✨ FabCon + SQLCon 2026: Partner Know Before You Go Now Live!
Heading to FabCon + SQLCon 2026 in Atlanta? We’ve put together your full Partner Know Before You Go Guide — everything you need to navigate the week, maximize value, and make the most of all partner‑exclusive opportunities. 🚀 Here’s what you’ll find inside: 📅 Partner Day (Mar 17) — A full day of partner‑only learning, strategy, and networking. - SOLD OUT! 🍻 Partner Happy Hour — Connect with other partners and the Microsoft team. 🎤 AMA with the Fabric Partner Success Team — Bring your biggest questions around Data & AI priorities, partner opportunities, funding, enablement, and certifications. 🤝 1:1 Meetings — Book time with Fabric LT or the Partner Success Team to accelerate your strategy and unlock customer wins. 🎤 Partner Elevator Pitch Search — Submit your 2‑min pitch to be featured live on stage! 🔥 Partner Social Media Sprint — Daily LinkedIn challenge + chances to win Fabric SWAG. 🎓 Certification Spotlight — Get recognized during Arun’s keynote for hitting 100+ Fabric certs. 🎥 Testimonial Videos — Share your Fabric customer stories with global visibility. 📱 Whova Event App — Build your schedule, access slides, network, and join the partner community inside the app. 📘The full KBYG guide is attached below.Join the Fabric Partner Community for this Week's Fabric Engineering Connection Calls
🚀 Excited to share this week’s Fabric Engineering Connection lineup for our Microsoft Fabric partner community! We’ll be joined by Johannes Kebeck, Principal PM Manager, to dive into Fabric Maps — and how partners can bring location intelligence and rich geospatial experiences into their Fabric solutions. 📍 Fabric Engineering Connection – This Week 🌎 Americas & EMEA 📅 Wednesday, February 11 ⏰ 8:00–9:00 am PT 🌏 APAC 📅 Thursday, February 12 ⏰ 1:00–2:00 am UTC (Wednesday, February 11, 5:00–6:00 pm PT) These weekly calls are a chance for partners to: ✅ Hear directly from Fabric engineering ✅ See what’s new and what’s coming ✅ Ask questions and share feedback To participate in these calls, you must be a member of the Fabric Partner Community Teams channel. 👉 Join here: https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity🚀 FabCon + SQLCon Partner Social Sprint
A 4‑Day LinkedIn Challenge for Partners Attending FabCon + SQLCon in Atlanta If you’re joining us in Atlanta this March for FabCon + SQLCon 2026, we’ve got a new way for you to amplify your impact: the Partner Social Sprint — a daily LinkedIn challenge designed to spotlight partner voices, share real‑world insights, and have some fun along the way. Whether you’re presenting, staffing a booth, or attending sessions, this is your chance to tell your story and connect with the global Microsoft Fabric & SQL community. 🔥 What Is the Partner Social Sprint? A 4‑day LinkedIn posting challenge running during FabCon + SQLCon 2026 in Atlanta. Each day has a theme, and every post earns you entries to win exclusive Fabric SWAG, including the fan‑favorite Fabric Kicks. 🗓 Daily Themes (Conference Week) Tuesday, March 17 – Day 0 (Travel / Partner Day) Why I’m going / why I’m here Wednesday, March 18 – Day 1 One big learning Thursday, March 19 – Day 2 Build your practice Friday, March 20 – Day 3 Customer impact ✅ How It Works If you’re a partner attending FabCon + SQLCon in Atlanta: Post once per day on LinkedIn during the event, following the daily theme. Use the hashtags: #FabConSQLCon2026 #PartnerSocialSprintSweepstakes #MicrosoftPartner Tag the FabCon & SQLCon – The Microsoft Fabric & SQL Community Conferences LinkedIn page. Submit all your LinkedIn post URLs via the entry form. 👉 Each post = 1 entry, and if you post all 4 days, you’ll get 1 bonus entry. 🏆 What You Can Win Fabric SWAG Fabric Kicks Recognition in the Fabric Partner Community and across our channels 🌐 Who Should Join? Microsoft partners attending FabCon + SQLCon in Atlanta Partner sellers, architects, engineers, and community champions who want to: Share key learnings in real time Highlight their Fabric & SQL practices Showcase customer success and impact 👉 Ready to Sprint With Us? Get all the details and submit your posts here: https://aka.ms/PartnerSocialSprint Let’s light up LinkedIn with the stories, insights, and innovation coming out of FabCon + SQLCon. We can’t wait to see your posts from Atlanta!Quarterly AMA with Amir Netz – Microsoft Fabric Partners, Don’t Miss Out!
