Wednesday 8:30 AM - 9:40 AM · Room 6E - Keynote

Thriving in the era of AI

Join Microsoft product leaders as they highlight the value and benefit of Microsoft 365 innovation, and beyond. You'll get unique insights into Copilot and AI innovation, advances in employee experiences, content services that help automate the flow of work, and perspectives across roles: Business, IT Pros, and Developers. This keynote will be packed with product updates and demos across Copilot, Teams, Viva, SharePoint, OneDrive, and more. Get a solid understanding of the strategy and vision, with clarity on where Microsoft is taking content, communication, and collaboration into the future.

Wednesday 9:50 AM - 11:00 AM · Room 602:603

What's new and next for Microsoft Viva

Find out what's new and what's next for Microsoft Viva

Wednesday 9:50 AM - 11:00 AM · Room 608

SharePoint Premium - Intelligent Content for Everyone

Microsoft advanced content management and experiences - where AI meets content. Whether SharePoint Premium, Microsoft 365 Backup, Microsoft 365 Archive, or SharePoint Embedded, you now have new ways to engage with your most critical content, while managing and protecting it through its lifecycle. In this era of AI and Copilot, learn how you can not only maximize content value with security and structure but make sure you prime and manage your content for Copilot too.

Wednesday 9:50 AM - 11:00 AM · Room 615:616

Getting Ready for Copilot for Microsoft 365

Session on preparing an organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365 including core concepts, deployment prerequisites, information access optimization, and extensibility options. We'll also cover tips for driving internal adoption and success. Additionally, we'll provide an overview on the importance of trust in the Microsoft Cloud, with a focus on data privacy and residency, and the comprehensive enterprise compliance and security controls in place to protect data and AI models.

Wednesday 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM · Collab Studio

Microsoft 365: Cybersecurity Lessons & Recovery with Spanning Backup

Explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats in 2024 by dissecting some of the most impactful attacks on companies like 23adndMe and MGM in 2023, and revisiting the Mother of All Breaches in 2024. Learn how these breaches and social engineering hacks unfolded and discover key strategies to prevent similar incidents. Recognizing the inevitability of cyberattacks, we'll also delve into rapid data recovery techniques using Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum data protection.

Wednesday 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM · ATE Booth

Ask the Experts - 1

Ask the Experts - "Ask the Experts" is for attendees to engage in one-on-one conversations with subject matter experts. Participants have the opportunity to sit down with an expert and receive immediate answers or feedback to their questions on a specific topic of interest. These discussions provide a unique platform for attendees to tap into the knowledge and expertise of industry professionals, fostering meaningful conversations and promoting learning in a personalized and accessible manner.

Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:40 PM · Room 611

The Future of Your Intranet: Beautiful, flexible and AI ready powered by SharePoint

What is the intranet of the future all about? We'll cover industry trends around content presentation, more robust authoring experiences, and what the era of AI means for your intranet. Learn about the future of SharePoint Portals. This is the SharePoint session you don't want to miss.

Wednesday 12:40 PM - 1:40 PM · ATE Booth

Ask the Experts - 2

Ask the Experts - "Ask the Experts" is for attendees to engage in one-on-one conversations with subject matter experts. Participants have the opportunity to sit down with an expert and receive immediate answers or feedback to their questions on a specific topic of interest. These discussions provide a unique platform for attendees to tap into the knowledge and expertise of industry professionals, fostering meaningful conversations and promoting learning in a personalized and accessible manner.

Wednesday 12:50 PM - 1:30 PM · Room 602:603

Discussion Bytes - Business Intelligence

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences. Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation. Moderated by Treb Gatte.

Wednesday 12:50 PM - 1:30 PM · Room 604

Discussion Bytes - Finding the ROI on the AI investments

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences. Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation. Moderated by Prashant G Bhoyar

Wednesday 12:50 PM - 1:30 PM · Room 607

Discussion Bytes - How to help users achieve their desired skill levels and keep up with changes

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences. Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation. Moderated by Wes Preston.

