[{"_id":"673fc18d10b48743d8e511a4","speakers":["2518","2738"],"sessionID":7179,"title":"A Comprehensive Guide to Direct Lake for the Pro Data Modeller (Hands-on)","abstract":"<strong> Sunday, March 30, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong><br /><br /> <strong>Bring your own laptop</strong><br /><br /> \nJoin us for an immersive, hands-on workshop designed specifically for Pro Data Modellers. This comprehensive session will guide you through all the critical elements needed to build, tune, and maintain a Direct Lake Model in Microsoft Fabric.\n<br /> <br /> \nThroughout the workshop, you will delve into essential topics such as: <br /> \n-Understanding the prerequisites for setting up your model. <br /> \n-Exploring the anatomy of Parquet files and their role in data storage. <br /> \n-Mastering transcoding and framing techniques to optimize data processing. <br /> \n-Implementing SQL fallback strategies for enhanced reliability. <br /> \n-Discovering new features and how they can benefit your projects. <br /> \n-Ensuring robust security measures to protect your data. <br /> \n-Fine-tuning performance to achieve optimal efficiency. <br /> \n-Navigating the migration process with ease.<br /> \n-Tackling advanced topics to elevate your modelling skills.\n<br /> <br /> \nBy the end of this workshop, you will have gained the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively manage a Direct Lake Model, ensuring your projects are both efficient and secure.","sessioncode":"PRECON06","speakerNames":["Patrick LeBlanc","Philip Seamark"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["344"],"trackNames":["PowerBI"],"roomID":378,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 313","timeSlot":678,"startTime":"2025-03-30T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-30T16:00","date":"03/30/2025","products":["Power BI"],"personas":["Data Engineer","Data Analyst","Developer"],"tags":[],"topics":["Power BI","Fabric Platform"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7179,"__v":3,"level":"300 – Advanced","source":"Microsoft"},{"_id":"675a31738a314ac490eb2bde","speakers":["3400","2908","3621"],"sessionID":7218,"title":"Build Durable Multi-Agent Applications in C# or Python Using Azure Cosmos DB (Hands-on)","abstract":"<strong> Thursday, April 03, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm</strong><br /><br />\n<strong>Bring your own laptop</strong><br /><br />\nIn the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, multi-agent systems represent the cutting edge of dynamic and scalable applications, enabling autonomous collaboration between specialized agents to solve complex problems. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to harness the power of Semantic Kernel in C# or LangGraph in Python to create robust, AI-driven systems. You can choose your own adventure in this workshop!\n<br /><br />\nThis workshop is designed to guide developers through every step of building durable multi-agent applications, including:\n<br /><br />\n•\tUnderstanding Multi-Agent Architectures: Explore the core principles of multi-agent systems, their benefits, and how they can simulate human-like collaboration. <br />\n•\tAgent Specialization and Orchestration: Learn how to define agent roles, tasks, and communication protocols to enable seamless collaboration. <br />\n•\tSemantic Kernel with C# or LangGraph with Python: Dive deep into these powerful frameworks for managing and orchestrating agents, natural language processing (NLP), memory management, and task automation. <br />\n•\tIntegrating APIs and External Tools: Discover how to connect agents to external APIs, databases, and third-party tools to extend their functionality. <br />\n•\tMemory Persistence, state and token management and monitoring: Implement long-term memory and state tracking to ensure durability and context-awareness in agent interactions. Understand how to manage tokens across multiple users and agents. Monitor these solutions to ensure they operate correctly and efficiently.\n<br /><br />\nBy the end of the workshop, participants will have built a fully functional, multi-agent application, equipped with intelligent, task-oriented agents capable of collaborating autonomously. Whether you are a C# or Python developer, this workshop will empower you to take your AI development skills to the next level.\n<br /><br />\nPre-requisites: <br />\n• Your own laptop <br />\n• Working knowledge of Python or C# and app development in Azure. <br />\n• An Azure subscription with Administrator rights to deploy new services and apply RBAC policies. <br />\n• A GitHub account to fork the lab contents and run in GitHub Codespaces. You may also clone locally with your choice of IDE and Python 3.11+ or .NET 9 depending on whether completing Python or C# lab.","sessioncode":"POSTCON07","speakerNames":["James Codella","Sandeep Nair","Aayush Kataria"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["315"],"trackNames":["Databases"],"roomID":384,"roomName":"Chairman's Ballroom 350","timeSlot":679,"startTime":"2025-04-03T08:00","endTime":"2025-04-03T15:00","date":"04/03/2025","level":"300 – Advanced","products":["Databases","Cosmos DB"],"personas":["Software Architect","Software Developer","Developer Decision Maker","Developer"],"tags":[],"topics":[],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"source":"Microsoft","type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7218,"__v":3},{"_id":"675a29cf8a314ac490eb24da","speakers":["2368","2988","1334"],"sessionID":7216,"title":"Building AI Applications with SQL: Ground to Cloud to Fabric","abstract":"<strong> Sunday, March 30, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong><br /><br />\nAre you proficient in SQL and eager to learn about the new world of AI? In this full-day workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of Generative AI, and how AI can be applied to your data, integrating seamlessly from SQL on the edge to cloud solutions using Microsoft Fabric.\n<br /><br />\nWe will cover essential concepts such as language models, prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), vectors and embeddings, and AI services. You will explore the practical applications of building AI-driven solutions with SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, and SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric, enabling you to gain practical experience and skills.