Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A404

Power BI Bootcamp for SharePoint Professionals

NOTE: YOU WILL NEED A COMPUTER WITH THE LATEST VERSION OF POWER BI DESKTOP INSTALLED PRIOR TO WORKSHOP TIME. THIS IS A HANDS ON BOOTCAMP.

Need to create stunning dashboards from your SharePoint data?

Yes you do!

In this bootcamp, we’ll show you: • How should I approach my BI need? • What things should be considered when creating dashboards? • What are the best practices? • How much is this going to cost me to license? • What security aspects should concern me?

Who should take this course: If your company uses Office 365 or SharePoint 2013/2016 and you are a: • Manager • Business Analyst • Power User • SharePoint Administrator • Consultant

If you work in these areas, you will see value: • Marketing • Information Technology • Finance • Sales • Social Media

The class assumes no prior knowledge of Power BI and Data Concepts.

What is required for this class: Install Microsoft Power BI Desktop on your laptop (recommended but not required) We'll provide an Office 365 site for you to use for exercises

In this workshop you will: • Learn how to create Production Dashboards using Power BI, from SharePoint list and document library data • How to use Power BI in a multitude of situations, including ad hoc analysis and the creation of formal dashboard. • Learn the Power BI components: Power BI Desktop, PowerBI.com, Power BI mobile applications and how they can be used with Office 365 and SharePoint • Receive an introduction into the core functions of Power BI; Data extraction, loading and transformation using Power Query Formula Language (“M”) and DAX. • Receive some guidelines on how to extract Project data in fast manner. • Discover some data modeling practices that will ensure you have maximum flexibility in analysis. You'll also learn some visualization best practices to ensure you can tell your digital story effectively • Learn best practices for maintaining content with your organization

This workshop provides an end to end view of Power BI for SharePoint reporting, so that you are able to use Power BI immediately for your needs.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A402

Power Apps and Power Automate Hands-On Quick Start for M365 Makers

Power Apps and Power Automate Hands-On Quick Start for M365 Makers

New to Power Apps and Power Automate? Attend this hands-on workshop to elevate your M365 maker game.

Work through a common business use case from requirements to solution. We'll extend a M365 foundation with Power Apps and Power Automate. Whenever possible, we'll highlight Copilot capabilities offered in both Power Apps and Power Automate. Along the way, you'll receive a solid understanding of the capabilities and features of both technologies.

This is a hands-on session. You walk through clearly defined steps when creating your Power Apps and Flows.

Notes and Requirements: Attendees must come prepared with: A laptop computer (Attendees who bring tablets with keyboards will likely have a sub-optimal experience) A Microsoft 365 (M365) environment where you can create lists, Power Apps, Power Automate Flows, a Team and potentially other Microsoft 365 components If you do not have an M365 environment in which you can work, please consider "purchasing" a Microsoft 365 Business Basic plan currently priced at $6 per month with a 30 day free trial. The subscription can be cancelled within the first 30 days. If you are using a company owned laptop, please verify that you can create Power Apps, Power Automate Flows, a Team as well as other M365 components. Employers frequently lock down laptops.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A405

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows - Workshop

In every organization there are a number of scenarios which require an Approval process. It could be Contract approvals, PTO/Leave Approvals, Event approvals and many other business processes.

In this workshop we'll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows using Power Automate. The workflow will move back and forth b/w different stages and will also learn how to restart a workflow from a given stage. We'll learn how to include Dynamic Approvers in the workflow process.

We'll also learn how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We'll implement timeout features in the workflows to escalate it to the next approver in the process. We will learn how to log and retain workflow history beyond what Microsoft Power Automate offers out-of-box. We'll develop a button to kick off the workflow from a SharePoint library/list.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A410

Copilot for Power Platform : Accelerating your Development with AI

Microsoft is adding AI support to the Power Platform low code development platforms called Copilot. You can use Copilot to help build your next App, Flow, or Bot. Copilot can enhance your development experience in multiple ways.

1. You can use natural language to describe what you are trying to build. Copilot will return a suggested design for the app, flow, or Dataverse tables which you can then use.
2. Copilot will also help you along the way by suggesting modifications to improve your PowerFX formulas.
3. Copilot controls can also be used in Apps to submit natural language queries about your data
4. You can also embed a Custom Copilot developed in Copilot Studio into your App.

Copilot won't replace you as a Citizen Developer, but it will help you produce amazing apps and powerful flows in a fraction of the time.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A313

An Introduction to Microsoft 365 Tenant Administration

So, you were just handed a Microsoft 365 (M365) tenant in the cloud. Congratulations are in order! Now that we’ve dispensed with the pleasantries, you’re probably wondering what the heck you’re supposed to do with that tenant. If so, you’re in luck, as this workshop is designed specifically for you and others who find themselves with the same basic question.

In this workshop, we approach M365 tenant administration from the perspective of someone who now has tenant administration responsibilities without necessarily knowing what that means or encompasses. We’ll spend some time learning the terminology, bounds, and different pieces of tenant administration.

We’ll also investigate how the admin experience is partially coupled to how your organization is licensed. We’ll cover what you need to do to establish your new tenant, and we’ll take a tour of the various admin surfaces available to M365 administrators.

By the end of this workshop, you’ll have a functional understanding of M365 administration and the tools you have available to implement your organization’s cloud vision.

Monday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room A314

Optimizing Search and Content Management in Microsoft 365

In Microsoft 365, managing content with decentralized permission models support organizational change and cleaner permissions. Unfortunately, they may not align with users' mental models, making it difficult for them to find content. Creating intuitive locations for content based on user needs across these spaces can enhance user experience and efficiency.

Join us as we explore different approaches for centralizing your content in this modern decentralized world. You will leave with scenarios and best practices for structuring and delivering content throughout your tenant.

What we'll cover: -Understanding default search scopes and how to customize them -Using the Content Type Gallery and Site Templates for a consistent information architecture -Centralizing content through custom search experiences, including the PnP Modern Search web parts, Search Verticals, and the Highlighted Content web part. -Evaluating when to use Restricted Search and Access Control Lists -Using SharePoint Advanced Management for Restricted Access Control and Restricted Content Discoverability

Monday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room A315

Unlock Your Productivity Potential with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Ready to transform your workday? Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot can automate tasks, streamline collaboration, and enhance productivity. This isn’t just training—it’s your gateway to a smarter, more innovative way to work.

Why Attend? Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot can: • Automate Repetitive Tasks: Save time and focus on impactful work. • Streamline Collaboration: Work smarter across apps and teams. • Boost Productivity: Achieve more with less effort.

What You’ll Learn • Harness Copilot’s Power: Automate workflows, get instant answers, and generate ideas effortlessly. • Master Copilot Agents: Leverage tailored assistance for consistent and precise results. • Maximize Key Apps: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more—all enhanced by Copilot.

Take Your Skills to the Next Level Gain hands-on experience and practical strategies to: • Simplify workflows with Copilot Agents. • Free up time for creative tasks by automating mundane work. • Streamline meetings, collaboration, and content creation with Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Don’t Miss Out! The future of the workplace is here. Join us to experience how Microsoft Copilot can help you achieve more with less effort. With hands-on exercises and actionable insights, you’ll walk away ready to transform your workflow.

Monday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room A316

Copilot Studio 101

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI have caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella Says Microsoft is THE Copilot company. With the adoption of Copilots increasing at a rapid space, there is an exponential rise in the demand for custom copilots.

Microsoft Copilot Studio lets you create powerful AI-powered copilots for a range of requests—from providing simple answers to common questions to resolving issues requiring complex conversations. Engage with customers and employees in multiple languages across websites, mobile apps, Facebook, Microsoft Teams, or any channel supported by the Azure Bot Framework.

In this demo-driven workshop, we will cover how organizations can use the new Microsoft Copilot Studio, ChatGPT, and Azure OpenAI services to build next-gen sophisticated enterprise-grade Copilots.

We will cover:

1. Microsoft Copilot Studio Key Concepts
2. Azure OpenAI Key Concepts
3. ChatGPT key concepts
4. How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot Studio?
5. Authentication in Microsoft Copilot Studio
6. Power Platform Custom Connectors
7. Best Practices
8. How organizations can use the new Microsoft Copilot Studio, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI services to build next-gen sophisticated enterprise-grade Copilots?

Monday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room A314

How to prepare, plan, and execute successful adoption

End-user adoption is arguably the hardest part of a deployment process. There is no one operation that applies to every organization or department but with the right tools, mindset, and workflows every company can execute successful adoption of any project or application. In this session, we will explore statistics surrounding adoption, formulating a plan for adoption, and lessons learned from real-world trials.

Monday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room A315

A Practical Approach to Copilot Readiness in Microsoft 365

Microsoft Copilot has the potential to revolutionize modern work—but only if organizations are truly prepared. This interactive, fast-paced workshop will equip IT professionals, administrators, and business leaders with the critical knowledge and practical strategies needed for a successful Copilot implementation.

Through expert insights and real-world guidance, we’ll focus on:
🔹 Expectations vs. Reality – What Copilot can (and can’t) do today.
🔹 Three Key Areas of Readiness: - Technical Readiness: Licensing, key configurations, and security essentials.
- People Readiness: Adoption strategies, governance, and change management.
- Content Readiness: Structuring data for better responses and reducing risks.
🔹 Actionable Takeaways: A streamlined roadmap to accelerate your Copilot journey.

Join Joy Apple, MVP, and Michal Pisarek for a step-by-step approach to preparing your Microsoft 365 environment for Copilot. Whether you’re just getting started or refining your strategy, this session will help you cut through the noise and move forward with confidence.

Monday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room A316

Copilot Studio Deep Dive

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI have caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella Says Microsoft is THE Copilot company. With the adoption of Copilots increasing at a rapid space, there is an exponential rise in the demand for custom copilots.

Microsoft Copilot Studio lets you create powerful AI-powered copilots for a range of requests—from providing simple answers to common questions to resolving issues requiring complex conversations. Engage with customers and employees in multiple languages across websites, mobile apps, Facebook, Microsoft Teams, or any channel supported by the Azure Bot Framework.

In this demo-driven workshop, we will cover advanced topics to create multi-agent systems and autonomous agents using Copilot Studio.

We will cover:

1. Microsoft Copilot Studio Key Concepts
2. Azure AI Foundry Key Concepts
3. What are multi-agent systems and autonomous agents?
4. How organizations can use the Microsoft Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry to build multi-agent systems and autonomous agents following industry best practices?

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A403

Everything You Wanted to Know About Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, But Were Afraid to Ask.

"Everything You Wanted to Know About Fabric and Power BI" is an intensive, full-day tutorial designed to equip participants with a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Fabric which includes. This tutorial delves into the core functionalities and advanced features of the platform, enabling attendees to harness its full potential for their organizational needs.

Participants will explore the robust capabilities of Microsoft Fabric, including its seamless integration with various Microsoft services, advanced data management, and analytics tools. The tutorial covers essential topics such as creating and managing fabric instances, deploying and configuring Fabric applications, and utilizing built-in security and compliance features to ensure data integrity and privacy.

