TFUG Feb 2024 Event: Fabric Updates and Roadmap
Happy belated New year, Toronto fabricators! We are so excited to be back again after some time off during December and January and kick off 2024 by having our first monthly event this year. This month, we are so delighted to be sponsored and hosted by Nigel Frank international, the global leader in Microsoft recruitment on their office at 5 pm on Thu Feb 29th, 2024, at Suite 200, 70 The Esplanade, Toronto, ON M5E 1M1, Canada. Agenda: 5:00 - 5:15 Welcome and Introductions – Ashraf Ghonaim and Ellie Lawrence NFI VP- Microsoft Cloud 5:15 - 6:15 Fabric updates and roadmap - Owais Hashimi, Microsoft Principal Global Black Belt 6:25 - 7:00 Nigel Frank Careers & Fabric Insights - Ellie Lawrence NFI VP- Microsoft Cloud 7:00 - 7:20 Open forum Q&A and job opportunities exchange 7:20 - 8:00 Food, Drink and Networking RSVP now to secure your spot at this event page by the end of Tue Feb 27th. Kindly RSVP only if you are certain about your attendance, as space is limited, and we also aim to minimize food and beverage wastage. Your thoughtful response is greatly appreciated. Looking forward to seeing you all at our first fun event in 2024. Regards, Toronto Fabric User Group | Meetup Toronto Fabric User Group | LinkedInFabric Community Conference - Las Vegas (Mar 26-28, 2024)
The First Annual Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Join us at the first annual Microsoft Fabric Community Conference and see first-hand how Microsoft Fabric and the rest of the data and AI products at Microsoft can help your organization prepare for the era of AI. You’ll hear from leading Microsoft and community experts from around the world and get hands on experiences with the latest features from Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Databases, Azure AI, Microsoft Purview, and more. Register today to immerse yourself in the future of data and AI and connect with thousands of data innovators like yourself eager to share their insights. To register at https://www.fabricconf.com, use the discount code MSCUST to save!TFUG Apr 2024 Event - Fabric Real Time Analytics and ML
Hello Torontonian Fabricators, We are happy to announce our Apr 2024 event to be on Tue Apr 30 at 5:00 pm hosted and sponsored by Avanade: 200 Wellington St W, 10th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5V 3C7. Please make sure you register at the event page and also fill the registration form required by the event host: https://forms.office.com/r/MXXfDGWGwu Agenda: 5:00 Doors open 5:15 - 5:30 Welcome and Introduction by Ashraf Ghonaim 5:30 – 6:30 Crafting Fabric IoT Real-Time Analytics by Simon Nuss, Principal Program Manager, Fabric CAT at Microsoft 6:30 – 6:45 Short break 6:45 – 7:15 Developing and Visualizing Supervised Classification Machine Learning Models in Fabric by Prajna Dash, Technical lead – Advanced Analytics at Avanade 7:15 – 7:30 Job Opportunities Exchange 7:30 – 8:00 Networking Dinner Looking forward to seeing you all there. TFUG Team Toronto Fabric User Group - Microsoft Fabric Community Toronto Fabric User Group | Meetup Toronto Fabric User Group | LinkedInToronto Fabric Day 2024 Conference
Hello Torontonian Fabricators, We are super thrilled to organize our first Fabric conference in Canada: Toronto Fabric Day 2024 on Jun 1st 2024. It’s a free full day conference hosted at Microsoft office in Toronto. To secure your attendance, you must do the following steps before May 30: 1- Click on the “Register” green button at this event page above (you may need to join the user group community first, then join Toronto Fabric User Group then register for this event) 2- Add this event to your calendar 3- Fill the registration form before: https://forms.office.com/r/CkhU68x9UA This form is mandatory to get the QR access code in your email to be able to enter Microsoft office. The information will also be used to shape the agenda and share with the event sponsors for future engagements. Please note the event has a max capacity of 280 that we can’t exceed, and it will be based on the registration order in the form (mandatory). Kindly make sure your RSVP is always current not to waste the space for someone else and also to avoid any food/beverage waste. There are total of 17 heavily demo based sessions all about the new state of the art Fabric topics only by our line-up of esteemed speakers from Microsoft, Partners and Community. There will be 3 rooms running 3 sessions in parallel. Each room will focus on a specific track (Beginner - Room B, Advanced - Room A, Specialized - Room C): Agenda The event is sponsored by the key Microsoft Fabric partners in Toronto: Hitachi Solutions Canada, Slalom, Avanade, Cognizant, Adastra. We would like to thank them all for their community support. Looking forward to seeing you all there. TFUG Team Toronto Fabric User Group - Microsoft Fabric Community Toronto Fabric User Group | Meetup Toronto Fabric User Group | LinkedIn Global Fabric CommunityTFPUG Sep 2024 Event - Unlocking the Potential of Fabric
