Program Launch
Programme Launch
OVER 100+ SESSIONS ANNOUNCED

Monday 02 December

09:00 - 17:00

Full Day Tutorials

A

Developer / End User

Get started with Power Platform on SharePoint

Level 200

Architecture & Custom Development

 

Luise Freese - MVP, M365Princess.com, Germany Robin Rosengrün, MVP, EnBW AG, Germany  

 

B

Business / End User

Transforming Corporate Communications with Microsoft 365: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices

Level 200

Adoption

 

Mark Rackley, MVP, Protiviti, USA Susan Hanley, MVP, Susan Hanley LLC, USA  

 

C

Developer

Extending Microsoft 365 Copilot

Level 300

AI & Copilot

 

Paolo Pialorsi - MVP, Piasys.com, Italy  

 

D

IT Professional

The Ultimate Microsoft Teams Administrator Workshop

Level 300

Administration

 

Vlad Catrinescu - MVP, MCT, Syskit, Canada Habib Mankal, MVP, WaveCore IT Inc., Canada  

 

E

Developer

Zero to Hero: Build Microsoft Teams Apps for Full Stack Developers

Level 300

Custom Development

 

Andrew Connell, MVP, Voitanos, USA  

 

F

IT Professional

Improve Your Azure Skills with Command-Line Tools (and a sprinkle of AI)

Level 300

Administration

 

Aleksandar Nikolic, MVP, M.O.3.A.K. IT Consulting, Serbia  

 

G

IT Professional

Microsoft Fabric for the Power BI Professional

Level 200

Data Engineering

 

John P. White, MVP, AvePoint Jason Himmelstein, USA  

 

H

Developer / IT Professional

Extending The Power Platform using Azure Services and AI

Level 300

AI

 

Ahmad Najjar - MVP, Avanade, Norway  

 

I

IT Professional

Bicep: From Zero to Hero

Level 300

Administration

 

Simon Wåhlin, MVP, Unwonted AB, Sweden  

 

J

Promptathon

AI

 

Dona Sarkar, Microsoft, USA Chris Huntingford, MVP, ANS Group, United Kingdom Stuart Ridout, Microsoft, United Kingdom  

 



Tuesday 03 December

09:00 - 10:15

KEYNOTE: Collaborative Apps in the AI Era

 

Jeff Teper, President - Collaborative Apps & Platforms, Microsoft, USA Kendra Springer, Microsoft, United States Denise Trabona, Microsoft, USA Miceile Barrett, Microsoft, USA  

 

10:15 - 10:30

Change Rooms

10:30 - 11:30

Sessions

T1

AMA with Microsoft Product Team

 

Jeff Teper, President - Collaborative Apps & Platforms, Microsoft, USA Howard Crow, Microsoft, United States Kripal Kavi, Microsoft, United States Karuana Gatimu - Director, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group, Microsoft, USA Miranda Jones, Microsoft , United States Bryan Wofford, Microsoft, United States Kendra Springer, Microsoft, United States Roshin Ramesan, Microsoft, United States Miceile Barrett, Microsoft, USA Vesa Juvonen, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, Finland Sesha Mani, Microsoft, USA Rebecca Keys, Microsoft, United States  

 

T2

Developer / IT Professional

Beyond quick'n dirty cloud to agile, cheap and fast

Level 300

Governance & Compliance

 

Magnus Mårtensson, Microsoft RD, MVP, Loftysoft, Sweden  

 

T3

Business / IT Professional

How to do Search and Content Assessment in Microsoft 365

Level 200

AI

 

Agnes Molnar, Microsoft RD, MVP, AgnesMolnar.com, Netherlands  

 

T4

Business / End User / IT Professional

Knowledge Management within Microsoft 365 without Viva Topics

Level 200

Collaboration & Communication

 

Daniel Glenn, MVP, CollabFront, United States  

 

T5

SharePoint + Teams Better Together with AI Agents and Workflows

Microsoft Teams

 

Saira Shariff, Microsoft, United States  

 

T6

Business / Developer

No-Code/Low-Code vs. Pro-Code - Strategic Evaluation

Level 200

Architecture

 

Laura Kokkarinen, MVP, Sulava, Finland Paulien Buskens, MVP, Qubix, Belgium  

 

