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Get to Know More About Microsoft Fabric's Capabilities

puneetvijwani — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:29:35 GMT

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming community event on March 6th featuring two insightful sessions:

Session 1: A Whirlwind Tour on Microsoft Fabric!

Date: March 6th, 2024

Time: 18:00 CET

Speaker: Nikola Ilic, Data Mozart, Microsoft Data Platform MVP

Session Description: So, you’ve heard about the “latest and greatest” Microsoft solution that will automagically solve all your data analytics and AI challenges? But, is it really like that? Should we all migrate to Fabric or should we stick with our current data solutions? If you ask yourself any of these questions, then this session is for you! We’ll explain what Microsoft Fabric is, and what are the core components of this new offering. You’ll also learn about the underlying architecture, Fabric licensing options, and possible real-life use cases.

Questions If any , Then Break

Session 2: Git Source Control In Power BI and Fabric

Date: March 6th, 2024

Time: 19:00 CET

Speaker: Dennes Torres, Data Platform MVP

Session Description: Git support is a long awaited feature in Power BI. It's finally available in Power BI Desktop and Microsoft Fabric Portal (former Power BI Portal). Let's discover how it works and what are the possible architectures we can implement using Power BI GIT Support.

To attend, mark yourself as "Going" on the event page and add to your calendar. The join link will be shared closer to the session date. Check back on the event page at session time for the link.

Looking forward to insightful discussions!

Leverage your Data engineering work with Direct Lake in Microsoft Fabric

puneetvijwani — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:31:09 GMT

Description

Today organizations have invested efforts and resources in Data engineering through Synapse or Azure Databricks. The session talks about how one can leverage existing data engineering work to get better value from Microsoft Fabric from get go.

Session Date: February 28, 2024

Time: 1800 CET

Speaker: Sanjay Raut @ Microsoft's Fabric CAT

Speaker Bio:

Sanjay Raut is Principal Program Manager on Fabric Customer Advisory Team (aka Fabric CAT). Sanjay has been working on SQL DW /BI for more than a decade expanding from SQL DW and Synapse dedicated pool to SSAS tabular and Power BI. As a part of Fabric CAT he has been working closely with some of the big enterprises in Retail and Consumer Product Group. His recent work has been with Synapse Analyzer, the best practice report for Azure Synapse Dedicated Pool.

To attend, mark yourself as “Going” on the event page and add to your calendar. The join link will be shared closer to the session date. Check back here at session time for the link.

We look forward to seeing you at this exciting session!

Copilot & Data Activator in Microsoft Fabric

puneetvijwani — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:31:18 GMT

In this session we will focus on two key Fabric innovations:

Copilot in Fabric: Live demos of the Copilot experiences in Dataflow Gen2, Notebooks and Power BI

Data Activator: Create alerts and trigger events from your Fabric data without code

Join us as Lars Andersen explores these latest Fabric capabilities hands-on. You’ll see how Copilot’s assists in development and how Data Activator allows you to activate your data!

Session Date: January 31st, 2024

Time: 1800 CET

Speaker: Lars Andersen @ Microsoft's Fabric CAT

To attend, mark yourself as “Going” on the event page and add to your calendar. The join link will be shared closer to the session date. Check back here at session time for the link.

We look forward to seeing you at this exciting session!

Fabric Sessions: Fabric Capacity On Demand & Overview of Semantic Link

puneetvijwani — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:31:26 GMT

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming community event featuring two insightful sessions:

Session 1:

Title: Fabric Capacity on Demand: Pause and Resume Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity from Power BI

Date: February 13th, 2024

Time: 18:00 - 18:30 CET

Speaker: Ioana Bouariu

Session Description: Struggling with fluctuating data demands in your Microsoft Fabric environment? Learn how to build a solution that allows you to control your Fabric capacity on demand directly from Power BI with the push of a button.

Questions If any , Then Break

Session 2:

Title: Introduction to Semantic Link in Microsoft Fabric

Date: February 13th, 2024

Time: 19:00 CET

Speaker: Sandeep Pawar

Session Description: Semantic Link in Microsoft Fabric offers an innovative way to access data and semantic information contained in a semantic model. In this session, Sandeep will provide an overview of Semantic Link and outline practical use cases to help you get the most out of Fabric.

To attend, mark yourself as "Going" on the event page and add to your calendar. The join link will be shared closer to the session date. Check back on the event page at session time for the link.

Looking forward to insightful discussions!

Azure Synapse Analytics & Microsoft Fabric: The Showdown

puneetvijwani — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:31:46 GMT

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming community session featuring Andy Cutler.

During this session, Andy will explore Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse Analytics - comparing their use cases and examining how these services can work together.

Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of leveraging Fabric and Synapse!

Azure Synapse Analytics & Microsoft Fabric: The Showdown

Session Details:

Title: Azure Synapse Analytics & Microsoft Fabric: The Showdown

Date: January 10th, 2024

Time:1800 CET / 1700 GMT

Speaker: Andy Cutler

Session Description:

With the release of Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft has consolidated Power BI, Spark, Data Warehousing, and real-time streaming into one platform. In this session, we’ll look at both Fabric and Synapse Analytics, contrasting their use cases and architectures. We’ll also explore how these services can complement each other in the data and analytics space.

