Unified, Intelligent, and Ready for Lift-Off: FABCON 2025 Recap

The Loopers are back from Las Vegas - recharged, inspired, and ready to help more organizations harness the power of Microsoft Fabric. The second annual Fabric Community Conference (FABCON 2025) brought together more than 6,000 attendees for six days of hands-on workshops, live demos, and deep-dive sessions focused on data, AI, and the future of business transformation.  

As an event sponsor, Interloop had a front-row seat to all the action. Here are our biggest takeaways. 

FABCON 2025 Keynote Highlights 

OneLake Security: Define Once, Enforce Everywhere 

Managing data security across multiple tools and engines is notoriously complex - and risky. Microsoft’s OneLake security model simplifies governance by allowing organizations to define access permissions once and have them enforced consistently across all Fabric workloads.  

With row-and column-level access controls, security roles, and fine-grained permissions, data owners can securely share what matters and keep everything else protected - whether it’s being queried in SQL or visualized in Power BI. 

Copilot Across All Fabric SKUs 

AI is no longer an add-on - it’s embedded in the foundation. With Copilot now available across all Fabric SKUs, users at every tier can take advantage of natural language capabilities to explore data, create visualizations, automate workflows, and generate insights.  

Fabric data agents take it a step further, understanding your organization’s unique data model to accelerate time to insight. The new Copilot capacity makes it easier to enable features and manage users, lowering the barrier to entry for teams of any size. 

Synapse Migration Made Simple 

For organizations currently using Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft announced a built-in migration experience (in preview) that makes the move to Fabric smoother than ever. This tool automatically converts schemas, transfers data and metadata, and offers AI-powered guidance throughout the process - helping organizations unlock the benefits of Fabric without disruption or heavy lifting. 

Loopers' Favorite Features 

From preview announcements to developer-first tools, the conference delivered. Here’s what stood out most to our team: 

Meaghan: “Direct Lake semantic models in Power BI Desktop are game-changing for analysts. By accessing OneLake data directly, you get high-performance query processing without data duplication or long refresh cycles—no complex setup required.” 

Jordan: “The Fabric Command Line Interface (CLI) gives developers a fast, flexible, scriptable way to work with Fabric from the terminal. It’s built on Fabric APIs, supports automation, and feels like navigating a file system—only smarter.” 

Tony: “AI functions in preview make it easy to integrate GenAI into data workflows. With just one line of code, you can summarize, classify, and generate text using Spark or pandas DataFrames—no complex setup or clunky syntax needed.” 

Final Thought: Data Is the Fuel 

Microsoft Fabric is driving the next wave of data and AI transformation. But as always, your insights are only as strong as the data beneath them. Garbage in still equals garbage out. 

Siloed, outdated, and poor-quality data can undermine even the most advanced platforms. 

That’s where Interloop comes in. 

As a Microsoft-certified partner, Interloop helps organizations build a unified data foundation—ensuring your Fabric environment and AI solutions are powered by clean, organized, high-quality data. 

Get Looped In 

Want to accelerate your data transformation with Fabric and AI? Let’s build something powerful - together. Get looped in today.