\n<br /><br />\nAdditionally, this workshop will emphasize security aspects, ensuring that your AI applications are secure and compliant.\n<br /><br />\nWhether you are a developer, architect, administrator, or IT professional, this workshop welcomes everyone—even without advanced SQL knowledge. This is your one-stop shop to learn the latest advancements in SQL and AI, directly from the Microsoft engineering team, and to have fun while doing it.","sessioncode":"PRECON13","speakerNames":["Davide Mauri","Muazma Zahid","Bob Ward"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["315"],"trackNames":["Databases"],"roomID":303,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 319","timeSlot":678,"startTime":"2025-03-30T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-30T16:00","date":"03/30/2025","level":"200 – Intermediate","products":["Databases"],"personas":["Business Decision Maker","Database Admin (DBA)","Software Developer","Software Architect","Developer Decision Maker","Developer"],"tags":[],"topics":[],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"source":"Microsoft","type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7216,"__v":2},{"_id":"67b8c6ac05a16019be45a167","speakers":["1736","1016"],"sessionID":7528,"title":"Building Analytics Agents for Microsoft Fabric (Hands-on)","abstract":"<strong> Thursday, April 03, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm</strong><br /><br />\n<strong>Bring your own laptop</strong><br /><br /> \nMicrosoft Fabric is quickly emerging as the de facto end-to-end, enterprise-ready analytics platform. Organizations are analyzing and governing more and more data and information through Microsoft Fabric's robust services. At the same time, Generative AI is taking the world by storm and is quickly becoming the norm in every organization. Regardless of the disruption Generative AI brings to the table, must-haves like resiliency, scalability, performance, security, operations, and governance (to name just a few) are still on the list of core requirements. It comes only naturally that Generative AI agents that understand and reason on top of analytics data are quickly becoming a red hot topic in most IT departments and boardrooms. Microsoft Fabric already has a fantastic set of copilots that address many scenarios and help you become more productive. But what happens when you need a custom agent? For example, an agent capable of reasoning on top of a combination of analytical data from Microsoft Fabric and a knowledge source residing elsewhere. Or an agent that can reason on dynamically uploaded documents using an analytical store as context information? Enter the realm of custom Generative AI agents. In this workshop, we will introduce the concept of custom Generative AI agents, focusing heavily on analytics agents. We will discuss use cases and scenarios and create concrete implementations for them. We will dive into real-world examples and share our experience building Generative AI agents that target Microsoft Fabric and use its powerful analytical capabilities. To help us focus on the specific topics and challenges of analytics agents, we will use foundationallm.ai as the technical platform to design, implement, and test them. FoundationaLLM leverages a wide range of Azure AI Foundry services and capabilities, so you will also have the opportunity to improve your understanding of these. Welcome to the amazing and challenging world of analytics agents!","sessioncode":"POSTCON8","speakerNames":["Ciprian Jichici","Lino Tadros"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["335"],"trackNames":["FabricPlatform"],"roomID":368,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 318","timeSlot":679,"startTime":"2025-04-03T08:00","endTime":"2025-04-03T15:00","date":"04/03/2025","products":[],"personas":[],"tags":[],"topics":[],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7528,"__v":1},{"_id":"673fc0cf10b48743d8e51147","speakers":["2435"],"sessionID":7177,"title":"Building an End-to-End Lakehouse Solution (Hands-on)","abstract":"<strong> Saturday, March 29, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong><br /><br /><strong>Bring your own laptop</strong><br /><br /> This workshop will provide participants with the knowledge and tools needed to create a enterprise-ready Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse from scratch. The workshop covers everything from getting started gathering data from different sources, transforming the data into an analytical model, securing access, and monitoring it’s performance. As Fabric provides many different methods for performing these tasks, we will cover a variety of different development tools, including using shortcuts, copying data, pipelines, Data Flow Gen 2, notebooks, and explain which is the best choice in a given situation. <br /><br />Participants will practice the steps in hands on exercises using medallion architecture to transform the data into an analytical lakehouse, which can be used for ad-hoc querying, and of course as a source for Power BI reports. Participants will learn how to provide ongoing maintenance, security and monitoring of the lakehouse to ensure it is an enterprise level solution. The workshop experience and examples will provide participants with the knowledge needed to implement the techniques to create their own lakehouse. <br />\nBy the end of the session, participants will not only understand the technical steps involved but also when and why to choose a lakehouse architecture for their organizational data needs.