Join us as Andy Cutler helps build understanding of the relationship between Microsoft's two leading analytics offerings.

To attend, mark yourself as "Going" on the event page and add to your calendar. The join link will be shared closer to the session date. Check back on the event page at session time for the link.

Looking forward to insightful discussions!

October 2023 - Microsoft Fabric -Data & AI Meetup

puneetvijwani — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:33:11 GMT

Get ready ! The Microsoft Fabric & AI Meetup is coming to town!

Join us for a day of Microsoft Fabric and AI hosted by our group

Event will online , feel free to join from anywhere

We'll be geeking out over Data and AI

On the agenda:

5:00pm - 5:10pm: Intro from your host with the most

5:10pm - 5:50pm: Featured Session from Jon Jahren - Director Azure Data & AI @ Microsoft

5:50pm - 6:00pm: Break

6:00pm - 6:40pm: Trond Brande shows us How to use real time analytics with Microsoft Fabric

6:40pm - 6:50pm: Last chance for a break!

6:50pm - 7:30pm: Opening the Threads : Inside Microsoft Fabric ! From Thomas & Puneet

OneLake - Foundation of Microsoft Fabric, OneDrive for data & Data silo killer

puneetvijwani — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:33:58 GMT

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming community session featuring Pawel Potasinski,Senior Program Manager at Microsoft.

During this session, Pawel will delve into how Microsoft Fabric users can leverage OneLake as the storage foundation of the platform.

Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of Microsoft Fabric and the transformative power of OneLake!

"OneLake - the foundation of Microsoft Fabric, OneDrive for data and the data silo killer"

Session Details:

Title: OneLake - the foundation of Microsoft Fabric, OneDrive for data and the data silo killer

Date: 30th August 2023

Time:18:00 hrs CET

Speaker: Pawel Potasinski,Microsoft

Session Description:

One of the key pillars of Microsoft Fabric is that it’s lake centric and open. At the core of this pillar there’s OneLake - a single, unified storage system for all your data. Come to this session to learn how different teams working with Fabric can easily explore and discover data, re-use existing data products and work in a Data Mesh operating model without the need to maintain separate data lakes and keeping many copies of the same data.

Come to this session to learn how Microsoft Fabric users can benefit from OneLake - the storage foundation of the platform.

Looking forward to your active participation and insightful discussions during this enriching session!

Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh & Data Fabric-The alphabet soup of data architectures

puneetvijwani — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:34:07 GMT

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming community session featuring James Serra, Industry Advisor - Federal Civilian at Microsoft.

James will be sharing his expertise on the intriguing topic of

"Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric: Exploring the Alphabet Soup of Data Architectures."

Session Details:

Title: Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric (the alphabet soup of data architectures)

Date: 9th August 2023

Time:18:00 hrs CET /12:00 PM EDT

Speaker: James Serra,Microsoft

Session Description:

In this session, James will guide us through the fascinating world of data architectures, demystifying the buzzwords such as Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric. He will provide a detailed comparison of these concepts with a modern data warehouse, discussing their benefits, drawbacks, and key considerations. James will delve into real-world use cases, allowing you to assess which approach aligns best with your big data requirements. Additionally, he will share insights on implementing a data mesh and data lakehouse within Microsoft Fabric.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and expand your understanding of data architectures. Join us for an engaging session with James Serra!

To attend the session, we kindly request you to mark yourself as "Going" on the event page and add it to your calendar. The link to join the session will be shared on the event page a few days before the session. Make sure to check the event page at the time of attending for the link.

We look forward to your active participation and enriching discussions during the session. Let's continue our journey of exploration and knowledge together!

Hands-On Data Engineering with Microsoft Fabric by Estera Kot

puneetvijwani — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:34:47 GMT

Hey Everyone!

We're excited to announce our very first kickoff session, featuring none other than Estera Kot, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft and an influential speaker in the field of big data and spark. Some of you might already be familiar with her work from the Azure Synapse Analytics channel on YouTube.

Best part? This is a virtual event. So whether you're sipping coffee at office or enjoying the sun outside, you can jump right in. All you need is some good old internet!

Join our community group

Meetup:-https://www.meetup.com/fabrics-data-engineering-explorers-user-group-norway

Microsoft Community:https://tinyurl.com/v4j7wkau

LinkedIn:-https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9381253/

The session is titled "Hands-On Data Engineering with Microsoft Fabric". Estera will guide us through the process of building an end-to-end lakehouse architecture. From data ingestion best practices to data transformation and even installing your own library for reporting. She'll show us how to leverage the tailored features of Microsoft Fabric to ace our data engineering tasks. It's going to be packed with insights!

We'd also like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Stijn Wynants for helping us facilitating this session, and for his continued support of our community.

So, mark your calendars for June 28th at 0900 PDT / 1800 CET and make sure you join our community group on LinkedIn/Meetup/Microsoft Community.

We'll be posting all the details there.

Can't wait to see you all at the session!