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

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

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

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

Automate Decision Workflows in Microsoft Fabric

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

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · TMB 2-3

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

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

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

CORENOTE: Maximizing developer experiences in Microsoft Fabric

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

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

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · B401-B402

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · TMB 1

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

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

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

Guardians of the lake: securing your data with OneLake

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

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C301

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.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C111-C112

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

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

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

CORENOTE: Governing your data estate with Microsoft Purview Data Governance

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

1. Key Data Governance challenges

2. How Purview simplifies Data Governance

3. New innovations within the Unified Catalog

4. End to end demo of Purview

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

SSMS 22 Unlocked: Features You’ve Been Waiting For

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

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · TMB 1

Materialized Lake Views: Simplifying Your Medallion ETL

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

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C108-C109

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C101

Securing Your Data Estate with Purview

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

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

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C302

Performance Management with Fabric: The Next Frontier of Organizational Intelligence

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

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

CORENOTE: Fabric Data Engineering Roadmap

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C202-C204

Modernize your ETL: Migration Paths 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.

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

From Transactions to Analytics: Transforming MySQL Data with Fabric Mirroring

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

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C211-C213

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.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C101

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.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C102

From SQL SSIS to MS Fabric: Your ETL ReImagined

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

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 2-3

Power BI Copilot Roadmap: What's New and Coming Soon

This session will cover recent updates and the roadmap for Copilot in Power BI. We'll chat about new and existing capabilities to help improve your Power BI Copilot experience so you get the most out of your data. Featuring lots of demos and cutting-edge information, this session is one you don't want to miss.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C113-C114

What’s new in Fabric capacities and capacity monitoring

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

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

OneLake for SharePoint – From list and documents, to AI

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

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

From Simple Maps to Advanced Spatial Analytics in Power BI

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

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 1

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.

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

Get Proactive: Building Autonomous Operations Agents with Fabric IQ

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

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C202-C204

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.

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

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

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

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C101

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.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C301

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.

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

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

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

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C111-C112

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.

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

Accelerate Data Transformation with Dataflows Gen2 in Microsoft Fabric

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

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

Fabric IQ: Unlock Enterprise AI with a Unified Semantic Layer

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

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · B406b-B407

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.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 1

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.

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

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

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

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

Trusted Analytics: Data Quality in Microsoft Fabric & Purview

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

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · B404

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

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

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · TMB 2-3

Optimizing Your Power BI Data for AI

Discover how to prepare and optimize your Power BI data for AI-driven experiences. We’ll cover best practices for refining your semantic model to help Copilot deliver higher‑quality, more meaningful insights. You’ll also get practical guidance and early demos of upcoming capabilities that use AI to enhance and streamline semantic model optimization.

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

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.

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

Monitor and troubleshoot your data solution in Microsoft Fabric

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

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B313b-B314

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C102

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.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B404

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.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C111-C112

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?

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

Best Practices for Library Management with Microsoft Fabric Spark Environments

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

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

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

Performance monitoring for SQL, from ground to cloud

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

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

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

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

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · B312-B313a

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.

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

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

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

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

Connect Your Data with Graph: Why Relationships Matter for AI

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

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · TMB 4

Leveraging Governance inside your Microsoft Fabric Tenant and Workspace

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

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

Govern, manage, and protect your data in Microsoft Fabric

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

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C208-C210

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

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

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B312-B313a

Simplify Geospatial Analytics with Maps in Fabric

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

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · TMB 4

Agentic Copilot in Fabric Notebooks

Discover how agentic Copilot transforms Fabric notebooks into a proactive, context-aware assistant. Learn how it empowers users with transparent reasoning, guided troubleshooting, and adaptive workflows, boosting productivity while preserving human control.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · TMB 1

Ignite Governance Insights Across Databases, Lakes, and Models

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

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C202-C204

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.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C208-C210

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.

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

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

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

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C102

The Agentic Data Estate - Make, Manage, Monitor

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

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

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 2-3

Unlocking the Spectrum of Data Questions with Power BI Copilot through Analysis Mode

Analysis mode offers deep functionality that uses a reasoning model to answer complex, layered analytical questions that go beyond data retrieval questions. Analysis mode produces rich explanations that highlight key insights and walk through how the answer was formed, giving you a powerful partner for informed decision-making. Join us to learn more about Power BI Copilot’s abilities to answer across the full spectrum of questions from simple to complex!

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C113-C114

Salesforce, 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 Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Google BigQuery, Dataverse, and more—leveraging enterprise proven patterns to accelerate analytics and unlock actionable insights.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C108-C109

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

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

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

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C208-C210

SQL Database in Fabric: Simplifying OLTP and Enabling Rapid Analytics

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

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C211-C213

Modern Data Protection Strategies with SQL Server

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

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

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.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 4

Secure Your Streaming Data: Govern Real-Time Pipelines with Confidence

Real-time data pipelines lose value when security and governance are afterthoughts. Without proper controls, streaming data becomes a liability rather than an asset. See how Real-Time Intelligence enables you to architect secure, governed, and scalable real-time data flows. Learn to implement security best practices, establish governance controls, and build pipelines your organization can trust.

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

Embedding Power Apps in Microsoft Fabric Power BI Reports

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · TMB 2-3

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

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

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · TMB 4

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.

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

Autonomous Fabric: Agentic Data Quality Using Fabric Data Agents

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

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

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

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

Smarter Scaling in Fabric Data Warehouse: Autoscale and Custom SQL Pools

Want to learn how to get the best performance while keeping control of cost? This session introduces two new features of Fabric Data Warehouse: Autoscale and Custom SQL Pool. Learn how these two new features can help you get the most out of your data warehouse solution.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C101

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

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

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · TMB 2-3

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.

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C113-C114

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.

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · TMB 4

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.

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C108-C109

Securing all of your OneLake data

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

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C102

Beyond Monitoring: AI-Driven Spark Optimization in Microsoft Fabric

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

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · TMB 2-3

Delivering Insights Where Your Users Work

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

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · TMB 1

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.

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C208-C210

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

Power BI Embedded isn’t just for developers.

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

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

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C211-C213

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.