Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C211-C213

Decoding Fabric Licensing

Navigate the complexities of Microsoft Fabric licensing with real-world scenarios. Learn the differences between Pro, Premium, and Fabric licenses. We will compare pricing models, estimate costs, and avoid budgeting traps to enable smarter, cost-savvy decisions about your data environment.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C301

Connected Data Meets Business Context: Driving Outcomes with FabricIQ

EY’s work with FabricIQ and Ontology shows how enterprises can unify data across silos, embed agents into operations, and create a live, knowledge-rich view of the business. In this session, we’ll share EY’s own journey as “client zero” alongside client scenarios, focusing on real-world outcomes: improved responsiveness, reduced manual effort, and trusted governance at scale.

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

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

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

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C202-C204

Empowering Fabric administrators: securing, scaling, and sustaining your data estate

Join us to see how we are making the lives of Fabric administrators easier, expanding on some of their key daily tasks. We’ll explore how to protect data at scale, ensure it’s easy to find, keep capacities healthy, and strengthen network and data security, to build confidence, clarity, and resilience across your Fabric estate.

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.

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 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C108-C109

How Much is Fabric | Strategies for Managing and Estimating Fabric Capacity Expense

Learn how to accurately estimate and control Microsoft Fabric capacity costs in today’s cloud‑driven world. We’ll cover key drivers like workload patterns, utilization, and scaling, and walk through practical models, examples, and best practices to align Fabric spend with your organization’s performance and budget goals.

Thursday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C102

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

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

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · TMB 4

Building a Microsoft Fabric CoE That Works: What We Learned and How You Can Start

Whether you’re a Microsoft Fabric/Power BI enterprise architect or a grassroots champion, learn how you can take steps towards establishing an approachable Microsoft Fabric Center of Excellence that grows with your organization. We’ll share real lessons on enablement, distributing best practices, hosting office hours, and how a simple start became a launchpad for inclusive community & governance.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C102

Enforce your governance and security regulations in Fabric

Join this session to discover the latest in Fabric security and governance enhancements: • New policies which allow Fabric admins to define precise, flexible controls in one central place. • New Purview security integrations which enable security admins to apply adaptive protection to sensitive data in Fabric.

Thursday 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 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 · C202-C204

Enterprise security in Microsoft Fabric

This session dives into Microsoft Fabric’s latest network and data security innovations like Outbound Access Protection, Azure Private Link, and Customer Managed Keys, all designed to protect sensitive information and simplify governance at scale. Learn how new governance features simplify enforcement and at-scale compliance.

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

Azure Readiness for Fabric: What Every Organization Needs to Know

Adopting Microsoft Fabric with minimal Azure experience? Discover the essentials of Azure Readiness for Fabric: security, performance, manageability, and extensibility so your organization can deploy Fabric confidently and be ready for future Azure growth. Practical guidance for teams starting their Fabric journey, especially if you are new to Azure or migrating from Power BI Premium to Fabric.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C111-C112

Resilience by design: how Fabric delivers business continuity

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

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C202-C204

Proven Fabric Architecture Patterns to Minimize Refactoring

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

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · 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 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 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 · C301

Herding Fabric Cats: Administration and Governance Guidance

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

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

Friday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · 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.