Webinar Recap: Turning FabCon Highlights into Practical Advice

Yesterday, three Fabric power users – Scout Stalcup, Tate Swanson, and Lauren Plaine – came together to break down the biggest takeaways from Microsoft’s Fabric Community Conference. Moderated by Christine Hla, this panel dug into not just what was announced, but what it all means for those designing, building, and implementing Fabric in the real world.

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3:10 – Must-have Fabric features

5:40 – Trends in Data & AI

9:12 – Fabric features we would like to see

12:08 – Features that will impact daily work

14:30 – Attending FabCon as one implementation team

17:00 – Conference survival tips

20:35+ – Audience Q&A: Getting started, use cases, implementation, cost & more

The panel includes Scout Stalcup, Tate Swanson, and Lauren Plaine. Christine Hla moderated this webinar. 

Highlights included:

• Agentic AI and expanded Copilot capabilities, including Copilot availability across all SKUs and new integrations with Copilot Studio and Fabric data agents.
• New security features with Microsoft Purview integration, including row-level security within Fabric.
• Serverless Python execution via new User Data Functions, enabling REST API calls and custom endpoint access from within Fabric.
• A shift from analytics to a true end-to-end data platform, supporting both transactional and analytical workloads and accelerating AI-readiness across organizations.

Attending as a team made it easy to compare notes in real time and return with practical strategies. Top tip? Bring your own giant coffee mug. 

What surprised us most

Beyond the headline features, the panel noticed several subtle shifts that affect day-to-day developer productivity. From notebook simplification to Command Line Interface (CLI) and Terraform support, Microsoft is making CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code easier to implement in Fabric. These quality-of-life improvements reflect a broader effort to mature Fabric for enterprise development.

How we’re helping clients adopt Fabric

At Trility, we’re seeing firsthand how Microsoft Fabric is helping organizations simplify data management and prepare for AI adoption. In one project, we helped a client move from siloed reports to a unified data model, establishing a consistent foundation for Copilot and reporting reuse. Another engagement focused on implementing Fabric across the enterprise, with secure, near real-time reporting and governance practices built in. And for clients starting from scratch, we’ve designed foundational Fabric platforms that make future modernization easier to scale.

Read Scout Stalcup’s Ah-ha Moments from Microsoft Fabric Implementations.

Ready to explore Fabric for your business?

Whether you’re preparing your data for AI or seeking to simplify your reporting infrastructure, Fabric offers a powerful way to modernize your data environment.

To help you evaluate its fit, Trility offers a two-week Proof of Concept that gives your team hands-on experience with Fabric’s unified platform – no guesswork, just practical insight into performance, usability, and ROI.