Join us at 365 EduCon DC 2023Microsoft 365 EduCon,&nbsp;a Microsoft 365 and Power Platform training conference,&nbsp;brings to you the world’s leading experts in&nbsp;Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft Teams and Azure. Whether you are&nbsp;new to SharePoint or an experienced power user, admin or developer, 365 EduCon has content designed to fit your experience level and area of interest. Our workshops and sessions are taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Regional Directors and Microsoft engineers.
At&nbsp;Microsoft&nbsp;365 EduCon, subject matter is divided into tracks and each session is designated for beginner, intermediate or advanced. Tracks are offered for the following subjects:&nbsp;Microsoft 365, Azure, Teams, Power Apps, Search, Content Management, Power Users, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Workflow/ Power Automate, Business Intelligence, SharePoint Development, Microsoft Viva and more. Choose one complete learning track or mix and match based on what content best meets you and your organization’s current needs!

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Have you only heard of Power BI in passing or have always been the end-user but now are ready to learn and invest in this tool to bridge the gap between data and decision making? Then this is a must attend workshop for you.

Join Daniel Christian and Scott Shearer who are both Microsoft MVPs and MCTs as they take you on a journey into the Microsoft Power BI world. This full day workshop will first introduce you into the past and present of Power BI and then dive into demos. Daniel and Scott will walk you through how to use commonly used data sources such as Dataverse, SharePoint and SQL to build reports that help visualize your data and create amazing experiences for the end users.

They also focus on the deep integration across the Power Platform family i.e. from the report kick-off a Power Automate flow or add a Power Apps canvas app to edit data. 

In this workshop, you'll be introduced to:
 • Power BI Licensing
 • Using the Power BI Desktop App
 • Using the Power BI Service
 • How to create reports and dashboards
 • DAX fundamentals
 • Integration with Power Apps and Power Automate
 • Learning resources
 • And more (time permitting...)

Please note that this is not a hands-on workshop but attendees are welcome to follow along.



Power BI For The Absolute Beginner

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Microsoft 365 gives enterprises and government organizations the tools they need in the modern workplace to identify their risky information and to govern their data effectively to meet regulatory compliance needs. These tools help protect sensitive data from accidental and malicious data loss, and they protect the organization from risk by ensuring we retain our data appropriately following regulatory controls such as GDPR, NIST, and CIS. Implementing these compliance solutions requires a clear understanding of the capabilities available in the Microsoft cloud and industry best practices for establishing a data governance framework.

In this all-day workshop, David Drever and Joanne Klein will help you learn how to develop a framework for information governance for enterprises and government organizations, including planning a record retention schedule and implementing retention labels/policies. They’ll teach you how to leverage disposition reviews, implement event-based retention, and automatically apply retention labels to your data. They’ll discuss how utilizing Compliance Manager, and Insider Risk Management can further govern your environment. 

Finally, you will learn how to use eDiscovery to facilitate legal holds and “Freedom of Information and Privacy” (FOIP) requests. Join David and Joanne to discover how to implement data governance and compliance in Microsoft 365!

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/0uFJnqQYP60

Microsoft 365 Compliance: Implementing information governance, risk, and compliance management

This session will provide you with the knowledge that you need to quickly become productive using Power BI.

You will be introduced to:
  - Power BI licensing
  - Power BI Components
  - Using the Power BI Desktop app
  - Using the Power BI Service
  - How to create reports and dashboards
  - Learning Resources

Don't have a Power BI license?  You can start using Power BI for free!

Attend this demo-rich session and get started with Power BI!

Beginners Guide to Power BI

Creating compelling reports is an important skill in our data-centric world. Have you seen a nice-looking report or dashboard and wondered how you can get started creating one? Are you interested in learning how to create a Power BI dashboard, from simple data to actionable intelligence? Then this session is for you! 

In this session, we will talk about the building blocks of Power BI, look at different types of data you can use, and define what makes a good dashboard. 

You will learn when to use Power BI Desktop and when you need the Power BI service. We will also discuss how you can safely share Power BI insights inside and outside of your organization. 

You will leave this session with the resources you need to get started in your journey with Power BI.

Build your first Power BI dashboard

In today's world getting true data driven insights can take a lot of time and energy. Data is spread across a wide variety of storage systems, all of which can have different operating models, security models and integration requirements. The next generation of Microsoft's data platform, which includes Power BI aims to solve this problem. 
Come to this session to explore some exciting new announcements from Microsoft, understand exactly what they mean, and how they can help position your organization for the new age of AI.


Exploring the Future of Microsoft Analytics

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Would you like to build a Power BI dataset that could inventory your workspaces, reports, datasets, and refresh schedule? Would you'd like to query another dataset to import into your dataset? 

In this session I'll show you how to leverage an open-source custom connector that connects to Power BI's REST APIs to do just that.   

