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Knoxville M365 Community Day - Spring 2024
event starts
29 Feb 2024
event ends
1 Mar 2024
location
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Knoxville M365 Community Day
This day is for Microsoft 365 and SharePoint administrators, Power Platform creators, security professionals, business users, architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft and cloud technologies.
This will be a 1 or 2 day event depending on the number of workshops.
finished 242 days ago
Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM
01 Nov 2023
Call closes at 11:59 PM
17 Dec 2023
Call closes in Eastern Standard Time (UTC-05:00) timezone.
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Thank you for your interest in presenting at Microsoft Community Day Knoxville (#M365Knoxville)! We are planning an filled with fun, education, socializing, and a few other surprises that are sure to make M365Knoxville an event to remember!
* This is an in-person event.
Speaker submissions are due no later than Dec 17, 2023 at 11:59 EST.
What Kind of Sessions Do We Need?
Track Examples:
- Collaboration and Apps: SharePoint, Teams, Viva, Intranet, Forms, Snytex...
- Security and Administration: Purview, Intune, Defender and Sentinel....
- Power Platform: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents...
- Business Intelligence: Power BI, Fabric, Synapse, and other business intelligence topics...
- Azure | AI
- Professional Development
Professional Development sessions and panel or group sessions giving attendees the opportunity to interact with presenters. Technical presentations showing code examples and demos are always great, but we’re often asked for sessions targeted at end-users and business decision makers which help them learn how to use Microsoft 365 in creative ways, how things work (and don’t work), and whatever else they need to know to get the most out of Microsoft 365 within their organization. Sessions like “How [My Company] Solved [Something] Using SharePoint” tend to be very popular.
About the event
This is our 2nd event! Find more information here - visit knoxvillem365.com for more information about our community and our previous event.
How Much Time Will I Have to Present?
- Session (50mins including Q&A) – On a range of different technologies, practices and methodologies.
- Workshops – Presentation, technical demonstration or discussion, all with an interactive element for participants
- Lightening Sessions (15min) - designed for speakers to give a quickfire view of a particular subject
- Birds of a Feather / BOF (15min) - Informal sessions that give a chance for like-minded attendees to gather and discuss tools, topics and technologies in a relaxed setting. Without fixed presentation or agenda.
How Can I Improve My Chances of Being Selected?
First and foremost, think of your audience. You are writing your session titles and abstracts for the event attendees not for the people picking sessions. What you enter on the speaker submission form will be the exact text included on the printed program and schedule.
Submit more than one session! Even the best speakers might not be selected if they submit only one or two sessions. Between limitations in tracks and schedule, there are many good sessions that we simply cannot accept.
Important notes
- Speakers and sponsors are distinctly different. All sponsorships require a signed sponsor agreement. We love speakers and sponsors - custom options are available if a package doesn't work.
- No vendor sessions. Many of our speakers sell products or services in the same area they’re speaking about. Abstracts focused on promoting or selling product or services will not be selected.
When is the Latest I Can Submit a Session?
#M365Knoxville 2023 Call for Speakers will close on Dec 17, 2023 at 11:59 EST.
event fee
free for speakers