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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vengatesh Parasuraman, Amanjeet Singh

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This hands-on workshop is designed for data engineers, architects, and security professionals. With a blend of demonstrations, hands-on labs, and real-world scenarios, you’ll leave with a clear understanding of Fabric security. By the end of the session, you will: Learn to protect network traffic in and out of Fabric; Manage user access with OneLake security; Apply compliance best practices with built-in governance and auditing tools by leveraging Microsoft Purview and Sensitivity Labels. *Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

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.

Darren Portillo, Shafiq Mannan

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join us in a hands-on lab to create your data catalog. This lab will include Data Map, Unified Catalog and a lab for Data Security. Cataloging 1. Ingesting metadata 2. Curating and creating business concepts Data Health 1. Configuring rules, scheduling, profiling and scans 2. Applying controls and viewing reports 3. Exporting metadata to Fabric Workflows 1. Customizing access request and curation workflows Data Security: 1. Applying MIP labels and DLP policies 2. Setting up IRM and DSPM *Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Sanjay Raut, Pat Mahoney

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This workshop equips Capacity and Fabric Administrators with practical skills to manage and govern Fabric Capacities. Agenda includes: * Licensing models, Capacity Units, bursting, throttling * Roles, permissions, metrics app, labs * RTH events, throttling recovery, surge protection * Governance strategies and capacity planning Learn to provision, monitor, and govern Fabric Capacities with hands-on labs. Ideal for admins seeking to optimize performance and scale responsibly. *Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Keshav Polepalle, Benjamin Ries-Roncalli

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Overpaying for Fabric capacity? Discover an agentic workload that continuously right-sizes capacity, detects outlier artifacts, sends intelligent alerts, and surfaces usage trends, transforming capacity management from reactive tuning into a self-optimizing, intelligent system.

Kristyna Ferris

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Navigate the complexities of Microsoft Fabric licensing with real-world scenarios. Learn the differences between Pro, Premium, and Fabric licenses. We will compare pricing models, estimate costs, and avoid budgeting traps to enable smarter, cost-savvy decisions about your data environment.

Cole Haddock

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. 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.

Arthi Ramasubramanian Iyer, Cillian Mitchell

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join us to see how we are making the lives of Fabric administrators easier, expanding on some of their key daily tasks. We’ll explore how to protect data at scale, ensure it’s easy to find, keep capacities healthy, and strengthen network and data security, to build confidence, clarity, and resilience across your Fabric estate. This session will feature Kim Manis, the Corporate Vice President of Product Management for Microsoft Fabric.

Marthe Moengen

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. As AI adoption grows, so does the importance of strong governance and compliance. Let's explore how Purview can support you Fabric environment! We’ll cover key features like Data Loss Prevention (DLP), sensitivity labeling, and data access governance. What they do, and how they work in real-world scenarios, and where there may be opportunities to further mature your implementation.

Dan English, Sandeep Pawar

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join us for an engaging Copilot in Fabric session covering administration, governance, enablement strategies, and capacity management. We’ll also explore Data Agent, Standalone Copilot, Power BI Copilot, and how Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI helps monitor AI use. We will cover real-world scenarios and best practices turning governance into a strategic advantage.

Keshav Polepalle, Trilok Rajesh

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Curious about how organizations cut months off their Microsoft Fabric migration timelines? We’ll share a proven roadmap, highlighting the stages of planning, migration, and optimization. We’ll also delve into common pitfalls to avoid—ensuring your journey remains on track and under budget.

Edwin van Megesen, Amir Sarir

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. CI/CD is vital to efficient and governed Power BI delivery, yet Azure DevOps rarely follows the “happy path.” This session exposes the burden of manual steps, merge conflicts, and the limitations of GIT. Next, full-automated alternatives will be evaluated, covering zero-touch version control, enhanced lineage, advanced deployment workflows, and some of the associated pitfalls.

Ali Hamud, Ted Pattison

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join this session to explore the latest capabilities in Fabric for establishing scalable and resilient release processes. Gain practical insights to help you streamline and optimize your CI/CD processes and learn about upcoming advancements across the Fabric platform.

Hamish Watson

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how to optimise SQL Server, Azure SQL and Fabric costs using FinOps practices and AI-driven insights. We’ll explore key cost drivers, show how AI detects inefficiencies, forecasts spend, recommends right-sizing, and helps design smarter, cost-efficient data architectures across hybrid and cloud environments.

Hemanth Gaddale, Siva Pamarti

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Can enterprises enable advanced analytics on a self-servicing platform without compromising governance? In this session, we’ll share how LevelShift redesigned CITGO’s data platform on Microsoft Fabric balancing control and autonomy. Using domain-based workspaces, OneLake zero-copy access, CI/CD automation, and layered security, eliminated duplication, and scaled governed self-service.