\n<br /><br />\nAgenda Breakout <br />\nLakehouse architecture and capabilities in Fabric <br />\n• Overview of all you can do with a Lakehouse <br />\n• Lakehouse physical structure and One Lake <br />\n• Parquet and Delta Lake <br />\n• Architectural reasons for including a lakehouse <br />\nDeveloping a Lakehouse with Medallion Architecture <br />\n• Process Description <br />\n• Workspace Organization <br />\n• Component organization <br /><br />\nLoading Data into a Lakehouse<br />\n• Using the copy command <br />\n• Shortcuts <br />\n• Data Exploration in the Lakehouse with SSMS and Azure Data Studio <br /><br />\nImplementing optimal Lakehouse design <br />\n• Dimensional modeling <br />\n• Transforming data with Pyspark and Spark SQL <br />\n• Data flow Gen2 <br /><br />\n\nUsing a Fabric Lakehouse <br />\n• Power BI Direct Lake <br />\n• Loading data to a Data Warehouse <br />\n• Sharing <br />\n• Security <br />\n• Monitoring and Performance <br />\n• Default and other semantic modeling\n\n<br /><br />\n<strong> Suggested software: Azure Data Studio or SQL Server Management Studio loaded on your laptop. Most of the exercises are in the cloud. </strong>","sessioncode":"PRECON04","speakerNames":["Ginger Grant"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["335"],"trackNames":["FabricPlatform"],"roomID":353,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 310","timeSlot":677,"startTime":"2025-03-29T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-29T16:00","date":"03/29/2025","products":["Data Engineering"],"personas":["Data Engineer"],"tags":[],"topics":["Data Engineering","Fabric Platform"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"hidden":false,"ID":7177,"__v":3,"level":"100 – Introduction/Overview","source":"Community","type":"Workshop"},{"_id":"673fc20610b48743d8e511e3","speakers":["3560","2520","2920"],"sessionID":7181,"title":"Data Factory: Learn What’s New and Get from Zero to Hero in a Day","abstract":"<strong> Sunday, March 30, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong><br /><br /> \nJoin us for an immersive workshop designed to take you from zero to hero with Data Factory! This session is perfect for anyone looking to get up to speed with the latest product innovations in Data Factory. Throughout the day, you'll learn about the newest features and enhancements, and how they can help you streamline your data processes. Whether you're new to Data Factory or looking to deepen your knowledge, this workshop will provide you with the tools and insights needed to maximize your productivity and efficiency. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your data skills and become a Data Factory expert in just one day!","sessioncode":"PRECON08","speakerNames":["Connie Xu","Alex Powers","Miguel Escobar"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["345"],"trackNames":["DataIntegration"],"roomID":351,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 317","timeSlot":678,"startTime":"2025-03-30T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-30T16:00","date":"03/30/2025","products":["Data Integration"],"personas":["Data Engineer","Data Scientist","Data Analyst","Data Citizen"],"tags":[],"topics":["Data Integration"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7181,"__v":10,"level":"100 – Introduction/Overview","source":"Microsoft"},{"_id":"673fc11610b48743d8e51165","speakers":["2968","2987"],"sessionID":7178,"title":"End-to-End Data Engineering: Modern Data Warehousing on Microsoft Fabric (Hands-on)","abstract":"<strong> Saturday, March 29, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong><br /><br /><strong>Bring your own laptop</strong><br /><br /> \nIn today’s data-driven world, the ability to efficiently manage and analyze vast amounts of data is crucial for business success. This full-day hands-on workshop will explore the comprehensive capabilities of Fabric data warehouse, highlighting how it enables seamless end-to-end data engineering.\n<br /> \nYou will learn about data ingestion, storage, transformation, analysis as well as monitoring and managing a data warehouse within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. We will delve into real-world use cases, demonstrating how organizations can leverage Fabric data warehouse to drive insights and innovation. Whether you’re a DBA, data engineer, analyst, or IT professional, this session will provide you with practical skills to enhance your data engineering capabilities with Microsoft Fabric.\n<br /> \nAt the end of this workshop, you will have gained practical experience in building robust, scalable, and efficient data solutions on Microsoft Fabric data warehouse.","sessioncode":"PRECON05","speakerNames":["Bradley Schacht","Peri Rocha"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["348"],"trackNames":["DataWarehousing"],"roomID":303,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 319","timeSlot":677,"startTime":"2025-03-29T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-29T16:00","date":"03/29/2025","products":["Data Warehousing"],"personas":["Data Engineer","Data Analyst","Database Admin (DBA)"],"tags":[],"topics":["Data Warehousing","Fabric Platform"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7178,"__v":5,"level":"200 – Intermediate","source":"Microsoft"},{"_id":"673fc49e10b48743d8e512ca","speakers":["3566","3567"],"sessionID":7185,"title":"Fabric Analyst in a Day (Hands-on)","abstract":"<strong> Thursday, April 03, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm</strong><br /><br /> \n<strong>(Sold Out)</strong> <br /><br /> \n<strong>Bring your own laptop </strong> <br /><br /> \n\nMicrosoft Fabric is an end-to-end analytics platform that brings together all the data and analytics tools that organizations need to go from the data lake to the business user. Fabric integrates technologies like Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI into a single unified product, empowering data and business professionals alike to unlock the potential of their data and lay the foundation for the era of AI.\n<br/><br/>\nFabric Analyst in a Day is an intermediate-level training designed for Power BI Data Analysts with experience on Power BI, but new to Microsoft Fabric. The goal of this informational session is to help you understand how to consolidate your data into a single source of truth where you can analyze your data and generate meaningful insights. Data Analysts will go through the end-to-end analytics solution from ingesting data to building reports with automatic refresh. Whether you are evaluating Fabric’s ability to meet organizational requirements around data unification, visualization, and analysis or wanting to learn how it can help optimize your work to create high value impact, this is the workshop for you.