Automating Multilingual Document Translation with Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI
Proposed session for SQLBits 2026TL; DR
Multinational organisations struggle to translate large volumes of documents consistently. This session shows how to automate translation from Fabric Lakehouses using Azure AI. Ideal for data professionals building scalable, production-ready AI solutions.”
Session Details
Modern organisations are increasingly multinational, producing large volumes of documents, such as reports, manuals, and communications, that are stored in Microsoft Fabric Lakehouses. Making this content accessible in multiple languages is a common challenge and is often handled manually or inconsistently.
This session shows how Azure AI Language Studio Translation APIs can be used to automate document translation directly from Fabric, enabling scalable and consistent multilingual access. We will cover the core concepts behind AI driven translation, why it makes sense as part of a data platform, and how it fits alongside other Azure AI services.
A live demonstration will walk through a practical, end to end implementation using Fabric pipelines and notebooks to orchestrate document translation from a Lakehouse via the Azure AI Translation APIs. Design decisions, integration patterns, and governance considerations will be explained along the way.
By attending this session, you will:
-Understand what Azure AI Language Studio offers and when to use translation services
-See how Microsoft Fabric can orchestrate AI services as part of a wider data platform
-Learn practical patterns for integrating AI into real data workflows
-Leave with approaches that can be reused beyond translation for other AI solutions
This session is aimed at data professionals who want to understand how to embed AI capabilities into practical, production-ready data platforms using Microsoft Fabric.
This session shows how Azure AI Language Studio Translation APIs can be used to automate document translation directly from Fabric, enabling scalable and consistent multilingual access. We will cover the core concepts behind AI driven translation, why it makes sense as part of a data platform, and how it fits alongside other Azure AI services.
A live demonstration will walk through a practical, end to end implementation using Fabric pipelines and notebooks to orchestrate document translation from a Lakehouse via the Azure AI Translation APIs. Design decisions, integration patterns, and governance considerations will be explained along the way.
By attending this session, you will:
-Understand what Azure AI Language Studio offers and when to use translation services
-See how Microsoft Fabric can orchestrate AI services as part of a wider data platform
-Learn practical patterns for integrating AI into real data workflows
-Leave with approaches that can be reused beyond translation for other AI solutions
This session is aimed at data professionals who want to understand how to embed AI capabilities into practical, production-ready data platforms using Microsoft Fabric.
3 things you'll get out of this session
-Understand what Azure AI Language Studio offers and when to use translation services
-See how Microsoft Fabric can orchestrate AI services as part of a wider data platform
-Leave with approaches that can be reused beyond translation for other AI solutions
Speakers
Lewis Prince's other proposed sessions for 2026
AI Beyond the Hype; Practical Solutions for Real Businesses - 2026
Demystifying AutoML; Building Machine Learning Models with Azure - 2026
Responsible AI in Practice for the Microsoft Data Platform - 2026
Unlocking Insight from Text Using Azure AI Language Studio - 2026
Using Microsoft Copilot Studio to Build Chatbots That Answer Questions and Take Action - 2026
Lewis Prince's previous sessions
Fast and Efficent Text Analysis using Azure's Language Cognitive Service
We will go on a whirlwind tour of Azure Cognitive Services Language Studio, to show the wealth of tools available there, and then talking in particular about Key Word Extraction, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining. We will apply these concepts through Language Studio APIs via Python on Customer Reviews data to then feed into a Power BI report to show how we can really squeeze so much more useful data out of chunks of text!
Copilot Studio: Guiding Your Chatbot Takeoff with AI Aviation!
I will talk you through how I created the Copilot chatbot for the SQLBits website.
The SQLBits Website ChatBot with Copilot Studio: How I built the chatbot for this events website)
I will talk you through how I created the Copilot chatbot for the SQLBits website.
Model Creation in Azure AutoML and Ingestion Through Excel
We will go through a brief introduction to what Machine Learning is and some of its applications. we will then explore why AutoML should be used by all; as a great starting point for anyone new to Machine Learning, as well as a time saving tool for those more experienced. Finally, we will expose a model as an endpoint and understand how we can use it. Specifically in this case how to use it in excel via VBA.
Technologies I will demonstrate are:
- Azure Machine Learning Studio
- VS code (with Azure Machine Learning Studio extension)
- Python
- VBA