365 EduCon,&nbsp;a Microsoft 365 Conference, brings to you the world’s leading experts in&nbsp;Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft Teams and Azure. Whether you are&nbsp;new to Microsoft 365, Power Platform and SharePoint or an experienced power user, admin or developer, 365 EduCon has content designed to fit your experience level and area of interest. Our workshops and sessions are taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Regional Directors and Microsoft engineers.
At&nbsp;365 EduCon,&nbsp;a Microsoft 365 Conference,&nbsp;subject matter is divided into tracks and each session is designated for beginner, intermediate or advanced. Tracks are offered for the following subjects:&nbsp;Microsoft 365, Azure, Microsoft Teams, Teams Development, Teams Architecture &amp; Administration, OneDrive, Search, Content Management, Power Users, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Workflow, Business Intelligence, SharePoint Development, and more. Choose one complete learning track or mix and match based on what content best meets you and your organization’s current needs!&nbsp; Find out more: https://365educon.com/Chicago&nbsp;

365 EduCon Chicago - A Microsoft 365 Conference

Room S106b

In every organization there are a number of scenarios which require an Approval process. It could be Contract approvals, PTO/Leave Approvals, Event approvals and many other business processes. 

In this workshop we'll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate. The workflow will move back and forth b/w different stages and will also learn how to restart a workflow from a given stage. We'll learn how to include Dynamic Approvers in the workflow process. 

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows - Part 1

In every organization there are a number of scenarios which require an Approval process. It could be Contract approvals, PTO/Leave Approvals, Event approvals and many other business processes. 

In this workshop we'll learn how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We'll implement timeout features in the workflows to escalate it to the next approver in the process. We will also learn how to log and retain workflow history beyond what Microsoft Power Automate offers out-of-box. We'll develop a button to kick off the workflow from a SharePoint library/list. 

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows - Part 2

You'll see where Power Apps fits in your toolset and how Power Apps can extend and build interfaces where you may have used InfoPath in the past. Demos and exercises will be used to illustrate the topics covered. You'll have the opportunity to "take the wheel" and test out Power Apps for yourself. Through a series of hands-on labs, you'll gain first-hand experience in customizing SharePoint/List forms with Power Apps and extending Lists and Teams user experiences. Your instructors will be there to assist anytime you have questions or need some help.

Attend this workshop and say goodbye to InfoPath. Gain the skills you'll need to immediately start customizing your Microsoft 365 SharePoint and Teams sites with Power Apps and Power Automate.

Notes and Requirements: 
To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.

We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here:  https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

Power Apps for SharePoint Bootcamp

We will start the afternoon with an overview of Power Automate.  You'll learn about the different types of Flows that can be created with Power Automate and will start creating Flows yourself.

We'll then dive into Power Automate concepts including expressions, variables and loops.  We'll move on to thoroughly covering how to use Power Automate with SharePoint.  Finally, we see how to integrate Power Apps and Power Automate.

Live demos will be used to demonstrate all of these concepts.  You'll have the opportunity to implement what you have learned through a series of hands-on labs.

Notes and Requirements: 
To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.
 
We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here:  https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program
 
If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

Power Automate for SharePoint Bootcamp

Join our deep dive to learn more about accelerating your productivity, unleashing your creativity and uplevelling your skills with Microsoft 365 Copilot.  We'll include answering your questions on the governance and management of these AI driven experiences.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

In this exciting session, get ready to dive into the latest updates and advancements in the Microsoft Power Platform and the thriving community surrounding it. 

Discover the newest features and enhancements across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents, and learn how these updates can supercharge your productivity and unlock new possibilities for building innovative solutions. 

Explore the vibrant Power Platform community, its valuable resources, and collaborative opportunities, and gain insights into how developers and enthusiasts are leveraging the platform to drive digital transformation and solve real-world challenges.

Highlights on What’s New for Microsoft Power Platform and Community

In this session, we will explore the powerful combination of Power Apps and Dataverse for building scalable applications. Discover how to leverage the robust features of Power Apps to create custom applications and extend their capabilities using the rich data model provided by Dataverse.

Learn best practices for designing scalable apps, optimizing performance, and ensuring data integrity, enabling you to deliver high-quality solutions that can grow with your organization's needs

How to build scalable apps with Power Apps and Dataverse

Join in to hear and see the future vision of SharePoint from the user experience (UX) perspective. You'll hear both now and future context, a peek behind how Microsoft plans to evolve SharePoint design, and best practices when creating and building gorgeous sites and pages for communication creators and consumers alike. One not to miss if you want to get clarity on where SharePoint is heading next.