The session is structured to cater to a diverse audience, from IT professionals and data analysts to software developers and business managers. Through interactive demonstrations, real-world scenarios, and practical exercises, attendees will gain practical skills and insights to effectively implement and manage Microsoft Fabric in their respective environments.

By the end of the day, participants will have a solid foundation in Microsoft Fabric, empowering them to drive innovation, enhance productivity, and achieve their business objectives with confidence.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A404

Mastering Power Automate: From Requirements Gathering to Building Efficient Flows

Dive deep into the transformative capabilities of modern Power Automate with Copilot in this engaging, full-day workshop. Tailored for both newcomers seeking foundational knowledge and seasoned users looking to enhance their expertise, this session will arm you with the critical skills necessary to revolutionize business processes through effective automation. You’ll master the crucial practice of detailed requirements gathering to craft targeted automation strategies, accompanied by practical exercises in designing, building, and deploying powerful flows that boost efficiency and streamline your organizational operations.

By the end of the day, participants will not only possess hands-on skills in flow creation and deployment but will also gain a strategic perspective on utilizing automation to address unique business challenges. This workshop is designed to instill confidence and proficiency, enabling you to leverage Power Automate to its fullest, transforming everyday tasks into automated efficiencies and nurturing a culture of productivity within your team.

Join us to harness the power of automation and reshape your business operations with Power Automate, Copilot, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams, unlocking new levels of performance and innovation.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A402

Establishing SharePoint Online Admin Rockstar Status

SharePoint Online (SPO) integrates with many services that you need to be familiar with to successfully manage your collaboration content. In this full day workshop, we are going to learn about these different services and how to manage the integration with them by exploring and discussing SharePoint Online best practices for configuring, securing, optimizing, and implementing redundancy.

We will begin by discussing and creating a new Microsoft 365 tenant, followed by exploring how to customize both the M365 and SharePoint administrator dashboards so they only display information related to the Microsoft 365 services and SPO-related components like SharePoint Online and OneDrive.

We will also explore how to create and assign users to access SharePoint Online as both an end user and as administrators.

Being most scenarios require the migration of content, we will discuss several options for migrating content from many different sources to SharePoint Online and OneDrive.

Most migrations require at least an interim hybrid configuration, so we will introduce and explore the components that can be configured for a hybrid environment as an interim solution, or as a long-term solution.

We will then roll up our sleeves and explore the configuration of several components of SharePoint Online using both the GUI and PowerShell. These SPO components and configurations include;

Creating, configuring, and managing site collections

Configuring the user profile service (UPS) to ensure your Active Directory data is included in your search index

Exploring several search service configuration options, to ensure your users are able to quickly find the information they need, along with how to access some search-related reports, as well as some suggestions on how to help your users submit better search queries for more accurate search results

Discussing both SharePoint Online and OneDrive configuration options for managing and securing your collaboration content

Create and implementing a structured taxonomy to provide consistent and reliable data in SPO by using published tenant-level content types and managed metadata fields via the term store, as well as other custom column types, that can all be managed by information architects.

As we discuss these topics throughout the day, I’ll be sharing best practices, as well as tips and tricks that every SPO admin should know about while working with SPO.

When you leave the workshop, you’ll have all the skills and best practices to migrate to, configure, manage, and secure SharePoint Online and OneDrive components using the SharePoint Online Admin center, OneDrive admin Center, and PowerShell.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A410

Building Your Data Protection Program with Purview, Defender, and Microsoft Copilot

In recent years, the amount of digital content moving to the cloud has been dramatic. This has undoubtedly made collaboration easier and more versatile, but it's also brought with it a new set of problems, such as oversharing, data exfiltration, and non-compliant destruction of data. Organizations like yours must ensure data is available when required and protected when sensitive.

Microsoft 365 provides a multitude of tools and features that can assist any organization in protecting its data. Any one of these features can help a business protect its data, but it's the deployment of multiple tools and features that will help organizations build a true data protection program.

In this workshop, your data protection expert will take you through the many features of Microsoft 365 that can assist your organization in protecting its information. Attendees will learn about features such as Microsoft Purview Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Endpoint Protection, Insider Risk, and much more. They will also learn how Microsoft Copilot for Security can bolster your data protection program and support your cybersecurity team in protecting your organization.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A311

Best Practices for Intranet Information Architecture: the key to unlocking AI’s full potential

In this workshop, we will explore the basics of Information Architecture (IA) and its role in creating effective intranets using Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and Viva Connections. We’ll talk about why IA is so important to AI – and how you can ensure that your intranet content can act as a valuable partner in your AI solutions. Whether you are just starting out or looking to improve your current intranet design, this workshop will provide you with the necessary tools and techniques to make the most of new and upcoming features, capabilities, and best practices.

We'll cover key topics including creating and organizing content, building site structures, creating metadata, and leveraging search functionality.

You will take away:

• Approaches for planning navigation across the entire intranet and on individual sites
• Tips and best practices for audiences, hubs, and home sites
• Page design guidance that supports accessibility and great user experiences
• Effective use of metadata on pages and documents – and whether it is OK to use folders to organize your content.
• How to leverage Viva Connections to bring your intranet to your users in the flow of work – and how to plan audiences to ensure that the right tools and information gets to the right groups.
• How Copilot can help your information architecture and vice versa.

You'll leave with a clear understanding of what IA is, why it matters, and how to get started with creating effective intranets that meet your organization's needs.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A313

Advanced Power Apps and Power Automate: Workarounds for Common Problems

Spend any amount of time in the Power Platform forums and you will begin to see a lot of similar questions asked over and over again.

In this workshop we will look at some of the most common issues Citizen Developers encounter when trying to develop applications and workflows in the Power Platform. We'll examine each type of problem, analyze why they occur, and provide workarounds that you can use when you encounter them.

The workshop will be divided into two parts. In the first we'll concentrate on Power Apps and in the second we'll look at Power Automate.

Here is a general list of the overall topics we will cover: • Morning: Power Apps ○ Delegation ○ Working with Dates and Times ○ Conditional Formatting of data ○ Passing Data to and Retrieving Results from a Flow ○ Using Solutions to package Apps & Flows • Afternoon: Power Automate ○ New Copilot Support ○ Using Conditions and Switches effectively ○ Handling Loops and Parallel Branches ○ Working with Large Data Sources ○ Implementing Error Checking/Correction ○ Improving Performance

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room A314

Taking Ownership: Microsoft 365 for Site and Team Owners

This intermediate workshop, tailored for Microsoft 365 site and team owners, delves into the intricacies of group and site roles, focusing on exclusive capabilities and strategies essential for effective management of SharePoint sites and Microsoft Teams.

In SharePoint, elevate your skills with advanced techniques in page and news scheduling, audience targeting, as well as in-depth list and library settings and permissions management. In Teams, master channel optimization for greater usability and member productivity.

Engage in practical, real-world scenarios to apply your knowledge in solving organizational challenges with Microsoft 365. Understand when and how to integrate Planner, Forms, and the Power Platform to broaden your site's or team's capabilities and meet business requirements.

Gain a better understanding of permissions management, learn when to responsibly break inheritance, and apply item-level permissions when appropriate. This workshop emphasizes security, privacy, and workflow efficiency, enhancing your skills in user access management when solution planning.

This workshop is ideal for those eager to explore Microsoft 365's behind-the-scenes workings, boost team collaboration, and innovate with out-of-the-box solutions. Uncover the full potential of Microsoft 365 and revolutionize your work approach.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room A315

Beginners Guide to Power BI Workshop

This session will provide you with the knowledge that you need to quickly become productive using Power BI.

You will be introduced to:

• Power BI licensing
• Power BI Components
• Using the Power BI Desktop app
• Using the Power BI Service
• How to create reports and dashboards
• DAX and Visual Calculations
• PowerPoint integration
• SharePoint integration
• Learning Resources

Don't have a Power BI license? You can start using Power BI for free!

Attend this demo-rich session and get started with Power BI!

Tuesday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room A314

Unlocking AI: A Practical Guide for Business and IT Pros

"Treb was very knowledgeable and provided great insight on the past and future of AI."

"Great overview of what's possible with AI."

"I thought Copilot and ChatGPT was all there was to AI. Now I know there's a lot more." --Attendee Quotes from Feedback Survey

Many are struggling with AI A recent study from Slack showed that core AI literacy is a blocker for many AI projects. Discover why AI literacy is a game-changer for businesses worldwide. Join our workshop to demystify AI concepts, overcome common challenges, and gain a competitive edge. Let me guide you through the intricacies of AI and empower you to lead with confidence.

Problem #1: Lack of Clarity on AI's Practical Impact. Many organizations still struggle to understand impactful AI use cases beyond initial experiments.

Problem #2: Integration Into Existing Processes. Difficulty in smoothly integrating AI into current workflows without major disruptions.

Problem #3: Skepticism and Resistance. Employees and leaders have mixed feelings, ranging from fear of job loss to skepticism about AI's abilities.

Yet we know we work better with AI, we still struggle.

"...those who are trained to use AI are up to 19 times as likely to report that AI is improving their productivity." Workforce Index Study 2024, Slack.

AI Literacy with Focus on the Real World Embark on a transformational journey with AI literacy tailored for business and IT professionals. Overcome the hurdles of AI technology adoption and pave your path to business excellence. Gain practical insights and strategies to thrive in the evolving digital landscape.

You'll learn: Understand AI Concepts Discover the diverse applications of AI across industries and how they drive innovation and efficiency in business operations.

Enhance Communication with AI Master the art of AI communication, transitioning from search queries to insightful dialogues with ease.

Master AI Training Techniques Elevate your skills by understanding the distinctions between training, fine-tuning, and grounding practices.

Curriculum

• Introduction
• What is AI, where we cover the different types of AI and how they are used
• What are the best AI uses today?
• Basics of how LLMs work, hallucinations, and more
• What's next in AI? Agents, Agencies, and Swarms
• Conclusion

Tuesday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room A316

From Concept to Creation: Adaptive Cards 101

This workshop will provide a hands on experience for building and deploying adaptive cards. Expect to walk away with with the following skills and knowledge.

-Understand the basic components that go into adaptive cards. -Where to find resources and template to get started. -How to create an adaptive card with actionable items. -Learn how to use power automate to automatically send adaptive card responses. -Understand how to create and manipulate adaptive card Json. -Tips and tricks on good design and formatting.

Walk away from this workshop with the practical knowledge and hands on experience to start using Adaptive cards effectively in your organization.

Wednesday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A404

Adopting Copilot into your Organization

Ready for the Copilot revolution? Yeah, so are lots of people, but is your house in order to take that on? Maybe, maybe not. During this session we will discuss what needs to be done before, during and after adopting copilot into your organization. What change strategies do you have in place to what training do the end users need will be covered. Take with you best practices, case studies and stories from other customers to help you learn and leverage things that have been done.

Wednesday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A403

Power Automate 101

Power Automate is a powerful tool, used out of the box with templates or from scratch with your own ideas. Learn the basics of this cloud-based app in this session, with information on what makes a flow, how to enhance a flow with dynamic content, and get some best practices tips so you can start your Power Automate journey off on the right foot.

