We are delighted to reveal the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference full day tutorials for 2026. These tutorials will take place on Sep 28th and are exclusive to 4 Day Ticket holders.

The topics include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL, Agentic AI, Data Engineering, Governance, SQL Server, Fabric IQ, Power BI and more. All tutorials will be delivered by experts in the Microsoft Fabric space including Microsoft Corporate, MVPs and Community Leaders.

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2026 Tutorials

Tutorial A
Building a Production-Ready Lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric: A Practical Data Engineering Workshop

Nikola Ilic, Data Mozart

Teams adopting Fabric often struggle to move from prototypes to production-ready lakehouses. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll build a complete lakehouse end-to-end: from raw data ingestion through medallion transformation layers to a consumption-ready Direct Lake semantic model. You’ll practice lakehouse architecture design, notebook-based transformations, Delta table optimization, incremental load patterns, and Direct Lake connectivity, using the same patterns that work in real production environments.

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Tutorial B
AntonVashchenko
Building Production-Ready AI Data Solutions in Microsoft Fabric: From Agent to Action

Nadim Abou-Khalil, KI performance GMBH / Anton Vashchenko, KI performance GmbH

In this full-day hands-on workshop, build an end-to-end AI-powered data solution in Microsoft Fabric from scratch. Configure agents in Fabric and IQ, design Translytical Taskflows for real-time orchestration, implement UDF-driven operations agents, and close the loop with Power BI. Leave with a working prototype combining structured and unstructured data, automated AI enrichment, and actionable writeback – all within Fabric’s native ecosystem.

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Tutorial C
Jess Pomfret
Azure SQL or Fabric SQL: Deploying Infrastructure and Databases as Code

Jess Pomfret, Masterminds Group / Rob Sewell, Zure (UK) / Sewells Consulting Limited

Managing Azure SQL or Fabric SQL by hand doesn’t scale. In this workshop, Jess Pomfret and Rob Sewell show you how to deploy both your Azure SQL infrastructure and your database schemas as code. You’ll build real CI/CD pipelines that provision resources and ship database changes automatically — version controlled, repeatable, and ready for production. Hands-on, practical, and no clicking required.

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Tutorial D
Surya Teja Josyula
From Streaming Data to Instant Action: Real‑Time Intelligence Hackathon with Fabric

Edgar Cotte, Microsoft / Surya Teja Josyula, Microsoft

Real-time data is only valuable if it leads to real-time action. In this immersive L300 workshop, you’ll participate in a guided hackathon to build action-oriented Real-Time Intelligence solutions using Microsoft Fabric.

Teams will ingest live event data, analyze it in motion, and wire insights directly into dashboards, alerts, and automated workflows—demonstrating how Fabric RTI enables organizations to move from awareness to action in seconds

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Tutorial E
Vladimir Ivanovic
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Modernizing Your SQL Estate: From SQL Server to Azure SQL and Fabric for AI-Ready Applications

Dr. Dani Ljepava, Microsoft / Vladimir Ivanovic, Microsoft / Strahinja Rodic, Microsoft / Borko Novakovic, Microsoft

This workshop emphasizes practical decision making over theory. You will learn when to use Azure SQL Managed Instance, Hyperscale, or SQL database in Fabric, how to modernize incrementally, and how to prepare your SQL data estate for AI. You will leave with a clear, actionable framework that you can apply in your own environment, whether you are modernizing legacy systems, building AI powered applications, or planning the next stage of your SQL journey.

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Tutorial F
BrianBonk
Building Intelligent, Event-Driven Architectures with Fabric Real-Time Intelligence

Johan Ludvig Brattås, Enora / Brian Bønk, Intellishore

Join two experts on Fabric Real-Time Intelligence and Fabric IQ for a hands-on, full-day workshop where AI meets real-time data. Explore Microsoft Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence and Fabric IQ to build intelligent, event-driven architectures. From Eventstream and Eventhouse to Activator, Agents, and Ontologies – discover how AI transforms streaming data into instant, actionable decisions.

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Tutorial G
Fabric Capacity Strategies that Build Confidence

Benni De Jagere, Microsoft

A full-day, hands-on tutorial to master Microsoft Fabric Capacities end-to-end. Understand what capacities are and how design decisions affect cost, performance, and user experience.

Explore bursting, smoothing, and throttling through real scenarios, then plan capacities and workspaces, monitor health and usage, and practice scaling, pausing, protection, and offloading mechanisms.

Leave with a practical, automation-driven playbook that helps your organization forward

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Tutorial H
Reza Rad
Mastering Dataflow Gen2 for ETL in Microsoft Fabric

Reza Rad, RADACAD

Dataflow Gen2 is the core data transformation tool in Microsoft Fabric, powered by the Power Query engine. In this hands-on workshop, attendees will learn to build scalable solutions by extracting data from diverse sources, implementing data transformation and ETL patterns, optimizing performance, leveraging query folding, using parameters and custom functions, utilizing M scripting, applying best practices, debugging techniques, and integrating with pipelines for end-to-end data integration.

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Tutorial I
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From Legacy to Fabric: Migrate, Modernize, and Secure Your Data Warehouse End-to-End

Freddie Santos, Microsoft / Artur Vieira, Microsoft / Srdjan Matin, Microsoft

Learn how to migrate data workloads into Microsoft Fabric Warehouse end to end. This session covers ingestion, transformation, and security modernization across a variety of source systems. Explore lift-and-shift and modernization approaches, redesign pipelines with Fabric-native capabilities, and implement modern governance. Hands-on labs focus on SQL Server and Synapse patterns, with guidance applicable to broader data platforms.

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Tutorial I
Emily Lisa
Power BI Meets Agentic AI: A Hands-On Workshop from Setup to Impact

Rui Romano, Microsoft / Emily Lisa, Microsoft

AI-powered agents are reshaping how we build Power BI solutions – and this workshop puts you in the driver’s seat. Whether you’re curious about agentic development or ready to integrate it into your workflow, this full-day, hands-on workshop will take you from foundational concepts to building semantic models and reports with GitHub Copilot and MCP servers in Microsoft Fabric.

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Tutorial K
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Getting Started with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI: A Hands-On Workshop

Stephanie Bruno, Data Witches

New to Fabric or Power BI? This workshop is the perfect place to start, giving you an end-to-end intro to Fabric and Power BI and equipping you with the skills and confidence to dive deeper into the world of modern analytics. Through guided exercises led by experts, you’ll gain knowledge you can take back to your own projects, and you’ll be set up for a successful conference!

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CCIB Barcelona // 28 September – 01 October 2026
European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference 2026

The European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference will feature 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.