guardrails, and scale your operations with AI-driven reliability.

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 · C105-C106

Microsoft Fabric AI: Copilots, Data Agents & Real‑World Extensions

Build RAG patterns in minutes. We’ll show data agents, prompts, complex queries, and connecting to Microsoft Fabric data. Explore Copilots across services—what they are, how they differ—extend data agents from Fabric to Copilot Studio, to Microsoft Teams, M365 Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and the Python SDK. After we build this out, let's test Row Level and Column level security in our agents!

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 · 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 · C302

Engineering Fabric at Scale: Accelerating Time to Value

PwC and a global software client unpack how they re-engineered a large-scale data platform on Microsoft Fabric to help meet ambitious service-level agreements (SLAs) and accelerate business value. This technical deep dive covers hybrid Lakehouse–Warehouse design, metadata-driven ingestion, performance tuning, and early adoption of new Fabric capabilities for an AI-ready foundation.

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 · 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 · B312-B313a

SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine: Configuring for price-performance

When selecting a virtual machine to host your SQL Server workload in Azure, you need to choose a VM size that provides optimal performance and fits your organization’s budget.

In this session, we will cover topics such as the different VM types that are appropriate for SQL workloads, configuring storage, and features unique to Azure that can help boost your performance without breaking the bank.

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 4

Leveraging Governance inside your Microsoft Fabric Tenant and Workspace

Microsoft Fabric's tenant and workspace settings are powerful governance tools often used in isolation. Discover overlooked Microsoft Fabric settings that collectively create a robust governance solution. Learn how to implement a strong data mesh architecture enabling business departments to self-manage governance and minimize IT dependencies. See live demonstrations of these powerful features.

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 · C208-C210

Fabric IQ + Foundry IQ: Unifying data and knowledge for agentic AI

Join Microsoft experts for a strategic look at Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ—how they bring business meaning to data and unify enterprise knowledge to ground every agent. See roadmap updates across semantic modeling, multi‑source retrieval, governance, and observability that move you beyond basic RAG to trustworthy, scalable agentic workflows.

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 Insight Theater

Scaling Fabric Write Back for Real-Time Collaboration & Data Enrichment

Fabric's native writeback excels at single-record forms, but teams often need to enrich multiple data points, add context across records, or collaborate in real-time. Learn how to extend Fabric's writeback from forms to Excel-like tabular editing that scales. Walk away understanding how to transform your Fabric environment into an active, collaborative decision-making platform.

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 · B312-B313a

Simplify Geospatial Analytics with Maps in Fabric

Geospatial analytics traditionally requires specialized tools and expertise, creating barriers for teams that need location-based insights. Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric changes this by bringing "living maps" to everyone. Explore how to work with high-velocity, large-volume geospatial data from ingestion and processing to visualization and actions. Learn to create real-time map visualizations, process location data, and provide spatial context for your users and AI agents.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B313b-B314

Master Eventhouse Patterns for Real-Time Intelligence at Scale

Processing millions of events while maintaining historical context and automating decisions is one of the hardest challenges in enterprise data. Eventhouse and Real-Time Intelligence solve this with proven patterns used in production today. See how organizations process events at scale, automate decisions, and combine real-time and historical data for business operations. Learn the architectures powering AI and analytics in production and patterns you can apply immediately.

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 1

Ignite Governance Insights Across Databases, Lakes, and Models

Turn data governance into a productivity boost for Azure SQL Database, Fabric SQL Database, and Fabric Data Warehouse architectures and engineering. Gain efficiency and confidence in every deployment. Learn how cataloging, classification, lineage, and quality workflows integrate with databases and pipelines to improve trust, and enable secure, compliant data for engineering teams.

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 · C102

The Agentic Data Estate - Make, Manage, Monitor

Learn how digital workers, supported by the Agent Framework and digital workforce management best practices, can run your Fabric data estate. Discovery, Observability, Continuous Optimization, Quality & Drift are just some of the key workloads that can be automated using agents.

See how you can identify and implement the digital worker roles which make the most sense for your enterprise.

