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Modern Data Warehousing in Microsoft Fabric
Learn how to design and manage data warehouses in Microsoft Fabric by exploring proven patterns, practical techniques, and common pitfalls to avoid. Topics include dimensional modeling, data warehousing fundamentals, ingestion strategies, medallion architecture, change detection, lifecycle management with CI/CD, monitoring, administration, and migrations.
TMB 2-3Mon 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Getting Started with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI: A Hands-On Workshop
New to Fabric or Power BI? This workshop is the perfect place to start, giving you an end-to-end intro to Fabric and Power BI and equipping you with the skills and confidence to dive deeper into the world of modern analytics.
We’ll start with Fabric in the morning, building out an end-to-end solution, then on Power BI in the afternoon.
Through guided exercises led by experts, you'll gain knowledge you can take back to your own projects, and you'll be set up for a successful conference!
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.C113-114Mon 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Chat with Your Data: Discover the Future of Data Insights with Power BI Copilot
In this hands-on session, we'll show you how to leverage Power BI and Microsoft Fabric's Copilot AI features to chat with your data. Learn how to prepare data for end-users with AI features like Instructions and Verified Answers. You'll get practical experience with the standalone Copilot interface, exploring its capabilities to deliver insights. This session will empower you to transform how your organization interacts with data for smarter decision-making and deeper insights.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.C202-204Mon 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Design a Well-Architected Fabric Solution: A Medallion First Approach
Solid data architecture is key for a scalable and maintainable pipeline, but can be difficult to implement.
This session is for those familiar with Power BI or new data engineers, providing a step-by-step guide to Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers.
Users will gain an overview of Medallion Architecture, Warehouses and Lakehouses, Delta and Parquet, GIT integration, monitoring, and compare available Fabric tools. This is a hands on, lab filled session. Python or SQL is a bonus but not required.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.TMB 1Mon 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
A practical guide to building and deploying Fabric Data Agents for deeper insights
AI agents are becoming integral to business workflows, enabling users of all technical levels to explore and understand data more intuitively, and Microsoft Fabric’s Data Agents are at the forefront of this transformation.
In this tutorial, you’ll dive into how Fabric empowers you to build, configure, and optimize a Data Agent. You’ll learn best practices for curating high-quality data inputs, configuring agents, and leveraging rich features to turn raw data into actionable insights.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.TMB 4Mon 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Hands-On Workshop: Data Science & Machine Learning with Microsoft Fabric
Explore Microsoft Fabric’s integrated Data Science experience across ideation, preprocessing, modeling, & deployment. Learn how to ingest and prepare data via OneLake and Lakehouse, leverage Notebooks, Data Wrangler, Spark, SynapseML, MLflow for experimentation, & operationalize predictions with batch scoring and Power BI direct integration. Also, learn to build generative AI Q&A systems using Fabric Data Agents.. Participants will receive access to Microsoft Fabric & Azure to perform the labs.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.C211-C213Mon 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Real-Time Intelligence Masterclass with Microsoft Fabric
Today’s organizations need real-time insights. This hands-on workshop guides data pros in building event-driven solutions with Microsoft Fabric. In a full-day lab, you’ll use Real-Time Intelligence (Eventstream, Eventhouse, Lakehouse, Dashboards, Activator, Agents, Digital Twin Builder) to create end-to-end architectures. Learn CDC streams, streaming data, schema drift, real-time dashboards, alerts, agents, ML scoring, plus cost & performance insights.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.C208-210Mon 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Hands-On Fabric Security: Protecting Data, Access, and Compliance
This hands-on workshop is designed for data engineers, architects, and security professionals. With a blend of demonstrations, hands-on labs, and real-world scenarios, you’ll leave with a clear understanding of Fabric security. By the end of the session, you will: Learn to protect network traffic in and out of Fabric; Manage user access with OneLake security; Apply compliance best practices with built-in governance and auditing tools by leveraging Microsoft Purview and Sensitivity Labels.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.C108-109Mon 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Mastering Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric: From Security to Operationalization
Fabric Data Factory enables organizations unify their data estate with OneLake. Security is paramount. You will learn how to secure your data ingestion, transformation using workspace identity auth and Azure Key Vault integration, implement network isolation (Private Link and VNet gateway) for accessing data behind firewall. Operationalization is another important aspect. You will learn to operationalize pipeline, dataflow gen2 with variable library, build metadata driven pipelines and more.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.Room C105-C106Mon 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Mastering SQL Server Performance & Optimization Strategies
Everyone wants their database to go faster, whether it's shaving hours off your ETL process, taking minutes off the runtime for reports, or trimming milliseconds off a critical OLTP query. Every database professional must know where to look and how to tune, whether you have one SQL environment or thousands.
