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Fabric User Group September

pieterjansen — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:36:29 GMT

Fabric User Group Meetup September 2026 - Piletid | Fienta

Microsoft Agent in a Day | Free hands-on Training on Copilot Studio

nehass95 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:50:12 GMT

Learn how to build and use AI agents to simplify tasks and improve business productivity.

📅 Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2026
🕛 Time: 09 AM EST - 05 PM EST
🔗 Register Here

What You Will Learn

Build your own agents using natural language
Unlock powerful autonomous agent capabilities
Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with your unique processes
Take action quickly with out of the box integrations
Interactive Q&A Session

NOTE: ALL ATTENDESS WILL BE PROVIDED WITH CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION POST WORKSHOP ISSUED DIRECTLY FROM MICROSOFT.

Why Attend?

🏆 Learn. Earn. Showcase. Attend live and earn an official Microsoft digital achievement badge issued directly by Microsoft.

🚀 Join us live and discover how intelligent agents and next-generation conversational assistants can help transform customer and employee interactions

See you in the Workshop ! 😊

🚀 Microsoft Fabric — Data Warehouse: SCD Type 2 vs Overwrite Dimensions

Ladislauandre — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:43:38 GMT

📅 18 de setembro de 2026
🕗 20:00 — Hora de Portugal (Lisboa)
💻 Online — Microsoft Teams
🌍 Idioma: Português

Como devemos tratar alterações nos dados de dimensão num Data Warehouse?

Neste encontro vamos explorar duas abordagens fundamentais para a gestão de dimensões:

🔹 SCD Type 2 (Slowly Changing Dimension Type 2) — preservação do histórico das alterações, permitindo analisar os dados tal como eram em diferentes momentos.

🔹 Overwrite Dimensions — atualização dos valores existentes, mantendo apenas o estado mais recente da dimensão.

Durante a sessão, vamos analisar as diferenças entre estas abordagens, os seus casos de utilização, vantagens e limitações, e perceber quando faz sentido preservar o histórico e quando simplesmente substituir os valores existentes.

🧪 Laboratório prático

A sessão será acompanhada por um laboratório baseado no artigo:

Data Warehouse Considerations: SCD Type 2 vs Overwrite Dimension Tables

🔗 Abrir laboratório no MSSQLTips

👥 Speakers

🎤 Marcos Vinícius
🎤 Henryk Raskovisch

Esta sessão faz parte da nossa sequência de laboratórios práticos de Data Warehouse e Microsoft Fabric, com foco em conceitos que são importantes para quem trabalha ou pretende trabalhar em Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering e Data Analytics.

💡 Se trabalhas com dados e queres aprofundar os conceitos de Data Warehouse na prática, esta sessão é para ti.

#MicrosoftFabric #DataWarehouse #DataEngineering #SCD #SlowlyChangingDimensions #AnalyticsEngineering #FabricLusófono

🔄 Mirroring no Microsoft Fabric — Replicação de Dados

Ladislauandre — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:57:17 GMT

📅 25 de setembro de 2026
💻 Online — Microsoft Teams

🌍 Idioma: Português
🎯 Tema: Mirroring no Microsoft Fabric (Replicação de Dados)

Como podemos trazer dados de fontes externas para o Microsoft Fabric de forma mais simples e integrada?

Nesta sessão prática, vamos explorar o Mirroring no Microsoft Fabric, uma capacidade que permite replicar dados de sistemas externos para o Fabric e disponibilizá-los para análise com menor complexidade de integração.

Vamos utilizar como referência um cenário de Snowflake → Microsoft Fabric, explorando como funciona o processo de mirroring, a configuração da conexão e a disponibilização dos dados no ambiente Fabric.

🚀 O que vamos abordar?

O que é Mirroring no Microsoft Fabric
Como funciona a replicação de dados
Diferenças entre Mirroring, pipelines e outros padrões de ingestão
Como configurar o Snowflake Mirroring
Replicação de dados do Snowflake para o Microsoft Fabric
Como os dados ficam disponíveis no Fabric
Considerações sobre arquitetura, atualização dos dados e cenários de utilização
Demonstração prática seguindo um laboratório baseado na documentação Microsoft

🧑‍💻 Para quem é esta sessão?

