<p>Welcome
to CollabDays Finland 2024, a conference dedicated to exploring the latest
trends, tools, and technologies in the world of Microsoft. Hosted by a team of
industry experts, MVPs, and thought leaders, this event is designed to provide
valuable insights, practical strategies, and hands-on learning opportunities to
help you navigate the ever-changing landscape of digital collaboration,
development and security.</p>

<p>Throughout
the conference, you’ll have the opportunity to attend a diverse range of
sessions covering everything from Microsoft Teams and SharePoint to Security,
Azure and Power Platform - not to forget about AI and Copilot. Whether you’re a
seasoned IT professional, a business leader looking to drive innovation, or a
developer looking to build cutting-edge solutions, CollabDays Finland has
something tailored just for you.</p>

CollabDays Finland 2024

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AI is everywhere, and it's essential to keep it up-to-date. This session explores tools like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and fine-tuning that ensure your AI stays relevant as data evolves. We'll simplify these technologies, explore how they work, and help you decide which is best for your projects.

For those intrigued by the potential of RAG, our session will offer a comprehensive guide to crafting your own solution. You’ll see firsthand how to integrate these methods into your own AI applications, focusing on practical benefits such as cost, scalability, and maintenance. Plus, we’ll cover how to keep an eye on performance to ensure your AI continues to perform well.

This won't be a one-way street – we encourage active participation, questions, and discussions to ensure that you leave with a deeper understanding and actionable strategies to elevate your AI applications to new heights. Whether you're a developer eager to enhance your skills or a leader driving AI innovation, this session is designed to provide valuable insights and hands-on learning to help you succeed.

Keeping AI Smart with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

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Would you like Microsoft M365 Copilot to provide even more features and information for your organization's needs?

In this breakout session, we will discuss the possibilities of customizing and expanding the Copilot service. You will learn about the transformative power of Copilot Studio extensions, provide a comprehensive picture of the necessary solution options, and illustrate the importance of extensions in a constantly evolving IT environment with practical examples.

The need and importance of customization: Tailor Microsoft M365 Copilot to your business needs.

Low-Code Revolution: Simplifies the creation of extension and AI assistants for everyone.

Review of Copilot Studio Extensions: What Are They and Why Do They Matter? Explore extensions through practical examples.



Copilot extensions & their possibilities

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In 2019, shortly after presenting at this community event in Helsinki I suffered a major life event in the form of a heart attack. This resulted in me having major heart surgery and taking 3 months out before I returned to the workforce and the community.

Since my return to work I recognised that all of the blame for my event lay solely at my feet. The lifestyle I chose and how I managed my workload played a huge role in what happened. Whilst I've made a lot of changes in my personal life around health and fitness, I've also made a number of changes in how I work with technology to help assist the work life balance.

In this session, we'll look at how tools across the Microsoft 365 suite can be used alongside a bit of willpower to make positive changes in both yours and your colleagues behaviours to help ensure a healthy balance between your work and personal lives. Examining tools like Viva Insights, To Do, power Automate and the Microsoft Mobile Apps, I'll talk you through some of the ways I've made life changing changes to my work styles using the tools available to me in M365, coupled with some healthy education of my co-workers.

Making positive change in your work habits with M365 tools

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In this session, I will showcase how we leveraged the power of the Azure OpenAI service to craft engaging social media posts, tailored specifically to the submitted speaker sessions for CollabDays Finland 2024. Our goal was to highlight each speaker’s unique contribution while maintaining a cohesive and appealing social media presence for the event.

One key aspect of our approach was ensuring that each speaker had a say in how their session was represented. To achieve this, we utilized the App Power Forms connector, allowing speakers to review and provide input on the generated content. This collaborative process not only fostered inclusivity but also ensured that every post truly reflected the speaker’s voice.

Join this sponsor session to discover how these tools were integrated into our workflow and see the them in action. Whether you’re interested in AI-driven content creation or including external stakeholders to your business processes, this session has valuable insights for you!

Using Azure OpenAI and App Power Forms to create and collaborate on social media posts

In this session, Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (Data Platform MVP) and Doctor Flow (Serge Luca- Business Application MVP) will illustrate their proposal for a unified pragmatic Power Platform governance and adoption plan combining Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI. 
Even though Power BI and the Power Platform app creation tools differ, the governance and adoption challenges remain the same.
Conceptually, when it comes to self-service BI and citizen developers, the classical centralized governance approach does not fit the needs of flexibility required by the business.
The presenters will detail the benefit of having a single polymorphic approach where the concrete associated actions can be product-specific.
Many elements of this governance have been experimented on in the field by Isabelle during the last eight years for Power BI and the previous seven years for Power Automate and Power Apps by Doctor Flow.
Many use cases will illustrate this session to be aligned with real-world requirements.


Unified Power Platform Governance - lessons learned after seven years

Microsoft 365 lets you work with external users in different apps and services. But managing these users can be hard, especially if you want to comply with your security and governance policies. In this session, you will see how to set up and control guest and external access in Microsoft 365. You will find out how to automate and track guest and external access scenarios, such as adding, deleting, or changing guests, applying conditional access and multi-factor authentication, and auditing guest actions and permissions. You will also learn how to fix common problems and how to use the newest features and updates for guest and external access.