\n<br/><br/>\nAt the end of the day, attendees will better understand how to: <br/>\n-Identify when their organizations can benefit from using Microsoft Fabric for their specific business scenarios <br/>\n-Leverage the full power of Microsoft Fabric to streamline and enhance productivity with integrated analytics platform <br/>\n-Unify and transform data from across various data sources through Shortcuts, Dataflows Gen 2 and Pipelines <br/>\n-Build rich and powerful reports to discover meaningful insights and make impactful business decisions with Power BI","sessioncode":"POSTCON01","speakerNames":["Mitchell Pearson","Manuel Quintana"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["335"],"trackNames":["FabricPlatform"],"roomID":380,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 312","timeSlot":679,"startTime":"2025-04-03T08:00","endTime":"2025-04-03T15:00","date":"04/03/2025","products":[],"personas":["Data Engineer","Data Analyst","Data Citizen","IT Professional","Developer"],"tags":[],"topics":["Fabric Platform","Power BI"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"disabled":true,"ID":7185,"__v":6,"level":"200 – Intermediate","source":"Community"},{"_id":"675a27598a314ac490eb2462","speakers":["3579","3098","3018"],"sessionID":7215,"title":"Fabric SQL database Data Engineer in a Day (Hands-on)","abstract":"<strong> Saturday, March 29, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong>\n<br /><br /> <strong>(Sold Out)</strong> <br /><br />\n<strong>Bring your own laptop</strong><br /><br /> \n\nAttention all developers, architects, administrators, and IT professionals! <br/><br/>\n\nJoin us for a hands-on workshop to dive into the world of SQL database in Fabric! Get ready for an exciting journey where you shall receive a full tour and hands-on experience with SQL database in Fabric with topics ranging from data migration to data integration and security.\n<br/><br/>\nThis workshop will prepare you to hit the ground running, building solutions that take full advantage of the integration and simplicity provided by Microsoft Fabric. Don't miss out on this incredible chance to level up your skills and learn about all that SQL database in Fabric has to offer!\n<br/><br/>\nAt the end of the day, attendees will understand: <br/>\n1. What SQL database in Fabric is and how best to use it. <br/>\n2. How to get data into SQL database in Fabric from OneLake and on-premises databases. <br/>\n3. How to enrich data using Fabric Pipelines, Data Flows and Notebooks. <br/>\n4. Serving data to users via PowerBI, GraphQL and connecting your existing applications. <br/>\n5. Securing your data, including Microsoft Entra authentication, private link, auditing and encryption. <br/>\n6. How to manage production workloads including monitoring, deployment and source control.","sessioncode":"PRECON12","speakerNames":["Sukhwant Kaur","Sanjay Soni","Idris Motiwala"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["315"],"trackNames":["Databases"],"roomID":368,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 318","timeSlot":677,"startTime":"2025-03-29T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-29T16:00","date":"03/29/2025","level":"200 – Intermediate","products":["Databases","Data Engineering"],"personas":["Data Engineer","Data Analyst","Data Citizen","Database Admin (DBA)","Software Developer","Software Architect","Developer Decision Maker","IT Professional","Developer"],"tags":[],"topics":["Data Engineering"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"source":"Microsoft","type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"disabled":true,"ID":7215,"__v":5},{"_id":"673fc50310b48743d8e51300","speakers":["3564","3634","3633"],"sessionID":7187,"title":"Getting Started with AI & Data Science in Fabric","abstract":"<strong> Thursday, April 03, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm</strong><br /><br /> \n<strong>(Sold Out)</strong> <br /><br />\nJoin us for an immersive journey into the world of ML and AI development within Microsoft Fabric. You will learn about various Machine Learning and 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 ML processing using Fabric notebooks and tools. You will also learn how to do AI processing using RAG, and to create AI skills, that are experts on data in Fabric.\n<br /><br /> \nBy the end of this workshop, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to use ML and AI features to enhance your data workflows and drive insightful data-driven decisions within Microsoft Fabric.","sessioncode":"POSTCON03","speakerNames":["Shreyas Canchi Radhakrishna","Alexandra Savelieva","Journey McDowell"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["347"],"trackNames":["DataScience"],"roomID":355,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 316","timeSlot":679,"startTime":"2025-04-03T08:00","endTime":"2025-04-03T15:00","date":"04/03/2025","products":["Data Science","Data Engineering"],"personas":["Data Engineer","Data Scientist","Data Analyst","Software Developer","IT Professional","Developer"],"tags":[],"topics":["Data Science","Data Engineering"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"disabled":true,"ID":7187,"__v":7,"level":"100 – Introduction/Overview","source":"Microsoft"},{"_id":"6760a9c0f4f666ded24d0ddd","speakers":["3033","3066"],"sessionID":7219,"title":"Govern Your Data on Fabric and Beyond: A Pre-Conference Exploration","abstract":"<strong> Saturday, March 29, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong><br /><br />\nIn the ever-evolving landscape of governance, where agility, transparency, and efficiency are paramount, the integration of cutting-edge technology becomes imperative. Enter Microsoft Fabric – a transformative platform designed to revolutionize data democratization. This pre-conference session serves as an immersive exploration into the governance capabilities within Microsoft Fabric.\n<br /><br />\nThroughout this session, participants will delve into the multifaceted dimensions of governance, understanding its complexities and challenges in contemporary contexts. By leveraging the power of Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview, attendees will uncover innovative strategies to streamline decision-making processes, enhance compliance frameworks, and foster greater accountability.\n<br /><br />\nKey highlights of the pre-conference session include:\n<br /><br />\nIntroduction to Governance within Microsoft Fabric: Gain comprehensive insights into the foundational principles and governance functionalities of Microsoft Fabric.