Writeback with Fabric Planning: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Get Started (with Gopal)

LIVESTREAM DATE/TIME 📅

April 17th, 2026 (9:30 AM - Pacific Time)

DESCRIPTION 📄

Writeback is one of the most requested capabilities in the Power BI community. It is now native in Microsoft Fabric with the newly announced Fabric Plan Item in Fabric IQ

In this session, Gopal Krishnamurthy and Reid Havens break down exactly how writeback works natively in Fabric Planning, including:

• how business users can create report and enterprise planning apps on top of semantic models

• how other stakeholders can collaborate and enter plan, forecast data

• how those inputs are written back to Fabric SQL

• how organizations can govern the data management process with PowerTable’s Live writeback and

• how you can do variance commentaries and commentary writeback with intelligence sheets

Whether you're an FP&A or Ops team tired of budget spreadsheets or a BI developer who's been asked to build an enterprise planning solution, this session gives you the full picture - live, in Fabric.

GUEST BIO (Gopal Krishnamurthy)👤

Gopal Krishnamurthy is a data and analytics entrepreneur who has been building companies in the space since 2010. He made two career-defining bets: first, pivoting from SAP consulting to cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI) in 2017, which led to his consulting business being acquired by Atos in 2021. Second, betting that future enterprise applications would need to be built natively on top of cloud data platforms, which became the foundation for Lumel.

Today Lumel serves over 3,000 organizations with 400+ employees, is fully bootstrapped from the proceeds of that first exit, and is the #1 Microsoft Power BI AppSource Partner. The company is building a full-stack Enterprise Performance Management suite (planning, BI, and data management) natively on Microsoft Fabric, and was recognized as Best Overall Vendor for EPM by BPM Partners in 2025.

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Empowering Users: Driving Adoption Using Low-Code with Fabric - with Laura Graham-Brown

LIVESTREAM DATE/TIME 📅

January 23rd, 2026 - 9:30AM (Pacific Time)

DESCRIPTION 📄

Microsoft Fabric and the Power Platform give business users low-code entry points to build solutions that solve real problems fast. These solutions may not always align with long-term architectural ideals or developer preferences, but they drive adoption, unblock teams, and often succeed where more “perfect” solutions stall.

In this session, we’ll explore how Fabric and Power Platform can work together to empower users while still keeping IT sane. Examples include lightweight databases backing Power Apps for small teams, or semantic models feeding automations that deliver insights directly to sales teams.

The focus is not on replacing professional development practices, but on enabling business developers to build responsibly, in ways that IT can support rather than clean up later. Expect practical examples, a realistic view of trade-offs, and a few short demos showing how low-code solutions can deliver value quickly without becoming tomorrow’s problem.

GUEST BIO 👤

Laura GB has spent over 30 years training and consulting with business developers, helping them design and own the solutions they build. Her work sits at the intersection of low-code development, governance, and practical enablement, with a strong focus on empowering users to build safely in ways IT can support.

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Fabric Data Agents & Beyond - with Mathias Halkjær

LIVESTREAM DATE/TIME 📅

December 12th, 9:30 AM (Pacific Time)

DESCRIPTION 📄

In the era of AI, the ability to quickly and easily draw insights and answers from our data, is as important than ever, and being able to ask those questions in plain human language.In this session we'll uncover the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric Data Agents, what they are, how they work, and more. We’ll also explore bringing data agents to light outside of Fabric, opening up a whole new world of data utilization.

We'll touch upon topics like the data modelling for AI, data agents, prompt context, MCPs,After watching the livestream, you’ll be able to leverage your data with AI agents inside and outside of Fabric, and you be up to date on the newest tool for AI-powered BI, and ready to advice clients or colleagues on how to use AI with Power BI and Fabric.

GUEST BIO 👤

Mathias is a dedicated data leader with a deep commitment to the intersection of data engineering, BI, AI, and modern data platforms.

Day to day, he helps enterprises elevate their data maturity, implement scalable data platform solutions, and ultimately realize greater value from their data and AI investments.

As a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Mathias is highly engaged in the global community and is driven by a strong belief in sharing knowledge that empowers others.

With a background in Product Development and Innovation, he brings a distinct data product mindset to data architecture, combining strategic vision with practical execution. Known for his willingness to challenge convention, Mathias pushes past traditional thinking to uncover more effective, forward-looking solutions.

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(Livestream Replay) Introducing Fabric Workloads & PowerTable for Fabric Data Apps w/ Live Writeback - with Gopal

DESCRIPTION 📄

PowerTable by Lumel is a Fabric workload that enables business users to build no-code, write-back-enabled table applications directly on Microsoft Fabric. It connects live, with full bi-directional sync, to your cloud data warehouse tables including Fabric SQL, Fabric Data Warehouse, Azure SQL, Snowflake, Databricks, and other major data platforms.

PowerTable also integrates seamlessly with your Power BI semantic models, supporting no-code write-back scenarios that are distinct from Translytical Task Flows, which are designed for pro-code use cases.

In this session, you’ll also learn how PowerTable is fundamentally different from traditional table app solutions like Airtable, SmartSheet, or Microsoft Access, offering a fully governed, enterprise-grade approach designed for the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.

PowerTable by Lumel is a Fabric Workload that allows business users to build no-code, writeback-enabled table apps on Microsoft Fabric. It connects live (with bi-directional sync) to your cloud data warehouse tables in platforms such as Fabric SQL, Fabric Data Warehouse, Microsoft Azure SQL, Snowflake, Databricks and other major data platforms. 

GUEST BIO 👤

Gopal Krishnamurthy is the Founder and CEO of Lumel. He is a visionary who saw the rise of cloud data platforms and adopted very early on (Snowflake, Databricks, DBT) with Visual BI and successfully divested and exited the consulting business (Visual BI) with the sale to Atos in 2021. When he also saw the BI market consolidating with Power BI, he positioned Lumel to become the #1 Microsoft Fabric and Power BI AppSource Partner. He also predicted the rise of native apps on top of data platforms as organizations look to eliminate data silos as a prerequisite to make their data AI-ready. So, he doubled down on his vision of building an integrated Lumel native app that consolidates planning, master data, reporting, and analytics on top of semantic models and envisions Lumel as the new “Face of Data” for everyday application needs.

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