Lars Andersen

Lars is Program Manager on Fabric Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. His passion is helping organizations getting insights out of data. He joined Microsoft in 2014 and has been working with BI solutions since 1999.

Sessions for 2026

Optimizing Your Power BI Data for AI

Discover how to prepare and optimize your Power BI data for AI-driven experiences. We’ll cover best practices for refining your semantic model to help Copilot deliver higher‑quality, more meaningful insights. You’ll also get practical guidance and early demos of upcoming capabilities that use AI to enhance and streamline semantic model optimization.

Panel Debate: Real-World Microsoft Fabric Administration - Lessons from the Trenches

In this panel debate, four practitioners with extensive, real-world Fabric experience come together to discuss what actually works when administering Fabric at scale. Benni de Jagere (Microsoft CAT), Just Blindbæk (Tabular Editor), Lars Andersen (Microsoft CAT), and Ásgeir Gunnarsson (data lab) will share hard-earned lessons from real production environments, covering both successes and mistakes. The discussion will focus on the most debated and misunderstood areas of Fabric administration, including tenant and capacity management, workspace strategies, governance models, monitoring, security boundaries, and operational ownership. Expect differing viewpoints, strong opinions, and honest answers

Previous Sessions

Fabric Power Hour

The famous Power BI Power Hour returns, but this time it has expanded to cover the whole of Fabric!

Driving alerts and actions on your data

In this session you will learn how to drive actions on data using the new Data Activator experience in Microsoft Fabric

Building and using Organizational data types

Learn how to create data types in Power BI and consume them in Excel