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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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.​

Raki Rahman, Miles Cole

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join this hands-on workshop to learn how a Microsoft engineering team uses Fabric Spark to tackle real-world data engineering challenges. Learn to build scalable data pipelines with Spark Structured Streaming, ML augmentation, and STAR Schema-based dimensional modeling. The workshop covers an end-to-end medallion architecture, leaving you with reusable code assets, patterns, and tips, to accelerate building your own enterprise-ready data pipelines that can be debugged, deployed, and tested. *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.

Dennis Carriere, Darren Goonawardana

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how Bluemont Group transformed Data & AI across 100 Dunkin’ locations by replacing a vendor-controlled data warehouse with a modern, fully owned Microsoft Fabric platform. Learn how Collectiv helped them eliminate multi-day data delays, unlock historical insights, and empower managers with real-time, location-level visibility.

Marc Lelijveld

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Fabric data agent has been available for a while, yet many implementations fall short of expectations. Without the right design, the agent may struggle to align with business context, produce inconsistent outputs, or require heavy manual intervention. In this session, learn how to design smarter, more reliable agents by fine-tuning Agent Instructions, using the Data Agent SDK and training data sources.

Thomas LeBlanc, Nikola Ilic

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. The session shows an analyst how to use notebooks to perform the same actions as Dataflow Gen2. Looking at 4 areas: source, transformation, cleansing, and destination, examples include append/merge query to dataframe joins, text replace functionality, split and concatenate columns, as well as pivot/unpivot, data type changes, and removing duplicates. We will finish off with engine optimizations.

Craig Gravina

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Microsoft Fabric accelerates analytics and AI at scale but without governed, trusted data, results fall short. This session’s demo showcases how data products, and semantic models, are utilized to succeed with data and AI initiatives. Learn how modern AI-driven, DataOps-built MDM delivers trusted data products into OneLake, enabling business and agentic users to succeed with high quality data.

Aleksi Partanen, Atte Sukari

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Managing deployments across multiple workspaces per environment in Microsoft Fabric can be a challenge. Based on real projects, this session shows how to use Fabric Deployment Pipelines with proven patterns, tips, and best practices for handling cross workspace dependencies through autobinding and variable library strategies, supported by practical demos that highlight the most important concepts.

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.

Sadiq Ahmed

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. In this fast-paced, discover how Microsoft Fabric streamlines the entire AI workflow—from data exploration to model deployment. You’ll learn how to use it for data science, train models, and generate predictions all within Fabric’s unified analytics platform. Perfect for data professionals and AI enthusiasts looking to get started with Fabric in just one hour.

Pierre LaFromboise

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Data-engineering often results in hundreds of one-offs with duplicate code and inconsistency, making change slow, brittle, and costly. We will introduce and demo new metadata and config-driven patterns for PySpark integration in Fabric. You will learn to implement reusable patterns that simplify development, scale reliably, cut duplication, and improve governance across Fabric environments.

Armando Lacerda

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. You're a SQL SSIS ninja, and now Microsoft Fabric is calling your ETL pipelines to the cloud. In this session, you will learn how to bridge your SSIS skills to the more scalable and more performant and integrated SaaS environment with live demos and feature comparisons.

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.

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.

Miles Cole, Daniel Coelho

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. From Delta 4.0 to Microsoft’s latest runtime innovations, dive into how Delta features really work. Learn Liquid Clustering and when to use it, why file size matters and how to put table tuning on autopilot, how to compact tables dramatically faster, and much more. Leave a time-traveling Delta Lake wizard ready to build fast, flexible, and scalable tables that deliver high-performance at any scale

Subramanian Muthukrishnan, Chandler Stevens

This session is primarily about real-time & eventing within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Enterprise AI requires unified semantic foundations where governance and intelligence flow seamlessly. Learn to architect data platform that use Ontology as your semantic backbone, Data Agents for insights, and Operational Agents for action. Through real-world examples, discover how organizations use AI agents to reliably detect, contextualize, attribute, and act on governed data.

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.

Mohan Sankaran, Chris Webb

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join us for an in-depth session on Performance Tuning Tips for Fabric Data Factory, with a focus on the Dataflow Gen2, Pipeline, and Copy Job artifacts. Discover strategies to optimize your data workflows, enhance efficiency, and maximize performance. Don’t miss out on expert insights that can revolutionize your data management practices.

Ye Shuaijun

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Managing Python and JAR library dependencies is key to building reliable, performant, and maintainable Spark workflows. Learn how to ensure reproducibility through consistent dependency handling, use lightweight setups to accelerate development and testing, enable inline installs for ad-hoc workloads, and integrate private repositories for secure, compliant library management.

Igal Amster, Justin Fine

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

Mike Diehl

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Are you a Fabric developer and struggling with using good development practices? Implementing practices such as source code control, branching strategies, code reviews (PRs), and automated deployments to independent environments (ie. workspaces) can transform how you work with Fabric. We'll show how to implement them and work around the gotchas that will bite you in your Fabric projects.

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.

Nina Arora-Rowland, Colin Pop

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. What happens when data engineering meets agentic AI? In this technical session, we explore how autonomous agents are reshaping the way pipelines are built, managed, and evolved on Microsoft Fabric. From real-world scenarios to emerging architectural patterns, we’ll examine how intelligent systems can move data operations beyond static scripts toward adaptive, context-aware workflows. We’ll also address practical considerations around governance, trust, and enterprise readiness as teams experiment with more autonomous data environments. Join us to unpack what it takes to move from traditional pipelines to intelligent, evolving data systems.

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.

