Fabric Year in Review 2026 - Highlights & Outlook

🎯 The Problem: Another year of Fabric updates. GA announcements, preview features, deprecations, new workloads - it’s impossible to keep up. What actually matters for 2027 planning?

💡 This Evening: We’ll recap the biggest Fabric moments of 2026 - what shipped, what surprised us, what disappointed. Plus: what’s coming in 2027 based on the roadmap.

⏱️ Save yourself: 52 weeks of announcements, condensed into 90 minutes of curated highlights.

What you’ll learn

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• 🏭 Digital Twins – IoT modeling in Fabric, and WHY this enables operational analytics at scale
• 🧮 User-Defined Functions (UDFs) – Custom business logic everywhere, and WHY UDFs change code reusability
• 🧠 Fabric IQ – Natural language queries, and WHY AI copilots are becoming the primary interface
• 📊 2026 Highlights – The features that actually mattered, and WHY some announcements over-delivered

Year in Review Format

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🔵 What Shipped → 🟢 What Exceeded Expectations → 🟡 What Disappointed → 🔴 What Got Delayed → 🔮 2027 Outlook

Agenda

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Who should attend

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Everyone who followed Fabric in 2026, Teams planning 2027 investments, Community members celebrating the year.

Final event of 2026! Join us for the holiday edition of the Fabric Meetup Series by The Trusted Advisor.