Esta sessão é especialmente indicada para:

Data Engineers
Analytics Engineers
Data Analysts
Fabric Developers
Profissionais de Power BI
Arquitetos de Dados e Analytics
Profissionais que trabalham com Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric ou plataformas modernas de dados

🎯 Objetivo

Mais do que conhecer o conceito, o objetivo é entender como o Mirroring pode ser utilizado na prática para integrar dados externos com o Microsoft Fabric e em que situações esta abordagem pode fazer sentido numa arquitetura moderna de dados.

👥 Speakers:
Ladislau André
Humberto Aguiar

📚 Materiais de referência: Microsoft Learn e laboratório prático sobre Microsoft Fabric Mirroring.

Credit Union Fabric User Group Monthly Meeting - September 2026

andreahl — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:57:25 GMT

Join the Credit Union Fabric User Group Monthly Meeting

Come connect with fellow users, learn from industry peers, and participate in an interactive discussion.

This Month's Featured Session

Microsoft Fabric - Time to Productionize
Presented by Alan McFarlane, LongView Systems

Meeting Agenda

Welcome & Announcements
Featured Presentation
Open Discussion & Questions
Wrap-Up

Date: Friday September 18, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST
Location: Microsoft Teams

We hope you'll join us for another great session and discussion!

Power B(A)I – AI-driven Reporting with MCP, Custom AI Skills & Power BI Bridge

Ilgar_Zarbali — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:03:36 GMT

🚨 Join our upcoming online meetup!

Power B(A)I: AI-driven Reporting with MCP, Custom AI Skills & Power BI Bridge

We are delighted to welcome Karin Szilágyi, a DataViz finalist, for a practical session exploring how AI is changing Power BI reporting.

During this session, Karin will demonstrate how MCP, custom AI skills and Power BI Bridge can help you create smarter, more efficient and AI-powered reporting workflows.

📅 Friday, 25 September 2026

🕗 8:00 PM Baku time

🌐 Online event

https://www.meetup.com/azdata-aicommunity/events/315837519/

Join us to discover new possibilities at the intersection of Power BI, artificial intelligence and data visualisation.

Microsoft Fabric Masterclass Series: Real-Time Intelligence with Fabric

Riya99 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:17:24 GMT

Join our live Microsoft Fabric Masterclass to explore how Real-Time Intelligence helps organizations bring streaming data, analytics, dashboards, and AI together to respond faster and make more informed decisions.

📅 Date: Friday, September 25, 2026
🕛 Time: 12:00 PM EDT
🔗 Register Here

What You Will Learn

Introduction to Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric
Explore Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence
Understand Eventhouse and Real-Time Data
Get Started with KQL
Build Real-Time Analytics Experiences
Connect Real-Time Data with AI
Learn from MCT

NOTE: ALL REGISTRATIONS WILL BE PROVIDED WITH DIGITAL ACHIEVEMENT BADGES ISSUED DIRECTLY FROM MICROSOFT.

Why Attend?

🏆 Learn. Earn. Showcase. Attend live and earn an official Microsoft digital achievement badge issued directly by Microsoft.
Gain practical knowledge of Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence
Learn from a Microsoft Certified Trainer at NetCom Learning
Understand how real-time analytics can support faster business decisions

🚀 Join us live and discover how Microsoft Fabric can help your organization move from data after the fact to intelligence in the moment.

See you in the masterclass! 😊

Microsoft Security Copilot in Defender Masterclass: Next-Gen Protection (SC-200)

Riya99 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:13:57 GMT

Cybersecurity teams are dealing with more alerts, faster-moving threats, and increasingly complex investigations. AI can help security professionals respond faster, investigate smarter, and reduce the manual effort involved in modern security operations.

Join our live masterclass to explore how Microsoft Security Copilot and Microsoft 365 Defender use AI to strengthen threat detection, investigation, threat hunting, and incident response.

DATE: Monday, September 28, 2026
TIME: 10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
REGISTER HERE

NOTE: ALL REGISTRATIONS WILL BE PROVIDED WITH DIGITAL ACHIEVEMENT BADGES ISSUED DIRECTLY FROM MICROSOFT.