🌟 Microsoft Partners—don’t miss your chance to connect directly with Amir Netz, CTO & Technical Fellow, at our exclusive Quarterly AMA (Ask Me Anything) session! The Fabric Engineering Connection is your gateway to insider insights, direct access to product leaders, and the latest updates on Microsoft Fabric. As a valued partner, you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions, share feedback, and learn about new features and strategies that can help you drive success for your clients and your business. This session is designed to empower partners with actionable knowledge and networking opportunities. 📅 Save the date: Americas & EMEA: Wednesday, January 21, 8–9 am PT APAC: Thursday, January 22, 1–2 am UTC / Americas & EMEA: Wednesday, January 21, 5–6 pm PT 🔗 Not a member yet? Join the Fabric Partner Community to participate: https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity. Let’s build the future of data together!
In a Day (xIAD) Partner Events Program - Train the Trainer Events (DIAD/FAIAD/RTIAD/CDIAD)
We invite you to attend an upcoming Train the Trainer session for Microsoft Partners to learn more about the Microsoft In a Day (XIAD) Partner Events Programand how to lead workshops that empower customers to use and adopt Microsoft products. Our Train the Trainer events are designed to provide you with the knowledge and tools necessary to deliver successful Microsoft In a Day (XIAD) sessions. *Please note, participation is restricted to individuals representing a Microsoft Partner organization. You must register using your corporate email address that is associated with your Partner ID. Personal emails will not be approved. ✨ Why Attend? Expert Guidance: Learn from experienced trainers and get your questions answered. Comprehensive Resources: Access all the content and support you need to succeed. 📅 Upcoming Events: Dashboard in a Day This is a one-day, hands-on workshop for business analysts, covering the breadth of Power BI capabilities. February 19th, 2026 - Americas - CST time zone. Sign up at https://aka.ms/TTTSignUp Fabric Analyst in a Day This is an intermediate-level training designed for Power BI Data Analysts who have at least one year of experience on Power BI but are new to Microsoft Fabric. February 19th, 2026 - Americas - CST time zone. Sign up at https://aka.ms/TTTSignUp Real-Time Intelligence in a Day This is an intermediate-level training designed for Power BI developers looking to extract insights and visualize streaming and time sensitive data. February 19th, 2026 - Americas - CST time zone. Sign up at https://aka.ms/TTTSignUp Chat with your Data in a Day This is an intermediate-level training designed for Power BI data analysts and developers to help get their models chat-ready and unlock instant insights using natural language. Chat with Your Data in a Day - Americas - Jan 23 Chat with Your Data in a Day - APAC - Jan 28 Chat with Your Data in a Day - EMEA - Feb 17 Partner with us! Are you a Microsoft Partner interested in the opportunity to join the program and deliver Microsoft In a Day (XIAD) events? 🔍 Learn more about the program and review partner eligibility criteria: https://aka.ms/xiadpartneropportunity. 📧 Contact the XIAD Program team: xiadevents@microsoft.com 📤 Submit requests to deliver events: https://aka.ms/xIAD/PartnerEventsJoin the Fabric Partner Community for this Week's Fabric Engineering Connection calls!
