CollabDays
Finland 2023 is a community-driven IT conference focused on Microsoft cloud
technologies. Our speakers are top experts and Microsoft MVPs around Europe.
All the sessions will be held in English. Come along to learn and to be
inspired about Modern Work, Security, Power Platform - and AI!

CollabDays
Finland is held in Kalliolan Setlementtitalo (Kallio, Helsinki) on Saturday,
the 9th of September, 2023. The conference is free and breakfast, lunch and
afternoon coffee is included!

<a href="https://www.collabdays.org/2023-finland/sponsors/" target="_blank">View all our amazing sponsors here</a>

CollabDays Finland 2023

Lobby area

Sirenius-sali

Auditorio

Luokka 2

Luokka 3

Registration & morning coffee

Keynote by Vesa Juvonen, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft: "Age of AI in Microsoft 365 - Am I really needed? What does this mean in practice?"

Opening words & keynote by Vesa Juvonen

AI is revolutionizing the way we work and interact with technology. With the advent of powerful foundation models and natural language interfaces, AI has entered a new phase of development, enabling us to interact with computers using everyday language. 
This has led to the creation of AI powered tools such as the Microsoft 365 Copilot.

During this talk you will learn how Microsoft 365 Copilot, a sophisticated processing engine that combines the power of large language models with your data and Microsoft 365 apps, can capture natural language commands to produce content, analyze data, build presentations, and much more. 
You will also see Microsoft 365 Copilot in action, demonstrating some of its capabilities and how it can reduce the drudgery of work and unleash creativity, productivity, and upskilling.

Empowering the Future of Work with AI: Microsoft 365 Copilot

The adoption is not an option, adoption is a must - everyone knows about it. But what if the adoption project did not go well and we simply have failed. The users complain about the tools and their attitude towards the Microsoft 365 is weak. Instead of helping, technology causes discouragement and a feeling of being lost.

It is very possible that your project lacked key elements to make it successful. The reasons of the failure might be different. There was not enough time, too less efforts, incorrect strategy, rush or lack of leadership involvement, etc.

So, is there any chance that this situation can be improved? Can the recovery plan help and how to make it? During my session, I will share insights on re-adoption projects while giving you tips and inspiration on how to get your adoption project back on track. You can expect practical advices and recommendations. Accept a second chance to be successful! 💜


Adoption project failed. Give it a second chance! Re-adopt.

The dramatic rise in the number and severity of cyber-threats faced by organizations today has led to a proliferation of countermeasure IT security tool-sets. In many cases, these security tools operate independently from each other and can lead to siloed alerting and monitoring making it difficult for IT staff to effectively identify threats and mitigate them before they become major issues.

Microsoft Defender 365 suite of cloud security tools consolidates multiple security tool-sets under a single management interface and provides for end-to-end security, allowing administrators to quickly identify and contain threats. Rather than constantly being on the defensive, Defender 365 provides for the ability to proactively hunt for vulnerabilities and potential bad actors while they are still making lateral moves within your environment, allowing IT cybersecurity the ability to stay one step ahead of increasingly sophisticated hackers.

This session takes an in-depth look at the tools that are part of the Microsoft Defender 365 suite, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Identity and more. Discover how to better control, audit, and manage your organization’s data in both the cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

•	Explore the various tool-sets and capabilities built into Microsoft 365 Defender, including Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) functionality, endpoint threat detection and management, and sophisticated on-premises real-time threat prevention tools.
•	Examine how real-time threats can overwhelm more traditional threat management systems and how an intuitive ‘single pane of glass’ view of threat detection and management can greatly improve the odds of stopping sophisticated cyberattacks.
•	Understand how Microsoft licensing for Microsoft Defender 365 is structured and how you can take advantage of these security tools for little or even no cost in some scenarios.

