Marcin Siewnicki
Microsoft 365 Consultant and Architect
Warsaw, Poland
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I am Microsoft 365 consultant and architect. I create applications and solutions that improve and facilitate work using Power Platform, SharePoint, and Teams.
My adventure in IT began in 2005. Since then I have been creating and implementing business applications based on SharePoint and Microsoft 365 platforms. I am a big fan of task and process automation (Power Automate) and Modern Workplace platforms (Microsoft Teams).
Privately a husband, father of 2 sons. Fan of science fiction and cyberpunk, futurist. I co-organize the SharePoint Saturday Warsaw conference and speak at Microsoft's community events.
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How to use Copilot in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft 365 Copilot offers many features and you can use it with multiple M365 tools and services. You can create an offer in Word, summarize e-mails, prepare tasks, and much more. But… the trick is to know how to create a good prompt and understand the limits and weaknesses of Copilot(s). Otherwise, you may be disappointed with the results, to say the least.
If you want to understand when the Copilot shines, discover its pros and cons, and want to to make it work for you join my sessions. It’s a demo-based session with real-life examples and scenarios.
In this session, I will show you:
- how to start working with Copilot in Teams
- how to use it during and after meetings
- best practices and tips & trick
Guide to Hosting Webinars in Microsoft Teams
Teams serves not only as a meeting tool, but also as a webinar platform. Initially, only basic scenario features were available, but over the past two years, Microsoft has added functions to cover more advanced scenarios. However, it was Teams Premium features that opened the way for hosting advanced webinars.
The approval process for registering users, green room, dedicated event page, co-organizers, sending reminder emails to registrants, and webinar wait-list, to say the least. With those features, you can prepare and host a professional webinar with all sharing and collaborating options that you know.
In this session, I will show you latest webinar features and answer the following questions:
- What's new for webinars in Teams Premium?
- How to prepare for a webinar?
- Is it worth buying additional licenses?
- When should you consider a different tool?
One Team to rule them all – Teams in project management
Project management is not a simple task. Multiple different tools, custom applications, internal and external team members, timesheets... is there a way to control this chaos? In this session, I will show you how to use Microsoft Teams as your main Project Management tool and simplify routine tasks.
This is a demo-based session. Come and check real-life examples of PM Teams and learn about the latest features that can help you in everyday tasks. Let’s transform Teams into the ultimate Project Management hub.
During the session, I will show you:
- step-by-step guidance on how to build a PM Team (with industry examples)
- examples of automating common tasks with Power Automate
- how to leverage the new Planner for task management
- examples of AI-powered features (Copilot and 3rd party)
How to secure Your Microsoft Teams meetings
We’ve come to rely on Teams meetings as a natural part of our everyday work routine. Whether we are working on a project with colleagues, talking with our client, or attending important presentations, Teams meetings have become an essential tool that we almost use automatically. But have you ever considered whether the data you share during these meetings is secure?
With so much sensitive information (project data, financial, plans, legal information) being shared regularly, it's important to ensure that your meeting data is protected. However, knowing where to start and what options are available can be overwhelming. In this session, I will take you through the main security features and I will show you:
• Default security options for a meeting
• How to build a security baseline
• Teams Premium features and how to use them
Build the Project HQ in Microsoft Teams
Project management isn't a simple task. We use many different tools and applications, invite Customers to a process, generate tons of documents, send tons of emails and… It’s easy to end up in chaos and poor performance. But can we do it better?
In this session I will show you to create Project HQ using Microsoft Teams. How to consume data from multiple sources, simplify communication channels, automate tasks, and use modern features to make it easy to be a PM or a project member.
Session plan:
• How to aggregate data from multiple sources (internal and external)
• How to simplify communication with project members and Customers
• Let’s Automate – use Power Platform to automate common project tasks
• Building report for a project
• Take project meetings to the next level with Teams app
Approvals in Microsoft Teams
Approvals play important role in documents life-cycle, projects, company processes, IT management and many other areas. It's really hard to imagine company without any approval process. Holiday requests, project proposals, agreements, IT requests and more.
With latest updates Microsoft Teams become powerful approval center.
In this session I will go through approval options available in Teams and show how to use them and when.
In details:
• Available approval options in Teams
• What is Approval app
• Integration with Teams
• Management options
• DEMOS
AI Builder 101
AI becomes an important part of applications and online services. You can also use it to enhance your Power Platform applications with AI Builder. It is a dedicated add-on that offers many AI models and features. All of them are designed as low-code/no-code solutions.
During the session, I’ll show you what is AI Builder, its main models, and its features. I’ll configure it for basic scenarios and implement them in Power App and Power Automate.
In details:
- quick overview of AI Builder
- models and features walk-through
- ideas and guidance on when to use it with working examples
- pros, cons, and licensing model
Marcin Siewnicki
Microsoft 365 Consultant and Architect
Warsaw, Poland
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