Location Intelligence with Maps and GeoAnalytics in Microsoft Fabric

​📅 Tuesday, June 23, 2026 ⏰ 7:30 – 9:00 AM PT | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET | 2:30 – 4:00 PM GMT | 3:30 – 5:00 PM WAT | 8:00 – 9:30 PM IST 📺 Free YouTube Livestream with Full Replay

​Speaker: Philippa Burgess, MA, MS, MSL

​Moderators: Lehlohonolo Mofula, Thummalacherla Krishnakanth, and Nikitha S

​This is Session 1 of the Microsoft Fabric Location Intelligence & Security User Group Data Days series, running June through August 2026. 🎙️

​Location is one of the most powerful signals in your data. This session introduces Microsoft Fabric users to location intelligence, interactive mapping, and geospatial analytics — and shows how ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Fabric brings these capabilities directly into your Fabric workspace.

​Whether you are a data engineer, analytics engineer, or Fabric practitioner who has never worked with geospatial data, this session gives you a practical foundation for thinking about where as a first-class dimension of your analytics.

​📍 WHAT THIS SESSION COVERS

​Most data platforms treat location as an attribute. This session treats it as a signal — one that changes what you see, what you decide, and what you miss when it is absent.

​📋 TOPICS

​🟣 Why Location Intelligence Belongs in Microsoft Fabric • What location intelligence is and why it matters for data professionals • How spatial patterns reveal what tables and charts cannot • Where location adds value across industries: risk, logistics, public sector, operations, and AI

​🟢 ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Fabric • What ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Fabric is and how it works as a Fabric workload • How to add the workload to your tenant from the Workload Hub • Connecting your lakehouse data to ArcGIS Maps for Fabric • Adding content from ArcGIS Online to enrich your Fabric data • Smart mapping suggestions and how they guide your visualization choices • Mapping styles available in ArcGIS Maps for Fabric: heat maps, aggregated points, comparison maps, and more • Saving, sharing, and working with Web Map files in your Fabric workspace

​🟠 GeoAnalytics in Microsoft Fabric • How geospatial data flows through OneLake • Visualizing OneLake data alongside business, demographic, lifestyle, and environmental data • Identifying spatial patterns, relationships, and trends that are invisible in standard reports • Integrating data from ArcGIS and open-source geospatial datasets • Practical examples: mapping business data, operational signals, and location-aware AI inputs

​🔵 Live Demonstration • End-to-end walkthrough: from lakehouse data to a published interactive map inside Microsoft Fabric • Creating a heat map using demo data in ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Fabric • Aggregating point data to visualize dense datasets • Connecting ArcGIS Online content to a Fabric workspace

​👥 WHO SHOULD ATTEND

​This session is for Microsoft Fabric users who want to add location intelligence to their analytics toolkit, including:

​✅ Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers ✅ Fabric Practitioners and Architects ✅ Power BI Developers expanding into spatial analytics ✅ GIS Analysts moving into the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem ✅ Data professionals curious about geospatial data and mapping in Fabric

​No prior GIS experience required. 🛠️

​📺 FORMAT

​Interactive YouTube livestream with full replay available after the event. Bring your questions — this session includes live Q&A.

​ℹ️ ABOUT THIS SERIES

​This session is part of the Microsoft Fabric Location Intelligence & Security User Group Data Days series, a set of focused 90-minute sessions running June through August 2026 on YouTube.

​Series arc: 📍

​June 23: Location Intelligence with Maps and GeoAnalytics in Microsoft Fabric 🌿

​June 27: Global Fabric Day 2026: Security, Location & Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric 🌐

​June 30: Get to Know Esri: From Living Atlas to Spatial Analysis for Fabric Users 🌍

​July 7: Data and AI Security and Governance in Microsoft Fabric 🧠

​July 21: Fabric IQ for Data Professionals 📊

​July 25: Win in the Seams: Stitching Together Data and Security with Microsoft Fabric, KQL, and Data Logs 🪡

​July 28: KQL for Data and Security Professionals ⚡