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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The best way you can customize and extend your SharePoint site is by using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). This model is the way you customize and extend the SharePoint modern experience for SharePoint Online, but that’s not all because now you can use it to create apps for Microsoft Teams, Viva Connections, and Office apps.

In this half-day session, you’ll see how to get up your dev environment running in just a few minutes & then we’ll start building! By the end of the day, you’ll know how to build web parts, single-page apps (SPAs), extensions, integrate data from SharePoint and external sources, and so much more! Walk away with a ZIP filled with sample projects & tons of resources!

NOTE: Hey 👋, Andrew here… this workshop is not intended for attendees to follow along & build the same projects during the session. Instead, focus on learning, taking notes, & getting answers to your questions - you’ll walk away with everything at the end of the day!

Developers! Learn the SharePoint Framework to Customize and Extend Microsoft 365

This half-day session covers how to build tabs, bots, and message extensions for Microsoft Teams, while also including Microsoft 365 apps. We will explore various development tools such as TeamsFX, the Teams Toolkit, YO Teams, the Dev Portal, and SPFx, giving you everything you need to get started building your own Teams apps. Whether you're a seasoned developer or new to the game, this half-day session will serve as your on-ramp to building MS Teams apps.

NOTE: Hey 👋, Andrew here… this workshop is not intended for attendees to follow along & build the same projects during the session. Instead, focus on learning, taking notes, & getting answers to your questions - you’ll walk away with everything at the end of the day!

Accelerate Your Teams App Development Journey: Build High-Quality Apps with Confidence

Microsoft Power Pages is a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code software as a service (SaaS) platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites. Power Pages provides you with rich, customizable templates, a fluid visual experience through a reimagined design studio, and a new, integrated learning hub to quickly build sites that suit your unique business needs.

We'll learn how to create powerful external-facing websites that allow users outside their organizations to sign in with a wide variety of identities, create and view data in Microsoft Dataverse, or even browse content anonymously. 

Also, we'll learn to quickly create a website and customize it with pages, layout, and content. 

Build external-facing websites using Power Pages

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven session, we will cover the key concepts and how organizations can use ChatGPT, Azure Open AI, and Power Platform services to build next-gen enterprise-grade applications.

We will cover :
 - Azure Open AI Key Concepts
 - ChatGPT key concepts
 - Co-Pilots in the Power Platform
 -  How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
 -  How organizations can build next-gen enterprise-grade apps using ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI, and Power Platform services?

ChatGPT, Azure Open AI and Power Platform: Better Together

The future of the modern workplace is now with Microsoft Copilot! In this session you'll learn how Microsoft Copilot works with Microsoft 365, Bing Chat, Microsoft Edge, and Windows 11 to streamline your business processes and increase productivity while saving you time and effort.

Deep Dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot across pivotal apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. Discover how Copilot enhances your capabilities for document creation, data analysis, presentation design, email management, and note-taking. It’s your digital companion, optimizing each task, making daily operations smoother and unleashing new potentials for efficiency.

You'll discover Microsoft's new Bing Chat, powered by ChatGPT. Learn how to get more relevant, up-to-date, and annotated search results using natural language chat. You'll discover how the new Bing Chat helps you draft emails, summarize documents, draft blogs, and more!  

The future of the modern workplace is here! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Microsoft Copilot can help you achieve more with less effort! With lots of demos and practical tips, you'll leave with a solid understanding of how to use Microsoft Copilot to maximize your productivity.

Microsoft Copilot - the future is now!

What do companies like Lego, AEG, Polaris, Takeda, and the Special Olympics have in common? They all have useful tips and tricks around driving internal usage of software to help them move from synchronous work to asynchronous work. 

In this session we will hear from those customers and learn how they drove success in their organizations and how you can as well.

Real World Tips and Tricks for Driving Software Deployment

We'll learn how to use SharePoint Syntex that uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing, and transform content into knowledge.

Automate content processing using AI & SharePoint Syntex

With the release of Chat GPT, Co-Pilot and so many other tools, understanding how to pilot, deploy, manage, and secure these tools is critical. 

In this session we will demonstrate the top 10 AI tools available and discuss how to approach using them in your environment securely.

The future of AI and Microsoft 365

Did you know that ransomware attacks have increased 51% year-over-year? With cybercriminals finding new innovative ways to gain access to your cloud if you’re only relying on Microsoft 365 to backup and protect your information, you’re leaving your business vulnerable.  

Join this Solution Spotlight focused on “Ransomware and Cloud Backup: How to Protect Your Vulnerable Data”.  During this session our security experts will discuss:  

-The current state of ransomware attacks on the cloud.  
-How Microsoft is not responsible for any data stored in the cloud and what this means for your business.  
-Tools that top organizations choose to reduce risks, save money and make their lives easier.  

This session will feature a live demo to answer all your questions! Hope to see you all there.  

Ransomware and Cloud Backup: How to Protect Your Vulnerable Data

When planning out or updating a Microsoft 365 implementation, SharePoint is still important, but it really needs to start with Teams, and then the underlying SharePoint structure for a big part flows out of that. It's not just answering planning questions, but also ensuring that everyone understands that Teams is much more than a meeting and chat platform. 