Discover how Security Copilot and Microsoft Defender can help teams investigate incidents more efficiently, identify threats faster, automate response workflows, and strengthen endpoint protection.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Introduction to Microsoft Security Copilot in Defender
Overview of Microsoft 365 Defender Security Capabilities
Administering Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
AI-Powered Threat Hunting and Incident Investigation
Automating Security Response with Copilot + ASR Rules
Best Practices, Real-World Use Cases + Live Q&A

STRENGTHEN YOUR AI-POWERED SECURITY SKILLS

Discover how Microsoft Security Copilot and Defender can help your organization detect threats faster, streamline investigations, and improve incident response.

REGISTER NOW AND TAKE THE NEXT STEP IN MODERN SECURITY.
See you in the masterclass! 😊

Fabric Community Stage: Identity Flows in Fabric Pipelines

tayloramy — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:21:03 GMT

Have you ever wondered what identity a specific activity in a Fabric Pipeline is actually running under?

If so, our next Fabric Community Stage session is for you!

We're excited to welcome Teemu Multanen, who will be speaking about Identity Flows in Fabric Pipelines.

Identity and authentication can get surprisingly complicated in data pipelines. The identity used to create a connection isn't necessarily the same thing as the identity you might expect to be executing a pipeline, particularly when you start working with scheduled runs, service principals, and workspace identities.

We'll dig into how these identity flows work and what you should be looking for when troubleshooting permissions and authentication issues.

📅 Tuesday, September 15, 2026
⏰ 18:00 UTC
🎙️ Speaker: Teemu Multanen

👉 Join the event:
https://discord.com/events/1399808914446356601/1504247942674907227/1549479916339200000

If you've ever had the experience of “but it works when I run it manually!”, come join us. 😄

Hope to see you there!

Day of Data Detroit 2026 – Data, AI & Microsoft Fabric Community Event

Mourak — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:45:47 GMT

Day of Data Detroit 2026 is a free, in-person community technology event taking place on Saturday, September 12, 2026, at the Ann Arbor District Library Downtown in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The event brings together data professionals, developers, architects, analysts, database professionals, AI practitioners, students, job seekers, career changers, early-career professionals, consultants, technology leaders, and members of the broader technology community for a full day of technical education, practical demonstrations, professional development, and networking. The event is completely free to attend and is designed to make high-quality Data and AI education accessible to the Michigan community.

The program includes two parallel technical tracks covering Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Real-Time Intelligence, Generative AI, data engineering, streaming analytics, SQL Server, Databricks, conversational business intelligence, AI agents, modern data platforms, database performance, analytics, architecture, and professional development. The sessions are intended for a broad range of experience levels, from students and professionals beginning their careers to experienced engineers, architects, consultants, database professionals, and technology leaders.

A major focus of Day of Data Detroit 2026 is how modern data platforms and artificial intelligence are changing the way organizations collect, process, analyze, and act on information. Attendees will have opportunities to learn practical approaches to Microsoft Fabric, Real-Time Intelligence, Power BI, generative AI, modern data engineering, lakehouse architectures, conversational analytics, intelligent agents, and enterprise data solutions.

One of the featured Microsoft Fabric sessions is AI-Powered Real-Time Intelligence: Transforming Data-Driven Decisions with Microsoft Fabric and GenAI. This session explores how Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence can be combined with generative AI to work with continuously arriving data, identify important patterns, add business context, and help organizations move more quickly from data to actionable insight.

Additional sessions cover conversational BI using Databricks AI and BI Genie, predictive maintenance, automotive warranty and supply-chain analytics, database performance and index maintenance, reporting optimization, AI assistants for database professionals, professional speaking skills, data engineering roadmaps, and the use of AI agents with enterprise data.

Day of Data Detroit is particularly valuable for students, job seekers, career changers, and early-career professionals who want exposure to the technologies and skills currently being used across Data, AI, analytics, cloud, engineering, and business intelligence roles. Experienced professionals can also use the event to exchange ideas, learn from other practitioners, explore emerging technologies, and connect with the broader Michigan data community.

The event will be held at Ann Arbor District Library Downtown, 343 S. Fifth Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. Sessions run from 10:30 AM until 4:45 PM Eastern Time on Saturday, September 12, 2026. Admission is completely free.