Combatting Cyberthreats with Microsoft Defender 365

You have used Power Automate before; for years, you have created, deployed, and perhaps supported cloud flows in production.
Then you are ready to learn more and move your knowledge to the next level by following this session.
In this intensive session, Doctor Flow, aka serge Luca, will summarize and illustrate (with plenty of demos) the key features, patterns, tips, and tricks that you need to be aware of flow/Power Automate if you want to shine and deliver a successful Flow/Power Automate project with the Power Platform. These practices have been tested across 26 enterprise Power Platforms projects since 2016. New Power Automate features introduced by Microsoft in 2023 will also be demonstrated.

Power Automate advanced patterns and best practices with Doctor Flow

Have a walk around the venue, visit the sponsor booths and high five with the community colleagues.

Have a break & stretch your legs

Join an informative and inspiring session that will supercharge your Teams Meetings experience. We will explore the versatility of Microsoft Teams Meetings and unveil cutting-edge features that will revolutionize your digital collaboration. This session enhances your Teams skills and help you make the most of the Teams Meetings rich diversity of features, including Collaborative Apps.

Although Teams Premium is not the primary focus of this session, we will cover its exclusive meeting features, particularly those relevant to events and webinars. This will give you a better understanding of what is available and how you can utilize them.
We won't just be talking about features and capabilities - we believe in taking action! Brace yourself for a series of live demos that will demonstrate the transformative power of Microsoft Teams Meetings in real-time.

Finally, we will take a look into the future of Teams Meetings, giving you a sneak peek at what's on the horizon in this rapidly evolving digital landscape. Join us for this exciting ride and take your Teams Meetings to new heights. 

After all, the future of work is not just about working - it's about working and creating it together!

Supercharge Your Teams Meetings Game

With Syntex, you can automate your content-based processes—capturing the information in your business documents and transforming that information into working knowledge for your organization.
Microsoft Syntex is a Microsoft 365 service that uses advanced content artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to provide an end-to-end intelligent document processing solution for your organization. Rather than clicking and sorting through hundreds or thousands of files, Syntex extracts, analyses, and categorizes the data for you.
Join my demo-driven session, to understand the fundamentals and build your AI-Powered Model in a matter of minutes. First, we'll test the templates and create intelligent models for Syntex, then import enterprise data from SharePoint to see AI in action! 


Microsoft Syntex: All you need to know about Content AI

Let’s go on a journey together through the basics of Power Platform solution framework and let’s build solution packages that are ready for deployment together! We’ll explore the different solution components that you need to be aware of from a deployment perspective and discover what you need to know about environments to use with the basic deployment model. Finally, we’ll learn how to deploy your solution easily with Power Platform Pipelines. By the end of this session, you’ll have learned how to package your solution and understand the basic environment model for deployments. You’ll also be familiar with Power Platform Pipelines deployment practices.

Power Platform solutions and deployments - get the hang of it

Ready to take your PowerShell skills to the next level and become a pro in Microsoft 365 development? 

Through several real case scenarios implementations, we will deep-dive into the world of M365 automation,  covering best practices usage, tips and tricks, modules, and hidden gems within PowerShell and PnP.PowerShell module 

In this session,  learn ...

- How to use PnP.PowerShell to automate and optimize your M365 development streamline

-Advanced scripting techniques to automate complex tasks in M365

-Tips and tricks to troubleshoot common issues and avoid common pitfalls

-Hidden gems in PowerShell\PnP.PowerShell that can save you time and effort

Usage scenarios covered :

- Build really speedy M365 Reports not available Out Of The Box 
- Leverage PnP.PowerShell to authenticate through the various 
 M365 services
- Automate your tenant-to-tenant \fileshare migrations
- Extend current M365 services where no Microsoft API is available yet
- Create your service-oriented Enterprise PowerShell Modules assets based in PNP.PowerShell

Get ready to take your PowerShell game to the next level and unlock the full potential of your M365 automation. 


Powering Up Your M365 Game: Advanced PowerShell\PnPPowerShell Technics and Hidden Gems

Lunch

A lot has been promised what Artificial Intelligence solutions can do to your personal and your organization's productivity and to improve our working lives. And of course the surface has only been scratched what can be done!! 

