Microsoft MVP, Owner and Microsoft 365 Consultant at CollabFront Microsoft 365 is the world's leading productivity suite that empowers you to work from anywhere, on any device, with a range of cloud-based apps and services. Microsoft’s Power Platform is a set of low-code or no-code solutions that enable you to build custom apps, automate workflows, and analyze data.
In this workshop, you will be provided with a detailed exploration of these platforms, incorporating examples from real-world applications. We will of course look at how Copilot integrates with each product along the way! This information is useful if you've moved to the cloud, are thinking about moving, or are still exploring its value. Some of the topics covered:
• An overview of Microsoft’s cloud platforms and the evolution of collaboration.
• An introduction and best practices for collaborative work in Microsoft 365, encompassing Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage.
• A primer on the Power Platform's favored tools: Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power BI.
• An in-depth look at the workings of Microsoft 365 Groups.
• Hands-on exercises and examples for integrating the Power Platform and Microsoft 365 to achieve business goals – bring your laptop and have company permission to use the services covered. This starter kit is designed to enhance your understanding of the features within your cloud platform and learn how it can be leveraged within your organization. Microsoft MVP, Owner and Microsoft 365 Consultant at CollabFront Founder & Executive Director, Left Uncharted Artificial intelligence (AI) is the largest user interface paradigm shift in 60 years. It will inherently shift how we interact with content and complete tasks moving forward. How can you organize, secure, and process your content in Microsoft 365 to maximize its value and prepare it for the next-generation AI assistant- Microsoft 365 Copilot? In this workshop, we will cover: Technical insights: Understand the differences between natural language search and semantic indexes, along with best practices for information architecture. Effective search strategies: Explore when to leverage Copilot versus Microsoft search for optimal results to support the findability and discoverability of business-critical content. Preparing your content: Perform a security and governance audit and adjust search or permission settings before content is unintentionally exposed through new AI tools. Integrating Copilot into your daily workflow: Understand the new user experience behaviors emerging and learn better practices for launching Copilot to your organization so employees can unlock the full potential of AI-driven productivity. By the end of the workshop, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to effectively organize your Microsoft 365 content in SharePoint Online, enabling you to harness the power of Copilot and unleash the knowledge stored in your organization. Upskill Tech Microsoft 365 is a powerful platform that can empower business users to create their own solutions to more effectively handle daily business processes. This session is designed to showcase the capabilities of Microsoft 365 to inspire you to start building your own custom business solutions. In this session, we'll explore real world solutions to demonstrate the capabilities of Microsoft 365 and inspire you to build your own. A few solutions we'll discuss:
Using SharePoint and Teams to build collaboration spaces for getting work done and publishing portals for sharing and distributing information. SharePoint hub sites and homes sites for organizing and future proofing your workspaces and portals complete with navigation, access controls, branding, and more. SharePoint News for news, announcements, and updates to keep your teammates up-to-date. Microsoft Lists and Power Automate for simple and powerful approval, tracking, and publishing processes. Planner for central task management with your team. Viva Engage communities for enterprise information sharing such as frequently asked questions, weekly tips & tricks, town halls, and executive communications. Stream for creating, editing, and sharing video across Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Viva Engage. And Microsoft Teams to bring everything together and provide a central gateway for it all. YouTuber | MVP |MCT | Solutions Architect Automate routine tasks, eliminate the chance for errors, and free up time for more important work with robotic process automation (RPA) and Power Automate for desktop. This workshop allows you to experience the utility of RPA and Power Automate for desktop and use out of box actions such as manipulating Excel documents as part of an end-to-end invoice processing solution. In addition, with the Copilot feature available, building the desktop flows has become easier than ever! Hence join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer as he walks you everything that Power Automate desktop has to offer. Founder & Executive Director, Left Uncharted Microsoft, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group Senior product manager - SharePoint in Microsoft 365 CEO atwork, MVP Azure and Microsoft 365, Microsoft RD Discover today what you can immediately put into practice tomorrow. Take a bold step and choose your next Microsoft tech adventure. We’ll share news and demos of recent announcements, with roadmap highlights – to prepare you for what's to come. And then