<div data-id="0f6fcfb" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"><div><div><p><strong>Unleashing the Power of Microsoft Cloud: Join the Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn for 2 Days of Shared Learning and Community Building</strong></p></div></div></div>
<div data-id="2a6f830" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"><div><div><p>At the Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn, we believe in blending knowledge and enjoyment. Join us for 2 days of learning, networking, and unforgettable fun as we explore the exciting possibilities of Microsoft Cloud. Come together with like-minded professionals and discover that even in the world of technology, there’s always room for a little joy and excitement.</p></div></div></div>

Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2024

Cauldron hall

How does AI *actually* work (you have more control than you think!)

What are some Actually Useful scenarios for your job & life

How can you infuse AI into your job and career TODAY no matter what your tech background 

And the funny part….we will do this WHOLE keynote demo-style with our various Copilots! 

Keynote with Dona and Laurie

Have you ever wondered: “Where will our project be in five years time?” 

Join Wouter and Thomas  as they will take you on a 5-year journey through the evolution of a Dynamics 365 project. What started as a modest on-premise application with 300 users has now evolved into a modern cloud solution, serving 2000 users across different continents. 

Prepare to be inspired by the insights gained from scaling up the project, including:

-	Effectively organizing a dev-team using Azure Devops
-	Streamlining communication with business stakeholders and end-users
-	Implementing automatic deployments for environments spread across different regions (ALM strategies)
-	Managing change and driving user adoption through the ADKAR principles and smart Power BI dashboards
-	Integrating Dynamics 365 with a variety of external applications
-	Convincing your customer to be an early adopter of new features

Wouter and Thomas willl discuss the challenges encountered, the failures, the strategies for overcoming them and the best practices they've developed along the way.



From 300 to 2000 users: Lessons learned from scaling a Dynamics 365 project

A properly planned approach to governing the Power Platform ensures organizations are able to increase their low-code maturity, win in low-code (and life), and to empower their makers on a safe and secure platform. Every organization starts their Power Platform journey from an ungoverned wild-west of a platform. This session showcases an approach to building a governance framework that takes organizations from that initial wild-west level of maturity towards an established governance framework. 

How: 

How to approach Power Platform governance and adapt a governance framework in your organization. 

What: 

Understand what governance means from an organizational and technical perspective and how a governance framework can be created. Learn what to factor in in your framework to meet organizational and technical needs. 

Why: 

Taking control or a wild-west Power Platform is crucial for making sure the platform is securely used and your organization has a roadmap for increasing your maturity in low-code. 

Creating a Power Platform governance framework

We all have these daily bits of frustration at work. My colleague has no access to this list! How can I involve everyone in our planning workshop? Where is that file someone shared in our team meeting? These feelings multiply when the context is collaboration and communication with your team.

What if technology could help your team to work at its best? What does a modern, digital workday look like?

In this demo-heavy session, you will meet Karoliina “Use tech for good” Kettukari and Amanda “Try everything at least once” Sterner with a concrete example of a top-notch collaboration team in Teams! We will show you how to innovate with your team in Teams, how to keep everyone on track with tasks, what are the best practices for team meetings - and while doing all of that, how to create an excellent employee experience.

The focus is on how Microsoft Teams is the ultimate hub for teamwork - and the place for getting things done. You'll be amazed at how seamlessly different applications in Microsoft 365 work together. After this session, you can open your own Teams and take your teams to the next level of collaboration!

Session takeaways:

• Example of modern teamwork with Microsoft Teams
• How useful applications in Teams, Viva and Power Platform work seamlessly together
• Tips on how you can use technology to improve team spirit

I've got 99 problems but Teams aint one!

In the olden days, the boundaries between responsibilities were much clearer, and a Solution Architect rarely needed to know anything outside their product or field of expertise. In the ever-expanding Microsoft cloud ecosystem, the role of a Solution Architect is filled with challenges that demand ever-greater knowledge and flexibility. Challenges that pose a risk to companies as well as people, pushing both to a level that becomes unsustainable.
Join Yannick in this session where he speaks from first-hand experience - coming from SharePoint, expanding to Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365 - on how he sees the role of a Solution Architect evolving. From responsibilities and knowledge, to the creation of an “Ecosystem Architect”.

Challenges of being a Solution Architect in the ever-expanding Microsoft cloud

Identities of apps and services (workloads) are gaining privileged access and are used on a wide scale (especially in DevOps or large high-automated environments). 
Attack techniques (for example, in case of NOBELIUM attacks) has shown that service principals will be used for initial and persistent access (to create a "backdoor" in Entra ID). 
Securing credentials, limit and detecting suspicious access or managing lifecycle of workload identities can be a challenge. 

Security concepts of privileged user account can not be (fully) applied to non-human identities and would be limited applicable.
Strictly monitoring and classification of this types of identities are often neglected in the past. 

In this session, I like to give an overview about the different types of workload identities, common (sensitive) use cases and how attacks or abuse can be mitigated of the different phases in the lifecycle.

- What is a workload identity? 
- Different types of workload identities in Entra ID
- Common and real-world use cases
- Management of lifecycle and visibility
- Securing delegated management by Entra ID RBAC 
- Monitoring and detection to prevent privilege escalation
- Securing access and protection of workload identities 
  (by Entra Conditional Access and Identity Protection)

Demystify Entra Workload Identities

The session provides a comprehensive overview of PySpark Notebooks in Fabric, covering basic to intermediate concepts. Participants learn about PySpark. They explore RDDs, DataFrames, and their operations, including loading/saving data, filtering, aggregating, and sorting.

The session focuses on PySpark SQL, enabling participants to execute SQL queries on DataFrames, create temporary views, and perform advanced operations like joins and subqueries. .

By the end of the session, participants are equipped with the necessary skills to efficiently process and analyze large-scale data, leveraging PySpark Notebooks for data-driven tasks.

Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric

This presentation offers an in-depth exploration of data collection, processing, and visualization within today's rapidly evolving technological landscape. Our primary focus is on cloud-based systems, introducing fundamental principles of data collection, architectural insights, diverse possibilities, and an exploration of integrating these systems with advanced analytics and artificial intelligence solutions to enhance company performance. Specifically, we will dig into the functionalities of the new Microsoft Fabric platform and its seamless integration with Microsoft's enterprise software, Dynamics Business Central. We will showcase practical integration examples based on our varied project experiences. This presentation serves as a foundation for a workshop on the following day, where we will thoroughly examine the data acquisition process (MS Dynamics Business Central -> MS Fabric), data processing/enrichment, and the creation of comprehensive reports.
This presentation targets both business decision makers and IT specialists, providing insights into how data acquisition operates on the Microsoft Fabric platform, strategies for enriching data through AI capabilities, and a comprehensive exploration of the innovative possibilities introduced by Microsoft's platform update.