Benni De Jagere

Fast tour of the Fabric Capacity Metrics App; learn to read key visualisations, spot performance issues, understand capacity behavior, and turn insights into quick, actionable optimizations to keep your Fabric environment running smoothly.

How can admins manage and govern Copilot in Fabric: access control, data residency, security, capacity monitoring, and audit logs, giving you the knowledge to support governance and help your organization use Copilot effectively.

Microsoft Fabric capacities are powerful, flexible, and—at times—deeply intricate. In this advanced session, we’ll unpack the full lifecycle of capacity behavior, starting with the fundamentals: how bursting delivers peak performance beyond SKU limits, how smoothing spreads compute usage across timepoints, and how throttling protects shared resources under sustained load. Building on these core mechanisms, we explore advanced capacity operations including pausing and resuming workloads, scaling capacities up or down, and making effective use of reservations for predictable cost control. We’ll then shift to data‑driven optimization strategies, using real usage patterns to diagnose overloads, interpret smoothing debt, and identify when performance bottlenecks require tuning or scaling. You’ll learn how to leverage Fabric’s built‑in metrics, including insights from the Capacity Metrics App and platform telemetry, to develop a proactive, evidence‑driven monitoring approach. By the end of the session, you'll be equipped to operate Fabric capacities with confidence—balancing performance, governance, and cost in complex enterprise environments.

An overview of the Power BI on-premises data gateway: how it works, what impacts performance, how to tune and right-size it, and how to monitor health. Learn to move beyond “it just works” and manage it with confidence.

End‑to‑end Fabric monitoring session covering Real‑Time Hub, Workspace Monitoring, and the Monitoring Hub, plus community tools, showing how to track activity, detect issues early, and build a unified monitoring strategy.

An overview of Microsoft Fabric permissions and data security in a lakehouse architecture. Learn how to design scalable, least-privilege access strategies that balance governance, flexibility, and real-world business use cases.

A deep dive into Microsoft Fabric Capacity planning and management. Learn strategies to control bursting, smoothing, and throttling, monitor usage, respond to issues, scale or offload workloads, and confidently manage capacity health at scale.

In this panel debate, four practitioners with extensive, real-world Fabric experience come together to discuss what actually works when administering Fabric at scale. Benni de Jagere (Microsoft CAT), Just Blindbæk (Tabular Editor), Lars Andersen (Microsoft CAT), and Ásgeir Gunnarsson (data lab) will share hard-earned lessons from real production environments, covering both successes and mistakes. The discussion will focus on the most debated and misunderstood areas of Fabric administration, including tenant and capacity management, workspace strategies, governance models, monitoring, security boundaries, and operational ownership. Expect differing viewpoints, strong opinions, and honest answers

A fun, high-energy Slide Karaoke finale where data experts present with random, unseen slides. Expect humor, creativity, audience voting, and friendly competition as speakers turn the unexpected into entertaining data-driven talks.

Star schema tips aren’t one‑size‑fits‑all. Session walks through modelling from source to report, stressing testing, measuring, and thoughtful design choices. Shows when star schemas help and how to assess what works best for your scenario.

An introduction to Microsoft Fabric Capacities: what they are, how they work, how they compare to Power BI Premium, what they cost, and how to size, manage, monitor, and automate them to support business needs confidently.