Hope Foley
Microsoft Data & AI Senior Technical Specialist
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Hope Foley, a former Microsoft data platform MVP and database and BI consultant, has worked across many industries including insurance, health organization, and federal government. She has worked for Microsoft for over 8 years, most recently as a Senior Technical Specialist focusing on the education industry. Hope is based in Indianapolis and is an active member in the data and former PASS communities speaking at events and has organized the SQLSaturday event in Indianapolis for 10 years.
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Lakehouse Plumbing - Building Metadata Driven Pipelines
If you are adopting cloud data technologies, you more than likely are going to need to move data up in them clouds so an ETL/pipeline process may be in your future. Time and time again I have seen a pattern emerge that was helpful with my customers…metadata driven pipelines. In this demo heavy session, we'll go through how to set them up in Azure Data Factory/Synapse Analytics. We'll also look at how to set them up in Microsoft Fabric and compare those options. By the end of this session, we may be calling ourselves pro data lakehouse plumbers.
When Should I Dip My Toes in a Dedicated Pool?
Azure Synapse Analytics has a lot fun options for your data, one of those is dedicated SQL pools. How do you decide if it makes sense for your data though? In this session we'll go through how dedicated pools work and want I think folks need to know to before wading into the waters. By the end of this session, we'll answer several questions to help make sure they are right for your workload and you have your floaties on for the swim.
Lessons Learned Helping Customers Get Going with Microsoft Purview
Data governance is crazy hard! Data comes from all over the place and keeping tabs on what people put in these systems can take armies of people that many organizations don't have. And then in the off chance you know what and where the data lives, how do you serve it up to the masses without ending up on the news for the wrong reasons? Microsoft Purview can help with these challenges and I've been helping a lot of customers help understand and set it up in their environments. In this demo heavy session we'll go through how I help customers get up and running with Purview and some of the top lessons learned along the way.
Unraveling The Fabric - Intro to Microsoft Fabric
Has all the buzz around Microsoft Fabric got you curious? My job has been to answer questions customers have on new data technologies at Microsoft since 2015. I will go through some of the top 5 distilled questions all my customers have when a new tech comes out for any technology against Microsoft Fabric. We'll also see a demo of how you get started and begin to setup your users and see if this is the Fabric of our lives.
Fabric Real Real Time Data in Education
In my role, I have the privilege of helping education customers navigate their diverse data challenges. In this session we'll have a little fun with a real-world use case from one of my customers. We'll delve into Fabric Real-Time Intelligence and how we can build a comprehensive solution to deal with "real real time data" from ingestion to visualization. Most importantly though, we'll enable real time action on our data using Data Activator. Join me for this fun, demo-heavy session and see how we can use Fabric to solve some real world, "real real time" challenges in education.
Hope Foley
Microsoft Data & AI Senior Technical Specialist
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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