At FabCon Europe 2025, Microsoft unveiled a set of features and enhancements designed to accelerate the journey toward data-unified, secure, and mission-critical AI. In this session, we’ll walk through the major announcements that are reshaping the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem and explore what they mean for your organisation.
Key topics include:
- Enhancements to OneLake to simplify data access and governance: mirroring of external sources (Oracle, Google BigQuery), new shortcut sources (Blob, etc.), transforming JSON/Parquet into Delta tables for immediate analytics, and improved security & catalog controls.
- New capabilities for Graph and Maps in Fabric: enabling richer relationship modeling, geospatial analysis, and visualisation to power smarter AI agents.
- Developer experience improvements: preview of the Fabric Extensibility Toolkit, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for code generation and automating authoring via tools like VS Code/GitHub, plus general availability for CI/CD pipelines and enhanced workspace tools.
- Upgraded security, governance, and performance features: private link support, outbound access protection, workspace-IP filtering, surge protection for capacities and workspaces, customer-managed keys, plus migration tools from Synapse Analytics.
We will also discuss how these changes affect your data architecture, governance posture, developer workflows, and readiness to adopt AI at scale. By the end of this session, you’ll have a clear view of what innovations are available now, what’s coming in preview, and how to prioritise adoption in your organisation.