2026-08-15

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, and co-founder of Data Consultants, to explore why successful enterprise AI begins long before the first prompt is written.Walter brings a perspective shaped by more than a decade working with data. His journey started in accounting, where managing increasingly complex financial information in spreadsheets pushed him toward SQL, databases, Power BI, big data, Spark, and eventually artificial int

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