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AI & Agents2026-03-16 · 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · TMB 4Featured

Workshop A Practical Guide To Building And Deploying Fabric Data Agents For Deeper Insights

Shreyas Canchi Radhakrishna, Mayur Jain

This session is primarily about ai & agents within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. AI agents are becoming integral to business workflows, enabling users of all technical levels to explore and understand data more intuitively, and Microsoft Fabric’s Data Agents are at the forefront of this transformation. In this tutorial, you’ll dive into how Fabric empowers you to build, configure, and optimize a Data Agent. You’ll learn best practices for curating high-quality data inputs, configuring agents, and leveraging rich features to turn raw data into actionable insights. *Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

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Real-Time & Eventing2026-03-16 · 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C208-210Featured

Workshop Real-Time Intelligence Masterclass

Frank Geisler, Johan Ludvig Brattås

This session is primarily about real-time & eventing within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Today’s organizations need real-time insights. This hands-on workshop guides data pros in building event-driven solutions with Microsoft Fabric. In a full-day lab, you’ll use Real-Time Intelligence (Eventstream, Eventhouse, Lakehouse, Dashboards, Activator, Agents, Digital Twin Builder) to create end-to-end architectures. Learn CDC streams, streaming data, schema drift, real-time dashboards, alerts, agents, ML scoring, plus cost & performance insights. *Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

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Data Engineering & Architecture2026-03-16 · 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · TMB 1Featured

Designing A Well Architected Solution A Medallion First Approach

Reid Havens ‍♂️, Steve Campbell

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Solid data architecture is key for a scalable and maintainable pipeline, but can be difficult to implement. This session is for those familiar with Power BI or new data engineers, providing a step-by-step guide to Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers. Users will gain an overview of Medallion Architecture, Warehouses and Lakehouses, Delta and Parquet, GIT integration, monitoring, and compare available Fabric tools. This is a hands on, lab filled session. Python or SQL is a bonus but not required. *Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

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Data Engineering & Architecture2026-03-18 · 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C111-C112Featured

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

Wee Hyong Tok, Faisal Mohamood

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. 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.

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Governance & Security2026-03-18 · 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C113-C114Featured

CORENOTE: Maximizing developer experiences in Microsoft Fabric

Kim Manis, Miles Cole

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Discover the latest advancements in Microsoft Fabric that provide a delightful developer experience. Explore capabilities and best practices for job scheduling, proactive and reactive monitoring, troubleshooting, versioning, and deployments. Learn how these improvements can help you efficiently deploy, operate, troubleshoot, and optimize jobs within your data solutions.

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AI & Agents2026-03-18 · 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · TMB 2-3Featured

CORENOTE: The Future of AI in Microsoft Fabric: Data Agents and Beyond

Nellie Gustafsson, Markus Weimer

This session is primarily about ai & agents within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This session will cover how Fabric brings AI to your data using interoperable Data Agents that work across the AI ecosystem to unlock deeper insights. You’ll also learn how AI-powered data engineering and data science capabilities help teams create intelligent, enterprise-ready solutions.

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SQL Server & Databases2026-03-18 · 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · B308-B309Featured

CORENOTE: The Roadmap for Microsoft SQL: Ground to Cloud to Fabric

Priya Sathy, Bob Ward

This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join us for an in-depth session on the future of Microsoft SQL—from on-premises to Azure and into Microsoft Fabric. Discover our unified, AI-ready relational database that powers modernization and next-gen AI apps. See how SQL delivers consistency, performance, and innovation everywhere you need it!

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Governance & Security2026-03-18 · 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · B313b-B314Featured

End-To-End Security For Data Warehousing In Microsoft Fabric

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.

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Power BI & Semantic Models2026-03-18 · 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM · C302Featured

Planning & Writeback On Top Of Semantic Models

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.

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Data Engineering & Architecture2026-03-18 · 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · B308-B309Featured

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

Josh Caplan, Dipti Borkar

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. 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.