T7

IT Professional

Decoding the Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Log

Level 400

Administration

 

Tony Redmond, MVP, Office 365 for IT Pros, Ireland  

 

T8

Business / IT Pro

The Regulators made me do it: Enhancing (cyber) Resilience with EU regulations

200 - Feature Orientated

Compliance

 

Paul Robichaux, Keepit, USA  

 

T9

Business / IT Professional

Unlocking Potential: An Introduction to the Maturity Model for Microsoft 365

Level 200

Adoption

 

Mats Warnolf, Mats Warnolf AB, Sweden Pia Langenkrans, Cloud 476 - Microsoft 365 + 111 more things, Sweden  

 

T10

Developer

Building AI Agents with Semantic Kernel

Level 300

AI

 

Bill Ayers, MVP, MCM, MCT, Flow Simulation Ltd., United Kingdom  

 

Roundtable

[Roundtable] Building scalable, high-performance Generative-AI applications using Azure Cosmos DB with DiskANN

 

Mark Brown, Microsoft, USA  

 

Roundtable

[Roundtable] Building scalable, high-performance Generative-AI applications using Azure Cosmos DB with DiskANN

 

Mark Brown, Microsoft, USA  

 

11:30 - 12:00

Networking Break

12:00 - 13:00

Sessions

T11

Business Decision Maker / End User / IT Professional

Meet AI-powered SharePoint Agreements Solution

200 - Feature Orientated

Microsoft SharePoint

 

Sesha Mani, Microsoft, USA  

 

T12

Business / IT Pro

Entra Apps 101: Secure yourself against the next Midnight Blizzard attack

100 - Business Level

 

Robert Edmondson, CoreView, United Kingdom Alberto Brianza, CoreView, Italy  

 

T13

Developer / IT Professional

PnP PowerShell: 10 years as Open Source and Going Strong!

Level 200

Architecture

 

Erwin van Hunen, MVP, MCM, MondayCoffee, Sweden  

 

T14

Developer

Developer's guide to customizing Copilot agents

100 - Business Level, 200 - Feature Orientated

Copilot

 

Fabian Williams, Microsoft, USA Vesa Juvonen, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, Finland  

 

T15

Developer

Exploring the Azure GenAI Tech Stack: Azure Open AI and Azure AI Search

Level 200

AI & Copilot

 

Robin Rosengrün, MVP, EnBW AG, Germany  

 

T16

Elevating SharePoint: Building The Beautiful and Flexible Intranet of Tomorrow

Microsoft SharePoint

 

Kripal Kavi, Microsoft, United States Denise Trabona, Microsoft, USA  

 

T17

Business / End User / IT Professional

Beyond the Buzz: A real-world Copilot Journey

Level 200

Adoption

 

Karoliina Kettukari, MVP, OP Financial Group, Finland  

 

T18

Business / IT Professional

Govern and Secure Your Data using Microsoft 365 Archive and Backup

Level 200

Administration

 

Matti Paukkonen, MVP, Finland, Tahto Group Oy  

 

T19

Developer

[CASE STUDY] Lessons Learned from Building a Globally Distributed Data and API platform on Azure!

Level 300

Architecture

 

Glenn Colpaert, MVP, Zure, Belgium  

 

T20

End User / IT Professional

Extending Viva Connections Dashboard with Custom Dynamic Cards (Without Being a Developer)

Level 200

Collaboration & Communication

 

João Ferreira, MVP, Appspace, Portugal  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

7 Things I Learned from Coaching and Investing in Cloud Startups

100 - Business Level

Inspire Stage - 12:00 - 13:00

 

Sam Vanhoutte, MVP, Self-employed, Belgium  

 

13:00 - 14:15

Networking Lunch

14:15 - 15:15

Sessions

T21

Business / Developer / IT Professional

OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 Primer

Level 300

Security & Identity

 

John Craddock, MVP, XTSeminars Ltd, United Kingdom  

 

T22

Business / IT Professional

Building an AI strategy with Microsoft Copilot

Level 200

Adoption

 

Kevin McDonnell, Avanade, United Kingdom  

 

T23

Developer

Building and Demonstrating a Copilot Declarative Agent using Teams Toolkit

300 - Technical, 200 - Feature Orientated

Copilot

 

