Hack the Future of Data with Microsoft Fabric
Join the global movement to innovate with AI and Microsoft Fabric, kicking off September 15, 2025, at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Vienna, and running virtually through November 3, 2025.
Whether you’re a data engineer, AI developer, or just curious about Fabric, this is your chance to:
- Win up to $10,000 in prizes and get featured by Microsoft blogs and social media.
- Build real-world data and AI solutions.
- Learn new skills through livestream videos and skilling plans.
How to Participate
Whether you’re just starting out or a seasoned data expert, this hackathon is open to everyone. You can join individually or collaborate in a team of up to three members.
- Register Now!
- Complete the Microsoft Fabric & FabCon Hackathon Skilling Plan.
- Choose a category and start building! To build your solutions on Microsoft Fabric you will need Fabric Capacity. If you do not have one, follow these instructions to create one.
- Submit your project any time before November 3rd, 11:59 PM PST. Provide a brief description of the project, the solution overview, short video demo of your solution, a link to a project repository on GitHub and an attestation to the completion of the Skilling Plan. Submit your project.
- Note: You may submit more than one project, but each submission must be unique and substantially different from your other entries. Find more details, including terms and conditions.
Winners will be announced on or around Monday, November 10, 2025 (2:00 pm Pacific Time).
Let’s Hack Together!
Whether you’re a data engineer, analyst, or AI enthusiast, the FabCon Global Hackathon is your opportunity to build something impactful—and be recognized for it.
Join the Hackathon Discord Channel to connect with experts and peers to get help on your project.
Hackathon Livestream Learning Series
Watch our curated hackathon livestream series to learn how to build AI-powered data solutions with Microsoft Fabric. Each session is designed to help you succeed in the hackathon project categories.
| Date | Time (PST) | Session Title |
| September 22 | 9:00 AM | FabCon Global Hackathon Kick-off: Do More with AI and Microsoft Fabric |
| September 25 | 9:00 AM | Bring all your Data into OneLake with Microsoft Fabric |
| September 29 | 9:00 AM | Building Real Data Solutions with Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric |
| October 6 | 9:00 AM | Empowering AI Driven App Development with Fabric Databases |
| October 9 | 9:00 AM | Turning Data into Insights with Copilot and Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric |
| October 16 | 9:00 AM | Wrap up: How to Submit your Hack Project and Next Steps |
Judging Criteria
Submit your project any time before November 3rd, 11:59 PM PST. Projects will be evaluated by Microsoft product managers and developer advocates across four categories, and each contributes 25% to the final score:
| Judging Criteria | What Judges are Looking For |
| Hackathon Category Alignment | Does the solution clearly fit one or more of the five official categories? |
| Innovation & Impact | Is the solution original, relevant, and solving a real-world problem that benefits others? |
| Documentation & Reproducibility | Is the GitHub repo well-documented and easy to follow? Can others replicate the solution? |
| Video Demonstration | Does the video clearly show how the solution works, especially its use of Microsoft Fabric + AI? |
What to Build: Hackathon Submission Categories
Microsoft Fabric has continued to evolve with new capabilities, and this hackathon is your opportunity to explore by building real-world solutions. The hackathon categories are designed to reflect areas of innovation across Fabric, providing you with multiple ways to apply and showcase your skills.
All winners will receive recognition on our blog platforms, social media and prizes!
1. Grand Prize Winner – $2500
The best of the best! This category rewards the solution that meets all judging criteria, wows judge, has potential real-world value, and demonstrates innovative use of AI in Microsoft Fabric for Data Solutions.
2. Best AI Application Buit with Microsoft Fabric – $1500
A winning solution in this category uses Fabric’s advanced capabilities such as Data Agents, integration with AI Foundry, or Copilot Studio. It could also include building retrieval augmented generation (RAG) apps with the Eventhouse as your vector store, forecasting, anomaly detection, or custom ML models trained in Fabric. The goal is to show how Fabric’s AI capabilities can be combined to build something intelligent and grounded in real data.
3. Best use of Real-Time Intelligence (RTI) – $1500
A solution could connect to live data sources such as Event Hubs, Kafka, or CDC-enabled databases through Fabric’s Real-Time Hub. Key components of a strong RTI solution should include real-time data processing, real-time analytics, real-time monitoring, real-time alerting, or any other real-time application within Microsoft Fabric. Using RTI as a source of data for your AI application is also a great way to showcase the power of RTI. The focus is showing how real-time data can be used to make decisions, detect issues, and respond quickly.
4. Best Use of AI Features within Microsoft Fabric – $1500
This category highlights how Fabric’s built-in AI tools can support automation and insight. A solution might use Copilot to build pipelines or generate visuals from natural language, Data Agents to enable conversational analytics, or AI Functions to summarize, classify, or translate data. AutoML and SynapseML may support model training. The aim is to show how Fabric’s AI features help users work faster, prepare data more easily, and uncover useful insights.
5. Best Analytics Solution with Azure Databases or Databases in Microsoft Fabric – $1500
A solution in this category might connect to Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, or Azure PostgreSQL using Mirroring, CDC, pipelines or Dataflows Gen2. It can also use Microsoft Fabric’s native databases: Fabric SQL Database for relational workloads and Fabric Cosmos DB Database for NoSQL scenarios. Optionally, the solution can showcase how these operational databases support developer applications by exposing data through GraphQL endpoints, and enabling flexible, client-driven queries. The solution may combine internal and external sources to deliver insights using Power BI, notebooks, Data Agents, or Copilot.
6. Best Use of Open Mirroring – $1500
A solution in this category may use Open Mirroring to replicate external data into Fabric. It shows how schema changes and updates are handled automatically. The solution may combine data from multiple systems and show how Fabric uses mirrored data for reporting, analysis, or AI tasks. The focus is on simplifying ingestion using open mirroring and making external data ready for analytics and insights.
Get ready to innovate, collaborate, and have fun! Whether you’re building solo or with a team, we can’t wait to see what you create.
Join the Microsoft Fabric FabCon Hackathon and start building with Microsoft Fabric today!