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Power BI & Semantic Models2026-03-18 · 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C111-C112Featured

CORENOTE: Power BI Roadmap: Strategy, Vision, and Demos

Nico Cristache, Eun Hee Hee Kim

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Power BI empowers organizations to turn insights into actions and deliver enterprise analytics at scale in Fabric. In this session discover why businesses standardize on Power BI, learn about building a data-driven culture, and get a first look at upcoming features that unlock your data’s potential.

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Data Engineering & Architecture2026-03-18 · 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · C113-C114Featured

CORENOTE: The Fabric Data Warehouse Future-Proof Advantage

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.

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AI & Agents2026-03-18 · 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · B401-B402Featured

CORENOTE: Trusted AI starts with Fabric: unified real-time intelligence and IQ context

Yitzhak Kesselman, Tessa Kloster

This session is primarily about ai & agents within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Fabric unifies your data estate in OneLake, converges your real-time and analytical workloads into a single data platform, and layers a semantic foundation with ontologies to form a unified intelligence platform. It empowers teams and AI agents with a shared, governed understanding of the live state of your business and the operational actions to affect outcomes. Grounded in real-time signals from Fabric Real-Time Intelligence and shared context from Fabric IQ, teams and AI can reason in the language of your business and operate in tandem to drive measurable impact on your business objectives.

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Data Engineering & Architecture2026-03-18 · 3:05 PM - 4:05 PM · B405-B406aFeatured

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

Mark Kromer, Mario Zimmermann

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. 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!

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Governance & Security2026-03-18 · 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · TMB 1Featured

Building The Fabric Well-Architected Framework

Joseph Dantoni

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. What is the best way to architect Fabric workspaces? How should your network and security models be built? In this session you will learn about best practices across Fabric for naming, deployment, capacity management, security and more.

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DevOps & Delivery2026-03-18 · 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C113-C114Featured

CORENOTE: Building Agentic apps in Fabric with Cosmos DB and User Data Functions

Kirill Gavrylyuk, Mark Brown

This session is primarily about devops & delivery within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join us to build a modern agentic app with Microsoft Fabric as the intelligent backend. Give your app agents memory using Cosmos DB and its fast semantic search over OneLake. Add real-time, event-driven, context-aware experiences to your app with User Data Functions, Cosmos DB two-way sync with OneLake, and Real-Time Intelligence.

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Data Engineering & Architecture2026-03-18 · 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · C111-C112Featured

CORENOTE: Fabric Data Engineering Roadmap

Justyna Lucznik

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Fabric Data Engineering empowers data engineers to build out a lakehouse architecture and transform their data, at scale, using Spark. Join this session to learn more about the latest updates to Data Engineering in Fabric, as well as what's coming in the near future.

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Governance & Security2026-03-18 · 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM · B308-B309Featured

CORENOTE: Governing your data estate with Microsoft Purview Data Governance

Shafiq Mannan, Sita Dontharaju

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how Microsoft Purview Data Governance empowers users to democratize data with its enterprise catalog. This session will cover: 1. Key Data Governance challenges 2. How Purview simplifies Data Governance 3. New innovations within the Unified Catalog 4. End to end demo of Purview

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AI & Agents2026-03-19 · 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · TMB 4Featured

Building and Deploying Smarter Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric

Misha Desai, Amir Jafari

This session is primarily about ai & agents within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how to build and deploy smarter data agents in Fabric. We’ll show how to add richer context, connect new data sources, and use the latest intelligent capabilities. You’ll also see how to enable your agent in MCP, Teams, M365, Foundry, and more—making insights available to users wherever they work.

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AI & Agents2026-03-19 · 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · B401-B402Featured

Microsoft Fabric AI: Copilots, Data Agents & Real‑World Extensions

Bradley Ball

This session is primarily about ai & agents within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Build RAG patterns in minutes. We’ll show data agents, prompts, complex queries, and connecting to Microsoft Fabric data. Explore Copilots across services—what they are, how they differ—extend data agents from Fabric to Copilot Studio, to Microsoft Teams, M365 Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and the Python SDK. After we build this out, let's test Row Level and Column level security in our agents!