Wednesday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A405

Transform your intranet for the future with the latest best practices and capabilities in Microsoft

Intranets are more than technology projects. They thrive when they are at the heart of the digital workplace, connecting people, process, and technology. In this session, we will discuss how you can both prepare your intranet for the future with a great foundation and unlock potential with the latest capabilities in SharePoint, Copilot, and Viva. This session will guide you through creating a dynamic, user-friendly intranet that enhances collaboration and productivity. Learn how to leverage AI-driven insights and boost employee engagement. Whether you're revamping an existing intranet or building a new one, you'll gain practical tips and strategies to drive meaningful business outcomes and take your intranet to the next level.

Wednesday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A311

Build Your Own Copilot (Jarvis) 🤖 with Copilot Studio

Join me for an exciting session where we delve into the world of Copilot Studio, a revolutionary platform that empowers developers to build their custom bot assistants inspired by the capabilities of Copilot. Whether you're a seasoned developer looking to streamline or a curious enthusiast eager to explore the possibilities of AI and building BoTs, this session is for you.

Throughout this interactive session, participants will:

• Introduction to Copilot Studio: Gain a comprehensive understanding of Copilot Studio and how it empowers developers to create personalized assistants. Learn about the underlying AI technologies and the philosophy behind Copilot Studio's design.

• Designing Your Assistant: Explore the intuitive interface of Copilot Studio as I guide you through the process of designing your coding assistant. From defining knowledge data sources to customizing topics or prompts, discover how to tailor your assistant to suit your unique requirements.

• Training Your Assistant: Dive into the training process as I will demonstrate how to teach your assistant to understand context, identify topics, and generate relevant data. Learn best practices for optimizing training data and fine-tuning your assistant's performance.

• Advanced Features and Use Cases: Gain valuable insights and tips for effectively using Copilot Studio to maximize its benefits.

By the end of this session, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and tools to embark on their journey of building and customizing their Copilot-inspired assistants with Copilot Studio. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, this session will provide you with the knowledge and skills to unlock the full potential of Copilot Studio.

Wednesday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A312

Beginners Guide to Power BI

This session will provide you with the knowledge that you need to quickly become productive using Power BI.

You will be introduced to:

• Power BI licensing
• Power BI Components
• Using the Power BI Desktop app
• Using the Power BI Service
• DAX and Visual Calculations
• PowerPoint integration
• SharePoint integration
• How to create reports and dashboards
• Learning Resources

Don't have a Power BI license? You can start using Power BI for free!

Attend this demo-rich session and get started with Power BI!

Wednesday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A314

Essential Microsoft 365 security features crash course

Security is top of mind for any business moving to the cloud and even more so for those who had to move out of necessity without a clear action plan. Knowing where to start and what is available can be half the battle. This session will cover some of the top concepts when it comes to securing and monitoring your Microsoft 365 environment, the best tools to start with, and which admin center you can find them in. Including but not limited to a look at the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and Microsoft 365 Defender admin center and the osmosis process that has happened since parting ways from what was formally known as the Security and Compliance center. The best part is that some of these are available in your subscription now at no extra charge!

Wednesday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A316

Build external-facing websites using Power Pages

Microsoft Power Pages is a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code software as a service (SaaS) platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites. Power Pages provides you with rich, customizable templates, a fluid visual experience through a reimagined design studio, and a new, integrated learning hub to quickly build sites that suit your unique business needs.

We'll learn how to create powerful external-facing websites that allow users outside their organizations to sign in with a wide variety of identities, create and view data in Microsoft Dataverse, or even browse content anonymously.

Also, we'll learn to quickly create a website and customize it with pages, layout, and content.

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room A404

How to Avoid AI Disasters: Copilot, Data Security, and Unintended Consequences

Say your company rushes in the coming months to implement a Copilot over their Intranet. An employee asks the Copilot, "How much does my co-worker make?" How will it answer?

This scenario becomes plausible as Copilot is connected to data sources for Q&A activities. If the data related to pay, layoffs, and other sensitive topics is accessible by the AI, it's possible that an employee could get an answer to their question. You should take great care before connecting it to your own internal data.

Unfortunately hearing GPT, AI and Machine Learning terms thrown about like doubloons at a Mardi Gras parade in the news is giving many organizations FOMO. We'll discuss what you should know before you jump in.

In this session, we'll address:

• What are these technologies and how they will impact you
• How can these technologies be used in your organization
• Data and security considerations
• Preparing for unintended consequences

Join us to learn about this brave new world and how you could apply it in your own work.

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room A403

Power Automate Desktop: How to Automate Almost Anything

Power Automate flows can do a lot to automate repetitive tasks. But up until now they only worked if there was a pre-built connector with actions that can accomplish the task or at least an existing Application Programming Interface API that you could use to build a custom connector.

In this talk we'll look at Power Automate's entry into the world of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) called Power Automate Desktop. Using Power Automate Desktop you can automate repetitive tasks on your desktop in Windows or a Web application. Desktop flows record and play back user interface actions, like keyboard entries, mouse clicks, etc.

Desktop flows open up possibilities to automate applications that don't have a pre-built connector or an API.

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room A402

Nailing Down Performance Issues in SharePoint Online Sites (2025 Edition)

SharePoint Online (SPO) has been with us for over a decade, and in that time it has received numerous changes and adjustments intended to optimize performance. Despite the work that has gone into the platform, some organization still find users reporting a poor experience and "bad performance."

In this session, we will look at development and design approaches that will enable SPO to deliver optimal performance when your organization begins using it. We'll review the current state of tooling available for our use (like the Page Diagnostics for SharePoint tool) and how it can be used to guide analysis of performance issues. We will also look at elements in any environment that can negatively impact SPO performance to make it look like the "bad guy" when SPO is actually innocent.

At the conclusion of this session, participants will have the confidence needed to troubleshoot, classify, and possibly resolve performance-based issues in their SPO tenant.

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room A405

News: Who, what, when, where, and how

Today there are numerous methods to share news within your organization. This session explores the various types of news, the audience for each option, and what you should use when. Learn about how to create effective communications for your organization.

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room A410

What's new with Power Apps

Are you overwhelmed with all of the new features that have come out with Power Apps? Me too. So this session we are going to take a practical look at some of the latest announcements and talk about how they apply to your apps. What announcements? I don't know either, I am writing this 6 months before presenting it so who know what is new. 🤣 Good news, it is my job to keep up with the new stuff and have an opinion so I will be ready to rock when the microphone turns on. Should be fun!

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room A311

Demystifying Copilot Studio

Copilot Studio offers the power of bringing Copilots to the masses! Now anyone can create their own Copilot and harness the power of Generative AI! Join this real-word, demo-packed session with Copilot veteran Mark Rackley and discover the truth beyond the marketing including:

• What are the features of Copilot Studio
• How does licensing work?
• How can you extend Copilot for Microsoft 365?
• How do you connect to your business data?
• How to publish your agents to other channels

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room A312

DataOps 101 – A Better Way to Develop and Deliver Data Analytics

Power BI has revolutionized the industry by accelerating our ability to deliver Data Analytics solutions. But how do we ensure the code we build is reliable and the data is produced in a timely and trustworthy manner? Enter DataOps, a better way to develop and deliver Data Analytics Solutions. In this session, I’ll cover the concept of DataOps, why it matters to Power BI, and the principles that can drive you to continuously improve.

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room A313

Extending Microsoft 365: Exploring the Art of the Possible

Ever felt like the world of Microsoft 365 is a maze? You’re not alone! In this session, we’ll take a journey together through real-life examples where we’ve turned the complexity of Microsoft 365 into simple, automated solutions.

We’ll start from the basics, exploring out-of-the-box and low-code options, and gradually move towards creating custom self-hosted solutions. Extending Microsoft 365 is not limited to just creating web parts and by the end of this session, you’ll be inspired to see how you can make Microsoft 365 work for you in ways you’ve never imagined before. So, whether you’re a beginner or have some experience under your belt, join us as we unravel the exciting possibilities of extending Microsoft 365!

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room A314

Data Security Breach in Microsoft 365, Now What?

In today's world, it is almost inevitable that your organization will experience a data and security breach, no matter the on-premises or cloud software. Microsoft 365 is no different. Even though it contains many fantastic security controls and features, many organizations do not implement them for varying reasons.

In order to protect from a data security breach you need to know what you would do if that were to happen, as well as the controls and features to enable.

In this session, we will step through where to start in the event of a data and security breach within Microsoft 365. We will walk through how to analyze logs, identify which services to review, how to identify the breach, and then how to protect from future events.

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room A316

The Future of Meetings: Navigating Microsoft Teams Premium's Advanced Features

Step into the future of corporate communication with 'The Future of Meetings: Navigating Microsoft Teams Premium's Advanced Features'. This session is a deep dive into the world of Teams Premium, showcasing its cutting-edge features designed to transform your meeting experiences. We'll explore each feature in detail, discussing its practical applications and benefits for your organization. From setting up advanced meeting options to enhancing end-user engagement, you'll gain insights into the full spectrum of Teams Premium capabilities. Our hands-on demonstrations will guide IT Admins through the configuration process while providing business leaders and corporate communications professionals with a clear view of the user experience. Whether it's about facilitating seamless large-scale webinars or conducting interactive town halls, this session is your roadmap to mastering Microsoft Teams Premium. Join us to unlock the potential of next-generation meetings and propel your organizational communication into a new era of efficiency and engagement.

Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room A403

Better Together: Exploring the Integrations Between Microsoft Teams and Power Automate

Get ready to witness the seamless integration of Microsoft Teams and Power Automate! Microsoft Teams stands as an essential tool used daily by millions globally, serving as the cornerstone of modern business collaboration. When paired with the automation capabilities of Power Automate, Teams transcends its conventional role as a communication platform, emerging as a powerhouse for amplifying productivity and efficiency.

During this session, I'll demo a few of the key integration points: • Trigger Flows from Teams Messages: Streamline follow-up actions on a Teams message, with just the click of a button. Whether it’s creating a DevOps item or sending tasks to OneNote, see how Power Automate transforms routine tasks into efficient processes, integrated within the Teams interface. • Flows with Adaptive Cards: Embrace the versatility of Adaptive Cards in Teams to gather information from users. Replace email exchanges with a more intuitive approach to user interaction, directly within Teams messages. • Leverage Flows within the Workflows App: Explore the convenience of creating and managing Power Automate flows directly from the Workflows app embedded in Teams. • Empowerment through Flow Templates: Uncover the potential of pre-built Team and Approval templates, designed to streamline common processes. Foster consistency across your organization and significantly reduce time spent on manual data collection with these readily available automation solutions.

This session promises live demos, real-world use cases, and more.

Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room A404

Copilot Readiness for the Real World

Let's talk about real-world preparation Microsoft Copilot! Yes, it can transform modern work, if the implementation is done correctly. Joy and her colleagues surveyed leading M365 experts on how to make Copilot a success. This session brings those insights to you! We'll dive into: *Expectations vs. Reality *Three Facets of Copilot Readiness *Technical- Essential technical preparations for Copilot. *People- Strategies for engaging your team with Copilot. *Content- The role of content in optimizing Copilot's performance. *Starting Points- Leave with practical steps to embark on your Copilot journey.

