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Data Architect · Microsoft MVP (Data Platform) · Author of "Arquitectura e Ingeniería de Datos"

Walter E. Calcagno is a data architect and Microsoft MVP in Data Platform since 2019, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He is co-founder of WeData, a consultancy focused on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, and of Unlearni, a digital education venture in analytics. He is the author of "Arquitectura e Ingeniería de Datos" (Anaya Multimedia, 2024), where he defines the frameworks he applies with clients: a seven-layer architecture model, the medallion pattern, Kimball dimensional orthodoxy, and a five-dimension AI Data Readiness assessment. He teaches at Universidad ICESI (Colombia), Platzi, and NamasData (Barcelona), and co-hosts the Spanish-language podcast "La Belleza de los Datos". He works from Santiago, Chile, and has been a volunteer firefighter since 1996.

Official Microsoft MVP profile: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-US/MVP/profile/f57b6f1b-31e0-e911-a9a4-000d3a1362e3

Aug. 15, 2026

Everyone Wants Copilot—but Is Your Data Ready: Microsoft Fabric Architecture with Walter Calcagno [MVP-MCT]

Everyone wants Copilot. Everyone wants AI agents. Everyone wants employees to ask natural-language questions and immediately receive trustworthy answers from enterprise data. But what happens when the underlying data is fragmented, business definitions conflict, governance is weak, and semantic models were never designed for AI? In this episode of M365 FM, Mirko Peters sits down with Walter E. Calcagno, Microsoft MVP in Data Platform, Microsoft Certified Trainer, data architect, author, educator...