For the Event URL field, enter:

https://dayofdata.org/2026-09-12-dayofdata1164/

Day of Data Detroit 2026 – Data, AI & Microsoft Fabric Community Event

Mourak — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:38:43 GMT

For the Event URL field, enter:

https://dayofdata.org/2026-09-12-dayofdata1164/

Microsoft Fabric Masterclass Series: Real-Time Intelligence with Fabric

Riya99 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:21:22 GMT

📅 Date: Friday, September 25, 2026
🕛 Time: 12:00 PM EDT
🔗 Register Here

What You Will Learn

Introduction to Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric
Explore Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence
Understand Eventhouse and Real-Time Data
Get Started with KQL
Build Real-Time Analytics Experiences
Connect Real-Time Data with AI
Learn from MCT

NOTE: ALL REGISTRATIONS WILL BE PROVIDED WITH DIGITAL ACHIEVEMENT BADGES ISSUED DIRECTLY FROM MICROSOFT.

Why Attend?

🏆 Learn. Earn. Showcase. Attend live and earn an official Microsoft digital achievement badge issued directly by Microsoft.
Gain practical knowledge of Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence
Learn from a Microsoft Certified Trainer at NetCom Learning
Understand how real-time analytics can support faster business decisions

🚀 Join us live and discover how Microsoft Fabric can help your organization move from data after the fact to intelligence in the moment.

See you in the masterclass! 😊

Data Analytic Group Monthly Connect September 2026 : Building Smarter with Microsoft Fabric IQ

rajendraongole1 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:31:53 GMT

This session combines technical architecture with real-world examples to show how conversational AI is changing the way we work with data - directly inside Microsoft Fabric.

organizations explore the next wave of AI, the question is no longer “Can we use AI?” - but “How can we use it meaningfully?”

This session explores how Microsoft Fabric IQ and Data Agents enable new ways to access, understand, and automate data – without switching tools or writing custom code.

You’ll learn how to:

1. Connect natural language interfaces to lakehouses, warehouses & semantic models

2. Use Fabric IQ ontologies to bring business meaning to technical data

3. Deploy Data Agents that retrieve, plan, and summarize based on user intent

4. Build agent-driven workflows that feel intuitive - and actually get things done

This session combines technical architecture with real-world examples to show how conversational AI is changing the way we work with data - directly inside Microsoft Fabric.

Speaker : Hanna Schwab,Data & AI Lead @ teccle group | Microsoft Foundry MVP

Organizers: Rajendra Ongole, Koundinya Lanka,Shashi,Navya K

COO: Charitha Reddy, Meghana,Sreekar T

𝑹𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒕 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒑: https://www.meetup.com/dataanalyticgroup/

𝑱𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒔𝑨𝒑𝒑 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒑: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CkMRYzyoKSNKbXUs2IN2MU

𝑱𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒔𝑨𝒑𝒑 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒌:https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaBgfAwDOQIeuTjGbF3u

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Dataanalyticgroup

𝑱𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒂𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 : https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Data-Analytic-Group/gh-p/DataAnalyticGroup

𝑨𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒏 Discord: https://discord.gg/CGvZ2Nu9

𝑨𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒏 Telegram: https://t.me/DataAnalyticGroup

We look forward to having you attend the event!

Proactive Data Quality Engineering for Microsoft Fabric Healthcare Data Pipelines

Praful_Potphode — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:22:15 GMT

Description

Modern healthcare organizations increasingly rely on Microsoft Fabric to unify data engineering, analytics, and reporting across cloud-native platforms. As Medicare datasets such as claims, eligibility, enrollment, and provider information traverse multiple ingestion, transformation, and analytics layers, maintaining data quality becomes essential for regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and trusted decision-making. Traditional quality assurance approaches that validate data only after pipeline execution often identify defects too late, resulting in costly remediation and inconsistent analytical outcomes. This session presents a proactive data quality engineering framework designed for Microsoft Fabric environments, embedding validation throughout the end-to-end data lifecycle. The framework integrates source-level verification for schema conformity, completeness, and referential integrity; transformation-level validation for mapping accuracy, business rule enforcement, and aggregations within Data Factory and Synapse Data Engineering; and cross-layer reconciliation across OneLake and analytical datasets. By incorporating automated validation workflows into Fabric pipelines, organizations can detect anomalies earlier, improve traceability, and support continuous data quality monitoring at scale. The session also demonstrates how healthcare-specific validation rules can be aligned with Medicare business processes while leveraging Microsoft Fabric's unified architecture for orchestration and analytics. Attendees will gain practical guidance on implementing scalable validation strategies that enhance governance, strengthen compliance readiness, and establish reliable healthcare data pipelines capable of supporting high-quality analytics and business intelligence.