In this full-day session, you'll learn how to take your performance tuning skills to the next level.C302Mon 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
SQL Server 2025 Deep Dive: Essential Innovations for DBAs and Database Developers
SQL Server 2025 is the AI database for enterprises. But there are more new things than just AI—in this demo filled, full-day workshop, you will learn about:
• Engine improvements that make everything just run faster
• How SQL Server 2025 helps you operate more securely
• Further enhancements to high availability
• Building event-driven architectures with change event streaming
Master the benefits of the latest release of SQL Server and how to deploy it in your organization.C301Mon 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Power BI Mastery: End-to-End Analytics for Pro Developers
Join this hands-on workshop for Power BI Pro Developers and data practitioners. Gain practical experience across the full development lifecycle using tools like PBIP, TMDL, and PBIR. Learn how Pro Developer features integrate with code-first and AI-powered experiences to streamline workflows, enforce best practices, and speed up delivery. Walk away ready to deliver enterprise-grade Power BI solutions.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.TMB 2-3Tue 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Architecting Data Warehouse Medallion Architecture: From Ingestion to Security at Lightning Speed
Building a high-performing, secure, and future-ready data warehouse requires more than just loading data—it demands a well-structured architecture that balances speed, governance, and scalability. In this workshop, we’ll walk through how to design and implement a medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) in Microsoft Fabric, taking you end-to-end from raw data ingestion to refined, governed, and consumable insights.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.C113-114Tue 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Build AI-Ready applications with SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric
Join us for a hands-on workshop to design, deploy, and optimize AI-powered apps using SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric. Learn to use Copilot for RAG patterns, build write-back Power BI reports, transform data with Spark/Python, and curate medallion architectures. You'll implement enterprise-grade security, monitor workloads, and manage source control. Leave with a working solution, practical skills, and insights to accelerate AI-to-BI innovation.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.C202-204Tue 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Mastering Fabric Capacities: Governance, Optimization & Real-Time Insights
This workshop equips Capacity and Fabric Administrators with practical skills to manage and govern Fabric Capacities.
Agenda includes:
* Licensing models, Capacity Units, bursting, throttling
* Roles, permissions, metrics app, labs
* RTH events, throttling recovery, surge protection
* Governance strategies and capacity planning
Learn to provision, monitor, and govern Fabric Capacities with hands-on labs. Ideal for admins seeking to optimize performance and scale responsibly.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.TMB 1Tue 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Mastering Dataflow Gen2 for ETL in Microsoft Fabric
Dataflow Gen2 is the core data transformation tool in Microsoft Fabric, powered by the Power Query engine. In this hands-on workshop, attendees will learn to build scalable solutions by extracting data from diverse sources, implementing data transformation and ETL patterns, optimizing performance, leveraging query folding, using parameters and custom functions, utilizing M scripting, applying best practices, debugging techniques, and integrating with pipelines for end-to-end data integration.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.TMB 4Tue 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Engineering Excellence with Fabric Spark - Test, Model, Predict, and Scale
Join this hands-on workshop to learn how a Microsoft engineering team uses Fabric Spark to tackle real-world data engineering challenges. Learn to build scalable data pipelines with Spark Structured Streaming, ML augmentation, and STAR Schema-based dimensional modeling. The workshop covers an end-to-end medallion architecture, leaving you with reusable code assets, patterns, and tips, to accelerate building your own enterprise-ready data pipelines that can be debugged, deployed, and tested.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.C211-C213Tue 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Beyond Buzzwords: Hands-On Agentic Patterns for Power BI
This full-day workshop explores agentic development patterns for Power BI projects. You’ll learn how GitHub Copilot and MCP servers can accelerate modeling, reporting, and deployment, while also examining their current limits and best-fit scenarios. Through guided, end-to-end exercises, attendees will gain hands-on experience applying agentic practices to Power BI, leaving with practical insights on where these approaches add value—and where traditional methods still matter.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.C208-210Tue 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Building your data catalog with Microsoft Purview
Join us in a hands-on lab to create your data catalog. This lab will include Data Map, Unified Catalog and a lab for Data Security.
Cataloging
1. Ingesting metadata
2. Curating and creating business concepts
Data Health
1. Configuring rules, scheduling, profiling and scans
2. Applying controls and viewing reports
3. Exporting metadata to Fabric
Workflows
1. Customizing access request and curation workflows
Data Security:
1. Applying MIP labels and DLP policies
2. Setting up IRM and DSPM
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.C108-109Tue 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Deep dive into CI/CD strategies for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps
Take a deep dive into CI/CD strategies for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps. This session explores Git-integrated deployments, Azure Pipelines, variable management and various tooling's.
We’ll also examine testing approaches and automation design patterns to help you build robust, maintainable deployment workflows tailored to Fabric’s architecture.
By the end of the workshop you will have the knowledge to deploy with confidence.Room C105-C106Tue 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
Building Scalable Real-Time Solutions using Event-Driven Architectures with Microsoft Fabric
In this workshop, participants will build end-to-end solution using Microsoft Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence and IQ capabilities using: Real-Time Hub, Eventstream, Eventhouse, Lakehouse, Real-Time Dashboards, Power BI, Activator, AI Agents, IQ including:
• Connecting to diverse data sources
• Developing data transformation and enrichment logic
• Building real-time operational monitoring dashboards and triggering immediate actions
• Implementing AI agents and Anomaly Detection
• Fabric IQ demonstration for building a semantic intelligence layer
• Learn about event-driven architectures best practices
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.C302Tue 9:00 am - 5:00 pm -
From Vectors to Agents: Building AI-Powered Solutions with Microsoft SQL
Unlock the power of your own data by combining Microsoft SQL (SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, or SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric) with cutting-edge AI techniques. In this workshop, you’ll learn about embeddings and vector search and why they matter for modern AI applications. We’ll guide you through generating embeddings using similarity search to retrieve the most relevant data.
We’ll implement the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern by calling a Chat model, then explore its limitations. Evolve into Agentic RAG and create an orchestrator to intelligently choose between running semantic search or writing a SQL query to answer complex requests. Learn to secure data access so that only authorized information is available to AI agents using Row-Level Security.
By the end, you’ll have built an end-to-end solution that combines SQL’s reliability with AI’s intelligence and be well prepared for SQL AI Developer certification exam.C301Tue 9:00 am - 5:00 pm