European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Microsoft Product Group Sessions
50 Sessions from 100+ Product Group Members
It is with great excitement and honour to announce 100+ Microsoft Product Group members will join the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Stockholm, Sep 24-27 to share their expertise across 50+ sessions and 3 stellar keynotes.
Expect to hear all about Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL, AI, Azure Databases, Fabric Data, Data Warehouse, Semantic Modelling, Power BI, Vector Search, Azure Databricks, Analytics and so much more.
We will be announcing a further tranche of community sessions next month – delivered by MVP’s and industry experts from across the globe. Stay tuned!
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Join Patrick LeBlanc and Phil Seamark for a deeper dive to discover what makes Direct Lake so fast. This session will cover important elements of monitoring and optimizing your Fabric data platform to unlock the full potential of Direct Lake, such as how to interpret Delta Analyzer logs and what to look out for if things slow down.
This unique Power Hour will bring together members of the Fabric product team from Microsoft, members of the Fabric technical community, and a collection of hands-on demos designed to show Fabric being used in ways it was never intended to be used. To celebrate our amazing host city, the Power Hour will also bring a collection of jokes that are guaranteed to sink more quickly than the Vasa in a high wind!
Leveraging Azure AI alongside Microsoft Fabric, developers can directly utilize OneLake data, which enhances the capabilities of Azure AI Studio’s Large Language Models with Retrieval-Augmented Generation. This integration facilitates the MLOps/LLMOps workflow, encompassing everything from data preparation to monitoring, and merges Fabric’s Data Science experience with Azure Machine Learning.
Join us to learn about what’s new and our roadmap for Data Factory in Fabric. Our team has been working extremely hard over the past few months, and in this session, you will see some of our exciting new capabilities.
The session will elucidate and inspire the construction of a Q&A bot on your Fabric data. This solution empowers the use of conversational language over tabular data and facilitates the integration of Fabric datasets into chatbots for customers or users. Beyond the capabilities of Copilot in Fabric – accessible via the Fabric portal, ISVs and customers have the opportunity to incorporate this bot within their own software services, as it is exposed on an endpoint.
Discover what’s new and upcoming for Power BI integration with M365! Learn how to drive productivity and deepen your organization’s data-driven culture. In this session we will walk through what’s available in Power BI today, what’s on the roadmap, and how you can use these features to increase efficiency and improve decision making!
Microsoft Fabric provides an end-to-end analytics platform that addresses every aspect of an organization’s analytics needs. Learn how Fabric enables organizations to govern, manage, and protect their analytics data with built-in local governance and compliance experiences. Plus, see how Fabric integrates with other governance and security solutions, including Microsoft Purview, to gain global coverage and advanced capabilities.
Copilot AI companions are changing the landscape of productivity in everything we do. Come see in this session a new world of Copilot technology specifically built for SQL developers and IT pros. Use Copilots for self-assist on the most common and toughest SQL problems. Or use our Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) Copilot technology to accelerate your T-SQL programming skills.
Join this session with the Power BI Product team to gain insight into the Power BI roadmap and vision! Learn how Power BI is transforming data analytics and decision-making across organizations using the latest innovations. Take a glimpse into the future of Power BI with exclusive sneak peeks of upcoming features that empower you to harness the full potential of your data.
Rick will discuss Microsoft’s latest generally available security features such as Private Link, Trusted Workspace Access, and Managed VNet and Private Endpoints for Spark. Rick will also cover our roadmap investment areas in networking, security, and compliance. This session will make sure you understand what you get out of the box with Fabric and have the discussion with your security team.
Microsoft Fabric offers a suite of powerful tools designed to handle various data workloads, but the key to harnessing its full potential lies in understanding which tool to use and when. This session provides a deep dive into the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, from Lakehouse to Warehouses and Power BI, ensuring that participants can make informed decisions about their data processing needs. We’ll also look at current limitations that will help guide you.
Capacities are the foundation for all your Microsoft Fabric workloads. This session will walk through key concepts that impact performance like bursting, smoothing, and throttling. We will also provide tips on monitoring your capacity, strategies for multiple capacities, best practices to minimize compute, and updates on new features for capacity admins.
