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The excitement surrounding this event reflects the same momentum we’re seeing across our data portfolio. Just two and a half years after Microsoft Fabric reached general availability, it’s already serving more than 31,000 customers and remains the fastest-growing data platform in Microsoft’s history. Fortune 500 companies like The Coca-Cola Company are already using Fabric at scale across their organizations.

Microsoft Fabric is helping us evolve our data foundation into a more unified, AI-ready platform. Combined with Power BI and capabilities like Fabric IQ, it enables the enterprise to turn data into intelligence and act on it faster.

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Our databases are accelerating just as quickly, with SQL Server 2025 growing more than twice as fast as the previous version.

Today, we’re thrilled to share how we are bringing the power of databases and Fabric together to form a truly converged data platform—one that unifies transactional, operational, and analytical data under a single, consistent architecture. I’ll also highlight how we’ve enhanced Fabric to help you transform data into the semantic knowledge AI needs to understand your business, powered by Fabric IQ and Power BI’s industry-leading semantic model technology.

Introducing the Database Hub in Microsoft Fabric
Databases sit at the heart of the enterprise data estate—a system of record powering applications, transactions, and mission‑critical insights. Yet as organizations scale across cloud, on‑premises, and edge environments, database estates have become increasingly fragmented and isolated. As AI places even greater demands on data estates, unifying databases under a single access point and control plane has become essential.

To address this challenge, Fabric is expanding its role as the central access point for enterprise data with the Database Hub in Fabric, now available in early access. Database Hub in Fabric provides a unified database management experience that brings together databases across edge, cloud, and Fabric into a single, coherent view. Teams now have one place to explore, observe, govern, and optimize their entire database estate—including Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, SQL Server (enabled by Azure Arc), Azure Database for MySQL, and Fabric Databases—without changing how each service is deployed.

Built for scale, the Database Hub in Fabric introduces an agent‑assisted, human-in-the loop approach to database management. With built-in observability, delegated governance, and Microsoft Copilot-powered insights, teams can deploy intelligent agents to continuously reason over estate‑wide signals and surface what changed, explain why it matters, and guide teams toward what to do next. The result is a simpler, more confident way to manage databases at scale. Over time, this model enables database estates to become more proactive, resilient, and intelligent, laying the foundation for greater autonomy, while keeping humans firmly in control of goals, boundaries, and trust.

Learn more about Database Hub in Fabric and what’s new across Databases
Bringing databases together under a single management layer is a critical step as you prepare your estates for AI at scale. But it’s not the end of the journey. The challenge shifts from where data lives to how data is understood, connected, and activated across the enterprise.

Getting your data estate ready for AI with Fabric
As organizations move from traditional applications to AI‑powered, multi‑agent systems, the advantage is shifting away from the specific model you deploy. It now lies in the intelligence and context that allow agents to understand how your business is run, the state of your business, and your institutional knowledge to help take meaningful action.

This is the challenge Microsoft IQ is designed to address. Unlike point solutions on the market today, Microsoft IQ provides an intelligence layer that delivers shared, enterprise-grade business context to every agent. That context is built from three complementary sources: productivity signals from Work IQ, institutional knowledge from Foundry IQ, and live business data from Fabric IQ.

However, like the database layer, while the IQ context layer is a critical part of a successful, and healthy AI foundation, it is not the full story. Building a complete AI-ready data foundation requires investing in four core steps:

Unifying your data estate to eliminate silos and reduce architectural complexity.
Processing and harmonizing data so it becomes AI-ready, clean, connected, and structured for both operational and analytical use.
Curating semantic meaning to give agents contextual understanding, enabling them to interpret data the way your teams already do. This is where Microsoft IQ comes into play.
Empowering AI agents to act, applying that context to automate workflows, accelerate decisions, and transform operations end‑to‑end.
Unifying your data estate with Microsoft OneLake
Every AI initiative starts with the same fundamental challenge: understanding where your data lives and how to bring it together. Microsoft OneLake was built to solve that problem by unifying data across clouds, on-premises environments, and third-party platforms into a single logical data lake without unnecessary extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL), fragmentation, or duplicated copies.

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Connecting to more sources than ever before
Today, we’re expanding Mirroring in Fabric to support even more systems our customers rely on. Mirroring for SharePoint lists and Dremio are now in preview with Azure Monitor coming soon, while mirroring for Oracle and SAP Datasphere are generally available—all of which are available as part of the core mirroring capabilities. We are also introducing extended capabilities in mirroring designed to help you operationalize mirrored sources at scale, including Change Data Feed (CDF) and the ability to create views on top of mirrored data, starting with Snowflake. Extended capabilities for mirroring will be offered as a paid option.

Shortcut transformations are also now generally available, allowing data to be shaped automatically as it connects to or moves within OneLake. You can convert formats such as Excel to Delta tables, now in preview, and apply AI-powered transformations.

Additionally, we are continuing to invest in open interoperability, ensuring OneLake works seamlessly with the platforms organizations already use. We are excited to announce the ability to natively read from OneLake through Azure Databricks Unity Catalog is now in public preview. We also recently announced the general availability of our interoperability with Snowflake.

I’m also excited to share that Auger, a rapidly growing supply chain platform designed to bring intelligence and automation to global operations, has built its platform on Fabric, with all data stored natively in OneLake. This architecture enables Auger customers to seamlessly access their operations data through OneLake shortcuts within their own Fabric environments and use the full power of the platform including Power BI, Fabric data agents, and more. Learn more in my blog, co-authored with Auger Chief Executive Officer Dave Clark.

Protect your data with OneLake security, now generally available
Security and governance remain foundational to OneLake. I’m thrilled to announce OneLake security will be generally available in the coming weeks, enabling data owners to define roles, enforce row- and column-level controls, and manage permissions through a single unified model that follows the data.

To learn more about these announcements, read the OneLake blog and the Fabric Data Factory blog.

Processing and harmonizing data with Fabric analytics
AI agents are only as reliable as the data you feed them. Before data can train or ground an agent, it must be integrated, cleaned, and structured, so the agent operates from consistent, trusted information. With industry-leading engines in Fabric like Spark, T-SQL, KQL, and Analysis Services, we can equip data teams to do exactly that.

Now, we are expanding these capabilities with the introduction of Runtime 2.0 in preview, purpose-built for large-scale data computation. It incorporates Apache Spark 4.x, Delta Lake 4.x, Scala 2.13, and Azure Linux Mariner 3.0 to power advanced enterprise workloads. Materialized lake views are also now generally available, simplifying medallion architecture implementation in Spark SQL and PySpark and enabling always up-to-date pipelines with no manual orchestration. In addition, a new agentic Copilot experience in notebooks delivers deeper context awareness, reasoning over your workspace, and generating code with greater speed and precision.

For real-time scenarios, we’re launching Microsoft Fabric Maps into general availability. Maps add geospatial context to your agents and operations by turning large volumes of location-based data into interactive, real-time visual insights.

For a comprehensive overview of these announcements and much more, read the Fabric Analytics announcement blog and the Fabric Real-Time Intelligence announcement blog.

Creating semantic meaning with Fabric IQ
Preparing raw data for AI is essential. The next step is transforming that data into meaningful, unified business context. That is where Fabric IQ comes in.

Fabric IQ unifies analytical data and operational data, including telemetry, time series, graph, and geospatial data, within a shared semantic framework of business entities, relationships, properties, rules, and actions. Instead of thinking in terms of tables and schemas, your teams and agents can operate on this framework, or ontology, aligned to how the business actually runs.

Fabric IQ ontologies will soon become accessible through an MCP server in preview, enabling agents to discover, understand, and act on this semantic layer. Ontologies can also serve as context sources for maps and soon in operations agents in Fabric, extending shared business context directly into operational decision-making and execution.

We are also excited to announce planning in Fabric IQ, a new enterprise planning capability that enables organizations to create plans, budgets, forecasts, and scenario models directly on top of Fabric’s semantic models. By complementing Fabric IQ’s ontologies with integrated planning, you get a complete, contextual view of your historical, real-time, and forward planning data. This allows users and agents to quickly answer what has happened, what is happening, and what should happen all from a single source. See this in action:

Finally, we recently announced a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to power the next generation of Physical AI by integrating Real-Time Intelligence and Fabric IQ with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries. The combined platform unifies real‑time operational data, business semantics, and physical simulation to enable organizations to optimize their physical operations in scenarios like intelligent digital twins, predictive maintenance, autonomous logistics, and energy optimization.

To learn more about all of our partner announcements, read the Fabric ISV announcement blog and the planning in Fabric IQ blog.

Enhancing the underlying Fabric IQ technology
Powering much of Fabric IQ’s rich experience is a combination of Power BI’s industry-leading, rich semantic model technology and graph in Fabric, our highly scalable graph database. Already delivering insights to more than 35 million active users, semantic models provide the ideal foundation for training agents through Fabric IQ. Now, with the general availability of Direct Lake on OneLake, your tables can be read directly from OneLake with native security enforcement, richer cross-item modeling, and import-class performance without data movement or refresh.

I’m also excited to share that graph in Fabric will be generally available in the coming weeks, enabling teams to visualize and query complex relationships across customers, partners, and supply chains.

To learn more, check out the Fabric IQ announcement blog and the Power BI announcement blog.

Empowering agents to act with Fabric data and operations agents
Frontier organizations are moving beyond general-purpose assistants and instead, adopting multi-agent systems composed of specialized agents. These agents are each grounded on specific data and reusable across different systems, allowing you to deliver more accurate, accelerated, and scalable outcomes.

