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In this session, I'll show you how to increase drastically the employee experience using Viva Connections in Microsoft 365.
We'll go through Viva Connections, how to install it, how to bring together relevant news, conversations, and resources, and finally how to extend it.

How to Get the Most out of Your Intranet with Viva Connections

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Yammer is your company facebook to build communities, share knowledge, and engage with everyone. 
In this session, we will cover the importance of Yammer and how it contributes to Viva Connections and Viva Engage modules to build engaging experience for digital workplaces of the organization.

Yammer and Its Role in Microsoft Viva

Viva Connection integration with SharePoint enables a dynamic, engaging, and personalized employee experience for your organization. These innovations power the intelligent workplace, where teams can collaborate and streamline workflows, organizations can engage employees and communicate effectively, and individuals can be more creative and productive with experiences and insights powered by artificial intelligence (AI). 
In this session we will dive into setting up Viva connections using SharePoint and integrating with Microsoft Teams.
We will explore how the Developers can extend Microsoft Viva Connections for building engaging experiences with the widely adopted SharePoint Framework (SPFx). 

Microsoft Viva Connections - Set Up and Extend with SPFx

With Viva Insights, business leaders can gain insight into how work impacts their people and business with insight into organisational resiliency and work culture. 

This session is a deep dive into the organisational insights available with Viva Insights to help improve collaboration behaviours in the workplace. We will explore the available analytics through a live demo, customise them, use templates to define recommendation plans, and explore why this is crucial for organisations in a hybrid workplace.

Viva Insights: Analytics to Improve Collaboration Behaviours in the Workplace

Microsoft provides powerful services within Microsoft 365, but a comprehensive backup of your Microsoft 365 data is not one of them. Of over 1,000 IT Pros surveyed, 80% experienced data loss in the cloud. In this presentation from Veeam, you will learn the differences between Microsoft 365 native capabilities versus third-party backup, understand the reasons for protecting this critical data, and how to get started with your backup strategy.

7 Reasons to Backup Microsoft 365 Data

Case studies of removing roadblocks from M365 adoption caused by Outlook PST files 

PST Migrator - Case Studies

Does this sound familiar? You open Outlook in the morning and notice a "Your daily briefing" email sent from Microsoft Viva. You skim through, find a few suggestions to help you prepare for your day, and think "Hey, this is really helpful!". But did you know there is also an app in Microsoft Teams which offers even MORE useful recommendations to help you have a great workday?
 
Viva Insights, part of the Microsoft Viva Employee Experience Platform (EXP), can help you do your best work by providing insights about how you work along with recommendations to boost productivity and prioritize wellbeing. 
 
In this session, I'll show how Viva Insights helps you understand your work patterns so you can build better work habits such as:
 
	· Reserving time in your day for uninterrupted, focused work
	· Following through on commitments you’ve made to colleagues
	· Taking regular breaks
	· Maintaining boundaries between work and personal time by intentionally closing out your workday
	· And more!
 
I'll show how you can easily add the Viva Insights app in Teams so bring your laptop and phone to follow along!

Build Better Work Habits with Viva Insights

Effective change management requires awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, and reinforcement.  The Microsoft Viva suite is uniquely designed to fulfill each of those aspects of successful change.  Connections can build awareness through your intranet.  Engage can build desire through communities.  Learning can help deliver knowledge.  Topics can build ability through effective knowledge management.  Insights can help to reinforce good habits to support long term change.  Come listen to the beautiful music these tools make when they join together.

Microsoft Viva as a Change Management Toolbox

Microsoft Viva is a new kind of employee experience platform designed for the digital era! In this session we will have an introduction Microsoft Viva, its different types (including Viva Goals and Engage) and how it helps organizations keep their employees more effective and more productive.



Modern Employee Experience with MS Viva

The rapid shifts to virtual, and now to hybrid work, have taken their toll on employees everywhere. Microsoft has evolved the platform to help us keep up with the evolution of work.

From Viva Insights' to rich capabilities to Teams' features allowing us to sync asynchronously with teammates, hybrid work doesn’t have to feel “remote.” And everything doesn’t have to be a meeting.

Let’s dive into some of the tools and methods available in Microsoft 365 that help us stay focused, sane, and live in this virtual world.