In the realm of Microsoft Fabric, there are several robust approaches for data ingestion tailored to meet diverse analytical requirements. This session will explore the optimal use of various tools, including database Mirroring, Copy Job, Copy Pipeline, and Dataflow Gen2. Attendees will gain insights into best practices for leveraging these tools effectively across different scenarios, ensuring efficient and scalable data ingestion processes.
In this session, we will demonstrate how to leverage Microsoft Fabric Real-Time hub to discover, manage and consume streams and tables. This will be part of a virtual learning path. Also we will cover how to leverage GetEvents to effortlessly ingest data from various sources into Fabric.
Learn the strategic initiative to upgrade Azure Data Factory (ADF) and Synapse Pipelines to Microsoft Fabric Data Factory. Discuss the feature parity between these products, explore the Fabric connectors supported, and connect your existing ADF to Fabric and introduce the new concept of “mounting,” which allows you to connect your existing ADFs to Fabric and have a unified platform for managing all data integration.
This session aims to equip you to confidently deploy Fabric Spark for real-world production. Learn best practices, tackle scaling challenges, and unlock peak price-performance.
Learn how Microsoft Fabric Copilot in Power BI helps creators be more productive and consumers get insights faster. Hear from the Power BI Product team about the latest features and innovations in Copilot and gain perspectives on future roadmap with a sneak peek or two which are sure to excite. Join us for this thrilling session and bring your questions for the product team.
This session will walk you through the detailed process of automating invoice processing using Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI. From data ingestion and preprocessing to applying machine learning models for extraction and validation, this comprehensive guide will demonstrate how to streamline invoice management efficiently.
Come see the latest innovations for SQL from the Microsoft SQL leadership to integrate AI and Microsoft Fabric with security and scale. You will learn how to get smarter with your data using AI, use Copilot experiences to get faster, cloud monitoring capabilities to get more insights, and integrate all your SQL data with Microsoft Fabric so your entire organization can get the maximum value from your SQL data.
Dive into the world of Microsoft Fabric and discover how you can leverage its capabilities to enhance your data analytics workflows. Learn all about the revolutionary Direct Lake storage mode and all of it’s benefits
Delve into the exciting world of Microsoft Fabric, focusing on two critical aspects: automation and embedded analytics. Our session caters to Microsoft Fabric customers, developers, and IT professionals, providing a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements and upcoming features
Learn about the core concepts of OneLake and how it is designed to be the single place for all your analytics data. The same data can be used across multiple analytical engines because Microsoft Fabric engines store all tabular data in the open Delta Parquet format.
Data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric empowers citizen developers and SQL engineers to analyze data and accelerate their reporting and insights at any scale. ETL, data modeling, data preparation, data quality, performance monitoring and cost management can be daunting tasks.
Microsoft Fabric is emerging as a revolutionary analytics platform, transforming how we approach data integration from SQL sources to drive business objectives. This session delves into the innovative Mirroring capability of Microsoft Fabric, demonstrating how to seamlessly integrate, ingest, and replicate operational data in near real-time.
This session will introduce new features like drag and drop for task flow, cross-workspace task flow, new workspace filters, and an enhanced item creation experience. Attendees will engage with interactive prototypes, participate in usability tests, and join brainstorming sessions to help shape the future of Microsoft Fabric.
Explore the native execution engine, a cutting-edge new feature in Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering and Data Science designed to accelerate data processing in your lakehouse. Receive an in-depth look at how the native execution engine leverages advanced technologies like columnar format and vectorized processing to achieve remarkable speed improvements for data analytics and machine learning tasks.
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.
Explore the process and best practices for migrating from SQL Server or Dedicated SQL Pools to the Synapse Data Warehouse within Microsoft’s Fabric ecosystem. Gain insights into the advantages of moving to Synapse Data Warehouse.
This session is an opportunity to understand the forward momentum of Microsoft Fabric’s ML and AI investments. Join us to stay ahead of the curve and learn about the latest roadmap and exciting announcements!
