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 3:05 PM - 4:05 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 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C302

Fabric Native MDM: AI and Analytics Ready Data in Minutes

Eric Melcher

Eric Melcher

Chief Technology Officer

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 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 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C301

Trusted Contextual Data Foundation for reliable AI outcomes

Ajay Gollapalli

Ajay Gollapalli

Solution Director (Azure) , Informatica

Gopi Sankaran

Gopi Sankaran

Vice President, Strategic Ecosystems, Informatica

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

Building an AI-Ready Data Platform: Data Agents, Ontology, and Governance in Microsoft Fabric

Hukum Chandu Rokkala

Hukum Chandu Rokkala

VP Data/Analytics Sonata Software

AI agents and Copilots are only as effective as the data platforms behind them. Learn how to build an AI-ready Frontier Data Platform using Microsoft Fabric, powered by Data Agents, shared ontology, & governance. Learn how OneLake, semantic definitions, lineage, and policy-driven access enable safe AI at scale, & how Sonata’s Lightning Data Suite accelerates readiness with prebuilt accelerators.

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.

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

Linking enterprise data estates to Fabric for OneLake & AI: Real World Case studies

Codin Pora

Codin Pora

VP, Partner Technology at Striim

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.

In this session, Codin Pora, VP of Partner Technology at Striim, presents a set of real-world, technical use cases drawn from enterprise environments across retail, aviation, and financial services that show how teams embed mirroring, continuous streaming, CDC, transformations, data cleansing, in-line AI, and governance to deliver data pipelines into Microsoft Fabric for building operational, analytical, and AI workloads.