Scottish Summit is back and bigger than ever.
It’s the fifth year of this widely renowned Microsoft Community event - and it certainly will not disappoint!
To accommodate the huge demand, in 2023 our learning and development sessions span 3 floors at the University Academy 92 and an influx of highly talented speakers looking to inspire an entire community.
This is your chance to hear the latest and greatest in Microsoft technology trends, innovations and partner initiatives from professionals in the field with vast knowledge and experience.
Never have there been so many advocates of the Microsoft ecosystem gathered together in one place at an EU community event; answering questions, teaching best practises and demonstrating real world solutions live, in-person.
Register for free and join the Scottish Summit community today.
This event is perfect for:
- Microsoft Partners looking to build a network and share innovations
- End-users looking at how the technology can transform a business
- Business professionals from any discipline looking to learn how the platform is changing the way organisations work
- Recruitment organisations on the hunt for new talent and hiring opportunities
There is truly something for all levels and interest as the event covers 9 topic tracks and over 60 speaker sessions on the 5th of August, including:
- Microsoft Azure - The infrastructure for technology transformation
- Dynamics 365 - The enabler for greater productivity and delivering business value
- Power Platform – The platform for transforming business processes
- Big Data – The intelligent insights to lead a business toward future success
- Personal Skills – The Empowerment of Individuals and Employees
- Microsoft Education – A foundation for knowledge and progression
- New Speaker Presentations – Supporting new ideas alongside diversity and inclusion
We bring together top Microsoft speakers, Most Valued Professionals, community influencers and emerging business professionals who are here to share new ideas, trends and learnings with the wider Microsoft Community.
Our tracks rank from beginner level (100) to the technically advance (400), providing learning for all, including end-users, partners, business stakeholders, consultants and educators.
There really is a wealth of information to be drawn out of this event, from experts in the Microsoft technology space.

Scottish Summit 2023 

Ground Floor Auditorium

'I don't have time to design a good looking application, it just needs to do the job' - hands up if this has ever crossed your mind🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️🙋

And hands up if your colleague or end user ever said to you - 'I wish your app had a better UX'. Or even worse - if you lost a potential customer because 'the app didn't look good enough'? 🙋🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️

In this 60-minute, live Extreme Makeover episode, I will show you that you really don't need too much extra time to make your functional applications beautiful!

60 minutes full of design tips, animations, gradients, icons, eye catching components - all while transforming a real life Power App!

See you there 🚀




Extreme Makeover - Canvas Apps Edition

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Yammer might be dead, but Viva la Viva Engage! Has your Yammer been a dry desert with occasional tumbleweeds rolling slowly around? Do you want to turn it into an engaging, lush oasis filled with discussions, insights, laughter and connections? Of course you do! Welcome to the session, where I will show you how it's done.
	
We'll deep dive into the role of Viva Engage amongst all communication tools in Microsoft 365 and how it fits within Teams and other Viva solutions. You'll discover why your organisation should use Engage - and when Engage might not be the best fit. We will go through best practices for launching (or, in many cases re-launching) Engage and discover use cases for different situations, such as supporting well-being, transparent leadership or knowledge sharing across the organisation.
	
After this session, you've fallen in love with Yam-- Viva Engage again 💘
	 
Session takeaways:
- Positioning Viva Engage amongst communication tools
- Tips for launching or re-launching Viva Engage
- Best use cases for Viva Engage

It's the year of Yam-- Viva Engage again!

With custom connectors, you can combine the flexibility of APIs with the easy-to-use awesomeness that is the Power Platform. While there are a lot of examples for simple connectors, custom connectors offer a variety of advanced but less well-known features. Let's change the less-know part! 🚀

Did you know that you can have fields with dynamic option values? Or that you can create action where some fields are completely dynamic and loaded at runtime? You can even create custom connectors with custom triggers 👌

We will spend little time on theory but instead are focusing on awesome features in live demos 🔥

The hidden Powers of Custom Connectors

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The Power Platform is an impressive toolset that can enable organisations to transform business processes in many different ways. They become even more transformational when they work together taking full advantage of what each tool does best.

In this session we will look at how Power Automate can give Power BI write back options. Moving onto how Power BI can deliver transformed data to Power Automate. Continuing to look at how Power Automate can help deliver reporting highlights in new ways. Fast paced demos and a touch of dungeons and dragons.

Power Automate and Power BI doing what they do best

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What if I told you that there was a way to theme and brand your Power Apps in a way the encouraged a consistent look and feel. One that meant you could change ALL your apps to reflect new branding with one quick set of changes?

And then what if I told you that this would also allow you to make your app more accessible to a further 15-20% of users, driving up your adoption rates?

Join me as I show you how you can build Accessible standard compliant apps, that incorporate compliant colour schemes (that you can create and check), and that don't require massive amounts of complexity.

Branding and Theming Power Apps - With Accessibility Included!

I have been doing document management with SharePoint for the past 7 years now, and from time to time I still hear that SharePoint is not a document management system. I fully disagree! In this session, I will share my insights about 8 killer features that make SharePoint a valid document management system. Demos included! 

The following document management topics are included: 

	• Microsoft Syntex & metadata
	• Document numbering 
	• Commenting
	• Version history and revisions
	• Approvals
	• External sharing
	• Search
	• Security & labelling


SharePoint is a full-blooded document management system - and I can prove it!

Whether you are early in career or a seasoned veteran, the Power Platform provides a number of amazing career path options. 

You could become an internal champion in your company and build exciting apps and tools for your team. Perhaps you might want to work for Microsoft Partner and work with a variety of customers and projects. You could also enter the world of independents, providing your services on a project-by-project basis. You could also get the "blue badge" and work directly for Microsoft.

Implementation? Sales? Training? Content Development? The choices are limitless, but also have many pros and cons to consider. This session will be a panel of community members who have followed various career paths. Hear all about their successes, failures and cautionary tales. Considering making a career change? Check out this session for some extremely valuable insight!

So you want a Power Platform career

The Dynamics 365 Marketing solution is divided into two areas, Outbound and Real-Time Marketing. Understanding how to move into the Real-Time Marketing section is an important and necessary step to take. But are you ready? 

Dynamics 365 Marketing is the only tool natively integrated with the whole Business Applications stack from Dynamics 365 Sales, Customer Insights, and MS Teams, providing you with tools and capabilities to orchestrate personalized journeys based on your customer's touch-points in physical and digital interactions. With Real-time Marketing, the native integrations to the rest of the D365 ecosystem are ready to be used from day 1!  

This workshop will aim to prepare you for your transition from Outbound Marketing to Real-time Marketing by covering:
- Feature differences and gaps
- How to identify and mitigate potential challenges
- How to set up and configure Real-time Marketing
- How to migrate your marketing artifacts

How to retire the use of Outbound Marketing and become future-proof in Real-Time? By transitioning to Real-Time Marketing, you will embrace new, improved, and future-proof capabilities to empower you to make faster and better decisions using data to make every customer interaction a selling point. In this session, we will discover some typical use cases in Outbound Marketing and how to optimize and advance these with Real-Time Marketing. 

This session is for those who are:
- Seeking further understanding of feature capabilities
- Currently evaluating a move from Outbound Marketing to Real-Time Marketing
- Curious to learn more about Dynamics 365 Marketing

This session and its content are based on real-life experiences, best practices, and lessons learned from global implementations and migrations. 