Join this session to learn how to create specialized AI skills, Data Experts, on your data. The AI skill is designed to seamlessly integrate into your custom AI solutions, or enhance the capabilities of Microsoft Copilot Studio and M365 Copilot. You’ll gain insights into the process of tailoring this AI skill to your specific needs. Join us to unlock the power of GenAI and transform your data into a knowledgeable asset within your AI ecosystem.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of data and AI, Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric, two innovative technologies in the AI era come together to uniquely combine their capabilities to provide unparalleled insights via a powerful analytics environment, making Azure the premier destination for analytics in the AI era. Join this session to witness the synergy of Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric.
Discover how to optimize your Fabric workloads across Power BI, Spark, Data Factory, Real-Time Intelligence, etc. Learn how auditing and job monitoring experiences in Fabric effectively helps you understand usage, system health, and performance of your Fabric tenant and sets you up for maintaining highly performant data applications.
Dive into the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, revealing the details of its innovative features that are shaping the future of data warehousing. We will explore the architectural principles that revolutionize how Power BI interacts with Data Warehouse through Direct Lake, how you can query Fabric Lakehouses and other external data sources (Azure Data Lake, Amazon S3, Google GCP) without the need to ingest data, and how to use Python/Spark to access DW data using the open Delta Lake format.
In this session, we will delve into the technical intricacies of constructing AI-enabled applications using your data in Azure SQL Database. We’ll guide you through the process of building end-to-end GenAI solutions for Intelligent Databases, Intelligent Applications, and Intelligent Operations.
This session is designed to demystify and streamline code development for AI-driven data transformation and enrichment. Whether you are a seasoned developer or just beginning your journey with AI, this session will equip you with the essential knowledge and practical skills needed to elevate your expertise.
The landscape for developing enterprise-scale models has never been more exciting than it is now. With Developer mode in Power BI Desktop and the new Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL) language, we’re unlocking new scenarios that previously weren’t possible, such as great source control and co-development experiences with Git integration.
Delve into the advanced capabilities of Microsoft Fabric, particularly when augmented with specialized workloads developed by our partners. We’ll focus on the governance and addition of workloads through the newly introduced Workload Hub. Our esteemed partner, Profisee, will join us to showcase their Master Data Management (MDM) solution, reimagined as a Fabric workload.
Join us for an in-depth session on mastering Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse performance, where we will cover everything from the fundamentals of query optimizer to advanced performance monitoring and optimization techniques. This session will explore how query optimizer intelligently tunes your workload for optimal performance, learn the latest features and enhancements such as data clustering, query Insights and improved UI monitoring capabilities.
Equipped with the capabilities of the Fabric platform, you are ready to harness your data and train the latest and greatest models to disrupt industries. How can you ensure this technology is implemented in a responsible way, avoiding bias and preventing disparity in quality of outcome for all users? Learn about the core aspects that the teams behind Fabric evaluate when incorporating AI technology into our products and the resources Microsoft provides to explore how you can apply a similar methodology.
Microsoft Fabric accelerates data potential for the era of AI. Mirroring simplifies linking of external databases into Fabric, with full replicas created with just a couple of clicks. Once a database is mirrored, real-time updates will automatically be replicated into OneLake and stored as Delta Parquet, an analytics-ready format that works seamlessly for every analytics workload in Fabric. Join us to gain deeper insights and best practices with Mirroring to break down data silos and bring data gravity to unlock powerful insights in Fabric.
This session dives deep into recently released and brand new features and integrations that are revolutionising how we optimise, analyse, and integrate PostgreSQL databases in the cloud. From Automated Index Tuning recommendations to the latest news on Generative AI developments, with vector, azure_ai and azure_local_ai extensions.
Explore the capabilities of Azure Cosmos DB and its new vector database capabilities using DiskANN, a technology developed by Microsoft Research. With DiskANN, users can achieve low latency, high-recall vector search at any scale. Combined with Azure Cosmos DB’s unique scale-out architecture and instant autoscale, it provides enormous value with a cost profile unmatched by any vector database in the market today.
In the era of digital transformation, understanding customer interactions is paramount to business success.
