Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · B312-B313a

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.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · B313b-B314

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

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

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

Two Architectures, One Data Source: Exploring Medallion and Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric

What happens when you use the same data source to develop 2 distinct architectures? We built two POCs: one lakehouse medallion and one RTI. Curious what we ended up with? In this session, we’ll explore how these differ, share lessons learned, and show how to align batch and RTI designs. One, the other, or both - we'll give you practical insights for you to decide the best approach for your needs.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · TMB 4

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.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C105-C106

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?

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C202-C204

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!

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

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

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

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C101

Touch your data with Real Time Intelligence

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

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C102

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.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · B312-B313a

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Build Secure, Scalable AI Applications with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale

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

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

Deployment Pipeline Patterns for Multi-Workspace Environments in Microsoft Fabric

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

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C102

Build Your AI Foundation with Fabric Metadata-driven Framework

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

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C301

Agentic AI for data engineering and vibe analytics on MS Fabric

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

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

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

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

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

Config-Driven Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric

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

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

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.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · TMB 1

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.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C105-C106

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

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C302

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 4

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.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C102

Implement Enterprise Data Integration Patterns with Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric

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

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · B404

AI Agents, Power Platform and SQL for Next Gen Automation

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

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

Architecting Intelligence: What Powers SQL Copilots

SQL Copilots are reshaping how data professionals work—accelerating query development, improving user's efficiency, and enabling interaction with complex data. This session dives into the shared backend for copilots in SSMS, MSSQL in VS Code, and Fabric SQL, exploring architecture, top use cases, and showcasing real-world demos to help you maximize Copilot impact for your SQL database.

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

Open interoperability: integrating Azure Databricks and OneLake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 4

Building and Deploying Smarter Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric

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

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

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

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

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C101

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.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C102

Access control in Microsoft Fabric: roles, policies, recovery, and automation

In this session, we'll demystify the different roles in Fabric, and share the latest investments that make access control in Fabric clearer, safer, and easier to automate. You'll see the latest for permission management, item recovery, and policies for item creation. We'll also explore audit events and access activity logging to help you track who accessed what, when, and how.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C301

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

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

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

New in modern Developer Experiences in SQL

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

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B308-B309

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.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B312-B313a

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.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · TMB 1

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Performance Tuning Tips for Fabric Data Factory

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

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

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

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.

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

Peachy Migrations: Sweet Moves from Synapse to Fabric

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

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · TMB 2-3

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · TMB 1

Migrating Analytics Applications to Fabric Analytics

Explore migration paths from Synapse and HDInsight to Microsoft Fabric Analytics. Learn best practices, customer journeys, and key considerations for optimizing analytics workloads on a unified platform. Unlock new capabilities and performance with Fabric Analytics.

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

Powering Data with AI Functions in Fabric

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

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C211-C213

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

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C101

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

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

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C102

Fabric Development: Repos, Collaboration and Deployments

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

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · B404

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Master Eventhouse Patterns for Real-Time Intelligence at Scale

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

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B405-B406a

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.

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

Microsoft Purview Data Security protections in the Age of AI

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

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

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

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

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

Building an AutoML Pipeline for Vector Data in Azure SQL

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

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B404

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.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C111-C112

Resilience by design: how Fabric delivers business continuity

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

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 4

Hardening Fabric Warehouse Security

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

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 1

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.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C202-C204

Proven Fabric Architecture Patterns to Minimize Refactoring

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

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 2-3

Taking Direct Lake to the Next Level

Learn how to design and optimise Power BI models using Direct Lake in Microsoft Fabric. This session covers advanced DAX techniques, storage‑mode strategies, and performance tips to help you build faster, more scalable solutions. Walk away with practical patterns you can apply immediately in your own projects.

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

SQL Server 2025 is the AI-ready Enterprise Database

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

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 1

Making AI Agents Smarter with Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ

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

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

The Fabric Access Puzzle: Cracking Permission Problems with Confidence

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

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

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

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

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C102

Unstoppable Fabric: Capacity Planning, Smart Alerting & Workload Tuning

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

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

SQL Performance Supercharged: Strategies for Azure SQL Performance Optimization

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

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · TMB 1

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

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

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

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.

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

Patterns and Best Practice with Fabric CI/CD

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

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

Smart Routing: Real-Time Transport Optimization with Fabric

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

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · TMB 1

Semantic Link Labs: The Data Detective’s Toolkit

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

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C105-C106

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.

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C208-C210

From SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric: Automating Your Migration Journey

Migrating from SQL Server or Synapse to Microsoft Fabric can be complex. In this session, discover how automation simplifies schema conversion, dependency mapping, orchestration, and documentation to reduce manual effort by up to 80%. Learn step-by-step best practices for migrating to Fabric and integrating OneLake, Data Factory, and Purview for a governed, automated future.

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C211-C213

My Favorite New T-SQL in SQL Server 2025

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

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

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

What is fuzzy string matching all about?

JSON support is finally here!

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

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C101

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

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

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

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

Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C301

Herding Fabric Cats: Administration and Governance Guidance

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

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

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C111-C112

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.

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C113-C114

Automate at Scale with Event-Driven Architectures and Business Events

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

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C105-C106

Fabric Sprawl - Techniques to Optimize Your Fabric Capacity

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

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C202-C204

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.

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C101

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

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

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C102

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.