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We’re excited to announce Global Fabric Day 2026, our second edition of this annual, free, in-person Global Fabric Community conference!

This global conference is coordinated globally and hosted locally across multiple cities around the world during the weekend of Jun 27–28, 2026.

In Romania, Timisoara is the city we're meeting in, with sessions both in person and also online, gathering the local Fabric Community for the first in-person event.

Check out all the participating cities this year: https://globalfabric.community and click on your city's user group link on the map to find the event page where you can register.

A special thank-you to Kim Manis for championing this community initiative and delivering the opening welcome message at our conference.

We’re also deeply grateful to all our community members, organizers, sponsors, and volunteers - this wouldn’t be possible without your passion, support and dedication.

#GlobalFabricDay #GFD26 #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI

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Agenda:
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📅 Saturday, June 27, 2026 📅

🕜09:30 am @ Room 1
⭐️ Global Fabric Day 2026 - KEYNOTE
🙂 Kim Manis, VP Microsoft

🕜 10:00 am @ Room 1
⭐️ ONE TRUTH, MANY EXPERIENCES
The enterprise data story has changed. We moved from a world where SQL developers built reports far away from business users, while Excel power users created their own parallel analytics, to a new environment where Fabric, Power BI, OneLake, semantic models, and Microsoft 365 bring these worlds much closer together.
This session explores what a modern data story looks like in the Fabric era. We will look at the evolution from traditional data warehouses and isolated BI reports to governed, reusable semantic models that serve Power BI, Excel, Teams, Copilot, and other Microsoft 365 experiences.
At the center of this change is the idea of democratizing data: empowering employees with simple, secure, and trusted access to the data they need to make better decisions. But democratization does not mean everyone building their own disconnected version of reality. The real goal is to bring one version of the truth closer to the business user than ever before.
In the modern Microsoft data environment, one version of the truth is no longer hidden deep inside a database, a warehouse, or a report owned by a small BI team. It becomes a governed semantic layer that business users can access through the tools they already use: Power BI, Excel, Teams, and Microsoft 365. This changes the way we build models, define metrics, manage business logic, and deliver insights.
We will discuss how Fabric changes the relationship between data engineering, BI, and business users, and why the true enterprise deliverable is no longer just a dashboard. It is a trusted analytical foundation: shared data, reusable metrics, governed models, security, lineage, and multiple ways for people to explore and act on data.
Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how Fabric and Power BI are reshaping enterprise analytics, how data teams can empower users without losing governance, and what “one version of the truth” really looks like when it is finally close enough for everyday users to consume, trust, and use.
🙂 Gašper Kamenšek

🕜 11:00 am @ Room 1
⭐️ FABRICATING FABRIC STUFF FOR HUMAN FABRICATORS: A 365 STORY (Remote Session)
All companies require some level of ETL/ELT (Extract-Transform-Load), Machine Learning or real time data ingestion processes, and over the years a lot of technologies have been used, like SQL Server Integration Services, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse Analytics (both including Spark), Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Machine Learning, Azure HDInsight, Event Hubs, IoT Hubs, Kafka, as well as storage such as Data Warehouses and Data Marts, Storage accounts and Data Lakes (and marketing alternative names such as Data Lakehouse, Lake Database, etc.), and many more.
Microsoft Fabric is the (not so) new kid on the block, integrated with your Microsoft 365 experience.
If you haven't used it before, of if you want to know more about it, in this session you'll see mostly demos about its features and how to get started.
🙂 André Melancia

🕜 12:00 pm @ Room 1
⭐️ AI MAGIC WITH FABRIC
Overview of AI capabilities in Microsoft Fabric, to make use of a full one-stop cloud platform/solution for data and intelligence.
🙂 Lau Codorean

🕜 13:00 pm
🍕 LUNCH BREAK

🕜 2:00 pm @ Room 1
⭐️ TRANSLYTICAL TASK FLOWS: UNLEASHING POWER BI'S HIDDEN UX POTENTIAL
What if Power BI reports didn't just show data, but remembered you, guided you, and rewarded your progress?
This session reveals how Translytical Task Flows are revolutionizing user experience design in Power BI, transforming passive reports into intelligent, interactive applications.
During this session, we will see how three fundamental UDF patterns unlock engagement: registration and session persistence, intelligent notification management, and time-based progress scoring.
We will explore how combining these capabilities creates user journeys that boost adoption, reduce context-switching, and transform reluctant users into active participants.
🙂 Alexandru Badiu

