Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 602:603

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 • Afternoon: Power Automate ○ Using Conditions and Switches effectively ○ Handling Loops and Parallel Branches ○ Working with Large Data Sources ○ Implementing Error Checking/Correction ○ Improving Performance

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 606

Microsoft 365 Purview: Maintaining and Protecting Your Data Throughout its Lifecycle

In recent years, the amount of digital content moving to the cloud has been dramatic. No doubt, this has made collaboration easier and more versatile, but it's also brought with it a new set of problems, such as oversharing, exfiltration of data, and non-compliant destruction of data. Organizations like yours must ensure data is available when required and protected when sensitive.

In this workshop, your expert presenters will share their collective knowledge and experience with a deep dive into what Microsoft Purview can do, including coverage of features such as Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management, and Microsoft Information Protection.

But it's not all theory. You'll leave the workshop with their recommended approach for implementation using a Day 1/Day 2/Day 3 incremental model that maintains a balance between the user experience and the necessary protections for your organization.

Now's the time to ensure your data is safe from prying eyes. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from two of the best in the industry on exactly how to make that happen.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 607

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.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 608

Hands-On: Azure, ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Gartner predicts, “by 2024, over 65% of medium to large enterprises will have adopted a Low Code Application Platform as one of their strategic application platforms.” Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customized end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Copilot Studio, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to a native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development approach, business goals can be achieved faster and frees up time for the developers.

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform services like Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, Copilot Studio, Dataverse, and Power BI.

We will cover: • Microsoft Azure Key Concepts • How does Power Platform use Azure? • How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform? • Authentication and Authorization in Azure • Azure + Power Automate • Azure + Power Apps • Azure + Power Pages • Azure + Copilot Studio • Azure + Power BI • Azure + Dataverse • PowerFx • Copilots in Power Platform • Azure OpenAI + Power Platform • ChatGPT + Power Platform • What are Azure Functions? • What are Logic Apps? • What is Azure Bot Service? • How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Azure Open AI, Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development.

Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari. The tablets will not work.

You Will Learn:

1. How to handle Authentication and Authorization in Azure?
2. How does fusion teams can take advantages of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
3. How to create enterprise grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 611

Driving employee engagement – A deep dive into 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 full-day workshop explores how Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams come together to foster company culture, unlock communication and engagement opportunities, organize content, and spark employee creativity.

You’ll learn how to:

• Empower your leaders to share news, drive strategic changes, and openly dialogue with employees
• Foster connections & conversations with Viva Engage- Organize your content and intranet with an array of modern SharePoint sites & hubs
• Visualize your information architecture with mind-maps
• Build your Viva Connections implementation strategy

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 619:620

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 across Microsoft 365. Discover how Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 to streamline your business processes, automate tasks, improve workflows, and increase productivity while saving time and effort.

Discover Microsoft 365 Chat, your powerful virtual assistant for work. Learn how Microsoft 365 Chat can help you catch up quickly, create content and brainstorm ideas, and get quick answers to your questions. Microsoft 365 Chat connects to your work data and apps to help you achieve more.

Deep Dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365 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 how to use Copilot in Microsoft Teams to summarize meetings in real time or after they end, highlight the key discussion points, action items, and decisions. You can also ask Copilot questions to get more insights or suggestions during or after a meeting. Catch up on chats or channels quickly without having to scroll through long threads. Create content in chat or channels by asking Copilot to generate text or replies based on your prompt.

The future of the modern workplace is here! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Copilot for Microsoft 365 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 Copilot for Microsoft 365 to maximize your productivity.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room 604

SharePoint Data Modeling: From Requirements to Usage

Data modeling is an essential first step in any Power Apps or Power Automate project. Power apps provides a user interface for information stored in a data source and Power Automate creates workflows that manipulate data stored in a data source based on specific events or triggers. Data modeling is difficult enough for professional developers, but it is even harder for citizen developers. Citizen developers usually have little exposure to concepts like data normalization and often can’t use true relational databases like SQL or Dataverse because of the cost of Premium licensing. So, they are left trying to figure out how to build their flows or apps using data stored in SharePoint lists or Excel spreadsheets. In this workshop I will show you some real-world techniques for doing data modeling. I’ll start with a typical project requirements definition and show you how to easily convert it into an Entity Relationship model. Next, I’ll show you how to map that Entity Relationship model onto a set of SharePoint lists. Once I have the lists designed, I’ll show you how to use them in a Power App and a flow. Along the way I’ll walk you through what you need to know about using SharePoint as a data source, including: • What Column types work well and which ones to avoid • When to use (or not use) Lookup columns to create relationships between lists • How to plan for Security in SharePoint • Other Common issues I’ll focus on SharePoint in the workshop but the techniques I teach you are also applicable for other data sources like Excel, SQL or even Dataverse.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 602:603

