Save the date for Metaverse One 2023: September 20th 2023!
Metaverse One is the first 100% free, 100% community driven online conference dedicated to the Microsoft Metaverse, Microsoft Mesh, Artificial Intelligence, Mixed Reality, MR technologies, extensibility options, the Teams Platform and also welcomes other Metaverse Platforms. It aims to bring together exceptional technical talent and thought leadership to democratize Metaverse and AI&nbsp;knowledge, encourage participation in the community and give those who are struggling financially an opportunity to experience a first class conference.
Metaverse One has 4 online rooms that has sessions around the Metaverse, AI, Microsoft Mesh, Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and other themes.
We are also welcoming sessions on and about other platforms such as Meta, Spatial and other consumer / event Metaverses. With the partnership between Meta and Microsoft sharing insights and knowledge about that is also important.
Sessions can range from technical ones to end users. From champions and adoption of new ways of working to the responsible &amp; ethical use of the Metaverse. From getting ready to the new future to sharing experiences.
We welcome your support for the Metaverse One 2023 and appreciate you sharing the word about the event as Microsoft Tech Community Rocks!

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Opening begins at 8am CEST.&nbsp; You can <a href="https://metaverseone2023.sessionize.com/schedule" target="_blank">view schedule directly via this link</a>.

Keynote Speakers📢 Jeff Teper, MicrosoftPresident - Microsoft Collaborative Apps and Platforms📢 Karuana Gatimu, MicrosoftPrincipal Manager, Customer Advocacy Group, Microsoft Teams Engineering📢 Pouneh Kaufman, MicrosoftGPM, Collaborative Apps Platform | Mesh | Metaverse | AR/VR/MR &nbsp;See full speaker and session list at&nbsp;<a href="https://metaverseone2023.sessionize.com/schedule" target="_blank">https://metaverseone2023.sessionize.com/schedule</a>

Metaverse One 2023

Room 4

Join us for "Mastering Your Meeting in Microsoft Teams Meeting Rooms," where we'll show you how to maximize the capabilities of Microsoft Teams Meeting Rooms. We will demonstrate how you can take your meetings to the next level, using advanced features and cutting-edge technology to make your meetings are more efficient and effective.

Whether you're hosting internal team meetings, client presentations, or remote webinars, this event is for you. Join us to discover the power of Microsoft Teams Meeting Rooms and revolutionize the way you do meetings!

Mastering Your Meeting in Microsoft Teams Meeting Rooms

The pandemic has changed the world as we know it. But Royals of the North, a fictional company, used Microsoft 365 to transform their collaboration and innovation. You will see how they leveraged Microsoft technology based on Zero Trust to work from anywhere, on any device, securely and productive. 
You will also get a sneak peek into their secret project of creating a revolutionary new product and their collaboration project of planning a big celebration. 
Learn how to thrive with Microsoft 365 in a post-pandemic world!

Technologogies used: Conditional Access, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Teams, Defender for Cloud Apps, Defender for Endpoint. 

How Royals of the North thrived with Microsoft 365 in a post-pandemic world

In this session, I would like to share my learnings for two usecases on Altspace VR :
-Almost 80 attendees on a single recrutement event for Europe IT consulting jobs.
-An end of training vurtual session to illustrate 'in Real life' ERP processes on Altspace VR.

You will get insights on what did work, what didn't, and what I would suggest to think of when going for such experiments !

From recrutement to training, what I have learn organizing Immersive events

In this session I will walk you through my day when I am casting Windows and Mac desktops to Oculus Quest 2, Pico 4 and  Lenovo ThinkReality A3. We are discussing Pro and Cons of this Real Life Experiences from a Hybrid Work  Evangelist - on the road, in my home office and at customers & partners. 

Streaming & Casting your Desktop to VR/AR. Real Life Experiences from a Hybrid Work  Evangelist

Many leaders are struggling to answer whether the Metaverse matters to them, their employees, or their organization. What is real, what is actionable now, and what can organizations do to better prepare and plan for the impact the Metaverse will have on them and their organizations?

