Copilot in Microsoft Fabric opens up a world of possibilities for business users, data analysts, and data engineers, making it no surprise that interest is surging within your organization. As an administrator, it’s crucial to grasp what Copilot can do, its limitations, and the implications for your existing governance framework.

In this session, we will tackle essential questions that empower you to support your colleagues in maximizing their use of Copilot in Fabric. Key topics include:

• Access Control: Explore the options for granting or restricting usage, ensuring that the right individuals have the appropriate access.

• Data Residency: Understand the pathways of data movement and which data points are sent where, helping you maintain compliance with regional regulations.

• Data Security: Learn how Copilot upholds data security measures and respects your organization's policies throughout its processes.

• Capacity Consumption: Discover how to monitor and manage capacity consumption effectively, enabling you to optimize resource allocation.

• Audit Logs: Gain insights into tracking user activity and identifying usage patterns within your tenant through comprehensive audit logs.

By the end of this session, you will have a deeper technical understanding of Copilot in Fabric, equipping you to effectively oversee its implementation and ensure robust governance in your organization. Join us to enhance your administrative expertise and support your team’s success!

Benni De Jagere

There are thousands of way to build a data platform. Only a dozen right ways.

Fabric Foundation is designed to navigate these dozen right ways.

1. Starting from rolling out your Fabric Foundation using the Fabric Terraform provider, Infrastructure pipelines & Azure DevOps.

2. Next up: templated Bronze, Silver & Gold approach with a live use case

3. To finish: Managing the CI/CD process of your data solution the right way.

Buckle up for a high-paced session with the most knowledge shared per minute.

After this session you are settled for Fabric Succes!

Lou Segers

Fabric capacities are great! They highly simplify the way we work with our data and the cost control that comes with it. However, they also present certain challenges. Estimating the necessary capacity in advance can be difficult. And due to the excellent concepts of bursting and smoothing, you (and your team) might find yourself "at capacity" without understanding the cause or knowing how to address it.

This talk will handle, based on my own experiences at customers:

• Explain the concepts of bursting & smoothing with interactive and background activities, using some easy-to-understand examples and highlight the way these features can (unexpectedly) overload your capacity.

• Dig deeper in monitoring methods such as the capacity metrics app and monitoring hub, that can help identifying the root causes of capacity overruns and elaborate on the most common causes we’ve seen in the field.

• How you can quickly keep your capacity going when you’ve hit the capacity

• Explain strategies can help manage this short - and longer term:

• Capacity planning (using multiple capacities, optimizing with PPU or Power BI Pro licensing, ...)

• Optimizing workloads (such as DataFlow Gen1 vs. Gen2, warehouse vs. Lakehouse workloads, Spark High-concurrency, ...

• Leveraging new Fabric features such as Autoscale Billing for Spark or surge protection

At the end of this session you will have a better view on how the Fabric capacities smoothing & bursting works, what to do when you suddenly hit the limits and how to plan efficiently to avoid overruns in the future.

Frederik Declerck

One important bit of the Microsoft Fabric adoption roadmap is System oversight. In this session, we will have a look into what is possible to Monitor and Audit your Fabric Landscape. We will look into the out of the box functionality, what is on the roadmap and we will deep-dive in more advanced functionality by using the Fabric Unified Admin Monitoring Framework (FUAM). This comprehensive framework will include data from different APIs, Capacity Management App, Best Practise - and Vertipaq Analyzer to build an outstanding monitoring solution. We will show live monitoring possibilities with FUAM and our experience by using it in large Fabric landscapes.

Oliver Engels, Kevin Thomas & Gellert Gintli

A technical session by Microsoft

Security is no longer just about locking down data—it’s about enabling safe, scalable, and governed access across your entire analytics platform. In this deep dive session, we’ll uncover how OneLake Security operates under the hood and show you what’s really happening when you secure data in Lakehouses, Semantic Models, and Warehouses within Microsoft Fabric.

We’ll start by contrasting the “before Fabric” world—where security was often fragmented and siloed—with the “after Fabric” approach, which unifies access through centralized roles, policy-driven controls, and consistent enforcement across all data experiences.

Expect a technical walkthrough of how OneLake handles access at multiple levels: from workspace roles and OneLake data access roles, to folder and table permissions, row-level filters, and column-level restrictions. We’ll go behind the scenes to show how these mechanisms are enforced internally—whether you're accessing the data via Spark in a Lakehouse, SQL in a Warehouse, or consuming it through a Semantic Model in Power BI.

You’ll also gain insight into how shortcuts behave across domains, how Fabric ensures isolation and inheritance, and what best practices to follow to maintain a secure and compliant data environment.

If you’re responsible for data security, architecture, or governance in Fabric, this session will arm you with both a conceptual understanding and a technical foundation to secure your analytics estate—end to end.

Stijn Wynants

Microsoft Fabric is an evolving product. With its monthly releases, it is sometimes difficult to keep track of all the fantastic new features and possibilities made available to us.

In this session, we will cover technical tips and tricks to be able to efficiently work with Microsoft Fabric gathered from multiple real-life implementations.

Among those tips and tricks, we will talk about :

1. How to efficiently work with a combination of lakehouses and warehouses in a medaillion architecture, and what are the added values

2. How can we make a Data Mesh architecture work in Fabric

3. How to use the Fabric capacity Metrics app to analyze our workloads

4. How to use library variables for CI/CD

David Kaminski

The Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Vienna promises to unveil major developments across the data platform ecosystem — from AI-powered analytics to real-time intelligence and unified data architecture. But what do these announcements really mean for your data strategy?

As an attendee at Fabcon, I’ll be gathering firsthand insights from the sessions, keynotes, and conversations that shape the future of Microsoft Fabric. This session at Fabric Winterfest will be a strategic post-conference debrief, designed to translate the most impactful themes from Vienna into actionable takeaways for architects, engineers, and decision-makers working with Fabric.

Rather than a simple recap, this session will:

- Highlight the top trends and announcements from Fabcon.

- Interpret their relevance for Microsoft Fabric users and platform evolution.

- Offer architectural perspectives on how to adapt and innovate.

- Spark discussion on what’s next for Fabric in the context of enterprise data transformation.

Whether you're deep into Fabric implementation or just exploring its potential, this session will help you align your roadmap with the future — as seen through the lens of Fabcon.

Join me for a forward-looking, insight-driven session — straight from Vienna to Antwerp!

Tom Claessens