Microsoft Fabric IQ in Action + Data & AI Highlights from Build & FabCon 2026

Agenda:
Time: 5:15pm-5.30pm

Title: Modelling Patient Flow with Microsoft Fabric IQ
In this session, I'll share a real-world health use case: a specialist's leave is approved, their clinic sessions disappear, and every booked patient still has to be seen before their referral's threshold date. Today, outpatient teams reschedule these appointments by hand. I'll show how Fabric IQ connects doctors, rosters, leave, referrals and appointments in one ontology. A data agent then calculates the impact and ranks rescheduling options, such as another specialist or telehealth for a coordinator to approve.

Speaker: Pallavi (Palz) Verma / Solution Engineer at Microsoft
Pallavi (Palz) Verma is a Solution Engineer at Microsoft Australia, working in the Data & AI specialist team from Perth. Palz helps organisations modernise their data platforms with Microsoft Fabric and get real value from AI. She enjoy turning complex data problems into simple, practical solutions.

Time: 5:30pm-6.15pm
Title: Microsoft Build & FabCon 2026: Major Announcements in Data & AI

Speaker: Vinny Gill / Senior Solutions Consultant at WP
Vinny is a Senior Solutions Consultant at WP, specialising in Data Analytics, AI, Data Architecture and Data Governance. He has experience in designing and developing dashboards, data models, enterprise data architectures, ML/AI solutions and generating performance-related insights across multiple sectors, including Government, Education, Mining and Resources, Construction, Supply Chain and Emergency Services. He is a product specialist across Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Purview, Power BI and the broader Microsoft Data and AI services ecosystem.