This session will focus on the power of capturing and leveraging chat history between users and Large Language Models (LLMs) for your Retrieval-Augmented Generation pattern applications.
Explore how Gen-AI can be harnessed to architect and build a variety of innovative applications, including Real-Time Recommendation Engines, Real-Time Anomaly and Fraud Detection systems, and Multi-tenant AI apps. We will provide practical guidance on how to implement these applications, offering insights into the architectural considerations and best practices involved.
Learn how you can leverage your data in Fabric to easily build and end-to-end responsive, intelligent application. APIs for GraphQL enable you to effortlessly connect your Fabric data with your applications.
Explore how Gen-AI can be harnessed to architect and build a variety of innovative applications, including Real-Time Recommendation Engines, Real-Time Anomaly and Fraud Detection systems, and Multi-tenant AI apps. We will provide practical guidance on how to implement these applications, offering insights into the architectural considerations and best practices involved.
We will explore the capabilities of Azure Cosmos DB and its new vector database capabilities using DiskANN, a technology developed by Microsoft Research. With DiskANN, users can achieve low latency, high-recall vector search at any scale. Combined with Azure Cosmos DB’s unique scale-out architecture and instant autoscale, it provides enormous value with a cost profile unmatched by any vector database in the market today. This allows for the development of large-scale applications that are not only powerful and reliable, but also economical.
In the era of digital transformation, understanding customer interactions is paramount to business success. This session will focus on the power of capturing and leveraging chat history between users and Large Language Models (LLMs) for your Retrieval-Augmented Generation pattern applications.
In this session, we will explore how Gen-AI can be harnessed to architect and build a variety of innovative applications, including Real-Time Recommendation Engines, Real-Time Anomaly and Fraud Detection systems, and Multi-tenant AI apps. We will provide practical guidance on how to implement these applications, offering insights into the architectural considerations and best practices involved.
Join us for an energizing and interactive workshop focused on the practice of data security and governance to seamlessly secure and confidently activate data for Gen AI. Share and learn amongst peers on how to secure data and navigate your data governance journey using Microsoft Purview capabilities and integrations with Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Studio.
Join us for an immersive journey into the world of AI development within Microsoft Fabric. You will learn about various AI capabilities in Fabric and gain practical experience in utilizing GenAI to effortlessly prepare and transform data within notebooks using natural language and other relevant tools. You will get practical experience of preparing data for AI processing using RAG, and to create AI skills, that are experts on data in Fabric.
Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric is designed to enable organisations to bring their streaming, high-granularity, time-sensitive event data into Fabric and build various analytical, visual and action oriented data applications and experiences with it.
This tutorial will get you hands-on with Real-Time Hub, Eventstream, Eventhouse, Data Activator, Real-Time Dashboards, Power BI, and Copilot with combination of Microsoft MVPs and Fabric product group members to guide you along the way.
Since ChatGPT, everybody became aware of the power of large AI models, yet not many people have an overview of this field, and how to get started.
This workshop provides a closer look at the state of the art of large AI models that you can use. This is a rapidly evolving field and the workshop will aim at talking about the available state of the art.
This workshop will start introductory but cover more advanced topics. No deep-learning experience required.
This workshop will be a deep-dive on strategies for planning and executing Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle and Records Management in the workplace from both a Records Manager’s and IT-Pro’s perspective. With compliance concerns on the rise in the modern workplace today, compliance teams are reaching out to their IT-Pro partners for assistance. This is unfamiliar territory for many; this workshop is built to help clear the path forward for both sides.
This is a deep-dive workshop on modern infrastructure security – on premise and in the cloud. During this workshop, we will learn how to identify the areas of vulnerability and manage them.
After completing this course, you will know how to analyze emerging trends in attack techniques, identify areas of vulnerability within your organization, prepare a risk assessment for your organization, and much more!
In this interactive workshop, we will start at the beginning and ramp up your copilot understanding with education sessions and interactive sessions where you can test the tools out in a safe space. Be prepared to truly understand how this works so you can be READY for some of the biggest changes about to take place in the tech world TODAY!
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