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 · 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

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 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

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 · C301

From Pipeline to Prompt: Powering Fabric AI for Conversational AI/Analytics

Is your AI strategy built on a foundation of sand? In the rush to adopt generative AI, many organizations overlook the most critical factor: AI is only as effective as the data feeding it. Join us to explore the frontier of end-to-end solutions within Microsoft Fabric. We’ll demonstrate how to bridge the gap between fragmented data sources and sophisticated Microsoft Copilot integrations. Learn how to transform stale, siloed information into a secure, fresh, and "highly reliable" data stream—the essential fuel for conversational analytics. We’ll cover: harnessing AI and BI to move beyond static dashboards, required architecture for deep, real-time insights, and why data reliability is non-negotiable for AI success. Don’t chase the hype. Let’s push the envelope together!

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

Deliver Trusted Data Products for Analytics and AI in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric accelerates analytics and AI at scale but without governed, trusted data, results fall short. This session’s demo showcases how data products, and semantic models, are utilized to succeed with data and AI initiatives. Learn how modern AI-driven, DataOps-built MDM delivers trusted data products into OneLake, enabling business and agentic users to succeed with high quality data.

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 · B405-B406a

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

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

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

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.

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 · TMB 1

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 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C105-C106

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 · C302

Accelerating Data and AI with Azure Databricks

Get the most out of your investments with Azure Databricks. Learn how the deep integration in the Azure ecosystem accelerates workloads, optimizes performance, and maximizes value. See how the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform on Azure streamlines analytics and AI.

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 · B308-B309

SQL Copilots Unveiled: Architecture, Workflows, and Use Cases

SQL Copilots are reshaping how users interact with SQL databases by accelerating query development, improving workflow efficiency, and enabling natural language interaction with complex SQL databases. This session provides a technical look at the architecture powering GitHub Copilot in SSMS, the MSSQL extension for VS Code, and Copilot for SQL database in Fabric. We'll walk through top use cases and showcase real-world demos to help you maximize Copilot impact for your SQL database.

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 · 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 · C102

Enhancing Resiliency in Fabric via Item Recovery, Item Identity Architecture, and More

Join us for a fast‑paced look at the latest advancements in item recovery, item creation policies, and new audit and access activity logging that provide clear insight into who accessed what, when, and how. We’ll also highlight the broader set of investments transforming reliability and consistency across Microsoft Fabric. This includes concrete improvements that enhance customer experience and the Item Identity initiative, which ensures continuity even when item owners change or leave the organization. We’ll also explore our efforts to standardize item implementation across Fabric, helping eliminate issues caused by system‑generated items like staging lakehouses and warehouses.

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 · B401-B402

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 · 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 · 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 · B312-B313a

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

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

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

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

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 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

Fabric Under the Hood: Performance-Driven Architecture for Data Warehouse & Lakehouse SQL

Discover the powerhouse engine behind Fabric Data Warehouse and Lakehouse SQL Analytics Endpoint. We’ll trace the query journey from optimization to execution, unpack design patterns that deliver high-performance analytics, and spotlight both recent and upcoming enhancements to continue delivering fast and scalable analytics. Perfect for those who want actionable, performance-first guidance.

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 · C302

The Golden Thread: Architecting an End-to-End OneLake Fabric for Analytics, RTI, and RAG

The Golden Thread, a unified OneLake-driven Microsoft Fabric architecture for analytics, predictive intelligence, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Learn how to evolve from siloed analytics to a scalable Medallion ecosystem with metadata-driven orchestration, hybrid CI/CD, and integrated real-time + historical data flows. We’ll also walk through a predictive maintenance scenario that demonstrates how to modernize workloads and accelerate insight delivery across any industry.

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 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM · Expo Innovation Theater

Autonomous AI Agents in Production: Komatsu with CluedIn, Fabric & Purview

This session presents Komatsu’s production deployment of autonomous AI agents over a governed Microsoft Fabric estate integrated with Purview and CluedIn. We cover the architecture, agent execution model and parallelism, governance and audit controls, and concrete lessons learned from operating agents at 3–10M records/day, including failure modes and rule-performance tuning.

Thursday 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM · Expo Solution Theater

What Microsoft Fabric Looks Like with End-to-End Automation

Production-grade Microsoft Fabric implementations require coordinated ingestion, data refinement, warehouse operations, and governance. This session examines how Data Factory pipelines, OneLake Medallion architecture, and Fabric Warehouses work together in automated platforms, focusing on orchestration and warehouse automation patterns for reliable, repeatable analytics.

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

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.

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 · C301

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.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B404

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.

