If you’ve been working in Power BI, you’ve likely noticed the steady transformation of the portal over the past few years. With the introduction of Microsoft Fabric, the experience has evolved, but your day-to-day Power BI workflows still work as before.

So why should you care about Fabric?

This session is designed for Power BI professionals who are curious about what Fabric actually brings to the table, without requiring a shift into heavy engineering or complex coding.

We’ll walk through five practical, high-impact Fabric capabilities that can immediately extend what you can do with Power BI. These will help you work more efficiently and unlock scenarios that were previously difficult or impossible with Power BI only

Dataflow Gen2 – scalable, reusable data preparation

Copy jobs – simplified, no-code data ingestion

Snapshots & delta loading – efficient handling of historical data changes

Direct Lake mode – blazing-fast semantic models without import or DirectQuery trade-offs

Activator – real-time, data-driven alerts and actions

If time permits, we’ll also explore Notebooks as a lightweight option for handling more complex data sources such as APIs.

All examples are deliberately chosen to be accessible with no advanced programming or deep SQL expertise required. The focus is on capabilities that a typical Power BI user can start leveraging immediately.

By the end of the session, you’ll have a clear understanding of where Fabric fits, what it enables beyond Power BI, and which capabilities are worth exploring first based on your own use cases.