we walk through proven scenarios, examples of what you can do right now – from employing Copilot and AI, to enhancing employee experiences, to integrating content services that streamline your work. It’s all grounded by real-world use and adoption. Discover ways to optimize your investments in Copilot, Teams, Viva, SharePoint, OneDrive, and more. This keynote is your map – a guide to your future present of Microsoft 365, ripe with opportunity. Founder & Executive Director, Left Uncharted How do you design your message in the age of AI to successfully communicate necessary information and actions while driving engagement across the organization? On an average day, an office worker is inundated with 121 emails. Within this influx, crucial company updates, actionable tasks, and potentially irrelevant information are embedded. On top of these emails, there are Teams chats and a seemingly infinite stream of notifications, prompting many employees to turn to artificial intelligence for help in summarizing content and addressing queries. In this session, we will take a user-centric approach to strengthen your ability to communicate in a way that fits the needs and expectations of your audience. We will discuss the steps for writing effectively for the web through organizing content, designing pages, and sharing to relevant audiences. You will walk away from this session with actionable steps to create more engaging and inclusive content in Microsoft 365 by focusing on the audience's goals and mental models, accessibility, and user experience best practices. CEO at VisualSP Are users adopting and actually using your Microsoft 365 and SharePoint implementations? If you're struggling in this area, this is the perfect session for you! This session will discuss the 5 proven steps that you can immediately put into place to increase adoption and usage of your Microsoft 365 and SharePoint implementations by up to 3X. This presentation will show these proven strategies that have been used by renowned organizations from around the world to maximize their investment in these technologies. The Joy of SharePoint - Microsoft MVP & Modern Work Strategist 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. Principal Human Solutions Architect 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. YouTuber | MVP |MCT | Solutions Architect Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer for an insightful session where he dives into the intricacies of configuring Power Apps for offline use. He will guide you through the step-by-step process of setting up offline capabilities in Power Apps, ensuring your applications remain functional and efficient even without an internet connection. Additionally, he will address the potential drawbacks, including data synchronization challenges, increased complexity in deciding which backend data source to use, and potential limitations in real-time data updates. RD+MVP | Award-Winning Product Marketer & Tech Evangelist | Board @TekkiGurus | #CollabTalk podcast + tweetjam In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, staying ahead in innovation while fostering individual professional growth can seem daunting. This session dives into the transformative power of integrating mentorship into your organization's culture, sharing insights into developing effective mentorship programs that not only enhance collaboration and productivity, and preparing your team for the future of tech. Drawing from real-life successes in mentoring and strategic leadership across global tech communities, this talk will explore actionable strategies for creating a nurturing environment where both mentors and mentees thrive, ensuring sustained innovation and skill development within your tech team. Benefits of Attending This Session:
• Learn Best Practices: Gain insight into successful mentorship strategies that have been applied in leading tech environments, including the creation and management of impactful mentorship programs.
• Skill Development: Understand how mentorship can serve as a catalyst for both technical and professional growth, helping team members stay ahead of industry trends and technological advancements.
• Networking and Community Building: Discover the value of mentorship in fostering meaningful work relationships, enhancing team collaboration, and building a supportive tech community.
• Career Advancement: Learn how mentorship not only benefits mentees but also provides mentors with opportunities for career development, leadership growth, and personal satisfaction.
• Access to Resources: Find out how to leverage platforms like Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub to connect with Microsoft employees, MVPs, and RDs, enriching your organization's mentorship experience. This session promises to equip leaders, tech professionals, and entrepreneurs with the knowledge and tools needed to implement or enhance mentorship programs within their organizations, fostering an environment of continuous learning and innovation. CTO atwork, Microsoft MVP In large organizations, it is crucial to have governance for data and train users to be responsible with their data. Microsoft Teams owners are responsible for their team members and guests. We have developed a solution that starts an audit process and sends out one email to each team owner, asking for a confirmation with all members and a review and confirmation with Azure Logic Apps and the help of Microsoft Graph and Outlook.