\n<br /><br />\nNavigating Governance Challenges: Analyze prevalent governance challenges across industries and jurisdictions, and discover how Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview offers bespoke solutions to address these obstacles effectively.\n<br /><br />\nBest Practices: Learn from Microsoft PMs who have developed the platform to drive tangible outcomes and achieve organizational objectives.\n<br /><br />\nInteractive Workshops and Demonstrations: Engage in hands-on workshops and live demonstrations to gain practical experience for setting up Governance on Microsoft Fabric within your organization. Harness the platform's features to develop customized governance frameworks tailored to your specific needs.\n<br /><br />\nFuture Trends and Possibilities: Anticipate the future trajectory of governance and technological advancements, exploring how Microsoft Fabric is poised to evolve in tandem with emerging trends.\n<br /><br />\nBy the end of this pre-conference session, participants will emerge equipped with a comprehensive understanding of how Microsoft Fabric can serve as a cornerstone for analytical practices. Whether you're a policymaker, regulatory authority, or industry practitioner, join us on this transformative journey to unlock the full potential of governing your Microsoft Fabric estate.","sessioncode":"PRECON14","speakerNames":["Gabi Münster","Wolfgang Strasser"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["335"],"trackNames":["FabricPlatform"],"roomID":384,"roomName":"Chairman's Ballroom 350","timeSlot":677,"startTime":"2025-03-29T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-29T16:00","date":"03/29/2025","level":"200 – Intermediate","products":["Fabric Platform"],"personas":["Data Engineer","Data Analyst","Business Decision Maker","Database Admin (DBA)","Software Architect"],"tags":[],"topics":["Microsoft Purview"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"source":"Microsoft","type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7219,"__v":4},{"_id":"673fc29110b48743d8e511fe","speakers":["3158","3585","3688"],"sessionID":7182,"title":"Harnessing Apache Spark for Next-Gen Analytics in Microsoft Fabric (Hands-on)","abstract":"<strong> Sunday, March 30, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong><br /><br /> \n<strong>Bring your own laptop</strong><br /><br />\nUnlock the full potential of Apache Spark in Microsoft Fabric with this comprehensive, full-day workshop. Tailored for data engineers and data developers, this session offers hands-on experience in creating and optimizing Spark workflows in building data analytics platform with medallion architecture by leveraging industry standard Delta Lake. Dive deep into Spark's capabilities in data transformation, parallel processing, job scheduling, and performance tuning, all within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. This workshop will empower Spark newcomers or beginners to tackle complex data challenges with confidence and build an AI-ready data analytics platform.\n<br /><br /> \nBy the end of the workshop, you will be able to: <br />\n-Develop Apache Spark-based applications in Microsoft Fabric. <br />\n-Utilize Delta Lake and Lakehouse to construct medallion architecture for your data analytics platform. <br />\n-Utilize the immersive and rich authoring/development experience with Fabric Notebook and Visual Studio Code - Gain proficiency in writing and executing Spark code within notebooks. Learn useful functions in Notebook for better authoring experience (live versioning, display, notebookutils) <br />\n-Use your preferred programming language to build data analytics applications and leverage your existing SQL skills to quickly get started with Spark. <br />\n-Manage, monitor, and debug your Spark applications in Microsoft Fabric. Debug spark job with notebook in-context monitoring, Spark details page and OSS Spark UI. <br />\n-Discover how to integrate Spark with other Fabric workloads like Data Factory, Data Warehouse, Power BI etc. seamlessly. <br />\n-Discover how to leverage public and/or custom libraries to extend the functionality of your Spark applications by using Library Management. <br />\n-Extra/Bonus - Learn tips and tricks to optimize your Spark applications and understand how to scale Spark applications to handle large datasets efficiently. <br /><br />\n\n\n<strong>Previously Titled: Mastering Apache Spark in Microsoft Fabric: A Full-Day Immersion </strong><br />","sessioncode":"PRECON09","speakerNames":["Miles Cole","Long Tian","Anu Venkataraman"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["346"],"trackNames":["DataEngineering"],"roomID":353,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 310","timeSlot":678,"startTime":"2025-03-30T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-30T16:00","date":"03/30/2025","products":["Data Engineering","Data Science"],"personas":["Data Steward","Data Engineer","Data Scientist","Data Analyst","Data Citizen","Software Developer","Software Architect","IT Professional","Developer"],"tags":[],"topics":["Data Engineering","Data Science"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7182,"__v":6,"level":"200 – Intermediate","source":"Microsoft"},{"_id":"673fc53910b48743d8e5131b","speakers":["1597","3561"],"sessionID":7188,"title":"Learn to Develop with Azure AI Services in Microsoft Fabric by Creating DP-700 Exam Study Materials","abstract":"<strong> Thursday, April 03, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm</strong><br /><br /> \nIn this session, we introduce Azure AI services with examples to lay the foundation for an end-to-end workshop focused on using Azure Open AI with Microsoft Fabric.  The majority of the content will involve application of Generative AI concepts to produce study materials for \"Exam DP-700: Implementing Data Engineering Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric\". \n<br /><br /> \nThis will involve importing online documentation related to DP-700 into OneLake in Microsoft Fabric from Azure Storage, to be analyzed using a Fabric notebook powered by Azure Open AI to produce question and answer pairs.  We will then process this output using pipelines in Microsoft Fabric to store the results back into blob storage and prepare for production deployment.  \n<br /><br /> \nAttendees will leave understanding the considerations involved in developing AI solutions in Microsoft Fabric, with consideration of Responsible AI Guidelines, and leave better prepared in your personal DP-700 certification journey!","sessioncode":"POSTCON04","speakerNames":["Jasmine Greenaway","Paul DeCarlo"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["316"],"trackNames":["AI"],"roomID":358,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 311","timeSlot":679,"startTime":"2025-04-03T08:00","endTime":"2025-04-03T15:00","date":"04/03/2025","products":["Azure & AI"],"personas":["Data Scientist"],"tags":[],"topics":["Azure AI Studio","Data Science"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7188,"__v":6,"level":"200 – Intermediate","source":"Microsoft"},{"_id":"673fbfb510b48743d8e51034","speakers":["3588","3576","3662"],"sessionID":7176,"title":"Make Better Decisions Faster with Real-Time Intelligence (Hands-on)","abstract":"<strong> Saturday, March 29, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong><br /><br /> \n\n<strong>Bring your own laptop</strong><br /><br />\n\nReal-Time Intelligence in Fabric is designed to enable organizations to make the right decisions at the right time, by bring their streaming, high-granularity, time-sensitive event data into Fabric and build analytical, visual and action-oriented data solutions.\n<br /><br /> \nThis workshop will get you hands-on with Real-Time hub, Eventstream, Eventhouse, Activator, Real-Time Dashboards, Power BI, and Copilot with combination of Microsoft MVPs and Fabric product group members to guide you along the way.\n<br /><br /> \nJoin us and see how easy it is to get the right information at the right time for your organization with Real-Time Intelligence.","sessioncode":"PRECON03","speakerNames":["Bisi Adele","Frank Geisler","Minni Walia"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["349"],"trackNames":["RealTimeIntelligence"],"roomID":358,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 311","timeSlot":677,"startTime":"2025-03-29T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-29T16:00","date":"03/29/2025","products":[],"personas":["Data Engineer","Data Analyst","Data Citizen","Software Architect","IT Professional"],"tags":[],"topics":["Reat-Time Intelligence"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7176,"__v":5,"level":"100 – Introduction/Overview","source":"Microsoft"},{"_id":"673fc1c510b48743d8e511c5","speakers":["3589","3590","3591"],"sessionID":7180,"title":"Mastering Fabric Administration","abstract":"<strong> Saturday, March 29, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong><br /><br /> \nJoin us for a comprehensive workshop designed for Fabric administrators and those who want to understand the administrative capabilities within Microsoft Fabric. Whether you are stepping into the role of a Fabric administrator, aspire to do so, or simply want to collaborate more effectively with administrators, this session offers a deep dive into the tools, settings, and best practices that empower you to manage and secure your Fabric environment confidently.\n<br /><br /> \nWe will start at the tenant level, where you’ll explore fundamental administration concepts, including managing settings, access controls, and compliance configurations. Learn to delegate settings to specific capacities or domains and strengthen your network security with features like Private Link and Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access.\n<br /><br /> \nFrom there, we will dive into capacity administration, where you’ll master configurations for workloads, disaster recovery strategies, and notification settings. You will also gain insights into monitoring consumption and workloads effectively using the Capacity app.\n<br /><br /> \nNext, we’ll move to workspace administration, focusing on understanding roles, retention policies, and configurations at the workspace level. With actionable insights from tools like the Monitoring Hub, you’ll learn how to monitor workspaces efficiently and ensure smooth operations.\n<br /><br /> \nA core focus throughout the workshop will be monitoring and automation. We will explore automation opportunities using APIs to streamline administrative tasks at the tenant level and dive extensively into monitoring strategies. You’ll learn how to navigate built-in monitoring options and develop custom solutions to meet your organization’s specific needs.\n<br /><br /> \nWe will also cover gateway administration, a critical component of many Fabric solutions. Here, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of gateway architecture, management, and key considerations that every Fabric administrator should know.\n<br /><br /> \nThe workshop combines real-world scenarios, practical examples, and hands-on exercises to ensure you leave with actionable skills and a clear understanding of Microsoft Fabric administration.\n<br /><br /> \nWe’ll conclude the day with an interactive Q&A session, providing you with the opportunity to address any remaining questions and solidify your learning from the day.\n<br /><br /> \nWhether you are a current Fabric administrator, aspire to become one, or simply want to better understand the possibilities and complexities of administering a Fabric tenant, this workshop will equip you with the tools and knowledge to excel in the role.","sessioncode":"PRECON07","speakerNames":["Lars Andersen","Just Blindbæk","Ásgeir Gunnarsson"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["335"],"trackNames":["FabricPlatform"],"roomID":351,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 317","timeSlot":677,"startTime":"2025-03-29T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-29T16:00","date":"03/29/2025","products":[],"personas":["IT Professional"],"tags":[],"topics":["Fabric Platform"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7180,"__v":3,"level":"200 – Intermediate"},{"_id":"673fbf0010b48743d8e50ff8","speakers":["3330"],"sessionID":7174,"title":"Microsoft Fabric for the Power BI Professional","abstract":"<strong> Saturday, March 29, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong><br /><br /> \nThis is a workshop for Power BI Developers to learn how they can enhance their existing Power BI solution with the components of Microsoft Fabric and how each component takes part in the overall architecture of the analytical solution. <br /><br /> \nIn this workshop, features such as Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Data Integration, and One Lake will be discussed as their role in a multi-layered architecture solution for Power BI. Attendees will learn how to use Dataflows and data pipelines to build the ETL solution, load the data into staging Lakehouse, apply data engineering scenarios, transform it into Star schema and then load it into a data warehouse, the importance of medallion architecture, the Onelake feature of Shortcut to re-use components and finally the Power BI DirectLake to have a better connection type from Power BI to the underlying data. The concepts will be discussed in detail with many hands-on lab exercises. Reza developed the content of this workshop based on his work with current customer projects, best practices, and experiences.