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When: Thursday 16th October 2025 Time: arrive for 5:45pm with talks starting from 6pm start prompt. Location: Method Resourcing (see above for address) Complimentary drinks & pizza provided by our sponsor Method Resourcing Solutions. Sit tight for venue details, we'll have them for you ASAP! Session 1 - Can Microsoft Fabric Materialized Lake Views Deliver Low Effort Data Engineering? - Andy Cutler Materialized Lake Views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric Lakehouses offer a declarative approach to building data loading and data materialization pipelines. This session introduces how MLVs simplify data loading pipelines, automate refreshes, and visualize data loading lineage across the process. Attendees will learn how MLVs support integrated data quality rules, enabling trend analysis and alerting for violations, all without manual pipeline orchestration. We'll also cover current limitations and the roadmap for new feature support. About Andy Andy Cutler has 20 years experience in delivering Data Warehouse, Lakehouse, & Business Intelligence/Analytics projects using Microsoft and Cloud technologies. He focuses on Microsoft cloud data technologies & Fabric. Andy is a current Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Session 2 - Keeping Your Data Safe When AI Meets Analytics - Victor Wingsing As organisations rush to adopt Copilot and other AI features in their analytics workflows, many are unknowingly exposing sensitive data through AI interactions. This presentation demonstrates how Microsoft Purview's latest security capabilities can automatically detect and prevent data leakage when AI tools access your reports, datasets, and dashboards. About Victor Victor is a two-time Microsoft MVP (Security) and a seasoned IT consultant at Kroll, with a knack for turning complex compliance challenges into practical, people-first solutions. We all look forward to seeing you there!! |
October 25 - Materialized Lake Views & Keeping Data Safe When AI Meets Analysis
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Copilot and AI capabilities in Fabric
2025-03-25 · 16:00
Join us for an interactive Q&A session with the Fabric Engineering Team as we explore the latest advancements in AI capabilities within Microsoft Fabric. Designed for data professionals, developers, and AI enthusiasts, this session will showcase how Fabric’s AI capabilities empower you to build custom AI solutions tailored to your data and business needs. We will unpack questions about key experiences such as AI Skill, which enables you to build your own AI agents grounded on data in OneLake, as well as new AI-driven capabilities like Copilot and AI tools designed to help data engineers enrich and transform their data seamlessly within Fabric. |
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Using Generative AI on Structured Data (to query or modify data)
2025-01-15 · 23:00
Please join us on January 15th, 2025 to listen to the topic: Using Generative AI on Structured Data (to query or modify data) with James Serra What \~ Toronto Data Professionals Community (Virtual) When \~ Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 Agenda:
Where: Online via Microsoft team Session Details: Generative AI, traditionally used for processing unstructured text, is rapidly advancing to handle structured data like relational databases, spreadsheets, and CSV files. New tools now enable AI to extract meaningful insights, identify patterns, and generate predictions from structured datasets. This presentation will explore how AI transforms our interaction with structured data, providing practical applications for enhanced automation, decision-making, and efficiency in data analysis. I will discuss ChatGPT, Copilot, and Microsoft Fabric AI Skill and provide a level-set on GenAI definitions, RAG, fine-tuning, and cover industry use cases for using both unstructured and structured data to make better business decisions. Speaker Bio: James works at Microsoft as a big data and data warehousing solution architect, where James has been for most of the last ten years. James is a thought leader in the use and application of Big Data and advanced analytics, including data architectures such as the modern data warehouse, data lakehouse, data fabric, and data mesh. Previously, James was an independent consultant working as a Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence architect and developer. James is a prior SQL Server MVP with nearly 40 years of IT experience. James started a career as a software developer, then was a DBA for 12 years, and for the last twelve years, James has been working extensively with business intelligence and data warehousing using numerous Microsoft technologies and tools. James has been at times a permanent employee, consultant, contractor, and owner of a business. All these experiences, along with continuous learning, have helped James to develop many successful data warehouse and BI projects. James is a popular blogger and speaker, having presented at dozens of major events, including PASS Summit, SQLBits, Data Summit, SQLDay, Enterprise Data World Conference, Big Data Conference Europe, SQL Saturdays, and Informatica World. James is the author of the book “Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh.” James has numerous Microsoft certifications and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. More info can be found at James's LinkedIn. |
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Copilot in Power BI Insights from the Product Team With Harleen Kaur
2024-12-05 · 18:00
Join our Microsoft Fabric - UK User Group for our latest webinar. This session we are excited to announce our host Microsoft MVP Leon Gordon and co-host Microsoft MVP Pragati Jain will be introducing Microsoft Product Manager Harleen Kaur. Join the Microsoft Fabric UK - User Group on - Microsoft Community - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-BI-UK-User-Group/gh-p/pbi_UK_usergroup LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8909321/ MeetUp - https://www.meetup.com/microsoft-power-bi-uk/ Session Abstract - Join Microsoft Power BI product team for an exciting session on Copilot for Power BI, an innovative feature that enables users to ask questions or implement and action in natural language. With advanced AI and machine learning algorithms, Copilot makes it easy for users to quickly explore their data and gain insights without the need for complex queries or coding. In this session, you'll learn how to leverage the power of Copilot to save time and increase productivity in your Power BI workflow. Don't miss this opportunity to talk directly with Power BI product team and discover the latest technology that can help you make data-driven decisions with ease. Biography I’m originally from New-Delhi, India and hold a bachelor's and master’s degree in computer engineering. I have been with Power BI team since June 2022 and own variety of features in Power BI desktop, including desktop shell, Copilot in desktop, etc. Social Media / Website Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/-harleen-kaur/ |