From Fragmented Data to Actionable Insights

DhruvTanwar — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:58:56 GMT

Most public sector and nonprofit organizations have their performance reports live in spreadsheets, while the program data sits in tools that don't talk to each other. The "single source of truth" everyone keeps asking for keeps moving further out of reach. This data fragmentation slows down reporting and impacts decision-making.

Join Simform and Microsoft for a practical session on how to fix that without starting over, where Microsoft Fabric fits in a phased data journey, and what a stronger foundation makes possible for analytics and future AI.

📅 October 1, 2026, 10 – 11 AM PT

What you'll learn:

A framework for assessing your data estate: where connectivity is enough, where governance is the gap, and where modernization is worth the investment
What the path toward AI-led use cases looks like from where most public sector organizations actually stand today
What a unified data foundation actually unlocks for analytics, reporting, and team productivity
The real cost of fragmented data across warehouses, departmental tools, and spreadsheets and what it takes away from decision-making
Where Microsoft Fabric fits in a phased data journey and how to evaluate it on implementation reality, not vendor positioning
How to sequence toward AI adoption without overcommitting and where to show value early

🗣 Speakers:

Carnelian Horsey, Cloud and AI Platform Specialist, Microsoft
Ritesh Shah, Field CTO, Simform
Rohan Bhandari, Solutions Engineer, Data – Cloud and AI platforms, Microsoft

Hosted by Simform and Microsoft

Click Here To Register Now

Real-Time Loyalty Intelligence on Microsoft Fabric for Agentic Commerce

Praful_Potphode — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:19:23 GMT

Description

Agentic commerce is projected to redirect three to five trillion dollars in global retail spending by 2030, and AI-driven retail website traffic grew 693% year-over-year during the 2025 holiday season. Every major agentic commerce protocol today treats agent-initiated transactions as anonymous guest checkouts, which means loyalty tier, points, and benefits disappear the moment an AI agent completes a purchase on a customer's behalf. Since loyalty members generate two to five times the revenue of non-members, this is a costly blind spot, and it is also a data engineering problem Fabric is well suited to solve.

This session walks through a reference architecture for restoring tier recognition, benefit eligibility, and points accrual to machine-speed checkout flows operating under 100-millisecond latency budgets, built on Fabric's real-time stack. Eventstream and KQL Database power a Loyalty State Cache that serves pre-computed tier state in single-digit milliseconds using change-data-capture pipelines from the loyalty system of record. Data Activator drives a Benefit Eligibility Evaluator that resolves banner-parameterized offers and gated access in real time, while OneLake and Lakehouse provide the unified storage layer connecting transactional, promotional, and identity data without duplication. An asynchronous accrual engine settles points and benefit updates within seconds of payment confirmation, decoupled from the hot path.

The talk covers concrete implementation patterns: staleness policies tuned by benefit type, from 15-minute tolerances for standard discounts to under 2 minutes for gated event access; a layered security model using short-lived, single-use tokens; and graceful degradation logic that preserves the purchase with retroactive accrual when real-time loyalty resolution fails. Attendees will leave with a working blueprint for using Fabric's real-time intelligence and OneLake foundation to keep loyalty programs intact as an increasing share of retail transactions shift to autonomous AI agents.

Your Data Is Everywhere, Now What? Building A Modern Data Platform.

Caleb_AD — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:12:35 GMT

Microsoft Fabric User Group Accra:

A Ghanaian company has data in Excel, SQL databases, APIs, operational systems and applications. Different teams have different numbers. Reports take days. Nobody trusts the dashboard. As far as you make decisions based on data, this is for you.

This session introduces the Fabric ecosystem and demonstrates how the different workloads work together. Attendees will build a simple end-to-end solution that takes raw data, stores and transforms it in a Lakehouse, and exposes it for analysis.

