Name: Microsoft TechCon 365, PWRCON & DATACON 2026
Start: 2026-08-24T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-08-28T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Washington D.C, USA

Microsoft TechCon 365, PWRCON & DATACON 2026 - August 2026 | Kure‑Cal

Schedule

223 events • 152 tracks • 16 concurrent events

Day 1 - Aug 24, 2026

Other

7:00 am to 8:00 am

4th Pine Lobby

16 concurrent sessions

Day 2 - Aug 25, 2026

Other

7:30 am to 8:30 am

Registration and Coffee

4th Pine Lobby

Other

8:30 am to 9:40 am

Keynote

Ballroom 2

Other

9:40 am to 10:20 am

Databases and technology are evolving quickly, and the tools you use every day are evolving with it. In this session, we’ll take a tour of what’s new and what’s next across Microsoft’s SQL tooling ecosystem, with plenty of demos from SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and Visual Studio Code. We’ll also explore how GitHub Copilot is being integrated to help you interact with SQL more efficiently directly in the tools you already use. Beyond the core editors, we’ll cover key advances in database CI/CD and client SDKs, showing how they fit together to support modern development practices. No matter your level of expertise, this session will help you understand how recent changes to the SQL tools can make them work better for you.

Power BI writeback is technically called Translytical Task Flows. However, nobody knows what Translytical Task Flows are.... which is Power BI writeback. This functionality allows you to turn your Power BI reports into Apps. How does this work? We use User Data Functions as the pass through mechanism to update data in a database and Direct Query or Direct Lake Semantic Models to update the reports. In this session we will use a real-world scenario where we take customer reviews, score them for sentiment using a user data function, display them in a Power BI report and allow our Power BI users who own the products being reviewed to enter feedback for the leadership team of their company. This will be an end-to-end demo so you can walk away with a full understanding of how to implement this for your business.

Room 320-321

15 concurrent sessions

Other

3:00 pm to 3:50 pm

Agentic applications are rapidly moving from prototypes to real production workloads, but the real challenge begins after these solutions are deployed: Proactive and continuous optimization and linking AI usage to business value! In this session, we walk through a production‑grade, open‑source reference implementation of a multi‑agent banking application built on Microsoft Fabric (https://aka.ms/AgenticAppFabric), focusing on what it actually takes to run agentic systems responsibly at scale. Using a coordinator‑and‑specialists pattern, the app demonstrates how agents perform transactional operations, RAG‑based support, and generative UI personalization—while capturing rich operational telemetry such as agent routing, tool usage, latency, tokens, and safety signals as first‑class data. Attendees will see how Fabric’s unified data plane (SQL, Cosmos DB, Eventstream, Eventhouse, Lakehouse, semantic models, notebooks, Data Agents, and Power BI) enables end‑to‑end observability, governance, evaluation, and analytics directly alongside the agent runtime. The session connects agent behavior to measurable business outcomes, showing how teams can debug failures, monitor content safety in real time, evaluate response quality with LLM‑as‑judge workflows, and continuously improve agent performance. While the demo uses a banking scenario, the architectural patterns generalize to any domain where agents act on operational systems and must be observable, auditable, and improvable in production.

Room 320-321

15 concurrent sessions

Day 4 - Aug 27, 2026

Other

8:00 am to 8:35 am

Registration

4th Pine Lobby

Other

8:30 am to 9:40 am

Keynote

Ballroom 2

2 concurrent sessions

Other

9:40 am to 10:20 am

Phil will walk you through the techniques used by the Power BI team when debugging and optimising DAX in large enterprise models. These equally apply for small and medium size models. Come away knowing how to identify and speed up slow running DAX calculations.

You're comfortable in the world of SQL, but this new world of AI presents challenges - and opportunities. Microsoft calls SQL Server 2025 "the AI-ready enterprise database" but what does that mean for you and your company? What new features are there and which of them are already present in Azure SQL? What's hype? What's reality? Come see what you should be learning to keep up (or gain an edge).

Room 337-339

16 concurrent sessions

Other

12:50 pm to 2:00 pm

Data assets at organizations tend to stick around for a while--many of the databases we work with are old enough to vote. These databases tend to be full of code and patterns which made sense in SQL Server 2005 but are not the best approach today. In this session, we will walk through what has changed in the T-SQL landscape over the past several versions of SQL Server, providing practical tips on how to improve an existing code base without installing new SQL Server components. Just because that database is old doesn't mean it has to look that way.

Room 337-339

16 concurrent sessions

Other

3:10 pm to 4:00 pm

The evolution of SQL projects continues with expanded IDE support and deeper integration in the Fabric platform. Using the latest in VS Code and SSMS, we’ll walk through keeping our database in source control, integrating changes made in another database, and evaluating deployment plans. Finally, we'll automate CI/CD processes with REST APIs for SQL database in Fabric and the SqlPackage CLI.

Room 337-339

16 concurrent sessions

Day 5 - Aug 28, 2026

Other

8:00 am to 9:00 am

You have just begun your Azure journey and want to create your first pipeline and ETL-process in your new insights and analysis data platform in ADF or Microsoft Fabric. This session will take you through how you can set up a basic pipeline and make it more sophisticated as your competence increases. I will walk you through static, dynamic and semi-dynamic pipelines making it easier for you to choose which is a better fit for your solution. And finally, I will show you how you can set up automated pipelines using scheduled triggers. Let’s embark on your journey on becoming the data pipeline guru in your organization.

Microsoft Fabric Task Flows offer a flexible framework for managing and visualizing workflows, catering to both individual analysts and large teams. This session will explore strategies for leveraging Task Flows to enhance design processes, ensuring scalability and efficiency. The session will cover integrating Task Flows with other Microsoft tools, such as Power BI and Azure, to create a cohesive data analytics environment. We will also discuss managing dependencies and automating repetitive tasks to reduce errors and save time. Attendees will gain insights through real-world examples and case studies, highlighting the benefits of improved collaboration, enhanced productivity, and better project management. By the end of the session, you will understand how to design and implement task flows that scale efficiently and support complex projects. Join me to discover how Microsoft Fabric Task Flows can transform your design processes, making them more efficient, scalable, and user-friendly. This session will provide you with the knowledge and tools to optimize your workflows and drive better outcomes for your organization.

For data professionals learning the SQL language, JOINs can be difficult to understand and master. Yet without this ability, analysts will find themselves limited to single table queries. In this session, we'll explain and demonstrate how joins work and the many types using Legos. We'll provide guidelines on which joins to use when, and tips on defining predicates to improve performance. By the end of this session, you'll have the skills to join one-to-many tables in any query you need to write.

Room 347-348

8 concurrent sessions

Session Details

Registration and Coffee

7:00 am to 8:00 am

4th Pine Lobby

Topics

No Track