To support your multi-agent systems, Fabric comes with built-in agent creation capabilities with Fabric data agents and operations agents. I’m excited to share that Fabric data agents are now generally available. Fabric data agents can be thought of as virtual analysts, aligned to specific domain data to support deeper analysis and deliver insights. Operations agents complement them by monitoring real-time data, detecting patterns, and taking proactive action.

Check out a quick demo of operations agents in Fabric:

These agents can be used across Fabric or as foundational knowledge sources in leading AI tools like Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio or even Microsoft 365 Copilot. To learn more about our AI announcements, check out the Fabric analytics blog covering data agents and the Fabric IQ blog covering operations agents.

Building mission-critical applications with developer experiences in Fabric
Developers building the next generation of AI applications need a comprehensive, cost-effective data platform that’s already integrated with your existing tools and workflows. Today, we are expanding Fabric’s developer tooling to meet that demand.

First, Fabric Model Context Protocol (MCP) is advancing with two major milestones. Fabric local MCP is now generally available, providing an open-source local server that connects AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot directly to Fabric. Alongside this, we’re introducing the public preview of Fabric remote MCP, a secure, cloud‑hosted execution engine that enables AI agents and automation tools to perform authenticated actions in Fabric.

We’re also enhancing our Git integration with selective branching, allowing developers to branch out for a specific feature and pull only the items they need. You also get improved change comparisons to more easily review recent updates, and new folder relationships which show how feature workspaces connect to source workspaces.

We’re also launching two open-source projects to help teams move faster with Fabric: Agent Skills for Fabric and Fabric Jumpstart. Agent Skills for Fabric is an open-source set of purpose-built plugins that let you use natural language in the GitHub Copilot terminal to harness the full power of Microsoft Fabric. Additionally, Fabric Jumpstart is designed to help you get off the ground with detailed guidance, reference architectures, and single‑click deployments for sample datasets, notebooks, pipelines, and reports.

Finally, we are announcing that the Fabric Extensibility Toolkit (FET), an evolution of the Workload Development Kit (WDK), is now generally available. Along with this release, we are enabling support for full CI/CD, variable library, and a new management experience in the Admin portal.

Read the Fabric Platform announcement blog
Migrating your existing Azure service to Fabric
As Fabric continues to grow in functionality, we are also simplifying the migration from other Azure services. In addition to our existing Synapse tooling, we are bringing new migration assistants for Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure SQL in public preview.

The new Fabric migration assistant for Azure Data Factory and Synapse Analytics helps move your existing pipelines and artifacts like Spark pools and notebooks into Fabric with minimal disruption. It’s designed to support incremental modernization, allowing teams to evaluate, convert, and optimize pipelines as they transition to Fabric. The migration assistant for SQL databases helps move SQL Server into Fabric by importing schemas through DACPACs, identifying and resolving compatibility issues with AI assistance, and guiding teams through assessment and data copy workflows for a smoother cutover.

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Explore the AI shift with The Shift podcast
In addition to the announcements above, we are also rolling out a broad set of Fabric innovations across the platform. For a deeper look at the updates and what’s new this month, visit the Fabric March 2026 Feature summary blog, the Power BI March 2026 feature summary blog, and the latest posts on the Fabric Updates channel.

Explore additional resources for Microsoft Fabric
Sign up for the Fabric free trial. View the updated Fabric Roadmap. Try the Microsoft Fabric SKU Estimator.
Visit the Fabric website. Join the Fabric community. Read other in-depth, technical blogs on the Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog.
Read additional blogs by industry-leading partners
Sonata Software: Building an AI-ready data platform with data agents, ontology, and governance in Microsoft Fabric
Quadrant Technologies LLC: Real-Time Operational Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric: Deep Dive into RTI Capabilities, Anomaly Detection and Activator Alerting
Inspark: Why switch from Azure Synapse to Microsoft Fabric?
Esri: Unlock the power of location intelligence with ArcGIS for Microsoft Fabric
Dream IT Consulting Services: 8 Real-World Use Cases of Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric
UB Technology Innovations Inc.: From Data Platform to Decision Platform: How Microsoft Fabric and Copilot are Redefining Enterprise Analytics
Simpson Associates: Fabric Data Warehouse: Bringing Structure to Modern Data Strategies
Synapx Ltd.: Migrating Power BI to Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse with Medallion Architecture: A Strategic Imperative for Modern Construction Enterprises
Cloud Services: Real-Time Intelligence in Action: How Microsoft Fabric Helped Delfi Transform Its Newsroom
Cloud Services: Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: A New Reality
iLink Digital: Detect to Act in Seconds: How Real-Time Intelligence Is Rewriting the Rules of Emissions Management
Valorem Reply: How Nonprofits Are Rethinking Data with Microsoft Fabric

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This year is especially meaningful, as it marks the return of a Microsoft‑led SQL community event, while also showcasing how SQL continues to evolve as a critical part of Fabric. It is not just about new technology, but about reconnecting with each other and building the future of SQL together.

It’s inspiring to see the Microsoft SQL community continue to grow and engage, with user groups worldwide keeping conversations active across the SQL portfolio and a lot of customers using Microsoft SQL to innovate every day. With a comprehensive portfolio built on strategic common foundations and available across edge, PaaS, and SaaS, Microsoft databases form a unified platform for modern enterprise needs, whether you are migrating and modernizing, building cloud-native AI applications, or unifying your data.

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Migrate and modernize with Azure SQL
Many of our customers are not modernizing in one big leap. You are evolving from SQL Server to hybrid and then to cloud services, and you want that journey to feel familiar, predictable, and low risk. That is exactly what Azure SQL is designed to deliver. Built on a consistent Microsoft SQL foundation from on premises to the cloud, Azure SQL brings AI capabilities directly into your database experience, along with enterprise‑grade security, high availability, and the flexibility to scale as your needs grow. Azure SQL is fully SQL compatible, delivers strong performance and low latency, and supports hybrid scenarios through Azure Arc.

AI agents are becoming an important accelerator for database migration and modernization at Microsoft, helping our customers reduce manual effort and move faster with more guided experiences across the journey. The general availability of GitHub Copilot in SSMS 22 is a great example of that investment in action: you can use the same GitHub Copilot experience you already use in Visual Studio and VS Code, now inside SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), with chat and code assistance that helps you write, edit, and refactor T‑SQL more quickly and confidently. Whether you are a developer or database administrator (DBA), new to SQL or highly experienced, GitHub Copilot can support common workflows like improving queries and assisting with troubleshooting and administration tasks right where you work, and we are continuing to expand what it can do.

Today we are announcing savings plan for databases, a flexible, spend-based pricing option that helps you save up to 35%1 vs. pay-as-you-go prices on a one-year commitment. Savings plan for databases is designed for modern, evolving database environments: Customers commit to a fixed hourly spend for one year and receive lower prices across eligible Azure database services. Savings are automatically applied to the highest-value usage each hour, helping reduce costs while supporting migration, modernization, and architectural change.

Build cloud-native AI apps at scale
Once you move to the cloud, the questions shift. How do you build faster, scale smarter, and unlock more value from your data without re‑architecting everything you have already built? That is where Azure SQL Database Hyperscale comes in.

With Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, customers gain better price-performance, elastic scale and resilience for any workload, without the cost or disruption of rewriting T‑SQL or reworking operational models. Its unique architecture, built on shared storage and multiple replicas, allows you to scale reads independently from writes. With built‑in HTAP isolation, applications can handle massive transactional and analytical workloads without complex redesign. New capabilities now in public preview extend that foundation even further, including the SQL MCP Server for securely connecting SQL data to AI agents and Copilots, as well as larger 160 and 192 vCore options for high‑throughput workloads.

We’re delivering faster, more capable vector indexes to power AI applications. Recent enhancements improve vector search performance and efficiency with no code changes required. With full insert, update, and delete support, vector indexes stay current in real time, enabling dynamic applications. Features like quantization, iterative filtering, and tighter query optimizer integration provide faster, more predictable results, helping teams build responsive AI experiences directly on their SQL data.

Temenos built its next‑generation banking platform, Temenos Core, on Azure using Azure SQL Database Hyperscale to achieve global scale, high availability, and resilient performance. The platform processes billions of transactions daily and more than 17,500 transactions per second at peak. By building on Hyperscale, Temenos reduced onboarding time, accelerated innovation, and shifted banks from worrying about downtime to competing on availability and digital innovation.

Unify your data estate with SQL database in Fabric
We continue to raise the bar on enterprise readiness for SQL database in Fabric by bringing enterprise-grade security and compliance capabilities directly into the platform. Today at SQLCon, we announced the general availability of features including SQL Auditing, Customer‑Managed Keys, and Dynamic Data Masking, and the preview of workspace‑level Private Link. We brought these enhancements to help customers meet strict governance and regulatory requirements without adding operational complexity. The result is confidence that your SQL workloads in Fabric are secure, compliant, and ready for production.

SQL database in Fabric is becoming even more powerful for AI‑driven applications. The same vector indexing enhancements available in Azure SQL Database Hyperscale are now built into SQL database in Fabric as well. Because both are powered by the same Microsoft SQL engine, customers benefit from consistent performance, capabilities, and innovation across the SQL portfolio—making it easier to build intelligent applications wherever their data lives.

Finally, moving to SQL database in Fabric is simpler than ever. The Migration Assistant now supports SQL database in Fabric as a target destination. It provides a Copilot-assisted experience that helps SQL developers assess readiness, migrate schema, identify compatibility issues, and copy data with less manual effort. By preserving familiar SQL skills and workflows, customers can modernize at their own pace while accelerating time to value on Fabric’s unified analytics and AI platform.

