Data Integration Track

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C111-C112

CORENOTE: Fabric Data Factory: What's New and Roadmap

Faisal Mohamood

Faisal Mohamood

VP, Data Integration

Wee Hyong Tok

Wee Hyong Tok

Microsoft, Partner Director, Products

Are you looking at how you can get started with Fabric Data Factory? In this session, you will learn how Fabric Data Factory is empowering developers to build data integration solutions. This session will get you up to speed with exciting product innovations and Fabric Data Factory roadmap.

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

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

Mario Zimmermann

Mario Zimmermann

Principal Software Engineer Manager

Mark Kromer

Mark Kromer

Microsoft Lead Principal PM Manager

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 · C102

Build Your AI Foundation with Fabric Metadata-driven Framework

Erwin de Kreuk

Erwin de Kreuk

Data Platform MVP | Lead Data and AI |Public Speaker | InSpark | Innovate to Accelerate

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 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C202-C204

Migration Paths from Azure Data Factory to Fabric Data Factory

Mark Kromer

Mark Kromer

Microsoft Lead Principal PM Manager

Pat Mahoney

Pat Mahoney

Microsoft - Fabric Customer Advisory Team (CAT)

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 · C101

Bulletproof Your Dataflows: Error Handling and Data Quality in Fabric

Cristian Angyal

Cristian Angyal

Microsoft MVP

Modern data solutions depend on reliable pipelines, yet error handling and data quality checks are often overlooked until failures occur in production. This session dives deep into building resilient Dataflows Gen2 solutions leveraging try/otherwise, structured error outputs, custom error messages, and partial failure patterns, centralizing error logs in dedicated tables for downstream monitoring.

Wednesday 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C102

From SQL SSIS to MS Fabric: Your ETL ReImagined

Armando Lacerda

Armando Lacerda

Cloud Data Platform Architect & Engineer

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 · B401-B402

OneLake for SharePoint – From list and documents, to AI

Miquella de Boer

Miquella de Boer

Principal Product Manager Lead, OneLake

Shireen Bahadur

Shireen Bahadur

Product Manager, Microsoft

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 · C102

Implement Enterprise Data Integration Patterns with Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric

Noelle Li

Noelle Li

Microsoft. Product Manager

Sean Mirabile

Sean Mirabile

Microsoft Senior Program Manager Fabric CAT Data Integration

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 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C113-C114

Accelerate Data Transformation with Dataflows Gen2 in Microsoft Fabric

Miguel Llopis

Miguel Llopis

Group Product Manager, Citizen Data Integration @ Microsoft

Mihir Wagle

Mihir Wagle

Principal Product Manager @ 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 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B312-B313a

Mirroring for SQL Server in Fabric: Inside the Replication Process

Justin Cunningham

Justin Cunningham

Director, Data Analytics

Meagan Longoria

Meagan Longoria

Data Engineering & Analytics Consultant

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 · C202-C204

Performance Tuning Tips for Fabric Data Factory

Chris Webb

Chris Webb

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Mohan Sankaran

Mohan Sankaran

Microsoft, VP Engineering

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 · C301

SAP Data Integration Made Easy: From SAP to Fabric in Real Time

Philipp Kiencke

Philipp Kiencke

Global Partner Manager at dab

In this session, we showcase our SAP Clean Core Certified integration with Microsoft Fabric, enabling seamless, real-time replication into OneLake. Discover how to simplify SAP data workflows, accelerate insights with ready-to-use pipelines, and apply proven best practices—supported by a live demo and guidance from dab experts.

Thursday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B404

Getting Started with Dataflow Gen2: Simple, Practical, Real

Cristian Angyal

Cristian Angyal

Microsoft MVP

Want to get started with Dataflow Gen2 without stress? This session explains what DFG2 is, why it matters, and how it fits into Microsoft Fabric. We’ll build a dataflow from scratch, connect multiple data sources and apply proven Power Query patterns to clean messy data, consolidate files, reuse logic with parameters, publish to a Lakehouse, and configure a simple, reliable refresh.

Thursday 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM · Expo Innovation Theater

Where Data Meets Opportunity: Drive Business Value with Location Insights

Sean McGinnis

Sean McGinnis

Esri Principal Product Manager, ArcGIS for Microsoft product family

Join Esri to see how location intelligence can revolutionize your data strategy and give your organization a competitive edge. Esri's ArcGIS technology brings interactive mapping and advanced location-based analytics to Microsoft Fabric. Discover real-world success stories and learn how organizations are using location intelligence to uncover patterns, predict trends, and make smarter decisions.

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

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

Ajay Kavuri

Ajay Kavuri

PRINCIPAL ENGINEERING MANAGER

Maraki Ketema

Maraki Ketema

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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.

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C113-C114

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

Matt Hicks

Matt Hicks

Senior Product Manager, Microsoft OneLake

Wilson Lee

Wilson Lee

Principal Product Manager

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

Friday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C108-C109

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

Nikola Ilic

Nikola Ilic

Data Mozart, Microsoft Data Platform MVP

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 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C101

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

Jon Christian Halvorsen

Jon Christian Halvorsen

Executive Consultant & Team Manager, twoday | Microsoft Fabric & Power BI

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.