Data Engineer

Recommended Area of Interest Guide for FabCon Europe 2025 Tutorials and Sessions, designed for your role!

Explore everything that was lined up for Data Engineer at the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025.

Attendees were able to dive into a wide range of developer-focused content, including 3 hands-on tutorials and more than 50 technical sessions designed to help participants build, extend, and innovate with Microsoft Fabric.

Whether they were deep in code or designing scalable solutions, attendees discovered practical insights, expert guidance, and real-world examples to help take their development skills to the next level at FabCon Europe 2025.

Data Engineer Tutorials

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Idris Motiwala, Microsoft & Strahinja Rodic, Microsoft
Build AI-Ready Apps with SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric

Join Microsoft’s hands-on workshop to build AI-ready apps using SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric. Learn to design, deploy, and secure AI solutions with Copilot, GraphQL, vector search, Power BI, and more – using real data and modern tools.

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Srdjan Matin, Filip Popović & Artur Vieira – Microsoft
Hands-On Approach to Building Scalable Data Warehouse Solutions with Microsoft Fabric

Join this hands-on workshop to build scalable data warehouse solutions with Microsoft Fabric. Learn data ingestion, transformation, analysis, and monitoring using real-world scenarios – ideal for DBAs, engineers, and analysts seeking practical skills.

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Santhana Lakshmi Ponnurasan
Getting Started with Power BI: A Hands-On Workshop

New to Power BI? This beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop covers essentials like data prep, modeling, and report building. Walk away with a completed report, practice files, and a PL-300 guide – perfect to kickstart your data journey and conference experience!

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Daniel Coelho, Microsoft & Estra Kot, Clouds on Mars
Mastering Data Engineering git and CI/CD in Microsoft Fabric

Build and deploy end-to-end Microsoft Fabric solutions with Git integration and CI/CD pipelines. This hands-on workshop covers version control, environment configuration, and promotion from development to production—ideal for data engineers, architects, and DevOps professionals.

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Shreyas Canchi Radhakrishna, Microsoft & Markus Cozowicz, Microsoft
Practical Guide to Building and Deploying Fabric Data Agents for Deeper Insights

Discover how to build and optimize Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric. This hands-on workshop covers best practices, configuration, and integration with AI Foundry and Copilot Studio—equipping you to create powerful, agentic solutions that drive real business insights.

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Maraki Ketema, Microsoft, Eran Benayun, Microsoft & Wilson Lee, Microsoft
Mastering the Essentials of Data Factory

Learn how to ingest, transform, and orchestrate data using Fabric Data Factory in this hands-on workshop. You’ll explore Copy Activities, Dataflow Gen2, metadata-driven pipelines, and Copilot—all designed to boost your efficiency and data integration skills.

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Devang Shah, Microsoft & Sander Van De Velde, MVP, SDG Group
Masterclass in building event-driven architectures using Microsoft Fabric

Build a real-world, event-driven data solution using Microsoft Fabric tools like Eventstream, Eventhouse, Digital Twin Builder, and Power BI. This hands-on workshop is ideal for professionals seeking near real-time insights, adaptive pipelines, and responsive architectures.

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Mohammad Ali, Microsoft & Sid Vemuri, Microsoft
Chat with Your Data: Unlocking AI Insights in Power BI

Learn how to structure, model, and optimize your data for AI in Power BI. This hands-on workshop covers semantic models, verified answers, Copilot experiences, Fabric data agents, and tools like Copilot Studio and AI Foundry—giving you the foundation to enable trusted, AI-driven insights.

Data Engineer Sessions

Azure AI Foundry

Integrating Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Foundry for a real-world scenario

Data Engineer

Level 200

Data Warehousing

Mastering Microsoft Fabric Data Warehousing: Tips & Tricks You Need to Know

Data Engineer

Level 300

Admin & Governance

What’s new in Fabric capacities and capacity monitoring

Business Decision Maker / Data Citizen / Data Engineer / Developer / IT Professional

Level 200

Data Warehousing

From Load to Logic: Designing for Performance in Microsoft Fabric Warehouses

Data Engineer / Developer / Developer Decision Maker / IT Professional / Software Architect

Level 300

Your Neuro-Inclusive Workplace Toolkit

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Level 100

Unlocking the Power of Fabric Mirroring for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server

Data Engineer

Level 300

Data Engineering

Accelerating Fabric Migration: New Assistant Tools for Data Engineering and Warehousing