Learn more about SQL database in Fabric
There is one more Fabric innovation that matters deeply for how we deliver Microsoft databases as a unified platform. As applications grow more sophisticated, most organizations now rely on a mix of SQL and NoSQL databases across cloud, on‑premises, and edge environments. Provisioning, monitoring, and maintaining health across a growing database fleet often requires multiple tools and portals, making it harder to see what’s happening and manage at scale.

To address this, we are introducing the Database Hub in Microsoft Fabric, now available in early access. The Database Hub provides a unified database management experience that brings together databases across edge, cloud, and Fabric into one coherent view. From a single place, database teams can explore, observe, govern, and optimize their entire estate, including Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc, and Azure Database for MySQL without changing how each service is deployed or operated.

Built for scale, the Database Hub introduces an agent-assisted, human-in-the-loop approach to database management. Intelligent agents continuously reason over estate-wide signals to surface what changed, explain why it matters, and guide teams toward what to do next, while built-in observability, delegated governance, and Copilot-powered insights help teams move from insight to action with greater confidence. With the Database Hub, teams spend less time navigating tools and more time enabling what comes next: unlocking deeper integration across applications, analytics, and AI from a single control plane for the Microsoft databases portfolio.

Database Hub is available today in early access. Sign up today and see how the Database Hub can bring clarity and control to your database estate.

Moving forward with the SQL community
SQLCon is about bringing the SQL community together. It is about rebuilding connections and shared learning. It also reflects our long-term commitment to SQL. With a comprehensive portfolio built on strategic common foundations and available across edge, PaaS, and SaaS, Microsoft databases provide a unified platform for modern enterprise needs, whether you are migrating and modernizing, building cloud-native AI applications, or unifying your data. We are investing in SQL for the future, alongside the community that continues to shape it.

Finally, SQLCon is coming to Europe! Join the global data and SQL community from 28 Sep – 01st October, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain for hands-on learning, expert insights, and real-world stories. Register to be a part of it. I can’t wait to see you there.

Additional SQL resources
Get early access to Database Hub in Fabric
Microsoft Azure Summit: Migrate and Modernize with Agentic AI
What is new about SQL database in Fabric
Learn more about savings plan for databases
1Customers may see savings estimated to be between 0% and 35%. The 35% savings estimate is based on one Azure SQL Database serverless running for 12 months at a pay-as-you-go rate vs. a reduced rate for a 1-year savings plan. Based on Azure pricing as of March 2026. Prices are subject to change. Actual savings may vary based on location, database service, and/or usage.

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With more than 200 sessions across every Fabric workload, attendees will gain practical skills, learn about the latest product announcements, connect with like-minded community members, and gain insights directly from the Microsoft teams building the Fabric platform.

Additionally, there are over 20 full-day workshops attendees can choose to add to their program to start off the week with focused training on key areas of interest.

And for the first time, we’re thrilled to host the SQLCon conference, which will be co-located with FabCon. As Shireesh shared in his recent blog post, attendees will have the opportunity to take advantage of both conferences for the price of a single registration. Attending either conference gives you access to the very best in Fabric and SQL training all in one location.

With FabCon just around the corner, I wanted to share a few of my top picks for must-attend sessions at this year’s event:

• “Unlocking Copilot in Fabric: Administration, Governance, and Beyond!”: in this session, Dan English and Sandeep Pawar will be diving into the capabilities and utility of Copilot in Fabric, and how this AI-driven feature unlocks best practices, new enablement strategies, and enhanced opportunities for security and governance across your data estate. Learn how you can engage with Copilot in Fabric.
• “Touch your data with Real Time Intelligence”: real time Intelligence is fundamental in driving actionable data-driven insights and value. In this session, Dominick Raimato will show you the power of Real-Time Intelligence, how you can implement it in your daily workflows, and how to build your own proof of concept to help you get buy-in from your organization to roll this out in your environment. Discover how you can enter real time intelligence within Fabric.
• “Optimizing Your Power BI Data for AI”: In this session, Emily Lisa and Tori Pinheiro will show you how to prepare, manage, and optimize your Power BI data for AI-driven experiences. They’ll cover best practices and practical guidance for refining your semantic model to help Copilot deliver more meaningful insights and share early demos of upcoming capabilities that use AI to enhance and streamline semantic models. Prepare and optimize your Power BI data for AI-driven experiences.
• “Fabric IQ: Unlock Enterprise AI with a Unified Semantic Layer”: Fabric IQ exemplifies the exciting innovation taking place in Fabric. This newly released feature creates a governed, shared semantic foundation that enables your AI agents to answer richer questions. In this session delivered by Chafia Aouissi and Jomit Vaghela, you’ll learn how to extend your semantic models, connect live data sources, and enable AI agents that drive intelligent, automated decisions. See how Fabric IQ builds on existing assets.

Microsoft Fabric 2026 CoreNotes and roadmaps

You absolutely cannot miss the CoreNotes running throughout the week, which will be the place to learn about the latest roadmaps, announcements, and innovations taking place in Fabric. Featuring leading speakers like Priya Sathy, Bob Ward, Anna Hoffman, Tessa Kloster, Yitzhak Kesselman, Justyna Lucznik, yours truly, and many more, you’ll get all of the insights you need to plan your data journey in 2026 and beyond!

Take a look at the FabCon agenda to see the full list of speakers and sessions featured at this year’s conference.

Connect with the community that’s building the future

One of my favorite parts of attending FabCon is seeing community members connecting with one another. This event brings together Microsoft product teams, MVPs, practitioners, community leaders, partners and solution builders, and new data professionals who all share the common goal of solving real-world challenges and helping each other troubleshoot, learn, and grow in their careers.

Whether you’re attending a session, joining a hallway conversation, or connecting at a networking event, FabCon is where your ideas become reality.

The return of FabCon TV

I’m excited to share that FabCon TV will be taking place once again at FabCon Atlanta. We had a lot of fun adding this experience to the conference in Vienna and we look forward to sharing it with you all in March. We have lots of fun segments in store!

Check out my FabCon TV segment with host Patrick LeBlanc from FabCon Vienna in September:

Save your seat for FabCon and join the action

I’m excited to share that FabCon TV will be taking place once again at FabCon Atlanta. We had a lot of fun adding this experience to the conference in Vienna and we look forward to sharing it with you all in March. We have lots of fun segments in store!

Check out my FabCon TV segment with host Patrick LeBlanc from FabCon Vienna in September:

See you in Atlanta!

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Register once for unrestricted access to both events, allowing you to select the content that best meets your learning needs. If you’re a data professional looking to learn more about migrating and deploying powerful data platform solutions, or you’re a SQL pro who wants to stay ahead of innovations in SQL databases, SQL in Fabric, Azure SQL, and more, FabCon and SQLCon is your must-attend event in 2026.

FabCon and SQLCon will be one of the year’s largest gatherings of data professionals from around the world, bringing together tech enthusiasts, innovators, and industry leaders to explore the future of data, SQL, analytics, business intelligence, and AI integration.

Workshops, keynotes, sessions, and demos will take deep dives into the leading-edge developments within the worlds of Microsoft Fabric and databases, giving attendees a first look at product roadmaps and announcements, as well as an opportunity to connect first-hand with the teams building these solutions. There will also be informal networking opportunities throughout the week so you can share insights and make lasting connections with like-minded peers.

Keynotes and sessions with top experts and new features

Keynote speakers feature top Microsoft leaders and engineers from across the data and SQL universe including yours truly, Arun Ulag, Amir Netz, Wangui McKelvey, Nellie Gustafsson, Justyna Lucznik, Patrick LeBlanc and Adam Saxton (AKA Guy in a Cube), Shireesh Thota, Priya Sathy, Erin Stellato, Bob Ward, and Anna Hoffman to name just a few. These keynotes will give attendees a first look at the latest announcements, features, and updates in Fabric and databases, and show you how to implement them in your real-world scenarios.

I’m also thrilled to share that FabCon and SQLCon sessions have just been announced! Our diverse lineup of speakers and content covers the spectrum of use cases, challenges, fundamentals, and in-depth training for attendees of all levels—and, with the help of these expert sessions, you can start implementing new features immediately. Some of the topics I’m really excited about are:

• Monitor and Troubleshoot Your Data Solution in Microsoft Fabric with Li Liu and Haydn Richardson—explore best practices and new capabilities for consistent and reliable performance in your data solution.
• Empowering Fabric Administrators: Securing, Scaling, and Sustaining Your Data Estate with Arthi Ramasubramanian Iyer and Adi Regev—take a strategic look at how you can build confidence, clarity, and resilience across your Fabric estate to protect data at scale.
• From Reactive to Proactive: Solving SQL Performance Issues with Agentic AI: Learn how to implement agentic AI to detect regressions, analyze queries, find indexing gaps, and provide instant fixes.
• A Guide to Making the Most of Your SQL Skills Using Microsoft Fabric: Find out why, for many tasks, SQL is not only compatible, but often the most efficient way to build modern, scalable, and intelligent data solutions in Fabric.

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I can’t wait to welcome you all to the first-ever combined FabCon and SQLCon event and see this conference expand to support professionals from across the world of data, analytics, and AI.

As we approach the holiday season, this is a great chance to treat yourself or a colleague to a gift they’ll love! FabCon and SQLCon features the content, training, and networking that will help attendees grow in their professional careers and make an immediate impact in their organization.

