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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Join Microsoft MVP and certified trainer Nate Chamberlain in this full day workshop for newer Microsoft 365 users or evaluators looking to better understand all the possibilities Microsoft 365 brings to your organization.  

Attendees will learn about all the apps and latest features in Microsoft 365 that enable both individual and group productivity including SharePoint, Office 365 apps, Outlook, OneDrive, To Do, Teams, Lists, Planner, Viva, and more. 

We’ll go beyond definitions to explore specific business use cases, tips, and FAQs such as: 
  •  Microsoft 365 overview: What’s in my toolbox? 
  •  Understand the relationships between apps, and how permissions and Microsoft 365 groups power your modern work 
  •  Co-authoring documents, version history 
  •  Requesting files from others, sharing files, and managing access in OneDrive and SharePoint 
  •  Teams vs SharePoint vs OneDrive 
  •  Teams conversations vs chats vs emails 
  •  How do the newer Viva apps fit in? 
& more! 


Unboxing Microsoft 365: Make the most of your productivity toolbox

In recent years, the amount of digital content moving to the cloud has been dramatic. No doubt, this has made collaboration easier and more versatile, but it's also brought with it a new set of problems, such as oversharing, exfiltration of data, and non-compliant destruction of data. Organizations like yours must ensure data is available when required and protected when sensitive.

In this workshop, your expert presenters will share their collective knowledge and experience with a deep dive into what Microsoft Purview can do, including coverage of features such as Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management, and Microsoft Information Protection.

But it's not all theory. You'll leave the workshop with their recommended approach for implementation using a Day 1/Day 2/Day 3 incremental model that maintains a balance between the user experience and the necessary protections for your organization.

Now's the time to ensure your data is safe from prying eyes. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from two of the best in the industry on exactly how to make that happen.

Microsoft 365 Purview: Maintaining and Protecting Your Data Throughout its Lifecycle

If you create business solutions with SharePoint lists 
If you surface information and solutions via Microsoft Teams or SharePoint
If you're concerned with the potential complexity of Power Apps

This session will show why Power Apps canvas apps should be considered part of your toolset. 

We will cover:
 - Simple extensions of the SharePoint list experience with Power Apps
 - How to take data from SharePoint lists to Teams and mobile experiences
 - Power Apps examples that bring immediate value and set the stage for further enhancements

Intro to Power Apps for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Lists

If you are shopping for or planning a new intranet, what capabilities do you need to have? What do you need to think about to ensure that you deliver success? How does Microsoft Teams factor into your intranet? How can Microsoft Viva deliver value for your intranet users? How can the new features introduced for SharePoint, including Copilot, help me advance my intranet outcome goals? 

If you are wondering about the answers to these questions and more, this session is for you! We’ll review key concepts, ideas, capabilities, and planning tips to help ensure that your intranet drives value for everyone in the organization. 

Whether you are a seasoned intranet professional or just starting your journey, this presentation will provide you with valuable insights and practical guidance on what to include in your ultimate shopping list.

The Ultimate Shopping List for a Successful Intranet in Microsoft 365

Power Apps is a great no-code tool lets "citizen developers" create applications that are designed to run on Desktop PCs, Web Browsers, Tablets, and Mobile devices. But if you want to avoid building 3 or 4 different versions of your App you need to know how to design your Power App to adjust for different sizes, resolutions, rotation, and types of layouts. 

In this session we'll review all the Tips and Tricks you need to know to easily build one Power App that will adjust to work on any device that supports Power Apps and look good in the process.

Microsoft Power Apps: Building Responsive Design Apps for Every Device

The Microsoft Power Platform CoE toolkit is a collection of components and tools that are designed to help you get started with developing a strategy for adopting and supporting Microsoft Power Platform, with a focus on Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents.

Join us in this session as we deploy and explore the components of the Power Platform CoE Starter Kit. 