Fabian Williams, Microsoft, USA  

 

T24

IT Professional

Making Sense of Microsoft 365 Guest & External Access

Level 300

Administration

 

Thomas Vochten, MVP, MCT, Cronos Group, Belgium  

 

T25

Developer

The Ethical Paradox of AI: Navigating the Dark Side of a Bright Future

Level 100

AI & Copilot

 

Olena Borzenko, Xebia, Germany  

 

T26

Business / IT Professional

SharePoint Storage on a Diet: M365 Archive and Automatic Versioning

100 - Business Level

Microsoft 365

 

Hrvoje Bagaric, Syskit , Croatia Danijel Cizek, Syskit, Croatia  

 

T27

Session Coming Soon

Microsoft Teams

 

 

 

T28

Developer / IT Professional

Running Secure Power Automate Flows

Level 300

Low Code Development

 

Ahmad Najjar, MVP, Avanade, Norway  

 

T29

IT Professional

How to secure Your Microsoft Teams meetings

Level 200

Administration

 

Marcin Siewnicki, MVP, ISCG sp. z o. o., Poland  

 

T30

Unleash the Power of Team Copilot with Planner to Supercharge How You Manage Your Work

 

Howard Crow, Microsoft, United States  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

[Panel] Power Platform Licensing Panel

Power Platform

 

Daniel Laskewitz, Microsoft, Netherlands Jussi Roine, MVP, Not Bad Security, Finland Chris Huntingford, MVP, ANS Group, United Kingdom  

 

Roundtable

[Rountable] Microsoft 365 Backup: Business continuity assurance with fast & reliable data backup & recovery

 

Kaustubh Kishore Chaudhary, Microsoft Ojas Yadav, Microsoft, India  

 

15:15 - 15:30

Change Rooms

15:30 - 16:30

Sessions

T31

OneDrive: Powering Tomorrow's Innovation and Collaboration

OneDrive

 

Miceile Barrett, Microsoft, USA Arvind Mishra, Microsoft, United States Vishal Lodha, Microsoft, USA  

 

T32

Business / Developer / IT Professional

Getting Your Organization Ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Level 200

Adoption

 

Luise Freese, MVP, Luise Freese, Germany  

 

T33

Empowering Frontline Workers: Transforming Experiences with Teams and M365

100 - Business Level

Microsoft Teams

 

Irina Parsina, Microsoft, United Kingdom Michael Bohlin, Microsoft, Sweden  

 

T34

Business / Developer / End User

Harness the power of AI with SharePoint Premium for content management

Level 200

Collaboration & Communication

 

Eric Overfield, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, MCT, Creospark, USA  

 

T35

Business / End User / IT Professional

Digital Wellbeing in M365 powered by Viva Insights and Copilot

Level 200

Adoption

 

Ståle Hansen, Microsoft RD, MVP, CloudWay, Norway  

 

T36

Developer

Monitoring and Troubleshooting Azure Applications with Azure Application Insights

Level 300

Administration

 

Joseph Guadagno, MVP, JosephGuadagno.NET, LLC., USA  

 

T37

Business / IT Professional

Teams for Frontline workers

Level 200

Adoption

 

Anders Green, MVP, Exobe, Sweden Linus Cansby MVP, Exobe AB, Sweden  

 

T38

Developer

Power Apps Convergence

Level 200

Low Code Development

 

Eickhel Mendoza, MVP, Intelequia Technologies, S.L., Spain  

 

T39

Business / IT Professional

Manage your Data Security Risks with Microsoft Purview Information Protection

Level 300

Governance & Compliance

 

Bram de Jager, MVP, MCM, Advice Matters, Netherlands  

 

T40

Business / Developer / End User

Blog Brilliance: Crafting Viral Tech Stories with Microsoft Designer & Clipchamp

Level 200

Collaboration & Communication

 

Sandra Kiel, MVP, Event Punks GmbH, Deutschland  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

Promptathon Results

Inspire Stage - 17:00 - 18:00

 

 

 

Roundable

[Rountable] How can Copilot help you manage and use your SharePoint content?

