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In this engaging session, we'll explore the exciting extensibility options for Microsoft Copilot within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Delegates will gain an in-depth understanding of how these extensibility features can dramatically enhance coding workflows and productivity.

A comprehensive overview of what extensibility options are available for Microsoft Copilot in the context of Microsoft 365.
Demonstrations showcase real-world applications of these extensions, providing attendees with practical knowledge of their use cases.

Exploring the Benefits and Features of Microsoft Copilot Extensions for Microsoft 365

Microsoft Fabric is a unified platform that can meet your organization's data and analytics needs. Discover the capabilities Fabric has to offer, understand how it works, and how to use it.

Join in on a half-day workshop to get hands-on experience in working with Microsoft Fabric and enabling it for your organization. 

Prerequisites:
Understanding of basic data concepts and terminology.
Power BI Pro (trial) or Microsoft Fabric (trial).
Windows Laptop with access to browse public internet and install apps.

Fabric in a Half-Day

This session will provide you with the knowledge that you need to quickly become productive using Power BI.

You will be introduced to:
- Power BI licensing
- Power BI Components
- Using the Power BI Desktop app
- Using the Power BI Service
- How to create reports and dashboards
- Learning Resources

Don't have a Power BI license? You can start using Power BI for free!

Attend this demo-rich session and get started with Power BI!

Beginners Guide to Power BI Workshop

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Are you still storing company app data in SQL Server? You should consider Microsoft Dataverse. It might be a better option for many of your no-code/ low-code apps. Other organizations are already using Dataverse and leveraging all of the Power Platform. Designed to be a secure, no-code/ low-code data storage offering, Microsoft intends for it to help increase return on investment (ROI), better scale your in-house applications, and promote innovation. Let’s explore jumpstarting your team's productivity with Microsoft Dataverse.

Dataverse: Everything, Everywhere, Here and There

As Microsoft continues to evolve its Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications, many IT leaders and security leaders are left determining how to manage these platforms from a security perspective. In this session, we will cover the best tips and practices when administrating security across the Microsoft application stack. 

Microsoft Business Applications Security Best Practices

This session will showcase the "E&S Power Apps App," designed to help organizations embed a sustainability culture within their teams. Learn how the Environmental & Social (E&S) team can utilize this digital platform to simplify and enhance sustainability actions, making it easier for employees to participate in and contribute to their company's sustainability goals. The app includes features like success story sharing, direct links to resources, carbon reduction idea submissions, and interactive quizzes with monthly prizes, all aimed at fostering a deeper commitment to sustainability.

Embedding Sustainability Culture Using E&S Power Apps

There's an app for that .. and it better have AI.  Users today expect apps to have AI features.  Traditionally, AI has involved lots of expensive hardware and specialized knowledge.  But with Azure AI Services, anyone can add AI to any application.  Attendees of this session will see how to use simple and cost effective REST APIs to perform common AI tasks like sentiment analysis, computer vision and natural language processing.  It will also cover how to create bots using code and visual tools.  You don't have to get a degree to add AI to your app, you can let Azure AI Services do the hard stuff.

AI for Everyone with Azure AI Services

If you want to start creating Power Automate Cloud Flows and have little to no experience, this session is for you!

Here's what you'll learn:
* What are Power Automate Cloud Flows and why you should care
* Types of Cloud Flows
* How to create Flows from a template or from scratch
* How to debug your Flows
* And more…

Along the way, we'll leverage Power Automate Copilot to assist in creating and updating our Flows!

All concepts will be presented using live demos.

Attend this session and gain the skills that you need to star creating Power Automate Cloud Flows today!

Getting Started with Power Automate Cloud Flows (Copilot can help!)

Explore the Microsoft 365 suite through the lens of nonprofit organizations at different levels of maturity. In this session, discover how to move past resource constraints by harnessing free technology resources to improve inefficient processes (like contract management), enhance internal communication and collaboration across departments and shifts (through intranet development), and increase productivity (with a seamless cross-functional action item tracker). 
 
During the session, we will demo: 
-Branded intranet seamlessly connected to Microsoft Teams 
-Scalable enterprise information architecture to support communication & collaboration needs 
-Custom search experiences to surface the right information, at the right time 
-Business processes to support common tasks like timesheet tracking 
 
We will share practical insights, guiding you through the steps needed to implement these solutions in your environment, and a litany of cost-free resources that can empower your journey using Microsoft 365 to increase your organization's productivity, communication, and collaboration. 

Implementing Microsoft 365 for Small Businesses and Nonprofits

Do you ever wonder what your Microsoft Team members are thinking or what their thoughts are on a specific topic or initiative? Microsoft Forms is a powerful and versatile tool that allows you to create surveys, quizzes, and polls that can be responded to by your Team members which allows you to view real-time responses from your participants. These results can then be exported to an Excel spreadsheet for additional analysis, and to generate some neat visual charts or graphs using Power BI.

In this session we are going to introduce and discuss the different types of uses for Forms, how to create a form on a Microsoft Teams channel, explore the configuration options for these forms, as well as how to export the results for use in other Microsoft products, like Power BI. 


