European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Tutorials 2024

Look back at the full day Tutorials we had at the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon Europe) 2024.

Participating in a pre-conference full day tutorial provides a unique chance to immerse yourself in your chosen topic, unleash your data’s full potential, and gain insights from masters in their field. Tutorials take place 24th Sep from 9AM-5PM CEST.

The FabConEurope Tutorials will cover: Data Factory, Lakehouse, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Real-Time Intelligence and Managed Self-Service Analytics. Read through all the tutorials below to discover which one will give you the expertise you need to excel in your projects.

European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Tutorials 2024

Tutorial A
Data Factory in a day with Microsoft Fabric

Alex Powers, Microsoft / Jeroen Luitwieler, Microsoft / Sunil Sabat, Microsoft

Join us for an interactive session where we dive into Dataflow Gen2 and Data Pipelines within Microsoft Fabric to unlock the full potential of data integration and transformation. Whether you’re a seasoned data professional or just starting out, this session promises actionable insights and practical knowledge.

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Tutorial B
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Build Your First End-to-End Lakehouse Solution

Arshad Ali, Microsoft United States / Venkatesh Titte, Microsoft / Abid Nazir Guroo, Microsoft

Join our true hands-on lakehouse workshop to learn how you can build your own modern end-to-end data solutions using Microsoft Fabric. Gain hands on experience as we guide you through Fabric data integration capabilities including pipelines to land data in your lakehouse.

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Tutorial C
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Microsoft Fabric for the Power BI Professional

John P. White, AvePoint / Stephanie Bruno, Data Witches

This hands-on tutorial will expose you to all the new things that Fabric brings to the table from a uniquely Power BI perspective. During this tutorial, you will provision a new tenant, and walk through a series of exercises that expose you to many of these fabric features. After the tutorial, you will retain access to the tenant for 90 days.

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Tutorial D
Fabric in a Day

Simon Nuss, Microsoft / William Crayger, Lucid BI / Aitor Murguzur, Microsoft

Fabric in a Day provides a comprehensive overview of the core experiences inside of Fabric focusing on data orchestration, transformation, modeling, and reporting.

The session is made up of an overview of the platform followed by seven deep-dive sections in which participants will learn the inner-workings of Lakehouse, Pipeline, Dataflow gen2, Notebook, and Warehouse artifacts along with visualizing and reporting with Power BI.

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Tutorial E
Adopting Microsoft Fabric for Managed Self-Service Analytics

Matthew Roche, Microsoft / Peter Myers, Bitwise Solutions Pty Ltd

In this full-day pre-conference session, Matthew Roche of the Fabric Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft serves as that guide, providing an end-to-end tour of its guidance on topics including data governance, system oversight, content management and delivery, building a center of excellence and a community of practice… all with the end goal of helping YOUR organization get more value from your data by using Fabric in the best ways.

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Tutorial F
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Build A Fabric Real-Time Intelligence Solution in One Day

Devang Shah, Microsoft / Matt Gordon, Centric Consulting / Johan Brattas, Deloitte

Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric is designed to enable organisations to bring their streaming, high-granularity, time-sensitive event data into Fabric and build various analytical, visual and action oriented data applications and experiences with it.

This tutorial will get you hands-on with Real-Time Hub, Eventstream, Eventhouse, Data Activator, Real-Time Dashboards, Power BI, and Copilot with combination of Microsoft MVPs and Fabric product group members to guide you along the way.

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Tutorial G
Secure and Govern Data in the era of AI with Microsoft Purview

Sita Dontharaju, Microsoft / Caitlin Fitzgerald, Microsoft / Shafiq Mannan, Microsoft

Join us for an energizing and interactive workshop focused on the practice of data security and governance to seamlessly secure and confidently activate data for Gen AI. Share and learn amongst peers on how to secure data and navigate your data governance journey using Microsoft Purview capabilities and integrations with Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Studio.

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Tutorial H
Getting Started with AI in Microsoft Fabric

Markus Cozowicz, Microsoft / Jeff Zheng, Microsoft / Alexandra Savelieva, Microsoft

Join us for an immersive journey into the world of AI development within Microsoft Fabric. You will learn about various AI capabilities in Fabric and gain practical experience in utilizing GenAI to effortlessly prepare and transform data within notebooks using natural language and other relevant tools. You will get practical experience of preparing data for AI processing using RAG, and to create AI skills, that are experts on data in Fabric.

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Tutorial I
Professional Software Development on the Fabric Platform

Bhaskar Sharma, Microsoft / Ted Pattison, Microsoft / Fretz Nuson, Microsoft

This full-day workshop is designed to teach professional developers how to build end-to-end solutions using new Fabric APIs and the Apache Spark support in the Fabric platform. Attendees will learn to use the Fabric User APIs to create and manage Fabric workspaces and workspace items including lakehouses, notebooks, DirectLake datasets and Power BI reports. Attendees will also learn best practices for implementing effective ALM and CI/CD processes using Fabric GIT Integration together with developer mode in Power BI Desktop.

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Tutorial J
Fabric Analytics Engineer Bootcamp

Shabnam Watson, ABI Cube / Nikola Ilic, Data Mozart

Have you ever dreamed of becoming an Analytics Engineer and mastering the most in-demand skills in today’s data analytics ecosystem? This course will boost your career opportunities in the analytics realm, while at the same time setting you ready for acquiring the popular DP-600 certificate (Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer). You’ll learn the skills necessary to succeed as an Analytics Engineer, and how to practically apply these skills by using Microsoft Fabric!

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