 

Sean Squires, Microsoft, USA Miranda Jones, Microsoft , United States  

 

16:30 - 17:00

Networking Break

17:00 - 18:00

Sessions

T41

The Tortured Copilots Department

Copilot

 

Dona Sarkar, Microsoft, USA  

 

T42

Business / End User

Piloting & Scaling Successfully With Microsoft Viva

Level 100

Adoption

 

Richard Harbridge - MVP, 2toLead, Canada  

 

T43

IT Professional

IT Pro Meets Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle and Records Management

Level 300

Governance & Compliance

 

Joanne Klein, MVP, NexNovus Consulting, Canada  

 

T44

Developer

Build High Performance AI Apps using Azure OpenAI & Azure Cosmos DB

Level 400

Architecture

 

Mark Brown, Microsoft, USA  

 

T45

End User

Building a Policy Center with PnP Modern Search

Level 200

Architecture

 

Marc D Anderson, MVP, Sympraxis Consulting, United States  

 

T46

Microsoft 365 Copilot Readiness Planning and Roadmap

Copilot

 

Peter Carson, MVP, Envision IT, Canada  

 

T47

Business / IT Professional

Build your Security Data Lake with Microsoft Sentinel & Data Explorer; a Match Made in Azure! ☁️

Level 300

Data Engineering & Management

 

Koos Goossens, MVP, Wortell, Netherlands  

 

T48

Business / IT Professional

Building Scalable, Repeatable Feedback Mechanisms

Level 200

Low Code Development

 

Christian Buckley, MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, CollabTalk LLC, United States  

 

T49

IT Professional

Advanced Copilot Analytics: From Zero to Hero with the Unified Audit Log, Entra ID and Power BI

Level 300

Data Engineering & Management

 

Tatu Seppälä, MVP, Sulava, Finland  

 

T50

IT Professional

Control your Teams data, You have 60 minutes to comply

Level 300

Collaboration & Communication

 

Paul Hunt, MVP, WTW, United Kingdom  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

From Family Chaos to Collaborative Harmony: Leveraging Microsoft 365 for Seamless Home and Work Life

Inspire Stage - 15.30-16.30

 

João Ferreira, MVP, Appspace, Portugal Francisca Peixoto, BindTuning, Portugal  

 



Wednesday 04 December

09:00 - 10:00

KEYNOTE: Thriving in the Era of AI

 

Karuana Gatimu - Director, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group, Microsoft, USA  

 

10:00 - 10:15

Change Rooms

10:15 - 11:15

Sessions

W1

OneDrive: AI Unleashed

AI

 

Miceile Barrett, Microsoft, USA Arvind Mishra, Microsoft, United States  

 

W2

Business / Developer / End User

[CASE STUDY] Implementing Generative AI on the UK’s Biggest Infrastructure Project – a ChatGPT and Azure OpenAI Story

Level 300

AI & Copilot

 

Chris O'Brien, MVP, Advania UK, United Kingdom  

 

W3

IT Professional

Mastering the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK

Level 300

Architecture

 

Tony Redmond, MVP, Office 365 for IT Pros, Ireland  

 

W4

Developer / IT Professional

Enhancing ALM efficiency in Power Platform with pipelines

Level 300

Compliance

 

Tomasz Poszytek, MVP, KDW, Poland  

 

W5

Business / Developer / IT Professional

Microsoft Fabric: A Journey from Classic Azure Data Lake to BYOL and OneLake

Level 300

Data Engineering & Management

 

Negar Shahbaz, Capgemini, Sweden  

 

W6

IT Pro

PowerShell Panic? Turning your Fear into a Superpower

100 - Business Level

Microsoft 365

 

Paul Robichaux, Keepit, USA Leah Theil, Keepit, United States  

 

W7

Business / IT Professional

Maximizing your Information Architecture Strategy with Microsoft 365 Content Features for Copilot and Microsoft Search

Level 300

AI & Copilot

 

Kasper Larsen, MVP, Fellowmind, Denmark Mikael Svenson, Microsoft, Norway  

 

W8

IT Professional

Hybrid Work - Deploying and managing Microsoft Teams Rooms

Level 300

Administration

 

Habib Mankal, MVP, WaveCore IT Inc., Canada  

 

W9

IT Professional

Taming the Wave of New Tools in Microsoft 365: Purview for Viva, Copilot and Loop

Level 200

Adoption

 