Integrating Forms with Teams for Real-time Responses

In this session, I will show three common use cases for automation inside standard business processes, using Microsoft Teams, Power Automate and Dynamics 365. I will also explain how these use cases can be translated to connect to other accounting and ERP systems using PA along with additional steps you can utilize with SharePoint as well. 

Automating Standard Business Processes using Power Automate, Teams and Dynamics 365

Whenever a new developer starts on my team, I tell him to take a day off and learn Azure Entra ID and the identity platform. Think App registrations, client IDs, and secrets. If this sounds only vaguely familiar, join me; you don't need to take a day off. Let's start from the beginning and work our way into a deep dive. Learn how to protect the things you build in Azure. Learn all about enterprise applications, JWOT, authorization, and authentication. How do you quickly protect your app or API with Azure, or how do you set up complex scenarios in multitenant scenarios

Protecting your kingdom with the Azure Identity platform

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Unleashing Copilot and AI apps in Microsoft 365 can have fantastic benefits for your organization, but it's critical that you have core capabilities in your data management to be confident that your users are getting secure, relevant results. This session equips you with a 3-step framework to prepare, secure, and optimize your valuable Microsoft 365 data in preparation for Copilot, allowing you to unlock the full potential of this powerful AI tool and ensure responsible data utilization within your organization.

Unlock AI Potential: Prepare and Enable your Data for Copilot

Are you a Power BI developer? Have you heard about Microsoft Fabric? What are all of these new "Data" experiences - Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Warehousing, oh my and other items such as Data Activator and Real-Time Analytics? Wow! Where did Power BI go?

In this session we will go under the covers and unravel the Microsoft Fabric to help educate Power BI developers on the new capabilities available and provide some guidance on how to get started and skilled up on using these new experiences which will include Lakehouse, Dataflows Gen2, Data Pipelines, and Direct Lake mode for Power BI.

Come and learn about Microsoft Fabric and looking forward to answering any questions you might have as well as hear your feedback!

Unraveling Microsoft Fabric for the Power BI User

In this session we will focus on the advancements in Copilot Studio compared to Power Virtual Agents(PVA), offering a guide to the latest features and improvements. While the trusted capabilities of PVA remain the same in Copilot studio, like topics and entities, we can now leverage the power of Generative AI to create our bot faster, better, and with less effort. Let's explore how AI has revolutionized bot functionality, providing a smarter, more efficient way to interact with users. Whether you're just starting with Copilot Studio or looking to upgrade your current Power Virtual Agent, this session will provide you with the insights needed to navigate the future of AI-integrated chatbots.

Navigating the Future: An Exploration of the Latest Features in Copilot Studio

We all start using business intelligence tools by using a single dataset, like a flat file. Then, we hit a plateau in our learning curve, or we add a second flat file into our BI product, and we get incorrect results. One reason is that we haven’t modeled our solution correctly.

In order to move to the next level of our journey along the BI learning curve, we need to understand how a tool like Power BI works. Only then will we understand why we design our data models the way we do.

In this session, we will review how tools like Power BI work under the covers and how that impacts the way we construct our data models. This is an introductory level course, so we will not get too technical, just enough to get us to the next level and moving back up that learning curve!

Data Modeling for Business Intelligence

Your business runs real-time with suppliers, customers and market trends changing around the clock, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Your workplace is increasingly relying on devices, sensors and signals from many sources. How can you gain real-time insights from your operations as they happen, react to opportunities as they present themselves...  

Fabric's Real-Time Intelligence allows your organization to Collect, Analyze and Act on events from Dynamics 365 and other business applications, signals from devices and sensors, Web logs from eCommerce applications and more. Create alerts that establish limits or ranges of acceptable values and take actions with Power Automate if a value exceeds once, or exceeds multiple times, or stays out of range for a defined window.​ 

See how your organization can create powerful low-code automations in Dynamics 365 and other business apps using the Power Platform with Fabric real-time analytics. 


Leverage Real-Time Intelligence and Power Automate to act promptly on your business apps and events.

You're probably hearing a lot about Microsoft Copilot these days, but has your organization started rolling it out yet?

In this session, join Nick Brattoli as he walks through how he has helped organizations go from zero to full adoption of Microsoft Copilot.

He'll talk about topics such as:

Performing assessing needs and performing a security review

Planning a pilot and creating a POC for a small group of users

Facilitating a broader roll-out

Planning for advanced capabilities that will require specialized knowledge

Lessons learned along the way

If your organization is thinking about adopting Copilot, or you just want to learn a little more about Copilot in real-world scenarios, this is the place to be!



How to Securely Drive Adoption of Microsoft Copilot within your Organization

The end goal of any investment in analytic solutions is business value. How then can this be maximized with Microsoft Fabric?

This session will walk you through a practical business case scenario that demonstrates how to make your Machine Learning model in Microsoft Fabric accessible to the business user so that more business value can be derived from your investment. 

I will walk you through how to consume a Machine Learning Model deployed in Microsoft Fabric with Power Platform Solutions.

We'll connect the bridges between the Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer and the Citizen Developers to facilitate collaboration between professionals using the Microsoft Fabric Workloads and Power Platform. 

This eye-opening session is suitable for beginners, intermediate, and professional skill levels.

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