Data Engineer / Data Scientist / Database Admin (DBA) / Developer

Level 200

Real-Time Intelligence

Unlock the power of Digital twin solutions with Real-Time Intelligence

Business Decision Maker / Data Citizen / Data Engineer / IT Professional / Software Architect

Level 200

Data Science

Sharing Experiences with Copilot and Data Agents in Fabric

Data Engineer / Data Scientist / Developer / IT Professional

Level 100

Power BI

Semantic Model Optimization for Enterprise AI Enablement

Data Engineer / Developer / IT Professional

Level 300

Data Engineering

Deep Dive into Delta (Parquet) and OneLake: Unpacking the Storage Behind Microsoft Fabric

Data Engineer

Level 200

Data Engineering

Simplify Medallion Architecture with Fabric Materialized Lake Views

Data Engineer / Developer / Software Architect

Level 200

Data Engineering

Real-Time Data Processing in Fabric: Tracking a Cycle Ride

Data Engineer

Level 300

Data Engineering

Unlock the power of Dataflow Gen2 with Fabric Data Factory

Data Engineer

Level 300

Data Engineering

Navigating Data Modeling in Direct Lake

Business Decision Maker / Data Engineer / Developer

Level 200

Admin & Governance

Deep dive on OneLake security

Data Engineer / Data Steward / Developer / IT Professional

Level 300

Data Engineering

Mastering Open Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric

Data Engineer / Software Architect

Level 300

Data Engineering

Driving Insights with Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric

Data Engineer / Developer / IT Professional

Level 300

Azure AI Foundry

Fabric and Azure AI Foundry playing nicely together

Data Engineer

Level 300

Microsoft Purview

Prep your data for AI to get more out of Power BI Copilot

Business Decision Maker / Data Engineer / Data Steward / Developer / IT Professional

Level 200

Azure SQL

Azure SQL Database vs. SQL Database in Fabric: Key Differences for Developers and DBAs

Business Decision Maker / Data Engineer / Database Admin (DBA) / IT Professional / Software Developer

Level 300

Data Engineering

Workspace strategy for Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric

Data Engineer

Level 300

Admin & Governance

Managing Capacities and monitoring query performance in Microsoft Fabric Data warehouse

Business Decision Maker / Data Engineer / Database Admin (DBA) / Developer

Level 200

Data Warehousing

Sharing Experiences: Scaling Data Mesh with Microsoft Fabric

Business Decision Maker / Data Citizen / Data Engineer / Data Scientist / Developer / IT Professional

Level 100

Real-Time Intelligence

Sharing Experiences with Real-Time Intelligence

Business Decision Maker / Data Engineer / Developer / IT Professional

Level 100

Data Integration

Revolutionizing external data access in Fabric Data Warehouse

Data Engineer / Data Steward / Developer

Level 300

Data Integration

Mastering a Metadata-Driven Framework with Fabric SQL Database and Data Factory

Data Engineer / Developer

Level 300

Azure SQL

AI Agents and Intelligent RAG with SQL and Microsoft Fabric

Data Engineer / Data Scientist / Developer / Developer Decision Maker / Software Developer

Level 300

Data Engineering

Enhancing the developer experience in Fabric: explore the latest in item & job management, and monitor

Data Engineer / Developer / Software Architect

Level 200

Data Engineering

No-Code, Low-Code, Pro-Code: Unlocking Data Magic with Fabric Dataflows Gen2

Data Citizen / Data Engineer / Developer / IT Professional

Level 200

Data Engineering

Seamless Deployments in Microsoft Fabric: CI/CD Best Practices

Data Engineer

Level 300

Data Integration

Demystifying Semantic Modeling in Microsoft Fabric

Data Engineer / Data Steward / Developer / IT Professional

Level 200

Data Engineering

End-to-End Security for Data Warehousing in Microsoft Fabric

Data Engineer / Data Steward / Database Admin (DBA) / Developer / IT Professional

Level 300

Azure SQL

Unlocking Performance: Mastering Query Store for SQL Databases in Azure and Fabric

Data Citizen / Data Engineer / Data Steward / Database Admin (DBA) / Developer / Software Architect

Level 100

Data Engineering

CORENOTE: What’s next for Fabric Data Engineering: roadmap and innovations

Data Engineer

Level 100

Azure SQL

SQL Server 2025: The AI-ready enterprise Database Connected with Microsoft Fabric

