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📅 Thursday\, December 11th \| 🕢 19:30 CET \| 🌐 Online Event 🎤 Speaker: Nikola Ilic (Microsoft MVP) We’re closing our 4-part DP-600 preparation series with a powerhouse session led by Nikola Ilic, covering some of the most advanced — and increasingly important — capabilities in Microsoft Fabric. This final session focuses on real-time analytics, security fundamentals, and the administration layer within Fabric — all essential for the exam and for operating Fabric in production.

📚 What we’ll cover in Session 4

1️⃣ Real-Time Intelligence

How to work with real-time data, event streams, and architectures that support instant insights.

2️⃣ Security

Key security concepts in Fabric: workspace governance, access models, data protection, and platform-wide best practices.

3️⃣ Fabric Admin

Administration capabilities every DP-600 candidate should understand — monitoring, capacities, governance, cost management, and operational oversight.

🎯 Who is this session for?

• DP-600 exam candidates
• Data engineers & analytics engineers
• Power BI developers expanding into Fabric admin and security
• Anyone deploying or maintaining Fabric solutions in production environments

🔔 Call to Action

👉 RSVP now to join the final session of the series! 👉 Share the event with your network and help others prepare for DP-600. Let’s wrap up the series strong and continue building momentum in the Athens and Berlin Power BI communities!

Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric helps you turn streaming data into actionable insights. In this session, you will learn how to connect event sources, process data in motion, and act on signals without complex infrastructure.

We will introduce the Real-Time hub, show how to ingest data using Eventstreams, and demonstrate how to store and query events in Eventhouse using KQL. You will also see how to create a Real-Time Dashboard for live monitoring and use Activator to trigger automated actions when conditions are met.

The session includes a practical demo and resources to help you apply these patterns in your hackathon project or production scenarios.

What you will learn: - How to ingest and route events with Eventstreams - How to store and query data in Eventhouse using KQL - How to build dashboards and trigger actions with Activator

📌 This session is a part of a series! Learn more here

🔍 Explore the Global Fabric Hackathon repo

Pre-requisites: Check out the hack repo: https://aka.ms/FabConHack-Reactor

Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric helps you turn streaming data into actionable insights. In this session, you will learn how to connect event sources, process data in motion, and act on signals without complex infrastructure.

We will introduce the Real-Time hub, show how to ingest data using Eventstreams, and demonstrate how to store and query events in Eventhouse using KQL. You will also see how to create a Real-Time Dashboard for live monitoring and use Activator to trigger automated actions when conditions are met.

The session includes a practical demo and resources to help you apply these patterns in your hackathon project or production scenarios.

What you will learn: - How to ingest and route events with Eventstreams - How to store and query data in Eventhouse using KQL - How to build dashboards and trigger actions with Activator

📌 This session is a part of a series! Learn more here

🔍 Explore the Global Fabric Hackathon repo

Pre-requisites: Check out the hack repo: https://aka.ms/FabConHack-Reactor

Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric helps you turn streaming data into actionable insights. In this session, you will learn how to connect event sources, process data in motion, and act on signals without complex infrastructure.

We will introduce the Real-Time hub, show how to ingest data using Eventstreams, and demonstrate how to store and query events in Eventhouse using KQL. You will also see how to create a Real-Time Dashboard for live monitoring and use Activator to trigger automated actions when conditions are met.

The session includes a practical demo and resources to help you apply these patterns in your hackathon project or production scenarios.

What you will learn: - How to ingest and route events with Eventstreams - How to store and query data in Eventhouse using KQL - How to build dashboards and trigger actions with Activator

📌 This session is a part of a series! Learn more here

🔍 Explore the Global Fabric Hackathon repo

Pre-requisites: Check out the hack repo: https://aka.ms/FabConHack-Reactor

This webinar will showcase the transformative potential of Microsoft Fabric for ISVs and SaaS applications. Discover how you can leverage Fabric to build innovative, data-driven applications that integrate seamlessly with AI capabilities. Learn from your host, Tighe Brennan and guest experts, Holly Kelly and James Boother, as they share practical insights and real-world examples of how ISVs are successfully building and scaling their applications with Microsoft Fabric.

Why you should attend:

Unlock New Opportunities: Learn how Microsoft Fabric can help you modernize your infrastructure, reduce friction in data preparation, and enable new data science use cases.