Sara Fennah, MVP, Znrgy Ltd, United Kingdom  

 

W10

Business / Developer

How to Succeed with App Modernization in Azure

Level 200

Administration

 

Sakari Nahi, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, Zure, Finland  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

Business Decision Maker / Developer / End User

Mentorship and ushering in the next generation of Speakers

100 - Business Level

Inspire Stage - 10:15 - 10:40

 

Fabian Williams, Microsoft, USA  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

Business Decision Maker / Developer / End User

Power Skills: Own Your Story..and your Future

Inspire Stage - 10:45-11:15

 

Karuana Gatimu - Director, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group, Microsoft, USA  

 

11:15 - 11:45

Networking Break

11:45 - 12:45

Sessions

W11

Business Decision Maker / IT Professional

Transforming SharePoint Content Management in this AI era

200 - Feature Orientated

Microsoft SharePoint

 

Sanjoyan Mustafi, Microsoft, United States Sean Squires, Microsoft, USA  

 

W12

Developer

Building Engaging Employee Experiences with Viva Connections and SharePoint Framework

Level 300

Architecture

 

Vesa Juvonen, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, Finland  

 

W13

Business / IT Professional

Azure IaaS Unleashed: A Comprehensive Journey into Design, Deploy, Manage IaaS workloads

Level 300

Administration

 

Tiago Costa, MVP, MCT, Independent Contractor, Portugal  

 

W14

Business / Developer / IT Professional

Build your own Custom Copilot

Level 300

AI & Copilot

 

Stephan Bisser, MVP, Solvion, Austria Thomas Göelles, MVP, Solvion Information Management, Austria  

 

W15

Developer

Top Hidden Features of Custom Connectors to Level up the Maker Experiences!

Level 300

Low Code Development

 

Mats Necker, MVP, knk Customer Engagement GmbH, Germany Daniel Laskewitz, Microsoft, Netherlands  

 

W16

Business / End User

Modernize Learning using Microsoft Teams

Level 200

Adoption

 

Ulrika Hedlund, RD, Storyals, Sweden  

 

W17

Meet Microsoft Loop

200 - Feature Orientated

Microsoft Loop

 

Rebecca Keys, Microsoft, United States David Stephens, Microsoft, United States  

 

W18

Session Title Coming Soon

 

 

 

W19

IT Pro

From Strive to Thrive: Strategic AI & Copilot Transformations with Microsoft 365

100 - Business Level

AI

 

Richard Harbridge - MVP, 2toLead, Canada  

 

W20

IT Professional

Executing a Successful Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migration!

Level 300

Administration

 

Chirag Patel, MVP, MCT, Patel Consulting, United Kingdom  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

Business Decision Maker / End User

Be Well – Rediscovering Harmony in a Busy Life

100 - Business Level

Inspire Stage - 11:45 - 12:45

 

Agnes Molnar, Microsoft RD, MVP, AgnesMolnar.com, Netherlands  

 

Roundtable

[Rountable] Help us share Copilot in the new Planner App

 

Howard Crow, Microsoft, United States  

 

Roundtable

[Rountable] Unlocking AI-Powered Frontline Experiences

 

Irina Parsina, Microsoft, United Kingdom Michael Bohlin, Microsoft, Sweden  

 

12:45 - 14:00

Networking Lunch

12:45 - 14:00

D&I Lunch

D&I

Embrace Your Authentic Self: The Power of Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

 

Miranda Jones, Microsoft , United States  

 

14:00 - 15:00

Sessions

W21

Business / End User / IT Professional

How to Leverage Microsoft Viva to Improve Employee Communications, Engagement, and Connection

Level 200

Adoption

 

Susan Hanley, MVP, Susan Hanley LLC, USA  

 

W22

Measure the Impact: Microsoft Viva for Microsoft 365 & Copilot Enablement

200 - Feature Orientated

Copilot

 

Karuana Gatimu - Director, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group, Microsoft, USA  

 

W23

IT Professional

SharePoint Premium Advanced Management Deep Dive

Level 300

Collaboration & Communication

 

Vlad Catrinescu, MVP, MCT, Syskit, Canada  

 

W24

Developer

Real World Vision Solutions using Azure Computer Vision, Azure Custom Vision and Azure ML