\nThis is not a workshop about all the features of Fabric. Only the features directly related to Power BI solution architecture will be discussed. These are data engineering, integration, warehousing, and Power BI.<br /><br /> \nAttendees will leave this workshop with a ready-to-use plan and an approach to enhance their existing Power BI solution architecture to a multi-layered, easy-to-maintain solution using Microsoft Fabric.","sessioncode":"PRECON01","speakerNames":["Reza Rad"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["335"],"trackNames":["FabricPlatform"],"roomID":378,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 313","timeSlot":677,"startTime":"2025-03-29T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-29T16:00","date":"03/29/2025","products":["Power BI"],"personas":["Data Engineer","Data Scientist","Data Analyst","Data Citizen","Software Architect","Developer Decision Maker","IT Professional","Developer"],"tags":[],"topics":["Power BI","Fabric Platform"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"disabled":true,"ID":7174,"__v":5,"level":"200 – Intermediate"},{"_id":"675a25858a314ac490eb23f3","speakers":["2488","2487"],"sessionID":7214,"title":"Navigating End-to-End Power BI Development in the Cloud","abstract":"<strong> Thursday, April 03, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm</strong><br /><br />\nWhen it comes to development in Power BI, Power BI Desktop has been a go to tool for all the Power BI developers for the last few years.\nBut have you ever thought, with the improvements coming to Power BI product in the last few years; you can now actually think of developing your complete Power BI solution in Power BI Service.\n<br /><br />\nSo you think you can develop in Power BI? Let's see in this training how to step away from Power BI Desktop app and jump into a 100% cloud solution.\n<br /><br />\nIn this workshop we will showcase an end-to-end Power BI solution using the new/updated online Power BI Service capabilities.\n<br /><br />\nThe training will start from connecting to data-sources, doing some transformations on the ingested data, creating a tabular model on top of which creating DAX calculations. Finally developing and sharing a full report on the Power BI service.\n<br /><br />\nThe training will also focus on concepts like Dataflows Gen2, transforming data using Databricks notebooks, data model optimization by connecting model to external tools and yes we will cover more Microsoft Fabric capabilities.\n<br /><br />\nAt the end of the training, users will have a fully fledged end-to-end Power BI solution in Power BI Service without touching the Power BI Desktop.\n<br /><br />\nDo you have a Mac, a Linux or a windows computer? Don't worry any more.\n<br /><br />\nWe welcome all the users to our training. No more boundaries can restrict Power BI development based on what operating system or machine you use.","sessioncode":"POSTCON05","speakerNames":["Miguel Félix","Pragati Jain"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["335"],"trackNames":["FabricPlatform"],"roomID":353,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 310","timeSlot":679,"startTime":"2025-04-03T08:00","endTime":"2025-04-03T15:00","date":"04/03/2025","level":"200 – Intermediate","products":["Power BI"],"personas":["Data Engineer","Data Scientist","Data Analyst","Developer"],"tags":[],"topics":["Power BI"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"source":"Community","type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7214,"__v":2},{"_id":"673fc3b510b48743d8e5125a","speakers":["1514","3584","3586"],"sessionID":7183,"title":"Professional Software Development on the Fabric Platform","abstract":"<strong> Sunday, March 30, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong><br /><br /> \nThis full-day workshop teaches attendees how to build end-to-end solutions on the Fabric platform using the Fabric REST APIs and the Fabric features for ALM and CI/CD. Attendees will learn to how to automate the creation and management of workspaces in a Fabric environment. The workshop also explains how to deploy Fabric solutions by automating the creation of workspace items and the execution of data acquisition logic in notebooks, data pipelines and dataflows. Along the way, attendees will learn how to automate the deployment of Fabric solutions that include lakehouses, warehouses, semantic models, Power BI reports and real-time intelligence items such as KQL databases and KQL dashboards.\n<br /><br /> \nThe workshop also examines best practices for implementing effective ALM and CI/CD strategies using the Fabric platform support for GIT integration and deployment pipelines. Attendees will learn the WHY and HOW of establishing GIT connections between Fabric workspaces and a GIT-based repository. The workshop examines the ALM lifecycle of Fabric workspace item and discusses effective branching strategies which allow development teams to manage change by creating feature workspaces and coordinating the push of workspace item updates into production.","sessioncode":"PRECON10","speakerNames":["Ted Pattison","Fretz Nuson","Bhaskar Sharma"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["335"],"trackNames":["FabricPlatform"],"roomID":368,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 318","timeSlot":678,"startTime":"2025-03-30T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-30T16:00","date":"03/30/2025","products":["Fabric