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KEYNOTE: Unifying the Data Estate for the next AI Frontier
As organizations race to deploy generative and agentic AI, the biggest challenge they face is not models, it’s their data estate. Join Microsoft engineering leadership to learn how Microsoft’s databases can be unified through Microsoft Fabric and OneLake, creating a single, governed foundation for analytics, AI, and intelligent agents. Discover why this shift represents a fundamental change in how modern data platforms are built, managed, and scaled for the next AI frontier.
State Farm ArenaWed 8:45 am - 11:45 am -
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.
Expo Innovation TheaterWed 12:40 pm - 1:00 pm -
Vortex: AI-Powered Migration to Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Made Simple
Legacy platforms create data silos blocking innovation. Manual migrations take 12+ months with 83% failing. See how AI automation transforms this: smart rationalization prioritizes assets, automated conversion handles apps and pipelines, and optimization ensures quality. Watch live demos and hear how one organization migrated an app portfolio in months, unlocking Fabric's modern capabilities.
Expo Insight TheaterWed 12:40 pm - 1:00 pm -
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.
Expo Solution TheaterWed 12:40 pm - 1:00 pm -
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.
Expo Innovation TheaterWed 1:10 pm - 1:30 pm -
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.
Expo Insight TheaterWed 1:10 pm - 1:30 pm -
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.
Expo Solution TheaterWed 1:10 pm - 1:30 pm -
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!
TMB 2-3Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
CORENOTE: Fabric Data Factory: What's New and Roadmap
Are you looking at how you can get started with Fabric Data Factory? In this session, you will learn how Fabric Data Factory is empowering developers to build data integration solutions. This session will get you up to speed with exciting product innovations and Fabric Data Factory roadmap.
C111-C112Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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.C113-C114Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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.
B401-B402Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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.
B308-B309Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
Azure Cosmos DB as a Time Machine: Event Sourcing for Real-Time Intelligence
What if your database was a time machine? With Cosmos DB and event sourcing, every change is immutable and replayable. Add agents on the change feed, and events don’t just record history — they detect fraud, flag anomalies, and shape the future in real time.
B312-B313aWed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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.B313b-B314Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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.
B405-B406aWed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
Build data-driven agents with Microsoft OneLake and Microsoft Foundry
Join us for a strategic look at how OneLake and Foundry enable you to build AI apps that retrieve enterprise knowledge at scale. We'll show you how to unify all your data—across clouds and on-premises—into a single data lake and then highlight patterns for building agentic workflows that plan, reason, and iterate across this governed data, moving beyond RAG to orchestrate intelligent task flows.
TMB 4Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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.
TMB 1Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
Power Query Escape Room
The villainous Lord Taart Chart has stolen your curated data and locked it in his Azure Vault! Your mission: face 10 Power Query Puzzles that challenge your skills to wrangle, transform, and tame messy data. Can you outsmart him and reclaim your data before it’s lost forever?
C105-C106Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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.
C108-C109Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
Exploring Optimized Locking in SQL Server 2025
Updating data in SQL Server can lead to lock escalation, blocking, deadlocks, or slow performance if it isn't done correctly. The newly released optimized locking helps reduce these issues while improving concurrency. This session explores how it works—covering its architecture, implementation, and best practices to maximize performance to help reduce those dreaded locking issues!
C202-C204Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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.
C208-C210Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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.
C211-C213Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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!
C101Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
Mastering Fabric Data Agents: From Setup to Success
Fabric data agent has been available for a while, yet many implementations fall short of expectations. Without the right design, the agent may struggle to align with business context, produce inconsistent outputs, or require heavy manual intervention.
In this session, learn how to design smarter, more reliable agents by fine-tuning Agent Instructions, using the Data Agent SDK and training data sources.C102Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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!
C301Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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.
C302Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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.
C111-C112Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
C113-C114Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
B401-B402Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
B308-B309Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
Change Tracking in SQL Server 2025: Exploring Change Event Streaming vs CDC
Need to ship row level data changes for processing downstream? Change Data Capture (CDC) used to be the go-to option. But now there's a new choice with SQL Server 2025: Change Event Streaming (CES). Come and learn about their architectures as well as the pros and cons of each. Leave knowing which is going to work best for your scenario.
B312-B313aWed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
B313b-B314Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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!
B405-B406aWed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
TMB 4Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
TMB 1Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
C105-C106Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
C108-C109Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
Empowering Fabric administrators: securing, scaling, and sustaining your data estate
Join us to see how we are making the lives of Fabric administrators easier, expanding on some of their key daily tasks. We’ll explore how to protect data at scale, ensure it’s easy to find, keep capacities healthy, and strengthen network and data security, to build confidence, clarity, and resilience across your Fabric estate.
C202-C204Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
C208-C210Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
C211-C213Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.C101Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
C102Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
C301Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
C302Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
Fabric Partner Team: Ask Me Anything
Let’s talk partnership! We’re hosting an AMA with the Fabric Partner Success Team, and you’re invited. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to scale your Fabric practice, this is your chance to ask questions, get advice, and connect with the team supporting partner success. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, share, and grow—see you there!
B315Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
C111-C112Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.
C113-C114Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.
B401-B402Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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 PurviewB308-B309Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.
B312-B313aWed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.
B313b-B314Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.
B405-B406aWed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.
B406b-B407Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.
TMB 4Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
Building The Fabric Well-Architected Framework
What is the best way to architect Fabric workspaces? How should your network and security models be built? In this session you will learn about best practices across Fabric for naming, deployment, capacity management, security and more.
TMB 1Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
SQL Server 2025: The Developer’s Revolution
Explore SQL Server 2025’s new dev features -JSON type, Regular Expressions, and Change Event Streaming for real-time pipelines. See how REST API and Data API Builder turn your data into secure, high-performance APIs. Packed with demos, this session is perfect for developers, DBAs, and architects
C105-C106Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.
C108-C109Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
Migration Paths from Azure Data Factory to Fabric Data Factory
Looking to simplify your data integration landscape while gaining the performance & cost efficiencies of Microsoft Fabric?
We’ll walk through Azure Data Factory, Synapse pipelines, Dataflows & MDF migrations to Fabric Data Factory.
You’ll learn how Fabric's data unification is a perfect fit for existing pipelines & dataflows, dramatically reducing operational overhead and introduce our new migration tools.C202-C204Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.
C208-C210Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
AI in Action: Microsoft Fabric for Data Science
In this fast-paced, discover how Microsoft Fabric streamlines the entire AI workflow—from data exploration to model deployment. You’ll learn how to use it for data science, train models, and generate predictions all within Fabric’s unified analytics platform. Perfect for data professionals and AI enthusiasts looking to get started with Fabric in just one hour.
C211-C213Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.C101Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.
C102Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.
C301Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.
C302Wed 4:25 pm - 5:25 pm -
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.C301Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
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An inside look at how Microsoft builds SQL features
Get a behind the scenes look at how Microsoft builds features and capabilities for SQL. This session will go deep into how Microsoft uses AI technology from design to code to deployment including fun examples of how we debug our own product. This is an advanced session, but you will walk away with tips and techniques to apply to your use of SQL.
C111-C112Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
C113-C114Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
B401-B402Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
B308-B309Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
B312-B313aThu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
Enterprise security in Microsoft Fabric
This session dives into Microsoft Fabric’s latest network and data security innovations like Outbound Access Protection, Azure Private Link, and Customer Managed Keys, all designed to protect sensitive information and simplify governance at scale. Learn how new governance features simplify enforcement and at-scale compliance.
B313b-B314Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
B405-B406aThu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
B406b-B407Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
From On-Prem to Next-Gen: Simplifying SQL Server Migrations
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose delivers faster performance, greater scalability, and simplified management. In this session, learn how we migrated 1,000+ SQL Server databases at scale with near-zero downtime, and how Azure Arc’s new migration experience streamlines assessment, replication, monitoring, and cutover, making your SQL Server migrations smooth and predictable.
TMB 4Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
SQL Server Sleuthing: Unmasking SQL Server Performance Issues
Dive into SQL Server performance like a true data detective. Learn how to analyze query plans, uncover hidden bottlenecks, and chase down the real culprits behind slow-running queries. We’ll break down key performance metrics, decode what they actually mean in the real world, and show you how to turn chaos into clarity. By the end, you’ll have the tools and confidence to keep your SQL Server environment running fast, stable, and drama-free. Join us for “SQL Unmasked” and start solving performance mysteries the smart (and fun) way.