Join Joy Apple as she dives into Copilot readiness, ensuring you have the knowledge to move forward with confidence.

Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room A402

Build custom copilots and Agents with Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Copilot Studio

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI have caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven session, fast-paced session, Microsoft AI and Business Applications MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Prashant G Bhoyar will cover how organizations can use Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Copilot Studio to build custom Copilots and Agents.

We will cover: Copilot Studio's key concepts Authentication and Authorization in Copilot Studio How organizations can build custom copilots and Agents with Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Copilot Studio?

Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room A405

Microsoft Loop: The Essential Tool for Microsoft 365 Users!

Experience unparalleled team collaboration with Microsoft Loop, the newest addition to the Microsoft 365 suite! Loop redefines teamwork by offering highly collaborative workspaces, customizable pages, and dynamic, reusable components, all seamlessly integrated within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

Unlock your team's full potential with Microsoft Loop. Design shared workspaces, tailor pages to fit your specific needs, and effortlessly integrate notes, task assignments, and real-time synchronized lists. This innovative app enhances productivity and ensures that your team remains synchronized and efficient.

Microsoft Loop meets teammates where they work, seamlessly integrating with Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Whiteboard, Word, and more. Plus, explore the possibilities with the brand-new Loop app! This integration facilitates easy access, sharing, and collaboration on content across various platforms, catering to your team's diverse working environments and styles.

Transform the way your team works with Microsoft Loop. Its powerful features and seamless integration make it the go-to collaboration hub for Microsoft 365 users. Dive into the future of teamwork and harness the power of Microsoft Loop today!

Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room A410

Creating a solid findability foundation with Microsoft Search

You've invested in the tools, you've watched some videos, attended some educational sessions and turned everything on...yet your people still cannot find what they are looking for. What do you do? and where do you start?

In this session, we explore the good, the bad and the ugly of a solid findability strategy and how you can work with Microsoft Search to provide a more satisfying and customized search experience. Virgil will walk you through the strategic side of search and help you understand how to better leverage it for success in your organization.

Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room A311

Unlock the Power of Copilot Studio's Autonomous Features to Simplify Mundane Tasks

In this session, discover how the latest autonomous agents in Copilot Studio are revolutionizing team productivity by leveraging AI generative knowledge to automate and streamline everyday tasks. These powerful tools can significantly reduce manual work, allowing your team to focus on higher-value activities. Learn how to scale your operations with these intelligent features that make routine tasks effortless and efficient. By the end of the session, you'll have actionable insights into how to integrate these autonomous agents into your workflow and unlock unprecedented value for your team.

Key takeaways include: - Why is this feature different than cloud flows. - How to build and enhance an autonomous agent. How Generative AI orchestrates the workflow.

Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room A312

I want it NOW! The impact of Real Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric on Power BI

Power BI has always provided a rich set of tools for analyzing data at rest. For data in motion, there are approaches to help reduce or eliminate data latency, but many of them require tradeoffs. The Real Time Intelligence (RTI) workload within Microsoft is designed to meet this challenge. RTI is focused on monitoring with near zero data latency to address the needs of data in Motion.

In this session we will demonstrate a real world scenario which will relate to everyone - pulling data from home automation systems including security, thermostats, entertainment, lighting and weather. We will stream all of thise signals into an eventhouse using event streams, and monitor this data with real time dashboards.

Real Time Intelligence is a new paradigm, and does for data in motion what Power BI does for data at rest. If you have data monitoring needs, this session is for you.

Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room A313

SharePoint Premium: Your Key to Transform Content Management Using AI

We are in a knowledge economy where SharePoint serves as the cornerstone for data storage. How much of your data stored in SharePoint is unstructured and overlooked? SharePoint Premium is your solution for comprehensive content management. Join us for an enlightening session on the advanced features of SharePoint Premium, including content translation, OCR, eSignature, analytics, and more. Discover how this powerful platform can transform your content management with AI-driven capabilities, enhanced security, and streamlined workflows.

In this session, we will explore SharePoint Premium's extensive offerings, highlighting the latest features that optimize critical business document processes such as contracts, invoices, and statements of work. Learn how to leverage SharePoint Premium to revolutionize your content management and drive business success.

• Discover the cutting-edge features of SharePoint Premium for your content management solutions.
• Learn how to optimize high-value business document processes with SharePoint Premium's embedded AI.
• Harness the power of SharePoint Premium to revolutionize your content management and drive business success.

Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room A314

5 security best practices you should implement in Microsoft 365 today!

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, securing your organization's data and resources is more crucial than ever. This lightning talk will delve into the top five Microsoft 365 security best practices you should implement today to safeguard your digital environment. We will explore essential strategies such as protecting credentials, safeguarding your content, and securing devices. By the end of this session, you'll be equipped with actionable insights to enhance your organization's security posture, better protecting your environment against emerging threats. Join us to learn how to fortify your Microsoft 365 environment with these important security measures.

Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room A315

Case Document Management with Document Sets

In this session we will walk through how to enable and build Document Set Content types. We will explore features and configuration options. Join us as we explore uses for this folder 2.0.

In this session we will explore: What is it and how can it be used Plan
Build a Custom Document Set Document Set Settings Additional Configurations in the Library

Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room A316

Deep dive into Microsoft Teams Channels

Microsoft Teams consist of three main channel categories: Standard, Private, and Shared. In this session, we will review the functionality and differences of each channel and explain the use case scenario of each one. We will explain the architecture of each channel, the differences between the previous Guest experience and the current B2B architecture, and how to best collaborate with others within your tenant or external users. We will finish the session by discussing how you can govern access to your data in each channel scenario.

Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room A404

Copilot Lessons From The Field

1 in 3 Copilot rollouts stall. Why? We will look at 3 real life customer Copilot case studies and what mistakes they made that limited Copilot adoption within their organizations. If you are planning to deploy Copilot or are wondering why your usage is not as high as you expected, this sessions is for you.

Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room A403

Unleash the Power of Power Automate: Automating Microsoft List Operations

Are you tired of manual and time-consuming data management in Microsoft Lists? Want to streamline your list operations and increase productivity? If so, this session is for you! Join us as we explore the power of Power Automate for Microsoft Lists. We will show you how to move and copy items between lists, including multi-select person and multi-choice values, with ease. Whether you're new to Power Automate or a seasoned user, you will leave this session with the knowledge and skills to automate your Microsoft List operations and take your productivity to the next level. Register now to unleash the power of Power Automate and streamline your Microsoft List operations!

Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room A405

A SharePoint based Intranet your users actually will love

Join this session to learn how to build a SharePoint based Intranet with all the features that your users will love, and how it will integrate with Viva and Teams.

Knut has worked with delivering Intranets for the last 15 years with both SharePoint and different vendors, and have deep knowledge in aligning business requirements with the functionality available and make great solutions for the end users.

We will cover all the latest updates from Microsoft and look into what webparts to use when, and share insights and best practices.

Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room A410

Model Driven Power Apps are cool, I will prove it to you!!!

I am aware that there are many other technologies that are considered to be sexier than Model Driven Apps but allow me to show you how cool they can be. When I am done you may have a different opinion about these secure and robust business applications.

When you need to quickly create a robust application that lives on the Dataverse that can handle new and/or legacy data, has access to the Power Platform and has the Microsoft security model look no further.

We will create a new Model Driven App from scratch with new fields, relationships, app theming, security roles and Power Platform components on the fly. Together we will experience just how easy and powerful creating native Model Driven Apps on the Dataverse can be for low-code and pro developers.

Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room A312

Teams and Microsoft 365 Sharing - Unstructured and Structured

Teams and Microsoft 365 external sharing is all about publishing or collaborating with people outside your organization. Users will find ways to do it with or without IT support (typically through email or shadow IT), so it's important for IT to provide an easy way for them to do it effectively and securely.

Sharing can be done in a number of different ways. Unstructured sharing to a small set of external users works well with the OOTB SharePoint and OneDrive features. External users can also be invited in as full Microsoft Teams guests for collaboration. Teams Shared Channels can be used to improve the user experience for external users, eliminating the need for tenant switching in Teams.

As the scale increases, structured sharing with many external users needs alternatives such as Azure AD B2B, custom code or third party solutions. We'll discuss options available and what makes sense where using real world examples.

In this session we will cover both configuring sharing appropriately, and the user experience for both content sharers and recipients. We'll go through a number of different scenarios.

External sharing in Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint Online Azure AD B2B (Business to Business) Teams Shared Channels and Azure AD Direct Connect Microsoft's Entitlement Management portal's Access Packages for external users Custom and third party options leveraging the Graph API We'll also touch on how to leverage Microsoft's security stack to improve the security of your Microsoft 365 Extranet.

Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room A313

OneNote Reimagined: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Note-Taking

In this session, we'll dive into the consolidation of OneNote's two versions (Win10 and desktop) into a singular app. Get ready to rediscover OneNote with an array of useful tips, tricks, and practical business applications.

We'll explore the latest features and announcements, ensuring you're ahead of the curve with OneNote's advancements.

Additionally, we'll delve into a comparative analysis of OneNote with Microsoft's other productivity tools you might use for notes like Loop, Whiteboard, Wiki, To Do, and Sticky Notes.

This comprehensive overview will empower you to select the most suitable tool for every task, enhancing efficiency and productivity in your professional endeavors.

Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room A314

You Have Sensitive Information. Now Let's Protect It.

Every organization has data considered sensitive to its business, employees, or even the industry it exists within. As a result, protecting its data has become a priority for many organizations worldwide. Microsoft provides several tools for identifying sensitive information within the organization and protecting it from being provided to sources that should not have it.

In this session, we'll cover features and processes such as Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MPIP), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and more to help you protect your organization's sensitive information from leaving your control and falling into the hands of those who should not have it.

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A404

Introduction to Microsoft Copilot for Security

Staying ahead of security risks requires cutting-edge tools and technologies. This session will explore how Copilot for Security revolutionizes threat detection, response, and automation. Discover the key features of Microsoft Copilot for Security, learn how to configure its capabilities, and see examples of its impact. Whether you’re a seasoned security professional or new to the field, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to enhance your organization’s security posture.

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A405

Optimizing your information architecture

Managing a portal in today's landscape of SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Loop, and Microsoft Teams can introduce information sprawl. This session covers using information architecture principles and governance to manage collaboration spaces effectively. By employing hubs, policies, labels, and best practices, you can enhance data management and empower users to use Copilot efficiently.

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A410

TMO (Too Many Options) In M365?

Is the confusion of TMO (Too Many Options) in M365 getting to you? SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Yammer, Outlook... When do we use what for communication? Collaboration? In this session Joy will break down our Microsoft 365 options and bring clarity on how the M365 tools work better together for collaboration. We'll address leveraging our "Swiss Army Knife" of applications to be better equipped when communicating with the various audiences we interact with day in and day out.

