Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room S102bc

Maximizing Microsoft 365 Productivity: Practical Strategies and Use Cases for Power Users

Are you ready to supercharge your Microsoft 365 skills and take your productivity to the next level? Join us for a dynamic and interactive workshop covering practical productivity tips for using the Microsoft 365 ecosystem to improve your and your team's everyday workflows.

In this workshop, you'll learn from experts who will showcase real-world examples of how to leverage the full potential of Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Planner, OneDrive, Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft Viva. We will also discuss Microsoft Loop and the newly announced Microsoft 365 Copilot!

You'll come away with the best ways to use the many tools in the Microsoft 365 toolbelt, including which apps work best in different scenarios. On top of that, you'll get examples of bringing multiple apps together to extend the value of your digital workplace, based on proven practices your presenters have seen work well for power users in other organizations.

From advanced collaboration techniques to automating everyday tasks, you'll come away with practical tips and tricks that you can put into action right away.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room S102a

Mastering Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a powerful collaboration platform that allows teams to work together seamlessly, no matter where they are. It's built on top of the Microsoft cloud, which means it can access all the powerful tools and applications available in Office 365. With Teams, you can manage conversations, share files, schedule meetings, and work with colleagues in real time.

This workshop will cover everything you need to know to get the most out of Microsoft Teams. We'll start with an overview of the platform and walk through how to start with Teams. From there, we'll dive into best practices for managing different scenarios, such as managing remote teams, running effective meetings, and collaborating on projects. We'll also explore how Teams interacts with other Microsoft applications, such as Viva, Loop, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, Dataverse, and the Power Platform. You'll learn how to use these tools to streamline your workflows and increase productivity.

The workshop will cover data, management, file sharing, governance, and application extensions with Power Platform. We'll also explore the different types of chats and adaptative cards available in Teams. By the end of the workshop, you'll understand how Teams works and how to use it to enhance collaboration within your organization.

To get the most out of the hands-on portion of the workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer with a demo environment. While tablets or phones may be used, they may not offer the best experience for completing the labs. This workshop is perfect for organizations considering deploying Microsoft Teams or just starting their journey with the platform. We'll assess everything from A to Z to ensure you have the knowledge and tools to succeed.

Wednesday 9:50 AM - 11:00 AM · Room S104a

Create a Curated Experience in Teams!

You will learn the needs of generational workforces and how to create curated experiences in Teams based on your organization's personas.

You will see how four diverse types of employee's experiences in Teams have unique needs: Deployment Team; Information Workers; Firstline Workers; and Executives. And learn to apply policies and settings that matter to them.

Wednesday 1:40 PM - 2:50 PM · Room S104a

A closer look at Approvals and Updates in Microsoft Teams

Approvals and Updates are two apps in Microsoft Teams you can use to customize and standardize routine business processes for your team. For example, you might customize a project request template only your team can use.

Or maybe you want to create a travel approval template the whole organization can use. And with Updates, you can automate regular requests to gather project status updates, performance reviews, and more.

In one hour, you'll learn how these two built-in Teams tools can boost your team's consistency and efficiency.

Wednesday 3:30 PM - 4:40 PM · Room S104b

Host engaging and professional virtual events with Town Halls in Microsoft Teams

Virtual events have become vital to connect and communicate with your organization, customers, and partners in the hybrid work era. Whether you want to host a company-wide town hall, an internal broadcast, or a customer-facing webinar, you need a reliable and easy-to-use platform to deliver a high-quality and interactive experience. In this session, you will learn how to use Town Halls in Microsoft Teams, a new virtual event experience that integrates advanced production capabilities into the familiar Teams meeting experience. You will discover how to create, schedule, and manage Town Halls in Teams and use the virtual green room, the studio mode, and the Q&A panel. You will also get a sneak peek into the upcoming features and enhancements that will make Town Halls even more powerful and engaging. Join us and learn how to take your virtual events to the next level with Town Halls in Microsoft Teams.

Wednesday 3:30 PM - 4:40 PM · Room S105a

Real World Tips and Tricks for Driving Software Deployment

What do companies like Lego, AEG, Polaris, Takeda, and the Special Olympics have in common? They all have useful tips and tricks around driving internal usage of software to help them move from synchronous work to asynchronous work.

In this session we will hear from those customers and learn how they drove success in their organizations and how you can as well.

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room S104a

Become a Microsoft Teams Rockstar

Microsoft Teams has been designed for teamwork and flexibility, powered by the Microsoft cloud to bring together the best of Microsoft 365 into a single workspace for working with people, managing conversations, maintaining files, and integrating Office 365 applications, so everyone has instant access to everything they need for a successful collaboration.

