<div><div><h3>ABOUT COLLABDAYS SOUTH AFRICA</h3></div></div>
<div><div><div><p></p><blockquote><div>&nbsp;CollabDays is a free community-focused event dedicated to educating and engaging members of the local technical and business community.</div></blockquote><div></div><div>This event draws upon the expertise of local and international Microsoft professionals, developers and solutions architects and business users.</div><div></div><div>At CollabDays South Africa you will get the opportunity to learn about and share real-world experiences, lessons learned, best practices, and general knowledge with other like-minded individuals.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>This year, the event will cover three tracks: Business,&nbsp;power&nbsp;user and developer covering&nbsp;content from all levels, from introductory, 100-level content to highly technical, 400-level ‘expert’ sessions. So whether you are a developer, IT professional, or business user, CollabDays South Africa offers a unique opportunity to enhance your skills and stay up-to-date with the latest industry developments.</div></div></div></div>

CollabDays Durban

CPT Main Room

CPT Session Room 1

CPT Session Room 2

JHB Main Stage

JHB Breakout

DBN Session Room 1

DBN Session Room 2

Meal

Time for sponsors to provide prizes to attendees, thank everyone for being there, and have time for networking drinks.

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We want everyone in the company to have access to AI requests, but we don't use Co-Pilot.  How can we set up Azure Open AI to access company data and present it to us in the easiest fashion.  The talk will look at the use of Azure Search, Open AI and the Power Platform to provide the solution.

Intelligence without Copilot

Revolutionizing Business with AI: The Power of Co-Pilot Studio and PowerPlatform, will explore how these advanced technologies can be leveraged across various business functions to enhance efficiency and innovation. From automating routine tasks to generating predictive insights and fostering more engaging employee experiences, the integration of AI stands to transform the entire business landscape. This comprehensive approach will showcase the potential of AI to revolutionize not just HR, but also operations, customer service, and strategic planning, among others.

Revolutionizing Business with AI: The Power of Co-Pilot Studio and PowerPlatform

I would like to chat around the maturity model of the typical corporate app. Since the release of office 365 - the ability to create automations has driven many ideas into fruition. I would like to chat through the typical lifecycle beginning at the excel workbook that most end users have and cannot live without - to how to transition to a power app | power automate | to a custom page | to an hybrid hosted azure web services with SharePoint | to a full blow azure hyperscale container.

From Excel to Azure - The Journey of a line of Code

Strategies for getting and keeping your SharePoint and Teams data in the shape it needs to be for Copilot to add maximum value. 

Copilot readiness: Using AI to prepare your tenant for AI

Think compliance is dull? You might not realize its potential or where to begin. Let me show you why Purview is a tool we need to set up today, not a year from now. We're going to dive into who benefits from Purview, the necessity of its use, the essentials of safeguarding your company's data, and the ideal basic configurations needed.

The Oh Not So Boring World of Compliance

Prompt engineering methods to hit the ground running with PowerBI

AI insights : Power BI and Copilot

Explore the AI-powered capabilities of AI Builder with the Power Platform!

AI Builder is a feature of the Microsoft Power Platform that offers AI models that are designed to enhance your business processes. You can create custom models that suit your needs or select a prebuilt model that is ready to use for many common business scenarios across documentation, vision, prediction, and language.

And now with the addition of GPT powered AI Prompts, you can build custom generative AI capabilities in the Power Platform with AI Builder’s Prompt Builder.

Join me as I demonstrate how to easily add intelligence to your Power Platform solutions with AI Builder by choosing an AI model type, connecting your own data, customizing your model to your business needs, training your model and applying insights from your model across the Power Platform!

Get Started with AI Prompts and AI Builder in the Power Platform

Come join me as I show you how to enhance your SharePoint Online solution by collaborating formally with external users in a secure, well-governed environment. 
In this session I will take you through the process of defining the security model for the site, locking down the lookup, list and library items for the external users as well as the onboarding of external users.
All of the above done with PowerShell!

Secure Collaboration with External Users on a SharePoint solution

Generative AI, among other branches of AI, shifts the paradigm from one-way communication (monologue) to dynamic, context-aware exchanges (intelligent dialogue). Traditionally, content consumption was passive, users received information without active participation. With GenAI, content becomes a conversation, adapting to user queries, preferences, and context.