The One Copilot Workshop to Rule them All

Let's face it, Copilot is everywhere, in everything, it's like the force... and sometimes just as confusing and hard to grasp. Those who learn to harness the power of Copilots within their organization will be able to go where no organization has gone before...

But what does it all mean? It all seems so overwhelming. What if your organization is unwilling to pay for Copilot licenses? What is the average person to do??

Join Mark Rackley in this full-day demo-filled tutorial where attendees will learn:

• What is Copilot and Generative AI?
• What do you need to do to prepare for Microsoft Copilot?
• What are your options for extending Microsoft Copilot?
• When and how should you use Copilot Studio?
• How can you create your own Custom Copilot that doesn't require expensive licensing?

With practical demos and real-world stories from the trenches, you will leave with all of your Copilot questions answered and feeling empowered to embrace Generative AI in your organization.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room 608

Dataverse Bootcamp for M365 Makers

Dataverse, Dataverse, Dataverse… You've heard about it but haven't checked it out yet. Now's the time to see how to scale solutions up from Lists. In this hands-on workshop we'll start with a Power App built with List data and build a similar solution using Dataverse as the data source - talking through the pros and cons comparison along the way.

Adding Dataverse is an investment in time, skills, and licensing. Know when to engage and what to expect.

• Learn what Dataverse is, where it fits in the maker toolset, and how Copilot adds to the experience.
• Cover what the differences are between Dataverse, Microsoft Lists, and other data sources and talk through some of the 'what to use when' considerations as Lists solution builders integrate with and shift to Power Platform tools.
• Get a perspective on the maker skills needed when using Dataverse and how to get started in your organization.

Using the Developer Plan, attendees will get a hands-on look at Creating Dataverse tables, relationships, forms, and more. With Dataverse as a data source, we'll also do a quick compare of model-driven vs. canvas Power Apps.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room 611

Big Data Analytics in SharePoint and Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Graph Data Connect

Have you ever worked in a large enterprise-scale SharePoint Online or OneDrive environment with thousands of sites, or millions of files, or thousands of users?

If you have, then you probably understand the challenges with trying to get detailed and timely analytics on your current state, including permissions for all files across all sites, or storage information for all sites and to try and figure out which groups are consuming all your space. Governing large enterprise-scale SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 environments is a real challenge due to the sheer amount of data you need to reason over.

In this workshop, we'll look at how the Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint (Project Archimedes) provides some exciting capabilities which will help to get us this data quickly, without getting throttled, and in a form that we can easily report on, across very large enterprise scale environments.

We'll provide a step by step demonstration of how to setup and use Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint (Project Archimedes), Azure Synapse and Power BI to get access to these data sets quickly and efficiently, without getting throttled, and in a form that we can easily report on across very large enterprise environments.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 615:616

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.

Tuesday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 604

Content Management for the AI Era: How to Optimize Your Content for Copilot

Content is the lifeblood of every organization. It is how teams collaborate, communicate, and create value. However, managing content effectively can be challenging, especially with the increasing volume and variety of content types. How can you organize, secure, and process your content to maximize its value and prepare it for the next-generation AI assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot?

Join this workshop where you will learn how to get your content in order, so you can fully leverage the capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot. • Discover best practices for organizing your files, folders, and sites in Microsoft 365, ensuring easy access and seamless collaboration. • Prepare your content for Copilot, the AI assistant that transforms productivity by generating high-quality content, insights, and actions from your data. • Perform a security and governance audit to ensure information is not leaked through new AI tools. • Walkthrough integrating Copilot into your daily workflow, unlocking 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 content within Microsoft 365, enabling you to harness the power of Microsoft AI and revolutionize your work experience.

Tuesday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 608

Ultimate guide to administering M365 and Teams

Are you an admin who's been administering M365 for years? Or are you brand new to the admin role? Either way, there will be something for you in this workshop!

