Norway Microsoft Fabric Explorers User Group #NOFUG

## SQL Community Engineering Call: Semantic Index

When: Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 18:00 CET
Where: Online via Microsoft Teams
Speakers: Krithika Subramanian and Pooja Kamath

Description
Join Krithika Subramanian and Pooja Kamath for the November SQL Community Engineering Call, focused on Semantic Index.
Krithika is a systems software engineer whose work includes big data analytics systems and query infrastructure. Pooja is a Senior Product Manager for Azure SQL Database at Microsoft, with experience in SQL engineering, customer support, and product development.

## Fabric Community Engineering Call: Deployment Plans and Fabric Data Agents

When: Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 18:00 CET
Where: Online via Microsoft Teams
Speakers: Yoav Dobrin and Sandeep Pawar

Description
Join Yoav Dobrin and Sandeep Pawar for the November Fabric Community Engineering Call.
Yoav brings cloud engineering and architecture experience, including work on Azure AI. Sandeep is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Fabric CAT team, where he helps customers build with Fabric, with a focus on data science and AI.
The session will cover how Deployment Plans can control what happens and when, and sequence deployments and actions consistently across Git, APIs, and deployment pipelines. It will also cover configuring Fabric data agents for conversational analytics.