Enhance Your Offerings: Understand how to embed powerful analytics and AI features into your applications, providing added value to your customers.

Simplify Integration: Discover the benefits of a unified platform that simplifies data integration, governance, and security, making it easier to manage multi-tenant architectures.

What we will cover:

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric: Overview of the unified data platform and its components.

Data Integration and OneLake: How OneLake serves as the center of gravity for data, enabling easy and cost-effective data ingestion and integration.

Real-Time Intelligence: Leveraging real-time data processing for continuous data integration and actionable insights.

AI and Copilot Integration: Utilizing AI Foundry and Copilot Studio to create generative AI solutions and enhance application capabilities.

Multi-Tenancy and ISV Scenarios: Best practices for designing multi-tenant architectures, including tenant isolation models and deployment patterns.

Embedding Analytics: Expanding Power BI embedded capabilities to modernize your applications and provide rich analytics experiences.

Monetization Strategies: How to monetize your solutions through the Azure Marketplace and leverage Fabric's workload services.

This webinar will showcase the transformative potential of Microsoft Fabric for ISVs and SaaS applications. Discover how you can leverage Fabric to build innovative, data-driven applications that integrate seamlessly with AI capabilities. Learn from your host, Tighe Brennan and guest experts, Holly Kelly and James Boother, as they share practical insights and real-world examples of how ISVs are successfully building and scaling their applications with Microsoft Fabric.

Why you should attend:

Unlock New Opportunities: Learn how Microsoft Fabric can help you modernize your infrastructure, reduce friction in data preparation, and enable new data science use cases.

Enhance Your Offerings: Understand how to embed powerful analytics and AI features into your applications, providing added value to your customers.

Simplify Integration: Discover the benefits of a unified platform that simplifies data integration, governance, and security, making it easier to manage multi-tenant architectures.

What we will cover:

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric: Overview of the unified data platform and its components.

Data Integration and OneLake: How OneLake serves as the center of gravity for data, enabling easy and cost-effective data ingestion and integration.

Real-Time Intelligence: Leveraging real-time data processing for continuous data integration and actionable insights.

AI and Copilot Integration: Utilizing AI Foundry and Copilot Studio to create generative AI solutions and enhance application capabilities.

Multi-Tenancy and ISV Scenarios: Best practices for designing multi-tenant architectures, including tenant isolation models and deployment patterns.

Embedding Analytics: Expanding Power BI embedded capabilities to modernize your applications and provide rich analytics experiences.

Monetization Strategies: How to monetize your solutions through the Azure Marketplace and leverage Fabric's workload services.

Learn new skills and discover the power of Microsoft Fabric with step-by-step guidance: Click Here.

Join us on January 29 for a chance to connect, learn, and get inspired by the latest and greatest in AI. Whether you're a pro at AI or just getting started, this event is all about building our community and shaping the future of AI development. Get ready for an evening packed with awesome sessions, discussions, and networking opportunities!

Let's dive into the exciting world of AI together!

Agenda

• 6:00 PM ET: Welcome and introduction
• 6:05 PM ET to 8:00 PM ET: Program
• 8:00 PM ET to 9:00 PM ET: Networking

Program Sessions

| Session Title | Session Description | Speaker | | :------------- |:-------------|:-------------| | Empowering Enterprises with LLM Agents: Assistants for Data-Driven Insights | Large Language Model (LLM) agents are emerging as powerful tools that can revolutionize how organizations interact with their data. This session will delve into the concept of LLM agents and their potential to transform internal operations by creating intelligent virtual assistants on top of your datawarehouse. We will explore how these agents can be leveraged to generate SQL query statements dynamically, enabling seamless access to data stored in various data warehouses such as Databricks, Microsoft Fabric. Attendees will gain insights into the architecture and implementation of these virtual assistants, and discover how they can enhance productivity, streamline decision-making processes, and unlock valuable insights from their data. | Sammy Deprez | | Simplifying AI in your .NET Application | Discover how to effortlessly integrate AI into your .NET applications with the Microsoft.Extensions.AI library. Learn to add chat features, embedding generation, and tool calling seamlessly. Plus, explore innovative techniques for real-time prompt management, allowing you to test and refine AI prompts live without stopping your application. Join us for a fast-paced session packed with practical insights and cutting-edge strategies to optimize your development workflow. | Maria Naggaga Nakanwagi | | AutoGen 0.4: A Programming Framework for Agentic AI reimagined | AutoGen is an open-source framework for building AI agent systems. It simplifies the creation of event-driven, distributed, scalable, and resilient agentic applications using multi-agent architectures. In this talk, Jack will provide an overview of the AutoGen framework and dig into 0.4, a reimagining of the framework. | Jack Gerrits | | AI in Action: Lessons and Success Stories | Join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring practitioners of artificial intelligence. Our panelists will share their firsthand experiences, challenges, and successes in implementing solutions across various industries. Learn about innovative use cases and discover best practices from experts who are at the forefront of AI technology.| Lisa Qu, Vivian Lei, Samir Mahmoud, Justin Trugman |

