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Kickstart Your Microsoft Fabric Journey, Featuring a fAIthful Game Experience

Kickstart your Microsoft Fabric journey with insights into modern analytics, AI-driven innovation, and hands-on problem solving.

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October 6, 2026

10:00 AM – 2:30 PM GMT+1

Reply House, 36 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1W 0EB, UK

Session Overview

A practical introduction to Microsoft Fabric for business and data leaders. The session explores how Fabric simplifies modern data challenges, unifies analytics across the enterprise, and accelerates business value from data.

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of the end-to-end data journey and how Fabric can enable faster, smarter decision-making.

Intended Audience

Business leaders, data and analytics managers, and technology decision-makers seeking to understand the strategic potential of Microsoft Fabric.

Agenda

Event Time: 10.00 AM - 2.30 PM (BST)

sessions

sessions
Arrivals and Refreshments An opportunity to arrive, register, and network informally ahead of the session.
Welcome and Introductions (Jack Barnes, Data and Analytics Lead) An overview of the session objectives and introductions to the speakers.
The State of Data and the Shift to Big Data (Andrew Draper, Data Architect) An examination of how data complexity has evolved and why traditional approaches struggle to scale. This session will dispel common misconceptions around big data and analytics and introduce the layered data model of Bronze, Silver, and Gold.
From Data to Insight – The Modern Analytics Flow (Andrew Draper, Data Architect) An overview of the journey from raw data to actionable insight, showing how a unified data architecture enables reporting, self-service business intelligence, and AI-driven insight.
Microsoft Fabric 101 (Ranjith Vuppala, Senior Data Engineer) An introduction to Microsoft Fabric and its core components, including Data Factory, Synapse, Power BI, OneLake, and related services. Each capability will be explained in business terms, illustrating how they work together within a single, integrated platform.
Fabric in 30 Days (Zubair Rahman, Cloud Data Engineer) A practical overview of what organisations can realistically achieve in their first 30 days with Microsoft Fabric, covering initial setup, priority use cases, and how to move from proof of concept to measurable value.
Next-generation Data Visualisation (Miguel Alvarez, Partner, Canvas Reply) A practical way to go from isolated data points to intelligence that is easy to understand, share, digest and explain. We will review how digital twins and other digital visualisations help to bridge the gap between complex AI and algorithms and the human experts on all the different fields. We will look at how this can be used across a variety of businesses and areas, such as aviation, construction, retail, and finance.
Discussion and Q&A An open forum for questions, use case discussion, and consideration of next steps for organisations exploring Microsoft Fabric adoption.
Lunch, Networking, fAIthful Game Experience and more! Join us for lunch, continue conversations with our experts, and connect with other organisations exploring Microsoft Fabric. Afterwards, put your skills to the test with our new fAIthful gaming experience, plus more!

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