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<div data-mesh-id="comp-jt8cvjg7inlineContent" data-testid="inline-content"><div data-mesh-id="comp-jt8cvjg7inlineContent-gridContainer" data-testid="mesh-container-content"><div data-testid="richTextElement"><p spellcheck="false" data-ms-editor="true">CollabCon is dedicated to bringing together collaboration experts from across platforms and industries to share their expertise with you!</p><p spellcheck="false" data-ms-editor="true"></p><p spellcheck="false" data-ms-editor="true">Join us in person for a one-day action packed event with sessions, hands-on opportunities at the Collaboration Station, and learn from experts on why their tools and recommendations are “the right” ones. &nbsp;</p></div></div></div>

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In today's interconnected world, great ideas bloom when we collaborate. This fun and enlightening keynote gathers a dynamic panel of industry pros to chat about the magic that happens when people and businesses collaborate. Listen to tales of partnership successes, learn how to bridge knowledge gaps, and discover the art of merging diverse expertise to ignite breakthroughs. Let's explore why we're truly better together, and how we can shape a brighter, more collaborative future. Join us for a heartwarming session that celebrates the power of unity in innovation!

Better Together: Sparking Innovation with Collaboration

This session first examines equivalent services from both platform in order to compare/contrast them.  Next we'll look at possible service gaps and options available to fill them.  Finally, we'll talk through how to efficiently collaborate between the two platforms because when working with partners, vendors, peers you are bound to work with someone using one, or both.

Microsoft 365, or Google Workspace, or . . . both?

Video-based learning is more in-demand than ever before. In this session I will share with you my tips, tricks and tools for creating high-quality, professional videos in record time!

On-Demand Learning: Creating Video Learning in Record Time

Collaboration in Google Workspace just got more powerful with Duet AI for Google Workspace. This session will introduce how to use Duet AI and highlight features using Docs, Gmail and Slides. These features help write, design, visualize, organize and supercharge productivity. 

Intro to Google Duet AI

As our world changed a lot of people had to drive into Microsoft Teams without a lot of training and true understanding about the application. Teams is a "single pane of glass" but does mean Teams do any work itself? OR are other Microsoft 365 apps doing the heavy lifting? So when I create a Microsoft Teams with channels what else am I getting? Let's dive into this and see how SharePoint, Planner, Stream, and more work automatically with Teams and NO you do not need to be a IT or technical person.

Created a Microsoft Team and I automatically get how many other apps?!?!

Microsoft Whiteboard is a free-form, intelligent canvas where your team can ideate, iterate, and work together in person or remotely, across multiple devices. Come find out how to get started with Whiteboard, and how best to use it to enhance teamwork in your organization.

Collaborating with Microsoft Whiteboard

In this session we’ll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate. 

We will also learn how to restart the workflow from a given stage and how to include Dynamic Approvers. We'll dig into how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We will also learn how to log workflow history and ways to retain the history indefinitely. 

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows

There are a lot of Microsoft Community Contributors and locations to collaborate online.

How To Become a MVP and Master Public Speaking

Are you new to workflow development? Were you told that you are now a "Citizen Developer"? Are you finding words and concepts that you don't understand? This is the session for you.

In this session we will learn about the logical components of workflows. This is a VERY introductory level session geared toward business users who have been asked to start creating workflows, but you are familiar with the logic pieces.

We will discuss things like:
Get and Update
If Then
If Then Else
Switch / Case
Run After
Compose
Troubleshooting

Most of these concepts will work with any workflow application you use, such as Power Automate, Nintex, Webcon, etc...

Workflow Logic for beginners

Introductory session to Microsoft Loop and how to use to bring data together in real time across multiple M365 apps

Loop me in! Collaboration with MS Loop

I spent over 12 years constantly being asked to make SharePoint not look like SharePoint. Finally, with SharePoint Online, sites are the prettiest they have been. Yet, they can be easily messed up if users do not follow some basic guidance to make them look amazing. In this session, I teach users of all levels how to make their site pages look amazing with all that is available using standard out of the box web parts. I will also provide some neat tips and tricks to rollout a professional looking intranet that will not look like SharePoint in its old days.

Make your SharePoint Online pages unsuck!

Whether you're a woman in tech, an ally, or just someone eager to learn and contribute to a more inclusive industry, this session is a must-attend. Together, let's pave the way for a more inclusive, communicative, and collaborative tech landscape.

Women in Technology Discussion Panel

Have you ever thought "my Teams environment is a mess and I need to clean it up!"?  Remote and hybrid work is here to stay. Our data is constantly shared inside and outside our organizations. Yet, many of our Microsoft Teams environments are set up inconsistently, not well governed, nor secured. Microsoft Teams meetings have become a critical part of our day, every day, and its important for organizations to select the right controls and policies so that meetings are safe and secure.  In this session, we'll share common tips and best practices for conducting safe and secure Teams meetings using the built in features.  We'll also look at what Teams Premium provides.  We'll show how to govern your Teams collaboration spaces, how to safely enable guest access, and how to secure sensitive data within Teams.  Join us to learn how to move from chaos to a safe, secure and well-governed Microsoft Teams collaboration environment!