I also want to share an exclusive offer—register now before pricing increases later this month and receive an additional $200 off the price of admission with the discount code: FABHOLIDAY. This is your last chance to get locked in at these lower ticket prices!

Reminder: registration for either event gives you full access to both.

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That mission is gaining traction at remarkable speed. Since Fabric launched two years ago, it has grown faster than any other data and analytics platform in the industry. More than 28,000 customers—including 80% of the Fortune 500—now rely on Fabric, and its ecosystem continues to expand as partners build solutions to solve the most complex data challenges.

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Another leap forward across Microsoft Databases and Microsoft Fabric

As Fabric becomes the central connection point for data, we’re strengthening the database layer at the heart of your data estate—ensuring you have the scale and performance required for AI.  

Microsoft already offers one of the industry’s most comprehensive database portfolios, and we’re expanding it even further—while deeply integrating these capabilities into Fabric. I’m excited to announce the general availability of SQL Server 2025, Azure DocumentDB, and SQL database and Cosmos DB in Fabric, along with the preview of our newest addition, Azure HorizonDB. With these new offerings, you have a world-class database option to build once and deploy at the edge, as platform as a service (PaaS), or even as software as a service (SaaS). And because our entire portfolio is either Fabric-connected or Fabric native, Fabric serves as a unified hub for your entire data estate. Below I’ll cover how these new databases are purpose-built to support your AI projects.  

Deploy the next generation of Microsoft Databases

Modernize your SQL estate with SQL Server 2025, now generally available

Microsoft has been shaping the SQL landscape for more than 35 years. Now, with the release of SQL Server 2025 into general availability, we’re introducing the next evolution—one that brings developer‑first AI capabilities at the edge, within the familiar T‑SQL experience. Smarter search combines advanced semantic intelligence with full‑text filtering to uncover richer insights from complex data. AI model management using model definitions in T-SQL allows seamless integration with popular AI services such as Microsoft Foundry.

Enterprise reliability and security remain best-in-class. Enhanced query performance, optimized locking, and improved failover help ensure higher concurrency and uptime for mission‑critical workloads. With strengthened credential management through Microsoft Entra ID via Azure Arc, SQL Server 2025 is secure by design. Your data is also instantly accessible for your AI and analytics in Microsoft OneLake with mirroring for SQL Server 2025 in Fabric, now also generally available.

SQL Server 2025 is the most significant release for SQL developers in a decade. And the response to our preview has been overwhelming, with 10,000 organizations participating, 100,000 databases already deployed, and download rate two times higher than SQL Server 2022. If you want to join all those who’ve already adopted SQL Server 2025, download it today.

Azure DocumentDB: MongoDB-compatible, AI-ready, and built for hybrid and multi-cloud

We’re excited to announce Azure DocumentDB, a new service built on the open-source, MongoDB-compatible DocumentDB standard governed by the Linux Foundation. The first Azure managed service to support multi-cloud and hybrid NoSQL, Azure DocumentDB can run consistently across Azure, on-premises, and other clouds.

Azure DocumentDB gives you the freedom to embrace open source while achieving scale, security, and simplicity. It’s AI-ready, with capabilities like vector and hybrid search to deliver more relevant results. Instant autoscale meets demand, and independent compute and storage scaling keeps workloads efficient. Security and availability is standard, with Microsoft Entra ID integration, customer-managed encryption keys, 35-day backups included, and a 99.995% availability service-level agreement (SLA). And soon, enhanced full-text search will add features like fuzzy matching, proximity queries, and expanded language support, making it even easier to build intelligent, search-driven apps.

Azure DocumentDB is now generally available, so you can try it today. You can also learn more about Azure DocumentDB and all the Azure Database news by reading Shireesh Thota’s, Corporate Vice President of Azure Databases, announcement blog.

Azure HorizonDB: PostgreSQL designed for your mission-critical workloads

PostgreSQL has become the backbone of modern data solutions thanks to its rich ecosystem, extensibility, and open source foundation. Microsoft is proud to be the #1 PostgreSQL committer among hyperscalers, and we’re building on that leadership with Azure HorizonDB.

Now in early preview, Azure HorizonDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service, built to handle the scale and performance required by the modern enterprise. It goes far beyond open source Postgres, with auto-scaling storage up to 128 TB, scale-out compute up to 3,072 vCores, <1 millisecond multi-zone commit latency, and enterprise security and compliance. Vector search is built-in, along with integrated AI model management and seamless connectivity to Microsoft Foundry so you can build modern AI apps. Combined with GitHub Copilot, Fabric, and Visual Studio Code integrations, it provides an intelligent and secure foundation for building and modernizing applications at any scale. To learn more about Azure HorizonDB, read our announcement blog.

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Accelerate app development with Fabric SaaS Databases, now generally available

We are also releasing a new class of SaaS databases, both SQL database and Cosmos DB in Fabric, into general availability. Data developers now have access to world-class database engines within the same unified platform that powers analytics, AI, and business intelligence.

Fabric Databases are designed to streamline your application development. You can provision them in seconds, and they don’t require the usual granular configuration or deep database expertise. They provide enterprise-grade performance, are secure by default with features like cloud authentication, customer-managed keys, and database encryption, and come natively integrated into the Fabric platform, even using the same Fabric capacity units for billing.

With Fabric databases, developers now have the flexibility to build applications grounded in operational, transactional, and analytical data. Together, these offerings make Fabric a developer-first data platform that is streamlined, scalable, and ready for modern data applications.

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Learn more by reading Shireesh Thota’s, Corporate Vice President of Azure Databases, announcement blog.

All your databases connected into Fabric

We’re making it easier than ever to work with your entire Microsoft database portfolio in Fabric, giving you a single, unified place to manage and use all your data. Building on our existing mirroring support for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL MI, we’re now announcing the general availability of mirroring for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB, and SQL Server versions 2016–2022 and 2025. With these databases mirrored directly into Fabric, you can eliminate traditional extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines and make your data instantly ready for analytics and AI.

Getting your data estate ready for AI with Microsoft Fabric

Choosing the right database is essential, but it’s just the beginning. The major opportunity lies in driving frontier transformation, where data becomes the foundation for an AI-native enterprise. We recommend focusing on three core steps:

• Unifying your data estate to eliminate silos and complexity.
• Creating semantic meaning so your data is ready for AI.
• Empowering agents to act on insights and transform operations.

In this section, I’ll dive into the latest enhancements to Microsoft Fabric that help you achieve every step of your data journey. This includes expanded interoperability in OneLake with SAP, Salesforce, Azure Databricks, and Snowflake, the introduction of Fabric IQ—a new workload that adds semantic understanding—and enhanced agentic capabilities across Fabric to help you build richer, AI-powered data experiences.

This is the future of data, and it’s already within reach. With Fabric and our database innovations, Microsoft is helping organizations move seamlessly from insight to action—unlocking the full potential of your data and the AI built on top of it.

Unify your data estate with Microsoft OneLake

Microsoft OneLake unifies all your data—across clouds, on-premises, and beyond Microsoft—into a single data lake with zero-ETL capabilities like shortcuts and mirroring. Alongside the additional mirroring sources for Microsoft Databases, we’re also introducing the preview of shortcuts to SharePoint and OneDrive. This allows you to bring unstructured productivity data into OneLake without copying files or building ETL pipelines, making it easier to train agents and enrich your structured data.

See how shortcuts and mirroring unify your data in OneLake:

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Once connected to OneLake, your data becomes easily discoverable in the apps your teams use every day like Power BI, Teams, Excel, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Foundry. Today, we are taking that a step further with native integration with Foundry IQ—the next generation of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Agents rely on context—Foundry IQ’s knowledge bases deliver high-value context to agents by simplifying access to multiple data sources and making connections across information. You can use the OneLake knowledge source in Foundry IQ to connect agents to multi-cloud sources like AWS S3, on-premises sources, and structured and unstructured data.

Expanding OneLake interoperability with leading data platforms

We are also seeing great momentum with dozens of partners outside of Microsoft deeply integrating with OneLake, including ClickHouse, Dremio, Confluent, EON, and many more. And now, we are thrilled to add new, deeper interoperability with SAP, Salesforce, Azure Databricks, and Snowflake.

First, we’re deepening interoperability with the systems organizations rely on most, SAP and Salesforce. With the launch of SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Microsoft Fabric, customers can allow bidirectional, zero-copy data sharing between SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and Fabric. At the same time, we are working with Salesforce to integrate their data into Fabric using the same zero-copy approach, unlocking advanced analytics and AI capabilities without the overhead of traditional ETL.

We’re also strengthening interoperability with Azure Databricks and Snowflake so you can use a single copy of data across platforms. By the end of 2025, Azure Databricks will release, in preview, the ability to natively read data from OneLake through Unity Catalog, enabling seamless access without duplication or complex data movement. Looking ahead, Databricks will also add support for writing to and storing data directly in OneLake, allowing full two-way interoperability. Read more about this interoperability.

Our collaboration with Snowflake on bidirectional data access continues as well. We are introducing a new item in OneLake called a Snowflake Database and a new UI in Snowflake—both designed to allow OneLake to be the native storage solution for your Snowflake data. We’re also bringing Snowflake mirroring to general availability, allowing you to virtualize your external Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables in OneLake with shortcuts created and handled automatically. Together, these innovations let you run any Fabric workload—whether analytics, AI, or visualization—directly on your Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables.

