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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Teams Premium is here with enhance meeting security options including watermarking, end-to-end encryption and sensitivity labels.    In this session we will explore how to configure the Teams Premium security features to enforce improved meeting security in a way which is easy for users and minimises the conflict between productivity and security.  

At the end of the session, attendees will be able to configure the security features in Teams Premium and understand the licensing needs based on the features they want.
 
This session will look at :
	· What is Teams Premium? 
	· The security features Of Teams Premium
	· Unlocking Teams Premium security features licencing requirements
	· Meeting Templates for easy secure meeting settings
	· Using Sensitivity Labels to enforce meeting security

This session is aimed at Microsoft Teams Administrators and Super Users.

Making Secure Meetings Simpler with Teams Premium

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Manual infrastructure provisioning can be challenging and error-prone, leading to potential security risks and increased complexity. Visualising and automating this process can improve threat modelling capabilities and streamline infrastructure management. 

We will cover: 

    Challenges of manual infrastructure provisioning 

    Benefits of automating infrastructure provisioning 

    Using diagrams to visualise infrastructure and threat modelling with Microsoft Threat Modelling Tool  

    Technical details of (1) translating Visio diagrams into Terraform and Bicep, (2) Importing the diagrams into Microsoft Threat Modelling Tool and (3) AzureRM and AzureAD through IaC “gotchas” 

    Potential benefits, limitations, and trade-offs of this approach 

    Integrating with common DevOps tools and workflows 

    Results of the proof of concept through sample diagrams and generated code, along with lessons learned from the development process. 

Attendees will learn about the benefits of automating infrastructure provisioning and how using diagrams to visualize infrastructure can improve threat modelling capabilities. They will also gain a technical understanding of how to translate Visio diagrams into Terraform and Bicep code, as well as insights into the limitations and trade-offs of this approach. Finally, attendees will see a showcase of results and lessons learned, as well as potential use cases and considerations for implementing this approach in their own organizations. 

Products: Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Threat Modelling Tool, Azure DevOps, Bicep, Terraform, AzureRM, AzureAD 

From Diagrams to Code: Automating Infrastructure Provisioning

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Real life business processes require document automation for quotes, reports, contracts, emails, PowerPoints, etc. Use dox42 to ignite the potential of the entire Microsoft ecosystem by automatically generating these documents with data from all your sources! What you will see in this session: • Get an overview and a LIVE demo of the technical options and challenges when it comes to document automation. • Generate your documents where you need them: from a Power App, a Power Automate Flow, directly in your Dynamics 365 applications, SharePoint, Teams and many more! • Easily design complex documents in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint with tables, conditions, text modules, barcodes, charts, images, etc. • Combine data sources: SharePoint, M365, D365 FinOps, CE & BC, Web Services, SQL and many more. The session will be brought to you by dox42 Senior Technical Evangelist and Product Manager Lisa Pulsinger.

Let's (Power) Automate all your D365 and M365 documents with dox42

SQL 4 CDS is a free tool that lets you query and modify your D365/Dataverse data with standard SQL queries.

If you haven’t already used it I’ll take you through the basics to get started, but also deep-dive into some key features to help you get more out of the tool and make common data management tasks a breeze.

SQL 4 CDS Masterclass: tame your D365 data

The dangerous and adventurous journey of simple telemetry in search of the ultimate storage and perfect persistence. From an RTOS device up to the cloud, fighting between certificates, tokens, and access keys in search of the entrance to the IoT Hub to finally be able to find its place in the heaven of Serverless. Will our telemetry be able to find its desired Durable Entity and present itself in all its splendour to the management console of our platform? Come and find out in this end-to-end session:  from the device in the field to the Serverless backend based on Durable Entities.

From RTOS to Serverless: the journey of a telemetry!

Just over a decade ago, our speaker was unemployable and on the brink of homelessness. 

Following a chance encounter with Dynamics CRM, a blossoming relationship developed, which turned our speaker's life around to be the highly skilled professional he is today. This change is not only professional, but it also transformed their personal life as well, and he now has a large foster family.

In this session, The speaker will talk about their journey, including how they got so close to the edge, and their journey back. He will talk about the great equalizer he believes the low code is, and also some of his worries about the future.

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Wondering what is Azure API Management? Then this session is for you. No prior knowledge is required to attend this session. The purpose of this foundation session is to demonstrate the usage of Azure API Management, Microsoft's most popular iPaas Integration service (Source IDC 2021 iPaaS Survey sponsored by Microsoft) and why it is important. The session walks audience through a real world scenario to get the context and then a use case. It also goes through what is an API, the key features of Azure API Management, Overview of other popular iPaas integration services, Security aspects of Azure API Management and a short demo of Azure API Management. Audience will get good foundation knowledge about Azure APIM and it is useful skill to have. 


What is Azure API Management and Why should I care about it?

You may have already built some apps in Power Apps but now you want to go to the next level and make your apps even better, more beautiful and more enterprise ready? Join me while I will teach you 5 steps to level up your Power Apps.
	· Integrate your own APIs in Power Apps by using custom connectors.
	· Automate your build and deploys with pipelines.
	· Add your company branding with ease with custom CSS.
	· Support people in different languages.
        · Create awesome new custom components with PCF components.