Microsoft Events presents a Microsoft Ignite 2025 session with Darren Hardman, Simon Brown, Pedro Gomes, and Akash Jain, showcasing how the Premier League leverages Microsoft Fabric, AI, and robust data strategies to enhance fan engagement at scale.

Premier League’s Data-Driven Fan Engagement at Scale

Speakers: Darren Hardman, Simon Brown, Pedro Gomes, Akash Jain
Event: Microsoft Ignite 2025 (Session BRK227)

Overview

The Premier League, in partnership with Microsoft, has transformed decades of match data, editorial content, and video into a real-time, intelligent, and personalized experience for fans worldwide. This session reveals how scalable architecture, data strategy, and AI orchestration can modernize engagement for the world’s most-watched football league.

Key Topics

  • Data Strategy: Approaches for unifying historic and live match data, editorial stories, and video archives.
  • AI Orchestration: Leveraging Microsoft’s AI capabilities to create real-time insights and recommendations.
  • Scalable Architecture: Building solutions that serve millions of global fans with high availability and performance.
  • Personalization: Delivering tailored experiences and content using data-driven intelligence.

Solutions & Technologies

  • Microsoft Fabric: As the backbone of the data platform, Fabric enables seamless integration, governance, and scalability.
  • Azure Cloud Services: For computing, data processing, and AI workloads.
  • Real-Time Processing: Enabling instant data analysis and personalized recommendations.

Actionable Lessons

  • Blueprint strategies for large-scale data integration and AI adoption.
  • Steps to unify disparate data sources and deliver actionable, personalized insights.
  • Architectures for building high-performance, scalable data platforms for consumer engagement.

Resources

Target Audience

  • Data architects, engineers, AI practitioners, cloud solution developers, and technical leaders seeking to leverage Microsoft technologies for consumer engagement scenarios.

For further resources and on-demand videos, visit the Microsoft Ignite portal.