Learn more about our Snowflake collaboration by reading our latest joint blog or by watching the following demo:

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Finally, in close collaboration with dbt Labs, we are also excited to announce built-in support for their industry leading data transformation capability. Now in preview, dbt jobs in Microsoft Fabric let you build, test, and orchestrate dbt workflows in your Fabric workspaces. Learn more in this blog.

Create semantic knowledge to fuel AI with Fabric IQ

As Frontier Firms train agents on their enterprise data, it’s become clear that quality and context matter more than data volume. Agents need business context across relationships, hierarchies, and meaning to turn raw data into actionable insight. That’s why we’re introducing Fabric IQ—a new workload designed to map your datasets to the real-world entities they represent, creating a shared semantic structure on top of your data.

The power of IQ lies in how it unifies disparate data types under a single, coherent framework. Built upon Power BI’s industry-leading, rich semantic model technology, IQ brings together analytical data, time-series telemetry, and geospatial information, all organized under a semantic framework of business entities and their relationships, properties, rules, and actions. You can then create operations agents, a new type of agent in Fabric, which can use this model to act as virtual team members, monitoring real-time data sources, identifying patterns, and taking proactive action. Instead of forcing your teams and even agents to think in terms of tables and schemas, IQ allows you to align data with how your organization operates.

Watch the Introducing IQ in Microsoft Fabric video

In short, Fabric IQ is designed to model reality with data, so that every insight, prediction, and action is grounded in how your organization actually operates. You can learn more about IQ in Yitzhak Kesselman’s, Corporate Vice President of Messaging and Real-Time Intelligence, announcement blog.

Empower data-rich agents with Copilot, Fabric data agents, and operations agents

As organizations scale their AI initiatives, the ability to connect intelligent agents with enterprise-grade data is becoming a critical differentiator. Fabric is making this possible with a set of integrated AI experiences: Copilot in Power BI helps you ask questions of your data, Fabric data agents allow deeper analysis, and the new Fabric operations agents let you monitor your data estate and take action in real time. These experiences can be used across Fabric or as foundational knowledge sources in industry-leading AI tools like Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio or even Microsoft 365 Copilot to power smarter, more data-rich AI experiences.

Beyond introducing operations agents as part of Fabric IQ, we’re also expanding what data agents and Copilot can do. Along with existing integration with Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio, Fabric data agents can now be embedded directly in Microsoft 365 Copilot. This lets business users (with the right permissions) access trusted knowledge from OneLake and transforms Microsoft 365 from a productivity suite into an intelligent insights platform.

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They can also act as hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, making it easy to integrate with other applications and agents across the AI ecosystem. Finally, data agents can now reason across both structured and unstructured data. Thanks to an integration with Azure AI Search, data teams can add their existing unstructured data search endpoints as a source in data agents. Learn more the Fabric data agent enhancements by reading the Fabric AI blog.

We’re also enhancing the standalone experience for Copilot in Power BI with a new search experience. Simply describe what you need, and Copilot will locate the relevant report, semantic model, or data agent and surface the right answers. This standalone experience is also coming to Power BI mobile so you can use it on the go.

Take a look at how you can apply all of these AI experiences together seamlessly:

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In short, we’re redefining what it means to have an AI-powered data estate. With data agents, Copilot in Power BI, and operations agents in Fabric IQ, AI is now woven across Fabric. And with native integration to Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio, you can easily add Fabric agents as building blocks to create more intelligent, informed custom agents.

You also can see more innovation coming to the Fabric platform by reading Kim Manis’, Corporate Vice President of the Fabric Platform, Fabric blog or by checking out the more technical Fabric November 2025 Feature summary blog.

Mark your calendar for FabCon and SQLCon

We are excited to announce SQLCon 2026, which will happen at the same time and the same location as the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon), happening March 16–20, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. By uniting the powerhouse SQL and Fabric communities, we’re giving data professionals everywhere a unique opportunity to master the latest innovations, share practical knowledge, and accelerate what’s possible with data and AI, all in one powerful week. Register for either conference and enjoy full access to both, with the flexibility to mix and match sessions, keynotes, and community events to fit your interests.

Register for FabCon and SQLCon now

Watch these announcements in action at Microsoft Ignite

If you’re interested in seeing these announcements live, I encourage you to join my Ignite session, “Innovation Session: Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databases – the data estate for AI” either in person or online at no cost. I’ll not only cover these major announcements but show you how they come together to help you create a unified, intelligent data foundation for AI.

You can also dive deeper into these announcements and so much more by watching the rest of the breakout sessions across Azure Data:

Tuesday, November 18

• Modern data, modern apps: Innovation with Microsoft Databases
• Microsoft Fabric: The data platform for the next AI frontier
• Unifying your data journey: Migrating to Microsoft Fabric

Wednesday, November 19

• Premier League’s data-driven fan engagement at scale
• Create a semantic foundation for your AI agents in Microsoft Fabric
• Move fast, save more with MongoDB-compatible workloads on DocumentDB
• SQL database in Fabric: The unified database for AI apps and analytics
• The blueprint for intelligent AI agents backed by PostgreSQL
• Connect to and manage any data, anywhere in Microsoft OneLake
• Unlock the power of Real-Time Intelligence in the era of AI
• Empower Business Users with AI driven insights in Microsoft Fabric

Thursday, November 20

• Real-time analytics and AI apps with Cosmos DB in Fabric
• From interoperability to agents: Powering financial workflows with AI
• How Fabric Data Agents Are Powering the Next Wave of AI

Explore Azure announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2025

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We’re thrilled to unveil SQLCon 2026, the premier Microsoft SQL Community Conference, co-located with the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) from March 16–20, 2026! 

This year, we’re bringing the best of both worlds under one roof—uniting the vibrant SQL and Fabric communities for a truly next-level experience. Whether you’re passionate about SQL Server, Azure SQL, SQL in Fabric, SQL Tools, migration and modernization, database security, or building AI-powered apps with SQL, SQLCon 2026 has you covered. Dive into 50+ breakout sessions and 4 expert-led workshops designed to help you optimize, innovate, and connect. 

Why are SQLCon + FabCon better together? 

• One registration, double the value: Register for either conference and get full access to both—mix and match sessions, keynotes, and community events to fit your interests. 
• Shared spaces, shared energy: Enjoy the same expo hall, registration desk, conference app, and community lounge. Network with peers across the data platform spectrum. 
• Unforgettable experiences: Join us for both keynotes at the State Farm Arena and celebrate at the legendary attendee party at the Georgia Aquarium. 

Our goal is to reignite the SQL Community spirit—restoring the robust networks, friendships, and career-building opportunities that make this ecosystem so special. SQLCon is just the beginning of a renewed commitment to connect at conferences, user groups, online, and at regional events. 

Early Access Pricing Extended! 
Register by November 14th and save $200 with code SQLCMTY200. 
Register Now! 

Want to share your expertise? 
The Call for Content is open until November 20th for both conferences! 

Let’s build the future of data—together. See you at SQLCon + FabCon! 

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As our second annual event, the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference brought more than 4,000 attendees to a sold-out event in Vienna. The week opened with a partner pre-day, followed by an executive track that gave senior leaders exclusive access to Microsoft leadership. On the main stage, our keynotes set the tone with the latest Fabric announcements that drew coverage across InfoWorld, SiliconANGLE, TechTarget, The Register, VentureBeat, The Neuron, and Le Monde.

With 130+ sessions, 11 full-day workshops, a vibrant community lounge, and dozens of expert-led booths, FabCon Vienna gave customers and partners the chance to learn, connect, and see how Fabric is transforming organizations worldwide. The event highlighted innovations, partnerships, and customer success shaping the future of data and AI. Let’s take a look at some of the best moments.

Day 1 keynote

The conference kicked off with a big welcome from Arun Ulag, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data as well as a video welcome from Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. Arun and Satya highlighted the incredible customer momentum Fabric is experiencing, capped by appearances from Christian Meyers, Head of Platforms for Siemens AG and Gijs Thieme, Chief Data and Analytics Officer for KPN. This was followed by an action-packed segment led by Amir Netz, CTO of Microsoft Fabric where he and the product team unveiled the latest innovations coming to Microsoft Fabric.

Highlights included our new OneLake enhancements with Oracle and Google BigQuery mirroring (preview), Graph and Maps in Fabric (preview) to unlock connected and geospatial insights, and expanded developer tooling with the Fabric Extensibility Toolkit, Model Context Protocol, and deeper Git/VS Code integration. Furthermore, we shared announcements related to the latest enterprise-grade advancements in Fabric security such as Azure Private Link, customer-managed keys, and Synapse migration capabilities, plus new partner solutions from ESRI, Lumel, and Neo4j.

For a deeper dive into these announcements, watch the full Microsoft Fabric keynote or read FabCon Vienna: Build data-rich agents on an enterprise-ready foundation.

Day 2 keynote

Day two expanded the spotlight to the Fabric ecosystem, with senior Microsoft leaders showing how Fabric unifies databases, governance, and AI to help organizations on their journey to become AI Frontier Firms. Jessica Hawk opened the session by introducing the Frontier Firm framework and why every organization should consider its roadmap to becoming one. Shireesh Thota followed with a vision for how databases powering modern AI apps must offer the deployment flexibility of both PaaS and SaaS to meet the exploding demand for data.

Kim Manis then demonstrated how Fabric’s deeply integrated governance, security, and compliance stack, from the data center to M365, enables organizations to confidently manage and secure data access. Closing out the keynote portion, Marco Casalaina showcased how Azure AI services deliver real-time capabilities like translations and how Azure AI Foundry integrates with Fabric to bring data-specific skills to customer AI agents and enable low-code agents built in Copilot Studio.