Copilot in Power BI Insights from the Product Team With Harleen Kaur
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Stitching Together Enterprise Analytics With Microsoft Fabric
2024-06-23 · 14:00
Dipti Borkar
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Tobias Macey
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Summary Data lakehouse architectures have been gaining significant adoption. To accelerate adoption in the enterprise Microsoft has created the Fabric platform, based on their OneLake architecture. In this episode Dipti Borkar shares her experiences working on the product team at Fabric and explains the various use cases for the Fabric service. Announcements Hello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show about modern data management Data lakes are notoriously complex. For data engineers who battle to build and scale high quality data workflows on the data lake, Starburst is an end-to-end data lakehouse platform built on Trino, the query engine Apache Iceberg was designed for, with complete support for all table formats including Apache Iceberg, Hive, and Delta Lake. Trusted by teams of all sizes, including Comcast and Doordash. Want to see Starburst in action? Go to dataengineeringpodcast.com/starburst and get $500 in credits to try Starburst Galaxy today, the easiest and fastest way to get started using Trino. Your host is Tobias Macey and today I'm interviewing Dipti Borkar about her work on Microsoft Fabric and performing analytics on data withou Interview Introduction How did you get involved in the area of data management? Can you describe what Microsoft Fabric is and the story behind it? Data lakes in various forms have been gaining significant popularity as a unified interface to an organization's analytics. What are the motivating factors that you see for that trend? Microsoft has been investing heavily in open source in recent years, and the Fabric platform relies on several open components. What are the benefits of layering on top of existing technologies rather than building a fully custom solution? What are the elements of Fabric that were engineered specifically for the service? What are the most interesting/complicated integration challenges? How has your prior experience with Ahana and Presto informed your current work at Microsoft? AI plays a substantial role in the product. What are the benefits of embedding Copilot into the data engine? What are the challenges in terms of safety and reliability? What are the most interesting, innovative, or unexpected ways that you have seen the Fabric platform used? What are the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned while working on data lakes generally, and Fabric specifically? When is Fabric the wrong choice? What do you have planned for the future of data lake analytics? Contact Info Parting Question From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today? Closing Announcements Thank you for listening! Don't forget to check out our other shows. Podcast.init covers the Python language, its community, and the innovative ways it is being used. The Machine Learning Podcast helps you go from idea to production with machine learning. Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the mailing list, and read the show notes. If you've learned something or tried out a project from the show then tell us about it! Email [email protected] with your story. Links Microsoft Fabric Ahana episode DB2 Distributed Spark Presto Azure Data MAD Landscape Podcast Episode ML Podcast Episode Tableau dbt Medallion Architecture Microsoft Onelake ORC Parquet Avro Delta Lake Iceberg Podcast Episode Hudi Podcast Episode Hadoop PowerBI Podcast Episode Velox Gluten Apache XTable GraphQL Formula 1 McLaren The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA
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Copilot for Fabric Data Engineering
2024-03-20 · 22:00
Please join us on 20th March 2024 to listen to the topic: Copilot for Fabric Data Engineering What \~ Toronto Data Professionals Community (Virtual) When \~ Wednesday 20th March 2024 Agenda:
Where: Online via Microsoft team Session Details: How can we use AI when it comes to load and transform data with Fabric? This session will answer this question. Usage of Copilot in both Data Factory and Data Engineering Notebooks will be discussed and demonstrated. You will learn how AI can make you more productive data engineer! Speaker Bio: Christian Coté is an IT professional with more than 16 years of experience working in data warehouse and business intelligence projects. Before SSIS was released, Christian developed ETL processes using a range of tools on multiple platforms. Christian has been a presenter at a number of conferences and code camps. He currently co-leads the SQL Server PASS chapter in Montreal as well as Global French SQL PASS Chapter. He is also Microsoft Data Platform MVP. |
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Microsoft AI Tour - Paris
2024-03-13 · 07:30
This is an in person event taking place in Paris, France. Please register here: Microsoft AI Tour Register today for Microsoft AI Tour in Paris. This free event helps developers discover new opportunities with AI and advance their knowledge and skills to deliver more value faster with the power of AI and Microsoft Azure. Join Microsoft product and engineering experts to share ideas and unleash creativity with the power of AI. Who should attend:
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Register now to learn what every developer needs to know about AI today! Arrive early for registration and beat the rush for Keynote access! Arriving early for registration secures your spot in the Keynote hall and gives you a head start on networking with fellow attendees. *Space limited, seating is first come first serve Microsoft and NVIDIA are partnering across the Microsoft AI Tour – bringing technical content and AI scenarios to developers and creators around the globe. Advance your knowledge and skills by joining these expert-led sessions, workshops and theatre presentations:
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