Engaging Q&A and Discussion (with Amir Netz) - Microsoft Fabric's CTO !!

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Please join Microsoft Fabric's CTO Amir Netz and me as I host this special livestream where we'll have an engaging discussion and audience Q&A on everything Microsoft Fabric. We'll discuss everything from: data and AI, Synapse, Spark/Notebook, OneLake/DirectLake, and what Fabric means for the future of Power BI. Tune in to find out!

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Amir Netz is a Technical Fellow and the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Fabric.

Microsoft Fabric is a complete, unified, SaaS data platform that brings together all tools that organizations need to run their data estate. Fabric integrates technologies like Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI into a unified product, empowering data, and business professionals alike to unlock the potential of their data and lay the foundation for the era of AI.

Before that Amir served as the founder and CTO of Microsoft Power BI.

Used by 98% of the Fortune 500 companies, Power BI is widely recognized as the market’s leading Business Intelligence product, with the fastest growth and the highest usage.

Amir is the leading world expert in BI and Business Analytics technology. The products invented, designed, and developed by Amir have repeatedly defined the business analytics market. In 1997 Amir founded SQL Server Analysis Services, a product that with its ease-of-use and low-cost had democratized the BI industry and quickly became the most popular BI server in the world. Today, Power BI is driving a similar transformation in the Cloud.

The technologies that Amir invented are shipping as part of SQL Server, Excel, and the Microsoft Power Platform. Some of his latest contributions include VertiPaq, Microsoft’s revolutionary in-memory column-oriented data engine that excels at performance and flexibility for data analysis, Q&A – the natural language BI exploration experience, Dataflows – a popular self-service data preparation platform, and the Power BI experience – for interactive ad-hoc data visualization and exploration.

The special designation of “Technical Fellow” is Microsoft’s acknowledgement of the key role a top technical leader plays in driving intentional innovation with broad industry impact. A Technical Fellow's technical vision, expertise and world-class leadership is commensurate with that of a corporate vice president focused on business leadership.

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(Livestream Replay) Supercharge Power BI with Azure Synapse Analytics - with Mathias HalkjærGPO

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Power BI is incredibly powerful at distributing and sharing data insights, through visualizations, across an entire organization. The democratization of Business Intelligence that Power BI brought with it is unparalleled. But Power BI on its own has its limitations and will often fall short, on its own, when designing end-to-end analytic platforms for enterprises. That’s where Synapse comes into the picture-for organizations, small and large, their current Power BI deployment can be supercharged with the capabilities of Azure Synapse.

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Mathias is self-proclaimed data platform fanatic on a mission to help leaders leaders leverage their data to transform the way they do business.

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(Livestream Replay) Exploring Azure Synapse Analytics - with Eric Gleiter & Justin Moen

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Have you considered using Azure Synapse Analytics? You may have wondered how it differs from some of the other Azure tools you're familiar with (such as Data Factory, Data Lake Gen2, SQL Data Warehouse, etc.) and when you should use Synapse over the others. We'll review what Azure Synapse is, how to get started using it, some "gotchas" to watch out for, and we'll show how we help get data into Synapse in an organized and usable way for reporting and analytics in a matter of weeks.

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Justin Moen is a business intelligence professional who has a passion for working with data and working with his clients to leverage data as a competitive advantage. Over the past 20 years, Justin has worked with many database solutions, such as Oracle, SQL Server, and Snowflake. He is quick at mastering new tools and has a great understanding of current trends in the industry. To complement his technical knowledge, Justin is excellent at working with both business and IT team members to help bring both sides together to produce strategies and solutions that propel businesses forward.

Eric Gleiter is a dedicated and driven application developer knowledgeable in a wide variety of tools. He is experienced in Data Governance and Data Engineering. His ability to learn and digest new information and technologies enables him to quickly understand, implement, and innovate solutions to client’s needs. Eric's mathematics background makes him both flexible and rigorous when it comes to implementing solutions- enabling him to break down complex problems into manageable parts that can be quickly addressed- allowing for fast and effective solutions.

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