Microsoft Fabric is proud to be the Platinum Sponsor of the IBCS Annual Conference 2026, with Microsoft Fabric Planning - powered by Lumel - leading the on-the-ground activation. This year marks a milestone for the community, and we are honoured to stand alongside the IBCS Institute as it celebrates the origin of the standards, the accomplishment of ISO 24896, and the next chapter of business communication. 

Microsoft Fabric Planning, powered by Lumel, enters the Planning market 

We are bringing news the community has been waiting for. Microsoft Fabric Planning, powered by Lumel, arrives at IBCS 2026 as the first IBCS-certified planning workload built natively on Microsoft Fabric. 

The workload within Fabric is native and a complete first-party offering. It has been re-architected and rebuilt for Fabric from the ground up, and is co-engineered with Lumel through a first-party partnership with Microsoft. Plans, budgets, forecasts, and scenarios now live alongside actuals in OneLake - IBCS-compliant, governed by Entra ID, and ready for the AI era. 

About the IBCS Annual Conference 2026 

The IBCS Annual Conference takes place in Konstanz, Germany, on June 12, 2026, with the General Assembly and get-together the evening before (June 11, 19:00 CEST). It is an exclusive gathering of IBCS certified professionals - around 100 of the best minds in reporting and analytics from across Europe and beyond. 

Attendees will decide on IBCS Version 2.0, witness the introduction of ISO 24896 "Notation for business reporting," and help shape the next chapter of the standards that govern how the world communicates with data. 

Meet the team in Konstanz 

Our team is on-site throughout the day to demonstrate how Microsoft Fabric Planning brings IBCS standards directly into your data platform: UNIFORMCHARTs, scaled axes, variance grammar, and approval workflows - all running on the semantic models your organisation already trusts. 

Visit the Microsoft Fabric Platinum Sponsor stand, catch the Microsoft Fabric Planning session during News from IBCS Sponsors at 13:30 CEST (Dipti Borkar, VP & GM, Microsoft), or book a 1:1 meeting using the form on the right.