Maarten Eekels
CTO Rapid Circle & Microsoft MVP + Regional Director
Breda, The Netherlands
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Maarten Eekels (@maarteneekels) is Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Regional Director, and CTO of Rapid Circle, one of the larger Microsoft Cloud implementation partners in the Netherlands. Maarten is an experienced Microsoft Cloud and Security advocate and already since 2003 he is involved in implementing Microsoft technologies. Besides that, Maarten is mentoring start-ups and helping founders and leaders break through glass ceilings for growing their business and helping avoid certain pitfalls. Also, Maarten is a regular speaker on both national and international events, like conferences, community events and user group meetings. In his personal life, Maarten is a passionate cyclist and certified wine sommelier.
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Microsoft 365 Sensitivity Labels Deep Dive
Sensitivity Labels in Microsoft 365 exist for a while now, and now that Microsoft has announced the retirement of its predecessor Azure Information Protection in April 2024, it’s time to fully understand the capabilities of the Microsoft 365 Information Protection features with Sensitivity Labels.
In this session, we will start simple, with protecting emails and files by manually applying a label. But we will switch gears rapidly and we will dive into automatic labelling, applying labels to meetings, to teams in Microsoft Teams and even to assets in Azure SQL. And then we take it even one step further, how you can use your own trainable classifiers to automatically apply labels, and how labels can help you in your DLP policies.
Everything you need to know about Sensitivity Labels in one session!
How Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability can help you with your CSRD needs
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is a sweeping set of requirements for companies within its scope to provide a range of non-financial public disclosures on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topics. The CSRD rules will roll out in phases between 2024 and 2028, based on for example company size. But even before your organisation must comply, it is advised to look at the directive and adopt more sustainable practices.
In this session, I will explain what impact the CSRD has on organisations, how organisations can benefit from adopting stronger sustainability practices, and how Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability can support you in that journey. We will have a look at the Emissions Impact Dashboards, how these dashboards can help you track direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions, and how Microsoft calculates your carbon footprint.
We will talk about monitoring and managing your organisation’s environmental impact with Microsoft Sustainability Manager and the CSRD template that Microsoft has released in Purview Compliance Manager.
Microsoft 365 Copilot and the content “discoverability” challenge
Overexposure of content and Copilot using confidential content to craft answers in the conversations with users is a real threat to the adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot. In this session, I will describe your options to deal with the “content discoverability challenge” in Microsoft 365. And there's quite a few options available to you. We will talk about restricting search, restricting content discovery, SharePoint Advanced Management options and sensitivity labels. The goal of this session is to give you strategies to enhance your organisation's security posture while leveraging the powerful capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Everyone has a responsibility to drive AI by ethical principles
Artificial intelligence (AI) is here, and it is here to stay. Already, we can see AI everywhere around us. Recommendations on Netflix and Amazon, digital assistants on websites and on your mobile phone, and boarding airplanes with face recognition instead of boarding passes. Just a few examples of what I have personally seen. However, AI also poses ethical risks, such as bias, discrimination, privacy violations, or harm to human dignity and rights. Or what about deep fakes, voice cloning, fake images, etc. We have all seen those examples. Therefore, it is crucial that everyone who develops, deploys, or uses AI acts with responsibility and accountability, ensuring that AI is aligned with human values and principles.
In this keynote, I will discuss why everyone has a responsibility to drive AI by ethical principles and what are some of the key ethical principles and frameworks for AI. I will also share some examples and best practices of how you can embed ethics into your own AI products and services. Finally, this session will demonstrate many examples of AI gone “wrong”, because we need to laugh and learn too.
Microsoft Stream on SharePoint unwrapped
Video is becoming more and more important in our daily lives. In the past 30 days, more online video content has been uploaded to the web than the past 30 years of TV content has been created. Microsoft has had a vision where video would play an important role in any organisation for a long time. It started with Office 365 Video, then Microsoft Stream was launched, and nowadays we already call that Stream classic and “Stream on SharePoint” is the new thing.
In this session we will unwrap what Stream on SharePoint has to offer. How does it work, both technically and functionally, and how can you use Stream to create, share, discover, and manage video just as you would any other file? Also, we will build a video portal site from the ground up, leveraging SharePoint’s awesome content management features and we’ll use Viva Connections to publish that portal to Microsoft Teams.
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Maarten Eekels
CTO Rapid Circle & Microsoft MVP + Regional Director
Breda, The Netherlands
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