CXO Workshop · Microsoft Fabric + Azure AI Foundry

From governed data to business outcomes, on one platform, live.

Four tracks, each with working demos. We start with the transformation vision, prove the platform can be trusted, show agents doing real work, and finish with the insights and the roadmap that turn it into a programme.

Strategy→Trusted AI→Knowledge agents→Insights & roadmap
01 · AI strategy and business outcomes

Where the platform takes you before we open a single screen.

What you'll experience. End to end AI transformation vision with Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Foundry.

DEMO 01.1Video

The transformation vision

A short walkthrough of the target state: data unified in OneLake, agents on Azure AI Foundry, outcomes measured on the same numbers.

Talk track · Anchor on outcomes, not features. Every demo that follows is one link in this chain.

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DEMO 01.2Architecture

Fabric + AI Foundry reference architecture

The one-page architecture that every later demo lands on: sources, OneLake, semantic layer, agents, guardrails, consumption.

Talk track · Point out that governance and agents sit on the same estate. This is what makes it incremental.

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DEMO 01.3Fabric report

Business outcomes scorecard

A Fabric report tying AI initiatives to revenue, cost, risk and cycle-time metrics, so the programme is tracked like any other investment.

Talk track · CXO takeaway: AI value is reported on the same governed model as the business.

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02 · Trusted AI: data, security and governance

Before an agent touches a decision, prove the estate can be trusted.

What you'll experience. Fabric data governance and lineage, AI Foundry safety and observability, agent approval workflows, and shadow AI discovery and controls.

DEMO 02.1Video

AI business glossary

AI scans Purview metadata and drafts business terms and definitions. Data stewards review and approve them, and the approved terms are published back to Purview.

Talk track · AI writes the definitions and people approve them. Everyone ends up using the same meaning for "customer"

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DEMO 02.2Video

Data lineage accelerator

AI traces data lineage across Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, SAP and more, down to column level, with the reasoning behind each link. Approved lineage is published to Microsoft Purview.

Talk track · Pick a table, and the agent maps where every number comes from, up to the Power BI report. What used to take weeks of manual work takes minutes.

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DEMO 02.3Video

Access governance for Microsoft Fabric

Write one access policy and it's enforced across every Fabric engine: rows, columns, files and AI agents. It also finds sensitive data and audits every change.

Talk track · Same query, different users, different results. Then kill the agent and its access drops to zero.

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DEMO 02.4AI Foundry

AI Foundry safety and observability

Content safety filters, evaluation runs and end-to-end tracing on a live agent: what it was asked, what it retrieved, what it answered, and how it scored.

Talk track · Show a blocked prompt and a traced answer side by side.

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DEMO 02.5Live demo

Agent approval workflows

An agent proposes an action; a human approves or rejects in Teams before anything executes. The audit trail records who, what and when.

Talk track · This is the answer to 'what stops the agent from doing something wrong'.

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DEMO 02.6Live demo

Shadow AI discovery and controls

Discover unsanctioned AI usage across the tenant, classify the risk, and apply policy so approved tools are the easy path.

Talk track · Frame as enablement with guardrails, not a lockdown.

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03 · Knowledge agents and automation

Agents that answer with citations and then get the work done.

What you'll experience. Enterprise knowledge agents with citations, RAG architecture, multi agent orchestration and process automation scenarios.

DEMO 03.1AI Foundry

Enterprise knowledge agent with citations

Ask a policy, contract or product question in plain language. The answer arrives with the source passages cited, from documents the agent is permitted to see.

Talk track · Click a citation. The trust comes from the source, not the fluency.

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DEMO 03.2Architecture

RAG architecture walkthrough

How the answer was built: ingestion, chunking, vector and hybrid search in Azure AI Search, grounding, and the guardrails from track 02 wrapped around it.

Talk track · Two minutes, one diagram. Then back to the live agent.

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DEMO 03.3AI Foundry

Multi-agent orchestration

An orchestrator agent delegates to specialist agents (data, documents, actions) and assembles one answer, with each hand-off visible in the trace.

Talk track · Show the trace: the room should see that nothing here is a black box.

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DEMO 03.4Live demo

Process automation scenarios

An end-to-end business process run by agents with humans in the loop: intake, validation, decision, system update, notification.

Talk track · Pick the scenario closest to the audience's industry before the session.

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04 · Insights, analytics and roadmap

Ask the data, see what's coming, and leave with a plan.

What you'll experience. Natural language analytics in Fabric, executive insights and forecasting, recommendation engine, and end to end Fabric + AI Foundry architecture from data to business outcome.

DEMO 04.1Fabric report

Natural language analytics in Fabric

A Fabric data agent answers business questions in plain language from the governed semantic model, in Fabric and inside Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Talk track · Take a question from the room. Same measures as the report, so the answers cannot drift apart.

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DEMO 04.2Fabric report

Executive insights and forecasting

An executive view with automated narrative, anomaly callouts and forward forecasts driven by ML models running in Fabric.

Talk track · Lead with the one number that changed and the reason the model gives for it.

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DEMO 04.3AI Foundry

Recommendation engine

Next-best-action recommendations generated from the same estate: who to contact, what to offer, what to fix, ranked by expected impact.

Talk track · Tie one recommendation back to the outcomes scorecard from track 01.

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DEMO 04.4Architecture

End-to-end architecture: data to business outcome

The complete Fabric + AI Foundry architecture and the phased roadmap: what to stand up first, what it unlocks, and how value is measured at each phase.

Talk track · Close on the roadmap and the first 90 days.

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The thread through every demo

One governed estate. Every agent, report and forecast reads from it.

Nothing shown today is a point solution. OneLake holds the data once, the semantic layer defines each measure once, AI Foundry agents reason over the same definitions, and governance wraps the whole chain. That is what makes the roadmap incremental rather than a rebuild.

OneLakeIngest & store

Every source lands once, governed from the first byte.

FabricModel & certify

One semantic model, lineage and certified measures.

FabricAnalyse & ask

Power BI, data agents and natural-language analytics.

AI FoundryReason & act

Knowledge agents, orchestration, automation.

OutcomeDecide & measure

Forecasts, recommendations, a roadmap you can commit to.

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