Younes Jallouli, Kelly Welch

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Discover how data leaders at companies like Equality Health, Tripadvisor, and T. Rowe Price automatically create thousands of executive and client ready slide decks. This session will teach you how to programmatically generate and update PowerPoint and Google Slides directly from your Power BI data—ensuring your stakeholders and customers get reports in the slide format they need, all while eliminating extra work and governance risk for your data team. You’ll learn to: • Automate recurring reports (QBRs, Client Updates, Financial Decks). • Keep your slides in perfect sync with your semantic models. • Instantly generate hundreds of personalized deck variations (e.g., one unique deck per region or client) from a single Power BI report.

Michael Lass

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Discover how Impetus LeapLogic helps teams embrace Microsoft Fabric’s unified, AI-driven architecture with speed and confidence. Join Impetus session to see up to 95% automated conversion of SQL, ETL, and BI logic—plus optimization, lineage, and validation mapped to Fabric-native patterns. Learn proven migration strategies, governance insights, and faster onboarding for Copilot-powered analytics.

Dinakar Nethi, Rajesh Setlem

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn best practices for Azure SQL Database backup configuration and ransomware protection. Explore PITR and LTR strategies, backup immutability, and deletion safeguards to ensure compliance and resilience. Gain actionable insights to secure data, prevent tampering, and maintain business continuity.

Yulia Turchin, Meenal Srivastva

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join us for a fast‑paced look at the latest advancements in item recovery, item creation policies, and new audit and access activity logging that provide clear insight into who accessed what, when, and how. We’ll also highlight the broader set of investments transforming reliability and consistency across Microsoft Fabric. This includes concrete improvements that enhance customer experience and the Item Identity initiative, which ensures continuity even when item owners change or leave the organization. We’ll also explore our efforts to standardize item implementation across Fabric, helping eliminate issues caused by system‑generated items like staging lakehouses and warehouses.

Nathan Giullian, Jim Hill

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how to accurately estimate and control Microsoft Fabric capacity costs in today’s cloud‑driven world. We’ll cover key drivers like workload patterns, utilization, and scaling, and walk through practical models, examples, and best practices to align Fabric spend with your organization’s performance and budget goals.

Surbhi Pokharna

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Explore how to get peak performance from Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server. We cover compute tiers, storage tuning, autoscaling, connection management, and monitoring essentials to ensure your PostgreSQL workloads run reliably and efficiently at any scale.

Wolfgang Strasser, Shafiq Mannan

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Unlock next-level data quality with the combined power of Microsoft Purview and Fabric. Discover how Fabric’s built-in governance creates truly trusted data assets, while Purview’s profiling, rules, scoring, and alerts deliver end-to-end visibility across lakehouses, warehouses, and semantic models. Leave with practical steps to confidently govern, monitor, and elevate your data quality.

Jared Brown, Sam Kelly

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Whether you’re a Microsoft Fabric/Power BI enterprise architect or a grassroots champion, learn how you can take steps towards establishing an approachable Microsoft Fabric Center of Excellence that grows with your organization. We’ll share real lessons on enablement, distributing best practices, hosting office hours, and how a simple start became a launchpad for inclusive community & governance.

Darren Portillo, Benni De Jagere

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Discover the latest in Fabric security and governance enhancements: • Fabric Policies (Public Preview) – Fabric admins can define precise, flexible controls in one central place. • Enable security admins to apply adaptive protection to sensitive data in Fabric with Purview security

Karl Pover

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Managing RLS for 100s of users across multiple semantic models becomes chaos fast. We'll share a proven architecture for complex security—VPs see regions, managers see departments, reps see customers. Learn reusable RLS table design, AD Group patterns to prevent role sprawl, performance tips, and self-service access reports. Walk away with a blueprint from production managing 500+ users.

Aaron Merrill, Cristian Petculescu

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. 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.

Adam Lash, Rohith Sai Chetla

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Discover how Agent 365 serves as the enterprise control plane for AI in Microsoft Fabric, anchored on five pillars: registry, control, visualize, interop, and security for Fabric assets consumed by agents. Learn how Entra identity, Purview governance, and Agent 365 tools enable governed deployments, reference architectures, and safe scale for IT pros, developers, and data engineers.

martin Catherall, Heidi Hasting

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Microsoft Fabric's tenant and workspace settings are powerful governance tools often used in isolation. Discover overlooked Microsoft Fabric settings that collectively create a robust governance solution. Learn how to implement a strong data mesh architecture enabling business departments to self-manage governance and minimize IT dependencies. See live demonstrations of these powerful features.

David Pless

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. When selecting a virtual machine to host your SQL Server workload in Azure, you need to choose a VM size that provides optimal performance and fits your organization’s budget. In this session, we will cover topics such as the different VM types that are appropriate for SQL workloads, configuring storage, and features unique to Azure that can help boost your performance without breaking the bank.