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Governance & Security2026-03-19 · 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C202-C204Featured

Govern, manage, and protect your data in Microsoft Fabric

Iqbal Khan, Cillian Mitchell

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how you can govern and protect your data at every step of its journey with powerful, built-in tools in Fabric. Plus, see how Fabric integrates with other industry-leading governance and security solutions like Microsoft Purview for estate-wide and advanced capabilities.

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Real-Time & Eventing2026-03-19 · 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM · B313b-B314Featured

Master Eventhouse Patterns for Real-Time Intelligence at Scale

Christopher Schmidt, Brad Watts

This session is primarily about real-time & eventing within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. 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.

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Data Engineering & Architecture2026-03-19 · 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · B312-B313aFeatured

AI Powered CI-CD For Microsoft Fabric

Eugene Paden

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Discover how AI transforms Fabric development! Learn our production-proven approach combining GitHub Copilot with Azure DevOps CI/CD for metadata-driven pipelines. We'll showcase automated notebook validation, security scanning, and AI-guided PR reviews—all without external dependencies. Real code, real results: from medallion architecture to zero-downtime deployments.

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Data Engineering & Architecture2026-03-19 · 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM · C208-C210Featured

The Instant Insights Pipeline OneLake Shortcuts + Dataverse + Power Apps

Alex Rostan, Gaston Cruz

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. 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.

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Governance & Security2026-03-20 · 10:10 AM - 11:10 AM · C102Featured

Unstoppable Fabric - Capacity Planning, Smart Alerting & Workload Tuning

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.

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Capacity & FinOps2026-03-20 · 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM · C113-C114Featured

Mastering Fabric Data Engineering Admin and Capacity Management

Santhosh Kumar Ravindran, Christopher Finlan

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Optimize Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering for production. Learn about governance controls for Notebooks, Lakehouses, and Spark Job Definitions. We'll cover administrative roles, capacity management for cost and performance, and scaling best practices.

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Power BI & Semantic Models2026-03-20 · 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · TMB 2-3Featured

Data Modeling Like a Pro in Fabric

Christian Wade, Rui Romano

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join the Fabric product team for an in-depth session to learn about data modeling in Fabric, including Direct Lake and composite models for scale and flexibility, and AI-first workflows to achieve 10x productivity. Get ready for mind-blowing demos and sneak peaks into upcoming capabilities so you can develop semantic models like the experts.

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Data Engineering & Architecture2026-03-20 · 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C101Featured

If You’Re Not Using Open Mirroring Yet, You’Re Doing It The Hard Way

Jon Christian Halvorsen

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. 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.

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SQL Server & Databases2026-03-20 · 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM · C202-C204Featured

Unlock the Azure SQL Advantage with a streamlined migration experience via Azure Arc and AI

Sudhir Kumar Raparla, Anitha Adusumilli

This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how Azure SQL gives you best price/performance with Azure benefits, flexible SKU configurations and how seamless SQL migration experience in Azure Arc puts you on fast-track migration journey to Azure SQL with evergreen assessments, best fit SKU recommendations and near zero‑downtime migrations. Learn how SSMA accelerates Oracle/Sybase to Azure SQL migrations with AI Code Conversion Copilot.

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Real-Time & Eventing2026-03-20 · 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C113-C114Featured

Automate at Scale with Event-Driven Architectures and Business Events

Roberto Cervantes, Ajeta Singhal

This session is primarily about real-time & eventing within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. 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.

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Data Engineering & Architecture2026-03-20 · 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · TMB 4Featured

Building modern data architectures with Microsoft Fabric

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.

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Data Engineering & Architecture2026-03-20 · 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM · C108-C109Featured

Demystifying Spark Profile Optimizations In Microsoft Fabric

Thibauld Croonenborghs

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Optimizing Spark workloads in Microsoft Fabric can be a complex endeavor, given the array of available configurations and techniques. Terms like V-Order, Z-Order, and considerations for read-heavy versus write-heavy profiles often add to the confusion. In this session, we'll bring clarity to these concepts, offering a structured overview of each optimization strategy.​

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