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 · C111-C112

Resilience by design: how Fabric delivers business continuity

Discover how Microsoft Fabric ensures resilience from SLAs to geo-redundancy. Learn about built-in zone failover, cross-region backups, and our vision and roadmap for automated, customer-managed BCDR. See how Fabric keeps transalytics always-on—even during outages—through current capabilities and future innovations.

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · C111-C112

SQL Server 2025 is the AI-ready Enterprise Database

You may have heard the news that SQL Server 2025 has become Generally Available. But do you know why there has been so much buzz about this new version? Come learn from the team at Microsoft everything you need to know about why you should consider upgrading to SQL Server 2025. From AI to developer features to mission critical engine, SQL Server 2025 has more new features than you might realize.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C105-C106

Embedding Power Apps in Microsoft Fabric Power BI Reports

In this talk we’ll show you how to embed a Power App in a Power BI report in Microsoft Fabric to enable real-time editing and interactivity. See how to update data directly from reports, trigger workflows, and leverage action-oriented analytics that close the loop between insight and execution.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C108-C109

Unifying Data Discovery: A Real-World Implementation of Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog

In a data-driven world, managing data assets effectively is vital. This session highlights Lufthansa Group’s successful adoption of Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog as its central data catalog. Attendees will learn key architectural decisions, best practices, challenges faced, and lessons learned.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C101

Azure SQL MI Unleashed: Inside the Next‑Gen GP & What’s Coming Next

If you plan to migrate and modernize your SQL workloads in the cloud, Azure SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) is your best choice - now reimagined for speed, scale, and flexibility. In this session we will deep‑dive into the Next‑Gen SQL MI GP architecture and how it delivers faster performance, greater scalability and smarter resource tuning, making it a great choice for your key database workloads.

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 · C302

Next Best Action, Root Cause Identification and Anomaly alerting on Fabric

Business users don't want a fancy chart - they want to know what immediate actions will help them meet their targets. They don't want to firefight once something is broken - they want to be alerted ahead of time so they can be proactive. They want deep, contextual analysis and live answers of their business so they can get a 360 view and take control.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · TMB 2-3

Reporting with action: Visualizations with translytical task flows in Power BI and Fabric

Join this session to learn about translytical task flows combining Power BI reports and Fabric user data functions together for actionable reports with a click of a button. We’ll demo how to set it up, the options you have, and specific examples of these reports in action. Interested in what this is or are you already using it today? We’ll have insights you don’t want to miss!

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 · TMB 1

Chaos to Clarity: Governance and Adoption Lessons from Rolling Out Power BI and Fabric

Power BI + Fabric at scale? Chaos looms—fragmented workspaces, messy permissions, frustrated users. Join us to see how we turned disorder into a governance playbook that accelerates adoption. Learn role-based access, streamlined workspace/app strategies, and AI-ready best practices to avoid pitfalls and win enterprise buy-in.

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 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 · C301

Herding Fabric Cats: Administration and Governance Guidance

Fabric governance is challenging: users create workspaces fast, data sprawls, and costs spike. This session will help you "herd the cats" using Microsoft's tools.

You will leave with a practical, battle-tested governance framework and real-world strategies. (No actual cats were harmed.)

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 · C105-C106

Fabric Sprawl - Techniques to Optimize Your Fabric Capacity

Learn how to address a sprawling Fabric environment with ungoverned items across multiple workspaces and capacities. Extend FUAM to gain valuable insights that drive decision-making and backlog prioritization. Design the right balance between autonomy and security in your Fabric environment to deliver an optimal experience for both end users and developers.

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C208-C210

Vibe Coding a Power BI Embedded Portal - From Zero to Hero in 60 Minutes

Power BI Embedded isn’t just for developers.

In this fast-paced vibe-coding session, we’ll demystify it by building a real custom portal in 60 minutes, using AI to speed things up.

See how to set Power BI Embedded up quickly, craft a user-centric experience, improve navigation beyond the service, and unlock powerful opportunities without heavy coding, giving you a fresh view of what’s truly possible.

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!