FabCon TV

We were thrilled to introduce FabCon TV to the programming for the first time at FabCon Vienna. This new platform brought expert-led content live to a studio audience, with all segments recorded to share with our global community in the months ahead. Many of the Fabric Tech Talk Fridays (F2T2) episodes were also filmed on the FabCon TV stage, giving the community a unique opportunity to experience their favorite weekly series live.

Whether you want to relive FabCon highlights or catch up on F2T2 deep dives, FabCon TV will be the hub for ongoing learning and inspiration.

FabCon Community Lounge

The Community Lounge was once again a hub of connection and learning, bringing together MVPs, Super Users, and User Group Leaders for meetups, Q&A sessions, and community-led discussions. Attendees enjoyed interactive experiences like the “Fast at Fabric” challenge, sticker scavenger hunts, and a collaborative coloring wall, all designed to spark participation while promoting skilling and certification opportunities.

Swag was earned through intentional activities such as joining user groups or subscribing to community blogs, making engagement both fun and rewarding. The lounge also hosted a Diversity & Inclusion lunch, highlighted Microsoft Learn certifications, and featured live MVP sessions and giveaways, reinforcing its role as a central space for skilling, networking, and community growth. Keep the momentum going by joining the Fabric Community.

To celebrate FabCon Vienna, we’re offering all community members a 50% discount on exams DP-600, DP-700, DP-900, and PL-300. Request your voucher before October 3!

Additional highlights from FabCon Vienna 2025

Beyond the keynotes and sessions, FabCon Vienna 2025 delivered memorable moments that blended innovation with community spirit, including:

• Hands-on exploration with unique experiences like a high-octane racing simulator powered by Fabric Real-Time Intelligence and expert-staffed booths for direct Q&A.
• Community competitions and creativity were highlighted by the DataViz World Championship, where data storytellers competed for the crown.
• A milestone celebration marking the 10th anniversary of Microsoft Power BI, honoring a decade of impact and innovation in analytics.
• Unparalleled connections with Microsoft product leaders, MVPs, partners, and peers, strengthening relationships across the global Fabric community.
• An exclusive, sold-out executive track offered senior leaders direct access to Microsoft executives, curated sessions, and peer-to-peer learning, capped by a memorable evening at a historic Viennese palace.
• Power Hour delivered fun and creativity with live Fabric and Azure demos, the crowd-favorite Fabric Family Feud (Engineering vs. Marketing), and limited-edition Lego Power BI birthday sets, cementing it as a must-see FabCon tradition.

Join us at FabCon Atlanta and Microsoft Ignite

Mark your calendars! The next FabCon is coming to my hometown in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 16 to 20, 2026. I’m thrilled to see the Fabric community come together here for even more in-depth sessions, cutting-edge demos and announcements, and the networking that makes FabCon so special. Register today and use code MSCATL for a $200 discount on top of current early access pricing!

In the meantime, join us at Microsoft Ignite 2025. From November 18 to 21, 2025, experience the latest innovations across Microsoft Fabric and the full Microsoft Cloud live from San Francisco, the iconic hub of technology and culture, or join us online. We look forward to seeing you there.

And don’t stop there—hack the future of data and AI with Fabric. Compete in the Microsoft Fabric FabCon Global Hackathon for your chance to win up to $10,000! Running through November 3.

Explore additional resources for Microsoft Fabric

• Register for FabCon Atlanta.
• Sign up for the Fabric free trial.
• View the updated Fabric Roadmap.
• Try the Microsoft Fabric SKU Estimator.
• Visit the Fabric website.
• Join the Fabric community.
• Read other in-depth, technical blogs on the Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog.

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Welcome everyone to the second annual European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference this week in the vibrant city of Vienna, Austria! With more than 130 sessions and 10 full-day workshops, this year’s sold-out European event is bigger than ever and there’s no shortage of incredible learning experiences. More than 4,200 attendees will get to test their driving skills on a high-octane racing simulator powered by Fabric Real Time Intelligence, ask their questions directly at expert-staffed booths, compete for a chance to be crowned the DataViz World Champion, and celebrate Microsoft Power BI’s tenth anniversary.

This event is an opportunity to get much deeper into Microsoft Fabric, which has now become the fastest growing data platform in Microsoft’s history.¹ In less than two years, we’ve been able to expand Microsoft Fabric into a complete data and analytics platform with more than 25,000 customers, including about 80% of the Fortune 500, spanning everything from analytics to databases to real-time insights.

Microsoft has massive investments in Fabric, and I’m thrilled to share a new slate of announcements that will further advance Fabric’s vision as the most comprehensive, enterprise-grade data platform on the planet. These announcements include new OneLake shortcut and mirroring sources, a brand-new Graph database enabling you to connect entities across OneLake, new geospatial capabilities with Maps in Fabric, improved developer experiences, and new security controls—giving you what you need to run your mission-critical scenarios on Fabric.

Unify your data with OneLake, the AI-ready data foundation

Any successful AI or data project starts with the right data foundation. Organizations like Lumen, IFS, NTT Data, and the Chalhoub Group have all adopted Microsoft OneLake as the unified access point for their data. Lumen—a leader in enterprise connectivity—cut 10,000 hours of manual effort with OneLake. “We used to spend up to six hours a day copying data into SQL servers,” says Chad Hollingsworth, Cloud Architect at Lumen. “Now it’s all streamlined. OneLake allowed us to ingest once and use anywhere.”

With mirroring and OneLake shortcuts, we’ve simplified how you connect to and transform your data with a zero-copy, zero-ETL approach that allows you to instantly connect to any data—no matter the cloud, database, vendor, engine, or format. In addition to the recent announcement of mirroring for Azure Databricks, we are thrilled to announce the preview of mirroring for Oracle and Google BigQuery, allowing you to access your Oracle and Google data in OneLake in near real-time. We are also extending Fabric data agents to support all mirrored databases, so you can ask questions about your external database data. Additionally, we are announcing the general availability of OneLake shortcuts to Azure Blob Storage and the preview of new OneLake shortcut transformations to automatically convert JSON and Parquet files to Delta tables, for instant analysis. Finally, we are releasing the OneLake integration with Azure AI Search into general availability, enabling you to easily ground your custom agents with OneLake data.

With your data in OneLake, the OneLake catalog then provides the tools to discover, govern, and secure your data from a single place. With more than 30 million monthly active Power BI and Fabric users, it’s already the default source of data and insights. We are also launching OneLake security into full preview and creating a new tab in the OneLake catalog called Secure, where you can manage the security and permissions for all your data items. Along with this new tab, we are releasing OneLake catalog Govern tab into general availability.

We are also excited to enrich our extensibility story with the preview of a new OneLake Table API, which lets apps use GET and LIST calls to discover and inspect OneLake tables stored in either Iceberg or Delta format using Fabric’s security model. Finally, for workspace owners, we are releasing preview of OneLake diagnostics that allows you to capture all the data activity and storage operations for a specific workspace into any lakehouse in the same capacity.

Train smarter agents with connected intelligence from graph and maps in Fabric

The first step in starting any agentic project is data. You need to bring the data together and ensure your data estate can handle the volume of data used in training. But sophisticated AI agents require more than simply huge quantities of data. To provide you with accurate answers grounded on your business, they need to first understand the relationships between data. They need to understand your business operations. They need context.

We believe this is the next major shift now required for a modern AI-ready data estate. You can learn more about this shift and our vision in Jessica Hawk’s blog, “Microsoft leads shift beyond data unification to organization, delivering next gen AI readiness.” To help you provide this context to your agents or any other data project, we are excited to announce the preview of two transformative new features in Fabric: Graph and Maps.

Model, analyze, and visualize complex data relationships

Graph in Fabric is designed to enable organizations to visualize and query relationships that drive business outcomes. Built upon the proven architecture principles of LinkedIn’s graph technology, graph in Fabric can help you reveal connections across customers, partners, and supply chains. But like your data, graph in Fabric is easier to explain visually.

Graph in Microsoft Fabric is a game changer. The highly scalable graph engine coupled with Fabric’s ease of use is a uniquely powerful combination.

—Luke Hiester, Senior Data Scientist, Eastman Chemical Company

Graph will roll out in various Fabric regions starting on October 1, 2025.

Visualize, analyze, and act on location-based data instantly

Maps in Fabric can help you bring geospatial context to your agents and operations by transforming enormous volumes of location-based data into interactive, real-time visualizations that drive location-aware decisions and enhance business awareness. Check out a full demo of the new Maps in Fabric experience.

By combining streaming analytics, geospatial mapping, and contextual modeling, maps can help you extract location-based insights for your existing business processes to drive better awareness and outcomes.

You can learn more about graph and maps in Yitzhak Kesselman’s “The Foundation for Powering AI-Driven Operations: Fabric Real-Time Intelligence” blog.

Delighting developers with new tools in Fabric

Power BI is a leader in business intelligence for developers with more than 7 million actively building data visuals. Now, Microsoft Fabric is quickly becoming the home for all data developers. To help developers feel even more at home, we’re adding a huge range of new tooling across Fabric.

First, we’ve released the Fabric Extensibility Toolkit into preview—an evolution of the Microsoft Fabric Workload Development Kit but newly designed to help any developer bring their data apps to Fabric for their own organizations along with a simplified architecture and additional automation to drastically streamline development. Developers can now simply build their own Fabric items, and everything else like distribution, user interface, and security is taken care of for you—try it today.