We will be taking a deep look into the administration of M365 and some of its services, with a heavy focus on Teams, using the admin center, PowerShell, Graph, and more. Expect deep explainers on what different switches really do, and practical advice on how to configure things appropriately for your organization.

We will spend time in this workshop setting up automations together and sharing real world examples of how to make your job easier.

Tuesday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 611

Microsoft 365 User Adoption Master Class

A smooth deployment isn't enough. Driving effective utilization of SharePoint and Microsoft 365 is more than building effective migration strategies, training users on key features or sending out marketing emails. This master class provides a deep-dive on the components of user adoption. You'll learn why user adoption programs succeed and fail, gain practical experience designing adoption strategies and learn how to leverage innovation games to build consensus.

During this workshop, you will: • Learn the basic foundations of user adoption, including key intrinsic and extrinsic motivators • Understand how different types of users in your organization can make (or break) your chances of user adoption success • Understand how innovation games can help drive shared understanding, uncover user requirements and drive engagement/enthusiasm • Examine real-world user adoption programs and determine how and why they were successful

Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:40 PM · Room 615:616

Using Power Apps and Power Automate Together: Made for eachother

Power Apps 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 Power App, how to pass information to the Flow, and how to return values back to Power Apps when the Flow completes. Along the way we'll discuss Best Practices that can make your Power Apps and Flow work more efficiently together. Even if you know both Power Apps and Flow this session will help you get the most out of using them together.

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 602:603

Establish a Data Protection Strategy with Microsoft Purview

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.

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 604

Super Charge your Power Apps and Copilots 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

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 608

Microsoft 365 Groups - The Force That Binds the Universe (of Apps) Together

Microsoft 365 Groups are at the heart of modern collaboration and security models. Much like the Force binds the universe together, M365 Groups binds our apps. They provide permissions management and a security service that can simplify managing access to users throughout SharePoint, Teams, Planner, and more.

Let's take a closer look at the power of Microsoft 365 Groups and how they can bring together security, collaboration, and communication. We'll learn how to use the Force... Groups to streamline modern work in the context of Microsoft 365 applications such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook, as well as how guest management works within a Group.

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 609

Mastering Microsoft Loop: A Beginner's Roadmap to Productivity

Microsoft Loop is an innovative, collaborative platform that revolutionizes how teams collaborate, seamlessly integrating content, tasks, and tools across multiple devices for a truly immersive co-creation experience.

Join this enlightening session to gain comprehensive insights and practical knowledge on leveraging Loop's versatile elements for enhanced productivity and seamless integration across Microsoft's suite of applications.

Wednesday 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM · Room 604

Understanding and Applying AOP to Increase Solution Development Velocity

Despite having been around for the better part of two decades, most developers building compiled .NET and SharePoint solutions (including full-trust SharePoint customization and provider-hosted add-ins, or PHAs) aren’t familiar with Aspect-Oriented Programming, or AOP.

The goal of this session is to introduce developers to AOP, what it is, how it works, and the tools that enable the use of AOP in .NET, JavaScript, and other solution development. We’ll work through a number of code samples that illustrate how AOP greatly simplifies the process of architecting and addressing cross-cutting development concerns like logging, security, exception handling, and more.

If you’re looking for ways to streamline development and reduce boilerplate code in your solutions, this is the session to attend.

Wednesday 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM · Room 602:603

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

Every organization has data considered sensitive to their business, employees, or even the industry they exist within. In 2021, nearly 80% of large organizations experienced data breaches that had compromised information. 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 Information Protection (MIP), 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 that should not have it.

Wednesday 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM · Room 607

Building your organizational home site & hubs strategy

It's a flat new world in SharePoint. We've moved on from classic and hierarchical site collections and built an array of modern sites. But how do we organize our content, sites, and intranets in this new world?

This session introduces home sites and hubs and provides guidance on how to build a strong content management strategy for their use. We'll define what home sites and hubs are, lay the conceptual groundwork for understanding their use, and provide a creative new way of conceptualizing the logical ties between your myriad of flat SharePoint sites.

We’ll also discuss how Viva Connections plays into our intranet and home site strategy.