Wednesday 12:50 PM - 1:30 PM · Room 609

Discussion Bytes - Microsoft 365 Power Users

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences. Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation. Moderated by Andy Huneycutt.

Wednesday 12:50 PM - 1:30 PM · Room 611

Discussion Bytes - Intranet design and information architecture

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences. Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation. Moderated by Susan Hanely.

Wednesday 12:50 PM - 1:30 PM · Room 615:616

Discussion Bytes - Power Platform Copilot

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences. Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation. Moderated by Daniel Christian.

Wednesday 12:50 PM - 1:20 PM · Collab Studio

The AI Arms Race: Protecting Against Cyber Attacks

Did you know that malicious phishing emails have surged by a staggering 1,265% since the close of 2022? This alarming trend is largely attributed to the usage of AI by cybercriminals, rendering traditional detection methods obsolete. No longer can we rely solely on spotting poor grammar or misspellings to discern between genuine and fraudulent emails.

Join us for an eye-opening session where we dive into the world of offensive vs. defensive AI tactics. Explore how AI serves as a double-edged sword, empowering cybercriminals with sophisticated attack methodologies while offering cybersecurity experts innovative tools to fortify defenses. Discover how AI can be harnessed to shield against even the most advanced email attacks, providing you with unparalleled protection in the digital battlefield.

Wednesday 12:50 PM - 1:20 PM · Solution Stage

The Future of Work: The Role of Generative AI in Defining Automation Success

In this interesting presentation you’ll see proven case studies for using Generative AI with Automated workflows. We’ll dive deep into practical strategies and management principles to unlock the full potential of human workers as they drive digital work. Uncover strategies to bypass common Automation challenges that ensnares many organizations and get an instant ‘starting point’ for you to improve business value for AI & Automation.

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 615:616

What’s New with Copilot Studio

In this session we will go over an overview of what is Copilot Studio and how it fits into the Copilot landscape at Microsoft. We will also discuss the latest features and what Microsoft is working on in this space.

Wednesday 3:00 PM - 3:40 PM · ATE Booth

Ask the Experts - 3

Ask the Experts - "Ask the Experts" is for attendees to engage in one-on-one conversations with subject matter experts. Participants have the opportunity to sit down with an expert and receive immediate answers or feedback to their questions on a specific topic of interest. These discussions provide a unique platform for attendees to tap into the knowledge and expertise of industry professionals, fostering meaningful conversations and promoting learning in a personalized and accessible manner.

Wednesday 3:05 PM - 3:35 PM · Solution Stage

The power of GenAI and Copilot Integration to tackle the challenge of information overload

During this session, you will see how the M-Files knowledge work automation platform leverages AI to transform knowledge work. With M-Files Aino, our GenAI functionality, and the addition of Microsoft Copilot integration the platform becomes a game changer for organizations that actively work in Microsoft 365. Knowledge workers can accelerate their daily work by leveraging automated meeting minutes, email summaries or autogenerated document drafts to name a few use cases. Benefits we will demonstrate in this session: • AI-Powered Summaries: M-Files Aino generates concise, intelligent summaries of documents, enabling quicker comprehension and review. • Language-Independent Queries: Knowledge workers can ask questions and receive answers about document content in any language' • Streamlined Information Discovery: Knowledge workers can rapidly locate essential information with the help of AI, cutting through data clutter and saving valuable time. • Maintain Compliance and Security: Companies can leverage M-Files Aino's advanced AI capabilities without compromising data security or compliance. • Powerful integration with M-Files Copilot: Information from M-Files can be published to the M365 platform so that Copilot can refer to it. The published information retains the permissions in M-Files, so the Copilot user will see only the same information they would see in M-Files.

Wednesday 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM · Room 608

Driving rollout & adoption of Microsoft 365 and Copilot with Microsoft Viva

Learn how to use Microsoft Viva to plan, communicate, measure, and support your organization’s rollout of Copilot or other Microsoft services. See Viva in action in this demo-heavy session. Learn real-world strategies, best practices, templates, and prescriptive guidance for an end-to-end campaign to drive adoption and share knowledge about Copilot. Help your organization successfully deploy and harness one of the most powerful productivity tools on the planet.