We’re also introducing the preview of Fabric MCP, a developer-focused Model Context Protocol that enables AI-assisted code generation and item authoring in Microsoft Fabric. Designed for agent-powered development and automation, it streamlines how you build using Fabric’s public APIs with built-in templates and best-practice instructions. It also integrates with tools like Microsoft Visual Studio Code and GitHub Codespaces and is fully open and extensible.

With the general availability of Git integration and deployment pipelines with lakehouses, data warehouses, copy jobs, activator, Power BI reports, and many more, we are excited to announce that you can employ continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities across the Fabric platform. We are even extending CI/CD support to Fabric data agents. We are also releasing User Data Functions and the Fabric VS Code extension into general availability. And we are releasing an open-source version of the command line interface in Fabric.

Finally, we are also releasing horizontal tabs for open items, support for multiple active workspaces, and a new object explorer—all designed to make multitasking in Fabric smoother, faster, and more intuitive.

Build your mission-critical scenarios on Microsoft Fabric

Fabric has comprehensive, built-in tools for network security, data security, and governance, enabling any organization to effectively manage and govern their data. A detailed overview of all of the existing capabilities are available in the Fabric Security Whitepaper.

Now, we are thrilled to announce significant additions to our security, capacity management, performance, and migration—all of which further cement Fabric as the ideal data platform for every AI and mission-critical scenario. Frontier firms implementing AI need more than just next-generation AI tools. You need a comprehensive, cost-effective data platform to support your projects with end-to-end data protection, integration with developer tools, and performance that can scale to any need. Microsoft Fabric has both the leading generative AI capabilities and the enterprise-ready foundation to truly foster an AI-powered data culture.

Connect securely to even the most sensitive data

First, we are providing additional safeguards to help you manage secure data connections and precisely manage the level of isolation you need in each workspace. We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Private Link in Fabric and outbound access protection for Spark, and the soon to be released preview of workspace IP filtering—all at the workspace-level. Additionally, we are expanding mirroring to support on-premises data sources and data sources behind firewalls. Finally, we are excited to announce the general availability of customer managed keys for Fabric workspaces coming next month.

More granular capacity management

Gaining control over the jobs running on your Fabric capacities is critical to any mission critical scenario. To give you this control, we are announcing the general availability of surge protection for background jobs and the preview of surge protection for workspaces. With surge protection, you can set limits on background activity consumption and now, specific workspace activity—helping you protect capacities from unexpected surges.

Enhanced Fabric Data Warehouse performance

Fabric is engineered to handle massive data volumes with exceptional performance across its analytics engines, and we’re continuously enhancing their efficiency. Since August 2024, we’ve released 40 performance improvements to Fabric Data Warehouse driven by your feedback, resulting in a 36% performance improvement in industry standard benchmarks—try Fabric Data Warehouse today.

Seamlessly migrate your Synapse data to Fabric

We are also excited to release the general availability of an end-to-end migration experience natively built into Fabric, enabling Azure Synapse Analytics (data warehouse) customers to transition seamlessly to Microsoft Fabric. The migration experience allows you to migrate both metadata and data from Synapse Analytics and comes with an intelligent assessment, guided support, and AI-powered assistance to minimize the migration effort.

Extend Fabric with partner-created workloads and seamless integration with Snowflake

We are excited to announce the general availability of new partner solutions native to Microsoft Fabric from ESRI, Lumel, and Neo4j. ESRI’s advanced geospatial analytics, Lumel’s vibrant business intelligence insights, and Neo4j’s graph analytics are all just a click away in the Fabric workload hub. In addition, several new partners are announcing capabilities built on Microsoft Fabric, learn more by reading the FabCon Vienna partner blog.

In May of 2024, we announced an expanded partnership with Snowflake—committing both our platforms to provide seamless bi-directional integration and enable customers with the flexibility to do what makes sense for their business. Since then, we’ve expanded interoperability between Snowflake and Microsoft OneLake including the ability to write Snowflake tables to OneLake, the ability to use OneLake shortcuts to access Snowflake tables, the ability to read OneLake tables directly from Snowflake, and full support for Apache Iceberg format in OneLake. Now, we are releasing new Iceberg REST Catalog APIs that allow Snowflake to read Iceberg tables from OneLake, keeping OneLake tables automatically in sync. You can learn more about this new announcement and our partnership by reading the Microsoft OneLake and Snowflake interoperability blog.

See more Microsoft Fabric innovation

In addition to the announcements above, we are excited to share a huge slate of other innovations coming to Fabric, including enhancements to SQL databases in Fabric, the preview of Runtime 2.0, the preview of AI functions in Data Wrangler, the general availability of editing semantic models in the Power BI service, and so much more.

You can learn more about these announcements and everything else by reading the Fabric September 2025 Feature summary blog, the Power BI September feature summary blog, or by exploring the latest blogs on the Fabric Updates channel.

Join us at FabCon Atlanta and Microsoft Ignite

Already excited about the next FabCon? Join us in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 16 to 20, 2026, for even more in-depth sessions, cutting-edge demos and announcements, community networking, and everything else you love about FabCon. Register for FabCon today and use code MSCATL for a $200 discount on top of current Early Access pricing!

In the meantime, you can join us at Microsoft Ignite this year from November 18 to 21, 2025, either in person in San Francisco or online to see even more innovation coming to Fabric and the rest of Microsoft. You’ll see firsthand the latest solutions and capabilities across all of Microsoft and connect with experts who can help you bolster your knowledge, build connections, and explore emerging technologies.

Explore additional resources for Microsoft Fabric

• Sign up for the Fabric free trial.
• View the updated Fabric Roadmap.
• Try the Microsoft Fabric SKU Estimator.
• Visit the Fabric website.
• Join the Fabric community.
• Read other in-depth, technical blogs on the Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog.

Sign up now for our upcoming ask the Fabric expert sessions

• Join us on September 24, 2025, for the “Ask the Experts—Microsoft OneLake” webinar where experts from our OneLake team will join to answer all your questions live.

Get certified in Microsoft Fabric

• Join the thousands of other Fabric users who’ve achieved more than 50,000 certifications collectively for the Fabric Analytics Engineers and Fabric Data Engineers roles. To celebrate FabCon Vienna, we are offering the entire Fabric community a 50% discount on exams DP-600, DP-700, DP-900, and PL-300. Request your voucher.

Join the FabCon Global Hackathon

• Build real-world data and AI solutions that push the boundaries of what’s possible with Microsoft Fabric. Join the hackathon to compete for prizes up to $10,000.

Read additional blogs by industry-leading partners

• How AI-native data platforms are redefining business by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
• Your Operational Data Just Became Your Smartest Business Agent by iLink Digital.
• From OLTP to AI: Choosing Your Microsoft Fabric Database Engine by Lumel Technologies.
• Building scalable e-commerce product recommendations with Microsoft Fabric SQL by MAQ Software.
• Things You Should Know About MCP in Microsoft Fabric by Nimble Learn.
• How to Estimate Microsoft Fabric Costs: Capacity Planning Strategies for AI Workloads by JourneyTeam.
• How Microsoft Fabric Modernized & Transformed ERP Data Analytics by Bizmetric.
• Unlocking the full value of Data as a Product with Microsoft Fabric and Purview by Thoughtworks.

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This year’s agenda is packed with sessions tailored to every stage of your Fabric journey. Explore key sessions across Power BI, AI, databases, security and governance, and Microsoft OneLake, and get a first look at the newest features and what’s coming next on the roadmap. Whether you’re looking to sharpen your skills, dive into data stewardship best practices, or get started with Microsoft Copilot in Fabric, you’ll find sessions designed to meet you where you are and help you go further.

To make the most of your time at FabCon Vienna, look through our list of sessions you won’t want to miss. We also highly recommend attending core notes from the teams building Microsoft Fabric. These sessions offer strategic insights into what’s new, what’s coming, and how to maximize your experience at the event.

Fabric core note sessions

• The roadmap for Microsoft SQL, ground to cloud to Fabric
• Fabric Data Factory: What’s new and roadmap
• Fabric Data Warehouse: What’s new, what’s next
• Power BI roadmap: Strategy, vision, and demos
• Unify your data estate with OneLake, the OneDrive for data
• The road ahead for AI in Fabric: Data agents and intelligent solutions
• Taking AI-powered action at the speed of business with Real-Time Intelligence
• What’s next for Fabric Data Engineering: Roadmap and innovations
• Fabric security: Everything you need to know!

Power BI

Chat with your data through AI-powered search and analytics

Session speakers: Lada Hill and Eun Hee Kim

Discover how Microsoft Fabric Copilot is changing the way users explore data in Power BI. This session dives into the Chat with your Data experience, showing how to ask smarter questions, uncover insights faster, and get more value from your reports. Hear from the Power BI product team on how to optimize your prompts and make the most of Copilot’s capabilities. Plus, get a sneak peek at upcoming features that will take AI-powered analytics even further.

Power BI DataViz World Championship – European Edition

Join us for a high-energy, live competition where four standout data creators go head-to-head in a timed Power BI visualization challenge. Using the same dataset, each competitor will build compelling reports that showcase creativity, storytelling, and technical skill. A panel of celebrity judges will evaluate the results and crown the FabCon Viz Champion, with the winner’s work featured across the community. Whether you’re a Power BI pro or just love great data stories, this is your front-row seat to inspiration, innovation, and a little friendly competition.