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 · C202-C204

Proven Fabric Architecture Patterns to Minimize Refactoring

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

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C102

Inside of OneLake Spark Catalog and migration to schema-enabled lakehouses

Discover the capabilities of the OneLake Spark Catalog, which supports Lakehouse schemas, cross-workspace querying, row- and column-level security, and more. Examine techniques for querying objects using Spark within Fabric, including simultaneous access to Data Warehouses, Mirror Databases, and Lakehouses. Finally, review best practices and strategies for enabling OneLake Spark Catalog for all Spark runs and migrating to schema-enabled lakehouses.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C301

Trusted Contextual Data Foundation for reliable AI outcomes

Organizations struggle to trust their data - to contextualize and operationalize it safely for AI driven decision-making. As enterprises move beyond dashboards and reports towards agentic AI systems that reason, decide and act, the limitations of fragmented data platforms, inconsistent definitions and disconnected governance are impossible to ignore. Trusted context enabled by clean, governed and connected data is the critical ingredient in enterprise AI success.

This session highlights strategies for bringing multi-domain master data management, data quality, governance, privacy and policy enforcement, and end to end lineage to ensure that every dataset consumed by analytics, BI and AI agents is trusted, governed and ready for AI agents to reason with enterprise truth.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C302

From Fabric to Finance: Building Enterprise-Grade Planning & Forecasting on Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric has fundamentally changed how enterprises store, model, and analyze data — but many organizations still struggle to turn that data into real-time operational and financial decisions.

In this session, we will explore how to design an enterprise-grade planning and forecasting architecture natively on Microsoft Fabric, using Azure SQL, Power BI, and modern data pipelines to enable real-time write-back, scenario modeling, and governed collaboration across large organizations.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Architect a Fabric-native planning environment that supports concurrent users, auditability, and data integrity
• Design write-enabled analytical models using Azure SQL, Fabric Warehouses, and Power BI
• Implement scenario modeling, forecasting, and what-if analysis directly on enterprise data
• Apply governance, security, and performance best practices for mission-critical workloads
• Avoid common pitfalls that cause Fabric-based planning solutions to fail at scale

The session will include a live technical walkthrough of how data moves from Fabric into planning and forecasting workflows, how user inputs are written back securely, and how changes propagate through enterprise-grade models in real time.

Whether you are modernizing an FP&A platform, enabling operational planning, or deploying large-scale analytics on Fabric, this session will provide practical patterns and architecture that you can apply immediately inside your own Microsoft environment.

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 · C105-C106

Taking Direct Lake to the Next Level

See what's new for Direct Lake semantic modeling, then dive into the technical details that matter most for enterprise scale. Learn how cardinality, monitoring, and V‑Order influence performance, with practical demos and guidance you can apply straight away.

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 · C101

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

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

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C102

Unstoppable Fabric: Capacity Planning, Smart Alerting & Workload Tuning

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

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C301

90 Days, 1 Fabric Foundation: Delivering SQL Mirroring at Scale

In this case study, Caplugs transformed fragile pipelines by shifting architecture—not the business. See how Fabric SQL Mirroring replaced brittle ingestion, cut technical debt, and delivered a stable, low-latency foundation. Learn how unified ERP analytics, governance, and scalable patterns created a sustainable, enterprise-ready Fabric implementation.

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 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C301

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.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C302

From Legacy BI to Insight at Speed: How PGIM Rebuilt Analytics with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI

When analytics can’t answer “what’s happening right now?” without manual effort, organizations lose time and momentum. PGIM modernized its fragmented BI environment into a unified analytics platform on Microsoft Fabric to deliver real-time insight and scale AI. By unifying data ingestion, modeling, and reporting—and integrating Snowflake data—PGIM built a governed, high-performance foundation for self-service analytics. Power BI reporting with Exploration View replaced legacy Cognos logic, streamlined pipelines, and reduced technical debt. Copilot now accelerates development and AI-assisted discovery. This session covers the architecture, design decisions, and lessons learned.

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 · 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 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C302

Real Time Reporting with D365 Data Events and Fabric

In this session, we will explore how Dynamics 365 Data Events enables the generation of event messages triggered by CRUD operations on data entities. These messages can be streamed to Azure Event Hubs, consumed by a Fabric Event Stream, and ultimately fed into an Eventhouse that serves as the data source for live Power BI reports.

We will dive into several practical use cases for real-time reporting, then guide you through the setup and configuration process for this powerful solution.

This session provides a technical deep dive into the integration of Dynamics 365, Azure, and Fabric, covering key components, architectural best practices, and real-world considerations.

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.

