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Dive into Data Factory at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Europe

Microsoft Fabric integrates data engineering, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence. It includes OneLake, Data Factory, Synapse, and Microsoft Power BI. Data Factory in Fabric enables users to ingest, transform, and load data from various sources and destinations.

Join the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Europe from September 24 to 27, 2024, in Stockholm, Sweden. The program will help you get started with Data Factory in Fabric, showcasing how customers, partners, and Microsoft MVPs use it in their solutions. Check out the sessions on Data Factory below.

Sessions list

  • Data Factory in a day with Microsoft Fabric
    Speakers: Alex Powers, Sunil Sabat and Jeroen Lutwieler
    Summary: Join our session on Dataflow Gen2 and Data Pipelines within Microsoft Fabric to enhance your data integration skills. Key highlights include creating efficient dataflows, orchestrating workflows with Data Pipelines, and handling large-scale data processing. Elevate your expertise with actionable insights and practical knowledge.
  • From Zero to Hero with Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric
    Speakers: Abhishek Narain and Aditya Jain
    Summary: This session will get you from zero to Data Factory hero, leveraging lots of demos to show you can get started quickly with getting data into Microsoft Fabric for analytics.
  •  How Mirroring in Fabric Brings Data Gravity and Unlocks Insights in the era of AI
    Speakers: Wilson Lee and Shireen Bahadur
    Summary: Microsoft Fabric’s Mirroring feature links external databases with ease, creating real-time analytics-ready replicas in OneLake as Delta Parquet. This helps break down data silos and unlocks powerful insights.
  •  Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric: What’s New and Roadmap
    Speakers: Wee Hyong Tok and Faisal Mohamood
    Summary: Join us to learn about what’s new and our roadmap for Data Factory in Fabric. Our team has been working extremely hard over the past few months, and in this session, you will see some of our exciting new capabilities.
  •  Performance Tuning Tips for Fabric Data Factory
    Speakers: Sid Jayadevan and Mohan Sankaran
    Summary: Join us for an in-depth session on Performance Tuning Tips for Fabric Data Factory! Discover strategies to optimize your data workflows, enhance efficiency, and maximize performance. Don’t miss out on expert insights that can revolutionize your data management practices.
  • Best ways of ingesting data for Analytics in Microsoft Fabric
    Speakers: Nikki Waghani and Ulrich Christ
    Summary: Explore data ingestion in Microsoft Fabric, covering tools like database Mirroring, Copy Job, Copy Pipeline, and Dataflow Gen2. Learn best practices for efficient, scalable processes and enhance analytics capabilities.
  • Upgrade pathway from Azure Data Factory to Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric
    Speakers: Emily Chen and Leo Li
    Summary: We will outline the initiative to upgrade Azure Data Factory (ADF) and Synapse Pipelines to Microsoft Fabric Data Factory, discuss feature parity and Fabric connectors, and introduce “mounting” for unifying data integration. An upgrade tool for existing ADF and Synapse Pipelines will also be presented.

Join us at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

The Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Europe will be the place to learn about Fabric and see firsthand how Fabric and the rest of the data and AI products at Microsoft can help your organization prepare for the era of AI. We look forward to engaging with you all in-person in Sweden in September. 

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