You will learn how to develop your custom Teams Audit process with Azure Logic Apps and how to create flows that can be used for approval and governance processes including the technical tools to develop your organization´s secure business processes. Protiviti - Managing Director & Enterprise Architect Data Protection is top of mind for all organizations that work with sensitive information. As those organizations move into the Microsoft Cloud and adopt Cloud services faster and faster, establishing a strong data protection strategy is critical to protecting the information that your business runs on and preventing threats from both external attackers and insiders. Whether you're concerned about unstructured or structured data, risks from accidental or malicious data leaks, external threats, ransomware, external sharing, or any combination of these, having a Data Protection Strategy that protects your data no matter where it lives is a critical part of that strategy. Microsoft Purview provides robust capabilities for protecting that data, both in the cloud, on-premises or shared externally and understanding those capabilities is an important part of rolling out controls to protect your information. Join Antonio as he shares important considerations for establishing a Data Protection strategy for your organization and learn how you can use the extensive features of Microsoft Purview to protect your critical business information. Partner/CTO Sympraxis Consulting, MVP 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! RD+MVP | Award-Winning Product Marketer & Tech Evangelist | Board @TekkiGurus | #CollabTalk podcast + tweetjam Transformation in the workplace, spurred by Artificial Intelligence, presents unique challenges and opportunities for feedback collection and analysis. This session will focus on the pivotal role of AI in crafting feedback mechanisms that are not only scalable and repeatable but are also crucial in driving meaningful change and improving user interaction. We will dissect various feedback methodologies including surveys, polls, and forums, aligned with Microsoft and industry-leading practices, to achieve comprehensive insights into user behavior, engagement, and return on investment. The session will also cover the importance of internal training solutions such as Adoption.Microsoft, Viva Academy, and M365 Learning Pathways, for fostering an environment conducive to continuous learning and adaptation. The session is designed to empower those in leadership, user engagement, and tech-readiness roles with the strategic knowledge required to implement and maintain feedback systems that propel both user satisfaction and organizational growth in an ecosystem increasingly dominated by AI. YouTuber | MVP |MCT | Solutions Architect In recent years, the Power Apps canvas app landscape has experienced a rapid evolution, characterized by the constant release of innovative features and tools. This continuous stream of advancements has inevitably changed the way you approach app development. Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer and he walks you through 10 methods of his app development that have transformed over time. This includes database planning, app designing, building and permissions management and how to make it all easier using Copilot. Microsoft MVP, Owner and Microsoft 365 Consultant at CollabFront Every month there are dozens of changes made throughout the services in Microsoft 365. The changes can bring brand new features, but also change aspects on which your business solutions are based. How do you stay informed about the changes and prepare your environment for all the updates? How can you keep your users up-to-date with the features that are available and manage the process of change? How does Ai and Copilot help (or not)? During this session, we will discuss how IT Pros and collaboration enablers can keep up with all the changes, promote adoption with your users, and help your organization stay focused on what you do best. Real-world examples of how you can manage all the data available to you will be shared. You will leave with the tools you need to be proactive in managing cloud changes in your organization. Founder & Executive Director, Left Uncharted Explore the Microsoft 365 suite through the lens of a grassroots nonprofit. In this session, discover how to move past resource constraints by harnessing free technology resources to improve inefficient processes (like contract management), enhance internal communication and collaboration (through intranet development), and increase productivity (with a seamless cross-functional action item tracker). We will share practical insights, guiding you through the steps needed to implement these solutions in your environment, and a litany of cost-free resources that can empower your journey using Microsoft 365 to increase your organization's productivity, communication, and collaboration. VP - North America, WEBCON