Are you a Microsoft partner that is interested in data and analytics? After a two-week break for Ignite and Thanksgiving, be sure to join us for this week's Fabric Engineering Connection calls! Yitzhak Kesselman will be presenting on the brand-new Microsoft Fabric IQ, just announced during Ignite, followed by Shuaijun Ye with Environment Best Practices. The Americas & EMEA call will take place Wednesday, December 3, from 8-9 am PT and the APAC call is Thursday, December 4, from 1-2 am UTC/Wednesday, December 3, from 5-6 pm PT. This is your opportunity to learn more, ask questions, and provide feedback. To participate in the call, you must be a member of the Fabric Partner Community Teams channel. To join, complete the participation form at https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity. We look forward to seeing you at the calls!Partner Know Before You Go to the 2025 European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference!
We can’t wait to see you at FabCon Europe 2025, taking place 15-18 September at the Austria Center Vienna in Vienna, Austria! With more than 130 expert-led sessions over three days, plus workshops 15 September, this is the largest Microsoft tech conference in Europe! Our team has been hard at work planning several partner-exclusive activities throughout the event, to help ensure the best experience possible for you, our valued partners. This Know Before You Go guide will provide all the details on how to participate in: Partner Day Partner Happy Hour 1:1 Meetings Partner Booth at Ask the Experts Partner AMA Partner Photo Scavenger Hunt Cvent Event App If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to our team at mailto:FabricPartnersTeam@microsoft.com or through the Cvent app. See you very soon! Complete details and entry form are available at https://aka.ms/FabConEuropePartnerPhotoHunt.
Teams Media Meeting bot POC
I'm trying to build a research poc to test MS solutions ability to carry out user sentiment analysis from live video streams - i.e. from Teams. Full disclosure - I'm very willing and have spent a lot of time on desktop research etc - but im not a developer, so have limited skills or experience here. So any advice very much welcomed! I have seen that there is an MS solution for meeting bots (application-hosted, or service-hosted) that might be able to help me gather the live video from Teams. Does anyone have any experience of these meeting bots - I would like to know more and if suitable, stand one up to assess it. Happy of course to provide more info if that would help, let me know.Join the Fabric Partner Community for an AMA with Arun Ulag!
🚨 Mark your calendars now! 📅 New this year in the Fabric Partner Community, an AMA (Ask Me Anything) call series with members of the Fabric Leadership Team! 🥳 Arun Ulag, CVP of Azure Data, will kick of this new call series Thursday, September 25, from 8-9 am PT. You will not want to miss this opportunity to ask all your questions, including those related to the announcements made at #FabConEurope, provide your feedback, and more! 👏 To join theses calls, you must be a member of the Fabric Partner Community Teams Channel. Not yet part of the Fabric Partner Community? Join now by submitting the form at https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity.Join us for the FY25 recap and final Fabric Engineering Connection call of the fiscal year
Are you a Microsoft partner that is interested in data and analytics? Be sure to join us for the final Fabric Engineering Connection call of this fiscal year, taking place this Wednesday, June 25, from 8-9 am PDT and Thursday, June 26, from 1-2 am UTC/Wednesday, June 25, from 5-6 pm PDT. Please plan to join us as Tamer Farag, Global Partner Ecosystem Lead – Microsoft Fabric, recaps the partner news and accomplishments from FY25, along with providing some FY26 updates. Topics covered will include: 🙌 Year in review 🙌 Results of the year-end Fabric Partner Community Satisfaction Survey 🙌 Partner of the Year Awards 🙌 Microsoft Start 🙌 European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 🙌 Upcoming Partner Project Ready Workshops 🙌 Updates on partner incentives/programs 🙌 And more The Americas/EMEA Fabric Engineering Connection call will take place Wednesday, June 25, from 8-9 am PDT. The APAC Fabric Engineering Connection call will take place Thursday, June 26, from 1-2 am UTC/Wednesday, June 25, from 5-6 pm PDT. There will be no Fabric Engineering Connection calls during the months of July and August. Our FY26 Kick Off call will take place Wednesday, September 3/Thursday, September 4. To join the call, you must be a member of the Fabric Partner Community Teams channel. To join, complete the participation form at https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity. We look forward to seeing you in a couple days!
