22-25 April 2026
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Real-Time Intelligence Meets Location: How Maps in Microsoft Fabric Transform Your Analytics

Regular 50 minute session for SQLBits 2026Friday - 24 Apr 2026 - 14:10 - 15:00 Living Lounge

TL; DR

Learn how Microsoft Fabric brings real-time and location intelligence together. Stream and transform live data with Real-Time Intelligence, visualize it instantly with Maps in Fabric, and then use Power BI to build interactive, rich geospatial analytics. In this demo-heavy session, we'll build the end-to-end solutions using real life data sources and examples.

Session Details

The new Fabric Maps capability brings real-time and location intelligence together. Stream and transform live data location data with Real-Time Intelligence and visualize it instantly with Maps in Fabric. We'll then look at how to surface the data in Power BI Power BI to build interactive, rich geospatial analytics. In this demo-heavy session, we'll build the end-to-end solutions using real life data sources and examples.

3 things you'll get out of this session

Ingest and transform live data with Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric
Visualise streaming and spatial data using Maps in Fabric
Build interactive, real-time geospatial reports in Power BI
Apply real-world patterns for operational and analytical use cases

Speakers

James Dales

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James Dales's previous sessions

Scanning the skies above SQLBits - Realtime streaming of flight data with Microsoft Fabric
Using the real-time analytics capabilities of Microsoft Fabric we'll stream aircraft transponder data via a Raspberry PI and antenna into Microsoft Fabric. Through an end-to-end demo, we'll use Eventstream and KQL database to ingest the current locations of 100s of aircraft as they fly above the SQLBits venue. We'll then display and analyse these aircraft in Power BI, and use KQL DB's powerful spatial functions to determine the which parts of the area experience the most amount of air traffic.