Wednesday 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM · Room 609

Securing and governing the Power Platform at scale

Join us to learn what is new and what is coming in the Power Platform governance space. As an IT professional you can help drive a digital transformation and accelerate your company's journey using the Power Platform. Come learn how a new governance approach and the new out of the box governance capabilities help you strike the right balance of empowering your organization to build robust and secure applications, automations, and copilots while easily placing the right guardrails to keep your digital environment safe. Join this session to learn how to manage your Power Platform assets at scale, and gain more visibility and more control, with less effort as your Power Platform adoption continues to grow.

Wednesday 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM · Room 611

Process Mining with Copilot and AI: A New Frontier for Business Intelligence

Process Mining is a powerful tool that helps organizations take an x-ray of their business processes for the purpose of finding opportunities for optimization and driving business decisions. However, it has historically been a tool requiring deep analytical knowledge and experience to wield.

With Power Automate Process Mining, the ability to drive process insights and make impactful changes to how processes are run within your business is now accessible to any business user through the power of Copilot.

In this demo, Heather will demonstrate how Copilot can help the business user understand the root causes of process deviations, to generate actionable insights and recommendations, and to communicate these results effectively to stakeholders.

Wednesday 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM · Room 619:620

Extend Copilot Studio with intelligent actions, workflows from Power Automate

In this session, we'll show you how to use Generative AI capabilities of Power Automate in Copilot Studio to build action orientated custom copilots.

Thursday 9:50 AM - 10:20 AM · Solution Stage

Break Free From Your IT Groundhog Day by Automating More

Feel like you're caught in an IT time loop cursed to repeat the same tasks and tickets every single day forever? You're not the only one considering that 76% of IT professionals report increasing burnout. This year, let's take the opportunity to break free from our own personal IT time loop more by unifying endpoint management, security, and automation.

Join Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Keanan Ball, to learn tips and tricks for automating the mundane day-in and day-out tickets and tasks without needing a PhD in scripting. We'll also discuss how to leverage policy-based automation to handle patching, backup, and AV/AM compliance without manual intervention. With the right technology in place you can secure your clients and business, free up your time for higher-value work, and banish doing the same thing every day to a charming 1993 or 2020 dark comedy movie.

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 606

Developing Graph Connector to ground your business data in Copilot for Microsoft 365

Jeremy Thake, Principal PM Lead on the Copilot extensibility team will walk you through developing a Graph Connector to ground Copilot for Microsoft 365 with your business data.

He will take you through both the out of the box Graph Connectors as well as building your own in Visual Studio Code.

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 608

Dataverse: Safeguard AI-enabled Enterprise Applications and Copilots

Security of data and assets is key for any enterprise grade solutions powered by AI. Join this session to learn how to operate your D365 and Power Platform AI-powered solutions securely and about what governance and compliance options organizations of all sizes have available to easily and responsibly scale their Dataverse business data footprint. We will cover the latest platform innovations to keep your data secured in an AI-driven world, using scalable controls for authentication and authorization.

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 611

Creating Intelligent Intranet Using Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage!

A lot has changed since Microsoft began recommending flat information architecture for modern SharePoint intranets.

In this session we’ll discuss:

• The advantages of flat information architecture
• How hub sites provide consistent navigation and content rollups
• How Teams connected team sites play a role in the intranet
• Using Engage to engage employees
• Creating a single-pane-of-glass experience for employees with Microsoft Viva

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 612

What’s new in Dataverse & AI Builder: How to easily build generative AI business applications

Come hear the latest news of how Dataverse is changing to meet the challenge of the evolving AI workspace through use of copilots. Learn how real customers are implementing the latest technologies to drive their business forward. Learn how Dataverse makes it possible to easily connect data to LLMs using plugins, prompts and connectors to build copilots that meet your needs. Learn about the Power Catalog which provides the ability to create and use templates to improve your productivity, and how the governance tools and capabilities ensures proper data access while using AI and copilots.

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 619:620

Power Automate & Automation in the Age of AI: strategy & roadmap

Over the last year, we're all starting to experience the benefits of Copilot across various products. More customers are building richer automations, helping transform their business faster. Come learn about how Copilot continues to evolve to help build automations faster, and how automations can help Copilots be more actionable.

Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:50 PM · Room 602:603

Manage the mess: Building an organizational strategy for pinned apps in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams continues to be the work zone for employees. Integration with SharePoint, Microsoft Viva, Lists, Planner, OneNote, etc. make it possible to live and work inside of Teams all day. Managing the prime-time real estate of pinned apps in Teams can be challenging, especially as your employees' list of critical apps grows. How do you prioritize which apps get pinned for all users? And should you leave open navigation space so users can select their own favorite apps to pin?