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This event has now reached its capacity of 90 people and is now closed for registration. If you register here now, you will not be sent the QR Code since we are now closed at the Microsoft Reactor. If you don't get the QR code, you won't be able to access the Microsoft office to attend the event. Please read the registration instructions very carefully to make sure you can attend the event: 1-You must register at this user group community page as well as at the Microsoft Reactor | Event to be able to get the QR access code. Registering at the user group community page alone won’t provide you with the QR access code which is mandatory to be able to entre Microsoft Office. 2-This event has a capacity of 90 people and can only send 90 building access QR Codes 3-The registration will be closed on Fri Sep 6th at 4:00 pm or reaching the capacity limit (whichever comes first) 4-Please register only if you are certain that you can join and cancel if you can't join to avoid wasting the spot Event Description: Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group is celebrating its 1st anniversary and the announcement of merging Toronto Power BI User Group under Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group. In this special event we will be celebrating our milestones of reaching 300+ members and 1K+ followers on LinkedIn. We are delighted to have Neha Sharma, Data & AI Specialist at Microsoft Canada to talk to us about “Unlocking the Potential of Fabric: ROI, Architecture, and Best Practices”. Neha will share her insights on Fabric license, TCO, ROI using standard architecture and end to end process as well as Fabric project best practices and learned lessons from early adopters. We are also excited to have our first demo from our community member Fahad Nawaz. Fahad is a senior data analytics expert with diverse industry experience ranging from FMCG to lifestyle brands. He holds an MBA and a Master's in Business Data Analytics and specializes in transforming data into strategic insights. Fahad will be showcasing an exciting end-to-end demo about the OneLake integration for Semantic Models using Microsoft Fabric. Agenda: 5:00 - Doors Open 5:15 - Welcome and Intro | Ashraf Ghonaim 5:30 - Unlocking the Potential of Fabric: ROI, Architecture, and Best Practices | Neha Sharma 6:30 - Break 6:45 - Community Demo: OneLake Integration for Semantic Models End to End Demo | Fahad Nawaz 7:15 - Job Opportunities Exchange | Ashraf Ghonaim 7:30 - Networking Dinner 8:00 - Closing Looking forward to seeing you all there. TFPUG Team Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group - Microsoft Fabric Community Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | Meetup Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | LinkedInTFPUG Feb 2025 Event: AI in Fabric and DW Reimagined
Please read the registration instructions very carefully to make sure you can attend the event: 1-You must register at the event page in the Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group - Microsoft Fabric Community 2-Please register only if you are certain that you can join to avoid wasting the spot and food. 3- Please be there on time because we will start at 5 pm sharp as we have a packed agenda. We are excited to have our first event in 2025 hosted and sponsored by Avanade| Canada. In this event we are privileged to have 2 main speakers and one demo from our user group community members. Margaryta Ostapchuk , Senior SW Engineer at Microsoft will be talking about “Exploring AI within Microsoft Fabric” and we will delve into the AI capabilities integrated into Microsoft Fabric. We will explore how Fabric AI skills can be harnessed to gain deeper insights and drive innovation through the Copilots for Fabric, designed to assist users in navigating and utilizing the platform effectively. We will also dive into Azure AI Services and learn how they can be applied across various business contexts within Fabric. Lastly, we will review the process