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Location Intelligence with Maps and GeoAnalytics in Microsoft Fabric — Post-Event Resources
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Session 1 of the Microsoft Fabric Location Intelligence & Security User Group Data Days series
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Session Overview
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Host / SpeakerPhilippa Burgess, MA, MS, MSL
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ModeratorsLehlohonolo Mofula, Thummalacherla Krishnakanth, and Nikitha S
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DateTuesday, June 23, 2026
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Time7:30–9:00 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
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FormatFree YouTube Livestream, full replay available
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Event / Registration Pagehttps://luma.com/jnh0ie5v
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YouTube Replayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcV3cR9PFlM
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Fabric Portal (sign in)https://app.fabric.microsoft.com
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What This Session Covered
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Location is one of the most powerful signals in your data. This session introduced Microsoft Fabric users to location intelligence, interactive mapping, and geospatial analytics, and showed how ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Fabric brings these capabilities directly into a Fabric workspace. Most data platforms treat location as an attribute; this session treated it as a signal, one that changes what you see, what you decide, and what you miss when it's absent.
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Topics Covered
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• Why Location Intelligence Belongs in Microsoft Fabric: what location intelligence is, how spatial patterns reveal what tables and charts cannot, and where location adds value across cybersecurity, risk and insurance, public sector, logistics and supply, location-aware AI, and operations
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• ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Fabric: what it is as a Fabric workload, adding it from the Workload Hub, connecting lakehouse data, enriching with ArcGIS Online content, smart mapping suggestions, and available styles (heat maps, aggregated points, comparison maps)
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• GeoAnalytics in Microsoft Fabric: how geospatial data flows through OneLake, visualizing OneLake data alongside business, demographic, lifestyle, and environmental data, 180+ Spark-native spatial functions, and integrating ArcGIS and open-source geospatial datasets (GeoPandas, GeoParquet, Apache Sedona)
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• Live demonstration: an end-to-end walkthrough from lakehouse data to a published interactive map, creating a heat map with demo data, aggregating point data, and connecting ArcGIS Online content to a Fabric workspace
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• Who should attend and getting started: built for data engineers, analytics engineers, Fabric practitioners, Power BI developers, and GIS analysts moving into Fabric — no prior GIS experience required, and the Foundations, Certifications, and Spatial Mastery tracks for going deeper
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Data Days Series Arc
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• Jun 23 — Location Intelligence with Maps and GeoAnalytics in Microsoft Fabric (Today)
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• Jun 27 — Global Fabric Day 2026: Security, Location & Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric
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• Jun 30 — Get to Know Esri: From Living Atlas to Spatial Analysis for Fabric Users
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• Jul 7 — Data and AI Security and Governance in Microsoft Fabric
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• Jul 21 — Fabric IQ for Data Professionals
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• Aug 4 — KQL for Data and Security Professionals (Closing Session)
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ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Fabric
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ResourceNotesLink
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ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Fabric (main product page)Start herehttps://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-for-microsoft/arcgis-for-microsoft-fabric
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Unlocking Geospatial Intelligence in Fabric with ArcGIS Maps (Microsoft Fabric Blog)Official launch announcement, smart mapping features explainedhttps://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-US/blog/unlocking-geospatial-intelligence-in-microsoft-fabric-with-esris-arcgis-maps-workload-preview/
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Announcing ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Fabric (Esri Community)How to enable the workload at the tenant levelhttps://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-maps-for-microsoft-fabric-blog/announcing-arcgis-maps-for-microsoft-fabric-now-in/ba-p/1670323
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ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Fabric Quick Start Guide (PDF)Step-by-step guide covering access, first map, and styleshttps://www.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/en-us/media/pdf/implementation-guides/maps-for-fabric-quick-start-guide.pdf
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Bring spatial insights to your data analysis platform with ArcGIS Maps for Fabric (Esri blog)Retail site-selection walkthrough, heat maps and clusteringhttps://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/maps-for-fabric/business/bring-spatial-insights-to-your-data-analysis-platform-with-arcgis-maps-for-microsoft-fabric
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What's New in ArcGIS for Microsoft Fabric (Nov 2025)Release notes, GeoAnalytics reaching general availabilityhttps://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis/analytics/whats-new-in-arcgis-for-microsoft-fabric-november-2025
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ArcGIS for Microsoft Fabric on Microsoft MarketplaceWhere to get ithttps://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/saas/esri.arcgis-fabric
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ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Fabric (Workload Development Kit doc)Technical reference for the workloadhttps://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/workload-development-kit/arcgis-maps
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Join the ArcGIS Maps for Fabric Early Adopter CommunitySign up while the workload is in public preview, direct line to the product teamhttps://earlyadopter.esri.com/key/ArcGISmaps4microsoftfabric
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Esri at FABCON 2026: Unlock the power of location intelligence with ArcGIS for Microsoft FabricRecap of Esri's FABCON 2026 session and booth, live demo highlightshttps://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis/announcements/esri-at-fabcon-2026-arcgis-for-microsoft-fabric
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GeoAnalytics & OneLake
