European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference Tutorials 2026
We are delighted to reveal the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference full day tutorials for 2026. These tutorials will take place on Sep 28th and are exclusive to 4 Day Ticket holders.
The topics include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL, Agentic AI, Data Engineering, Governance, SQL Server, Fabric IQ, Power BI and more. All tutorials will be delivered by experts in the Microsoft Fabric space including Microsoft Corporate, MVPs and Community Leaders.
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Tutorial A:
Building a Production-Ready Lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric: A Practical Data Engineering Workshop
Teams adopting Fabric often struggle to move from prototypes to production-ready lakehouses. In this hands-on workshop, you'll build a complete lakehouse end-to-end: from raw data ingestion through medallion transformation layers to a consumption-ready Direct Lake semantic model. You'll practice lakehouse architecture design, notebook-based transformations, Delta table optimization, incremental load patterns, and Direct Lake connectivity, using the same patterns that work in real production environments.
Speaker: Nikola Ilic, MVP
Tutorial B:
Building Production-Ready AI Data Solutions in Microsoft Fabric: From Agent to Action
In this full-day hands-on workshop, build an end-to-end AI-powered data solution in Microsoft Fabric from scratch. Configure agents in Fabric and IQ, design Translytical Taskflows for real-time orchestration, implement UDF-driven operations agents, and close the loop with Power BI. Leave with a working prototype combining structured and unstructured data, automated AI enrichment, and actionable writeback - all within Fabric's native ecosystem.
Speakers: Nadim Abou-Khalil and Anton Vashchenko
Tutorial C:
Azure SQL or Fabric SQL: Deploying Infrastructure and Databases as Code
Managing Azure SQL or Fabric SQL by hand doesn't scale. In this workshop, Jess Pomfret and Rob Sewell show you how to deploy both your Azure SQL infrastructure and your database schemas as code. You'll build real CI/CD pipelines that provision resources and ship database changes automatically — version controlled, repeatable, and ready for production. Hands-on, practical, and no clicking required.
Speakers: Rob Sewell, MVP and Jess Pomfret, MVP
Tutorial D:
From Streaming Data to Instant Action: Real‑Time Intelligence Hackathon with Fabric
Real-time data is only valuable if it leads to real-time action. In this immersive L300 workshop, you’ll participate in a guided hackathon to build action-oriented Real-Time Intelligence solutions using Microsoft Fabric.
Teams will ingest live event data, analyze it in motion, and wire insights directly into dashboards, alerts, and automated workflows—demonstrating how Fabric RTI enables organizations to move from awareness to action in seconds
Key Topics Covered :
- Streaming ingestion patterns and event modeling
- Event driven architectures
- Streaming analytics and operational metrics
- Triggering downstream actions from live insights
Speakers: Surya Teja Josyula, Microsoft and Edgar Cotte, Microsoft
Tutorial E:
Modernizing Your SQL Estate: From SQL Server to Azure SQL and Fabric for AI-Ready Applications
Most enterprises do not modernize their SQL estate in a single move. Instead, they evolve over time. In this hands-on workshop, you will walk through a realistic, end to end modernization journey across the Microsoft SQL portfolio, learning how to choose the right database for each workload.
We start with a traditional corporate application running on SQL Server and, using the Zava company scenario, walk through a hands on migration to Azure SQL Managed Instance. This phase focuses on validating compatibility, operational readiness, and application continuity as part of the migration process. Once on SQL Managed Instance, we show how teams can immediately take advantage of PaaS platform and the latest SQL Server engine, including AI ready and developer friendly features, along with deep integration across Azure services and Microsoft Fabric.
We then turn to Azure SQL Database Hyperscale to show what’s possible next: teams can build new mission critical application directly on Hyperscale, or seamlessly extend applications previously migrated to SQL Managed Instance. In both cases, Hyperscale enables massive scale, built-in resilience, and AI-ready capabilities without rearchitecting the application.
Finally, we look at how net new cloud native applications are built using SQL database in Fabric, and where Fabric fits within a modern SQL estate.