of automatic provisioning of Fabric resources using Terraform, streamlining resource management and deployment to ensure efficiency and scalability. Karanpreet Kaur Data Engineer at Avanade Canada will be talking about "Data Warehousing Reimagined: Exploring Microsoft Fabric's Lakehouse and Warehouse Architectures," will delve into comparison of Azure Synapse Analytics and Fabric's warehousing solutions, explore Lakehouse, and Warehouse architectures, and highlight key differences. It will include Synapse Data Engineering vs. Warehousing, data store properties, and a decision framework for choosing between Lakehouse and Warehouse. A live demo will showcase end-to-end data workflows, and we’ll conclude with a glimpse into future enhancements for Fabric's Data Warehouse. Shahram Amani our user group active community member will be talking about “Introduction to using PySpark in Fabric Notebooks and example of use cases”. In his demo, he will introduce PySpark in Fabric Notebooks and show how it can be used for data processing and analysis. Agenda: 4:45 - Doors Open 5:00 - Welcome and Intro | Ashraf Ghonaim 5:15 - Exploring AI within Microsoft Fabric | Margaryta Ostapchuk 6:00 - Break 6:15 - Data Warehousing Reimagined in Fabric | Karanpreet Kaur 6:45 - Introduction to using PySpark in Fabric Demo | Shahram Amani 7:15 - Job Opportunities Exchange | Ashraf Ghonaim 7:30 - Networking Dinner 8:00 - Closing Looking forward to seeing you all there at 5 pm sharp. TFPUG Team Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | Microsoft Fabric Community Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | Meetup Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | LinkedInGlobal Fabric Day 2025 - Toronto
Update: The event now reached its max capacity and we are not accepting any more registrations! Please read the registration instructions very carefully to make sure you can attend the event: How to Secure Your Spot (by May 28): To attend, please complete all the following steps: 1- Click the green “Register” button on this event page above. (Note: You may need to first join the Microsoft Fabric Community and then the Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group before registering). 2- Fill out this mandatory registration form: https://forms.office.com/r/tEdjMHVQzn 3- Add the event to your calendar. Completing these steps (step 1-2) are mandatory to receive your QR access code in your email for the venue by May 30. Important Notes: - Limited capacity: The registration will be closed on Wed May 28 or by reaching the max capacity limit. - Please keep your RSVP up to date to avoid wasting space and food. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello Fabricators of Toronto! We’re super thrilled to announce Global Fabric Day 2025 - Toronto, our second annual full-day conference dedicated to all things Microsoft Fabric, happening on Sat 31 May, 2025 at the Microsoft Toronto office! This year, Global Fabric Day 2025 - Toronto is the local edition of the annual Global Fabric Community that is coordinated globally and hosted locally across multiple cities around the world during the weekend of May 31 – Jun 1, 2025. This is a free, in-person event bringing together data professionals, developers, and enthusiasts to explore the latest in Microsoft Fabric through demo-rich sessions, expert talks, and community networking. Agenda & Format: Global Fabric Day 2025 - Toronto We are privileged to have Kim Manis, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Fabric & Power BI as the keynote speaker in-person this year in Toronto. A big thank you to our sponsors and volunteers for helping make this event possible and for their ongoing support of the local data community. Looking forward to seeing you all on Sat May 31 at 9 am sharp. TFPUG Team Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | Microsoft Fabric Community Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | LinkedIn Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | MeetupTFPUG Sep 2025 Event: Fabric Spark and Unified Data Platform
