FabCon Europe / SQLCon Barcelona 2026 · September 28 – October 1, 2026
FabCon Barcelona 2026 | Data, Analytics & AI Briefing
A curated briefing for Zurich Insurance Group and Farmers Insurance
Igor Dos Santos | Cloud and AI Solutions Engineer, Microsoft
Executive overview
Announcements at the event center on one idea: AI experiences are only as useful as the governed data, shared business definitions and operational controls underneath them. Six themes recur across the sources, and the catalog below also lists every section of the September 2026 Microsoft Fabric feature summary.
Trusted context for Copilot and agents
Fabric IQ brings governed Power BI semantic models and business definitions into Microsoft Copilot, data agents and ontologies, so answers reuse measures the organization already certifies.
From reports to applications
Agentic app creation in Power BI Desktop and Fabric Apps aim to turn insight into workflows with write-back on governed data. Several parts are still preview or coming soon.
One copy, many engines
OneLake shortcuts, mirroring, table APIs and Iceberg-based federation target cross-platform access with less duplication, while OneLake security continues to enforce access.
Agents for builders and operators
A data engineering agent, Copilot in Real-Time Intelligence, operations agents and database agents extend AI to people who build and run the platform, with human oversight stated by Microsoft.
Governance that travels with the data
Policies, DLP restrict access, outbound access protection and Copilot controls extend administrative guardrails to new AI experiences.
Visibility and cost controls
Observability (workspace monitoring, refreshed Monitor hub), capacity overage, surge protection and upcoming on-demand billing address reliability and spend. Pricing is not stated in the sources.
How to read availability
Status is shown exactly as sources word it, cross-checked against Microsoft Learn on the research cutoff date. “Announced”, “coming soon” and “available now” are never treated as equivalent.
Priorities and complete catalog
Every announcement is a card. Priority items come first. Search, filter and sort, then tick Select for discussion on what is relevant, and use the floating button to keep only those items. Each “Potential relevance” statement is a suggested use case, not a statement about either organization’s environment, and no savings, ROI, performance or compliance outcome is claimed.
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Where the announcements may matter
Catalog items mapped to seven areas of interest. Select an item to jump to its card in the catalog.
Sources and methodology
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Method
Sources reviewed
Coverage by workload
Counts are computed from the dataset. A category with few items is not evidence that nothing else was announced.