Low-code tools are popular, but they still don't succeed at scale. If a company's projects are one-off efforts by amateur builders using an artist's studio mindset, that's not surprising -- and not productive, either. You won't achieve digital transformation without digital discipline, in other words, an application factory approach. It's a lot less about tools and a lot more about consistency, culture, collaboration, and design -- and this session will cover how to apply these to any tool or platform you have. Power Platform Enthusiast In the digital age, hyperautomation has become a pivotal force in transforming business processes, and the procure-to-pay cycle is no exception. This session will guide you through the significance of hyperautomation in the procure-to-pay process, demonstrating how it not only streamlines operations but also serves as a strategic asset in enhancing financial health and operational agility. Key Takeaways:
Gain insights into the four-step process of the procure-to-pay cycle and the role of hyper automation in integrating purchasing and accounts payable systems for peak efficiency. Understand how AI Builder and Azure are revolutionizing the procure-to-pay landscape by automating manual tasks, improving invoice processing, and ensuring data accuracy. Explore real-world examples of hyper automation in action, showcasing the tangible benefits of reduced processing times, increased margins, and enhanced decision-making capabilities. Session Highlights: AI Builder's Role: Delve into how AI Builder brings Microsoft's cognitive and AI offerings to life, enabling users to create and consume AI with ease, thus optimizing business processes within the procure-to-pay cycle. Azure's Impact: Discover the transformative potential of Azure AI, including tools that ensure secure and trustworthy generative AI applications, and how they contribute to a more efficient procure-to-pay process. Customer Success Stories: Learn from successful implementations of hyper automation, such as the integration of Power Automate, Model-driven Apps, and Dataverse with AI Builder and Azure AI services, resulting in streamlined operations and improved financial outcomes. This session is designed for finance professionals, procurement specialists, and technology enthusiasts looking to harness the power of AI and hyper automation to drive their organization's success. Join us to explore how AI Builder and Azure can be your allies in the journey towards a smarter, more efficient procure-to-pay process. Principal Human Solutions Architect 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. Director, Microsoft Practice @ Protiviti 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: Attendees will also learn how to use JSON Objects in SharePoint Online to: YouTuber | MVP |MCT | Solutions Architect Upskill Tech Daniel and Andy (DnA) are two guys who work for enterprise level companies and must deal with day-to-day tasks that can be both time consuming and mundane. However, now with Copilot available across several Microsoft cloud services, these two Microsoft MVPs are finding ways to making their jobs a lot easier and, in some cases, automated. So, join them as these two guys show share their tips and tricks with you to make your jobs easier and make you look like Copilot superstars. This session will cover both Power Platform and Microsoft 365 Copilot features. Technologist, PS @Veeam 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. YouTuber | MVP |MCT | Solutions Architect Microsoft Copilot Studio makes creating chatbots as easy as 1, 2, 3. The generative A.I. feature is able to take natural language from end-users and helps transform that into bot logic which can also be extended to Microsoft 365. Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer as he shows you how sophisticated artificial intelligence, Copilot Studio allows you to build intelligent chatbots with minimal effort by seamlessly integrating existing content from platforms like SharePoint. Embrace the future of chatbot development with AI that transforms your content into engaging and functional chat experiences effortlessly. Microsoft MVP, Owner and Microsoft 365 Consultant at CollabFront Viva Topics has been a valuable asset for knowledge management. However, as Viva Topics approaches its retirement in 2025, enterprises must strategically pivot toward more robust solutions.
In this session, we will walk through how you can transition away from Viva Topics, help your employees adapt to the change, and build knowledge management into your organization’s everyday work. We will build out your organization’s roadmap to:
• Assess the impact of losing Viva Topics, even if you haven’t started using it organization-wide yet.
• Ensure you know how migration will work.
• The setup of your alternative solutions to keep your knowledge management running.
• How to train and ensure proper adoption to make the most out of your ‘institutional knowledge’.
