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.

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Everyone has at some point wished they could clone themselves – to do the dishes, or work more efficiently. With advancements and improved accessibility of AI, this becomes more of a reality...

This session will explore how to use Azure Custom Neural Voice to create a synthesised version of our own voice for use in a range of fun and practical applications – telephony, voice overs, or even attending meetings on your behalf...!

We'll cover the basics of training and tweaking a model of our own voice, with minimal code, that can be used to turn text into natural-sounding speech.

Advancing further, we'll learn some ways to train our model with enhanced training data. As an example we'll take a larger amount of audio, such as a podcast, use widely available tools and APIs to identify the individual speakers and the words being spoken – including highly technical language – to feed into our model.

You will leave with the knowledge and inspiration to give "cloning" your voice a try!

Clone yourself with Azure Custom Neural Voice

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Mental health affects us all, albeit at varying levels of intensity, be it from having a restless nights sleep or Bi-Polar Disorder and is still a subject that we tend to approach with caution, if we even speak about it at all, whether with our colleagues and managers, doctors and even our closest friends and family.

Starting talking about our mental health is often hard, but it is one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal to managing your own and your team's mental health and should be discussed in all 1:1s.

Come and gain an insight into some of the things to look out for as preliminary signs that your colleagues, friends, family and perhaps, most importantly, yourself may be suffering, plus how to broach this all-important conversation.

Mental Health: Its Time to Talk

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Zero Trust is a security model that assumes breach and verifies each request as though it originated from an uncontrolled network. It requires explicit verification, least-privileged access principles, and continuous monitoring of your IT environment.

Azure Active Directory is the cloud-based platform that governs the identity and access management to the Power Platform, as well as to all the other M365 services, the Azure resources you have in your subscriptions, and eventually the third-parties SaaS applications you are federated with. 

In this session we'll discuss the native Azure AD functionalities you can use to cover the different pillars of Zero Trust, like:
- Strong Authentication, Identity Protection and Conditional Access.
- Privileged Identity Management.
- Access Reviews

Whether you are architects, cloud or security admins, or citizen developers that want to increase the security of their solution, you'll learn more about the above components, and how they can be used to implement your Zero Trust approach.


Implement a Zero Trust Approach with Azure Active Directory

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In this session, I am going to show you a few techniques which will help you to make your data solution journey easy and fast. We will see how to design ADF pipelines to avoid issues later on. We will see a couple of performance techniques to save cost and improve performance.
 
After this session, you’ll have learned some tips and tricks to immediately improve your data solution.


Top 10  Azure Data Factory Tips & Tricks

Like any other software development, Power Platform applications should also have a healthy lifecycle management process comprising of Development, QA and Production environments. There are multiple options available for moving Solutions between one environment to another. This session will discuss each of them in brief and provide guideline on choosing the right option based on your scenario. Topics to cover -
1. Power Platform ALM Fundamentals
2. Deployment using Power Platform CLI
3. Azure DevOps Pipelines for Power Platform
4.GitHub workflows for Power Platform
5.ALM Accelerator
6.Power Platform Pipelines
7.Comparative study between all ALM options.

Power Platform Application Lifecycle Management - which option should I choose?

Join us for an exciting session that delves into the dynamic synergy between Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Power Platform. 

This session is designed to unravel the possibilities and showcase the immense potential that arises from combining these two cutting-edge technologies. Explore the capabilities of Generative AI and how it integrates with Power Platform using Azure Open AI & ChatGPT

Generative AI and Power Platform

Employee Experience is the current buzz word, especially in the Microsoft space.
What is Employee Experience. In this session we consider both the business and Microsoft Viva point of view, discerning hype from reality and aspirations from practice.

This session explores 
	- What employee experience is in the real world.
	- What the Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 has to say about it.
	- The areas Microsoft Viva addresses (and doesn't).
	- A set of tips to improve your employee experience maturity with Microsoft Viva, around:
		○ Onboarding
		○ Enhancing your team (sentiment, activity, collaboration patterns)
		○ Upskilling - Viva Learning
		○ Viva Goals
Actionable takeaways; for the attendees to take back to their organisation the next week

Maturing your employee experience with Microsoft Viva

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Allons-y! Let's take a trip through time and space with Doctor Who and software development.

What regeneration is the release currently in? Is it in live and training at the same time? Can we travel back in time and implement that solution from last week into our training enviroment?

I thought we were only changing X, but it looks like the time vortex has affected Y as well. Didn't we exterminate that bug last week?

CI/CD may not be a new concept in the universe, but Dynamics has been lagging behind software engineering for centuries. And let's face it, one sonic screwdriver doesn't fit all. This session will explore different ways to achieve repeatable deployments, and track changes like a true Time Lord. These are the hallmarks of being able to say "yes, of course" to the previous question.

From the old-fashioned tried-and-tested methods to the latest OOTB or… Out-of-The-TARDIS techniques, this session has something for every UNIT team, no matter the size. Let's grab our sonic screwdrivers and get ready to regenerate our understanding of dynamics releases!