🕜 3:00 pm @ Room 1
⭐️ TWINS? AGAIN?
Lets talk about the new Microsoft try at digital twins. now in Fabric. This session will try to answer, what is a digital twin, what can be good for, what we have now in Fabric, and how to take full advantage of it. With demos as much as makes sense, and of course, Kinder chocolates.
🙂 Catalin Gheorghiu

Speakers:
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🙂 ALEXANDRU BADIU
⚡️ Head of Analytics
Power BI MVP (2025-2026) and Power BI Super User (2024-2025), Alexandru is the Head of the Data Analytics team at DECILIA, a French consultancy company based in Paris.
An early adopter of Power BI since 2015, Alexandru is also an Enterprise DNA expert and three-time winner of the EDNA report challenges. He is the author of the online course “Data Storytelling and User-Centered Design in Power BI” (April 2022) and served as the technical reviewer for “Power Apps Tips, Tricks and Best Practices” book written by Andrea Pinillos and Tim Weinzapfel.
🔗 https://sessionize.com/alexandru-badiu7431

🙂 ANDRÉ MELANCIA
⚡️ Human Being 🌈 🇵🇹 🇪🇺
Doing AI stuff since before it was cool!
• Developer / DBA / Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) focusing on Microsoft's Data Platform, AI, Azure, IoT and Security.
• Developing information and multimedia systems, DBA, project and IT management, for over 27 years.
• Speaker with over 350+ sessions delivered since 2015 at international conferences and community events (mostly in-person before pandemic times) on multiple technologies, Internet Governance and Human Rights, as well as volunteer and moderator.
• Organiser and founder at technical communities: IT Pro Portugal, PowerShell Portugal, Data Community Portugal, and multiple other online communities such as IPv6 Portugal, DNSSEC Portugal, etc.
• Organiser of technical events: Global AI Bootcamp Lisboa, Global Power Platform Bootcamp Lisboa, Ctrl-Alt-Shell, Ctrl-Alt-Xmas, Global Diversity CFP Day Lisboa, Power BI Roadshow Lisboa, Programar Saturday, Community Evenings, etc.
• Go to https://Andy.PT and you'll know the same as the NSA...
Note: The sessions listed below have been presented in at least one or more events. The list of events below only includes Sessionize-driven events.
🔗 https://sessionize.com/Andy

🙂 CATALIN GHEORGHIU
⚡️ Epam Systems
Catalin Gheorghiu is a solution architect from Timisoara Romania. The current interests are in the area of (I)IoT, industrial mobile and cloud solutions. In addition to addressing the software development and architecture, is a trainer and consultant. In his spare time is member of the technical community, contributing with articles and blogs (signed MrSmersh), presentations to several user groups/meetups (also is RONUA Timisoara user group leader), and lecturing all over Romania and abroad.
Since 2011, every year he was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award. Is also a current holder of the Intel Software Innovator Award. Is a current Microsoft Certified Trainer.
🔗 https://sessionize.com/MrSmersh

🙂 GAŠPER KAMENŠEK
⚡️ Excel MVP talking BI
Microsoft MVP for Excel since 2016
Lead Author @ ExcelUnplugged.com
Lead author @ Excel Olympics YouTube channel
Speaker @ 60+ conferences
Trainer with 1000+ courses
Trainer with 7000+ attendees

🙂 LAU CODOREAN
⚡️ Microsoft Technology Consultant Manager
Deployment: 1984, in Hunedoara, Romania
Version: 41.married.2sons
Optimized for & through: Physics, Informatics, Gliding, Team management, Rock music, Humor, Mountain climbing, Fishing
My ‘history’ in the work ‘tenant’:
Started: April 2007
Industries: Software development, Automotive, Security and Defense, Financial
Positions: QA tester, Software developer, Field officer, Manager, Support engineer, Consultant
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Location:

• ETA2U HQ,
  Clădirea HUB 700,
  Bd. Regele Mihai I, nr.15
  (fosta Gh. Dima nr.1),
  Timisoara, Romania