FABCON – The Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

FABCON – The Microsoft Fabric Community Conference takes place on 8–11 March 2027 at Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta. It is organised by Tech Conferences LLC, and B2DB lists 49 speakers and 25 sessions announced so far.

FABCON and SQLCON bring together the Microsoft data ecosystem in Atlanta, covering Microsoft Fabric, SQL and Azure AI. The programme includes keynotes, expert-led workshops, more than 200 sessions, a Power Hour, networking and the Power BI DataViz Championship finals. FABCON is co-located with SQLCON and produced by Tech Conferences, LLC.

Key facts

Speakers (49)

Compiled from the published agenda; speakers can claim and verify their own entry.

• Ayca Bas Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
• Anna Hoffman Principal Group Product Manager, Microsoft
• Jared Meade Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
• Shreyas Canchi Radhakrishna Technical Product Manager - Azure Data, Microsoft
• Marco Russo Business Intelligence (or Whatever, Engaged
• Nikola Ilic Principal Architect - Data & AI, DataCrafters
• Santhana Lakshmi Ponnurasan Data Analyst- Institutional Effectiveness, Missouri University of Science and Technology
• Rui Romano Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
• Pragati Jain Founder & Principal Consultant, Datavibe Solutions Ltd
• Benni De Jagere Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
• Shabnam Watson Data & Solution Architect, ABI Cube
• Mitchell Pearson Training Content Manager, Pragmatic Works
• Rob Sewell Chief Data Officer, Zure
• Marco Österlin Principal Consultant, Twoday
• Belinda Allen Influencer for Data Driven Change (Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer), Smith & Allen Consulting, Inc.
• Joey Dantoni Principal Consultant, Denny Cherry & Associates
• Stijn Wynants Senior Product Manager, mind the facts
• Ryan Adams Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
• Stephanie Bruno Grand High Witch, Data Witches
• Freddie Santos Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
• Peter Carson President, Extranet User Manager
• Basak Mutlum Vice President of Product Management, RLCore
• Monica Morehouse (Rathbun) Consultant, Denny Cherry & Associates
• Kevin Arnold Director of Architecture / BI Architect, Expert Analytics
• Luke Moloney Principal Program Manager - Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft
• Luoana Becher Sr Program Manager Fabric Realtime Intelligence, Microsoft
• Mitul Tailor Sr. Data Engineer - Data & Dynamics, Long View Systems
• Jason Romans Cloud Data & Integration Developer, The Christian Broadcasting Network
• Sean Mirabile Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
• Louis Davidson Data Integration and BI Developer, The Christian Broadcasting Network
• Stephen Godderidge Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
• Matthieu Lefebvre Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
• Manuel Quintana Training Content Manager, Pragmatic Works
• Pat Mahoney Principal Program Manager - Fabric Customer Advisory Team (CAT), Microsoft
• Connie Xu PM @ Microsoft Data Integration, Microsoft
• Ishan Sinha Principal Product Manager - Microsoft, Microsoft
• Priyanka Langade Microsoft Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
• Sandeep Pawar Principal PM, CAT
• Priya Sathy Vice President of Product, SQL, Microsoft
• Patrick LeBlanc Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
• Kim Manis CVP, Real Time Intelligence & Observability, Microsoft
• Yitzhak Kesselman Corporate Vice President, Microsoft IQ, Microsoft
• Tessa Kloster Principal PM Manager, Microsoft
• Amir Netz CTO and Technical Fellow
• Arun Ulag Executive Vice President, Microsoft Azure Team, Microsoft
• Justyna Lucznik Director of PM
• Mohammad Ali Microsoft Group Program Manager, Microsoft
• Nellie Gustafsson Microsoft, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
• Wangui McKelvey Vice President, Product Marketing, Azure data, Microsoft, Microsoft

Most represented companies

• Microsoft — 26 speakers
• Denny Cherry & Associates — 2 speakers
• Pragmatic Works — 2 speakers
• The Christian Broadcasting Network — 2 speakers

Agenda (25 sessions)