Please read the registration instructions very carefully to make sure you can attend the event: 1- You must register at the event page: TFPUG Sep 2025 Event: Fabric Spark and Unified Dat... - Microsoft Fabric Community 2- Please register only if you are certain that you can join to avoid wasting the spot and food. 3- Please be there on time because we will start at 5 pm sharp as we have a packed agenda. The summer break is finally over and the back to "Fabric" school season has just started. We are excited to have our first event after the summer break hosted and sponsored by KPMG Canada. In the Sep 2025 event we are privileged to have 2 main speakers and a presentation from our user group community members. Agenda: 4:45 - Doors Open 5:00 - Welcome and Intro | Ashraf Ghonaim and Katherine MacDonald 5:15 - Spark made Simple on Microsoft Fabric: A Demo-Driven Session | Anuyogam Venkataraman 6:00 - Break 6:15 - Code to Insights: Building Unified Data Platforms with Microsoft Fabric | Mohit Sehgal 6:45 - Enterprise Data Architecture Journey from Azure PaaS to Fabric SaaS Platform | MOHITKUMAR DHIMAN 7:15 - Job Opportunities Exchange | Ashraf Ghonaim 7:30 - Networking Dinner 8:00 - Closing Anuyogam Venkataraman, Senior Program Manager - Microsoft | Spark made Simple on Microsoft Fabric, A Demo-Driven Session: Are you curious about big data, analytics, and how Fabric Spark can unlock powerful insights? In this beginner-friendly, demo-driven session by Microsoft Fabric Spark CAT SME, you’ll learn how to get started with Apache Spark in Microsoft Fabric - no Spark expertise required. Through live demos, you’ll learn how to: - What Spark is and why it’s widely used in data engineering and data science - How Microsoft Fabric simplifies Spark development through Notebooks, Lakehouse, Materialized Lake Views, Copilot code completions, and Environments - How to monitor and optimize Spark jobs in Fabric By the end of this session, you’ll have the confidence to open Fabric, run your first Spark notebook project, and start experimenting with your own data. Mohit Sehgal, Sr Data Engineer - KPMG:Code to Insights | Building Unified Data Platforms with Microsoft Fabric: This session will demonstrate how to set up a Fabric data platform with real world consideration based on end to end implementation experience. MOHITKUMAR DHIMAN, Data Architect & Data Engineering Manager at Lindfast Solution Group(LSG) | Enterprise Data Architecture Journey from Azure PaaS to Fabric SaaS Platform: This presentation outlines the strategic evolution of enterprise data architecture from a traditional Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model to Microsoft Fabric's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. It highlights key drivers for the transition, architectural shifts, modernization of data pipelines, and the benefits of unified analytics, governance, and scalability offered by Fabric. The journey emphasizes lessons learned, best practices, and the impact on business agility and data democratization. Looking forward to seeing you all there at 5 pm sharp. TFPUG Team Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | Microsoft Fabric Community Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | Meetup Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | LinkedInTFPUG Nov Event: AI + Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric
Please read the registration instructions very carefully to make sure you can attend the event: 1-You must register at the event page: AI + Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric - Microsoft Fabric Community 2-Please register only if you are certain that you can join to avoid wasting the spot and food. 3- Please be there on time because we will start at 5 pm sharp as we have a packed agenda. We are excited to have our last event in 2025 sponsored by Improving | Canada and hosted in their Toronto office. In this event we are privileged to have 2 main speakers and one demo from our user group community members. Margaryta Ostapchuk , Senior SW Engineer at Microsoft will be talking about “AI in Microsoft Fabric: What is New!” Discover the latest and greatest of AI innovations in Microsoft Fabric, from Copilot experiences that boost productivity to AI Skills and Functions that bring generative intelligence into everyday analytics. This session highlights how Fabric empowers data professionals to automate insights, transform data with natural language, and build intelligent applications—unlocking faster, smarter results across the enterprise. Jack Lobe BI Consultant Engineer at Improving Canada will be talking about “Securely Implementing Fabric Data Agents”. In today’s world of large language models (LLM) like Microsoft Copilot, companies are increasingly looking for ways to employ these tools with their organizational data while maintaining InfoSec and keeping their data private. Join our learning session and live demo of Microsoft Fabric’s bleeding edge Data Agents where you can learn