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

Agentic way to maximize your Fabric capacity utilization

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

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · TMB 2-3

CORENOTE: The 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 · 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 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 · 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 · B406b-B407

Fabric RTI and Agents in Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Our team has built a Supply Chain Management Solution for a Customer that deals with sustainable packaging for perishable products. Learn how Microsoft Fabric along with AI Foundry Agents helped this company achieve its targets and automate the whole process. We will focus on the Customer Case Study and the technical implementation details. Customer will share their experience during this session.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · TMB 1

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

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

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · 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 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: OneLake, the unified data lake for the era of AI

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

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · 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 Copilot, and how Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI helps monitor AI use. We will cover real-world scenarios and best practices turning governance into a strategic advantage.

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

Transform Your Business with Fabric Real-Time Intelligence

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

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

CORENOTE: Governing your data estate with Microsoft Purview Data Governance

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

1. Key Data Governance challenges

2. How Purview simplifies Data Governance

3. New innovations within the Unified Catalog

4. End to end demo of Purview

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · 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

Migration Paths from Azure Data Factory to Fabric Data Factory

Looking to simplify your data integration landscape while gaining the performance & cost efficiencies of Microsoft Fabric?

We’ll walk through Azure Data Factory, Synapse pipelines, Dataflows & MDF migrations to Fabric Data Factory.

You’ll learn how Fabric's data unification is a perfect fit for existing pipelines & dataflows, dramatically reducing operational overhead and introduce our new migration tools.

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

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.

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

AI Answers, Done Right: When to use Power BI Copilot vs. Fabric Data Agents

Business users want answers, not plumbing. In this session, we map when to use Power BI Copilot directly versus when Fabric Data Agents shine. We’ll cover the product’s current functionality to help you get started with AI, from setting up a data agent to chatting across all of your data in Power BI. We’ll highlight recent feature additions and talk about the roadmap of future investments to empower your business users in unlocking data insights with the help of Copilot.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C111-C112

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 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 · B313b-B314

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 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 · B404

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

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

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

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

Fabric Capacity Under Control: Reduced Costs, Less Outages, Better User Experience

Everyone struggles with rising Power BI capacity costs, rogue behaviors, outage risks, and badly designed reports reaching the platform. This session shows how predictive monitoring helps you prevent issues early and optimize for capacity costs. With Wiiisdom’s insights, you’ll keep Power BI stable, efficient, and delivering a better user experience.

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

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 · C111-C112

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 · C113-C114

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 · B405-B406a

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 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 · C302

Fabric Native MDM: AI and Analytics Ready Data in Minutes

Most Microsoft Fabric initiatives don’t fail because of dashboards or models, they stall when the underlying data isn’t trusted.

Join us for building a production-ready master data management (MDM) solution natively in Microsoft Fabric. From proof of concept to go-live, you’ll see the full MDM lifecycle in action.

We’ll model data domains, configure integrations, connect source systems, define matching rules, apply data quality policies, and activate stewardship workflows to stop issues before they spread. We’ll publish clean, trusted, gold-medallion master data to OneLake for immediate use in Power BI and other Fabric workloads.

You’ll leave knowing what “done right” looks like in Fabric, the key implementation decisions, and how to accelerate time to value with governed, trusted data.

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

Agentic Development in Power BI for the Non-Developer

Feeling underwater keeping up with AI change? This session breaks the buzzwords into clear, practical ideas. We explain what agentic development means for Power BI today, how large language models, skills, and tools work together, and how these capabilities show up in GitHub Copilot and web experiences. We’ll demo going from raw data to a usable model and show how the same foundations power reporting, chat with your data, and data agents

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 · B313b-B314

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 · C102

Enforce your governance and security regulations in Fabric

Discover the latest in Fabric security and governance enhancements: • Fabric Policies (Public Preview) – Fabric admins can define precise, flexible controls in one central place. • Enable security admins to apply adaptive protection to sensitive data in Fabric with Purview security

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B404

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.

Thursday 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM · Expo Insight Theater

Building a Zero-Copy Enterprise Data Platform for CITGO

Can enterprises enable advanced analytics on a self-servicing platform without compromising governance? In this session, we’ll share how LevelShift redesigned CITGO’s data platform on Microsoft Fabric balancing control and autonomy. Using domain-based workspaces, OneLake zero-copy access, CI/CD automation, and layered security, eliminated duplication, and scaled governed self-service.

Thursday 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM · Expo Innovation Theater

From Dashboard to Executive Business Reviews in Seconds

Discover how data leaders at companies like Equality Health, Tripadvisor, and T. Rowe Price automatically create thousands of executive and client ready slide decks. This session will teach you how to programmatically generate and update PowerPoint and Google Slides directly from your Power BI data—ensuring your stakeholders and customers get reports in the slide format they need, all while eliminating extra work and governance risk for your data team.

You’ll learn to: -Automate recurring reports (QBRs, Client Updates, Financial Decks). -Keep your slides in perfect sync with your semantic models. -Instantly generate hundreds of personalized deck variations (e.g., one unique deck per region or client) from a single Power BI report.