Andy Parkerson

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Break free from browser IDE in Fabric Python and PySpark Notebooks! Learn to install Python and Spark, create your own local lakehouse, and develop Python and PySpark Notebooks in Visual Studio, VSCode, or whatever IDE you're used to. We'll start with a clean machine and download, install and configure everything we need. We will create a feature-rich notebook, and wrap up by deploying to Fabric.

Deepa Rajagopal, Pietro Morano

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This session explores how AI is transforming data engineering. We’ll walk through the latest AI innovations in Microsoft Fabric including AI‑powered notebooks, deep Copilot integration in VS Code, and CLI workflow. We will explore how these capabilities are changing how data engineers build, iterate, and operate day to day. Discover how agentic Copilot across Fabric Web, VS Code, and CLI removes coding barriers, accelerates time to value and automates repetitive tasks, leaving engineers to focus on higher-order problems.

Robert Saxby, Surya Turaga

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Get the most out of your investments with Azure Databricks. Learn how the deep integration in the Azure ecosystem accelerates workloads, optimizes performance, and maximizes value. See how the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform on Azure streamlines analytics and AI.

Lalit Goyal, Tyler Stemm

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Microsoft Fabric is rapidly becoming the unified platform of choice for enterprises seeking to modernize data engineering, analytics, and AI. But migration from Synapse, ADF, Snowflake, Databricks, and on-prem systems requires more than a lift-and-shift.

Tim Arif, Ashit Gosalia

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Unlock the full potential of Apache Spark with this in-depth session focused on performance optimization. We’ll explore advanced configuration strategies to fine-tune executors, memory, and partitioning for maximum efficiency. Learn how to leverage Spark’s built-in tools for debugging and monitoring, including the Spark UI and metrics, to identify bottlenecks and optimize workloads.

Ravi Gunturu

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Modernize your end-to-end data platform to Fabric and unlock AI/ML enabled potential in workloads, analytics, and collaboration. During this session, we will focus on agentic AI methods of automation during the migration process, achieving 60% improvement in productivity.

Partha Mishra

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. The "persist everything" era of data architecture is ending. Microsoft Fabric is the first platform that lets organizations make a genuine choice: persist strategically in OneLake, access external data via shortcuts and mirroring, or let AI agents retrieve directly from source systems at runtime - all under one security and governance model. This session explores the decision framework: when does persistence remain critical, and when can agents reason on-demand? Learn how the semantic layer - the Fabric IQ that grounds agents in trusted business data - becomes the governance backbone for agentic queries, and how leading organizations are compressing implementation timelines from months to weeks - shifting from project delivery to efficient, repeatable, scalable outcomes.

Alex Carvalho, Rick Weber

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. In this case study, Protective Industries transformed fragile pipelines by shifting architecture—not the business. See how Fabric SQL Mirroring replaced brittle ingestion, cut technical debt, and delivered a stable, low-latency foundation. Learn how unified ERP analytics, governance, and scalable patterns created a sustainable, enterprise-ready Fabric implementation.

Eric Overfield

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Microsoft Fabric Dataflows Gen2 empowers everyone to prepare data efficiently. In this session, learn no-code steps for quick wins, low-code techniques with Power Query for flexibility, and pro-code customization with M for full control. Discover practical strategies to simplify data prep and enable governed, reusable data at scale.

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.

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.

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.

Anu Venkataraman, Virginia Roman

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join this demo by Microsoft AI and Spark experts to see how Fabric takes Spark observability to the next level! Learn how to stream Spark logs to Eventhouse using Diagnostic Emitter. See Fabric AI/ML tooling in action to detect bottlenecks, predict resource impact, and suggest code improvements to optimize performance and cost. Visualize the insights and recommendations in Real Time Dashboard.

Sandeep Pawar

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Prompt engineering is powerful but brittle. Hard to scale, harder to maintain. Learn how to build declarative AI pipelines in Microsoft Fabric to tame unstructured data and unlock insights. Discover pitfalls, tools, and techniques to optimize and deliver successful solutions

Edward Pollack

This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This session is a dive into everything new that appears in SQL Server 2025 and are already available in Azure SQL Database. Looking to use the new Regex functions? There is a surprising upgrade snuck in there for STRING_SPLIT(). Is PRODUCT() really useful? Yes. Yes it is! What is fuzzy string matching all about? JSON support is finally here! There's more to be had, waiting for you right here!

Tobias Eld

This session is primarily about real-time & eventing within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. In this session, we will explore how Dynamics 365 Data Events enables the generation of event messages triggered by CRUD operations on data entities. These messages can be streamed to Azure Event Hubs, consumed by a Fabric Event Stream, and ultimately fed into an Eventhouse that serves as the data source for live Power BI reports. We will dive into several practical use cases for real-time reporting, then guide you through the setup and configuration process for this powerful solution. This session provides a technical deep dive into the integration of Dynamics 365, Azure, and Fabric, covering key components, architectural best practices, and real-world considerations.

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.

Ted Vilutis

This session is primarily about data engineering & architecture within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Discover the capabilities of the OneLake Spark Catalog, which supports Lakehouse schemas, cross-workspace querying, row- and column-level security, and more. Examine techniques for querying objects using Spark within Fabric, including simultaneous access to Data Warehouses, Mirror Databases, and Lakehouses. Finally, review best practices and strategies for enabling OneLake Spark Catalog for all Spark runs and migrating to schema-enabled lakehouses.

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.

Chris Wagner

This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how SQL databases deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective analytics in Microsoft Fabric. Explore design patterns, migration strategies, and performance tuning to modernize your data platform while ensuring governance, AI readiness, and seamless Power BI integration.