In this session, we'll examine sizing and use of the Teams navigation bar. We'll discuss organizing principles, talk about types of models (pre-selected app pinning vs. employee self-service pinning) that may work for your organization, and give you tips on how to prioritize Teams navigation icons.

Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:50 PM · Room 607

Elevate Your Workforce: Harnessing Microsoft Teams & AI for Employee Empowerment

Join us for an enlightening session that dives into communication and collaboration's impact on employee experience, focusing on empowering your workforce with Microsoft Teams best practices.

During this session, we'll share how AI will revolutionize how employees work and share a wealth of insights, strategies, and real-world examples to equip you with the needed knowledge.

Session Highlights:

• Gain a better understanding of employee motivations
• Overcoming Hybrid Work Challenges
• Leveraging learnings from CX to improve EX
• Making communications seamless
• The current and future role of AI
• And more

Join us and discover the power of Microsoft Teams in fostering productive and engaged hybrid teams. Whether your team members work from home, in different offices, or in different time zones, this session will equip you with the insights needed to create a seamless and collaborative hybrid work environment.

Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:50 PM · Room 609

Building the apps of the future today with Power Platform and Copilot 

Come hear the latest news of how Dataverse is changing to meet the challenge of the evolving AI workspace through use of copilots. Learn how real customers are implementing the latest technologies to drive their business forward.

Learn how Dataverse makes it possible to easily connect data to LLMs using plugins, prompts and connectors to build copilots that meet your needs.

Learn about the Power Catalog which provides the ability to create and use templates to improve your productivity, and how the governance tools and capabilities ensures proper data access while using AI and copilots.

Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:50 PM · Room 612

Learn How to Govern and Secure Microsoft 365 with SharePoint Advanced Management

Microsoft SharePoint Premium brings together a set of key capabilities for better governing Microsoft SharePoint Online and OneDrive as well as securing collaboration within Microsoft 365. This is in addition to the Content Ai capabilities that SharePoint Premium has brought to our SharePoint Online environments.

In this session we'll walk through and demonstrate each of the capabilities within SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) and discuss real-world scenarios where you can restrict access to sensitive sites and content, run data governance reports to gain insight on where your organization may have risk, and look at the advanced features for managing content lifecycle.

We'll also share insights into the licenses needed to take advantage of each feature. Join us to discover the Microsoft SharePoint Premium - SharePoint Advanced Management features.

Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:50 PM · Room 619:620

Deep Dive on Power BI, Teams and SharePoint

Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Power BI can work very well together. 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 Power BI, and host content contextually.

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 Power BI to SharePoint opens up a whole new world for Excel. If it can be done with Power BI, SharePoint and Teams, this session will show you how.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 602:603

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.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 604

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.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 607

Helping Your New Intranet Reach Airspeed Velocity

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 in complexity.

In this session, we’ll be looking at the modern intranet with a focus on SharePoint-based design and implementation. 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 the things I wish I had known before I ever started working on intranets in the hope that they will spare you some of the pain I endured.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 608

Exploring Microsoft Graph copilot extensibility with Semantic Kernel and plugins

Delve into utilizing Microsoft Graph to answer complex scenario questions by reasoning over all its data endpoints. In this session, you'll learn to achieve this using plugins and Semantic Kernel, leveraging natural language queries to dynamically select the appropriate endpoint. Discover how to unlock value from your M365 and personal data to address nuanced end-user needs.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 609

Extending Microsoft Copilot products using Copilot Studio

In this session, we will go over how you can leverage Microsoft Copilot Studio to extend other Microsoft Copilots, such as M365 Copilot. You will learn more about copilot extensibility as well as how to create and publish these copilot extensions. We will also look at which Microsoft Copilots are currently extensible and what ones are targeted for this capability.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 615:616

Microsoft Power Apps: Building Responsive Design Apps for Every Device

Power Apps is a great no-code tool lets "citizen developers" create applications that are designed to run on Desktop PCs, Web Browsers, Tablets, and Mobile devices.

But if you want to avoid building 3 or 4 different versions of your App you need to know how to design your Power App to adjust for different sizes, resolutions, rotation, and types of layouts.

In this session we'll review all the Tips and Tricks you need to know to easily build one Power App that will adjust to work on any device that supports Power Apps and look good in the process.