• Establish governance with guidelines for content creation, moderation, and quality control. As Viva Topics bows out, SharePoint and Microsoft Viva Engage emerge as powerful Copilot allies. Come learn how organizations that proactively embrace this transition will thrive in the new era of knowledge management. CEO at VisualSP Are your employees utilizing Microsoft 365 to the fullest? Do they have the training and support needed to be successful in their job? Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways is a Microsoft-built solution you can deploy to your tenant, today, for free. It creates an adoption and training center that showcases dynamic, always up-to-date content from Microsoft to support training and adoption for your end users. You can also customize it to fit the exact needs of your organization by incorporating your own training content and highlighting your events. Come to the session and I will show you how you can deploy and get the best use out of the content from Microsoft 365 learning pathways. Chief Marketing Officer and SVP for Strategic Accounts at Synozur A “Company Operating System” (“CoS”) provides a management framework and a leadership culture to optimize information sharing, goal setting, and decision making through the leadership of your organization or division. In this session, we’ll teach you why you need a Company OS, how to “upgrade,” what to expect and how to run one. We’ll also show you how you can use Microsoft Viva to drive more efficient communication and goal setting from weekly status meetings through to annual planning and beyond. Upskill Tech OneDrive is more than just cloud storage for your files. It’s a smart way to work and collaborate across Microsoft 365. Whether you need to share documents with your team, sync files to your desktop, or protect your work from accidental loss, OneDrive has you covered. In this engaging and practical session, I will show you how to make the most of OneDrive’s features to boost your productivity and make work easier. Learn how to: Don’t miss this chance to learn how OneDrive can transform the way you work. Founder & Executive Director, Left Uncharted 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 Modern PnP search web part and search verticals)
-Creating intuitive microlearning content (through Learning Pathways or Viva Learning)Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room D
Microsoft 365 & The Power Platform - The Ultimate Starter Kit
Daniel Glenn
Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A
Maximizing Copilot: Preparing Your Content and People
Daniel Glenn
Emily Mancini
Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room D
Real World Solutions Built with Microsoft 365
William Huneycutt
Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room 6
Transform Daily, Mundane Repetitive Work with Robotic Process Automation
Daniel Christian
Wednesday 8:30 AM - 9:40 AM · General Session Room
The Practical Nature of Working in the Future Present
Emily Mancini
Josh Leporati
Mark Kashman
Martina Grom
Wednesday 9:50 AM - 11:00 AM · Room B
Navigating Copilot: Unleashing the Power of Intelligent Intranet Content
Emily Mancini
Wednesday 9:50 AM - 11:00 AM · Room 8
5 steps to driving sustainable SharePoint and Microsoft 365 adoption
Asif Rehmani
Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room A
TMO (Too Many Options) In M365?
Joy Apple
Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room 1
Creating a solid findability foundation with Microsoft Search
Virgil Carroll
Wednesday 2:20 PM - 3:30 PM · Room 2
Offline Apps Unplugged: Balancing Benefits and Drawbacks in a Connected World!
Daniel Christian
Wednesday 2:20 PM - 3:30 PM · Room 7
Empowering Innovation: The Power of Mentorship in Technology Teams
Christian Buckley
Wednesday 4:20 PM - 5:30 PM · Room 2
Develop your custom Teams Audit process with Flows
Toni Pohl
Wednesday 4:20 PM - 5:30 PM · Room C
Establish a Data Protection Strategy with Microsoft Purview
Antonio Maio
Thursday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room D
Extending Microsoft 365: Exploring the Art of the Possible
Julie Turner
Thursday 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM · Room 2
Engineering Effective Feedback Systems in the AI-Enhanced Workplace
Christian Buckley
Thursday 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM · Room 7
Power Apps Evolution of Efficiency: 10 Methods That Have Transformed Over Time
Daniel Christian
Thursday 1:30 PM - 2:40 PM · Room 7
Keeping up with change in Microsoft 365 in the AI Era
Daniel Glenn
Thursday 3:30 PM - 4:40 PM · Room 1
Implementing Microsoft 365 for Small Businesses and Nonprofits
Emily Mancini
Thursday 3:30 PM - 4:40 PM · Room 2
Application Factory Thinking: You Won't Achieve Digital Transformation Without It
Mike Fitzmaurice
Thursday 3:30 PM - 4:40 PM · Room 6
Hyperautomation in Procure-to-Pay: Revolutionizing Efficiency with AI Builder and Azure
Danielle Moon
Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 1
Improving Microsoft Search by improving your Content Practices
Virgil Carroll
Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room D
Introduction to JSON to master customizing SharePoint
Mark Rackley
Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room A
Two Guys and A Copilot - The DnA Show!
Daniel Christian
William Huneycutt
Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room D
Planner and Power Platform: Boosting collaboration and visibility
Karinne Bessette
Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 5
Effortless Conversations: Simplifying Chat Creation with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Daniel Christian
Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 8
Knowledge Management within Microsoft 365 without Viva Topics
Daniel Glenn
Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room B
Deploy Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways to Automate Support and Training of Your Microsoft 365 Users
Asif Rehmani
Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 1
Upgrade your Company Operating System with Microsoft Viva
Chris McNulty
Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room C
I didn't know you could do that with OneDrive!
William Huneycutt
Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room D
Enhancing Communication and Collaboration through Customized Search Experiences
Emily Mancini