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A311

AI-Powered Project Management: Revolutionize Your Workflow with Copilot Studio

Join us for an engaging and interactive session designed to transform your project management approach using the latest advancements in Microsoft AI technology, including Azure and Copilot. This session is tailored for project managers, team leads, and business professionals who are keen on leveraging AI to optimize workflows, improve efficiency, and drive project success. We will explore key Azure AI services, demonstrate Copilot's capabilities, and provide hands-on experience building an AI-powered project dashboard. Learn how AI can revolutionize your workflow and elevate your project management practices to the next level.

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A312

DAX the Easy Way: Visual Calculations in Power BI

Visual calculations empower even novice Power BI users to build new calculations from any visual inside Power BI using an Excel grid-like interface. If you can write an Excel formula, you can create DAX expressions using visual calculations.

Many new Power BI users struggle to write and create DAX calculations. Even many calculations that are more complex when writing DAX expressions can easily be created using visual calculations. For example running sums, moving averages and percent of grand totals, and more are quick and easy using the Excel-like interface.

Attend this session and take you Power BI reports to the next level using visual calculations.

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A313

Introduction to JSON to master customizing SharePoint

JSON is EVERYWHERE in SharePoint Online and your ability to take your SharePoint deployments to the next level depend on your ability to understand and create complicated JSON objects. In this densely demo-packed session, attendees will learn:

• What is JSON and how to understand the structure
• Tips for creating JSON objects and starting with community content as a starting point

Attendees will also learn how to use JSON Objects in SharePoint Online to:

• Customize list columns and list views
• Create Site Designs for creating custom site templates
• Create stunning Quick Views for Viva Connections ACE's
• Post messages in teams as Adaptive Cards
• Process SharePoint REST queries in Power Automate
• and more!!

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A314

Enhancing Employee Experience with Microsoft Viva: A Comprehensive Overview

Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights. With Viva, foster a culture where people and teams are empowered to be their best from anywhere.

Microsoft Viva offers numerous benefits, its implementation should align with an organization's specific needs, goals, and strategies. The decision to adopt Microsoft Viva or any other platform should be based on a thorough assessment of the organization's requirements and the potential value it can bring. So, join me for this session and assess the following experiences which are important for an organization.

• VIVA Engage
• VIVA Connections
• VIVA Learning
• VIVA Insights
• VIVA Amplify
• VIVA Goals
• VIVA Glint
• VIVA Pulse

& Yes, we will see LIVE Demos.

Throughout the session, real-world case studies and best practices will be shared, showcasing how organizations are leveraging Microsoft Viva to transform their employee experience, drive business outcomes, and stay ahead in an increasingly competitive market. Whether you are an HR professional, IT leader, or business executive, this session offers invaluable insights and actionable strategies for leveraging Microsoft Viva to unlock the full potential of your workforce and thrive in the digital age.

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A315

Build a Vacation Request Solution OOB

From gathering requirements to building a workflow in Power Automate, follow along as we build a solution to track and approve vacation requests. Take the information back to your office and build your own vacation request solution. The basis of this simple solution will use out-of-the box functionality in SharePoint and Power Automate.

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A316

Do more in Microsoft Teams with Power Apps and Power Automate

In today's industry, custom settings and applications are not only in high demand but have become standard practice. To achieve this, the administrator must be capable of building new tools, automating processes, and making it easy for end users to access. This used to be a daunting task that generally meant outsourcing projects, hiring development or hanging a "do not disturb" sign on the already overworked admins' door and hoping for the best months... or years later. Luckily this process has gotten much easier with tools that offer "code-less" or what I like to call nearly code-less automation. This empowers admins to develop tools and automation in minutes and hours, which would have previously taken weeks or longer. And there is very little need to understand deep code. In this session, we will take a look at Power Apps, Adaptive Cards, and Power Automate features that can be leveraged in Microsoft Teams with in Minutes. And yes, there will be live demos to show how easy this can be.

Thursday 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM · Room A403

Deploying Power Platform Components: Using Solutions

If you work with more than one application from the Power Platform or have more than one environment then you've probably heard about Solutions. But Solutions can be a confusing concept for citizen developers. In this workshop we'll discuss the following concepts:

• Implementing a Dev > Test > Production system
• Exporting and Importing Apps, Flows, and Bots between environments
• When to use Managed vs. Unmanged Solutions
• Creating, Updating, Upgrading, and Patching Solutions
• Using Connection References
• Leveraging Environment Variables
• What is a Solution Publisher
• Understanding Solution layers and dependencies

Thursday 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM · Room A410

Customizing Microsoft Search to fit your organization's needs

A solid search strategy includes creating a targeted experience. Even if you have the most 'groomed' search results ever, presenting those results in a meaningful, useful manner will help people using it be more successful.

In this session, Virgil will demonstrate how to use the powerful customization features of Microsoft Search to build a visually appealing, targeted search experience.

Thursday 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM · Room A312

Power BI Power Hour of Tips and Tricks

In this session, you'll learn from the panel our favorite tips and tricks that you can use to make your reporting solutions amazing.

Thursday 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM · Room A313

SharePoint Premium - The future of AI powered content management

SharePoint Premium brings AI, automation, and added security to your content experiences, processing, and governance. SharePoint Premium delivers new ways to engage with your most critical content, managing and protecting it through its lifecycle. It also helps you maximize content value with security and structure – and prepare it for Copilot for Microsoft 365, the next-generation AI assistant that is transforming productivity.

We'll learn about some of the core features of SharePoint Premium such as Content experiences, Content processing and Content governance.

Thursday 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM · Room A314

Preparing for Copilot: Securing Your Microsoft 365 Data and Beyond

As organizations continue to grow in usage of Microsoft 365 and look to integrate Copilot and AI tools into their workflows, ensuring the security of Microsoft 365 data becomes paramount. This session, "Preparing for Copilot: Securing Your Microsoft 365 Data and Beyond," will guide you through the essential steps to fortify your Microsoft 365 security measures.

We will explore best practices for safeguarding sensitive information, managing access controls, and implementing advanced security features within Microsoft 365. Attendees will gain insights into potential security challenges and learn proactive strategies to mitigate risks. By the end of this session, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and tools necessary to confidently secure their Microsoft 365 environment and be ready for a seamless integration of Copilot, ensuring robust data protection, security, and compliance.

Thursday 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM · Room A316

Meshing Realities: Elevating Meetings and Beyond with Microsoft Mesh

Embark on a transformative journey into the future of collaborative meetings with Microsoft Mesh. In this session, we'll delve into the intricacies of setting up Microsoft Mesh, a groundbreaking platform that seamlessly integrates the virtual and physical worlds. Discover how Mesh revolutionizes traditional meetings, fostering immersive and engaging experiences for remote participants. We'll explore the myriad possibilities that Mesh brings to the meeting room. Join us to unravel the technical nuances of Microsoft Mesh setup and unlock a new era of connected and dynamic meetings.

Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:10 PM · Room A403

Get started with Adaptive Cards for Microsoft Teams using Microsoft Lists and Power Automate

Adaptive Cards are everywhere. They are an incredibly versatile way to create actionable messages in the Microsoft 365 and Power Platform ecosystem.

In this session, we will transform traditional email reminders into interactive, informative, and actionable user experiences using Adaptive Cards. We will showcase Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Teams and Power Automate using a maker approach solution development.

We hope that after this session, you'll want to integrate Adaptive Cards into every solution you build!

Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:10 PM · Room A404

Mastering Prompts: Communicating Effectively with Copilot in Microsoft 365

This session deep dives into the art and science of effectively communicating with Copilot for Microsoft 365. As AI becomes increasingly integral to our work environments, mastering the interaction with tools like Copilot is essential. We'll explore the nuances of crafting prompts that enable Copilot to deliver its best performance, thereby enhancing productivity and creativity in various Microsoft 365 applications such as Teams, Loop, Office, and more.

The session will guide attendees through techniques for developing clear, concise, and purposeful prompts. It will include a detailed look at Copilot Labs, an experimental platform for testing and refining prompt engineering strategies. We will cover best practices for prompt construction, common pitfalls to avoid, and strategies for refining interactions to achieve the desired outcomes.

Through practical examples and interactive demos, participants will gain the skills to communicate effectively with Copilot, transforming it into a powerful ally in their daily work. This session is designed for users who want to deepen their understanding of AI interaction, especially through prompt engineering, and leverage Copilot's full potential in their organizational context.

Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:10 PM · Room A405

Data recovery options for SharePoint/OneDrive

SharePoint and OneDrive include several content recovery options for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business administrators, site collection administrators, and end users. Educating your end users on SharePoint recovery options like the site recycle bin, versioning, and site collection recycle bin can lighten the burden on your admins.

Using either a GUI or PowerShell you can backup and restore your entire SharePoint Server farm or components of it. In SharePoint Server you can also perform more granular content backups by exporting site collections, site, libraries, and lists, and there are options for recovering these site collections, sites, lists and libraries from content databases that are no longer part of your SharePoint Server farm.

With a vast majority of your SharePoint Server content stored in SQL Server it is imperative that you have an efficient way to recover items or entire databases as quickly as possible.

This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint Server administrators to configure SharePoint as well as SQL Server for quick content recovery, minimizing the downtime and providing shorter and achievable Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).

Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:10 PM · Room A410

Get Real Time User Behavior Analytics of Your Microsoft 365 Users

Curious about what's really going on with your Microsoft 365 users? Skip the unreliable surveys and dive into real-time behavioral analytics with the free Microsoft Clarity.

This session will reveal how to harness the power of Clarity's free tools to boost digital adoption. You'll learn to identify popular pages, dead clicks, rage clicks, and more, transforming these insights into actionable improvements for user training and support. By the end, you'll be equipped to use heat maps, session recordings, and dashboard insights to pinpoint where users struggle, ensuring your governance and compliance measures are both effective and user-friendly.

Don’t miss this opportunity to revolutionize your user support strategy.

Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:10 PM · Room A311

Adapting Agents and Copilots to Maximize the Impact of AI within Your Organization

Do you struggle to understand Copilot, copilots, agents, and what this means for your organization? What is "agentic" anyhow? Join us to delve into the process of selecting the most suitable copilot driven solution for your specific use cases. Learn how to utilize Copilot Studio to assist you in designing and customizing your own agents, copilots, and even enhancing Microsoft 365 Copilot with your own use-cases.

• Learn how to use Copilot Studio to design and customize your own AI solutions.
• Gain knowledge on how to create captivating, relevant, and personalized results using agents and more.
• Understand what to use, and when, to maximize your Copilot journey

Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:10 PM · Room A312

Querying Power BI REST APIs within a Power BI Dataset

Would you like to build a Power BI dataset that could inventory your workspaces, reports, datasets, and refresh schedule? Would you'd like to query another dataset to import into your dataset? In this session I'll show you how to leverage an open-source custom connector that connects to Power BI's REST APIs to do just that.

Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:10 PM · Room A313

Build your knowledge hub with Copilot Pages, Copilot Studio and SharePoint Agents

Join this session to learn how to use Copilot inside of SharePoint and how to leverage Copilot studio to reach content that is stored within SharePoint to allow your employees to search for information stored in their Intranet in a better way with Copilot!

We will also look into creating Agents in SharePoint, and what is the difference between Agents in SharePoint and building the solution in Copilot Studio.

We will also look into Copilot Pages, since this in a way is one of the options to replace Viva Topics with.

Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:10 PM · Room A314

Protecting Your Organization from the Inside with Insider Risk Management

When someone hears the term data breach, they immediately think of an attack by a hacker or group of hackers from outside the organization, worming their way through the company's security infrastructure and accessing its sensitive data. That person would be correct, But many businesses don't realize that over 40% of all data breaches involve someone from within their organization. Whether malicious or accidental, many data breaches are caused by an internal actor. Insider Risk Management within Microsoft 365 provides protections to help ensure an organization can protect itself from within.

In this session, attendees will learn the features of Insider Risk Management, how it can be used to monitor and protect sensitive data, the various templates available, and which template will best meet their needs. Advanced options such as adaptive protections and forensic evidence gathering will be discussed. Finally, attendees will come away with a real-world understanding of how best to implement insider risk management within their organizations to protect themselves from the inside.

Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:10 PM · Room A316

Teams First Information Architecture and Governance

When planning out or updating a Microsoft 365 implementation, SharePoint is still important, but it really needs to start with Teams, and then the underlying SharePoint structure for a big part flows out of that. It's not just answering planning questions, but also ensuring that everyone understands that Teams is much more than a meeting and chat platform.

Topics we'll cover in this session include:

Introducing a maturity model on how organizations leverage Teams, SharePoint, Email, and OneDrive Level setting on how they work together Understanding the differences between Standard, Private, and Shared Channels, and the underlying SharePoint site collections Where do standalone Communication and Team Sites fit into the Teams and SharePoint structure Guests versus B2B Direct Connect in Teams, and external sharing in SharePoint Open source scripts and Power BI dashboards to inventory and analyze your file shares, SharePoint on-premises, and SharePoint Online Answering the question - what does a Team and a Channel represent in my organization MindJet as a tool for planning your IA Commercial and open-source solutions for implementing your IA Real-world scenarios and case studies

Thursday 2:20 PM - 3:30 PM · Room A403

Do this, Not that: Power Apps and Power Automate Edition

Join us for an exciting, fast paced session that will guide users through practical dos and don'ts, drawn from real-world solutions. The goal is to showcase some quick flow and app building concepts, in a "Do this, Not that" fashion, but also demonstrate our reasoning behind them.

Key Power Automate topics include:

• Workflow Architecture: Explore parent/child flows for optimized automation.
• Avoiding Hardcoded Values: Utilize filter queries and lookups for dynamic and adaptable workflows.
• Conditional Scenarios: Master controls like condition and switch for intelligent automation.
• Email Formatting: Enhance communication with HTML and/or Markup.
• Copilot: Tips for the best prompts to create and edit flows

Transitioning to Power Apps, we'll cover:

• Triggering Flows: Efficiently trigger flows with a button click for seamless integration.
• Form On Load Rules: Leverage local data by creating collections for enhanced form behavior.
• Branding and Design: Easily incorporate themes for a polished user interface.
• Copilot: Tips for the best prompts to create and edit apps

This session offers a rich experience, filled with tips and tricks inspired by hands-on experience. Whether you're a developer, business analyst, or IT professional, join us to gain practical insights and elevate your proficiency in Power Apps and Power Automate!

Thursday 2:20 PM - 3:30 PM · Room A405

Enhancing Communication and Collaboration through Customized Search Experiences

In SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams, we are building a flat hierarchy through separate site collections or Teams and creating connections through hub site relationships. This supports organizational change, cleaner permission models, and so much more but can prove challenging when you want to centralize a subset of content across these site collections.

Join us as we explore different approaches for centralizing your content in this modern decentralized world. You will leave with scenarios and best practices for how to structure and deliver content throughout your tenant.

What we'll cover: -Understanding the hub site structure and search scopes -Using the content type gallery for consistent information architecture -Centralizing content through search experiences (including PnP Modern Search web part and search verticals) -Creating intuitive microlearning content

Thursday 2:20 PM - 3:30 PM · Room A410

How to succeed in search: Acronyms, bookmarks, and Q&A results

Are your users breaking a sweat sifting through outdated and vague content in search of simple answers and results in Microsoft 365? Learn how to involve users in improving search for everyone in your organization by collaborating to incorporate acronyms, bookmarks, and Q&A result types in your search results across all of Microsoft 365.

We'll also cover some content lifecycle tips to help you keep unwanted and outdated results out of the picture (looking at you, Site Assets library full of icons and images).

While this session is targeted towards Search administrators (or global administrators), power users are welcome to (and should) attend to learn what's possible and to be empowered to start conversations with admins to make positive change org-wide.

Thursday 2:20 PM - 3:30 PM · Room A311

Build an Autonomous Agent with Copilot Studio

Agents are all of the rage, so let's talk about how to build one to take care of your tasks for you. We will show you how we use a Power Automate Cloud Flow to trigger your agent by sending some brief instructions, then let the power of AI take over. Instructions, knowledge, actions, and triggers will all be covered as we teach our agent to do our work for us.

Thursday 2:20 PM - 3:30 PM · Room A312

Power BI monitoring with Log Analytics Workspace

Are you an admin overseeing multiple Power BI workspaces and grappling with the challenge of monitoring activities and performance across all of them in a unified view? This session is designed precisely for you. Join us as we delve into a comprehensive guide on how to streamline and optimize your Power BI environment using Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and Kusto Query Language (KQL).

In this session, we’ll kick off with a Introduction to Azure Data Explorer and Kusto, highlighting their roles and benefits in data management and analysis. You will get acquainted with ADX as a high-performance big data analytics platform that powers real-time dashboards and analytic applications.

Next, we’ll dive into the Basics of KQL (Kusto Query Language), the powerful query language used by Azure Data Explorer. Learn how to write and execute KQL queries, understand its syntax, and harness its capabilities for effective data manipulation and analysis.

We’ll then explore Kusto Dashboards, which provide an intuitive way to visualize your data. Discover how to create, customize, and share dashboards that offer deep insights into your Power BI environment.

We’ll also cover the crucial step of Linking your Log Analytics Workspace to Power BI for logs. This segment will walk you through configuring the Log Analytics workspace and connecting it to Power BI, enabling seamless integration and comprehensive log management.

Finally, we’ll demonstrate Using Log Data to Build Monitoring Dashboards. Leverage the data collected in your Log Analytics workspace to create detailed and informative monitoring dashboards in Power BI. Gain the ability to monitor performance metrics, track activity logs, and identify issues across multiple workspaces, all within a single, cohesive interface.

By the end of this session, you will have the knowledge and tools to efficiently monitor and manage multiple Power BI workspaces, ensuring optimal performance and streamlined administration. Whether you’re a seasoned Power BI admin or new to the platform, this session will provide valuable insights and practical techniques to enhance your monitoring capabilities.

Thursday 2:20 PM - 3:30 PM · Room A313

SharePoint Premium: The journey to automating content processing

Do you want to stop wasting time on manually processing content in SharePoint? Meet SharePoint Premium, the AI-powered service that automates content processing for you. In this session, we'll show you the different model types that SharePoint Premium uses, including Custom Models and Prebuilt Models. With these models, SharePoint Premium can automate a variety of content processing tasks, from extracting information from structured forms to identifying metadata in unstructured text and extracting specific entities from content. Join me for this informative session and learn how SharePoint Premium can enhance your efficiency and accuracy for content processing.

Thursday 2:20 PM - 3:30 PM · Room A314

Unleashing AI Agents in Your Enterprise: An Introduction to Azure AI Agent Service

The way we build and integrate AI into our business processes is evolving—fast. Microsoft’s new Azure AI Agent Service is changing the game, offering a powerful, orchestrated AI agent framework that simplifies building intelligent, multi-modal applications.

In this interactive session, you’ll get an inside look at how Azure AI Agent Service enables AI agents that plan, reason, and act autonomously—without complex coding. Whether you’re exploring AI-driven copilots, automating business workflows, or building next-gen customer experiences, this service unlocks new possibilities for AI adoption at scale.

What You’ll Learn:

• What Azure AI Agent Service is and why it matters
• How AI agents use tools, memory, and actions to automate tasks
• Real-world use cases and demos showcasing AI-driven automation
• How to get started and integrate this service into your Azure environment

This session is perfect for attendees looking to cut through the hype and get practical with AI agents. Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and discover how Azure AI Agent Service can accelerate AI adoption in your organization!

Thursday 4:10 PM - 5:20 PM · Room A405

Revamp your Communications from Strategy to Technology

If you have ever done some type of communication, this session will help you make sense of where to start, what to use when and how to get your message out. If you are working on a large-scale campaign to the entire company or sending an update to your project team, there are all types of communications that happen in an organization. Learn how to create strategies that flow into governance guidelines and use the technology appropriately for the best results. This session will focus on using your intranet, SharePoint, Viva Engage, Viva Connections, Amplify and Teams as well as how Copilot can interact, and you will walk away with a better sense of where to start.

Thursday 4:10 PM - 5:20 PM · Room A410

Model Driven Power Apps are cool: Taking them to the Next Level!!

Now that we know that Model Driven Apps are cool, we are going to take them to the Next Level. This session will focus on building Model Driven apps quickly from a fun set of business requirements. I will jump right into App creation and form design while staying inside the Low Code/No Code box. I will demonstrate how we can get advanced functionality in our Model Driven Apps using the Microsoft provided customizations, Power Automate and maybe a little JavaScript. Along the way we will experience all that Model Driven Apps offer to Low Code/No Code developers and even use Copilot to help when possible.

Thursday 4:10 PM - 5:20 PM · Room A311

Building Multimodal Apps, Autonomous Agents, Copilots using GenAI(Azure AI Foundry & Copilot Studio)

An agent is a powerful AI companion that can handle a range of interactions and tasks, from resolving issues requiring complex conversations to autonomously determining the best action to take based on its instructions and context. Agents coordinate a collection of language models, along with instructions, context, knowledge sources, topics, actions, inputs, and triggers to accomplish your desired goals.

In this session, Microsoft AI and Business Applications MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Prashant G Bhoyar will cover the following topics in detail:

1. What are Multimodal GenAI Applications? 2)What are AI Agents?
2. What are Autonomous Agents?
3. What are Custom Copilots?
4. Azure AI Foundy: An in-depth overview of the Azure AI Foundy.
5. Microsoft Copilot Studio lets you create powerful AI-powered copilots for a range of requests—from providing simple answers to common questions to resolving issues requiring complex conversations. Engage with customers and employees in multiple languages across websites, mobile apps, Facebook, Microsoft Teams, or any channel supported by the Azure Bot Framework.
6. Responsible AI: Delve into the ethics and responsible use of AI.
7. Enterprise-level applications, Custom Copilots, AI Agents: Learn to develop robust, scalable multimodal applications, Custom Copilots, and AI Agents focusing on industry requirements and best practices.

Thursday 4:10 PM - 5:20 PM · Room A312

Deep Dive on Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Teams and SharePoint

Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Power BI can be tightly integrated within Microsoft Fabric. SharePoint can be a data source (lists), a container for data files (Excel. CSV etc in libraries), and as a dashboarding platform (pages). Teams can be a complete front end for reports, and host content contextually. Fabric can take your SharePoint data to new heights altogether.

