Kev Chant

Data Platform professional based in the Netherlands. Microsoft Certified Trainer and Data Platform MVP. Many years experience with Microsoft Data Platforms. Along the way gained various Microsoft Certifications. Held various roles over the years. Over that tome gained real-life experience with various Microsoft Data Platform offerings and ALM solutions such as Azure Devops and GitHub. Involved with Microsoft technical community in various ways. Including blogs, videos, events and sharing various repositories in GitHub.

Proposed Sessions for 2026

Applying DevOps practices to your Power BI deployments in Microsoft Fabric

Covers how you can apply DevOps practices to your Power BI deployments in Microsoft Fabric.

Build Your DataOps Foundation With CI/CD for Power BI and Fabric

This workshop shows how to build a scalable DataOps foundation with CI/CD for Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, covering version control, automation, and enterprise-ready deployment workflows from basics to advanced scenarios.

Deploy Smarter: Enterprise CI/CD in Microsoft Fabric Using fabric-cli and fabric-cicd

This session compares fabric-cli and fabric-cicd for CI/CD in Microsoft Fabric, helping BI and data teams choose the right tools for scalable, automated deployments based on real-world scenarios.

From Commit to Production: Chapter one of your End-to-End CI/CD Story for Microsoft Fabric with ADO

Chapter one of an end-to-end CI/CD story for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps. Starting with source control, you’ll see how Fabric Git integration, deployment pipelines, and Azure DevOps can work together.

From Commit to Production: Chapter two of your End-to-End CI/CD Story for Microsoft Fabric with ADO

In chapter two of this session, we’ll walk through options to create an end-to-end CI/CD story for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps.

Microsoft Fabric: The Big Picture in One Frame

Session uses a single, carefully designed slide as a visual guide to introduce Microsoft Fabric, then move quickly into live demonstrations to show how it works in practice

From Setup to Deployment: A full day of CI/CD excellence for Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps

During this training day we will explore the various CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) options available when working with Microsoft Fabric and Azure DevOps.

The F-Files: Mastering DP-700 Microsoft Fabric Mysteries

This is not your typical DP-700 prep session. Instead of dry lecture slides, we're transforming the essential knowledge tested on the exam into compelling mysteries and hands-on narratives.

Previous Sessions

Unveiling the magic of CI/CD for SQL Server using GitHub Actions

In this expert session we unveil the magic of CI/CD for SQL Server updates using GitHub Actions.

Github and Azure DevOps Duet - SQLBits edition

A tale about how a development team and an operations team must bond together and figure out how to use GitHub and Azure DevOps together for Data Platform deployments.

Azure Data Engineering services used to analyze data

Overview to some of the more popular Azure Data Engineering services used to analyze data

Battle tested project planning with Azure Devops boards

Azure boards within Azure DevOps give you the capability to organise your project and analyse the it’s progress. Do you want your manager to stop bugging you about your project’s progress, come to this session?