TMB 1Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
Sharing Experiences: Customer Journeys migrating to Microsoft Fabric
Join this session to hear firsthand from customers who have transformed their data estates with Microsoft Fabric. From global enterprises modernizing complex legacy systems to agile teams embracing Fabric native services, these stories highlight the strategies, challenges, and breakthroughs that defined their journeys. Discover how organizations accelerated time to value and unlocked new insights by harnessing Fabric’s unified platform.
C105-C106Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
C108-C109Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
SQL database in Fabric: Real-world Scenarios and Solutions
SQL database in Fabric is simple, autonomous, and optimized for AI—but what does that mean for you and your organization? Join us to learn about real-world use cases from customers who are already using Fabric databases to drive innovation. Discover how they are building smarter, faster solutions in the age of AI—reducing complexity, accelerating time to value, and unlocking new opportunities.
C202-C204Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
C208-C210Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
C211-C213Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
Azure SQL Database, a great alternative to SQL Server Express or Standard
Do you currently use SQL Server Express or Standard Edition to support third-party applications? Discover how moving to Azure SQL Database can reduce costs and administrative overhead. This session will cover the pros and cons. We’ll walk through real demos of ongoing management, and engage in an interactive discussion to help you decide if Azure SQL DB is right for your environment.
C101Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
C102Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
Enterprise-Grade Migration to Microsoft Fabric: Modernizing Lakehouses, Pipelines, Analytics & AI
Microsoft Fabric is rapidly becoming the unified platform of choice for enterprises seeking to modernize data engineering, analytics, and AI. But migration from Synapse, ADF, Snowflake, Databricks, and on-prem systems requires more than a lift-and-shift.
C301Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
C302Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
B404Thu 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.Expo Innovation TheaterThu 9:30 am - 9:50 am -
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.
Expo Insight TheaterThu 9:30 am - 9:50 am -
Fabric Capacity Under Control: Reduced Costs, Less Outages, Better User Experience
Everyone struggles with rising Power BI capacity costs, rogue behaviors, outage risks, and badly designed reports reaching the platform. This session shows how predictive monitoring helps you prevent issues early and optimize for capacity costs. With Wiiisdom’s insights, you’ll keep Power BI stable, efficient, and delivering a better user experience.
Expo Solution TheaterThu 9:30 am - 9:50 am -
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.
TMB 2-3Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
What's New and What's Next for Power BI Visuals
Join this session with the Power BI Product team to discover the vision, innovation, and future of Power BI visuals! We'll dive into how our overarching goals and strategies shape our decision-making to build user-focused features. Through real-world examples of recent feature releases, we'll demonstrate how to enable impactful data storytelling. You'll also gain an exclusive preview of what’s next for Power BI visuals—both in the short and long term—helping you shape your data visualization journey.
C111-C112Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C113-C114Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
B401-B402Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
B308-B309Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
Discipline at the core, flexibility at the edge – Plotting the course for Microsoft Fabric
Disciplined foundations and flexible practices, built on clear requirements and responsibilities, drive successful implementations of Microsoft Fabric. Based on a core principle of Executive Sponsorship, explore how to enable scalable self-service, grow a thriving community for skills and best practice sharing, and apply the Fabric Adoption Roadmap to establish effective, sustainable governance.
B313b-B314Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
B405-B406aThu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
Lessons from the Trenches - Fabric Features That Would Have Changed My Data Warehouse Design
Ever built your Fabric data warehouse only to discover a new feature that would have saved weeks of effort? You’re not alone. This session dives into the underrated and emerging Fabric capabilities that every architect and engineer should know.
Through real implementation stories, we will cover what to revisit in your current designs & upcoming releases that can impact your Fabric ecosystem.B406b-B407Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
TMB 4Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
Power BI in Higher Education: Real Use Cases from Enrollment to Graduation
Higher ed generates massive data across admissions, enrollment, advising, and alumni, often stuck in silos. This session shows how Power BI unifies it through real examples: funnels, trends, retention, student success, faculty workload, and outcomes. Learn to model complex structures, clean data, and build clear visuals you can apply immediately.
TMB 1Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
Sharing Experiences: AI and Agentic Apps: Real World Transformation with Microsoft Fabric
AI and agentic applications are reshaping how businesses operate—moving from manual processes to intelligent, proactive workflows. Microsoft Fabric provides the unified data foundation that makes these innovations possible. In this session, you’ll hear real stories from customers who have embraced AI and agentic apps, showcasing how Fabric enabled them to accelerate insights, automate operations, and unlock new value across their organizations.