Thursday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 602:603

Microsoft Teams in a Regulated Environment

Come learn how you can deploy, use, and achieve success with Teams in a regulated environment.

In this session we will show you the strategies and technologies you need to succeed.

You will learn:

• Governance Strategies
• Compliance & Records Management
• Security Options
• Monitoring & Auditing Capabilities
• Training and Enablement

Thursday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 606

Searching non Microsoft 365 content in Microsoft 365

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 session 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 discuss Microsoft Graph Connectors and how this can benefit your organization and simplify your hybrid infrastructure.

Having this content in your search index also makes this content available for Copilot to use.

Thursday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 608

AI - Intelligent Garbage in Semi-Intelligent Garbage Out

Copilot is a awesome product, but there are a lot of things you will need to before deploying to take it work as expected.

In this session we will go through what you need to do today (data cleansing, deduping, training, permissions review and much more...) to be ready for Copilot tomorrow.

Thursday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 611

Migrating to Microsoft 365 – Your Guide to a Successful Move

Your organization’s content is likely stored in many places, from user’s computers to file shares. However, if your organization wants to take advantage of all the benefits in the cloud, where do you begin when planning your move to Microsoft 365? What are the frequent roadblocks to a migration to Microsoft 365 and how do you adapt your efforts? Do you have to pay for third-party migration software, or can you use out of the box tools?

We will discuss how your organization can take advantage of tools like SharePoint and OneDrive in Microsoft 365, what the process of mapping data looks like, and what are the many options for migrating. We will also examine the process of discovering business processes that will affect your migration.

Using information from real-world projects, you see the common issues that organizations encounter with migrations. You will know the tools you can use, and just how to use them to make your migration a success.

Thursday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 612

Automate content processing using AI & SharePoint Premium (Microsoft Syntex)

We'll learn how to use SharePoint Premium (previously known as Microsoft Syntex) that uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing, and transform content into knowledge.

Thursday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 613:614

I didn't know you could do that with OneDrive!

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:

• Let OneDrive track activity and sharing for you
• Open and save files directly from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & OneNote
• Manage changes with document version history
• Securely share content with people inside & outside the organization
• Quickly access SharePoint documents and libraries without leaving OneDrive
• Move and copy files quickly and easily with between - OneDrive and SharePoint
• Sync files locally with OneDrive files on-demand
• Share files in Microsoft Teams
• Restore files if they get deleted, overwritten, corrupted, or infected by malware
• Automate repetitive activities with flow And more!

Don’t miss this chance to learn how OneDrive can transform the way you work.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 604

Governance made easy: How to plan an effective governance strategy for your intranet

Are you tired of your intranet and Microsoft 365 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! Join us to 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 address new capabilities like 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 602:603

Get Your Hands Dirty with React.

Maybe you have started with React and what to learn how to apply it in your projects. In this session we will continue your progression with React. We will create reusable components and create an application that users will want to use.

This session will have very few slides but we will take an HTML page that was generated and create a simple application out of it.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 604

How to do Search and Content Assessment in Microsoft 365

Before you start improving findability in your organization, it’s essential to do a reality check: what content you have, how everything is stored, how everything is being used, who the key users are, etc.

Based on real-world examples, this session demonstrates how to do a search/content assessment and plan your short/middle/long term action plan to improve findability (based on real-life case studies).

How to do a systematic review of your Microsoft 365 content and Information Architecture, and how it contributes to your organization’s key activities, and where are the gaps.

What the “Report on Findings” should contain, including:

• Landscape and gap analysis;
• Suggestions and recommendations;
• How to enhance the out-of-the-box search in Microsoft 365;
• Where and why you might need custom search application(s);
• Recommend roadmap and action plan;
• Governance and maintenance

Benefits of Attending this Session:

• Understand the lay of the land – where your organization is at the moment
• Evaluate potential improvements and enhancements
• Create an actionable plan – start implementing right when you’re back from this conference

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 609

Extend Copilot for Sales using Copilot Studio to empower sales teams with data & insights

Microsoft Copilot for Sales, the first role-based copilot from Microsoft is purpose built for sales teams. Copilot for Sales contextually integrates sales data and insights directly into Microsoft 365 applications, offering both chat based experiences such as Microsoft 365 chat, and non-chat experiences, such as writing better emails or providing actionable suggestions in the context of calls or emails.

