Joel Oleson
Senior IT Manager @ Sony Interactive, PlayStation
San Diego, California, United States
Joel is all about the empowerment of Technology. His passions are Travel and Philanthropy. A seasoned IT and Marketing professional, with over 20 years in the high tech industry, Joel was the first Full Time Microsoft SharePoint Admin and Architect for first edition of Microsoft 365. He is recognized as a top industry expert and community leader. Awarded many times with Microsoft Ship it, Microsoft MVP and Regional Director. He and has a lasting legacy with 10+ years across Microsoft campus in Microsoft IT, Office Server Marketing, and Slate.com.
He is one of the world's most traveled people having visited over 200 countries. His travels have been featured on the Discovery Channel, NBC, National Geographic and over 30 million views to across his YouTube and Tiktok channels.
He is inspired to help others and inspire others to do the same, his passion for philanthropy has touched many lives including feeding families, helping kids with school fees and supplies in Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, Mexico, and youth in South Sudan. He hopes to organize more efforts to improve the condition of the world’s children with access to schools and reduce suffering and poverty.
He is currently working at Sony PlayStation as Senior IT Manager for Enterprise Productivity.
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Teams for Events
Microsoft continues to add new and advanced features in Microsoft Teams. Hey even this event is run on Teams. In this session we'll dig into the logistics of running a large scale event including a case study on the recent Career Fair and the past M365 Virtual Marathon.
Securing M365 with Purview Information Protection Case Study
Lessons learned from a practical deployment of Microsoft Purview Information Protection. Why we did it, How we did it… What went well… and What we learned and What’s next… along with Demo’s in a test tenant.
Evolution of Employee Experience Microsoft 365
Employee engagement isn’t just intranets and links and email. The employee experience platform has evolved. In this session we’ll walk through the journey from SharePoint and Exchange to Teams and Viva.
Introducing Microsoft Viva Connections
Viva Connections is your gateway to a modern employee experience - are you ready to inform, engage and empower your organization? Join us as we show you how Viva Connections provides a curated, personalized and company-branded experience that centralizes relevant news and conversations. Deploy easily as it's fully integrated in the apps and devices your teams already use every day, like Microsoft Teams. Discover how you can shape culture and foster communication to help your teams thrive.
Microsoft Teams as an Application Platform
Teams is the Hub for Modern Teamwork. Communication, Collaboration and the Application Platform come together in a single interface. In this session we'll explore how teams has changed the way we work as well as look at enterprise and personal productivity in Microsoft Teams with a number of applications.