CREATING CONTEXTUAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CONTENT AND DATA

Ready to supercharge your business with a dash of innovation and a sprinkle of automation? Join us for an electrifying session where we dive into the dynamic duo of Microsoft Dynamics and Copilot. 

Imagine your business as a high-flying aircraft, soaring through the skies of success. In this scenario, Microsoft Dynamics is your skilled pilot, expertly navigating through complex business landscapes. But even the best pilots need a trusty copilot by their side. Enter Copilot—your reliable partner, always ready to assist, optimize, and ensure a smooth flight.

Innovate and Automate: Microsoft Dynamics and Copilot in Action

Showcasing the power of Copilot for M365 in the Microsoft apps we use today like MS Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Unlocking real world examples with your very own AI Companion.

Unlocking Productivity with Gen AI in the Modern Workplace

This session will focus on how organizations can achieve protecting their customer's data by using Responsible AI practices that protect the PII and sensitive features in their dataset, such as data masking, secure and compliant data storage and access, fairness and accuracy monitoring, and transparent and respectful communication.

Protect PII information with Azure AI in your Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse

To fully realise the potential of the Power Platform in an organisation, a strategy is essential to governing and maintaining the scalability of the platform adequately. Copilot and other AI technologies are fast on the rise and should be included in the strategy.

Incorporating AI into your Power Platform Strategy

The Power of the Power Platform can be extended using more coded solutions that lend themselves to better performance and more efficient processing which enables seamless user experience. 

Extending the Power Platform Using Coded Solutions

This presentation, titled "Fortify your 365 Kingdom," focuses on key strategies to enhance the security of your Microsoft 365 environment. It covers advanced email protection with Microsoft Defender, best practices for managing admin roles, configuring conditional access policies, and leveraging the Microsoft 365 Security Score to strengthen your organization’s security posture. Through practical insights and actionable steps, this presentation aims to help you protect your digital assets in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.

Fortify your 365 Kingdom

Configuration Drift, Cost Overruns, Security loopholes, can greatly hinder cloud transformation projects. Building cloud platforms to support operational models, meet security standards and support agile application deployments can be an achievable North Star. Landing Zones to support AI Workloads can also greatly accelerate AI projects and enforce internal and external compliance.

Building Autonomous Landing Zones for Cloud - (inclusive for AI Workloads)

Picture this: it's a perfect day on the Golden Mile the sun is shining, waves rolling, maybe a hot coffee in hand as you soak it all in. Now, imagine the same scene, but instead of catching real waves, you're riding the digital ones. Welcome to "Surfing the Digital Waves."

Durban’s got it all...beaches, vibes, and, believe it or not, huge potential for digital growth. So, are we ready to ride the tech revolution? This talk is all about showing how the right digital tools can make your business run smoother than a perfect surf session, minus the sand in awkward places (though, let's be real, some sand's unavoidable).

We’ll dive into tech trends and automation that let you cut down on the boring stuff, freeing you up for the things that matter. Like hitting the beach, spending time with family, or just chilling. Whether you're running a café or building a startup, this talk will show you how to harness technology without losing Durban’s laid-back spirit.

Expect laughs, local flavors, and plenty of surf metaphors. So, grab your (metaphorical) board and get ready for a lekker ride through the digital waves. Durban style.

Automate the boring, Power Up the Fun 

Unlock the full potential of SharePoint lists by transforming them into dynamic, user-friendly experiences with advanced customization techniques. In this session, we’ll explore how to use JSON to tailor list views, forms, and column formatting, creating visually engaging and functional interfaces that enhance productivity. Whether you're looking to highlight key data, streamline user input, or improve overall list usability, this session will provide practical, step-by-step guidance on how to achieve these goals with a little bit of code. Join us to discover how JSON can bring your SharePoint lists to life and take your customization skills to the next level.

Transforming SharePoint Lists with JSON

Welcome to Collabdays, introduction to speakers, thanks to sponsors and highlight the agenda.  Talk about where to get food, where the sessions are and when the giveaways will happen.

Cape Town Welcome

Welcome to Collabdays, introduction to speakers, thanks to sponsors and highlight the agenda. Talk about where to get food, where the sessions are and when the giveaways will happen.

