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Hybrid and remote work are the new normal, but work trends indicate the greatest challenges are a sense of community, connection, relationship-building, and inspiration. This full-day workshop explores how Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams come together to foster company culture, unlock communication and engagement opportunities, organize content, and spark employee creativity. 

You’ll learn how to: 
- Empower your leaders to share news, drive strategic changes, and openly dialogue with employees
- Foster connections & conversations with Viva Engage- Organize your content and intranet with an array of modern SharePoint sites & hubs
- Visualize your information architecture with mind-maps
- Build your Viva Connections implementation strategy

Driving employee engagement – A deep dive into Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams

Have you ever worked in a large enterprise-scale SharePoint Online or OneDrive environment with thousands of sites, or millions of files, or thousands of users?  

If you have, then you probably understand the challenges with trying to get detailed and timely analytics on your current state, including permissions for all files across all sites, or storage information for all sites and to try and figure out which groups are consuming all your space. Governing large enterprise-scale SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 environments is a real challenge due to the sheer amount of data you need to reason over.

In this workshop, we'll look at how the Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint (Project Archimedes) provides some exciting capabilities which will help to get us this data quickly, without getting throttled, and in a form that we can easily report on, across very large enterprise scale environments.  

We'll provide a step by step demonstration of how to setup and use Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint (Project Archimedes), Azure Synapse and Power BI to get access to these data sets quickly and efficiently, without getting throttled, and in a form that we can easily report on across very large enterprise environments.

Big Data Analytics in SharePoint and Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Graph Data Connect

A smooth deployment isn't enough. Driving effective utilization of SharePoint and Microsoft 365 is more than building effective migration strategies, training users on key features or sending out marketing emails. This master class provides a deep-dive on the components of user adoption. You'll learn why user adoption programs succeed and fail, gain practical experience designing adoption strategies and learn how to leverage innovation games to build consensus. 

During this workshop, you will:
• Learn the basic foundations of user adoption, including key intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
• Understand how different types of users in your organization can make (or break) your chances of user adoption success
• Understand how innovation games can help drive shared understanding, uncover user requirements and drive engagement/enthusiasm
• Examine real-world user adoption programs and determine how and why they were successful

Microsoft 365 User Adoption Master Class

In the ever-evolving IT landscape, enterprises of every size grapple with a critical challenge: managing and consolidating vast amounts of data, especially within Microsoft environments. Effective IT documentation is more critical than ever. Whether you're overseeing a service desk, managing projects, or handling any critical IT function, intelligent documentation is key to managing IT assets, organizing information and standardizing processes. 

Yet, many organizations struggle to develop and maintain documentation that truly supports their operations. This workshop is designed to equip IT professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to master IT documentation and drive success within their organizations. Participants will gain actionable insights to elevate their documentation processes.

This session will cover:
* Fostering a Documentation Culture: Getting your team onboard with documentation is crucial for its success. We'll share practical techniques for inspiring your team to embrace documentation creation, utilization, and maintenance. You'll learn how to cultivate a culture where documentation is valued and prioritized.
* Understanding Great Documentation: We'll highlight the characteristics of intelligent IT documentation that make them stand out, including clarity, completeness, and relevance. By understanding the hallmarks of great documentation, you'll be better equipped to elevate your own documentation practices.
* Creating Process Documentation: We'll guide you through the process of creating comprehensive process documentation strategies, covering essential components such as naming conventions, workflows, templates and more. You’ll learn how to establish a robust documentation framework tailored to your organizational needs.
* Strategies to quantify and maximize the ROI, productivity and utilization of your Microsoft environments. Discover insights for consolidating siloed Microsoft information to centrally track assets and users, securely access passwords and more.

By the end of the session, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to transform their approach to IT documentation, enabling them to drive efficiency, collaboration, and success within their IT teams and across the organization. 

Whether you're a seasoned IT professional or new to the world of documentation, this session offers valuable insights to help you master the art of IT documentation.