Querying Power BI REST APIs within a Power BI Dataset

Metrics and scorecards are a new Power BI feature that enables us to capture and focus on what we are working toward rather than what we are working on.

If you are new to Power BI, Metrics are an excellent place to start well.

In this presentation, you'll learn
  - What are Power BI Metrics and how are they intended to be used
  - See some examples of real-world scorecards
  - See how to set up a scorecard demo

Introduction to Power BI Metrics

Did you know that there are at least 25 Power BI actions and triggers available in Power Automate?

In this session you'll see:
  - How to launch a Flow from a button in Power BI
  - How to export a report from Power BI using a Flow
  - How to refresh a dataset using a Flow
  - Power Automate integration with Power BI Metrics
  - And more...

All of the above will be presented via live demonstrations.

If you are a Power BI user and are not yet leveraging Power Automate, this session is for you.

Using Power Automate with Power BI

Power BI has many options for keeping your data up to date, but what happens when scheduled refreshes simply aren't enough? What do you do when real time or near real time reporting on your data is necessary? Fortunately, Power BI has you covered here as well. From real-time datasets, to Direct Query and the Aggregations feature and hybrid tables, there are more than a few options for accomplishing this goal, but they all do come with a few tradeoffs. 

This  session will examine all of the techniques available to Power BI for reporting on your data in cached mode, near real time, and real time. It will highlight some of the things to watch out for, and how to design for them. 

If you need your data more up to date than what refresh schedules can provide, then this session is for you. 

There's No Time Like the Present - Real Time Reporting with Power BI

Every organization is a data organization and you must collaborate on data to stay on track. Sharing insights from within Power BI will give you an advantage and help steer your organization in the right direction.

However there are some pitfalls with sharing - if you don’t know your options and set proper governance, you could be on your way to a data breach or giving your private information to the competition.

In this session, you will get a short introduction to Power BI and understand where data resides, why and how you should share with your colleagues and outside partners, and get a strategy for setting governance for your data. 

You will walk away with the outline of a governance plan, an understanding of your sharing options, and the sharing settings you should immediately turn off.

Power BI Sharing: Your Options for Keeping Everyone Informed

The adoption of Teams is skyrocketing, and we are seeing an increase in the Microsoft Teams sprawl. One of the methods to avoid Teams Sprawl is to use automated governance using Power Automate, Microsoft Graph APIs, and SharePoint.

In this demo-driven session, we will cover how to implement Teams Governance using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ), Microsoft Graph APIs, and SharePoint.

You will learn:
1) Microsoft Teams Governance via Automation
2) Automate Microsoft Team Provisioning using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ), Microsoft Graph APIs, and SharePoint
3) Automate Microsoft Team Provisioning using Logic Apps, Microsoft Graph APIs, and SharePoint

Implementing Microsoft Teams Governance using Power Automate, Microsoft Graph & SharePoint

We'll learn how to use Microsoft Syntex that uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing, and transform content into knowledge.

Automate content processing using AI & Microsoft Syntex

Power BI has revolutionized the industry by accelerating our ability to deliver Data Analytics solutions.  But how do we ensure the code we build is reliable and the data is produced in a timely and trustworthy manner? Enter DataOps, a better way to develop and deliver Data Analytics Solutions.  

In this session, I’ll cover the concept of DataOps, why it matters to Power BI, and the principles that can drive you to continuously improve.

DataOps 101 -  A Better Way to Develop and Deliver Data Analytics

This session covers the document understanding functionality of Microsoft Syntex used to process email, contracts, and other unstructured data. We'll also demo the new layout model to process invoices.

According to Forrester, today’s organizations have 72% of their critical information locked away in their Content Estate, scattered amongst PDFs and other unstructured, hard to analyze file formats. Until now, the process to curate this information into analyzable data has been manual, time-consuming, and expensive. 

Today, industry leaders are using AI to combine their content information with structured data from the Data Estate to synthesize new business insights and drive innovation faster. Learn how you can use Microsoft’s new applied AI technology to enable this competitive advantage for your company.

Using Microsoft Syntex, Power Automate, and Power BI, you see how to ingest email and convert it to actionable data at scale. You’ll see how to:
•	Create a document understanding model to locate the relevant patterns withing the document
•	Attach that model to a SharePoint library
•	Have Microsoft Syntex extract the data from the documents automatically
•	Use the new Power BI integration with SharePoint, using your structured data for a holistic analysis. 
•	Use the new Power Automate integration with SharePoint, to automatically trigger business processes


Convert email/contracts/invoices to actionable data with Microsoft Syntex, Power Automate, Power BI

There are so many necessary documents for an organization and being able to help automate them can make an enormous difference. 

In this session, we will see how you can automate that in Microsoft Power Automate with Adobe PDF Services and Adobe Sign:
 • Generate Word and PDF documents from data using Adobe Document Generation
 • Protect, Combine, OCR, and perform other actions on PDFs
 • Send and capture e-signatures
