Dive into Data Factory at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
Microsoft Fabric brings together everything from data engineering to data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence. It offers a comprehensive suite of services including OneLake, Data Factory, Synapse, and Microsoft Power BI. Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric provides industry-leading capabilities that empower everyone in the organization to ingest, transform, and load data from a rich set of data sources and destinations.
As part of the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, taking place March 26 to 28, 2024, at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, the Fabric team has worked with the community to put together an exciting program that will enable you to get started with Data Factory in Fabric. You will learn about how customers, partners, and Microsoft MVPs are using Data Factory as an integral part of their solutions. Check out the sessions on Data Factory below.
Get started with Data Factory
Dive in and start learning how to get the most out of Data Factory.
- Getting Started: Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric: Speakers: Shireen Bahadur, Cathrine Wilhelmsen. Join this demo-packed session to learn how to get started with Data Factory in Microsoft and build your first dataflows and data pipelines.
- Using Azure AI Services with Data Factory in Fabric: Speakers: Abhishek Narain, Jeroen Luitwieler. Learn how Data Factory in Fabric delivers AI-powered experiences and increases your productivity by making complicated tasks simple. You’ll learn how you can use AI to learn from examples and extract insights from your data, and use Azure AI services for enriching your data, and more.
Connect your data
One of the key areas of data integration is connecting to all your favorite data sources and empowering you to bring data to where it’s needed for analytics. Here are some of the topics that will help you get up to speed on the rich connectivity capabilities available in Data Factory.
- Connecting to the World’s Data Using Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric: Speakers: Matt Masson, Miguel Escobar, Jianlei Shen. Learn about how you can use Data Factory in Fabric to connect to hundreds of data sources and destinations. In addition, you’ll learn how to get started with the Connectors SDK and extend Data Factory with your favorite connectors.
- Empowering Self-Service BI on SAP Data with Microsoft Fabric: Speakers: Ulrich Christ, Nicky Van Vroenhoven. Learn how you can use Data Factory in Fabric to connect to SAP Data (from SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, SAP BW, and more).
- From Data to Decisions: Leveraging Microsoft 365 with Data Factory: Speakers: Wilson Lee, Karan Shah, Rishi Girish. Learn how you can connect to your Microsoft 365 data using Microsoft Graph Data Connect and how Data Factory in Fabric can help you ingest data into Fabric OneLake.
Drive impact with best practices
As you work toward building data integration solutions for your analytics needs, Data Factory in Fabric enables you to implement security best practices, DataOps, and more. Here are some of the topics that will help you get up to speed on what’s possible:
- Performance Tuning Secrets for Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric: Speakers: Sid Jayadevan, Mark Kromer, Matt Masson. Join us for this session as we walk through best practices on performance tuning for data ingestion and transformation dataflows and data pipelines.
- Upgrade Pathways and Best Practices for Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric: Speakers: Mark Kromer, Miguel Escobar, Mike Carlo. Join this session to learn more about best practices and recommendations for how existing Azure Data Factory and Power Query Dataflows customers can upgrade their assets and use the new capabilities in Data Factory in Fabric.
- Implement Enterprise Data Integration Patterns with Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric: Speakers: Abhishek Narain, Miquella de Boer, Noelle Li. Learn how you can implement and operationalize enterprise data integration patterns in your organization. Get up to speed with security best practices, how you can connect to data sources in virtual networks, on-premises, and multi-cloud. In addition, you will learn how you can operationalize your data integration solution, best practices for continuous integration/continuous delivery, and more.
Go behind the scenes
Additionally, we’re excited to bring you technical deep dives on how Data Factory in Fabric is built, and where we’re going next.
- Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric Technical Deep Dive: Speakers: Mohan Sankaran, John Welch, Erwin De Kreuk. Gain deeper insights and best practices on what goes “under the hood” of Data Factory in Fabric.
- Behind the Design: How We’re Crafting Data Factory Experiences in Fabric: Speakers: Cristin Ford, Arian Martinez, Vichita Jianjitlert. Connect directly with the design team responsible for creating the UI and product experiences in Data Factory. Hear about the design principles and customer conversations that shape our design decisions.
- Modern Data Integration with Microsoft Fabric Data Factory: Speakers: Wee Hyong Tok, Shabnam Watson, Penny Zhou. Learn about the roadmap of Data Factory in Fabric, and how data integration has evolved over the years at Microsoft.
Join us at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
The Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 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 Las Vegas in March.
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