C105-C106Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C108-C109Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C202-C204Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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?”
C208-C210Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C211-C213Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
Redefining Enterprise Planning for the Era of AI
Enterprises face growing pressure to make faster, better decisions, yet many operate across fragmented systems and siloed data. In this session, we’ll explore how Microsoft Fabric brings data, insights, and action together on a unified platform—reducing complexity and accelerating decision making. In this session, we will explore the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric designed to assist organizations in transitioning from fragmented analysis to coordinated execution. These tools empower leaders to respond efficiently to change, extend intelligence throughout teams, and establish a robust foundation for AI-driven growth.
C101Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
Enhancing Resiliency in Fabric via Item Recovery, Item Identity Architecture, and More
Join us for a fast‑paced look at the latest advancements in item recovery, item creation policies, and new audit and access activity logging that provide clear insight into who accessed what, when, and how.
We’ll also highlight the broader set of investments transforming reliability and consistency across Microsoft Fabric. This includes concrete improvements that enhance customer experience and the Item Identity initiative, which ensures continuity even when item owners change or leave the organization. We’ll also explore our efforts to standardize item implementation across Fabric, helping eliminate issues caused by system‑generated items like staging lakehouses and warehouses.C102Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C301Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
Fabric Native MDM: AI and Analytics Ready Data in Minutes
Most Microsoft Fabric initiatives don’t fail because of dashboards or models, they stall when the underlying data isn’t trusted.
Join us for building a production-ready master data management (MDM) solution natively in Microsoft Fabric. From proof of concept to go-live, you’ll see the full MDM lifecycle in action.
We’ll model data domains, configure integrations, connect source systems, define matching rules, apply data quality policies, and activate stewardship workflows to stop issues before they spread. We’ll publish clean, trusted, gold-medallion master data to OneLake for immediate use in Power BI and other Fabric workloads.
You’ll leave knowing what “done right” looks like in Fabric, the key implementation decisions, and how to accelerate time to value with governed, trusted data.C302Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
B404Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
Agentic Development in Power BI for the Non-Developer
Feeling underwater keeping up with AI change? This session breaks the buzzwords into clear, practical ideas. We explain what agentic development means for Power BI today, how large language models, skills, and tools work together, and how these capabilities show up in GitHub Copilot and web experiences. We’ll demo going from raw data to a usable model and show how the same foundations power reporting, chat with your data, and data agents
TMB 2-3Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
C111-C112Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
Business Continuity for SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL Deployments
Availability is a core tenet for any application using SQL Server 2025 or Azure SQL. You'll not only learn what's new in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL to see how you can meet your availability objectives and keep the business going, but also real world tips, tricks, dos, and don'ts for successful availability configurations on premises, hybrid, or in the cloud to be an availability hero back home.
C113-C114Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
B401-B402Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
Enterprise Row-Level Security: A Blueprint for Scale in Fabric
Managing RLS for 100s of users across multiple semantic models becomes chaos fast. We'll share a proven architecture for complex security—VPs see regions, managers see departments, reps see customers. Learn reusable RLS table design, AD Group patterns to prevent role sprawl, performance tips, and self-service access reports. Walk away with a blueprint from production managing 500+ users.
B308-B309Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
Mirroring for SQL Server in Fabric: Inside the Replication Process
Explore how Mirroring for SQL Server in Fabric really works: what happens on the source database, how data lands in OneLake, data retention policies, monitoring and logging, configuration of replicated objects, and which scenarios require restarting replication.
B312-B313aThu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
B313b-B314Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
B405-B406aThu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
TMB 4Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
A Guide to Making the Most of your SQL Skills Using Microsoft Fabric
Don’t start over. Learn how SQL professionals can leverage their existing skills in Microsoft Fabric. No need to learn PySpark or new data engineering tools. Discover how SQL powers Lakehouses, Warehouses, Real-Time Intelligence, and Notebooks. See why, for many tasks, SQL is not only compatible but often the most efficient way to build modern, scalable, intelligent data solutions in Fabric.
TMB 1Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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!