With great features come great questions, and this session will cover how to plan, implement, and master Microsoft Teams. Be ready for an overview of Microsoft Teams, examples of how to get started with Microsoft Teams, best practices for managing different scenarios, and how Viva, Loop, the Power Platform, SharePoint + OneDrive, and Dataverse interacts with Microsoft Teams.

If your organisation is considering deploying or starting your journey to Microsoft Teams, this session is for you as we'll assess everything from A to Z.

Thursday 10:40 AM - 11:50 AM · Room S103bc

Power BI Metrics - Tracking the metrics that matter to you

Metrics and scorecards are a Power BI feature that enables you to track and act upon on the metrics that matter to your organization.

In this presentation, you'll learn

1. What are Power BI Metrics and how are they intended to be used
2. See some examples of real-world scorecards
3. See how to set up a scorecard demo
4. Show you how to set up Power Automate to trigger actions when a metric status changes
5. Show the Metric integration in Microsoft Teams

Thursday 10:40 AM - 11:50 AM · Room S104a

Unearthing the power of Microsoft Teams Room

In this transformative era of meetings, the fusion of physical and digital spaces offers unparalleled opportunities for innovation, connection, and productivity.

This session will cover how Microsoft Teams Rooms revolutionizes how we work by providing advanced, interactive, and captivating meeting spaces that cater to the needs of hybrid work environments.

You will leave this session learning how to create an engaging, inclusive meeting room atmosphere that fosters collaboration and teamwork among remote and in-person participants.

Thursday 10:40 AM - 11:50 AM · Room S106a

Automated Notifications in Microsoft Teams

With many people spending their workday in Microsoft Teams, receiving notifications right within Teams can be much more effective than email notifications. These might be notifications of new sales, documents needing to be approved, employees joining the team, or any number of things. This session will show you how to use Power Automate to automatically create and update actionable messages within Microsoft Teams, as well as how to trigger Power Automate flows from within Teams. We'll look at the Teams-related actions and triggers available in Power Automate, and also see how to create interactive Adaptive Cards for use within Teams.

Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:10 PM · Room S103d

Protect Microsoft 365 data with immutability and monitoring

In the last 12 months, 53% of surveyed organizations stated that they had experienced data loss or corruption in SaaS applications. Luckily, more organizations are adopting third-party backup solutions for Microsoft 365, but many are still vulnerable to data loss.

Join this session from Veeam to learn everything you need to know about Microsoft 365 backup. We will not only show you how easy it is to start protecting your Microsoft 365 data for FREE, but you will also get a close look at how to make Microsoft 365 backup data immutable, leverage advanced monitoring capabilities, and provide self-service restore options to your users.

Thursday 1:20 PM - 2:30 PM · Room S106b

SharePoint portals: Launching your intranet into the future

Creating your organization's intranet - across portals and sites - can empower your users to collaborate, create, and connect in new and exciting ways. Learn more about all the best practices for your portal strategy using SharePoint, Teams, Viva Connections and more.

We'll have tons of demos across big features and small, tied together with guidance and best practices to make the most of your intranet investments.

Thursday 4:30 PM - 5:40 PM · Room S104a

Viva + Teams | Your Cure to Productivity Paranoia

The way we work has fundamentally changed, and organizations are clamoring to connect disparate digital tools into an intuitive and holistic digital workspace. Microsoft Viva—Microsoft's employee experience platform—is becoming the central hub of a successful digital workplace. With an evolving collection of modules spanning four key pillars (Connection, Insight, Purpose, & Growth), understanding the Viva ecosystem can feel daunting.

In this session, Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Eric Overfield breaks down the many modules of Microsoft Viva and shows you how they can bring transparency, efficiency, and productivity to your workforce. Walk away with practical applications to configure and architect your Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva-empowered digital workspace.

In this session:

• Understand each of the Generally Available Viva modules as well as recent Viva news
• See how the modules integrate and a day in the life of an employee using Viva
• Learn successful patterns & practices when rolling out Viva components in your organization

Thursday 4:30 PM - 5:40 PM · Room S106b

Teams, Power Automate and Copilot - automate Microsoft 365 like never before!

Learn about the different ways in which your organization can be more productive with Power Automate, M365 and Copilot.

Discover experiences across, SharePoint, Teams, Excel and Windows and Process mining-based insights that help you get time to focus on what's important.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room S104a

Maximizing Productivity : Unraveling Microsoft Teams Premium

In this session, you will learn to unleash collaboration excellence with Microsoft Teams Premium during this session.

We will cover an in-depth exploration of Teams Premium, licensing details, and an exciting glimpse into the future product roadmap.

This session will also cover the deployment use cases and various collaboration scenarios. Join this session to explore Teams Premium and its practical applications comprehensively.