Wednesday 4:50 PM - 6:50 PM · 6BC - Expo Hall

Microsoft AMA & SharePint

Got a burning question you just can't yet find an answer to? This AMA is to be a lively live hour of Q&A - to ask questions and voice feedback - direct to the product teams across OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Viva, Syntex, Yammer, Power Platform, and more. And then enjoy pizza and casual networking with all.

Thursday 8:30 AM - 9:40 AM · Room 6E - Keynote

Empowering Transformation: Power Platform and Dataverse in the Age of AI

Hear from Nirav Shah, CVP of Microsoft Dataverse, how Power Platform is on the forefront in the Age of AI, helping people and businesses achieve more. Gain insights on how the Power Platform and Dataverse enable you to leverage your existing enterprise data and business processes to unlock the benefits of Microsoft Copilot. Discover how Microsoft quickly adapts to the changing AI workspace and how real Power Platform customers use the latest technologies.

Thursday 9:40 AM - 10:20 AM · ATE Booth

Ask the Experts - 4

Ask the Experts - "Ask the Experts" is for attendees to engage in one-on-one conversations with subject matter experts. Participants have the opportunity to sit down with an expert and receive immediate answers or feedback to their questions on a specific topic of interest. These discussions provide a unique platform for attendees to tap into the knowledge and expertise of industry professionals, fostering meaningful conversations and promoting learning in a personalized and accessible manner.

Thursday 9:50 AM - 10:20 AM · Collab Studio

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365: NEW Backup Service Deep Dive

We are excited to announce the NEW Veeam® Data Cloud for Microsoft 365! The industry’s leading backup solution — Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 — is now delivered as a backup service. Don't miss this session if you want to optimize or start executing on your Microsoft 365 backup strategy and experience the simplicity of a SaaS solution, enabling you to create your first backup in less than five minutes. In this session from Veeam: • See a demo of Veeam Data Cloud’s modern and intuitive UI in action • Understand how you can reap the benefits of an all-in-one backup service • Learn more details on how you can get started right away • Hear how Microsoft and Veeam are partnering to innovate new data protection solutions

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 609

Unlocking insights with Power BI Copilot

Join us for an immersive session on getting started with Power BI Copilot, your trusted companion for data exploration and insights generation.

In this session, we'll delve into the innovative features and functionalities of Power BI Copilot, empowering you to streamline your data analysis workflow and uncover actionable insights with ease.

Learn how to leverage Copilot's advanced AI capabilities to uncover answers to your data questions, generate meaningful report pages, and drive informed decision-making within your organization.

This session will equip you with the knowledge and skills to harness the power of Copilot and elevate your analytics game to new heights.

Thursday 11:40 AM - 12:40 PM · ATE Booth

Ask the Experts - 5

Ask the Experts - "Ask the Experts" is for attendees to engage in one-on-one conversations with subject matter experts. Participants have the opportunity to sit down with an expert and receive immediate answers or feedback to their questions on a specific topic of interest. These discussions provide a unique platform for attendees to tap into the knowledge and expertise of industry professionals, fostering meaningful conversations and promoting learning in a personalized and accessible manner.

Thursday 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM · Room 611

Unlock AI Potential: Prepare and Enable Copilot for Microsoft 365

Are you looking to maximize the effectiveness of Copilot for Microsoft 365? Join this new AvePoint session to learn how to prepare, secure, and optimize your data for Copilot, ensuring you get the most out of this powerful tool. We'll walk and talk you through the 3 essential steps to unlocking potential with Copilot for Microsoft 365.

What we'll cover in this session:

Preparing Your Data for Copilot -Understand the relationship between Microsoft 365 content and Copilot for Microsoft 365. -Assess and improve your Microsoft 365 content for quality and business relevance to ensure effective Copilot recommendations and content generation.

Securing Your Data for Copilot -Understand how Copilot can highlight and intensify the risks of overshared, sensitive content in Microsoft 365. -Conduct an effective, risk-based review of overshared content across your Microsoft 365 tenant(s), and create a prioritized action plan to remediate before Copilot deployment. -Implement automated security and configuration policies across Microsoft 365 services to detect and remediate high-risk sharing activity.