Tim Ward

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This session presents Komatsu’s production deployment of autonomous AI agents over a governed Microsoft Fabric estate integrated with Purview and CluedIn. We cover the architecture, agent execution model and parallelism, governance and audit controls, and concrete lessons learned from operating agents at 3–10M records/day, including failure modes and rule-performance tuning.

Scott Cameron

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Adopting Microsoft Fabric with minimal Azure experience? Discover the essentials of Azure Readiness for Fabric: security, performance, manageability, and extensibility so your organization can deploy Fabric confidently and be ready for future Azure growth. Practical guidance for teams starting their Fabric journey, especially if you are new to Azure or migrating from Power BI Premium to Fabric.

Vengatesh Parasuraman, Amanjeet Singh

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Security is foundational in Microsoft Fabric. While Fabric offers defense-in-depth by default, enterprises need clear practices to align with organizational policies. This session provides end-to-end best practices and patterns for securing Fabric through inbound controls, outbound protections, RBAC for workspaces, OneLake security, customer-managed keys, and data governance with Purview.

Darren Portillo, Anton Fritz

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how Microsoft Purview Data Security helps you discover risks and protect data consistently across your entire estate, with a focus on your Fabric estate. This session will introduce newer innovations and cover capabilities such as Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention and Data Security Posture Management.

Sarab Dua, Bodhisatva Gautam

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This session dives into Microsoft Fabric’s latest network and data security innovations like Outbound Access Protection, Azure Private Link, and Customer Managed Keys, all designed to protect sensitive information and simplify governance at scale. Learn how new governance features simplify enforcement and at-scale compliance.

Pankaj Arora, Arsalan Yarveisi

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Capacities are the foundation for all Microsoft Fabric workloads. This session will provide an overview of what’s new in Fabric capacities including new capacity governance capabilities that help you get ahead of outages and improvements to monitoring experiences in the Capacity Metrics App and Real Time Hub. We will also share best practices to help you better manage your capacities at scale.

Patrick Perrier

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Everyone struggles with rising Power BI capacity costs, rogue behaviors, outage risks, and badly designed reports reaching the platform. This session shows how predictive monitoring helps you prevent issues early and optimize for capacity costs. With Wiiisdom’s insights, you’ll keep Power BI stable, efficient, and delivering a better user experience.

Pragati Jain

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Permissions got you puzzled? Discover how to crack common access problems, streamline permissions and implement best practices for a secure, well-managed and collaboration-ready Fabric environment; because permissions can make or break your Fabric setup.

Christopher Aleman

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Power BI + Fabric at scale? Chaos looms—fragmented workspaces, messy permissions, frustrated users. Join us to see how we turned disorder into a governance playbook that accelerates adoption. Learn role-based access, streamlined workspace/app strategies, and AI-ready best practices to avoid pitfalls and win enterprise buy-in.

Warwick Rudd, Kelly Broekstra

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Unlock faster, smarter database management with Github Copilot in SSMS 22. This session shows how AI-driven guidance simplifies everyday DBA tasks from faster troubleshooting, writing better T-SQL, boosting productivity and reducing errors. In this session you will see practical demos and learn how Github Copilot becomes your essential assistant.

Jerid Fortney, John Miner

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Fabric governance is challenging: users create workspaces fast, data sprawls, and costs spike. This session will help you "herd the cats" using Microsoft's tools. You will leave with a practical, battle-tested governance framework and real-world strategies. (No actual cats were harmed.)

Ginger Grant

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Fabric includes multiple layers of security across OneLake. This session breaks down RBAC, sharing permissions, shortcut behaviors, Semantic model Row Level Security and OneLake security and shows how they interact in real-world architectures. Learn how to design secure, least-privilege data access in Fabric throughout your data estate and more importantly the steps you need to employ to test it.

Curtis Stallings, Marcus Radue

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how to address a sprawling Fabric environment with ungoverned items across multiple workspaces and capacities. Extend FUAM to gain valuable insights that drive decision-making and backlog prioritization. Design the right balance between autonomy and security in your Fabric environment to deliver an optimal experience for both end users and developers.

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.

John Sterrett

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Today, we handle increasing volumes of sensitive data. DBAs and Data Engineers must protect their data from external attackers, employees, and privileged admins like themselves. This session will teach you how to protect your data while maintaining functionality and performance. The session focuses on using column-level encryption, row-level security, and auditing to secure your data.

Matthias Falland

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Expensive refactoring from poor architecture is avoidable. Discover architecture patterns from 20+ implementations: workspace topology, medallion layers, and cross-workspace sharing. Learn how these strategies minimize refactoring by 60%, accelerating time-to-production.

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.

Jon Steffey, Carl Spitzer

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Enterprises are moving quickly toward Copilot and agentic AI, but most struggle to scale beyond pilots because the data foundation isn’t ready. In this session, Adastra and Tolmar share how building a reliable, governed data estate in Microsoft Fabric and OneLake is the critical first step to enabling trusted AI and enterprise agents.