Shabnam Watson
This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how to secure Microsoft Fabric Warehouses end-to-end. Explore private links,private endpoints, conditional access, workspace roles, item-level permissions, and granular T-SQL controls for object-level, row-level, and column-level security, plus dynamic data masking.
Liran Edelist
This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Unlock hidden ROI by turning your existing semantic layer into a full planning engine. This innovation eliminates duplicate EPM systems, unifies actuals and plans, and delivers real-time, governed insights. By activating write-back directly to Fabric, organizations cut cost, boost agility, and transform planning into a seamless extension of analytics.
Tino Tereshko
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Fabric Data Warehouse has been built from the ground up in 2020s, inspired by industry state-of-the-art. In this session we unveil new features designed to make it easier to manage and get the most out of your analytics workloads with Fabric Data Warehouse.
Iurii Iurchenko
This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how to make Microsoft Fabric unstoppable by combining capacity planning, smart alerting, and workload tuning. We’ll use the Fabric Capacity Metrics app and API to read CU usage and throttling, plan and schedule ETL/Spark/refresh workloads, configure alerts (incl. Data Activator), and apply Spark/Warehouse best practices so Fabric stays fast, predictable, and cost-efficient.
James Serra
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how Microsoft Fabric can be leveraged with the architectures: Data fabric, data lakehouse, and data mesh. Get a tour of each architecture and explore their pros and cons. By the end of the session, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to use Microsoft Fabric to build and optimize these diverse data architectures.
Kristyna Ferris, Chris Hyde
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how to design and manage data warehouses in Microsoft Fabric by exploring proven patterns, practical techniques, and common pitfalls to avoid. Topics include dimensional modeling, data warehousing fundamentals, ingestion strategies, medallion architecture, change detection, lifecycle management with CI/CD, monitoring, administration, and migrations.
Freddie Santos, Venkata Satya Pradeep Srikakolapu
This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Building a high-performing, secure, and future-ready data warehouse requires more than just loading data—it demands a well-structured architecture that balances speed, governance, and scalability. In this workshop, we’ll walk through how to design and implement a medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) in Microsoft Fabric, taking you end-to-end from raw data ingestion to refined, governed, and consumable insights. *Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.
Manas Maheshwari, Jila "JJ" Yadav
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Leverage first class integration with Dynamics 365 / Dataverse and other business data with Fabric to generate rich insights. Featuring Lekha Kannoju, Director of Data and Analytics, CRC Industries.
Justin Cunningham
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Materialized lake views turn Spark SQL into auto-orchestrated smart tables in your Fabric lakehouse. In this session, learn how to replace fragile ETL with declarative medallion layers, understand refresh and lineage, and decide when materialized lake views beat notebooks, jobs, or warehouses.
Rich Lamorena, Noah Mattern
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This session will explore how the principles behind "Performance Management IQ"—an analogy inspired by Microsoft’s new "Work IQ," "Fabric IQ," and "Foundry IQ" products—can be realized using Fabric as the central data platform for AI-ready insights. Finance, operations, and HR data become harmonized in Fabric to enable powerful performance management insights for analytics, data science, and AI.
Ajay Punyapu
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Ever built your Fabric data warehouse only to discover a new feature that would have saved weeks of effort? You’re not alone. This session dives into the underrated and emerging Fabric capabilities that every architect and engineer should know. Through real implementation stories, we will cover what to revisit in your current designs & upcoming releases that can impact your Fabric ecosystem.
Shabnam Watson
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Don’t start over. Learn how SQL professionals can leverage their existing skills in Microsoft Fabric. No need to learn PySpark or new data engineering tools. Discover how SQL powers Lakehouses, Warehouses, Real-Time Intelligence, and Notebooks. See why, for many tasks, SQL is not only compatible but often the most efficient way to build modern, scalable, intelligent data solutions in Fabric.
Christian Henrik Reich
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This workshop is for SQL Server practitioners, used to reading query plans and caring about stats, stepping into Fabric. It covers Lakehouses and Spark, showing how your skills still apply in: * Understanding the Spark engine * Reading query plans and statistics * Using the Delta Lake engine The takeaway is that approaches might differ, but the knowledge carries over.
Venkata Satya Pradeep Srikakolapu
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Modern data teams expect warehouse development focused on developer experience and speed. This session shows how Fabric Warehouse delivers developer‑first workflows with familiar tools, Git‑based CI/CD, and AI Fabric skills to build and deploy with confidence. We close with a customer story using Mirroring, Fabric Warehouse, and dbt to ship a production analytics pipeline faster with higher reliability and business impact.
