Fabric Analyst in a Day
A free, full-day workshop organised in collaboration with Microsoft, for data and analytics professionals who want to go beyond the theory and get their hands on the platform. By the end of the day you will have navigated Fabric's core workloads — from Lakehouse and data pipelines to Power BI reporting — in a guided, practical setting.
Level 200 and up.
Barcelona · 30 Sep 2026
Spark jobs rarely fail loudly; they slow down, stall or behave unpredictably. The session approaches Spark performance issues like a detective, using the Spark UI and Spark History Server as the primary investigative tools — following the clues through long-running stages, uneven task distributions, high shuffle wait times and executor imbalances.
Mechelen · 10 Dec 2026
CloudBrew is the two-day Azure conference organised by AZUG, the Belgian Microsoft Azure user group, held in a former brewery in Mechelen.
Mechelen · 14 Oct 2026
What if your source is not supported by built-in mirroring? Building ingestion pipelines that write directly to OneLake, understanding the storage contract, and the design decisions that make Open Mirroring scale. Level 300.
Mechelen · 14 Oct 2026
An introduction to SQL window functions such as ROW_NUMBER, RANK and LAG/LEAD, and how they simplify queries that would otherwise need self-joins or subqueries. Level 200.
Deploying Fabric items across environments needs more than the built-in deployment pipelines. This session covers Git integration, the Fabric REST APIs and the fabric-cicd Python library, with YAML-based Azure DevOps pipelines that deploy semantic models, notebooks, dataflows and reports from source control into development, test and production — and validate models with Tabular Editor on the way.
Fabric Pipelines, the low-code ELT solution in Microsoft Fabric, close sibling of Azure Data Factory and Synapse Pipelines. Core concepts — activities, connections, parameters and variables — how Fabric Pipelines differ from ADF and Synapse Pipelines, and tips & tricks to get started.
A working session on window functions in T-SQL, the tool for gaps-and-islands problems that would otherwise turn into procedural code. Koen has presented at dataMinds Connect thirteen times and writes on the Microsoft data platform at sqlkover.com.
The Belgian Microsoft data community runs on volunteers.
We back the events our own engineers learn from.
The largest Microsoft Fabric community event in Belgium, at an indoor ski hall in Antwerp.
Three days on the Microsoft data and AI platform, at Lamot in Mechelen.
Belgium's broad developer and data conference, in Antwerp.
Two days of Azure by AZUG, the Belgian Azure user group, in a former brewery in Mechelen.
Our speakers also run internal sessions, roundtables and inspiration sessions for client teams.