Welcome Durban

Building intelligent and powerful copilots for your customers and employees has never been easier.

Microsoft Copilot Studio is an end-to-end conversational AI platform that lets you create and customize powerful AI-powered copilots using natural language or a graphical interface for a range of requests—from providing simple answers to common questions to resolving issues requiring complex multi-turn conversations.

This session will cover how you can use Copilot Studio to extend Microsoft copilots, build your own copilot leveraging functionality such as Generative Answers to surface information from any number of data sources. AI-based topic authoring to create workflows and publishing custom plugins and prompts to surface your business data where you need it.

Join me and discover how Copilot Studio can help you transform your business, increase your agent productivity, and reduce your development costs.

Enhance copilot development with Microsoft Copilot Studio

The analytics landscape for data focused application developers is changing fast. With AI, Real-time analytics, data sources growing exponentially and new tools available daily. In Microsoft Fabric, data, AI, BI and application development professionals have an integrated platform enabling data source unification, simplified yet feature rich user experience as well as security and governance built in. Join us to learn and see the latest announcements for Build and what the future holds.

Microsoft Fabric: What's new and what's next

Being able to make data driven decisions and act on real-time data is important to organizations because it enables them to either avert crisis in systems that monitor product health and take other actions based on their requirements. For example, a shipping company may want to monitor their packages and act in real-time when the temperature of the packages becomes too hot. One way of monitoring and acting on data is to use Data Activator, which is a no-code experience in Microsoft Fabric for taking action automatically when the condition of the package temperature is detected in the data.

Act on Real-Time Data using Custom Action with Data Activator

We want everyone in the company to have access to AI requests, but we don't use Co-Pilot. How can we set up Azure Open AI to access company data and present it to us in the easiest fashion. The talk will look at the use of Azure Search, Open AI and the Power Platform to provide the solution.


Intelligence without Copilot - JHB

Revolutionizing Business with AI: The Power of Co-Pilot Studio and PowerPlatform, will explore how these advanced technologies can be leveraged across various business functions to enhance efficiency and innovation. From automating routine tasks to generating predictive insights and fostering more engaging employee experiences, the integration of AI stands to transform the entire business landscape. This comprehensive approach will showcase the potential of AI to revolutionize not just HR, but also operations, customer service, and strategic planning, among others.


Revolutionizing Business with AI: The Power of Co-Pilot Studio and PowerPlatform - JHB 

Ready to supercharge your business with a dash of innovation and a sprinkle of automation? Join us for an electrifying session where we dive into the dynamic duo of Microsoft Dynamics and Copilot.

Imagine your business as a high-flying aircraft, soaring through the skies of success. In this scenario, Microsoft Dynamics is your skilled pilot, expertly navigating through complex business landscapes. But even the best pilots need a trusty copilot by their side. Enter Copilot—your reliable partner, always ready to assist, optimize, and ensure a smooth flight.

JHB - Innovate and Automate: Microsoft Dynamics and Copilot in Action

Welcome to Collabdays, introduction to speakers, thanks to sponsors and highlight the agenda. Talk about where to get food, where the sessions are and when the giveaways will happen.


Johannesburg Welcome

This session will focus on how organizations can achieve protecting their customer's data by using Responsible AI practices that protect the PII and sensitive features in their dataset, such as data masking, secure and compliant data storage and access, fairness and accuracy monitoring, and transparent and respectful communication.


Protect PII information with Azure AI in your Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse - JHB 

Prompt engineering methods to hit the ground running with PowerBI


AI insights : Power BI and Copilot - JHB

We want everyone in the company to have access to AI requests, but we don't use Co-Pilot. How can we set up Azure Open AI to access company data and present it to us in the easiest fashion. The talk will look at the use of Azure Search, Open AI and ...


DBN - Intelligence without Copilot

Protect PII information with Azure AI in your Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse - DBN

This presentation, titled "Fortify your 365 Kingdom," focuses on key strategies to enhance the security of your Microsoft 365 environment. It covers advanced email protection with Microsoft Defender, best practices for managing admin roles, configuring conditional access policies, and leveraging the Microsoft 365 Security Score to strengthen your organization’s security posture. Through practical insights and actionable steps, this presentation aims to help you protect your digital assets in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.


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