The latest in AI

Fabric and Azure AI Foundry playing nicely together

Session speaker: Grímur Sæmundsson

Explore how Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Foundry work together to streamline employee assessments in the public sector. This session walks through a real-world solution in which Fabric handles data processing and Azure OpenAI enhances analysis and feedback generation. Learn how retrieval-augmented generation is used to embed guidelines, and see Notebooks, Semantic Link, and PySpark in action to retrieve and prepare data. You’ll walk away with practical insights into using LLMs and Fabric to automate complex evaluation workflows.

Databases

SQL Server 2025: The AI-ready enterprise Database Connected with Microsoft Fabric

Session speakers: Bob Ward and Uros Milanovic

Discover what’s new in SQL Server 2025—now with built-in AI, enhanced performance, and deep integration with Azure and Microsoft Fabric. Learn how SQL enables AI applications both on-premises and in the cloud, with consistent capabilities from ground to cloud to Fabric. This session covers key features designed for modern database developers, making it easier than ever to build intelligent, connected apps.

Real-Time Intelligence

Unlock the power of Digital Twin solutions with Real-Time Intelligence

Session speakers: Chafia Aouissi and Jomit Vaghela

Explore how Microsoft Fabric’s Digital Twin Builder helps you design AI-ready digital twin solutions using real-time data, ontology management, and contextualization. Learn how to map, model, and analyze real-world systems for deeper insights, predictive maintenance, and smarter decision-making. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to scale, this session offers practical guidance on building and optimizing digital twins with Fabric Real-Time Intelligence.

Data warehouse and data engineering

Accelerating Fabric Migration: New Assistant Tools for Data Engineering and Warehousing

Session speakers: Jenny Jiang and Ancy Philip

Learn how Microsoft’s new migration assistants simplify moving from Synapse to Microsoft Fabric. This session covers tools for Spark and Data Warehouse migrations, highlighting key features, feature parity, and differences to guide your strategy. See live demos, explore upcoming capabilities, and leave with practical tips to ensure a smooth and efficient migration to Fabric.

Mastering Microsoft Fabric Data Warehousing: Tips & Tricks You Need to Know

Session speaker: Kristyna Ferris

Learn practical tips to optimize performance and manage your Microsoft Fabric data warehouse more effectively. This session covers creating case-insensitive warehouses, monitoring and tuning query performance, and stopping rogue queries that threaten capacity. Packed with real-world examples and actionable guidance, you’ll leave with strategies you can apply immediately to keep your data warehouse stable and efficient.

Revolutionizing external data access in Fabric Data Warehouse

Session speakers: Jovan Popovic and Twinkle Cyril

Discover how Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse transforms external data access with new capabilities for reading and integrating data without ingestion. Learn to use external tables and OPENROWSET to query Delta Lake, parquet, and CSV files directly from OneLake, Lakehouse, and real-time analytics sources. This session highlights key enhancements to external tables, COPY INTO, and virtualization techniques—showcasing how Fabric unifies warehouse and lakehouse concepts into an open, modern platform.

Workspace strategy for Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric

Session speaker: Ásgeir Gunnarsson

Choosing the right workspace strategy is critical to building scalable data engineering solutions in Microsoft Fabric. This session examines different approaches—single workspace, per stage, or per workload—and how factors like team size, DevOps practices, and security requirements influence your decision. Using the Medallion architecture as a guide, we’ll explore common challenges, practical workarounds, and key considerations to help you start strong and avoid a costly rework later.

Security and governance

Govern, manage, and protect your data in Microsoft Fabric

Session speakers: Yaron Canari and Adi Regev

Learn how Microsoft Fabric helps organizations govern, manage, and protect their analytics data with built-in compliance and security features. This session covers local governance tools within Fabric and how they integrate with Microsoft Purview for broader, enterprise-wide control. Gain practical insights into securing your data estate while staying compliant and in control.

Fabric security: Everything you need to know!

Session speakers: Kasper de Jonge and Anton Fritz

Microsoft Fabric offers a SaaS-first approach to data that includes powerful security features out of the box—but do you know what you’re getting? This session explores how Fabric handles authentication, inbound access, data storage, and user-level permissions. Learn how to secure your data estate, control access, and integrate governance with Microsoft Purview. Walk away ready to engage your security team with confidence.

Microsoft OneLake

Deep dive into Delta (Parquet) and OneLake: Unpacking the storage behind Microsoft Fabric

Session speaker: Steve Campbell

Explore the core storage technologies that power Microsoft Fabric—OneLake, Delta, and Parquet—and learn how they work together to enable scalable, lake-centric analytics. This session breaks down Delta’s key features like ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time travel, without diving into heavy code or jargon. With real-world examples and visual aids, you’ll gain the foundational knowledge to make smart architectural decisions and optimize storage performance in your Fabric solutions. Perfect for data engineers, analysts, and IT pros familiar with Fabric but new to its storage underpinnings.

Additional can’t miss sessions

Git good: Best practices for CI/CD and collaboration in Microsoft Fabric

Session speaker: Peer Grønnerup

Take your Fabric projects to the next level with practical strategies for CI/CD, Git integration, and team collaboration. Learn how to structure repos, automate deployments with Fabric CLI and fabric-cicd, and build pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions. Peer, a Fabric expert with over 15 years of experience in data and BI, will share real-world tips, branching strategies, and ready-to-use templates to help you scale workflows and maintain quality.

We’re at capacity—now what?

Session speaker: Frederik Declerck

Fabric capacities simplify data operations and cost control—but hitting limits can still catch teams off guard. In this session, we’ll demystify bursting, smoothing, and how background activity can unexpectedly max out your capacity. Learn how to diagnose issues using tools like the Capacity Metrics app and Monitoring Hub, and explore real-world strategies for short and long-term capacity management. We’ll also cover workload optimization, capacity planning, and new features like Autoscale Billing and surge protection to help you stay ahead of demand.

Explore more sessions and save your spot at FabCon Vienna

If you’re looking to see even more sessions and explore the full program, check out the complete schedule. You’ll find deep dives, hands-on workshops, and keynotes covering every corner of Microsoft Fabric and the future of AI-powered analytics.

A reminder that the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 is an in-person only event. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn about Fabric and see firsthand how Microsoft can help your organization prepare for the era of AI. Sign up for the FabCon Vienna conference using the code MSCUST to save €200 off your registration. We’ll see you in Vienna!

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Over four days, there will be plenty of opportunities to interact with experts shaping the future of Microsoft Fabric. You’ll be able to explore Microsoft Fabric workloads in-depth, including coverage of our newest updates across Power BI, Real-Time Intelligence, Data Factory, OneLake, and more. Additionally, there will be sessions covering AI, databases, and data governance to give attendees a unique learning opportunity. In all, there will be over 130 expert-led sessions across 12 dedicated tracks, delivered by Microsoft product managers, community experts like MVPs, and customers sharing their experiences. Whether you’re looking to sharpen your skills, hear directly from Microsoft and community leaders, or connect with fellow practitioners, FabCon Europe will have something for you.

Workshops and tutorials will take place on September 15, with the main conference running from September 16–18. Along with ample opportunities to learn and network, there will be no shortage of fun, including the Data Viz World Championship, Power Hour, and other social events to help you fully experience this unique and growing community in Europe. You won’t want to miss it!

Learning sessions, FabCon racing, and more

This year’s variety of sessions will showcase the breadth and depth of what’s possible with Microsoft Fabric, led by experts from around the world. Learn about our latest features in sessions such as: Chat with Your Data Through AI-Powered Search and Analytics; The Road Ahead for AI in Fabric: Data Agents and Intelligent Solutions; and Unlock the Power of Digital Twin Solutions with Real-Time Intelligence. We’re also expanding our focus on security and governance with more sessions than ever before, including Fabric Security: Everything You Need to Know, to help you confidently manage and protect your data estate. You’ll also find community-led and practical sessions designed to help you take your Fabric skills to the next level.

Explore how Fabric enables real-time insight with the Fabric racing experience. Drive around a Forza Motorsport track while seeing your performance come to life in real time with Fabric Real-Time Intelligence. You’ll also be able to connect with product and engineering teams at the Ask the Experts booths, network with peers in the community lounge, and discover the latest innovations from our partners throughout the event.

To top it all off, Power BI turns 10 years old this July. We’ll be celebrating from July to Vienna and beyond. Did someone say kuchen?

Make the most of your time in Vienna

Vienna offers a mix of history, music, and relaxed café culture that makes the city feel both timeless and lived in. Take a stroll through Schönbrunn and explore the cobbled streets of Hofburg, or simply enjoy a coffee and slice of Sachertorte at a neighborhood spot. It’s easy to get around, whether you’re staying a little longer or connecting with new friends while you’re in town. Be sure to stop by a traditional Austrian tavern, or beisl, and immerse yourself in local cuisine like Tafelspitz (boiled beef), Käsespätzle (cheesy egg noodles with crispy onions), and Wiener schnitzel (breaded veal cutlet). Between meeting with the community and the charm of the setting, FabCon Vienna promises to be a memorable experience for everyone.

Register today

As with last year, this will be an in-person-only event, making it the ultimate opportunity to connect with experts and peers. The earlier you register, the better pricing you’ll get, so be sure to register for FabCon conference right away to lock in the best rate. Plus, use the code MSCUST to save an extra €200.

We’ll be sharing more details in the coming weeks, including can’t-miss sessions, featured guest speakers, and the latest innovations revealed first at FabCon. Keep an eye out for the full agenda and announcements to help you plan your experience. See you in Vienna!

Additional helpful resources:

• Check out the Convince My Boss template.
• Check out Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 Tutorials.
• Sign up for the Fabric free trial.
• View the updated Fabric Roadmap.
• Visit the Fabric website.
• Join the Fabric community.

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