Fast-Track Your Lakehouse Build with a Metadata Framework
Details
Fast-Track Your Lakehouse Build with a Metadata Framework with Paul Andrew
What ~ Toronto Data Professionals Community (Virtual)
When ~ Wednesday, 18th March, 2026
Time ~ 12:00 PM EST
Agenda:
- 12:00 PM Networking and Introduction
- 12:05 PM Topic: Fast-Track Your Lakehouse Build with a Metadata Framework with Paul Andrew
- 01:00 PM End
Where: Online via Microsoft team
Session Details:
In today’s data-driven world, fast and efficient data platform delivery is crucial for staying ahead of the competition. Join me for a dynamic session that demonstrates how to build a metadata-driven Lakehouse with Microsoft cloud native technologies. Using your preferred compute and storage resources, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics or Microsoft Fabric.
Discover how to simplify and overcome common obstacles such as fragmented data ingestion, change data capture, and orchestration scalability using proven best practices. Learn how to leverage automation, open-standards, and seamless cloud integration to accelerate time-to-insight with minimal technical debt. This session is perfect for techies and data leaders alike, seeking to streamline their cloud data platform delivery while maintaining cost control and operational resilience. In summary, unlock the potential to build a Lakehouse in a day by using an open-source metadata driven product accelerator.
Speaker Bio:
Paul (AKA @mrpaulandrew) is the Co-Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations, a specialist data consultancy based in the UK. With nearly 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Microsoft data architectures, Paul leads a passionate team of engineers, supporting businesses small and large with scalable cloud platforms. Business value delivered through data insights. Over the years, Paul has covered the breadth and depth of design patterns and industry leading concepts, including Lambda, Kappa, Delta Lake, Data Mesh and Data Fabric.
Paul is also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, director for the Data Relay community conference, East Midlands user group leader, book author and mentor. In addition to the day job(s), Paul is a father of three, husband, foodie, runner, blood donor, geek, Lego, and Star Wars fan! Lastly, Paul confesses to enjoying a Ramstein playlist when given half a chance to do some coding for a customer project.