C105-C106Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.C108-C109Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.C202-C204Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
Real-Time Intelligence Meets Location: How Maps in Microsoft Fabric Transform Your Analytics
Learn how Microsoft Fabric brings real-time and location intelligence together. Stream and transform live data with Real-Time Intelligence, visualize it instantly with Maps in Fabric, and then use Power BI to build interactive, rich geospatial analytics. In this demo-heavy session, we'll build the end-to-end solutions using real life data sources and examples.
C208-C210Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
C211-C213Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
C101Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
Enforce your governance and security regulations in Fabric
Join this session to discover the latest in Fabric security and governance enhancements:
• New policies which allow Fabric admins to define precise, flexible controls in one central place.
• New Purview security integrations which enable security admins to apply adaptive protection to sensitive data in Fabric.C102Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
C301Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
C302Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
B404Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
Women in Data: Leading the Way
Join us for an inspiring panel discussion featuring leading women in the field of data. This session will cover a range of topics from technical career discussions & guidance, overcoming challenges, the value of a strong network, where tech is going in the future. All with a special focus on being a woman in a technical field.
Whether you are just starting your career, looking to advance or searching for a way help others, this panel will provide valuable insights and practical advice to help you navigate the dynamic world of data.C4Thu 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm -
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.
Expo Innovation TheaterThu 1:00 pm - 1:20 pm -
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.
Expo Insight TheaterThu 1:00 pm - 1:20 pm -
Enterprise Write-back: Driving Data-Driven Transformation with Power BI
Ready to see how modern planning is being redefined? Acterys showcases how a leading manufacturer moved from fragmented, Excel-based planning to streamlined, data-driven decision-making. Discover how Enterprise Write-Back in Power BI enables faster processes, greater accuracy, and efficiency—plus a live demo of the architecture, workflows, and best practices behind the transformation.
Expo Insight TheaterThu 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm -
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.
Expo Solution TheaterThu 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm -
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.
TMB 2-3Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
Expert vs. AI: The Power BI Turing Test
Come witness a Power BI showdown between an expert developer vs. intermediate developer supercharged by AI. Both tackle real-world challenges like designing good data models and polished reports. Like a modern Turing test, you become the judge: can AI-augmented development produce solutions indistinguishable from expert craftsmanship? Or will the subtle nuances of true mastery still stand apart?
C111-C112Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.C113-C114Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
B401-B402Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
B308-B309Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.B312-B313aThu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
B313b-B314Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
B405-B406aThu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
B406b-B407Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
TMB 4Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
TMB 1Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
C105-C106Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
C202-C204Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
C208-C210Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
Implementation Patterns for Fabric Real Time Intelligence
Learn how organizations transform streaming data into immediate action. We'll explore real-world patterns for ingesting IoT, PoS and enterprise events to enable predictive actions and automated responses. Discover architectural approaches for processing events at scale, combining real-time data with historical analytics, and build solutions that deliver measurable business impact across industries
C211-C213Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
C101Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.C102Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
C301Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
The Golden Thread: Architecting an End-to-End OneLake Fabric for Analytics, RTI, and RAG
The Golden Thread, a unified OneLake-driven Microsoft Fabric architecture for analytics, predictive intelligence, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Learn how to evolve from siloed analytics to a scalable Medallion ecosystem with metadata-driven orchestration, hybrid CI/CD, and integrated real-time + historical data flows. We’ll also walk through a predictive maintenance scenario that demonstrates how to modernize workloads and accelerate insight delivery across any industry.
C302Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
Fabric IQ + Agent 365: Identity, Governance & Tooling for Microsoft Fabric
Discover how Agent 365 serves as the enterprise control plane for AI in Microsoft Fabric, anchored on five pillars: registry, control, visualize, interop, and security for Fabric assets consumed by agents. Learn how Entra identity, Purview governance, and Agent 365 tools enable governed deployments, reference architectures, and safe scale for IT pros, developers, and data engineers.
B404Thu 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
Fabric Partner Team: Ask Me Anything
Let’s talk partnership! We’re hosting an AMA with the Fabric Partner Success Team, and you’re invited. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to scale your Fabric practice, this is your chance to ask questions, get advice, and connect with the team supporting partner success. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, share, and grow—see you there!
B315Thu 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm -
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.
Expo Innovation TheaterThu 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm -
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.