This demo rich session will explore all of these scenarios in great depth. SharePoint data can be finicky to retrieve, and this session will show examples and suggest a few best practices for doing so. In addition, connecting Fabric to SharePoint opens up a whole new world for Excel.

Thursday 4:10 PM - 5:20 PM · Room A314

Copilot Studio in Action: Elevate ServiceNow with AI Agents

Why navigate to 10 different pages to get what you need when you can use just one ServiceNow agent? Join Lindsay in this session to learn how to build a ServiceNow-oriented Copilot Studio agent. We will start simple - asking questions that Copilot Studio then uses generative AI to crawl ServiceNow KBs and deliver you an answer to, with fallback answer sources able to be configured in Bing custom search.

But that's not enough fun, is it? We'll get into how to then help your user create an incident if they don't find the answer they are looking for, look up the status of their incidents and requests, and even escalate to your Help Desk team, all with the power of Copilot Studio and do-able with a free ServiceNow developer account to get you started.

By the end of this session, you will know the basics of Copilot Studio, using ServiceNow APIs to fetch information both with OOB connectors and custom HTTP calls, and ideas to build your very own tier one Help Desk agent.

Thursday 4:10 PM - 5:20 PM · Room A315

Reaching Airspeed Velocity to Get Your New Intranet Off the Ground

The creation of the first intranet happened in the latter part of the 20th century, but no one would recognize that as an intranet by today’s standards. Since then, intranet implementations and the platforms they’re built on have matured significantly and grown more complex.

In this session, we’ll be looking at the modern intranet through the lens of SharePoint. There are plenty of decisions to consider and points to deliberate even before you jump into action. We’ll discuss optimal team composition, roles that should be factored-in, technological considerations, stakeholder involvement/representation, project lifecycle needs, launch considerations, and more.

I’ll be sharing my experiences, highlights, triumphs, and painful lessons learned architecting intranets of varying sizes for the last decade or so.

In short: we will be covering all of the things I wish I had known before I ever started building intranets in the hopes they will spare you some of the pain I endured.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A404

Keep your content fresh and discoverable for Microsoft Copilot with SharePoint Advanced Management

Join us as we explore the power of SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) found within SharePoint Premium. SAM can help you keep your content fresh and discoverable for Microsoft Copilot. We will delve into strategies for managing your content lifecycle, including how to enable discovery and collaboration on hundreds of file types, as well as how SAM empowers other facets of SharePoint Premium.

You will learn how to leverage the capabilities of SharePoint Advanced Management to streamline your business processes and enhance user experiences. You will walk away with practical knowledge and actionable strategies to:

• Safely keep your SharePoint content fresh and up-to-date
• Enable discovery and collaboration on a wide range of file types
• Manage your content lifecycle with SharePoint Advanced Management

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A403

Planner and Power Platform: Boosting collaboration and visibility

With remote work and an excess of meetings to join every day, it can be hard to find time to sync every task you are working on with your entire team. This can lead to redundant tasks being performed and uneven distribution of work in a team. Finding the right solution to this problem can be time-consuming and fail adoption. The answer is to make it easy and accessible. In this session, we will take a deeper look at how to automate Microsoft Planner with Power Automate, view and modify reporting data with PowerBI, and make this easily accessible in Microsoft Teams.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A311

AI Showdown: Microsoft Copilot Studio vs. Azure AI Studio - Which One Will Transform Your Workflow?

Step into the future of productivity with our engaging session, "AI Showdown: Microsoft Copilot Studio vs. Azure AI Studio—Which One Will Transform Your Workflow?" This 70-minute session is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of these two powerful AI platforms, with real-world scenarios and demos, helping you determine which tool will best enhance your workflow and drive innovation in your organization.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A312

What are Power BI Metrics?

In this session, you'll learn about Power BI Metrics and how they can be used in your organization to track the metrics that matter to you.

You'll learn about:

1. Scorecards
2. Goals
3. Check-ins
4. Target and Current values

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A313

Deploying M365 to Solve Business Problems

Microsoft 365, including Copilot, Teams, SharePoint, Exchange, and more, offers a full suite of tools to solve business problems. But how do we know we're addressing the right problems? "Ship it and forget it" is no longer viable (if it ever was). We must define successful deployment, ensure solutions truly address business needs, and build trust with stakeholders.

This session will explore:

• Addressing Shadow IT consequences
• IT as a service framework
• Business engagement
• Holistic requirements gathering
• Defining success
• Embracing continuous improvement

Join Joy to learn how a Human First approach can maximize your tech skills and ensure effective M365 deployment.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A314

Start to Finish Approach for Governance of Power Platform

There is great popularity in the Power Platform, but with that comes the great responsibility of making sure it’s governed correctly, efficiently and able to scale to all areas of the business. During this session we will cover the aspects to enable business users while complying with business standards.  In this session we will cover themes such as architecture, security, role-based access, monitoring and alerting, and licensing considerations. Understanding where to start can take you to the finish line quicker and easier.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A315

Calendars! Calendars! Calendars!

With so many choices for calendars, it is hard to know which one to use for what.

In this session, we will explore the calendars offered by M365, when to use them, and how to make the most out of each type.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room A316

Super Charge your Power Apps and Copilots and Agents with Power Fx

Power Fx is the low-code language that can be used across the Microsoft Power Platform. It's a general-purpose, strong-typed, declarative, and functional programming language. Citizen developers and Professional developers can use it to build business applications.

In this demo-drive session, we will cover the following topics in detail.

• What is Power Fx?
• What are Data Types?
• What are Operators and identifiers, Tables, Variables, Imperative logic, and Global support?
• How can we use Power Fx in Power Platform to build the business application?
• Power Fx Best Practices

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A403

Navigating Document Approval in SharePoint: A Practical Case Study

At a medical research non-profit, different departments rely heavily on SOP documents, or Standard Operating Procedures. These documents have to go through annual reviews that are several layers deep, in addition to needing a group approval of the final SOP. In this session, Lindsay will break down exactly how she built SOP approval processes for six different departments using just SharePoint document libraries, Power Automate, and Approvals that have served their purpose effectively and efficiently for years.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A405

Ensure your intranet is ready for Copilot: How to plan an effective governance strategy

Are you tired of your intranet being a mess of unorganized, outdated, and non-compliant content? Do you have a governance plan that no one reads, follows, or cares about? Do you want to learn an approach to make your digital workplace more efficient, engaging, and secure? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this session is for you! Learn how to plan and implement governance for your intranet, Microsoft Viva, and Microsoft 365 in a way that actually works – and provides a framework to help you prepare and deploy Copilot. Whether you are new to governance or a seasoned pro, this session will give you the tips, tricks, and templates you need to succeed!

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A410

Improving Microsoft Search by improving your content practices

In a world where content is increasing exponentially every day, more and more people inside organizations are relying on Microsoft Search and AI-based tools (like Copilot) to help them break through their increasingly confused information environments. While these tools continue to improve and better understand people's 'intent', even the best cannot make up for poor content practices that plague most organizations.

In this session, Join Virgil as he explores how to improve your content practices to increase search findability and better support the people in your organization that rely on Microsoft Search to find the RIGHT content for what they need, when they need it.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A311

Build your Data-Driven Agent using Azure AI Foundry

Want to build intelligent agents that truly understand and act on your data? This session introduces you to Azure AI Foundry, a powerful platform designed to streamline the creation of data-driven agents. We'll move beyond theory and delve into a practical, hands-on approach, demonstrating how to leverage Foundry's capabilities to build agents that can connect to your data, reason, and automate tasks.

This session will guide you through the key steps of agent development using Azure AI Foundry, covering:

• Introduction to Azure AI Foundry: A comprehensive overview of Foundry's architecture, key components, and the benefits it offers for building data-driven agents. We'll explore how Foundry simplifies the agent development lifecycle and accelerates time to market.

• Connecting to Your Data: Learn how to seamlessly integrate your data sources with Azure AI Foundry. We'll discuss various data connectors, data ingestion techniques, and best practices for ensuring data quality and security.

• Building Agent Logic: Explore the tools and frameworks within Foundry for defining the logic and behavior of your agents. This includes using pre-built components, customizing agent actions, and implementing decision-making processes.

• Leveraging Azure AI Services: Discover how to integrate Azure AI services, such as Azure Cognitive Services for natural language processing and Azure Machine Learning for predictive analytics, into your Foundry agents to enhance their intelligence and capabilities.

• Agent Deployment and Management: Learn about the deployment options available within Azure AI Foundry and how to manage your agents at scale. We'll cover monitoring, logging, and other essential aspects of agent lifecycle management.

• Real-World Use Cases and Examples: Explore real-world applications of data-driven agents built with Azure AI Foundry across various industries. These examples will showcase the potential of Foundry and inspire your own agent development projects.

This session is ideal for developers, data scientists, and anyone interested in building intelligent, data-driven agents. While some familiarity with Azure and AI concepts is helpful, no prior experience with Azure AI Foundry is required. Come prepared to learn how to unlock the power of your data and create intelligent agents that can drive real business value.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A312

Bring Your SharePoint Data to Life Using Power BI!

Power BI can transform how your users see and interact with your SharePoint data! In this session, you'll learn tips, tricks and best practices for using SharePoint with Power BI. We'll start by discussing the "out of the box" SharePoint list integration with Power BI and Power BI licensing. Then we'll move on to importing list data into Power BI and transforming that data. Finally, we'll create and publish a Power BI report and embed that report on a SharePoint page.

Attend this session and see how Power BI can bring you SharePoint data to life!

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A313

Discover the Full Potential of Microsoft Lists with Power Platform

Microsoft Lists, a core component of Microsoft 365, has been significantly enhanced through its integration with the Power Platform. In this session, we will examine three fundamental features of the Power Platform embedded within Microsoft Lists. Together, we'll explore the baked in options for the following:

Power Apps: Form Options Comparison

• Create an App: Build a canvas app directly connected to a List
• Customize Forms: Integrate Power Apps into a native List form

Power Automate: Streamline Processes with Pre-built Flows

• Content Approval: Navigate page approval processes effortlessly.
• Request Sign-off: Simplify decision-making with streamlined audit trail
• Reminder Options: Specify a date for task follow-ups

Power BI: Unlocking Insights from Data

• Visualize Lists: Quickly transform data into compelling visual narrative
• Microsoft List as a Data Source: Create refreshable reports connected directly to List data

Live demos throughout the session will illustrate practical implementations of these tools. Additionally, we'll address the pivotal question of when organizations may outgrow integrated options, along with essential licensing considerations for scaling up to advanced solutions.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A314

Using Microsoft Security Copilot with Microsoft 365

What would Microsoft 365 Security be without a Copilot? In this session we will explore how Microsoft Copilot for Security can be used to revolutionize your organization's Microsoft 365 security posture. The session will provide an in-depth understanding of the integration between Copilot and Microsoft 365 security features, showcasing how AI can help turn questions about the security of your Microsoft 365 tenant into action.

Key topics to be covered include:

• An overview of Microsoft Copilot for Security
• What capabilities you can take advantage throughout the Microsoft 365 ecosystem
• Queries you can run to gain insights about security posture and where it might be lacking.

