22-25 April 2026 
Unlocking AI Potential: Leveraging Your Data with Microsoft Fabric
2025TL; DR
The analytics landscape for data focused application developers is changing fast, with AI, Real-time analytics, data sources growing exponentially and new tools available daily.
Microsoft Fabric can serve as the center of data gravity for both business and technical users enabling data insights or data engineering over a single source of data, assisted by CoPilot. We will look at how Fabric can help make your developers and business users more productive with CoPilot, we will see how developers can leverage the latest AI functions to enrich the data or create a data agent to use expose to your business users or Co Pilot studio.
Join us to understand the impact of AI on data analytics and take the next steps to leverage Microsoft Fabric for your organization’s success.
Session Details
The analytics landscape for data focused application developers is changing fast, with AI, Real-time analytics, data sources growing exponentially and new tools available daily.
Microsoft Fabric can serve as the center of data gravity for both business and technical users enabling data insights or data engineering over a single source of data, assisted by CoPilot. We will look at how Fabric can help make your developers and business users more productive with CoPilot, we will see how developers can leverage the latest AI functions to enrich the data or create a data agent to use expose to your business users or Co Pilot studio.
Join us to understand the impact of AI on data analytics and take the next steps to leverage Microsoft Fabric for your organization’s success.
Microsoft Fabric can serve as the center of data gravity for both business and technical users enabling data insights or data engineering over a single source of data, assisted by CoPilot. We will look at how Fabric can help make your developers and business users more productive with CoPilot, we will see how developers can leverage the latest AI functions to enrich the data or create a data agent to use expose to your business users or Co Pilot studio.
Join us to understand the impact of AI on data analytics and take the next steps to leverage Microsoft Fabric for your organization’s success.
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