more about how to utilize your company’s data safely within a Microsoft Fabric environment and get the most out of LLMs for your team. During this demo, we will go over user considerations, creating and training the agent, and how to consume the data agent to empower everyone to make the most of this emerging technology. Alaa Hady our user group active community member will be talking about “From Gut Feeling to Data-Driven Profit: A Restaurant’s Financial Turnaround with Microsoft Fabric - Maqlobah Use Case”. In his demo, Alaa will walk us through how Fabric is used as a true end-to-end SAAS analytics solution. Agenda: 4:45 - Doors Open 5:00 - Welcome and Intro | Ashraf Ghonaim and Luke McGrath 5:15 - AI in Microsoft Fabric: What is New! | Margaryta Ostapchuk 6:00 - Break 6:15 - Securely Implementing Fabric Data Agents | Jack Lobe 6:45 - From Gut Feeling to Data Driven Profit - Use Case Demo | Alaa Hady 7:15 - Job Opportunities Exchange | Ashraf Ghonaim 7:30 - Networking Dinner 8:00 - Closing Looking forward to seeing you all there at 5 pm sharp. TFPUG Team Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | Microsoft Fabric Community Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | Meetup Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | LinkedInTFPUG Feb 2026 Event - Fabric Real Time Intelligence
Please read the registration instructions very carefully to make sure you can attend the event: 1 - You must register on the event page: TFPUG Feb 2026 Event - Fabric Real Time Intelligen... - Microsoft Fabric Community 2 - You must fill out the additional mandatory registration form required from the event host: https://is.gd/WV3gfH 3 - Please register only if you are certain that you can join to avoid wasting the spot and food. 4 - Please be there on time because we will start at 5 pm sharp as we have a packed agenda. We are excited to have our first event of 2026 sponsored by Avanade Canada and hosted in the Accenture Canada Toronto office. Join our learning session and live demo focused on Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, where you’ll learn how to safely ingest, process, and analyse streaming and event-driven data within a secure Microsoft Fabric environment. In this event we are privileged to have 3 main speakers and one demo from our user group community members. Agenda: 5:00 - Doors Open 5:15 - Welcome and Intro | Ashraf Ghonaim and Avinash Agrawal 5:30 - Real Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric: What is New! | David Ma 6:15 - Break 6:30 - The Crypto Pulse: Capturing Market Movements in Fabric Real Time Intelligence | Hiba Ahmed & Karanpreet Kaur 7:15 - Bringing Real Time Intelligence to Airport Data Streams - Use Case Demo | Callon Campbell 7:45 - Job Opportunities Exchange | Ashraf Ghonaim 8:00 - Networking Dinner 8:30 - Closing David Ma, Lead Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft Canada will be talking about “Real Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric: What is New!” Discover the latest innovations in RTI, designed to turn streaming and event-driven data into immediate, actionable insights. This session highlights how RTI enables data professionals to ingest, process, and analyse high-velocity data in real time using Eventstreams and KQL, powering operational monitoring, alerting, and live dashboards. Learn how Real-Time Intelligence helps organizations react faster, detect patterns as they happen, and deliver timely insights across the enterprise—unlocking smarter, data-driven decisions when they matter most. Hiba Ahmed, Associate Manager, Data Engineering & Karanpreet Kaur, Senior Data Engineer at Avanade Canada will be talking about “The Crypto Pulse: Capturing Market Movements in Fabric Real Time Intelligence”. In today’s data-driven world, organizations are increasingly looking to leverage real-time insights from their operational data while maintaining strong security controls and data privacy. Callon Campbell Azure Architect & Lead, Microsoft MVP and our user group active community member, will be demoing “Bringing Real Time Intelligence to Airport Data Streams”. In his hands-on demo, Callon will walk us through how RTI is used as a true end-to-end SAAS analytics solution in a real-life data streaming scenario. Looking forward to seeing you all there at 5 pm sharp. TFPUG Team Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | Microsoft Fabric Community Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | Meetup Toronto Fabric & Power BI User Group | Overview | LinkedIn