Platform","Data Engineering"],"personas":["Data Engineer","Software Developer","Developer Decision Maker","Developer"],"tags":[],"topics":["Fabric Platform","Data Engineering"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7183,"__v":5,"level":"300 – Advanced","source":"Microsoft"},{"_id":"675a2c508a314ac490eb26b4","speakers":["2506","3581","3580"],"sessionID":7217,"title":"SQL Projects and Source Control Integration for SQL in Fabric, Azure SQL, and SQL Server","abstract":"<strong> Thursday, April 03, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm</strong><br /><br />\nThis workshop is a deep dive on database DevOps centered on the SQL database projects format, where you will learn practical techniques for managing database changes whether your workload is operational, analytical, or somewhere in between. Our exploration begins with the foundational CI/CD capabilities for SQL projects, where you can ensure no matter how a database is developed it is in source control and can be verified before deployments to one or more environments. The same shared SQL projects format applies to the whole Microsoft SQL family, so we'll examine the advantages and special capabilities to understand when implementing DevOps practices for Fabric SQL, Azure SQL, or SQL Server. We conclude our workshop with some special topics at the core of good data DevOps practices, including security management, static data management, and coordinating changes with other workloads.","sessioncode":"POSTCON06","speakerNames":["Drew Skwiers-Koballa","Hamish Watson","Heidi Hasting"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["315"],"trackNames":["Databases"],"roomID":303,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 319","timeSlot":679,"startTime":"2025-04-03T08:00","endTime":"2025-04-03T15:00","date":"04/03/2025","level":"200 – Intermediate","products":["Databases"],"personas":["Data Engineer","Developer"],"tags":[],"topics":[],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"source":"Community","type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7217,"__v":2},{"_id":"675a1e4e8a314ac490eb1e51","speakers":["3576","3577"],"sessionID":7213,"title":"The Complete Guide to Certifications for a Microsoft Fabric Professional","abstract":"<strong> Sunday, March 30, Workshop Hours: 9 am – 4 pm</strong><br /><br />\nIn this session we guide you through preparing for the DP-600 & DP-700 certification exams. Join two Data Platform MVPs as they use their real-world experience in the Data Engineering arena to help you prepare, practice, test and become certified.\n<br /><br />\nTopics we cover during the workshop offer a holistic overview of what is required to pass Microsoft Fabric Certification exams and includes: <br />\n• Breakdown of the latest skills measured for the exam. <br />\n• Guide through each of the workloads covered for the exam. <br />\n• Targeted focus of the skills measured in each workload. <br />\n• Demonstrations on how to self-prepare for the exam. <br />\n• Expert exam tips. <br />\n• Recommended resources. <br />\nDuring the workshop we will also show demos to see where some elements are connected to help with memory muscle. For example, a real-time demo to show how various items in the lifecycle management are connected and an end-to-end Real-Time analytics demo from an industry recognized expert. <br />\nAt the end of this workshop, you will have a good overview about what is required for you to pass DP-600 and earn your Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate certification or the DP-700 for Implementing Data Engineering Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric.","sessioncode":"PRECON12","speakerNames":["Frank Geisler","Kevin Chant"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["335"],"trackNames":["FabricPlatform"],"roomID":351,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 317","timeSlot":678,"startTime":"2025-03-30T09:00","endTime":"2025-03-30T16:00","date":"03/30/2025","level":"200 – Intermediate","products":[],"personas":["Data Engineer","Data Scientist","Data Analyst","Data Citizen","Business Decision Maker","Software Developer","Software Architect","Developer Decision Maker","IT Professional","Developer"],"tags":[],"topics":["Fabric Platform"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"source":"Community","type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7213,"__v":2},{"_id":"673fc4d410b48743d8e512e5","speakers":["3854","3856","3857"],"sessionID":7186,"title":"What's New in Microsoft Purview?","abstract":"<strong> Thursday, April 03, Workshop Hours: 8 am – 3 pm</strong><br /><br /> \nOrganizations have undergone huge transformations within the past few decades, evolving from being software driven, data and analytics driven and now AI driven. As organizations shift from one focus area to the next, the necessary precautions to safely navigate these changes becomes paramount, and with the advent of AI and growing data estates, the hurdles to consider are exponentially augmented.\n<br /><br /> \nJoin us to understand how Microsoft Purview is capable of seamlessly securing and confidently activating your multi-cloud and multi-platform data estate. This workshop will showcase: 1) How Microsoft runs on Microsoft and how we setup Data Governance for the growing HR organization at Microsoft. We will run this session from a practitioner’s approach of implementing DG. 2) An educational experience of the Unified Catalog and showcasing newer innovations 3) Securing your data estate with Microsoft Purview Data Security with a focus on demos 4) A focus on Connectors for Purview and its extensibility into Fabric and the vast amount of data sources that we support.","sessioncode":"POSTCON02","speakerNames":["Tony Themelis","Nick Doughty","Sandeep Shah"],"eventName":"2025 MS Fabric","tracks":["318"],"trackNames":["MicrosoftPurview"],"roomID":358,"roomName":"Premier Ballroom 311","timeSlot":679,"startTime":"2025-04-03T08:00","endTime":"2025-04-03T15:00","date":"04/03/2025","products":["Microsoft Purview"],"personas":["Data Steward","Data Scientist","Data Analyst","Data Citizen","Business Decision Maker"],"tags":[],"topics":["Microsoft Purview","Fabric Platform"],"category":[],"approvedBy":[],"type":"Workshop","hidden":false,"ID":7186,"__v":7,"level":"300 – Advanced","source":"Microsoft"}]