Scottish Summit is back and bigger than ever.
It’s the fifth year of this widely renowned Microsoft Community event - and it certainly will not disappoint!
To accommodate the huge demand, in 2023 our learning and development sessions span 3 floors at the University Academy 92 and an influx of highly talented speakers looking to inspire an entire community.
This is your chance to hear the latest and greatest in Microsoft technology trends, innovations and partner initiatives from professionals in the field with vast knowledge and experience.
Never have there been so many advocates of the Microsoft ecosystem gathered together in one place at an EU community event; answering questions, teaching best practises and demonstrating real world solutions live, in-person.
Register for free and join the Scottish Summit community today.
This event is perfect for:
- Microsoft Partners looking to build a network and share innovations
- End-users looking at how the technology can transform a business
- Business professionals from any discipline looking to learn how the platform is changing the way organisations work
- Recruitment organisations on the hunt for new talent and hiring opportunities
There is truly something for all levels and interest as the event covers 9 topic tracks and over 60 speaker sessions on the 5th of August, including:
- Microsoft Azure - The infrastructure for technology transformation
- Dynamics 365 - The enabler for greater productivity and delivering business value
- Power Platform – The platform for transforming business processes
- Big Data – The intelligent insights to lead a business toward future success
- Personal Skills – The Empowerment of Individuals and Employees
- Microsoft Education – A foundation for knowledge and progression
- New Speaker Presentations – Supporting new ideas alongside diversity and inclusion
We bring together top Microsoft speakers, Most Valued Professionals, community influencers and emerging business professionals who are here to share new ideas, trends and learnings with the wider Microsoft Community.
Our tracks rank from beginner level (100) to the technically advance (400), providing learning for all, including end-users, partners, business stakeholders, consultants and educators.
There really is a wealth of information to be drawn out of this event, from experts in the Microsoft technology space.

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In this session we'll go through the core features of Dynamics 365 Marketing. We'll see how you can utilise marketing to do your companies marketing efforts by using:
- Emails
- Forms and marketing pages
- Customer journeys
- Events

Learn from the person who literally wrote the book on Dynamics 365 Marketing. 

Dynamics 365 Marketing - what is it and how do I use it?

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Learn how to use Azure Landing Zones to accelerate your cloud adoption at scale. I'll cover the key components, design patterns, and governance framework needed for success. Through real-world examples and case studies, you'll gain insights and actionable takeaways for driving cloud adoption in your organization.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand Azure Landing Zones and their key components
• Learn how to choose the right design pattern for your organization
• Define a strong governance framework for your cloud environment
• Gain insights from real-world examples and case studies of successful cloud adoption at scale using Azure Landing Zones
Leave with actionable insights that you can apply in your own organization.

How to Use Azure Landing Zones to Accelerate Cloud Adoption at Scale

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Application Lifecycle Management is an important aspect for any Power Platform project. It is not only a modern word, but a must have process that should be present in any organization that uses Power Platform.

This session will help you to get to know the basics of ALM:
* How to create a solution, variables, connections, publishers
* Differences between a managed and unmanaged solution
* How to use versioning, patching or cloning
* What are environments and how to move solutions between them
* How to use Power Platform pipelines

Times, when apps and flows were spontaneously created by anyone in the organization are irreversibly gone. Planning Power Platform adoption today means to plan ALM for solutions created in it.

Power Platform ALM fundamentals

PowerPoint is generally thought of as the platform to use when you have to sort out a presentation...and that's totally right...however...
It can also be used to create interactive idea workshops, design logos, icons, graphics, brainstorm UI and UX ideas, guidance packs, recording clips, audio, and recording progress!

I use PowerPoint for so much now and I learn more about it everyday. I mostly use it to design my canvas apps and power pages.

Let me show you how.

PowerPoint to PowerApps

Diving deep into the 'Overview' and 'Boards' features as well as project and process configuration, I'll show you how to maximise DevOps' potential as a non-technical user.  I'll also share some useful extensions and a few tried and tested 'getting started' steps with an Agile methodology in mind.

DevOps before the Dev

Transforming organisations is never a simple thing to do but what if you could link your business goals that your leadership wants to achieve with the day to day projects that people are implementing? Ensuring you are providing up to date and transparent information to employees on how the work they are delivering links directly back to company strategy.

In this session, we will share the superpowers of the OKR framework and how they can link directly to your project delivery with Viva Goals and Project for the web. Bringing the measures you have together in Power BI to support progress tracking. We will also show you you can automate all this to see the results as they happen.

Link your Strategy to Delivery with Viva Goals and Project for the Web

This session takes users through a prioritised action plan businesses can follow as you work to meet the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Areas covered include:

1) Understand your GDPR requirements.
2) Discovering the types of personal data your business is  storing.
3) Implementing compliance requirements using Microsoft 365 data governance and compliance capabilities.
4) Using Microsoft 365 security capabilities to prevent data breaches and protect personal data.
5) Using Microsoft 365 advanced data governance tools.
6) Monitor ongoing compliance across Microsoft 365 and other Cloud applications. 

Microsoft 365 GDPR action plan — Top priorities for your first 30 days, 90 days, and beyond

Managing pipelines in Azure Data Factory natively can be challenging for a number of reasons such as being limited to specific recurrence windows and managing many pipelines. We look to overcome these issues through the use of Power Apps, Azure Logic Apps and SQL Server. Join me in a live demo of this solution and find out how you can implement similar solutions.