Eugene Grib, Shishir Tejpal
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. PwC and a global software client unpack how they re-engineered a large-scale data platform on Microsoft Fabric to help meet ambitious service-level agreements (SLAs) and accelerate business value. This technical deep dive covers hybrid Lakehouse–Warehouse design, metadata-driven ingestion, performance tuning, and early adoption of new Fabric capabilities for an AI-ready foundation.
Rob Carrol
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Ready to make your analytics sweeter? Learn why migrating to Fabric’s OneLake architecture and AI-driven features beats Synapse for speed, governance, and insights. In this demo-driven session based on real-world migrations, learn practical steps, compatibility fixes, and how tools like the Fabric Migration Assistant make moving to Fabric Data Warehouse as smooth as a Georgia peach.
Emily Tehrani, Peri Rocha
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Discover the powerhouse engine behind Fabric Data Warehouse and Lakehouse SQL Analytics Endpoint. We’ll trace the query journey from optimization to execution, unpack design patterns that deliver high-performance analytics, and spotlight both recent and upcoming enhancements to continue delivering fast and scalable analytics. Perfect for those who want actionable, performance-first guidance.
Jamie McGlothlin, Daniella Herskowitz
This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Major electronic medical records (EMRs) including Epic are transitioning their data offerings to Fabric. This session will investigate how to integrate this data with client data and platforms. We will describe the journey of Corewell Health including Cogito Cloud, a clinical Fabric instance, bi-directional shortcuts, Snowflake integration, and AI-enabled migration to PowerBi.
Endika Pascual
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Production-grade Microsoft Fabric implementations require coordinated ingestion, data refinement, warehouse operations, and governance. This session examines how Data Factory pipelines, OneLake Medallion architecture, and Fabric Warehouses work together in automated platforms, focusing on orchestration and warehouse automation patterns for reliable, repeatable analytics.
Edward Bobrin, Ashwin Sanal Kumar
This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join EY’s Global Fabric Tech Hub for a moderated fireside chat with Talcott on how they launched a new retail annuity business on Microsoft Fabric. We’ll unpack the end-to-end journey—why Fabric, how the architecture came together (OneLake, Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Power BI), and the outcomes: accelerated market entry, automation driven efficiency, and real time decisioning. We’ll also discuss what’s repeatable for other enterprises and where to start, including Fabric IQ, governance, adoption, and how Real Time Intelligence fits.
karen Lopez
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Turn data governance into a productivity boost for Azure SQL Database, Fabric SQL Database, and Fabric Data Warehouse architectures and engineering. Gain efficiency and confidence in every deployment. Learn how cataloging, classification, lineage, and quality workflows integrate with databases and pipelines to improve trust, and enable secure, compliant data for engineering teams.
Jared Kuehn
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Microsoft Fabric relational engines support T-SQL, but not always the same way. Why? This session explains SQL surface area, explores Fabric's engines (warehouses, databases, endpoints, etc.), and shows where T-SQL works - Helping you design smarter with supported features and architecture in mind.
Joanna Podgoetsky, Jovan Popovic
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join us for an inside look at the evolution of the Fabric Warehouse. Discover how we built the industry’s first SaaS cloud-scale data warehouse built natively over an open data format and born into Microsoft Fabric. Explore innovations that deliver out-of-the-box performance at scale and get an exclusive preview of the cutting-edge features we’ve recently launched and what’s coming next.
Christian Henrik Reich
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Microsoft Fabric Lakehouses get lots of attention, yet the Warehouse’s evolution and true potential in a lakehouse solution are often overlooked. This session covers: * Engine deep dive * Performance * Warehouse’s role in lakehouse solutions * Interoperability with Spark and lakehouses Attendees will see how the Warehouse has evolved and how to apply it effectively in a lakehouse solution.
Bret Myers, Sowmya Sivaraman
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Want to learn how to get the best performance while keeping control of cost? In this session we'll go into the details of controlling the underlying compute resource with custom sql pools and understanding the impact they have on billing.
Duan Uys
This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Migrating from SQL Server or Synapse to Microsoft Fabric can be complex. In this session, discover how automation simplifies schema conversion, dependency mapping, orchestration, and documentation to reduce manual effort by up to 80%. Learn step-by-step best practices for migrating to Fabric and integrating OneLake, Data Factory, and Purview for a governed, automated future.
Freddie Santos, Sam Debruyn
This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how to secure Fabric Data Warehouse from the ground up. This session covers end-to-end practices—from secure connectivity and authentication to auditing, monitoring, and governance—highlighting new features that strengthen compliance, visibility, and trust at scale.
Gopinath Sankaran, Ajay Gollapalli
This session is primarily about ai & agents within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. 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.

