Microsoft Fabric: Medallion Architecture for AI-Ready Insights

# Building a Unified Medallion Architecture in Microsoft Fabric: From Raw Data to AI-Ready Insights

As data platforms evolve toward unified and intelligent ecosystems, the Medallion Architecture has emerged as a foundational design pattern for building scalable, governed, and AI-ready analytics environments. Microsoft Fabric brings this vision to life by seamlessly integrating ingestion, transformation, governance, and visualization within a single, end-to-end platform.

In this session, Rajesh Vayyala will share an architecture-driven perspective on how organizations can conceptualize and operationalize a Medallion Architecture in Microsoft Fabric. We will focus on the architectural blueprint, governance principles, and organizational strategies required to establish Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers that ensure data consistency, lineage, and trust across data domains. 🏗️

Attendees will gain practical insights into designing resilient data estates, aligning data architecture with business goals, and enabling self-service analytics and AI through Fabric’s semantic layer and Power BI integration.

## Learning Objective

By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
🔹 Recognize the key principles of the Medallion Architecture and understand how it supports scalable, governed, and AI-ready data ecosystems.
🔹 Map organizational data flows into Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers within Microsoft Fabric using an architecture-driven approach rather than deep technical coding.
🔹 Apply governance best practices for metadata management, lineage, and schema evolution using Fabric’s unified data foundation (OneLake, Data Activator, and Dataflows Gen2).
🔹 Align performance and reusability goals with enterprise data strategy—ensuring consistent, high-quality data delivery across analytics and AI initiatives.
🔹 Leverage the semantic layer and Power BI integration in Fabric to enable self-service analytics and informed decision-making across business domains.

## Session Level: Intermediate