Optimizing Your Operations for Copilot -Create and implement go-forward governance rules to ensure that new sites, groups, teams, and other collaborative objects are classified with business-related metadata, have defined data owners, and have appropriate policies assigned to ensure data security and access management. -Implement automated information and content lifecycle policies to minimize the growth of redundant, obsolete, and trivial content (ROT) over time, which decreases data quality. -Measure Copilot adoption and ROI by department and use-case.

Thursday 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM · Solution Stage

How to Run a Successful Intranet

Unlock the blueprint for running a successful intranet that empowers your workforce and drives organizational success. This session will take a deep dive into the secrets of running a thriving intranet and unveil the groundbreaking insights from the inaugural global benchmarking report on intranet success.

Discover the key findings, best practices, and actionable strategies shared by leading organizations worldwide. From optimizing user experience to enhancing collaboration and maximizing productivity, explore the vital ingredients that differentiate a mediocre intranet from a truly exceptional one. Key Takeaways:

1. Insights into optimizing the user experience for maximum engagement
2. Strategies for enhancing collaboration and knowledge sharing
3. Best practices for driving productivity and efficiency
4. Actionable tips for maintaining and evolving your intranet over time Don't miss this opportunity to gain invaluable insights, network with industry peers, and revolutionize how you manage your intranet.

Thursday 3:10 PM - 3:50 PM · ATE Booth

Ask the Experts - 6

Ask the Experts - "Ask the Experts" is for attendees to engage in one-on-one conversations with subject matter experts. Participants have the opportunity to sit down with an expert and receive immediate answers or feedback to their questions on a specific topic of interest. These discussions provide a unique platform for attendees to tap into the knowledge and expertise of industry professionals, fostering meaningful conversations and promoting learning in a personalized and accessible manner.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 608

Getting started with Viva Amplify

Learn how to save time and deliver more effective communications with Viva Amplify with this introductory session. We'll cover how to get setup and started with the latest Viva tool designed for organizational communications, including getting access, creating & managing campaigns, publishing to multiple channels, and measuring impact and reporting.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 609

New Planner: Unifying Task Management in Microsoft Teams

Get started with the new Planner in Teams and learn how the new Planner grows with your needs from managing your own tasks to collaborating with your team on projects.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 611

Building a Modern Data Lake with OneLake: The OneDrive for Data

OneLake eliminates pervasive and chaotic data silos created by developers configuring their own isolated storage. OneLake provides a single, unified storage system for all developers. Unifying data across an organization and clouds becomes trivial.

With the OneLake data hub, users can easily explore and discover data to reuse, manage or gain insights. With business domains, different business units can work independently in a data mesh pattern, without the overhead of maintaining separate lakes.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 613:614

Cultivating Trust and Leadership Excellence: Strategies for Respect and Empathy in the Workplace

In this session, we will explore the pivotal role of respect, empathy, and kindness in fostering trust among team members within the workplace. Delving into practical strategies, we will address methods for cultivating a robust knowledge foundation in your domain, empowering team autonomy, fostering genuine communication, and exemplifying compassionate leadership. These nuanced approaches collectively serve as instrumental tools for aspiring toward excellence in leadership.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 615:616

Empowering Frontline Workers with Microsoft Teams and Next-Generation AI

In this session, we will explore why enterprises of all sizes are adopting Microsoft Teams for their frontline workers and how next-generation AI offers innovative ways to solve challenges faced on the frontline. From time-consuming processes to inaccessible data, we will show you how to establish an intuitive and intelligent solution for your essential workforce at scale. You’ll learn how to deploy and manage a frontline solution that creates a single pane of glass with Microsoft Teams surfacing robust data and intelligent capabilities from Microsoft 365 Copilot. Discover how your organization can benefit from adopting Microsoft Teams for your frontline workforce and leveraging the power of next-generation AI to drive operational efficiency and improve customer satisfaction. Join us to learn more about empowering your frontline workers with Microsoft Teams and next-generation AI.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 619:620

Driving Productivity and a Data-Driven culture with Power BI in Microsoft 365

Learn how to make your organization more productive and foster a data-driven culture by seamlessly and securely flowing insights into Microsoft 365.