Out-of-the-box, Copilot for Sales delivers actionable insights from your CRM. With Microsoft Copilot Studio, you can now incorporate data and insights from any sales applications you use – ranging from account planning and customer insights to configure-price-quote, eSignature and more – into both chat and non-chat experiences within Copilot for Sales.

Join us to learn how Microsoft Copilot Studios enables you to enhance and extend multiple copilot surfaces at one go – with engaging demos!

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 611

Cast votes with confidence: Crafting a reusable Power Apps canvas app voting solution

Learn how to create a versatile and reusable voting app with Power Apps, perfect for a wide array of scenarios. From education institutions hosting student elections to photo or costume contests to organizations recognizing standout employees—this session will unveil how to harness SharePoint integration for a seamless voting experience.

You'll learn how to:

• Design a user-friendly interface for collecting votes.
• Configure a SharePoint document library to store contest entries or nominations.
• Set up a SharePoint list to track and tally votes securely.
• Implement logic to ensure fair voting and prevent duplicate entries.
• Add a touch of flair to your voting experience with custom branding and design elements.

Embrace the potential to elevate engagement in your organization. Walk away with the knowledge to implement a voting system that resonates with elegance and efficiency, year after year.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 604

Using your enterprise knowledge for building Q&A experiences in Copilot

Modern AI-enabled applications require modern data layers to handle hyperscale data for retrieval-augmented generation. Come learn about the latest improvements to the Dataverse data platform including Data Workspace capabilities for easy AI assisted table and app creation, and grounding your copilots with your enterprise data to drive business results with Knowledge in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 602:603

Viva Connections: Create Bot-powered Adaptive Card Extensions

Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) are a SharePoint Framework component type, which enables developers to build rich, native extensions to Viva Connections' Dashboards and SharePoint Pages.

Usually, ACEs are developed using SPFx and front-end development. But what if you have existing service that powers Microsoft Teams bots or Task modules that you want to reuse in ACEs?

During this session we will discuss how to use Bots and Universal Actions Model to create Adaptive Card Extensions for Viva Connections.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 606

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 or Flow.

Using Copilot 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.

Copilot will also help you along the way by suggesting modifications to improve your formulas. 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.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 607

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.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 609

Data Lifecycle and Records Management – Tales from the Trenches

As more and more of an organization's data is stored within the cloud, controlling the sheer amount of data can be daunting. Administrators and record managers are being called on more and more to support content management to ensure it is maintained and destroyed based on required schedules within the business.

David and Joanne have assisted organizations for years and helped many enterprises design and build record management solutions within Microsoft 365 from the ground up.

In this session, they will discuss critical topics organizations should consider when implementing their record management environment. They will also cover common pitfalls affecting the organization as it journeys down the information governance path.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 611

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.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 613:614

Advanced workflow solutions with Power Automate

Power Automate is the evolution of workflow for SharePoint and Microsoft 365. This session is designed to showcase building flows for no code/low code solutions for personal productivity, team productivity, and enterprise business processes.

Topics include:

• Data connectors, connections, and user accounts
• Types of cloud flows - automatic, instant, scheduled, AI built, desktop, and process advisor
• Flow elements - triggers, actions, and conditions
• Building flows using templates versus starting from blank
• Flow settings, run history, & debugging Advanced approval scenarios - escalation, delegation, and parallel approval
• Expressions, formulas, and functions for managing data
• Using OData to better work with larger data sets in SharePoint
• Power Automate and SharePoint limits and boundaries
• Real-world application, tips & tricks
• Licensing

Using real-world examples, we will demonstrate how to design flow solutions to meet the ever-changing business requirements faced by today’s business professionals.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 613:614

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 615:616

Viva Underground. An Outcome-based Route to Success with Microsoft Viva

Have you begun your journey into Microsoft Viva or is the landscape too intimidating? Unsure which tech to deploy first? Consultants have too many opinions on which tool will improve your business?

Join Joy and Jay as they present their Viva Underground: a map of outcome-based paths to Viva success, focused on your business needs.

There is no one "starting place" for Viva, but there are many paths you can take based on your organizational objectives.

Key Takeaways:

• How to begin defining your Employee Experience priorities
• How to decide which route to take to help achieve your organizational goals
• Approaching Microsoft Viva from a people-first perspective