Level 300

AI and Machine Learning

 

Alan Smith, MVP, Active Solution, Sweden  

 

W25

Business / End User / IT Professional

The Measurable Goals for Copilot Success You are Looking for

Level 200

Adoption

 

Ståle Hansen, Microsoft RD, MVP, CloudWay, Norway  

 

W26

Developer / IT Professional

Level Up Your Bicep Game - Tips, Tricks and Advanced Features

Level 400

Administration

 

Simon Wåhlin, MVP, Unwonted AB, Sweden  

 

W27

Streamline Collaboration with the new chats and channels experience in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams

 

Roshin Ramesan, Microsoft, United States  

 

W28

Business / IT Pro

Three Key Steps to Ensure a Successful Microsoft 365 Copilot Journey

200 - Feature Orientated

Microsoft Copilot

 

Jeff Angama, AvePoint, France Robin Hyding, AvePoint, Sweden  

 

W29

IT Professional

Revealing 10 Common Intune Errors and How to Avoid Them

Level 300

Governance & Compliance

 

Simon Skotheimsvik, MVP, CloudWay, Norway  

 

W30

Business / End User

Future Collaboration Today with Microsoft Mesh!

Level 200

Collaboration & Communication

 

Vesa Nopanen, MVP, Sulava, Finland  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

Business Decision Maker / IT Professional

AI and Neurodiversity: Pioneering Support Through Artificial Intelligence

100 - Business Level

Inspire Stage - 14:00 - 15:00

 

Sandra Kiel, MVP, Event Punks GmbH, Deutschland  

 

15:00 - 15:15

Change Rooms

15:15 - 16:15

Sessions

W31

Business Decision Maker / IT Professional

Revolutionizing Employee Communications for the AI Era

200 - Feature Orientated

AI

 

Kristi Kelly, Microsoft, United States  

 

W32

IT Professional

Connect to your M365 Data with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Graph Data Connect

Level 300

Architecture

 

John P. White, MVP, AvePoint  

 

W33

IT Professional

Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Viva Engage...What Should I Use, and When?

Level 100

Adoption

 

Jeff Angama, AvePoint, France  

 

W34

Developer

Cloud-Native Applications are More than just Kubernetes

Level 300

Architecture

 

Alex Mang, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, KeyTicket Solutions, Romania  

 

W35

End User

Battle of the Forms: Microsoft Forms vs. Power Apps vs. SharePoint Forms

Level 200

Architecture

 

Laura Rogers, MVP, IW Mentor, United States  

 

W36

Developer

Developing GPTs with M365 Copilot

Level 200

AI

 

Rick Van Rousselt, MVP, Advantive, Belgium  

 

W37

Business Decision Maker

Using the Microsoft Scenario Library to Drive AI Business Value

100 - Business Level

Copilot

 

Bryan Wofford, Microsoft, United States  

 

W38

Developer / IT Professional

Unlock the Potential of Dataverse: A Comparative Analysis with SQL Server and SharePoint List

Level 200

Low Code Development

 

Serge Luca, MVP, Power Platform Associates, Belgium Isabelle Van Campenhoudt, MVP, Power Platform Associates, Belgium  

 

W39

Business / IT Professional

Teams Premium: Elevate Your Collaboration Game

Level 200

Collaboration & Communication

 

Femke de Vroome, Wortell, Netherlands  

 

W40

Developer / IT Professional

[CASE STUDY] How to Monitor and Manage a Farm of Robots Using Azure IoT & Digital Twins

Level 300

Custom Development

 

Nikos Delis, Aristévin Consulting AB, Sweden  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

[Panel] SharePoint Online, Teams, Viva, Copilot, Loop, etc. - What is the right tool for what?