Join Principal Consultant, Microsoft MVP Vesa Nopanen to see hands on demos on AI solutions Sulava is already working with our customers. At Sulava, we help organizations to take full advantage of available AI solutions and prepare for the changes driven by AI innovations. 

Passion for cloud technologies, love for better worklife... Sulava is a pioneer in Microsoft cloud technologies with extensive and in-depth experience in introducing Microsoft technologies to employees’ everyday lives and companies’ business operations. With our help, our customers are able to adapt their business to the demands of the rapidly changing world. We enable the utilization of the competence capital of the entire organisation and build new innovations on a foundation of existing knowledge.

Sponsor session: Sulava - Hands on with AI solutions

Sponsor session: Ydentic

THERE WILL BE BEER

Come and see how Terho Antila, Microsoft Business Applications MVP, demonstrates the EASIEST way to collect data from external stakeholders within your business processes.

At App Power, we elevate your business processes with innovative solutions. Our flagship, the App Power Forms connector, integrates external stakeholders seamlessly. Design forms directly within Power Automate, saving time and complexity. 

Different from Microsoft's tools, our App Power Forms simplifies involving external stakeholders cost-effectively. Build forms in Power Automate or Azure Logic Apps designer. No more third-party editors – we've got you covered.

Come and see for yourself!

Sponsor session: App Power Forms connector!

New Fresh approach to Intranets - User on Focal Point
What is Fresh Intranet? With Fresh you can create attractive, world-class intranets that are easy to design and build. Residing in SharePoint, you can bring your Microsoft 365 channels together to form a one-stop shop for all your content. We'll also take a look at Advania's M365 Keep On Track Advisor services that keep your IT on top of changes in the Microsoft 365  cloud environment.

Sponsor session: Advania

DevSecOps! Shift left and fail fast! Unfortunately, it takes more than some buzzword bingo to establish a truly secure software development lifecycle. Today, it is not enough that the application works according to the functional requirements; we should also heavily protect it against cybercriminals. This session will demonstrate how to leverage the GitHub platform to create automated security checks such as static application security testing and software composition analysis to get you well on your way to securing your application with minimal effort. In addition, you'll learn what different tools we have available for spotting security issues and how to analyze and act on the potential vulnerabilities to improve the security posture of your source code repository. 

Developing secure software with GitHub

The Low Code, No Code movement is one of the most exciting movements in our days. Citizen Development is capturing the attention of businesses and industries by democratizing IT processes and access to creative design. But with great power comes greater responsibility; how can we drive meaningful adoption whilst still protecting the delivery ecosystem?

Change Management is one of the key enablers to give everyone a voice on the way to true transformation and app usage beyond license sales. Low/ no code apps do not mean low/ no Change Management. Appsolutely, you need your partners in growth!

This session will offer a fresh perspective on how Change Managers can strengthen the collaboration between business leaders, users and pro developers when driving adaptive governance and empowering learning paths for new hybrid teams. 

Do Low Code projects need Change Management? Appsolutely!

Today it is impossible to do without artificial intelligence within all our applications. AI Builder is a Microsoft Power Platform capability that provides easy-to-use AI models designed to optimize your business processes. AI Builder enables companies to use AI to automate processes and take action based on data, in Power Apps and Power Automate. But not only.... Today it is possible to integrate in Power Platform other types of AI, such as Open AI. 
In this session we will explore different ways to create intelligent apps leveraging different types of AI services...starting from AI builder up to Open AI.

A fantastic journey through artificial intelligence in the world of the Power Platform

Are Microsoft Loop components a gimmick? Or do they lever actual business value? What about Loop Pages and Loop Workspaces? Let me take you on a journey of excellent use cases and a most probable future in the collaboration landscape of Microsoft 365. Will it blend?

Do not miss the Microsoft Loop train!