Business Decision Maker / Data Engineer / Database Admin (DBA) / Developer

Level 300

Data Warehousing

All roads lead to Microsoft Fabric DWH: Migrating your Synapse or on-prem DWH to Fabric DWH

Data Engineer / Database Admin (DBA) / Software Developer

Level 300

Admin & Governance

End-to-end network security in Microsoft Fabric

Data Engineer / Data Steward / Developer Decision Maker / IT Professional

Level 200

Data Integration

Bringing data to OneLake: a deep dive into shortcuts and mirroring

Data Citizen / Data Engineer / Data Scientist / IT Professional

Level 200

Data Integration

Performance Tuning Tips for Fabric Data Factory

Data Citizen / Data Engineer

Level 300

Data Engineering

Git Good: Best Practices for CI/CD and Collaboration in Microsoft Fabric

Data Engineer / Developer / IT Professional

Level 300

Real-Time Intelligence

Building Real-Time Personalization API in Microsoft Fabric with Functions, Cosmos DB, Spark, and RTI

Data Engineer / Data Scientist / Developer / Software Architect / Software Developer

Level 200

Fabric Platform

Sharing Experiences: Migrating to Microsoft Fabric

Business Decision Maker / Data Citizen / Data Engineer / Data Scientist / Developer / IT Professional

Level 100

Data Integration

Mastering Microsoft Fabric & Power Platform: Real-Time Intelligence & Automation for Dynamics 365

Data Engineer

Level 200

Data Engineering

Use AI and Python in T-SQL to supercharge your Data Warehousing solutions

Data Citizen / Data Engineer / Data Steward / IT Professional

Level 300

Azure SQL

Unleash the power of SQL Database In Fabric – Deep Dive

Business Decision Maker / Data Engineer / Database Admin (DBA) / IT Professional / Software Architect

Level 200

Developer Experiences

Plug-in and power up: Using functions in Fabric to automate and scale your data architectures

Data Engineer / Developer / IT Professional / Software Developer

Level 200

Data Engineering

Democratize with Confidence: Data Quality and Governance in Microsoft Fabric and Purview

Business Decision Maker / Data Engineer / Data Scientist / Data Steward / Developer

Level 200

Admin & Governance

CORENOTE: Unify your data estate with OneLake, the OneDrive for data

Data Engineer

Level 200

Azure SQL

CORENOTE: The roadmap for Microsoft SQL ground to cloud to fabric

Business Decision Maker / Data Engineer / Database Admin (DBA) / Developer

Level 200

Data Integration

CORENOTE: Fabric Data Factory: What’s New and Roadmap

Business Decision Maker / Data Citizen / Data Engineer

Level 100

Azure AI Foundry

Building Multi-Agent Systems for Enterprise Data with Azure AI Foundry & Fabric Data Agents

Data Engineer / Data Scientist / Developer / Developer Decision Maker / Software Developer

Level 300

Admin & Governance

CORENOTE: Microsoft Purview Data Governance in the era of AI

Business Decision Maker / Data Engineer / Data Scientist / Data Steward

Level 200

Data Engineering

Trust Your Data’s Journey: Deep Dive into Technical Logging for Fabric’s Meta-Driven Pipelines

Business Decision Maker / Data Engineer / Developer

Level 300

Data Engineering

The Integration Blueprint: Choosing the Right Path in Microsoft Fabric

Data Citizen / Data Engineer / Data Scientist / Developer / IT Professional

Level 200

Data Engineering

Modern Data Engineering with Multimodal and Generative AI in Fabric

Data Engineer / Data Scientist / Developer

Level 300

Admin & Governance

Fabric Monitoring Made Simple: Built-In Tools and Custom Solutions

Data Engineer / IT Professional

Level 200

Data Engineering

Unlock the power of Pipelines and Data Movement with Fabric Data Factory

Data Engineer / Developer

Level 200

SQL in Fabric

Mirror and Modernize: Bringing Operational and Analytical SQL Workloads Together in Fabric

Data Engineer / Database Admin (DBA) / Developer / IT Professional

Level 200

These Data Engineer-focused tutorials and sessions were just the beginning.

The European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 featured over 130 expert-led sessions covering the entire Microsoft Fabric ecosystem — from Power BI and OneLake to Real-Time Intelligence, Azure AI Foundry, and more.

Held from 15–18 September in Vienna, Austria, Europe’s largest Microsoft tech conference brought together professionals for four days of learning, inspiration, and connection.

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