Join Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares best practices, considerations, and advice on not only how the Metaverse impacts employee experience today, but how to maximize the impact it provides tomorrow.

Metaverse & The Employee Experience: What You Need To Know

Developing apps can end in enormous effort and in-depth programming. With the newest announcements with Microsoft 365 Copilot for the Power Platform and especially Power Apps, you get a powerful option to be used to develop business applications quickly and easily.
In this session you will learn how to quickly create your own apps with Power Apps and extend it with mixed reality components. 

What happens when you combine AI with the Metaverse?

Many different companies are asking us what exactly the metaverse can do for their learning experience or their brands or what their brands can do in the metaverse.
These new, immersive, virtual environments have the potential to provide a fresh approach to staying relevant to existing customers while attracting new ones and learn and adopt new technologies and topics.
One of the most basic ways that brands can get started in the metaverse is by taking full advantage of gaming platforms, like Minecraft, Roblox or Fortnite, which offers fully realized immersive experiences few others can provide right now.
Companies like spotify, Netflix, Nike and Walmart have partnered with Roblox, others like Burberry are using Minecraft as a branding experience.
The power of these branded experiences lies in how little these have to do with what the company does in real life. Yet, because of the game-like nature of these interactive experiences, Gen Z and also GenA is firmly aligning itself with many of them. The overall intention behind these gamified experiences is to generate buzz and recognition and engender themselves as early adopters in the metaverse.

So why do companies choose these gaming platforms as their metaverse presence. Why don't they use other "mature" technologies. Why do they rely on gaming instead of VR. with our impulse we want to give an overview of why these well-known game platforms are so well suited to pave the way for big brands to enter the metaverse. We want to answer these and many other questions, give you how tos to start and advice, what to use to start.

Game on: How Brands entered the Metaverse in a playful way

While banking has become increasingly digital, it is too often emotionally detached. Ironically, the Metaverse provides banks with a much-needed avenue to bring humanity back into banking and deepen connections by meeting customers in more meaningful ways.

The Metaverse can help banks reestablish connections with their customers, by visiting a virtual bank branch and interact with its agents, visit a house in real-time to request a mortgage or discuss retirement plans with an advisor in real-time. Imagine if a customer could have a virtual office appointment with a bank advisor and, through avatars, withdraw virtual money from their account, cross the street (virtually), and make an online purchase. These scenarios will be facilitated by this technology.

In this session, we will review some basic concepts about the Metaverse and its history. Next, we will help attendees discover if banking is ready and if it makes sense to seek use cases in this sector. Finally, we will see several use cases or scenarios that some banks around the world are already implementing around virtual experiences, cryptocurrency, patents, real estate, and employee experiences.

Is banking ready for the Metaverse?

A fast paced tour of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence offerings. We’ll cover QnA Maker, LUIS, Power Virtual Agents and more! We’ll demonstrate integration with SharePoint and show how AI can do things like image recognition and text sentient analysis, ie. “What you talking about, Willis!” 

Intro to AI

Virtual assistants in the real world, such as Siri and Alexa, are already changing the way we interact with technology. 

In the coming years, we can expect virtual assistants to not only exist in the real world but also in the Metaverse and even as downloaded software into a robot.

In this session, I will discuss how we can expect AI and robotics to extend to the real world through the Metaverse.

The integration of AI and robotics into the Metaverse will open up new opportunities and possibilities for the real world and will continue to shape and transform our relationship with technology.

AI and Robotics & The Metaverse: Extending the Virtual world into the Real one

Avatars are just a part of the digital identity, there are many other aspects to take into account such us user data, credentials, ownership of NFTs, activity logs... Everything that can be stored in a web3 wallet.

But we are missing the Phylosophal stone of the metaverse, the interoperability, specially in terms of digital identity. We don´t want to create a profile/avatar in every virtual world or metaverse platform we enter.

And what about an "incognito mode" for entering this spaces? What happens with all the data that can be tracked through XR devices?