Join me and gain some practical insights and actionable strategies to optimize your security practices using Microsoft Copilot for Security, ensuring a robust defense against evolving cyber threats.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A315

Exploring Microsoft 365 migration considerations and tools

Congratulations, on your decision to move to Microsoft 365. If your mind is running rampant on how to complete the migration, this session is for you.

We will begin by exploring the steps necessary during the following migration phases • Before the migration • Completing the migration • Managing the cloud-based content after migration

As you can guess, you’re going to need to know what the best approach is to complete the migration, so we will also discuss what your migration options are, and what tools are available, including out of the box tools like the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT), the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT), Migration Manager, as well as several other tools to help streamline and successfully complete your migration to Microsoft 365.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A316

What You Need to Know Before You Build Your Modern SharePoint Disaster Recovery Plan

Building a modern disaster recovery (DR) plan these days is no walk in the park. You may have an on-premises SharePoint farm, but you may be among those who are letting Microsoft or another cloud partner manage their SharePoint environment. In these sorts of situations, what should you be focused on with your DR plan? Are your partner’s service-level agreements and approaches to data protection appropriate for your organization? Are you even aware of what the folks who are managing your SharePoint environment do to protect your data? These questions, and many others, are what we will be answering within this session. We will cover the questions you should be asking when you create your own DR plans, as well as the questions you should be asking your cloud partners about theirs. At the conclusion of this session, you’ll leave with the firm understanding and the knowledge that you understand what’s important and what’s not when it comes to SharePoint Disaster Recovery Planning.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room A403

Using PowerApps and Flow Together: Made for each other

PowerApps and Flow are both powerful tools for the citizen and professional developer. But using them together can take your application to a whole new level. In this talk we'll get you started with how to invoke a Flow from a PowerApp, how to pass information to the Flow, and how to return values back to Powerapps when the Flow completes. Along the way we'll discuss Best Practices that can make your PowerApps and Flow work more efficiently togethter. Even if you know both PowerApps and Flow this session will help you get the most out of using them together.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room A405

Supercharging Creativity: Transforming Ideas into Impactful Content with Microsoft Copilot

Explore how Microsoft 365 Copilot can revolutionize your content creation process from ideation to execution.

In this session, we’ll demonstrate how to leverage Copilot’s advanced ideation, drafting, and content structuring capabilities to produce engaging marketing materials, compelling presentations, and professional digital content.

Learn how to transform initial concepts into comprehensive content strategies by combining Copilot’s natural language generation, creative assistance, and formatting tools.

By the end, attendees will be equipped to use Copilot as a co-creator, capable of accelerating every stage of the creative process.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room A410

No Code Deep Impact: Advanced Column types, Business Rules & Business Process Flows in Power Apps

If you are looking for No Code ways to have a Deep Impact on your Power App development, then you are in the right place. In this session we will discuss and demonstrate how different Advanced Column (field) types, Business Rules and Business Process Flows can have a profound effect on the functionality of your Power Apps. These No Code customizations can add great value to a Power App when use separately or together. This session will demonstrate how to use these different customizations together to build a powerful solution.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room A311

Next-Gen SharePoint: Elevating Collaboration with Copilot & Premium Integration

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, SharePoint continues to stand at the forefront of collaborative innovation. The introduction of Copilot in SharePoint marks a new chapter in its journey, offering unparalleled advancements in AI-driven collaboration and productivity. SharePoint Premium on the other hand helps you automate extracting data from your content to enhance your organization’s road to better compliance. In this session, we will dive on how you can use AI in SharePoint to create Copilot custom models to generate files, and leverage SharePoint Premium to automate the content processing and extraction of your data. You will learn how you can create an end-to-end solution for your users to enhance their collaboration using custom Copilot models in SharePoint, and to eliminate the manual document processing.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room A312

Leveraging Large Language Models with Power BI

Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, have the potential to transform how you develop and deliver Power BI solutions. In this session, you'll learn how to integrate Azure OpenAI and GitHub Copilot into your Power BI development process, leveraging prompt engineering techniques to improve your solutions.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room A314

Implementing Microsoft 365 Data Loss Prevention. A Real World Approach

As more and more organizations' content is stored in cloud locations, it can become further at risk for accidental or malicious misuse. Users make good use of cloud collaboration features to share documents with others. Information contained within documents or even the intended recipient of the files may not be properly considered before transmission. This can often lead to data loss and poses significant risks to the organization. To protect against the loss of data control, organizations are looking for solutions that protect the data when it is shared.

Join David as he takes a practical approach to understand data loss prevention techniques and capabilities available within Microsoft 365. David will also provide a real-world approach to implementing the technologies with a strong consideration of the balance of protection and user experience.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room A315

Ensuring brand consistency with Microsoft 365

Learn how to keep your brand consistent and improve your digital presence using SharePoint, Office, Stream, and Designer.

This session will explore effective strategies for leveraging these powerful tools to maintain a cohesive and recognizable brand identity. By integrating the functionalities of SharePoint, Office, Stream, and Designer, you can create a unified digital experience that reflects your brand's values and aesthetics.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room A316

Implementing Purview Information Protection with the Traffic Light Protocol

With the speed of AI development and the need for Copilot readiness, robust data governance and protection strategies are paramount. This workshop delves into the integration of Microsoft Purview Information Protection with the Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) to enhance safe sharing practices within organizations. We will explore the implementation of sensitivity labels aligned with TLP designations, enabling a clear and consistent approach to categorizing and controlling access to sensitive information.

In this workshop we'll cover:

• Business overview of the need for Purview Information Protection and what the Traffic Light Protocol is
• Explore what Entra ID Conditional Access Policies and Authentication Contexts are
• Review the Azure Information Protection Service
• Go over inventory tools for reviewing the current Microsoft 365 tenant setup
• Setup a dev tenant and get hands on
	○ Create an Authentication Context
	○ Create Conditional Access Policies
	○ Configure MFA requirements
	○ Define and publish the TLP sensitivity labels
	○ Configure auto-labelling rules
	○ Define external sharing rules
	○ Apply labels to 
		○ Sites, libraries, folders, and files
		○ Emails and meetings
		○ Teams, channels, and conversations

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room A403

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows

In this session we’ll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate.

We will also learn how to restart the workflow from a given stage and how to include Dynamic Approvers. We'll dig into how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We will also learn how to log workflow history and ways to retain the history indefinitely.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room A404

Transforming SharePoint Experiences with AI-Driven Agents

In this session, Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer will explore how intelligent agents can supercharge your SharePoint experience. You will learn how to build a SharePoint Agent that can enhance productivity, and provide tailored user support. Then decide when a customized agent is the right choice to meet unique business needs and how to weigh the benefits and limitations of out-of-the-box solutions versus custom-built agents. Gain practical insights and best practices to make informed decisions that drive value for your organization. Whether you're new to intelligent agents or looking to elevate your SharePoint capabilities, this session has something for everyone!

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room A405

AI-Powered Intranet: Reinvent Your Digital Workplace

AI is changing the way organizations communicate, collaborate, and operate. Are you maximizing the potential of AI to create a smarter, more engaged digital workplace?

AI is no longer optional—it’s essential. 3 out of 4 leaders agree that failing to adopt AI in the next 12 to 24 months will be harmful to organizational success.

Learn how AI has the power to reinvent intranets for the modern workforce.

In this eye-opening session we’ll explore how you can:

• Transform Communications: Learn how AI-powered tools can reshape internal communications and knowledge management.
• Simplify Workflows: Discover smart automation techniques that streamline processes and improve searchability.
• Integrate Seamlessly: Get practical strategies for integrating AI into your Microsoft 365 intranet.
• Avoid Pitfalls: Understand common challenges and how to ensure AI adoption aligns with your long-term goals.
• Experience AI Live: Watch a live demo showcasing next-gen intranet capabilities.

Join this session to secure and start your journey towards a more intelligent and engaging digital workplace.

Who Should Attend?

• Internal Communications Leaders – Improve messaging and engagement
• Corporate Communications Teams – Streamline content creation and governance.
• HR & Marketing Professionals – Deliver personalized, AI-driven experiences.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room A311

Be Your Own Copilot: How to Create your Own Generative AI Assistant

Copilot... it's EVERYWHERE. Copilot and Agents promise to make your work life better, give you more hours in your day, and generally revolutionize the world. That being said, maybe you don't have a Copilot license? Maybe you need to go beyond ChatGPT to actually have an Agent perform tasks for you. How can the YOU harness the power of Generative AI to make YOUR job easier, to automate YOUR processes, and find real world uses for Generative AI. Go beyond the hype and join this demo-packed session as Mark Rackley walks you through real world examples of how to leverage Azure OpenAI today to create custom Copilots without needing a Copilot license or worrying about your data leaving your tenant.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room A312

Git Integration and Azure DevOps for Power BI - Implementing CI/CD

Can BI development follow application development lifecycle? Answer is "YES!" Power BI Deployment Pipelines help us achieve the "Deploy" part of the CI/CD life cycle in a manual way, but with Fabric the Git integration now makes it easy to use Azure Devops. Versioning, automation of deployment can be achieved and enterprise BI teams can bring application lifecycle management to their power BI environments. The session will focus mainly on Power BI objects (reports, datasets) in the a Fabric workspace. Agenda: Understand Git Integration Manage workspace with git Test & Deploy Type : Light on slides, heavy on demo This session is perfect for those who are looking bring application life cycle management (ALM) to the their Power BI development space.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room A313

Reasoning over non Microsoft 365 content in Microsoft 365 using Search and Copilot

Search in Microsoft 365 is currently limited to content that is stored natively in its tools, how can you add in your own business content to the search index?

In this discussion we will discuss the options for getting your content into the search system in Microsoft 365. We will cover hybrid scenarios and how to best leverage them in addition to some other strategies that will help get your content ready for Microsoft Search.

We will also be discussing Microsoft Graph Connectors that allow your content to be visible in Microsoft Search and Microsoft Copilot

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room A316

Managing Microsoft 365 using Azure Functions and Runbooks

Managing Microsoft 365 services efficiently is essential to the productivity of any organization. With the rise of cloud services, IT professionals are constantly seeking ways to automate routine tasks, streamline workflows, and ensure security at scale. In this session, you will learn how to automate your Microsoft 365 operations using the power of Azure services. We will discuss the following:

Introduction to Azure Automation: Learn how Azure Automation simplifies Microsoft 365 management. Explore Azure Functions, Runbooks, and Logic Apps and know when to use them.

Azure Functions for Microsoft 365:

• Learn serverless computing with Azure Functions.
• Create functions that respond to events in Microsoft 365.
• Write scalable code and pay only for the resources you use.

PowerShell Runbooks: Automate workflows with Azure Automation Runbooks. Develop, deploy, and manage Runbooks for routine tasks in your Microsoft 365 environment.

This session is for IT professionals, system administrators, and cloud architects responsible for managing Microsoft 365 environments. Whether you are new to Azure Automation or looking to enhance your existing skills, this session will provide valuable insights into automating and optimizing your Microsoft 365 operations.