Cathrine Wilhelmsen

Are you itching to get hands-on building solutions in Microsoft Fabric, but aren't quite sure where to start? Maybe you're coming from the world of Power BI and want to explore more of the tech behind the scenes? Or is it finally time to move away from the on-premises Microsoft BI stack to fully embrace the latest and greatest of analytical tools in the cloud? If so, this workshop is for you! In just one day, you will learn everything you need to build a Microsoft Fabric Proof of Concept. We will start with an overview of Microsoft Fabric and its experiences, common architectures, and the most important factors that will help you decide which parts of Microsoft Fabric are appropriate for your project. Lakehouse or Warehouse? Pipelines or Notebooks? Low-code or code-first? Microsoft Fabric can do it all! When you have a plan and a few rough diagrams, it's time to dig into the details. After you've set up your own workspace, we will go through options for ingesting, transforming and storing data. By discussing your proposed solutions with each other, you will also gain valuable insight and learn from each other’s experiences. Once the data is ready for consumption, we will look at how to create beautiful visualizations and tell stories with our data using Power BI, how to empower business analysts to take action based on changing data, and how to roll out a fully governed solution in your organization. Throughout the day, we will cover security, CI/CD, the pricing model, best practices for development, and lessons learned from real-world projects. Don't miss this opportunity to experience Microsoft Fabric's game-changing potential firsthand and learn how it can revolutionize your analytical workflow. Bring your laptop and get ready for a day full of hands-on experience and engaging discussions!

Real-world projects come with real-world frustrations – and celebrations! Over the past year, we have implemented multiple Fabric solutions from proof-of-concepts through production.

In just one day, you will learn everything you need to build a Microsoft Fabric Proof of Concept. Our experienced flight attendants will ensure a safe flight full of relevant use cases and a good learning environment.

Learn the pros and cons of Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory, and how to choose the right Data Integration solution for your project.

Join this session to see how easy it is to create a pocket-sized dashboard for your website analytics. First, learn how to automatically collect statistics from an API and store it in a central location. Then, see how quickly you can visualize the data in a mobile-friendly way using Power BI. 📈

Microsoft Fabric is the newest and coolest kid in town and for good reasons. It brings together the best features from Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI, making it easier than ever to build analytical solutions.

What happens when you mix one rapidly-changing startup, one data analyst, one data engineer, and one hypothesis that Azure Synapse Analytics could be the right tool of choice?

With the ever-increasing volume, variety, and velocity of data, it can feel like a daunting task to create and maintain modern data integration solutions. This full-day workshop will arm you with the skills you need to build and orchestrate hybrid, complex and scalable data pipelines using Azure Data Factory (ADF). We will start with a conceptual overview and cover the fundamentals of Azure Data Factory, including source control, security, and pricing. Then, we will build a metadata-driven solution to move data between on-premises and cloud sources. As we evaluate different design patterns and architectures for big data pipelines and modern data warehouses, we will continue to improve on our solution to make it more robust, dynamic and reusable. We will dive deep into the newly released Data Flow capabilities, and look at how to leverage SSIS lift and shift to gradually modernize existing solutions while retaining investments already made. Finally, we will configure monitoring, logging, and alerting, as well as review options for CI/CD using Azure DevOps. If that's not enough content for one day, you will also get access to a set of hands-on labs that you can work through at your own pace. Whether you are new to Azure Data Factory or have some experience, you will leave this workshop with new skills and ideas for your projects.

Azure Data Factory v2 came with many new capabilities and improvements. One of biggest game-changers is the Mapping Data Flows feature, allowing you to transform data at scale - without having to write a single line of code! In this session, we will first go through the capabilities and use cases for Mapping Data Flows. Then, we will explore the various transformations available, as well as the expression language and how to use the visual expression builder. Finally, we will look at how to debug, monitor, and optimize our data transformations.

Are you considering becoming a speaker, but feel nervous about getting on stage for the first time? Have you already presented a few sessions and want advice on how to improve? Do you learn more from seeing examples of what you should NOT do during a presentation instead of reading a list of bullet points on how to become a better speaker? Don't worry! I have made plenty of presentation mistakes over the years so you won't have to :) In this session, we will go through common presentation mistakes and how you can avoid them, as well as how you can prepare for those dreaded worst-case scenarios. Don't let those "uhms" and "uhhs" dominate your presentation, help the audience focus on the key message you're delivering instead of making them read a wall of text in your slides, recover gracefully from any demo failures, and stop distracting your attendees with floppy bunny hands. All it takes is a little preparation and practice. You can do this!