You’ll learn how everyone in your organization can collaborate faster, analyze better, and present more clearly by using Power BI. We’ll cover all the new Power BI capabilities in Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint, and more.

If you’re trying to make an impact to improve productivity across entire workforce, this session is for you.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 608

The Ins and Outs of M365 Backup & Archiving

Learn the latest on M365 Backup & Archiving – file level archiving, Teams support for backup, and much more are now available in preview!

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 612

From SQL Developer to Business Analyst: Harnessing Fabric's Innovations

Data warehouse in Fabric is made for developers of any skillset. Learn how to take advantage of the newest innovations and developer experiences whether you are a SQL developer or a business analyst.

In this session we’ll provide an overview of capabilities, share best practices and enable you to use Fabric to power your analytical use cases from enterprise reporting to self service BI - and easily manage it in production.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 615:616

Content Management and Collaboration for the AI Era

Creating content in the era of AI provides you with multiple opportunities to unleash your creativity and simplify large scale content management. Expand your ability to enrich your content, get insights from your store of knowledge and transform document-driven solutions with experiences across Microsoft 365.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 619:620

Teams Premium Unveiled: Navigating Teams Premium for Optimal Productivity

Immerse yourself in the world of Microsoft Teams Premium in this engaging session. Explore the intricacies of licensing, discover use cases tailored for diverse personas, and gain insights into the distinctions between Copilot and Intelligent Recap. Join us for live demos showcasing both current and future capabilities.

Whether you're a newcomer or a seasoned user, this session guarantees valuable insights to optimize your organization's collaborative potential. Don't miss the opportunity to enhance your Teams Premium experience and elevate your organization's collaboration to new heights.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 608

Building Copilot experiences in SharePoint Embedded applications

SharePoint Embedded is the fastest way for developers to build Copilot experiences in their applications. Learn how you can build a Copilot-enabled SharePoint Embedded application in minutes, and how you can bring your app's content and experiences to Microsoft Copilot with custom Copilot Plugins.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 615:616

How Microsoft Does IT: Governance and Administration in the Era of Copilot

How does Microsoft empower its own employees with guardrails and governance for Microsoft 365 to set ourselves up for success with Copilot for Microsoft 365? How are we dealing with oversharing and sprawl, what can you do today and where are we going?

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 619:620

Mastering Microsoft Lists

Get up-to-speed on the latest Microsoft Lists innovation and how it helps keep your sanity intact when tracking information. Be it in the early creation phase or in an ongoing flow of managing status and keeping everyone in sync - learn how to go from not-in-the-know to PRO!

We'll cover updates and insights across the Lists app, mobile value, Power Platform integration, within Teams collab, and more. Expect lots of demos of the latest features grounded in scenarios that resonate with everyone. Plus, lots of time for Q&A throughout + updated roadmap info on what's coming next.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 611

Beyond Copilot: Integrating Custom AI Into Apps

Chat GPT has been out for over a year and Copilot has been rolling out for over 6 months. It's time for your company to take AI to the next level and integrate custom AI capabilities that accelerate the productivity of every member of your team.

In this non-technical session, we'll take a look at the capabilities and case studies of AI capabilities available through AI Builder, the OpenAI API, Azure Cognitive Services and more.

You'll walk away with over 20 case studies and ideas for how you can integrate AI into the tasks your team has to manage every day. You'll lower costs, improve productivity, create better customer and employee experiences, and unleash your team to be super-humans!

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 619:620

OneDrive: Collaboration and AI at your fingertips

See an intelligent OneDrive in action. Learn about and see demos of new and important productivity capabilities -- giving you the best file experiences across Microsoft 365: Enhancing collaboration powered by AI and Copilot. You'll get the latest news, roadmap, plus ideas on how best to take advantage of Copilot in OneDrive.