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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.

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.

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.

Lauren Faber, Stephen Godderidge

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. In this hands-on session, we'll show you how to leverage Power BI and Microsoft Fabric's Copilot AI features to chat with your data. Learn how to prepare data for end-users with AI features like Instructions and Verified Answers. You'll get practical experience with the standalone Copilot interface, exploring its capabilities to deliver insights. This session will empower you to transform how your organization interacts with data for smarter decision-making and deeper insights. *Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Sara Lammini Rodriguez, Monica Calleja

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join this hands-on workshop for Power BI Pro Developers and data practitioners. Gain practical experience across the full development lifecycle using tools like PBIP, TMDL, and PBIR. Learn how Pro Developer features integrate with code-first and AI-powered experiences to streamline workflows, enforce best practices, and speed up delivery. Walk away ready to deliver enterprise-grade Power BI solutions. *Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Mathias Thierbach, Mike Carlo

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This full-day workshop explores agentic development patterns for Power BI projects. You’ll learn how GitHub Copilot and MCP servers can accelerate modeling, reporting, and deployment, while also examining their current limits and best-fit scenarios. Through guided, end-to-end exercises, attendees will gain hands-on experience applying agentic practices to Power BI, leaving with practical insights on where these approaches add value—and where traditional methods still matter. *Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Reza Rad

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Dataflow Gen2 is the core data transformation tool in Microsoft Fabric, powered by the Power Query engine. In this hands-on workshop, attendees will learn to build scalable solutions by extracting data from diverse sources, implementing data transformation and ETL patterns, optimizing performance, leveraging query folding, using parameters and custom functions, utilizing M scripting, applying best practices, debugging techniques, and integrating with pipelines for end-to-end data integration. *Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Stephanie Bruno, Lakshmi Ponnurasan

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. New to Fabric or Power BI? This workshop is the perfect place to start, giving you an end-to-end intro to Fabric and Power BI and equipping you with the skills and confidence to dive deeper into the world of modern analytics. We’ll start with Fabric in the morning, building out an end-to-end solution, then on Power BI in the afternoon. Through guided exercises led by experts, you'll gain knowledge you can take back to your own projects, and you'll be set up for a successful conference! *Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Kumar Thangamuthu

This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Organizations must act on data fast—but speed without governance creates risk. SAS® Decision Builder on Microsoft Fabric automates governed decision workflows, uniting business rules, analytics, Python, ML, and compliance in one Fabric-native experience. Deliver AI-powered insights and actions with enterprise-grade transparency and control.

Elena Drakulevska

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Reports don’t fail because you’re bad at design. They fail because they’re built for the wrong user. Learn how to identify the real “characters” behind your Power BI reports, from the big-picture strategist to the action-taker and the detail-obsessed analyst, and how to tailor layout, detail, and interactions so each user gets what they need to make confident decisions.

John Kerski, Leslie Welch

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. The villainous Lord Taart Chart has stolen your curated data and locked it in his Azure Vault! Your mission: face 10 Power Query Puzzles that challenge your skills to wrangle, transform, and tame messy data. Can you outsmart him and reclaim your data before it’s lost forever?

Marius Moscovici

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Every BI platform now includes AI—from Microsoft Fabric CoPilot to standalone chatbots. Yet without a unified strategy, these tools create fragmented user experiences and governance risks. This session introduces a clear Reference Architecture for implementing AI for BI at scale—helping enterprises eliminate silos, ensure control, and build a sustainable, scalable system.

Michael Destein

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how to create a 360-degree, contextual view across all your OneLake data in Microsoft Fabric. See how to perform high-quality data matching using Entity Resolution techniques across different entity types, eg. people, businesses and locations. Accurately link data across sources and enrich incomplete data. Break down silos and get your data ready for AI, powering better and faster decisions.

Nathan Hombroek, Andrew Beier

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Legacy platforms create data silos blocking innovation. Manual migrations take 12+ months with 83% failing. See how AI automation transforms this: smart rationalization prioritizes assets, automated conversion handles apps and pipelines, and optimization ensures quality. Watch live demos and hear how one organization migrated an app portfolio in months, unlocking Fabric's modern capabilities.

Lenore Flower

This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. When designed well, a managed self-service BI approach strikes the perfect balance between centralized data discipline and flexible self-service reporting. This session will demonstrate how smart Power BI implementation (including centrally maintained semantic models, report templates, and administration) saves time, money, and headaches when paired with Purview's Unified Catalog.

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.

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.

Cristian Angyal

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Want to get started with Dataflow Gen2 without stress? This session explains what DFG2 is, why it matters, and how it fits into Microsoft Fabric. We’ll build a dataflow from scratch, connect multiple data sources and apply proven Power Query patterns to clean messy data, consolidate files, reuse logic with parameters, publish to a Lakehouse, and configure a simple, reliable refresh.

