OneLake Track

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

Brewing Better Decisions for a Dunkin Donuts Franchisee with Microsoft Fabric

Darren Goonawardana

Darren Goonawardana

Collectiv CEO

Dennis Carriere

Dennis Carriere

Collectiv, Head of Client Success

Learn how Bluemont Group transformed Data & AI across 100 Dunkin’ locations by replacing a vendor-controlled data warehouse with a modern, fully owned Microsoft Fabric platform. Learn how Collectiv helped them eliminate multi-day data delays, unlock historical insights, and empower managers with real-time, location-level visibility.

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

Guardians of the lake: securing your data with OneLake

Cole Haddock

Cole Haddock

D365ace.com @acehaddock

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 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · B308-B309

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

Dipti Borkar

Dipti Borkar

Josh Caplan

Josh Caplan

Partner Director of Product - Microsoft

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.

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

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

Alex Rostan

Alex Rostan

Microsoft Business Applications MVP

Gaston Cruz

Gaston Cruz

MVP Data Platform & AI / Senior Director - Slalom USA

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 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · B401-B402

Open interoperability: integrating Azure Databricks and OneLake

Anavi Nahar

Anavi Nahar

Head of Product, Azure Databricks, Microsoft

Josh Caplan

Josh Caplan

Partner Director of Product - Microsoft

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 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · B405-B406a

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

Aaron Merrill

Aaron Merrill

Principal Product Manager - Microsoft OneLake

Cristian Petculescu

Cristian Petculescu

Technical Fellow at Microsoft, Chief Architect of Azure Data

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 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B405-B406a

Interoperable by design: managing Iceberg and Delta Tables in OneLake

Kevin Liu

Kevin Liu

Apache Iceberg Committer, Principal Engineer at Microsoft OneLake

Matt Hicks

Matt Hicks

Senior Product Manager, Microsoft 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.

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

A data lake built for scale: a deep dive into OneLake performance, APIs, and diagnostics

Elizabeth Oldag

Elizabeth Oldag

Principal Product Manager on Microsoft OneLake

Tom Peplow

Tom Peplow

Principal Product Manager - OneLake

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.