From Chaos to Collaboration: Safe, Secure & Governed Microsoft Teams Meetings & Collaboration Spaces

This session examines the difference between the common early misconception that collaboration is a noun (such as a tool, a license, a platform, or software) vs the true concept of collaboration as a verb (such as a process or practice of working together with/via the tools, etc.).  We will discuss several possible options of how to usher your organization from the former to the latter and truly engage and nurture your organization along the journey of your maturity model.    

Collaboration as a noun, or Collaboration as a Verb?

Microsoft Loop is an innovative, collaborative platform that revolutionizes how teams collaborate, seamlessly integrating content, tasks, and tools across multiple devices for a truly immersive co-creation experience.
Join this enlightening session to gain comprehensive insights and practical knowledge on leveraging Loop's versatile elements for enhanced productivity and seamless integration across Microsoft's suite of applications.

Mastering Microsoft Loop: A Beginner's Roadmap to Productivity

Introduced 32 years ago. Used by more than 39 million people worldwide. Among the most broadly-installed desktop apps in companies large and small. 

Yet often overlooked and underused for communication and collaboration.

In this session, I will share 10 practical examples of how to use Snagit together with Microsoft apps to boost clarity and accelerate collaboration across barriers of distance and time. From Teams to Forms, from SharePoint to PowerPoint, from Github to Whiteboard…Snagit kicks collaboration up a notch.

10 Ways to Power Collaboration with Visuals

Everybody and their funny uncle who shows up for Thanksgiving Dinner uninvited talks about Large Language Model and you can't cross the street without hearing ChatGPT (and occasionally ...GTP).

The internet ether is filled with hyperbole about the greatest prompts, and everybody is an expert.

So let's ground the conversation in a hands-on session talking about Large Language Models, Generative AI, Embeddings, the secret sauce behind so-called "Plugins", and how Copilots are built.

Instead of only theorizing, you will see also see things live.

This session will include C# and Python code-snippets to demonstrate APIs and interactions, but those will be easy to understand even for non-developers.

ChatGPT and friends demystified

This session is all about process management. In 45 minutes, you will learn why it is important to document business processes, from the everyday to the most sophisticated.

Rest assured that this session is not just a bunch of demos. It’s an interactive experience guided by process experts, giving you firsthand experience on how you can simplify process management.

With our visual process mapping tool, Nintex Process Manager (previously known as Nintex Promapp), we’ll show you how to visually map, manage, and govern business processes across your organization and ways to improve collaboration across teams.

This session is designed and crafted for business leaders, IT, and process excellence professionals like you. You will leave this session well-equipped to immediately improve the way people work.

Process Excellence in under an hour

There are all kinds of devices out there for Microsoft Teams: Phones and displays and panels and more! What are they? What do they do? How do I pick one over the other? 

In this session, I'll walk you through all the different official Microsoft Teams devices as well as having several of them on hand for you to get first-hand experience with them. At the end of the session, you'll have a clear understanding of what devices to use when.

Get up to speed with Microsoft Teams devices

In this session, I demonstrate real-world scenarios in which PowerApps and Power Automate are integrated with a content calendar used by communications teams. This session begins exploring the baseline functionality that PowerApps and Power Automate provide to enhance the content calendar and automate review and approval processes for communication teams. 

We progress to explore how to enhance review tasks with the Azure Open AI connector available in Power Automate. The Azure Open AI connector can make suggestions on how to update the content to reviewers in line with the review task so that reviewers can leverage AI when completing their review task.

This session focuses on real-world scenarios with the goal of providing features and capabilities that you can immediately apply within your organization.

Integrating the Power Platform with a Content Calendar

It's a work management showdown! And yes…work management, not task management. I won't be discussing products like Microsoft To-Do, Apple Reminders, or even Google Tasks in any great detail. But instead, where you would track tasks, routines, or projects for a Team. Services like Planner, JIRA, Microsoft Lists, or Asana.
 
There are a lot of tools in this space, so don't expect to cover them all, but rather, I'll cover a few that I have experience with, reasons I use what I do (hint, as a Microsoft 365 guy, it's not Planner), and things you may want to think about when choosing one for your company. There won't be a clear winner that comes out of this showdown or, "You need to use this one," but enough information to help you make an informed decision about what you may want to use based on how you and your organization work.

Work Management Showdown!

Are your project-related communications and other related data scattered across many places? If you said yes, you should attend this highly interactive session to learn how Microsoft Loop, Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft 365 apps can provide a canvas and flexible components for you and fellow colleagues to communicate and collaborate more effectively where you work most.

This session includes a demonstration of creating and co-authoring Loop components in Microsoft Teams private chats, channel conversations and other Microsoft 365 apps including:
Co-authoring Loop content within a Teams private chat or channel conversation.
Inviting others to share ideas in bulleted or numbered list components.
Creating a table component and inviting others with @mentions to provide the data needed.
Creating a task list component and assigning tasks with @mentions to notify each person!
Using Loop components in Outlook messages
Updating Loop component permissions

Other tips and tricks will be provided to make it easier to locate Loop components, comment in Loop components and more.

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