Mastering IT Documentation: Strategies for Success

What is the intranet of the future all about? We'll cover industry trends around content presentation, more robust authoring experiences, and what the era of AI means for your intranet. Learn about the future of SharePoint Portals.  This is the SharePoint session you don't want to miss.

The Future of Your Intranet: Beautiful, flexible and AI ready powered by SharePoint

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences.  Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation.  Moderated by Susan Hanely.

Discussion Bytes - Intranet design and information architecture

Daniel and Andy (DnA) are two guys who work for enterprise level companies and must deal with day-to-day tasks that can be both time consuming and mundane. However, now with Copilot available across several Microsoft cloud services, these two Microsoft MVPs are finding ways to making their jobs a lot easier and, in some cases, automated. 

So, join them as these two guys show share their tips and tricks with you to make your jobs easier and make you look like Copilot superstars. This session will cover both Power Platform and Microsoft 365 Copilot features.

Two Guys and A Copilot - The DnA Show!

Process Mining is a powerful tool that helps organizations take an x-ray of their business processes for the purpose of finding opportunities for optimization and driving business decisions. However, it has historically been a tool requiring deep analytical knowledge and experience to wield. 

With Power Automate Process Mining, the ability to drive process insights and make impactful changes to how processes are run within your business is now accessible to any business user through the power of Copilot. 


In this demo, Heather will demonstrate how Copilot can help the business user understand the root causes of process deviations, to generate actionable insights and recommendations, and to communicate these results effectively to stakeholders. 

Process Mining with Copilot and AI: A New Frontier for Business Intelligence 

A lot has changed since Microsoft began recommending flat information architecture for modern SharePoint intranets.

In this session we’ll discuss:
 - The advantages of flat information architecture
 - How hub sites provide consistent navigation and content rollups
 - How Teams connected team sites play a role in the intranet
 - Using Engage to engage employees 
 - Creating a single-pane-of-glass experience for employees  with Microsoft Viva


Creating Intelligent Intranet Using Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage!

Are you looking to maximize the effectiveness of Copilot for Microsoft 365? Join this new AvePoint session to learn how to prepare, secure, and optimize your data for Copilot, ensuring you get the most out of this powerful tool. We'll walk and talk you through the 3 essential steps to unlocking potential with Copilot for Microsoft 365. 

What we'll cover in this session: 

Preparing Your Data for Copilot 
-Understand the relationship between Microsoft 365 content and Copilot for Microsoft 365.
-Assess and improve your Microsoft 365 content for quality and business relevance to ensure effective Copilot recommendations and content generation. 

Securing Your Data for Copilot 
-Understand how Copilot can highlight and intensify the risks of overshared, sensitive content in Microsoft 365. 
-Conduct an effective, risk-based review of overshared content across your Microsoft 365 tenant(s), and create a prioritized action plan to remediate before Copilot deployment. 
-Implement automated security and configuration policies across Microsoft 365 services to detect and remediate high-risk sharing activity. 

Optimizing Your Operations for Copilot 
-Create and implement go-forward governance rules to ensure that new sites, groups, teams, and other collaborative objects are classified with business-related metadata, have defined data owners, and have appropriate policies assigned to ensure data security and access management. 
-Implement automated information and content lifecycle policies to minimize the growth of redundant, obsolete, and trivial content (ROT) over time, which decreases data quality. 
-Measure Copilot adoption and ROI by department and use-case. 

Unlock AI Potential: Prepare and Enable Copilot for Microsoft 365 

SharePoint Premium is a big step forward for Content Services in Microsoft 365 by providing the ability to integrate AI into the flow of work. Unstructured content is being produced at an alarming rate in modern workplaces today and organizations need a way to improve the effectiveness of business processes surrounding it. 

SharePoint Premium's content processing capabilities help by automatically classifying content, extracting metadata, improving search, enhancing knowledge sharing, and applying appropriate governance controls. SharePoint Premium is this and so much more!
 
To demonstrate, Joanne Klein will walk through a live demo of building and training an Unstructured Document Processing model in SharePoint as well as the additional capabilities it provides once classified.
 