Day 1 — Monday 8 March 2027

• AI-Ready by Design: Shaping a Fabric Semantic Model for Consistent Answers, & Performance 09:00–17:00 · AI and Data Agents, Power BI — Belinda Allen, Kevin Arnold
• Build an AI-Ready Data Foundation in Microsoft Fabric: Medallion MDM from Ingest to MCP 09:00–17:00 · Fabric Data Engineering, Data Integration — Peter Carson
• Building the Enterprise Intelligence Layer for AI with Microsoft IQ 09:00–17:00 · Microsoft Foundry, Fabric IQ — Ayca Bas, Basak Mutlum
• AI to scale.. how to power up your Warehouse in the era of Agents. 09:00–17:00 · Fabric Data Warehouse, AI and Data Agents — Freddie Santos, Priyanka Langade
• From Insights to Action: Building AI Apps with Fabric Apps 09:00–17:00 · Fabric Apps, SQL in Fabric — Nikola Ilic, Shabnam Watson
• From Streaming Data to Instant Action: Real‑Time Intelligence Hackathon with Fabric 09:00–17:00 · Real-Time Intelligence — Luoana Becher, Matthieu Lefebvre
• AI-assisted DAX development: how to get reliable solutions 09:00–17:00 · Power BI, AI and Data Agents — Marco Russo
• Govern Once, Discover Everywhere: Data Governance with OneLake Catalog 09:00–17:00 · Fabric Platform Admin & Governance, Microsoft Purview — Benni De Jagere, Marco Österlin
• Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Accelerating Pipeline Recovery with Fabric Observability and AI 09:00–17:00 · Data Integration, Fabric Platform: Observability — Sean Mirabile, Connie Xu
• Azure SQL or Fabric SQL: Deploying Infrastructure and Databases as Code 09:00–17:00 · Azure SQL, SQL in Fabric — Rob Sewell
• SQL AI App in a Day 09:00–17:00 · SQL Server, Microsoft Foundry — Mitchell Pearson, Manuel Quintana

Day 2 — Tuesday 9 March 2027

• SQL Modernization in a day: Azure SQL Hyperscale, Migration, and AI 09:00–17:00 · Azure SQL — Anna Hoffman
• Build advanced PostgreSQL-powered agentic apps with Azure HorizonDB 09:00–17:00 · PostgreSQL, AI and Data Agents — Jared Meade, Ishan Sinha
• Conversational Analytics with Fabric IQ and Data Agents 09:00–17:00 · Fabric IQ, Fabric Data Science — Shreyas Canchi Radhakrishna, Sandeep Pawar
• End-to-End Data Engineering with Microsoft Fabric 09:00–17:00 · Fabric Data Engineering, Data Integration — Stijn Wynants, Luke Moloney
• Fabric at Scale: Enterprise Governance, Security, Cost, and Performance 09:00–17:00 · Fabric Platform Admin & Governance, Fabric Platform: Observability — Joey Dantoni
• Fabric Data Integration - Ingestion to Fabric IQ 09:00–17:00 · Data Integration, Fabric IQ — Ryan Adams, Pat Mahoney
• Fabric Data Warehouse: Metadata-Driven Transformations from Source to Report 09:00–17:00 · Fabric Data Warehouse, Power BI — Jason Romans, Louis Davidson
• From Events to Action: Building Real-Time Intelligence and Agentic Workflows with Microsoft Fabric 09:00–17:00 · Real-Time Intelligence, Fabric Data Engineering — Mitul Tailor
• Getting Started with Microsoft Fabric: A Hands-On Workshop 09:00–12:30 · Fabric Data Engineering, Power BI — Santhana Lakshmi Ponnurasan, Stephanie Bruno
• Modern SQL Server Performance Tuning: Understand, Diagnose, Optimize 09:00–17:00 · SQL Server, Azure SQL — Monica Morehouse (Rathbun)
• Power BI Meets Agentic AI: A Hands-On Workshop from Setup to Impact 09:00–17:00 · Power BI — Rui Romano, Stephen Godderidge
• Planning & Master Data Management - Budgets to Governed Applications in Fabric 13:30–17:00 · Fabric Planning, SQL in Fabric — Pragati Jain

Day 3 — Wednesday 10 March 2027

• Keynote 08:45–11:45 · State Farm Arena

Day 4 — Thursday 11 March 2027

• DataViz Championship 08:00–09:00

Organisers, sponsors and partners

Organiser (1)

Tech Conferences LLC

Sponsors (77)

Wipfli · DBADuck Consulting · Kanerika Inc · Hitachi solutions · CDW · Write-Back · Infotopics · DataFactZ · Measure Killer · Tabular Editor · DBHawk · Datavail · Profisee · Fresche Solutions · Real Impact Technology Consulting · HGS · Mahaaya · Axis Group · Aimplan · Accion Labs · KPI Partners · Sonata Software · Argano · Truegility · Denny Cherry & Associates · PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited · Quadrant Technologies · TrustedTech · CloudMoyo · TechStar Group · Alithya · DataCrafters · Zebra BI · Tredence Inc. · Pragmatic Works · ClickHouse · wai technologies · Theobald Software · MCA Connect · PuppyGraph · Centric Consulting · Snowflake · KingswaySoft · DynaTech Systems · APOS · Lumel · Insight · Korcomptenz · LTM · Simform · AVEVA · Presidio · Codd AI · K4Analytics · Adastra · Quisitive · OnPoint Insights · ProArch · Motio · Xoriant · Trility · LevelShift · Improving · MAQ Software · Power BI Sentinel · VNB Consulting Services · NeenOpal Inc. · Withum · YASH Technologies · Redgate · Fivetran · dab · Databricks · Straive · BDO Stoy Hayward · Metric Insights · Icon Map

Source: the published agenda. See how B2DB compiles its records.