(Livestream Replay) Eliminate Data Silos with OneLake, the OneDrive for data - with Josh Caplan

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OneLake eliminates pervasive and chaotic data silos created by developers configuring their own isolated storage. OneLake provides a single, unified storage system for all developers. Unifying data across an organization and clouds becomes trivial. With the OneLake data hub, users can easily explore and discover data to reuse, manage or gain insights. With business domains, different business units can work independently in a data mesh pattern, without the overhead of maintaining separate lakes. Tune in to learn more!

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Josh Caplan is a product management leader, currently leading Microsoft OneLake. Prior to his role at OneLake, Josh played a pivotal role in shaping the Power BI team, leading the development of developer experiences, Power BI Premium, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Azure Analysis Services. Josh also spent several years on the Bing team, where he leveraged his expertise in business intelligence to drive insights from Bing's massive data.

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(Livestream Replay) Generative AI: Concepts, Tools, and Applications for Data Professionals - with Buck Woody

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Generative AI is a branch of artificial intelligence that can create new data or content by learning from existing content. It has applications in various domains such as text, image, audio, video, and code generation. In this session, you will learn how generative AI works, its limitations, the main tools and processes you can use, and where you can use it to enhance your data estate and data projects. You will also explore examples of how generative AI can help you with code generation, debugging, and optimization tasks. You will examine a complete solution using SQL SErver Machine Learning Services and Azure OpenAI integration. This session is suitable for data professionals who have some familiarity with machine learning and want to learn more about the potential and effective uses of generative AI.

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Buck Woody is an Applied Data Scientist working on the Azure Data Services team at Microsoft, and uses data and technology to solve business and science problems. With over 39 years of professional and practical experience in computer technology, he is also a popular speaker at conferences around the world; author of over 700 articles and nine books on databases, machine learning, and R, he also sits on various Data Science Boards at two US Universities and specializes in advanced data analysis techniques. He is passionate about mentoring and growing the next generation of data professionals.

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(Livestream Replay) Demystifying Fabric's SQL Architecture & Best Practices - with Bogdan Crivat

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Join Microsoft Azure's Corporate Vice-President (VP) Bogdan Crivat and I for this special livestream where we'll do a deep dive into the engineering behind the SQL architecture in Fabric, and how it's both similar and different from the SQL architecture you'd find in various Azure SQL databases. Plus he'll also demo and discuss some best practices for implementation of both Fabric Data Warehouses and Lakehouses. Tune in to learn more!

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Passioned about advanced analytics, machine learning, in-memory databases and parallel computing. His background is in Mathematics and Computer Science. Bogdan received a degree in Computer Science at University of Bucharest (1997) and a PhD degree from Universitatea Transilvania of Brasov, Romania (2011). He is also the author or co-author of 13 patents (and a number of pending applications), mostly in the areas of data mining, predictive analytics and in-memory analytics.

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(Livestream Replay) Managing Power BI, to Prepare for Fabric - with Alex Whittles

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Power BI is in place in almost all organizations, with varying degrees of effectiveness in its implementation. The introduction of Fabric introduces a transformative shift, amplifying both the opportunities and complexities associated with Power BI. Consequently, it becomes imperative to proactively manage your Power BI ecosystem, focusing on key aspects such as structure, security, processes, and monitoring. This not only establishes a solid foundation for Power BI governance, but also paves the way for migrating your data engineering workloads into Fabric, while retaining full control, transparency, and governance over your data environment.

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Alex is a 9 year Data Platform MVP, and is the owner and principle consultant at Purple Frog Systems, a Microsoft Data Analytics consultancy in the UK with multinational clients in a variety of sectors. He specialises in the architecture and design of all aspects of data warehousing, ETL, cubes, Power BI and Machine Learning. He’s also the creator of Power BI Sentinel. Alex is on the organizing committee for the SQL Bits conference, and is a regular speaker at many data events around the world including SQL Bits, Data Relay, SQL Saturdays, Data Grillen, 24 HOP and the PASS Summit, and has a Masters degree in Business Intelligence.

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