The walkthrough will cover setup, training, deployment, and some of the "extras" you get with SharePoint Premium. 

An end-to-end look at SharePoint Premium Content Processing

In an era where cyber threats are increasingly sophisticated and pervasive, safeguarding your digital ecosystem has become paramount. As organizations worldwide increasingly rely on Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure for their operations, these critical environments now sit firmly in the crosshairs of threat actors. 

We’ll delve into the unique challenges posed by the emergence of AI-powered attacks and explore the critical subject of cyber resilience within the Microsoft ecosystem, emphasizing protective measures and strategies for Microsoft 365 and Azure platforms.

By examining learnings from real-world attacks, we identify opportunities to enhance your cybersecurity posture and discuss multi-faceted strategies to bolster cyber resilience. 

Attendees will learn about the key components of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, including risk assessment, threat intelligence, incident response planning and disaster recovery, and take away practical insights and best practices to help develop, implement and maintain effective cybersecurity measures tailored to their organization’s unique needs.

Fortify Your Microsoft Universe: Enhancing Cyber Resilience in an Artificially Intelligent World

Your organization’s content is likely stored in many places, from user’s computers to file shares. However, if your organization wants to take advantage of all the benefits in the cloud, where do you begin when planning your move to Microsoft 365? What are the frequent roadblocks to a migration to Microsoft 365 and how do you adapt your efforts? Do you have to pay for third-party migration software, or can you use out of the box tools?

We will discuss how your organization can take advantage of tools like SharePoint and OneDrive in Microsoft 365, what the process of mapping data looks like, and what are the many options for migrating. We will also examine the process of discovering business processes that will affect your migration. 

Using information from real-world projects, you see the common issues that organizations encounter with migrations. You will know the tools you can use, and just how to use them to make your migration a success.

Migrating to Microsoft 365 – Your Guide to a Successful Move

OneLake eliminates pervasive and chaotic data silos created by developers configuring their own isolated storage. OneLake provides a single, unified storage system for all developers. Unifying data across an organization and clouds becomes trivial. 

With the OneLake data hub, users can easily explore and discover data to reuse, manage or gain insights. With business domains, different business units can work independently in a data mesh pattern, without the overhead of maintaining separate lakes. 

Building a Modern Data Lake with OneLake: The OneDrive for Data

Learn how to create a versatile and reusable voting app with Power Apps, perfect for a wide array of scenarios. From education institutions hosting student elections to photo or costume contests to organizations recognizing standout employees—this session will unveil how to harness SharePoint integration for a seamless voting experience. 

You'll learn how to:
* Design a user-friendly interface for collecting votes.
* Configure a SharePoint document library to store contest entries or nominations.
* Set up a SharePoint list to track and tally votes securely.
* Implement logic to ensure fair voting and prevent duplicate entries.
* Add a touch of flair to your voting experience with custom branding and design elements.

Embrace the potential to elevate engagement in your organization. Walk away with the knowledge to implement a voting system that resonates with elegance and efficiency, year after year.

Cast votes with confidence: Crafting a reusable Power Apps canvas app voting solution

Hybrid and remote work are the new normal, but work trends indicate the greatest challenges are a sense of community, connection, relationship-building, and inspiration. 

This session highlights how Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams come together to foster company culture, unlock communication and engagement opportunities, organize content, and spark employee creativity.

Power employee engagement with Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams

Chat GPT has been out for over a year and Copilot has been rolling out for over 6 months. It's time for your company to take AI to the next level and integrate custom AI capabilities that accelerate the productivity of every member of your team.

In this non-technical session, we'll take a look at the capabilities and case studies of AI capabilities available through AI Builder, the OpenAI API, Azure Cognitive Services and more.

You'll walk away with over 20 case studies and ideas for how you can integrate AI into the tasks your team has to manage every day. You'll lower costs, improve productivity, create better customer and employee experiences, and unleash your team to be super-humans!