This workshop emphasizes practical decision making over theory. You will learn when to use Azure SQL Managed Instance, Hyperscale, or SQL database in Fabric, how to modernize incrementally, and how to prepare your SQL data estate for AI. You will leave with a clear, actionable framework that you can apply in your own environment, whether you are modernizing legacy systems, building AI powered applications, or planning the next stage of your SQL journey.
Speakers: Dr. Dani Ljepava, Microsoft, Borko Novakovic, Microsoft, Vladimir Ivanovic, Microsoft and Strahinja Rodic, Microsoft
Tutorial F:
Building Intelligent, Event-Driven Architectures with Fabric Real-Time Intelligence
Join two experts on Fabric Real-Time Intelligence and Fabric IQ for a hands-on, full-day workshop where AI meets real-time data. Explore Microsoft Fabric's Real-Time Intelligence and Fabric IQ to build intelligent, event-driven architectures. From Eventstream and Eventhouse to Activator, Agents, and Ontologies - discover how AI transforms streaming data into instant, actionable decisions.
Speakers: Johan Ludvig Brattås, MVP and Brian Bønk, MVP
Tutorial G:
Fabric Capacity Strategies that build confidence
A full-day, hands-on tutorial to master Microsoft Fabric Capacities end-to-end. Understand what capacities are and how design decisions affect cost, performance, and user experience.
Explore bursting, smoothing, and throttling through real scenarios, then plan capacities and workspaces, monitor health and usage, and practice scaling, pausing, protection, and offloading mechanisms.
Leave with a practical, automation-driven playbook that helps your organization forward.
Speaker: Benni De Jagere, Microsoft
Tutorial H:
Mastering Dataflow Gen2 for ETL in Microsoft Fabric
Dataflow Gen2 is the core data transformation tool in Microsoft Fabric, powered by the Power Query engine. In this hands-on workshop, attendees will learn to build scalable solutions by extracting data from diverse sources, implementing data transformation and ETL patterns, optimizing performance, leveraging query folding, using parameters and custom functions, utilizing M scripting, applying best practices, debugging techniques, and integrating with pipelines for end-to-end data integration.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.
Speaker: Reza Rad, Microsoft RD and MVP
Tutorial I:
From Legacy to Fabric: Migrate, Modernize, and Secure Your Data Warehouse End-to-End
Learn how to migrate data workloads into Microsoft Fabric Warehouse end to end. This session covers ingestion, transformation, and security modernization across a variety of source systems. Explore lift-and-shift and modernization approaches, redesign pipelines with Fabric-native capabilities, and implement modern governance. Hands-on labs focus on SQL Server and Synapse patterns, with guidance applicable to broader data platforms.
Speakers: Freddie Santos, Microsoft, Artur Vieira, Microsoft, Srdjan Matin, Microsoft
Tutorial J:
Power BI Meets Agentic AI: A Hands-On Workshop from Setup to Impact
AI-powered agents are reshaping how we build Power BI solutions - and this workshop puts you in the driver's seat. Whether you're curious about agentic development or ready to integrate it into your workflow, this full-day, hands-on workshop will take you from foundational concepts to building semantic models and reports with GitHub Copilot and MCP servers in Microsoft Fabric.
You'll start by understanding what agentic development really is: how it works and where it delivers real value through practical, real-world use cases. From there, you'll set up your own environment and progressively work through guided exercises that cover the full Power BI development lifecycle - from semantic model design to report creation - while also learning where these approaches shine and where traditional methods still matter.
Walk away ready to apply agentic development to your Power BI projects with confidence - knowing both its strengths and its boundaries.
Speakers: Rui Romano, Microsoft and Emily Lisa, Microsoft
Tutorial K:
Getting Started with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI: A Hands-On Workshop
New to Fabric or Power BI? This workshop is the perfect place to start, giving you an end-to-end intro to Fabric and Power BI and equipping you with the skills and confidence to dive deeper into the world of modern analytics.
We’ll start with Fabric in the morning, building out an end-to-end solution, then on Power BI in the afternoon.
Through guided exercises led by experts, you'll gain knowledge you can take back to your own projects, and you'll be set up for a successful conference!
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.
Speaker: Stephanie Bruno, MVP