Eric Reyhle

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Ready to see how modern planning is being redefined? Acterys showcases how a leading manufacturer moved from fragmented, Excel-based planning to streamlined, data-driven decision-making. Discover how Enterprise Write-Back in Power BI enables faster processes, greater accuracy, and efficiency—plus a live demo of the architecture, workflows, and best practices behind the transformation.

Andrew Sommer, Lakshmi Ponnurasan

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Higher ed generates massive data across admissions, enrollment, advising, and alumni, often stuck in silos. This session shows how Power BI unifies it through real examples: funnels, trends, retention, student success, faculty workload, and outcomes. Learn to model complex structures, clean data, and build clear visuals you can apply immediately.

Dipti Borkar, Gopal Krishnamurthy

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Companies are increasingly looking for more connected, intelligent, and adaptive planning tools—yet most enterprise planning still happens across fragmented systems and disconnected data. In this session, we’ll introduce the brand new Planning capabilities in Microsoft Fabric and go deep into how we have seamlessly integrated all aspects of planning into Fabric, closer to the people who use it, and closer to the AI that powers modern decision‑making. You’ll learn how Fabric’s unified foundation enables more seamless planning workflows, how organizations can reduce complexity by eliminating data movement to help teams model, forecast, collaborate and respond with greater agility. This session will include demos and future roadmap including integration with Fabric IQ and Microsoft’s AI stack.

Jacinda Eng, Harleen Kaur

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join this session with the Power BI Product team to discover the vision, innovation, and future of Power BI visuals! We'll dive into how our overarching goals and strategies shape our decision-making to build user-focused features. Through real-world examples of recent feature releases, we'll demonstrate how to enable impactful data storytelling. You'll also gain an exclusive preview of what’s next for Power BI visuals—both in the short and long term—helping you shape your data visualization journey.

Emily Lisa, Tori Pinheiro

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Feeling underwater keeping up with AI change? This session breaks the buzzwords into clear, practical ideas. We explain what agentic development means for Power BI today, how large language models, skills, and tools work together, and how these capabilities show up in GitHub Copilot and web experiences. We’ll demo going from raw data to a usable model and show how the same foundations power reporting, chat with your data, and data agents.

Cristian Angyal

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Modern data solutions depend on reliable pipelines, yet error handling and data quality checks are often overlooked until failures occur in production. This session dives deep into building resilient Dataflows Gen2 solutions leveraging try/otherwise, structured error outputs, custom error messages, and partial failure patterns, centralizing error logs in dedicated tables for downstream monitoring.

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.

Real-Time Intelligence, James Dales

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. 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.

Sujata Narayana, Sid Vemuri

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Come witness a Power BI showdown between an expert developer vs. intermediate developer supercharged by AI. Both tackle real-world challenges like designing good data models and polished reports. Like a modern Turing test, you become the judge: can AI-augmented development produce solutions indistinguishable from expert craftsmanship? Or will the subtle nuances of true mastery still stand apart?

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.

Shubhangi Lal, Joy Mediratta

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. In this session, customers will share their journeys of enhancing Power BI with Microsoft Fabric. Hear how organizations unified their data estates, streamlined analytics, and uncovered deeper insights by leveraging Fabric’s integrated platform. These real world stories highlight best practices, challenges overcome, and the tangible business value achieved when Power BI is powered by Fabric at scale.

Marija Zutic, Josh Warbington

This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Fabric's native writeback excels at single-record forms, but teams often need to enrich multiple data points, add context across records, or collaborate in real-time. Learn how to extend Fabric's writeback from forms to Excel-like tabular editing that scales. Walk away understanding how to transform your Fabric environment into an active, collaborative decision-making platform.

Michael Hewitt

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This session unfolds evaluation context and the logic behind CALCULATE(). Through examples, we'll demystify how row context, filter context, and CALCULATE() work together to produce dynamic calculation results. You'll gain confidence to tackle advanced calculations and optimize measure performance.

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.

Lenore Flower

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Need a printable version of an existing Power BI report fast? Learn how to convert a .pbix into a paginated .rdl by using the same semantic model in Power BI Report Builder. This session walks you through each step of converting an existing Power BI report into its paginated equivalent, then reviews how to address common paginated report issues with parameters, print layout, and grouping.

Sara Vredevoogd, Carly Newsome

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Business users want answers, not plumbing. In this session, we map when to use Power BI Copilot directly versus when Fabric Data Agents shine. We’ll cover the product’s current functionality to help you get started with AI, from setting up a data agent to chatting across all of your data in Power BI. We’ll highlight recent feature additions and talk about the roadmap of future investments to empower your business users in unlocking data insights with the help of Copilot.