 

Andrew Connell, MVP, Voitanos, USA Vesa Juvonen, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, Finland Peter Carson, MVP, Envision IT, Canada Paolo Pialorsi - MVP, Piasys.com, Italy  

 

16:15 - 16:45

Networking Break

16:45 - 17:45

KEYNOTE: Redefine The Impossible: Metamorphical Thinking

 

Keith Barry  

 



Thursday 05 December

09:00 - 10:00

KEYNOTE: A Look into the Future: The Role of AI in Cybersecurity Operations

 

Paula Januszkiewicz, Microsoft RD, MVP, CQURE, Poland  

 

10:00 - 10:15

10:15 - 11:15

Sessions

Th1

Implementing Microsoft 365 Copilot and Building a Community of Practice

200 - Feature Orientated

Copilot

 

Karuana Gatimu - Director, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th2

M365 Groups Deep Dive

 

Göran Husman  

 

Th3

Developer

Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility from no-code to pro-code

Level 300

AI & Copilot

 

Paolo Pialorsi, MVP, PiaSys.com, Italy  

 

Th4

IT Professional

How AI Can Take Your PowerShell Skills to the Next Level

Level 300

Administration

 

Aleksandar Nikolic, MVP, M.O.3.A.K. IT Consulting, Serbia  

 

Th5

IT Pro

Future of Microsoft 365 Data Protection

200 - Feature Orientated

Microsoft 365

 

Edward Watson, Veeam, USA Karinne Bessette, Veeam, Switzerland  Michael Paul, Veeam, United Kingdom   

 

Th6

Session Coming Soon

Microsoft Teams

 

 

 

Th7

Business / End User

Streamline communications with Viva Amplify

Level 200

Adoption

 

Marijn Somers, MVP, Mijn 365 Coach, Belgium Sari Soinoja, The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, Finland  

 

Th8

Empowering Organizations: Governance, Digital Safety, and AI-Driven Employee Engagement with Viva Engage

300 - Technical

Copilot

 

Mike McLean, Microsoft, United States  

 

Th9

Developer / IT Professional

Automate Naming Conventions in Power Apps

Level 200

Governance

 

Albert-Jan Schot, MVP, BLIS.digital, Netherlands Elianne Burgers, Blis Digital, Netherlands  

 

Th10

Developer

Test Automation with GitHub Actions and Playwright for Microsoft 365 solutions

Level 300

Architecture

 

Elio Struyf, MVP, Struyf Consulting, Belgium  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

Business Decision Maker / Developer / End User

Unlocking Career Advancement: Mentorship Strategies and Allyship

100 - Business Level

Inspire Stage - 10:45 - 11:10

 

Miranda Jones, Microsoft , United States  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

Demystifying the Microsoft MVP Program

Inspire Stage - 10:15 - 10:40

 

Laurie Pottmeyer, Microsoft, United States  

 

Roundtable

[Rountable] OneDrive Product Feedback

 

Arvind Mishra, Microsoft, United States Miceile Barrett, Microsoft, USA  

 

11:15 - 11:45

Networking Break

11:45 - 12:45

Sessions

Th11

Copilot Implementation Essentials Overview

Copilot

 

Karuana Gatimu - Director, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group, Microsoft, USA Bryan Wofford, Microsoft, United States  

 

Th12

Developer / IT Professional

“AI on your data” Deep-Dive - Comparing Copilot Studio, Copilot GPTs, and Azure OpenAI on your Data

Level 400

AI & Copilot

 

Chris O'Brien - MVP, Advania, United Kingdom  

 

Th13

Business / IT Professional

Microsoft Entra SSE – Goodbye VPN?

Level 300

Security & Identity

 

John Craddock, MVP, XTSeminars Ltd, United Kingdom  

 

Th14

Developer

Explore SharePoint Embedded App Development: From Setup to Production Ready Apps

Level 300

Custom Development

 

Andrew Connell, MVP, Voitanos, USA  

 

Th15

IT Professional

Managing Insider Risk with Adaptive Protection Strategies inside Microsoft 365

Level 300

Administration

 

Joanne Klein, MVP, NexNovus Consulting, Canada  

 

Th16

Business / IT Professional

Empowering Your Business with Microsoft Teams Voice

Level 200

Collaboration & Communication

 

Linus Cansby MVP, Exobe AB, Sweden  

 

Th17

Developer

SharePoint API Platform: what's New and Coming

Level 300

Architecture

 

Bert Jansen, Microsoft, Belgium  

 

Th18

Automation for Resilience: The Role of Automation in Business Continuity

 

Cosima von Kries, Nintex, Germany  

 

Th19

Empowering executives with Microsoft Teams on iPad

Microsoft Teams

 

Upasana Prabhu  

 

