Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room S102a

Next level productivity with Microsoft Copilot

Are you looking to take your productivity to the next level? Microsoft Copilot will help you achieve just that! In this workshop, learn how Microsoft Copilot works with Microsoft 365, Bing Chat, Microsoft Edge, and Windows 11. Discover how OpenAI is integrated into Microsoft 365 to streamline your business processes, automate tasks, improve workflows, and increase productivity while saving time and effort.

Deep Dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot across pivotal apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. Discover how Copilot enhances your capabilities for document creation, data analysis, presentation design, email management, and note-taking. It’s your digital companion, optimizing each task, making daily operations smoother and unleashing new potentials for efficiency.

You'll discover Microsoft's new Bing Chat, powered by ChatGPT. Learn how to get more relevant, up-to-date, and annotated search results using natural language chat. You'll discover how the new Bing Chat helps you draft emails, summarize documents, draft blogs, and more!

You'll discover how to use Microsoft Teams premium features powered by Microsoft Copilot such as: Intelligent recap: A summary of the meeting with key points and tasks. Smart transcription: A live transcript of the meeting with speakers and edits. Meeting insights: A dashboard that shows relevant information for the meeting. Live captions: A real-time translation of the speech into different languages.

You’ll also learn how to use Power Apps and Power Automate where you can describe what you want in natural language and let AI build it for you! For example, you can use Power Apps “Ideas” to create an app from a description3, or use Power Automate “create a cloud flow from a description” or “format data by example” features3 to automate your data processing.

The future of the modern workplace is here! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Microsoft 365 and OpenAI can help you achieve more with less effort! With hands-on exercises and practical tips, you'll leave the workshop with a solid understanding of how to use Microsoft 365 and OpenAI to maximize your productivity.

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 S102d

Microsoft 365 Power User Workshop

The complete Microsoft 365 workshop – from beginner to power user in a single day! This comprehensive workshop covers everything you need to know to get started quickly with Microsoft 365.

Upon completion of this workshop, you’ll know how to:

• Meet, chat, and work together more efficiently using Microsoft Teams.
• Manage and share content with SharePoint and OneDrive.
• Manage tasks and projects better with Planner, To-do, and Lists.
• Connect and engage with Outlook and Yammer.
• Organize and stay in sync across chat, meetings, or documents using Loop.
• Create and be more productive with Whiteboard, Forms, Word, * Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and more!

This hands-on workshop will empower you to use Microsoft 365 to its fullest potential – maximizing personal productivity, collaborating with your team, or solving challenges across the organization.

Discover what’s possible with Microsoft 365.

Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:40 PM · Room S103d

Unleash Your Creativity: Design Power Apps Like a Pro with Microsoft Syntex

Transform your Power App design process and drive business results with data from Microsoft Syntex. This AI-powered technology streamlines the data extraction process, providing you with the information you need to create custom Power Apps that meet the unique needs of your organization. With Power Apps, you can focus on designing the app that will deliver real business value, while it takes care of the technical details.

Attend our session to discover how to efficiently extract data with Microsoft Syntex, store it in Dataverse, and manipulate it before creating your Power App.

Say goodbye to manual data extraction and hello to a more efficient, effective Power App design process. Unleash your creativity and take your app design to the next level with Microsoft Syntex.

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 1:40 PM - 2:50 PM · Room S105a

Microsoft Copilot - the future is now!

The future of the modern workplace is now with Microsoft Copilot! In this session you'll learn how Microsoft Copilot works with Microsoft 365, Bing Chat, Microsoft Edge, and Windows 11 to streamline your business processes and increase productivity while saving you time and effort.

Deep Dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot across pivotal apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. Discover how Copilot enhances your capabilities for document creation, data analysis, presentation design, email management, and note-taking. It’s your digital companion, optimizing each task, making daily operations smoother and unleashing new potentials for efficiency.

You'll discover Microsoft's new Bing Chat, powered by ChatGPT. Learn how to get more relevant, up-to-date, and annotated search results using natural language chat. You'll discover how the new Bing Chat helps you draft emails, summarize documents, draft blogs, and more!

The future of the modern workplace is here! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Microsoft Copilot can help you achieve more with less effort! With lots of demos and practical tips, you'll leave with a solid understanding of how to use Microsoft Copilot to maximize your productivity.

Wednesday 3:30 PM - 4:40 PM · Room S102d

Data Security: It's Not Just for IT Anymore

Data security is more important than ever before. As businesses and individuals move more of their data to the cloud, protecting it from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction is essential.

In this session, we will focus on data security for end users in Microsoft 365. We will discuss the common threats to data security and the security features available in Microsoft 365 to help protect your data. We will also share tips and advice on how to use these features effectively.

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Understand the importance of data security and the common threats to data security
• Identify the key data security features in Microsoft 365
• Learn how to use Microsoft 365 security features to protect your data
• Implement best practices for data security in your workplace

This session is ideal for end users in Microsoft 365 who want to learn more about how to protect their data. No prior knowledge of data security is required.

Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room S104b

Forms, Forms, and more Forms. Data gathering for the modern info worker

Microsoft List (and SharePoint) forms, Forms with Power Apps, and Microsoft Forms. Which one (or more) should you use, and when?

This session will walk through updated capabilities and options available to no-code makers and citizen developers when building solutions with forms.

Thursday 1:20 PM - 2:30 PM · Room S104b

Modern Work Architecture - From the Core to Professional Self

Learn how Microsoft is empowering employee experiences at the core, creativity of personal and team productivity, connection to community and leaders, and your professional experiences.

You will walk away with a new sense of Modern Work Architecture that envisions where work gets done and what matters to you and employees you may support.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room S103a

Goodbye, TwoNote - A OneNote refresher

OneNote is moving from two separate apps (Win 10 and desktop versions) to a single version, based on the desktop version simply called OneNote (previously known as OneNote 2016).

In this session we'll reintroduce ourselves to OneNote, learn some exciting tips and tricks along with business use ideas, and discuss what's new and what's coming for OneNote.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room S102a

Getting Started Making It Fancy with JSON Formatting

Want to do some fancy formatting? Don't know JSON? Don't worry. If you know how to copy and paste, you too can use JSON to make things fancy.

Some of the fancy things we'll do include:

1. Add Approve and Reject buttons for a list item
2. Create inline editing without even clicking on Edit in grid view
3. Add conditional formatting to a calendar

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room S102bc

Power employee engagement with Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams

Hybrid and remote work are the new normal, but work trends indicate the greatest challenges are a sense of community, connection, relationship-building, and inspiration.

This session highlights how Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams come together to foster company culture, unlock communication and engagement opportunities, organize content, and spark employee creativity.