365 EduCon,&nbsp;a Microsoft 365 Conference, 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 Microsoft 365, Power Platform and 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;365 EduCon,&nbsp;a Microsoft 365 Conference,&nbsp;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, Microsoft Teams, Teams Development, Teams Architecture &amp; Administration, OneDrive, Search, Content Management, Power Users, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Workflow, Business Intelligence, SharePoint Development, and more. Choose one complete learning track or mix and match based on what content best meets you and your organization’s current needs!&nbsp; Find out more: https://365educon.com/Chicago&nbsp;

365 EduCon Chicago - A Microsoft 365 Conference

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NOTE: YOU WILL NEED A COMPUTER WITH THE LATEST VERSION OF POWER BI DESKTOP INSTALLED PRIOR TO WORKSHOP TIME. THIS IS A HANDS ON BOOTCAMP.

Need to create stunning dashboards from your SharePoint data?

Yes you do!

In this bootcamp, we’ll show you:
• How should I approach my BI need?
• What things should be considered when creating dashboards?
• What are the best practices?
• How much is this going to cost me to license?
• What security aspects should concern me?

Who should take this course:
If your company uses Office 365 or SharePoint 2013/2016 and you are a:
• Manager
• Business Analyst
• Power User
• SharePoint Administrator
• Consultant

If you work in these areas, you will see value:
• Marketing
• Information Technology
• Finance
• Sales
• Social Media

The class assumes no prior knowledge of Power BI and Data Concepts.

What is required for this class:
Install Microsoft Power BI Desktop on your laptop (recommended but not required)
We'll provide an Office 365 site for you to use for exercises

In this workshop you will:
• Learn how to create Production Dashboards using Power BI, from SharePoint list and document library data
• How to use Power BI in a multitude of situations, including ad hoc analysis and the creation of formal dashboard.
• Learn the Power BI components: Power BI Desktop, PowerBI.com, Power BI mobile applications and how they can be used with Office 365 and SharePoint
• Receive an introduction into the core functions of Power BI; Data extraction, loading and transformation using Power Query Formula Language (“M”) and DAX.
• Receive some guidelines on how to extract Project data in fast manner.
• Discover some data modeling practices that will ensure you have maximum flexibility in analysis. You'll also learn some visualization best practices to ensure you can tell your digital story effectively
• Learn best practices for maintaining content with your organization

This workshop provides an end to end view of Power BI for SharePoint reporting, so that you are able to use Power BI immediately for your needs.

Power BI Bootcamp for SharePoint Professionals

The complete Microsoft 365 workshop – from beginner to power user in a single day! This comprehensive workshop covers everything you need to know to get started quickly with Microsoft 
365. 

Upon completion of this workshop, you’ll know how to:
* Meet, chat, and work together more efficiently using Microsoft Teams.
* Manage and share content with SharePoint and OneDrive.
* Manage tasks and projects better with Planner, To-do, and Lists.
* Connect and engage with Outlook and Yammer.
* Organize and stay in sync across chat, meetings, or documents using Loop.
* Create and be more productive with Whiteboard, Forms, Word, * Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and more!

This hands-on workshop will empower you to use Microsoft 365 to its fullest potential – maximizing personal productivity, collaborating with your team, or solving challenges across the organization.

Discover what’s possible with Microsoft 365.

Microsoft 365 Power User Workshop

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

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

Data security is more important than ever before. As businesses and individuals move more of their data to the cloud, protecting it from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction is essential. 

In this session, we will focus on data security for end users in Microsoft 365. We will discuss the common threats to data security and the security features available in Microsoft 365 to help protect your data. We will also share tips and advice on how to use these features effectively.

By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Understand the importance of data security and the common threats to data security
- Identify the key data security features in Microsoft 365
- Learn how to use Microsoft 365 security features to protect your data
- Implement best practices for data security in your workplace

This session is ideal for end users in Microsoft 365 who want to learn more about how to protect their data. No prior knowledge of data security is required.

 

Data Security: It's Not Just for IT Anymore

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

In this session we will go over how to configure create a custom connector that accesses Microsoft Cognitive Services Face API.  We will then build a Power App that will be used to configure and train face models and be used for facial recognition.

Using Power Apps as A Rapidly Deployable Front End for Open AI

In today's ever-evolving landscape, safeguarding your data goes beyond meeting internal security benchmarks—it's about staying ahead of emerging compliance and privacy demands. Join our distinguished Microsoft Purview experts in this session where we dive deep into the capabilities of Microsoft Purview. Discover how to not only comprehend these capabilities but also leverage them to construct a strategic roadmap for deploying and harnessing Purview's potential, all in the service of enhancing your Data Protection, Risk, and Compliance Programs. This actionable roadmap is designed to outline the vision, strategy and high-level timeline for success and includes an assessment of organizational priorities and current state of data protection technology.

Building a Roadmap to Safeguard Your Data with Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Power BI can work very well together. SharePoint can be a data source (lists), a container for data files (Excel. CSV etc in libraries), and as a dashboarding platform (pages). Teams can be a complete front end for Power BI, and host content contextually. 
 
This demo rich session will explore all of these scenarios in great depth. SharePoint data can be finicky to retrieve, and this session will show examples and suggest a few best practices for doing so. In addition, connecting Power BI to SharePoint opens up a whole new world for Excel. If it can be done with Power BI, SharePoint and Teams, this session will show you how. 

Deep Dive on Power BI, Teams and SharePoint

In this session Martina and Toni will take a look on how to implement Viva Connections. With the powerful toolset behind the Power Platform you will learn how to solve business requirements for mobile users. 

Better together: Viva Connections and the Power Platform

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, there are more than a few options for accomplishing this goal, but they all do come with a few tradeoffs. 

This demonstration laden session will examine all of the techniques available to Power BI for reporting on your data in real time, 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

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

Microsoft Viva Connections and Topics are the new gateway to a modern employee experience designed to keep everyone engaged and informed. Viva Connections and Topics are customizable apps in Microsoft Teams that gives everyone a personalized destination to discover relevant news, conversations, and the tools they need to succeed.  

This session will do a deep dive into how to get started and actual use cases to build the story on how to improve the employee experience at your organizations.


Using Viva Connections and Topics to Build a World Class Employee Experience

Businesses are ramping up the adoption of information and records management (IRM) within their organization.  However, the problem many are facing is that IRM can require a lot of user interaction to be fully effective.  These increased requirements on the user greatly affect the adoption of IRM processes.  Microsoft 365 provides several powerful and robust features that can increase records management within the organization while decreasing the load on the end-user.

This session will cover many topics such as auto-classification, retention inheritance, and trainable classifiers to assist organizations with their information and records management adoption.

Increasing Adoption in Microsoft 365 Information and Records Management

Everyone talks about "No Code" or "Low Code" solutions and how easy they are to build. What nobody talks about is ALM (Application Lifecycle Management). Come to this sessions to learn about how to manage permissions and govern the environment and the solutions your users are creating.

We also will cover the Importing and Exporting packages and solutions, the Power Platform Center of Excellence, and using tools such as PowerShell, GitHub, and Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps.