Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on September 11th (Introducing Lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric)
Atlanta BI fans, please join us for the next meeting on Monday, September 11th, at 6:30 PM ET. Shabnam Waston (BI Consultant and Microsoft MVP) will introduce us to the Lakehouse engine in Microsoft Fabric. Shabnam will also sponsor the meeting. Your humble correspondent will help you catch up on Microsoft BI latest. For more details and sign up, visit our group page.
PLEASE NOTE A CHANGE TO OUR MEETING POLICY. WE HAVE DISCONTINUED ONLINE MEETINGS VIA TEAMS. THIS GROUP MEETS ONLY IN PERSON. WE WON’T RECORD MEETINGS ANYMORE. THEREFORE, AS DURING THE PRE-PANDEMIC TIMES, PLEASE RSVP AND ATTEND IN PERSON IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS MEETING.
Presentation: Introducing Lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric
Delivery: Onsite
Date: September 11th
Time: 18:30 – 20:30 ET
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Food: Sponsor wanted
Agenda:
18:15-18:30 Registration and networking
18:30-19:00 Organizer and sponsor time (events, Power BI latest, sponsor marketing)
19:00-20:15 Main presentation
20:15-20:30 Q&A
VENUE
Improving Office
11675 Rainwater Dr
Suite #100
Alpharetta, GA 30009
Overview: Join this session to learn about Lakehouse architecture in Microsoft Fabric. Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end big data analytics platform that offers many capabilities including data integration, data engineering, data science, data lake, data warehouse, and many more, all in one unified SaaS model. In this session, you will learn how to create a lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric, load it with sample data using Notebooks/Pipelines, and work with its built-in SQL Endpoint as well as its default Power BI dataset which uses a brand-new storage mode called Direct Lake.
Speaker: Shabnam Watson is a Business Intelligence consultant, speaker, blogger, and Microsoft Data Platform MVP with 20+ years of experience developing Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence solutions. Her work focus within the Microsoft BI Stack has been on Analysis Services and Power BI and most recently on Azure Synapse Analytics. She has worked across several industries including Supply Chain, Finance, Retail, Insurance, and Health Care. Her areas of interest include Power BI, Analysis Services, Performance Tuning, PowerShell, DevOps, Azure, Natural Language Processing, and AI. She is a regular speaker and volunteer at national and local user groups and conferences. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and a master’s degree in computer science.
Sponsor: Shabnam Watson