Th20

Developer / IT Professional

Mastering Cloud Security: A Deep Dive into Defender for Cloud for IT Pros and Developers

Level 300

Governance & Compliance

 

Pierre Thoor, MVP, Onevinn AB, Sweden  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

Business Decision Maker / End User / IT Professional

The Art of AI-Assisted Writing: Blending Technology with Human Creativity

100 - Business Level

Inspire Stage - 11:45 - 12:45

 

Christian Buckley, MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, CollabTalk LLC, United States  

 

12:45 - 14:00

Networking Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Sessions

Th21

Utilizing Microsoft Purview in Copilot Implementations

Copilot

 

Bryan Wofford, Microsoft, United States  

 

Th22

Accelerating AI Readiness: Seamless Data Migration to Microsoft 365 for the Intelligent Enterprise

AI

 

Miranda Jones, Microsoft , United States Vishal Lodha, Microsoft, USA  

 

Th23

IT Professional

Security in the age of AI: Deep Dive

Level 300

AI & Copilot

 

Jussi Roine, MVP, Not Bad Security, Finland  

 

Th24

IT Professional

Managing Microsoft 365 through the command-line

Level 200

Administration

 

Thomas Vochten, MVP, MCT, Cronos Group, Belgium  

 

Th26

Developer

Cloud Development with Azure Developer CLI (azd)

Level 300

Administration

 

Jonah Andersson, MVP, Solidify, Sweden  

 

Th27

Business / IT Professional

User Research Methods to Inform an Incredible Employee Experience

Level 200

Adoption

 

Emily Mancini, MVP, Left Uncharted, USA  

 

Th28

IT Professional

Quantum computing - the next best thing?

Level 200

Administration

 

Hanna Engel, Azelis, Belgium  

 

Th29

Business / IT Professional

Unlocking the Coolness of Secure Collaboration in M365

Level 200

Adoption

 

Simon Ågren, MVP, Onevinn, Sweden  

 

Th30

Keep business running with fast, reliable backup and recovery with Microsoft 365 Backup

200 - Feature Orientated

Compliance

 

Sean Squires, Microsoft, USA Kaustubh Kishore Chaudhary, Microsoft Ojas Yadav, Microsoft, India  

 

INSPIRE STAGE

Ask the Experts

 

 

 

15:00 - 15:15

Change Rooms

15:15 - 16:15

Sessions

Th31

Extending M365 Copilot with Copilot Agents: Best practices

Copilot

 

Kendra Springer, Microsoft, United States  

 

Th32

IT Professional

User Lifecycle: Inbound Provisioning and Governance with Microsoft Entra ID Governance and Workflows

Level 300

Governance & Compliance

 

Jan Vidar Elven, MVP, Evidi AS, Norway  

 

Th33

Developer

Azure Assured: Pragmatic Azure Testing

Level 200

Architecture

 

Sam Vanhoutte, MVP, Self-employed, Belgium  

 

Th34

Developer / IT Professional

Leveraging Power Platform CLI

Level 200

Administration

 

Fabio Franzini - MVP, Apvee Solutions, Italy  

 

Th35

Business / Developer / End User

Embracing Agile Documentation: A professional approach to streamline your technical writing process

Level 200

Architecture

 

Kris van der Mast, VaHa, Belgium  

 

Th36

Developer

Elevating Your User’s Experience: Creating Custom Designed SharePoint List Forms with SPFx

Level 300

Architecture

 

Derek Cash-Peterson, MVP, Sympraxis Consulting, Iceland Stefan Bauer, MVP, N8D, Austria  

 

Th37

Developer

Teams AI Kit

Level 300

AI

 

Albert-Jan Schot - MVP, BLIS.digital, Netherlands  

 

Th38

Developer / End User / IT Professional

10 Tips to Create your Web Site with Power Pages

Level 200

Low Code Development

 

Gilles Pommier - MVP Fouziya Lahjiouj, Sopra Steria, France  

 

Th39

The future of Windows in the age of Cloud

 

Claus Emrich, Microsoft Matt Abraham  

 

Th40

Business Decision Maker / Developer / End User

Copilot agents from SharePoint & OneDrive

200 - Feature Orientated

Copilot

 

Vishal Lodha, Microsoft, USA Miranda Jones, Microsoft , United States