Have some refreshments, visit the sponsor booths and introduce yourself to at least 3 new people! #Communityrocks

Stretching break

The low-code revolution continues, and more than ever, there is a huge demand for developers to get involved, particularly on the Power Platform side. But what does it take to become a developer? Do you need to know how to write code? What are the skills you need to excel?

In this interactive session, join me as I hope to provide an answer to these questions and more. We’ll look at the technologies you need to know, what a Power Platform Developer does and articulate some of the qualities that will help you succeed. If you are considering a career change, this is the session for you!

Becoming A Power Platform Developer: Tips, Tricks And More!

Approvals play a key role in the documents life cycle, projects, company processes, IT management, and many other areas. It's really hard to imagine a company without any approval process. Holiday requests, project proposals, agreements, IT requests, and much more. 

Microsoft Teams offers a built-in approvals application that allows teams to create, manage, and track approvals within Teams. This feature allows you to create approval requests, add approvers, set deadlines, and monitor progress, all from within Teams.
In this session I will go through the Approval app in Teams and show how to use it and when.
In details:
- Approval app overview 
- Integration with Teams
- Management options
- Electronic signatures
- API

How to - Approvals in Microsoft Teams

With the explosive growth of Teams during the pandemic, a lot of organisations have struggled to understand how the various compliance scenarios can be applied to data in Teams. With so many moving parts, how do you ensure that you're retaining the right information but deleting what you don’t need?

In this session we'll look at:

• Options for controlling Teams provisioning, from the free for all to the heavily governed.
• How components like Retention Labels and Policies are applied to the various architectural objects that form the Teams platform, with a view to understanding how retention actually works and what get's removed.
• How retention & disposition policies play together (and how they don't!).
• How even more granular control can be achieved through the use of adaptive scopes.

Control your Teams data, You have 50 minutes to comply!

This is a one hour Power Pages Crash Course, where I'll share the complete overview of Power Pages Site from Basic to Advanced with Live Demonstration. This session will be very helpful to everyone who want to kick start the portal development and want to know everything about the Power Pages in just one hour.

In this session I'll cover:

1. Introduction to Power Pages, designer studio, it's components and architecture
2. How to Style Power Pages Site using OOB themes and Custom CSS
3. Extend Power Pages features using JavaScript, WEB API and Liquid Code.
4. Integrate Power Pages Site with other components like Power BI, Power Virtual Agent, Power Automate and SharePoint.
5. Automate the deployment using Azure DevOps CICD Pipeline.

Power Pages one hour Crash Course

Have a nice cup of coffee or tea, visit the sponsor booths and say hello to new people & old friends.

Coffee & stretching break

What about all these new generative AI models? It is said these AI will have a profound impact on our daily lives and definitely on the way we work. Microsoft is in the middle of this revolution with Microsoft Copilot, Azure Open AI, GPT 4,… I will guide you through what is already in place, what the near future will bring and how you can benefit from all this, today!

The future is now: Generative AI in an Enterprise context

Customizing your Create / Update forms is possible in different ways: You could use json or go the Power Apps route. But when should you use what? What is possible? How much work does it take? And how can you make sure it is usable and future proof?

Anouck and Marijn go head to head in this fierce battle to settle once and for all what is the best solution. Marijn will bring the SharePoint battle axe, Anouck will swing the Canvas apps sword.

Who will be victorious?

SharePoint List forms vs PowerApps: The battle between Json vs Canvas app

Embarking on the journey to organization-wide information classification and data loss prevention can be daunting and there are some common mistakes that are easy to make if you aren't prepared. In this session we discuss experience-driven tips for helping reach a successful data security outcome, both in the short and the mid-to-long term.

Notes from the field: Best practices for Information Protection & DLP rollouts

In a 100% live demo, you experience the working first days in a company powered by Microsoft Viva. Dive into the world of employee experience and see, that the capabilities are much more than a combination of features. Get my five most important takeaways to impmement your own employee experience platform.

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