Vincent Dechandon

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Explore the full spectrum of Location Intelligence in Power BI, from simple map coloring to advanced spatial analytics. Learn the core concepts behind mapping; how to choose the right geographies and map them with BI data; how to analyze data through proximity and travel times; and how to manage dynamic territories. Session will include native Power BI mapping capabilities as well as custom visuals.

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.

Mwazanji Sakala, Christopher Marcolis

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. See how CDW brought business and IT together to build something bigger. Christopher shows how he used Fabric to turn scattered data into a single operational portal that runs the business. Julie adds technical insights and reveals how partnership unlocked even more value. A fast, energetic look at the power user revolution inside Fabric.

Paul Stork, Scott Shearer

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. In this talk we’ll show you how to embed a Power App in a Power BI report in Microsoft Fabric to enable real-time editing and interactivity. See how to update data directly from reports, trigger workflows, and leverage action-oriented analytics that close the loop between insight and execution.

Treb Gatte

This session is primarily about ai & agents within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Connecting AI agents to company data across SharePoint, databases, and documents is complex. Foundry IQ + Fabric IQ provide secure, unified access through one API. Learn to connect agents to multiple sources, configure permissions, use Agent Factory for deployment, and ensure agents understand business context, not just raw data.

Philip Seamark, Christian Wade

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. See what's new for Direct Lake semantic modeling, then dive into the technical details that matter most for enterprise scale. Learn how cardinality, monitoring, and V‑Order influence performance, with practical demos and guidance you can apply straight away.

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.

Pranay Desai, Eric Kopchinski

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. When analytics can’t answer “what’s happening right now?” without manual effort, organizations lose time and momentum. PGIM modernized its fragmented BI environment into a unified analytics platform on Microsoft Fabric to deliver real-time insight and scale AI. By unifying data ingestion, modeling, and reporting—and integrating Snowflake data—PGIM built a governed, high-performance foundation for self-service analytics. Power BI reporting with Exploration View replaced legacy Cognos logic, streamlined pipelines, and reduced technical debt. Copilot now accelerates development and AI-assisted discovery. This session covers the architecture, design decisions, and lessons learned.

Ted Pattison

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This session teaches best practices with Fabric GIT integration to ensure changes to Fabric projects are automatically tested and deployed, leading to faster and more reliable releases. Attendees will learn effective branching strategies for merging changes from feature workspaces into production.

Zoe Douglas, Denyse Niwenshuti

This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join this session to learn about translytical task flows combining Power BI reports and Fabric user data functions together for actionable reports with a click of a button. We’ll demo how to set it up, the options you have, and specific examples of these reports in action. Interested in what this is or are you already using it today? We’ll have insights you don’t want to miss!

Piotr Prussak

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how to connect Microsoft Fabric data agents with Copilot Studio to deliver intelligent, conversational analytics. This session covers modeling best practices, schema design, grounded responses, testing patterns, and decision guides for choosing when and how to expose semantic models and data agents to copilots.

Jason Romans

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Every data detective needs the right toolkit—and Semantic Link Labs delivers. In this demo-heavy session, you’ll see it link Power BI datasets with Python notebooks for deeper diagnostics. Learn to trace relationships, uncover hidden dependencies, validate measures, and resolve issues that impact report quality, performance, and reliability. Get patterns for monitoring, validating, and correcting.

Dustin Askins, Anita Ambalavanan

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn practical strategies for sharing Power BI content across your company. We’ll cover distributing insights through apps (including organizational apps), and how business users can access Power BI directly from their M365 tools and Copilot to boost productivity and make informed decisions. You’ll get a deep look at current capabilities as well as what’s coming next.

Peer Grønnerup

This session is primarily about power bi & semantic models within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Power BI Embedded isn’t just for developers. In this fast-paced vibe-coding session, we’ll demystify it by building a real custom portal in 60 minutes, using AI to speed things up. See how to set Power BI Embedded up quickly, craft a user-centric experience, improve navigation beyond the service, and unlock powerful opportunities without heavy coding, giving you a fresh view of what’s truly possible.

Sara Lammini Rodriguez, Monica Calleja

This session is primarily about ai & agents within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. In today’s AI-driven world, the integration of data, analytics tools, and AI agents is more critical than ever. This session focuses on how AI agents, Power BI, and other Fabric capabilities can be integrated to implement a real-world solution. We will demonstrate how to ingest and process data, train and deploy predictive models, create conversational experiences, and perform intelligent analytics to address a common business challenge. Join us to explore how these technologies work together to deliver impactful, production-ready solutions.