Lauren Baird
Snr Cloud Solution Architect Microsoft
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Lauren Baird is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, specialising in data, AI and sustainable technology. She works with organisations across Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Copilot and AI agents, with a passion for cutting through the hype and turning emerging technology into practical, responsible solutions that deliver real-world value.
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Data Agent Fight Club
Build it. Break it. Make it trustworthy.
The first rule of Data Agent Fight Club? You DO talk about Data Agents, especially when they’re wrong.
Building a Data Agent that can answer questions is easy. Building one that can answer the right questions, against the right data, with answers you can trust is where the fight begins.
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll turn the usual AI demo on its head. Instead of showing only what works, we’ll deliberately build, break, challenge and defend our Data Agents.
Across a series of “fights”, attendees will tackle the problems that emerge when Data Agents meet real-world enterprise data: ambiguous business language, competing definitions, complex relationships, different data grains, misleading but plausible answers, generated versus deterministic queries, permissions, security and changing models.
The objective isn’t to build an agent that answers everything. It’s to build an agent that knows what it knows, knows when it needs clarification, uses the right source and can produce answers you’re prepared to defend.
Before the Report Goes Red: Proactive Monitoring for Microsoft Fabric
It's Monday morning. The executive dashboard is slow, last night's pipeline failed without anyone noticing, and the capacity is being throttled. By the time someone raises a ticket, the business has already lost trust in the data.
This session shows how to catch these problems before your users do. We'll look at Fabric's new observability features:
Monitor hub: One place to see job runs, alerts, capacity and agent activity across your Fabric estate.
Workspace monitoring: Collects logs and metrics you can query, alert on, and pull together from many workspaces into one view.
Operations agent: When a pipeline fails, it investigates the run and suggests likely root causes.
We'll also look at how capacity smoothing and throttling actually work, and why repeated heavy workloads, not one-off spikes, are usually behind a slow report. Finally, we'll cover what's coming next: capacity health in the Monitor hub, and monitoring for Fabric data agents.
You'll leave with a practical blueprint for proactive monitoring, including the design decisions to make on day one, before they become expensive to change.
What you'll learn
How the Monitor hub, workspace monitoring and Operations agent fit together
How to set up central monitoring across multiple workspaces, and the limits to plan around
How to read capacity signals and spot throttling risk early
How to turn telemetry into alerts so the right people know before the report goes red
Which features are available now, in preview, or coming soon
Lauren Baird
Snr Cloud Solution Architect Microsoft
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