Learning objectives

By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:

Explain what Microsoft Fabric is and where it fits in the Microsoft data ecosystem.
Identify the major Fabric workloads.
Understand the role of OneLake.
Distinguish between Lakehouse, Warehouse, and other Fabric workloads.
Create a Fabric workspace.
Build a basic data-to-insight workflow.

Workforce Compliance and Time Fraud Detection reporting using PowerBI

Praful_Potphode — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:54:18 GMT

Description

Mode: Online

Date & Time: 26 Sept 10 AM IST

Managing time and attendance across a global workforce requires organizations to balance regulatory compliance, corporate policies, and operational efficiency. Traditional approaches often rely on manual reviews and fragmented processes, making it difficult to consistently identify compliance risks and potentially fraudulent activities in a timely manner.

This session presents a real-world success story of a Machine Learning-powered Working Hours Alert System (WHAS) for modernizing workforce compliance monitoring and fraud detection. The solution analyzes time and attendance data to identify compliance risks, detect anomalous working-hour patterns that may indicate fraud, and recommend schedule adjustments aligned with labor laws and organizational policies.

The session focuses on the data and machine learning aspects of building an intelligent compliance monitoring solution. Attendees will learn how workforce data can be analyzed to identify meaningful patterns, design effective alerts, support anomaly detection, and enable proactive intervention. The discussion will also cover implementation considerations, transparency, human oversight, and lessons learned from deploying an AI-driven compliance solution in a global enterprise environment.

By connecting machine learning with enterprise workforce data, the presentation demonstrates how organizations can reduce manual effort, improve consistency in compliance monitoring, strengthen governance, and support more informed operational decisions. Attendees will gain practical perspectives they can apply when designing scalable data and analytics solutions for workforce compliance and operational integrity.

Agentic Loops in the Data Stack: From Pipeline Failure to Auto-Remediation

michaelolafusi — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:01:27 GMT

Data Engineers in Toronto January 2027 Semimonthly Meeting

Topic: Agentic Loops in the Data Stack: From Pipeline Failure to Auto-Remediation

Abstract:
Every data engineer knows the 2 AM pipeline failure, the one nobody notices until Friday's report is wrong.

In this session, we break down five AI agents that are changing how data teams operate: from monitoring pipelines 24/7 and catching schema drift at ingestion, to closing the gap between a production failure and its root cause in minutes. We'll walk through real implementation patterns, including a baseline-learning monitoring agent and a tool-use driven incident response loop, and discuss what the shift to agentic data engineering actually means for the way teams are built and how engineers grow. Whether you're evaluating agents for your platform or already running them in production, you'll leave with concrete patterns you can apply immediately.

Speaker: Varun Joshi, Senior Data Engineer at AWS

Speaker Profile:
Highly motivated and results-oriented Data Engineer with 12+ years of experience in designing, building,and optimizing scalable data pipelines and architectures.Proven expertise in data warehousing, ETL/ELT processes, and cloud platforms. Passionate about leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

Designed and deployed AI-driven Data solutions, integrating LLM-powered coding assistants into Data Engineering to produce AI solutions for customers. Focused on leveraging LLMs and advanced engineering to build scalable, secure, and trustworthy platforms, resulting in significant efficiency gains, reduced on-call burden,and improved customer trust.

Driving AI adoption across teams to enhance productivity, streamline deployments, and improve end-user experience.

The meeting is over Microsoft Teams, and the joining link is https://vip.dataengineersintoronto.org/webinar

See you at the meeting!

City of Toronto Open Data Portal

michaelolafusi — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:59:53 GMT

Data Engineers in Toronto December 2026 Semimonthly Meeting

Topic: City of Toronto Open Data Portal

Abstract:
The City of Toronto launched its first Open Data Portal in the fall of 2009 to meet growing demand for open data. Since then, the open data movement has gained increasing momentum within Toronto’s digital and civic spaces.

Come hear the city staff that manage the open data portal (https://open.toronto.ca) pull back the curtain and discuss how it works behind the scenes and where it contributes to the city.

Speaker: Mac Nichols; Supervisor, City of Toronto Open Data

Speaker Profile:
Mac is the supervisor of the city of Toronto's open data portal. He's worked on the portal since 2021, before which he worked in the private sector as a data engineer and analyst
The meeting is over Microsoft Teams, and the joining link is https://vip.dataengineersintoronto.org/webinar

See you at the meeting!