Topics we'll cover in this session include:
 - Introducing a maturity model on how organizations leverage Teams, 
 - SharePoint, Email, and OneDrive
 - Level setting on how they work together
 - Understanding the differences between Standard, Private, and Shared 
 - Channels, and the underlying SharePoint site collections
 - Where do standalone Communication and Team Sites fit into the Teams and SharePoint structure
 -Guests versus B2B Direct Connect in Teams, and external sharing in SharePoint
 - Open source scripts and Power BI dashboards to inventory and analyze your file shares, SharePoint on-premises, and SharePoint Online
 - Answering the question - what does a Team and a Channel represent in my organization
 - MindJet as a tool for planning your IA
 - Commercial and open-source solutions for implementing your IA
Real-world scenarios and case studies

Teams First Information Architecture and Governance

Are you interested in the practical application of DataOps within Power BI? 

In this session I’ll share lessons learned, best practices, and the free starter code to incorporate into your current or next project.  And wait, there’s more! I will also demonstrate how to automatically build, test, and promote datasets and dataflows.    

DataOps 201 – Bringing DataOps to Power BI

Congratulations, on your decision to move to Microsoft 365. If your mind is running rampant on how to complete the migration, this session is for you.

We will begin by exploring the steps necessary during the following migration phases:
- Before the migration
- Completing the migration
- Managing the cloud-based content after migration

As you can guess, you’re going to need to know what the best approach is to complete the migration, so we will also discuss what your migration options are, and what tools are available, including out of the box tools like the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT), the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT), Migration Manager as well as several other tools to help streamline and successfully complete your migration to Microsoft 365.

Exploring Microsoft 365 migration considerations and tools

Why has your organization not embraced AI yet? Cost? Complexity? No perceived business value? Thanks to Azure and Microsoft 365, AI is not only cost-effective (sometimes free) and easy to use, there are many real-world use-case scenarios that you can take advantage of today without having to be a developer. 

Attend this demo-packed session to learn how quick and easy it is to get started with AI in your organization to create bots, translate conversations, identify objects in pictures, and more! 

Attainable AI – Real World Artificial Intelligence for Everyone

Join us in this session to get started with the Power Automate Desktop Flows, Microsoft’s Robotic Process Automation solution. During this session we will take a tour of the Power Automate Desktop application interface, look at the available controls and discuss some of the basic concepts around Robotic Process Automation. 

We will show you in a step-by-step demo how you can record user actions such as mouse clicks, keyboard use, and data entry, and then replay those actions to automate this process.


Implement Robotic Process Automation using Power Automate Desktop Flows

Cyberattacks such as ransomware, financial theft, and data loss are a fact of life today. Microsoft invests massively both to provide the tools to protect organizations against these attacks, as well as to identify and defend against them actively. Unfortunately most organizations don't take full advantage of these tools, and many unfortunately leave themselves very exposed.

This will be a rapid fire session giving an overview of the myriad features and products that make up the Microsoft security landscape, and tips on how best to leverage them. The goal is to help you make your organization more secure, but also to do it in a way that appears simpler for everyone.

Identity
	- Identity Fundamentals (Azure AD Integration and Hybrid Authentication)
	- Azure AD Connect and Health Reporting
	- Assigned and Dynamic groups
	- Entitlement managed
	- Delegated user management

Security
	- Authentication
		○ Pass-through
		○ Password hash synchronization
		○ Passwordless authentication
		○ Federation
		○ SMS
	- Multifactor Authentication (MFA)
	- Conditional Access
	- Self-Service Password reset
	- Identity Protection
	- Application Proxy
	- Password protection
	- Privileged Identity Management

Compliance
	- Auditing
	- Terms of use
	- Azure Information Protection
	- Azure Rights Management
	- Microsoft Purview compliance portal

Licensing
	- Microsoft Entra
	- Azure AD licensing - Free, Office 365, P1 and P2
	- Enterprise Mobility + Security
	- Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscriptions
	- Defender for Office 365
	- External Identities

Scenarios that we will go through include the following:

	- Navigating through the various different admin portals
	- Azure AD
		○ Conditional Access Policies
			§ Report only
			§ Emergency accounts
			§ MFA
			§ Legacy Authentication
			§ Admin, Member, and Guest policies
		○ Branding
		○ External Identities configuration
			§ General settings
			§ Identity Providers - One time passcode, Google, Facebook
			§ Cross-tenant settings support for B2B collaboration and direct connect (Teams Shared Channels)
			§ Trust settings for external organizations and leveraging that in Conditional Access Policies
			§ Terms of use
		○ Identity Protection
	- Improving your Microsoft Secure Score
	- Attack simulation training
	- Data classification
	- Sensitivity labels in conjunction with Conditional Access Policies and Rights Management

The session will be jam-packed with links to articles both in Microsoft Docs, and articles written by presenter and Microsoft Office Apps and Services MVP Peter Carson.

Securing Your Digital Workspace: Best Practices for Protecting Your Microsoft 365 from Cyber Threats

Take a tour at the latest and state of the art tools that you can use and setup to help with efficient administration of all things Power Platform from straight up monitoring to controlling governance and deployment without drowning in micro-management tasks or process minutia.

This session covers a hands-on look at the Out-of-Box Power Platform admin center, the latest incarnation of the Center of Excellence kits (both the main and the Automation one!) as well as the Devops/ALM tools that fall into the domain of the administrator.  

This is for those who need to set up things from scratch or have already immersed themselves in the administration role who may also be looking for some extra justification to get more monitors.  
   