SharePoint in the AI Era: Introducing Copilot in SharePoint

Learn about and see demos of the new features coming to OneDrive that will enhance sharing, collaboration, offline use, and more. You'll get the latest news, roadmap, plus a few tips and tricks along the way.

What's new in OneDrive

Every week, our customers add billions of documents to Microsoft 365. That content is essential to your organization - carrying knowledge, decisions, and transactions that are vital to the flow of work. To maximize the value of your Microsoft 365 content, Microsoft Syntex brings management, advanced AI, and automation together to simplify the way you work. Join us to learn more about this new category and hear how Syntex can help you discover, manage, and secure your organization's content in the Microsoft Cloud and beyond.

Introducing Microsoft Syntex – Content AI for the Microsoft Cloud

Ever need to go beyond analysis in Power BI?  Wish you could enter data, model, forecast, add detailed comments, and write-back in real-time?  You can, with Power ON. 
 
During this session, you will learn how to build write-back enabled Power BI reports yourself, streamline planning cycles, make comments on data points, design models on the fly, perform what-if scenarios, and write-back to over 200 data sources.   

And for Excel-lovers, we’ll share how our Power XL brings you the future of Power BI interaction; now! Enabling the same write-back, commentary, and planning capabilities with full client-side spreadsheet functionality, all controlled inside Power BI. 
 
This session will feature real-world success stories and use cases, including Sales Forecasting, Demand Planning, Capacity Planning, and more. 
 
Join us to learn how you can Supercharge your Microsoft Power BI with Collaborative Data Enrichment, Modeling, Planning, Reporting & Write-back. 

Supercharge Power BI with Write-back & Planning

Creating your organization's intranet - across portals and sites - can empower your users to collaborate, create, and connect in new and exciting ways. Learn more about all the best practices for your portal strategy using SharePoint, Teams, Viva Connections and more. 

We'll have tons of demos across big features and small, tied together with guidance and best practices to make the most of your intranet investments.

SharePoint portals: Launching your intranet into the future

With Power Fx now powering Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Cards, it is a great time to use your knowledge of Power Apps’ formulas to leverage more of the Power Platform. But let’s take that up a notch, from leveraging knowledge to leveraging running code. We’ll show you how to easily move custom logic to where it can be leveraged most, for example out of a single app and into Dataverse formula columns and actions where all apps and Power Automate can leverage it. Within Power Apps, we’ll show you how named formulas, user defined functions, and components enable leverage within an app and across apps, greatly improving performance and manageability. And we’ll show you how you can enable these same low code customizations in your own projects with open-source Power Fx.

Power Fx in Power Platform

Learn about the different ways in which your organization can be more productive with Power Automate, M365 and Copilot.

Discover experiences across, SharePoint, Teams, Excel and Windows and Process mining-based insights that help you get time to focus on what's important.

Teams, Power Automate and Copilot - automate Microsoft 365 like never before!

Stream (on SharePoint) & Clipchamp puts video in the flow of everyday work to help you create alignment and connection across hybrid and remote teams.  Stream & Clipchamp enhances video communications for meeting recordings, corporate communications, how-to, training, and leadership videos. In this session we will show a range of new Stream (on SharePoint) features and capabilities. Find out what's new with the Stream start page, transcripts, captions, Clipchamp for Enterprise, Teams meeting recordings, video search, enhanced playback, the Stream web and mobile apps, the content migration tool and more.

Microsoft Stream & Clipchamp: Video creation, sharing, and playback in Microsoft 365

In this session, how you as a developer using Azure, Visual Studio, and Power Platform, build rich applications and the experiences to help you accelerate building such applications, quicker, faster, and better

Azure, Visual Studio and Power Platform

Come and learn the top 10 best practices you should be doing to both manage and secure your environment. Tenant configuration can be a balance of usability and security when planning your roll-out or management model. 

These best practices will assist you in improving visibility into M365 and help you understand the necessary controls needed to have in place to ensure your tenant is protected.

Top 10 best practices every Admin should be doing in M365!

Come learn how you can deploy, use, and achieve success with Teams in a regulated environment. In this session we will show you the strategies and technologies you need to succeed.

You will learn:
- Governance Strategies
- Compliance & Records Management
- Security Options
- Monitoring & Auditing Capabilities
- Training and Enablement