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ResourceNotesLink
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ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric (GA) — Microsoft LearnOfficial documentationhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-engineering/spark-arcgis-geoanalytics
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ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric — developer docsOverview and API referencehttps://developers.arcgis.com/geoanalytics-fabric/
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ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric — Get Started tutorialCode sampleshttps://developers.arcgis.com/geoanalytics-fabric/get-started/
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ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric Tutorials (learn.arcgis.com)Guided notebook path, must be run inside a Fabric environmenthttps://learn.arcgis.com/en/paths/arcgis-geoanalytics-for-microsoft-fabric-tutorials/
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ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric Now Generally Available (Esri blog)GA announcement, automating geospatial data integration and transformationhttps://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/geoanalytics-fabric/analytics/arcgis-geoanalytics-for-microsoft-fabric-now-generally-available
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GeoAnalytics Fabric Sample Notebooks (GitHub)Includes spatial read/write exampleshttps://github.com/Esri/geoanalytics-fabric-samples
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Getting Started with GeoAnalytics for Fabric (Esri Community blog series)Walkthroughs and patternshttps://community.esri.com/t5/geoanalytics-for-fabric-blog/getting-started-with-geoanalytics-for-fabric-let-s/ba-p/1591005
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Overview of Fabric Maps (Real-Time Intelligence)Preview feature, real-time spatial visualizationhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/real-time-intelligence/map/about-fabric-maps
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Build a Real-Time Work Order Routing App with Fabric MapsTutorial, preview featurehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/real-time-intelligence/map/tutorial-real-time-work-order-routing-application
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Industry Milestone: November 2025 GA Announcement
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Esri Introduces Latest ArcGIS Integrations for Microsoft Fabric (Esri Newsroom, Nov 18, 2025)Official GA announcement. Jack Dangermond, Esri president: "This integration makes some of Esri's core capabilities accessible for data professionals directly from their Microsoft Fabric environment." Dipti Borkar, VP & GM Microsoft OneLake and Fabric Ecosystem, and Richard Lawrence of the UK Met Office also quotedhttps://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/announcements/esri-introduces-latest-arcgis-integrations-for-microsoft-fabric
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ArcGIS for Power BI
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Create an ArcGIS Map in Power BI (Microsoft Learn)Tutorial: adding the ArcGIS visual to a reporthttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/visuals/power-bi-visualizations-arcgis
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Interact with an ArcGIS Map in Power BI (Microsoft Learn)Consumer-facing guide, no license required to viewhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/consumer/end-user-arcgis
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Living Atlas & Esri Platform
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Living Atlas of the WorldThe largest freely available collection of global geographic datahttps://livingatlas.arcgis.com/
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Living Atlas — Browse layersFilter by category, region, typehttps://livingatlas.arcgis.com/en/browse/
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Get Started with Living Atlas (guided tutorial)Hands-on onboardinghttps://learn.arcgis.com/en/projects/get-started-with-arcgis-living-atlas-of-the-world/
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ArcGIS for DevelopersREST APIs, SDKs, Python APIhttps://developers.arcgis.com/
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ArcGIS Online product pagePlatform overviewhttps://developers.arcgis.com/products/arcgis-online/
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Open Source & Spatial Data Formats in OneLake
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GeoPandas documentationCore spatial Python libraryhttps://geopandas.org/en/stable/
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Apache Sedona — Install on Microsoft FabricOfficial setup docs for open-source spatial Sparkhttps://sedona.apache.org/latest/setup/fabric/
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GeoParquet specification + ecosystemThe open columnar spatial format used across ArcGIS and OneLakehttps://geoparquet.org/
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Cloud-Optimized Geospatial Formats Guide — GeoParquet chapterBroader format context: Shapefile, GeoJSON, WKT/WKB, GeoParquethttps://guide.cloudnativegeo.org/geoparquet/
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Practice Environments
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Microsoft Fabric portalSign in with a work/school Microsoft account; free trial capacity availablehttps://app.fabric.microsoft.com
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Get started with Microsoft FabricTrial setup, licensing basics, first workspacehttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-fabric/getting-started
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ArcGIS Online (free account signup)Needed to enrich OneLake data with ArcGIS Online content and Living Atlas layershttps://www.arcgis.com/
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GeoAnalytics Fabric Sample Notebooks (GitHub)Run directly in a Fabric notebook against sample datahttps://github.com/Esri/geoanalytics-fabric-samples
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Certifications & Learning
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Esri Training (learn.arcgis.com)Free and paid Esri courseshttps://learn.arcgis.com/
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Esri free MOOCs4–6 week self-paced courses: spatial analysis, spatial data science, imagery analysis, location analytics, geo app buildinghttps://www.esri.com/training/MOOC/
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ArcGIS Pro Associate Certification (EAAP)Entry-level Esri certificationhttps://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/training-and-education/certification/options/arcgis-pro-associate
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Microsoft Learn — Fabric training catalogDP-600, DP-700 pathshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/browse/?products=fabric
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PL-300Power BI Data Analyst Associate, maps and spatial visuals covered on the examhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/data-analyst-associate/
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DP-600Fabric Analytics Engineer Associatehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/fabric-analytics-engineer-associate/
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DP-700Fabric Data Engineer Associatehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/fabric-data-engineer-associate/