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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kevin Chant, John Kerski

This session is primarily about devops & delivery within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Take a deep dive into CI/CD strategies for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps. This session explores Git-integrated deployments, Azure Pipelines, variable management and various tooling's. We’ll also examine testing approaches and automation design patterns to help you build robust, maintainable deployment workflows tailored to Fabric’s architecture. By the end of the workshop you will have the knowledge to deploy with confidence.

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.

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.

Mehul Thacker

This session is primarily about ai & agents within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Discover how to build an AI-powered Master Data Management solution on Microsoft Fabric. Learn how AI models identify duplicates, enrich data, and create a reliable golden record. See practical patterns that improve data quality, downstream analytics, and enterprise operational efficiency.

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.

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.

Matthew Roche

This session is primarily about devops & delivery within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Disciplined foundations and flexible practices, built on clear requirements and responsibilities, drive successful implementations of Microsoft Fabric. Based on a core principle of Executive Sponsorship, explore how to enable scalable self-service, grow a thriving community for skills and best practice sharing, and apply the Fabric Adoption Roadmap to establish effective, sustainable governance.

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.

Li Liu, Joe Muziki

This session is primarily about devops & delivery within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This session explores how users can monitor job statuses, understand the performance of their data solutions, and diagnose and address health issues in Fabric. We'll give you best practices and highlight the latest capabilities in Fabric to help you efficiently monitor and troubleshoot your data solutions.

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.

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.

Monica Morehouse (Rathbun)

This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Dive into SQL Server performance like a true data detective. Learn how to analyze query plans, uncover hidden bottlenecks, and chase down the real culprits behind slow-running queries. We’ll break down key performance metrics, decode what they actually mean in the real world, and show you how to turn chaos into clarity. By the end, you’ll have the tools and confidence to keep your SQL Server environment running fast, stable, and drama-free. Join us for “SQL Unmasked” and start solving performance mysteries the smart (and fun) way.

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.

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.

Bob Ward, Kendal Van Dyke

This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. You may have heard the news that SQL Server 2025 has become Generally Available. But do you know why there has been so much buzz about this new version? Come learn from the team at Microsoft everything you need to know about why you should consider upgrading to SQL Server 2025. From AI to developer features to mission critical engine, SQL Server 2025 has more new features than you might realize.

Holly Kelly

This session is primarily about devops & delivery within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. A fast-paced tour of what’s new and what’s coming next for automation in Microsoft Fabric including some exciting new announcements. We’ll share updates on the Fabric CLI, Fabric MCP Servers, Terraform provider, SDKs and more, plus end-to-end demos for CI/CD, IaC, and pro-dev workflows. Come ask questions and share feedback directly with the team building Fabric’s automation and pro-dev experiences.

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.

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.