Detailed information and registration can be found here : https://dataminds.be/lets-talk-about-fabric/

Stijn Wynants (Microsoft)

Fabric Datawarehouse & OneLake

Session: Fabric Espresso team is coming to your favorite user group with freshly brewed pot of content!

Join us in this hour-long session to learn how to unlock the power of Microsoft Fabric and make your analytics efforts a breeze. We will cover all the Fabric components and everything you need to know to delight your business users in no time! And you will know how to squeeze the best performance out of Fabric!

Regardless of whether you are into lakehouses or warehouses, we got you covered. Even better, why not both! We will cover best strategy for ingestion and consumption of your data so you can start working on your analytic solution quickly and with confidence.

Every tip and trick we share is proven in real world customer scenarios. And all of this comes in easy to consume sips!

Speaker: Stijn is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, former-MVP & DataMinds (Belgian Data Platform User Group) core member. He is also one of the organisers of the local user group sessions & the yearly event called DataMinds Connect (SQL Server Days). He spends his days working hands-on with the largest Synapse Deployments in the world, he enjoys tuning environments and driving products to their limit!

Benni De Jagere (Microsoft)

Using Lakehouse Data at scale with Power BI, featuring Direct Lake mode

Session: Many companies have invested heavily in building data lakes to store large volumes of structured and unstructured data from various sources into Delta Parquet files. These Delta Parquet files can be used for a wide range of Analytics and Business Intelligence applications. Most of these organizations struggle to derive insights from their investments due to the complexity of accessing and querying the data, and how to let self-service users connect to this data in the lake using Power BI.

With the introduction of Microsoft Fabric, an all-in-one analytics solution for enterprises, we now have a better approach for this. In this session, we will explore how to use Lakehouse data at scale with Power BI, using the new Direct Lake connectivity mode. Power BI Direct Lake combines the best of both worlds from Import and DirectQuery mode, and gives us the option for great performance over data in the lake, without introducing additional latency for dataset refreshes.

We will start by discussing the benefits of the Lakehouse architecture and how it can improve data management and analytics. We will then move on to explore how to connect to Lakehouse data using Power BI by combining both of these architecture components and using each of them to their strengths.

We will also cover best practices for optimizing performance when working with large volumes of data, including using data partitioning and query optimization techniques. We will demonstrate how to use Power BI to analyze Lakehouse data in real-time and how to build reports that provide actionable insights for decision-making.

By the end of the session, attendees will have a solid understanding of how to leverage Lakehouse data at scale with Power BI and how to build powerful analytics solutions that can handle massive amounts of data. Whether you are a data analyst, data scientist, or BI professional, this session will provide you with valuable insights into the world of Lakehouse data and Power BI, featuring the new Direct Lake connectivity mode.

Speaker: Benni is a Senior Program Manager in the Power BI Customer Advisory Team (PBICAT) at Microsoft. Aspiring to be top notch in his field, through continuous personal development, on both technical and soft skills. He strives for maximum results in his tasks using team play, communication, thinking outside of the box, and (endless) motivation.

Benni is always ready to tackle the unknown, or pick up fresh ideas to broaden his range. Building on past experiences, he continuously tries to find new, more efficient ways of obtaining results, and improving the process along the way.

Loving (almost) every day of it, he’s fascinated by the value of data, sometimes flabbergasted by the lack of awareness, and intrigued by the endless possibilities whilst discovering new ways of looking at data. He thrives on unfolding new insights for customers whilst using an open and transparent communication.