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Fri 4 December 2026SnowWorld Antwerpen

Meet the ACA data team at Fabric Winterfest

Fabric Winterfest is the largest Microsoft Fabric community event in Belgium. Our data team is there all day on 4 December. Come by and talk Fabric with us.

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🎁 Exclusive for invitees

A small winter surprise

Got this invite by mail? Then we have a little something for you at our spot on 4 December. What is inside stays a secret until then.

Your Winterfest passShow the invite email on your phone. That's all.
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Something to keep you warm
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Something to keep you going
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Something for later
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Something for data people
About the event

A full day of Microsoft Fabric

Fabric Winterfest brings the Belgian Fabric community together for training, technical sessions and customer cases. There are tracks for beginners and for experienced users.

ACA Group is a partner of the event. Our data team is there all day.

1 dayFrom 08:00 to 18:00
3 tracksFor beginners and experts
17 partnersACA Group is one of them
17:00Networking drinks
Programme

Three tracks, full timetable

Pick the track that fits your level. You can switch during the day.

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Training Bar

A full day of hands on training for newcomers. Covers storage, ingestion, transformations, Power BI and Direct Lake. Bring your laptop.

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Blue Slope

Customer stories from Belgian companies at a comfortable pace.

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Black Slope

Advanced technical sessions for experienced Fabric users.

Time
🎿 Training BarHands on, bring a laptop
🔵 Blue SlopeCustomer stories
⚫ Black SlopeAdvanced sessions
08:00
☕ Doors open, breakfast and coffee
08:45
09:00
10:15
11:15
13:00
14:00
15:15
16:15
12:00
🍲 Lunch
17:00
🥂 Networking drinks
18:00
End of the day
Welcome & first runTrack host
Hands on trainingStep by step through Fabric
Hands on trainingStep by step through Fabric
Closing sessionTrack host
Opening & welcomeStart of the track
Customer sessionsBelgian companies share how they use Fabric
Customer sessionsBelgian companies share how they use Fabric
Opening & welcomeStart of the track
Exploring permission boundaries in Microsoft FabricBenni De Jagere
From use case to custom skill: craft AI that fits your Fabric projectMarie Vandecavey
When translytical task flow meets Fabric data functionNico Jacobs
Chat with your data: choosing the right conversational BI tool in the Microsoft stackValentin Janclaes
Fabric capacities: the administrator's guideSam Debruyn
Forget the enterprise: a pragmatic Fabric architecture for SMEsBas Land
Securing Microsoft Fabric with Private LinkOlivier Van Steenlandt

Programme as published by the organisers. More session titles follow, our talk included. Latest version on fabricwinterfest.be →

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ACA on stage

Fabric Winterfest · 4 December 2026
Our talk
Coming soon

Session title follows soon

Our data team gives a talk at Winterfest. We will add the title, speaker and time slot here once they are confirmed.

Check back on this page for updates.

Why come by

Four reasons to visit us

01

Ask your Fabric questions

About your data platform, a planned migration or something you are stuck on.

02

Attend our talk

We share what we learned working with Fabric. Details follow on this page.

03

Hear about real projects

We implemented Fabric for customers in energy, mobility and the public sector. Ask us what worked.

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A winter surprise

Got the invite by mail? Show it at our spot and we have a little something for you.

Who is there

Meet Stijn and Ruben

Stijn and Ruben from our data team are at Winterfest all day.

❄ ACA Winterfest crew
Stijn Vandereyken

Stijn Vandereyken

Data Team Lead & Data Expert
❄ ACA Winterfest crew
Ruben Claus

Ruben Claus

Data Analyst

Our data team

Data strategy, architecture, engineering, analytics and managed services.

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New in Fabric

Fresh from FabCon Europe

Microsoft announced these at FabCon Europe in Barcelona on 29 September. Want to know what they mean for your setup? Ask us at Winterfest.

Generally available🧠
Fabric IQ

Fabric IQ in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Ask business questions in Copilot Chat and get answers based on your existing Power BI reports and semantic models.

Read on the Fabric blog →
Preview🤖
Data engineering

Project Osmos: agentic data engineering

Describe the result you want. The agent plans the work, writes and runs Spark code and checks the results.

Read on the Fabric blog →
Generally available🔄
Data Factory

Copy job and mirroring upgrades

Change data capture and SCD Type 2 in Copy job, plus mirroring for Google BigQuery and SharePoint lists.

Read on the Fabric blog →
Practical info

Where and when

Date
Friday 4 December 2026
Venue
SnowWorld Antwerpen
Moerelei 123, 2610 Antwerpen
By car
10 minutes from Antwerpen Zuid, free parking on site
By bus
Bus 50 stops nearby

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  • 08:00Doors open, breakfast and coffee
  • 09:00First sessions start
  • 12:00Lunch
  • 17:00Networking drinks
  • 18:00End of the day

Full programme and info on the Fabric Winterfest website.

Visit fabricwinterfest.be →
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