Expo Insight TheaterThu 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm -
What Microsoft Fabric Looks Like with End-to-End Automation
Production-grade Microsoft Fabric implementations require coordinated ingestion, data refinement, warehouse operations, and governance. This session examines how Data Factory pipelines, OneLake Medallion architecture, and Fabric Warehouses work together in automated platforms, focusing on orchestration and warehouse automation patterns for reliable, repeatable analytics.
Expo Solution TheaterThu 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm -
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.
C111-C112Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.
C113-C114Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.
B401-B402Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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!
B308-B309Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.
B312-B313aThu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.
B313b-B314Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
Interoperable by design: managing Iceberg and Delta Tables in OneLake
OneLake enables true interoperability, enabling you to write Iceberg and Delta tables once and query them anywhere. Learn how OneLake supports data governance, Spark DML and lifecycle management while exposing the same tables to Snowflake, Athena, Glue, Fabric engines, Power BI, and AI Agents without copies.
B405-B406aThu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.
B406b-B407Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.
TMB 4Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.
TMB 1Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.
C105-C106Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.
C108-C109Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
Azure Readiness for Fabric: What Every Organization Needs to Know
Adopting Microsoft Fabric with minimal Azure experience? Discover the essentials of Azure Readiness for Fabric: security, performance, manageability, and extensibility so your organization can deploy Fabric confidently and be ready for future Azure growth. Practical guidance for teams starting their Fabric journey, especially if you are new to Azure or migrating from Power BI Premium to Fabric.
C208-C210Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.
C211-C213Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.C101Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.C102Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.
C301Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
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.
C302Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
Make your Power BI Desktop report print-ready (in one hour or less)
Need a printable version of an existing Power BI report fast? Learn how to convert a .pbix into a paginated .rdl by using the same semantic model in Power BI Report Builder. This session walks you through each step of converting an existing Power BI report into its paginated equivalent, then reviews how to address common paginated report issues with parameters, print layout, and grouping.
B404Thu 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm -
Power Hour
Nothing will prepare you for this fast-paced, borderline ridiculous community event! Join us for Power Hour, a live-demo driven session that you can't afford to miss. This unique session brings together members of the Microsoft product team and members of the data community to use Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and SQL Server tools in ways never intended. If you learn something during Power Hour, you're doing it wrong!
TMB 2-3Thu 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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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.
B406b-B407Wed 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm -
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.
B406b-B407Wed 3:05 pm - 4:05 pm -
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.
TMB 2-3Fri 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
C111-C112Fri 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
C113-C114Fri 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
TMB 4Fri 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
Hyperscale - the SQL Database for All Workloads
See how organizations are adopting Azure SQL Database Hyperscale for new and growing workloads. We’ll walk through real implementations—including scaling from zero to hundreds of databases— to learn what DBAs and devs learned along the way, and show demos of the tools and features that made those deployments successful.
TMB 1Fri 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
C105-C106Fri 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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 oneC108-C109Fri 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
C202-C204Fri 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
C211-C213Fri 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
Sharing Experiences: Real-Time Intelligence —Customer Stories from the Frontlines of Fabric
In this session, we spotlight how leading organizations are transforming operations and decision-making with Microsoft Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence capabilities. From connected factories and autonomous logistics to fraud detection and energy optimization, customers are harnessing streaming data, event-driven architectures, and AI-powered automation to act in the moment. Hear firsthand how these customers experienced their Fabric journey to reduce latency, cut operational costs, and unlock new business models. These stories go beyond technology—they reveal the strategic shifts, cultural changes, and measurable outcomes that define real-time success in the era of AI.
C101Fri 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.
C102Fri 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
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.C301Fri 8:00 am - 9:00 am -
Building an AI-Ready Data Platform: Data Agents, Ontology, and Governance in Microsoft Fabric
AI agents and Copilots are only as effective as the data platforms behind them. Learn how to build an AI-ready Frontier Data Platform using Microsoft Fabric, powered by Data Agents, shared ontology, & governance. Learn how OneLake, semantic definitions, lineage, and policy-driven access enable safe AI at scale, & how Sonata’s Lightning Data Suite accelerates readiness with prebuilt accelerators.
Expo Innovation TheaterFri 9:30 am - 9:50 am -
From Stalled to Scaled: How Tolmar Built a Trusted Fabric Platform for Agents
Enterprises are moving quickly toward Copilot and agentic AI, but most struggle to scale beyond pilots because the data foundation isn’t ready. In this session, Adastra and Tolmar share how building a reliable, governed data estate in Microsoft Fabric and OneLake is the critical first step to enabling trusted AI and enterprise agents.