Get started with the Power Platform Center of Excellence starter Kit

Power Apps cards are micro-apps with enterprise data and workflows and interactive, lightweight UI elements that other applications can use as content. Because they're part of the Power Apps ecosystem, cards can add business logic through Power Fx and integration with business data through Power Platform connectors. Using cards, you can quickly build and share rich, actionable apps without any coding or IT expertise.

Join us in this session to get started with Card in Power Apps. We will take a tour of the Power App Card Designer, go over the controls it has to offer, connect to different data sources and send a Card to a Teams channel. 


Create Adaptative Cards with Power Apps

Metrics and scorecards are a Power BI feature that enables you to track and act upon on the metrics that matter to your organization.

In this presentation, you'll learn
1. What are Power BI Metrics and how are they intended to be used
2. See some examples of real-world scorecards
3. See how to set up a scorecard demo
4. Show you how to set up Power Automate to trigger actions when a metric status changes
5. Show the Metric integration in Microsoft Teams

Power BI Metrics - Tracking the metrics that matter to you

There's more to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote than what immediately meets the eye.

In this session, we're not learning the basics - we're learning the lesser-known gems and useful tools tucked away inside these common apps. We'll cover topics including image background removal, small app settings that make a big difference, cross-app integrations, illustrations vs images, Rehearse with Coach, and much, much more.

Note: This will be based on the Microsoft 365 version (not 2019 or earlier) of the desktop apps. While there will be some cross-over, there are features that will be covered that are exclusive to the most up-to-date version.

How well do you know the Microsoft 365 desktop apps? 70 min of tips & ideas to wow your co-workers

PowerApps and Flow are both powerful tools for the citizen and professional developer. But using them together can take your application to a whole new level. 

In this talk we'll get you started with how to invoke a Flow from a PowerApp, how to pass information to the Flow, and how to return values back to PowerApps when the Flow completes. Along the way we'll discuss Best Practices that can make your PowerApps and Flow work more efficiently together. 

Even if you know both PowerApps and Flow this session will help you get the most out of using them together.

Using PowerApps and Flow Together: Made for each other

In this session you will learn how to make arrays work for you in Power Automate!  We'll cover essential tips and techniques for handling arrays in Power Automate, including how to create, manipulate, and iterate through arrays. 

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, you'll gain valuable insights into how to streamline your workflows and maximize your productivity. 

Arrays Made Easy: How to Effectively Manage Data with Power Automate

Combine Power Apps with Lists, Teams, and more to connect business solutions to your team wherever they are in today's hybrid and fluid work environments. 

We'll talk through the approach of building and using role-targeted apps vs. single "do everything" apps.  

Build Role-Targeted Solutions with Power Apps

Dataverse for Teams allows you to use Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents on top of Dataverse inside of Teams without additional cost. But what does no cost mean? What are the differences between Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams, and how does that affect my Apps, Power Automate flows and PVA chatbots? 
 
This session will compare Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams and build our data-driven app. We'll extend our app with Power Automate (with parameters and adaptative cards!) and finally make our chatbot. The goal of this session is to show you the power of these rich integrations that you most likely have available to you today and build apps without any extra cost!

Create Power Apps, Flows and chatbots directly from Teams with Dataverse

Power Apps is a powerful tool for "Citizen" developers to use when building applications for a variety of data sources. But how do you use a cloud based application when you have little or no Internet connectivity?  

In this talk we'll look at how to take a mobile Power App that was built using SharePoint as a data source and convert it to allow use of the app when offline.  Along the way we'll talk about the critical design characteristics for an offline app and the limitations inherent in this approach.

Power Apps: Building Offline Apps Tips and Tricks

If anything has been learned from the last few years, its how valuable our collective organizational knowledge is and important it is to make sure everyone has access to it, no matter where or when you work. Microsoft introduced a knowledge management strategy many years ago, an though the different technologies are sprinkled across various 365 services, it is still giving organizations an opportunity to leverage these technologies together into a cohesive strategy.

In this session, Virgil will walk you through the various knowledge management components inside Office 365, including Microsoft Search, SharePoint Syntex and Microsoft Viva (and others). He will help you see how your organization could leverage these opportunities and start you down the path to knowledge management success.