Thursday 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM · Expo Solution Theater

How Impetus LeapLogic Automates the Move from Legacy Systems to Microsoft Fabric

Discover how Impetus LeapLogic helps teams embrace Microsoft Fabric’s unified, AI-driven architecture with speed and confidence. Join Impetus session to see up to 95% automated conversion of SQL, ETL, and BI logic—plus optimization, lineage, and validation mapped to Fabric-native patterns. Learn proven migration strategies, governance insights, and faster onboarding for Copilot-powered analytics.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · 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 data estates across clouds and on premises with Shortcuts and Mirroring

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 · 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 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM · Expo Insight Theater

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

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

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · 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

The AI-Native Data Engineer

This session explores how AI is transforming data engineering. We’ll walk through the latest AI innovations in Microsoft Fabric including AI‑powered notebooks, deep Copilot integration in VS Code, and CLI workflow. We will explore how these capabilities are changing how data engineers build, iterate, and operate day to day. Discover how agentic Copilot across Fabric Web, VS Code, and CLI removes coding barriers, accelerates time to value and automates repetitive tasks, leaving engineers to focus on higher-order problems.

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 · 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.

Thursday 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · C302

From Zero to Launch: Talcott’s New Retail Annuity Business platform powered by Microsoft Fabric

Join EY’s Global Fabric Tech Hub for a moderated fireside chat with Talcott on how they launched a new retail annuity business on Microsoft Fabric. We’ll unpack the end-to-end journey—why Fabric, how the architecture came together (OneLake, Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Power BI), and the outcomes: accelerated market entry, automation driven efficiency, and real time decisioning. We’ll also discuss what’s repeatable for other enterprises and where to start, including Fabric IQ, governance, adoption, and how Real Time Intelligence fits.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 2-3

Intelligent analytics in real-world scenarios

In today’s AI-driven world, the integration of data, analytics tools, and AI agents is more critical than ever. This session focuses on how AI agents, Power BI, and other Fabric capabilities can be integrated to implement a real-world solution. We will demonstrate how to ingest and process data, train and deploy predictive models, create conversational experiences, and perform intelligent analytics to address a common business challenge. Join us to explore how these technologies work together to deliver impactful, production-ready solutions.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C113-C114

SAP, Oracle, Google BigQuery, Dataverse - Unify the business data estate with OneLake

Join us to see how Microsoft Fabric and OneLake unify your business data estate with petabyte-scale data movement and Mirroring. Discover best practices for copying, replicating, and virtualizing data from SAP, Oracle, Google BigQuery, Dataverse, and more—leveraging enterprise proven patterns to accelerate analytics and unlock actionable insights.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · TMB 1

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.

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 · TMB 2-3

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 · 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

Build Trustworthy Real-Time AI Applications with Eventstream in Real-Time Intelligence

Real-time AI is only as trustworthy as the streaming infrastructure behind it. Discover innovations in Eventstream for building secure, governed streaming architectures that feed your AI systems reliable data. Learn to ingest from VNet-isolated environments, monitor pipelines with full observability, process CDC streams at scale, and see new connectors in action.

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 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C302

The Hidden Strategic Leverage in Modern Data & AI Architectures

Most enterprises have adopted open data and AI architectures, yet continue to operate as if they are vendor-locked. This session highlights the hidden strategic and financial leverage embedded in modern architectures, showing how centralized governance can coexist with budget control and compute choice. Attendees will learn how to unlock cost efficiency, optionality, and negotiating power without re-platforming or migration.

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

Modern Data Warehousing in Fabric: Cost, Scale, and Control

Want to learn how to get the best performance while keeping control of cost? In this session we'll go into the details of controlling the underlying compute resource with custom sql pools and understanding the impact they have on billing.

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 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM · Expo Innovation Theater

Linking Enterprise Data Estates to Fabric for OneLake & AI: A Real-World Case Study Featuring Fiserv

A key challenge in getting your data estate ready for using Fabric's unified capabilities is eliminating data silos and complexity. That requires implementing novel design patterns for connecting, capturing, transforming, and delivering data pipelines from existing applications and legacy platforms into Fabric for modernizing your data estate.

We will walk through the architecture used to capture and stream change data from production financial systems, apply transformations and validation in-flight, and deliver trusted, real-time data into Fabric to support operational analytics, AI workloads, and agent-based applications.

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 · C111-C112

Forget Prompts: Building Declarative AI Pipelines in Fabric

Prompt engineering is powerful but brittle. Hard to scale, harder to maintain. Learn how to build declarative AI pipelines in Microsoft Fabric to tame unstructured data and unlock insights. Discover pitfalls, tools, and techniques to optimize and deliver successful solutions

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.