Expo Insight TheaterFri 9:30 am - 9:50 am -
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.Expo Solution TheaterFri 9:30 am - 9:50 am -
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.
TMB 2-3Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C111-C112Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
A data lake built for scale: a deep dive into OneLake performance, APIs, and diagnostics
Join this session to learn how OneLake delivers a unified SaaS data lake for your Fabric tenant, simplifying governance and enabling AI-driven insight. With blob and ADLS-compatible APIs, OneLake integrates seamlessly with existing tools. Features like tiered storage, item-size reports and diagnostic logs simplify optimization, while auto-scaling ensures fast, reliable performance as demand grows.
C113-C114Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
TMB 4Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
TMB 1Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C105-C106Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C108-C109Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C202-C204Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C208-C210Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C211-C213Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.C101Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C102Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C301Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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.
C302Fri 10:10 am - 11:10 am -
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!
TMB 2-3Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
C111-C112Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
C113-C114Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
Copilot to the Rescue -Simplifying DBA tasks in SSMS 22
Unlock faster, smarter database management with Github Copilot in SSMS 22. This session shows how AI-driven guidance simplifies everyday DBA tasks from faster troubleshooting, writing better T-SQL, boosting productivity and reducing errors.
In this session you will see practical demos and learn how Github Copilot becomes your essential assistant.TMB 4Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
TMB 1Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.C105-C106Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
Load Testing Performance for SQL Server
Learn the fundamentals of load testing SQL Server - from planning to execution and analysis - to boost performance on-premises or in the cloud. We’ll cover hardware, VM, and I/O stack insights, compare synthetic vs. real workloads, explore tools like DiskSpd, HammerDB, and Workload Tools, and use PowerShell, DMVs, and PerfMon for automated data collection and analysis.
C108-C109Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
C202-C204Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
C208-C210Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
C211-C213Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
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.
C101Fri 11:30 am - 12:30 pm -
DEI Lunch Session: Adversity Leadership - Leading with Clarity in High-Pressure Environments
Modern IT teams operate under constant pressure—governance demands, rapid change, rising burnout, and high-stakes decision-making. Teams from all backgrounds, across the spectrum must work together to achieve goals.
Attendees will learn to work together to convert pressure into precision, lead with confidence when it matters most, and build resilient, high-performing environments where people can thrive.C4Fri 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm -
Linking enterprise data estates to Fabric for OneLake & AI: Real World Case studies
A key challenge in getting your data estate ready for using Fabric's unified capabilities is eliminating data silos and complexity. That requires implementing novel design patterns for connecting, capturing, transforming, and delivering data pipelines from existing applications and legacy platforms into Fabric for modernizing your data estate.
In this session, Codin Pora, VP of Partner Technology at Striim, presents a set of real-world, technical use cases drawn from enterprise environments across retail, aviation, and financial services that show how teams embed mirroring, continuous streaming, CDC, transformations, data cleansing, in-line AI, and governance to deliver data pipelines into Microsoft Fabric for building operational, analytical, and AI workloads.Expo Innovation TheaterFri 1:00 pm - 1:20 pm -
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.
Expo Insight TheaterFri 1:00 pm - 1:20 pm -
Data Modeling Like a Pro in Fabric
Join the Fabric product team for an in-depth session to learn about data modeling in Fabric, including Direct Lake and composite models for scale and flexibility, and AI-first workflows to achieve 10x productivity. Get ready for mind-blowing demos and sneak peaks into upcoming capabilities so you can develop semantic models like the experts.
TMB 2-3Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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
C111-C112Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
When AI meets your database: Securing sensitive data in Azure SQL in an AI-driven world
As AI becomes embedded in every application, protecting sensitive data in Azure SQL is vital. This session explores how to secure sensitive data from AI agents and design a defense-in-depth model using Azure SQL's existing security stack - modern authentication, granular access control, data protection, monitoring, auditing, and more. Learn how to confidently use Azure SQL to power AI applications.
