22-25 April 2026 
Excel Lives! Your Gateway to Microsoft Fabric
Proposed session for SQLBits 2026TL; DR
Can Excel survive in Fabric environment?
Let's understand how we can have a powerful and engaging partnership between Excel and Fabric.
Let's see the connection to semantic models, Power Query, Notebooks, SQL Endpoint and other.
See how Excel isn't being replaced—it's being supercharged.
Session Details
How many times do users ask you: can I export to Excel?
Our first reaction after building Lakehouse’s, warehouses, semantic models, and other data environments is to try and say no. But what if we start to look at this request with other eyes?
In this session we will understand how Fabric can integrate seamlessly with Excel from the live connection to our semantic models, passing through the SQL endpoint on Lakehouse and warehouses, but also downloading your data exploration trough excel from a notebook or a copy activity in a pipeline.
Understand how Excel is just another way to consume or import data to your One Lake and do not run away from it.
Let's understand how we can have a powerful and engaging partnership between Excel and Fabric.
See how Excel isn't being replaced—it's being supercharged.
Our first reaction after building Lakehouse’s, warehouses, semantic models, and other data environments is to try and say no. But what if we start to look at this request with other eyes?
In this session we will understand how Fabric can integrate seamlessly with Excel from the live connection to our semantic models, passing through the SQL endpoint on Lakehouse and warehouses, but also downloading your data exploration trough excel from a notebook or a copy activity in a pipeline.
Understand how Excel is just another way to consume or import data to your One Lake and do not run away from it.
Let's understand how we can have a powerful and engaging partnership between Excel and Fabric.
See how Excel isn't being replaced—it's being supercharged.
3 things you'll get out of this session
Participants will leave the session equipped with:
* Practical skills to integrate One lake data to excel
* Understand the different option to get data to excel from lakehouse and warehouses
* Take a different approach to the excel as part of the user experience.
Speakers
Miguel Félix's other proposed sessions for 2026
TMDL in Action: Optimizing Power BI Models with Advanced Scripting - 2026
Miguel Félix's previous sessions
Prepare for Takeoff: Navigating Power BI Developer Mode - Is the Journey Worth the Flight?
The new Power BI Developer Mode changes dataset and report development, providing a faster, more accessible approach. This mode includes source control and seamless integration with DevOps and Fabric, making it an impressive tool for advanced users and IT professionals.
However, the good news is that you don't need to be a full-time developer or have an extensive IT background to benefit from this feature. In this session, I will demonstrate how you can take advantage of Developer Mode without the need for advanced integrations like DevOps and Fabric.
Combine Power BI with External Tools
In this session we will take a look into some external tools and how can they help us take the our development skills to another level.
From the creation of metrics to the deployment of models the usage of Power BI can be optimize using external tools.
This session is for intermediate users that already know their way into Power BI but want to increase their development skills and speed.