Real-Time Intelligence Track

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · B406b-B407

Two Architectures, One Data Source: Exploring Medallion and Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric

Ioana Bouariu

Ioana Bouariu

Data girl at Avinor

What happens when you use the same data source to develop 2 distinct architectures? We built two POCs: one lakehouse medallion and one RTI. Curious what we ended up with? In this session, we’ll explore how these differ, share lessons learned, and show how to align batch and RTI designs. One, the other, or both - we'll give you practical insights for you to decide the best approach for your needs.

Wednesday 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C101

Touch your data with Real Time Intelligence

Dominick Raimato

Dominick Raimato

Professional Troublemaker

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 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · B401-B402

CORENOTE: Transform Your Business with Fabric Real-Time Intelligene

Tessa Kloster

Tessa Kloster

Principal Product Manager @ Microsoft

Yitzhak Kesselman

Yitzhak Kesselman

CVP - Messaging & Real-Time Analytics Platform

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 · B401-B402

Create a Single Source of Truth for Your Data, AI, and Actions

Yitzhak Kesselman

Yitzhak Kesselman

CVP - Messaging & Real-Time Analytics Platform

When business data, models, and AI agents operate in silos, your organization struggles with inconsistent insights and fragmented decision-making. Microsoft Fabric solves this by providing a unified semantic foundation that connects everything into a single intelligent framework. Explore customer stories and see how enterprise-wide semantic clarity improves AI agent reasoning. Learn to design semantic models that unify your data assets and enable your organization to operate with greater clarity and agility.

Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C108-C109

Get Proactive: Building Autonomous Operations Agents with Fabric IQ

Greg Nash

Greg Nash

MVP Data Platform | Power BI Unicorn | Power Platform & Power BI user group leader in Melbourne

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 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · B308-B309

Fabric IQ: Unlock Enterprise AI with a Unified Semantic Layer

Chafia Aouissi

Chafia Aouissi

Group Product Manager

Jomit Vaghela

Jomit Vaghela

Product Lead

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 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B313b-B314

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

Italo Lima

Italo Lima

Senior Staff Data Scientist

Kati Iceva

Kati Iceva

Group Engineering Manager, Real-Time Intelligence Unified Experiences

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 · C208-C210

Real-Time Intelligence Meets Location: How Maps in Microsoft Fabric Transform Your Analytics

James Dales

James Dales

CEO at Tekantis

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 · C302

Breaking Barriers: Unlock AI’s True Potential in a Data-Driven World

Anil Nagaraj

Anil Nagaraj

PwC, Principal, Data Engineering & Analytics

AI adoption comes with hurdles—from legacy systems to cultural shifts. This panel features executive leaders who have overcome major challenges to achieve AI-driven transformation and share their Data & AI breakthroughs. Learn how they tackled roadblocks, unlocked hidden value, and set their organizations on a path to sustainable AI success.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · B406b-B407

Connect Your Data with Graph: Why Relationships Matter for AI

Igal Amster

Igal Amster

Microsoft - Group Product Manager

Justin Fine

Justin Fine

Microsoft- Principal Product Manager

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 · C211-C213

Implementation Patterns for Fabric Real Time Intelligence

Christopher Schmidt

Christopher Schmidt

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Subbu Muthukrishnan

Subbu Muthukrishnan

Democratizing Data to Drive Actionable Insights

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 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B312-B313a

Simplify Geospatial Analytics with Maps in Fabric

Andre Terceros

Andre Terceros

Sr Technical Program Manager - Fabric Maps - Microsoft

Johannes Kebeck

Johannes Kebeck

Product Manager, Microsoft

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 · B313b-B314

Master Eventhouse Patterns for Real-Time Intelligence at Scale

Brad Watts

Brad Watts

Principal Product Manager - Fabric RTI - Microsoft

Christopher Schmidt

Christopher Schmidt

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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.

Friday 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 4

Secure Your Streaming Data: Govern Real-Time Pipelines with Confidence

Alicia Li

Alicia Li

Microsoft, Principal PM Manager

Kevin Lam

Kevin Lam

Director of Product Management for Azure Messaging and Real-Time Streaming at Microsoft

Real-time data pipelines lose value when security and governance are afterthoughts. Without proper controls, streaming data becomes a liability rather than an asset. See how Real-Time Intelligence enables you to architect secure, governed, and scalable real-time data flows. Learn to implement security best practices, establish governance controls, and build pipelines your organization can trust.

Friday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C208-C210

Smart Routing: Real-Time Transport Optimization with Fabric

Manu Huygens

Manu Huygens

Cloud & Data Engineer @ KPMG Netherlands

Robert Leal

Robert Leal

Robert Leal – Microsoft Data & AI Consultant, KPMG NL

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 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C113-C114

Automate at Scale with Event-Driven Architectures and Business Events

Ajeta Singhal

Ajeta Singhal

Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence | Defini ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of the product. Driving ‘How’ of the product. Delivering the vision and iterating on the delivered product.

Roberto Cervantes

Roberto Cervantes

Sr. Product Manager (Azure Messaging)

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 · C102

Transforming Industrial Operations with Real-time Intelligence and Agentic AI

Stuti Singh

Stuti Singh

Partner Alliances- Quadrant Technologies

Yasaswi akkaraju N/A

Yasaswi akkaraju N/A

Quadrant, Architect

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.