C113-C114Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
Fabric AI-powered automation for pro-developers: what’s new and what’s next
A fast-paced tour of what’s new and what’s coming next for automation in Microsoft Fabric including some exciting new announcements. We’ll share updates on the Fabric CLI, Fabric MCP Servers, Terraform provider, SDKs and more, plus end-to-end demos for CI/CD, IaC, and pro-dev workflows. Come ask questions and share feedback directly with the team building Fabric’s automation and pro-dev experiences.
TMB 4Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
TMB 1Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
Build Smarter Analytics Assistants with Fabric Data Agents and Copilot Studio
Learn how to connect Microsoft Fabric data agents with Copilot Studio to deliver intelligent, conversational analytics. This session covers modeling best practices, schema design, grounded responses, testing patterns, and decision guides for choosing when and how to expose semantic models and data agents to copilots.
C105-C106Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
C108-C109Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
Unlock the Azure SQL Advantage with a streamlined migration experience via Azure Arc and AI
Learn how Azure SQL gives you best price/performance with Azure benefits, flexible SKU configurations and how seamless SQL migration experience in Azure Arc puts you on fast-track migration journey to Azure SQL with evergreen assessments, best fit SKU recommendations and near zero‑downtime migrations. Learn how SSMA accelerates Oracle/Sybase to Azure SQL migrations with AI Code Conversion Copilot.
C202-C204Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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!C211-C213Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.C101Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
C102Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.)C301Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.C302Fri 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -
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.
TMB 2-3Fri 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm -
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.
C113-C114Fri 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm -
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.
TMB 4Fri 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm -
SQL Server 2025 for DBAs
Explore the key advancements in SQL Server 2025 that matter most for DBAs. We’ll highlight improvements in performance, availability, and administration, including faster queries, better indexing, enhanced HA, and new management tools. Learn how these features reduce downtime, boost efficiency, and help you get the most from SQL Server 2025.
TMB 1Fri 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm -
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.
C105-C106Fri 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm -
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.
C108-C109Fri 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm -
Building MLOps for Traditional ML in Microsoft Fabric
Discover how Microsoft Fabric enables a modern Machine Learning Operation for Traditional ML. Attendees will observe a practical approach to building ML pipelines using Notebooks, Lakehouses, Pipelines, Environments, and Experiments. We'll also explore custom spark pools, data manipulation tools, and machine learning libraries.
C202-C204Fri 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm -
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.C208-C210Fri 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm -
Batteries included: SQL DevOps with SQL projects
The evolution of SQL projects continues with expanded IDE support and deeper integration in the Fabric platform. Using the latest in VS Code and SSMS, we’ll walk through keeping our database in source control, integrating changes made in another database, and evaluating deployment plans. Finally, we'll automate CI/CD processes with REST APIs for SQL database in Fabric and the SqlPackage CLI.
C211-C213Fri 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm -
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!
C101Fri 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm -
Transforming Industrial Operations with Real-time Intelligence and Agentic AI
Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence transforms industrial operations through Real-Time Dashboard, Data Activator, agentic AI, and ART enablement. Organizations shift from reactive firefighting to autonomous, predictive operations—monitoring equipment health, triggering intelligent workflows, and orchestrating maintenance responses at streaming velocity.
C102Fri 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm -
From Fabric to Finance: Building Enterprise-Grade Planning & Forecasting on Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric has fundamentally changed how enterprises store, model, and analyze data — but many organizations still struggle to turn that data into real-time operational and financial decisions.
In this session, we will explore how to design an enterprise-grade planning and forecasting architecture natively on Microsoft Fabric, using Azure SQL, Power BI, and modern data pipelines to enable real-time write-back, scenario modeling, and governed collaboration across large organizations.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Architect a Fabric-native planning environment that supports concurrent users, auditability, and data integrity
- Design write-enabled analytical models using Azure SQL, Fabric Warehouses, and Power BI
- Implement scenario modeling, forecasting, and what-if analysis directly on enterprise data
- Apply governance, security, and performance best practices for mission-critical workloads
- Avoid common pitfalls that cause Fabric-based planning solutions to fail at scale
The session will include a live technical walkthrough of how data moves from Fabric into planning and forecasting workflows, how user inputs are written back securely, and how changes propagate through enterprise-grade models in real time.
Whether you are modernizing an FP&A platform, enabling operational planning, or deploying large-scale analytics on Fabric, this session will provide practical patterns and architecture that you can apply immediately inside your own Microsoft environment.C301Fri 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm