Sari Soinoja
Leading modern work specialist & Microsoft MVP
Helsinki, Finland
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Sari is a passionate and experienced Leading specialist at The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, in Finland. The topics Sari could speak for hours include modern work, Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, how to utilize the full potential of the M365 tools, document management, metadata and the use of AI in M365. She's also a SharePoint Microsoft MVP.
Sari's experience in both product development and wide range of customer projects ensures her understanding of the challenges customers face from a business perspective and allows her to share insights in technical possibilities and boundaries of the products involved in solving these challenges. Sari is keen on sharing her knowledge and during the past 9 years she has held open events, trainings, and webinars of the whole wide range of M365 for the public.
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Streamline communications with Viva Amplify
- Do you want to reach more employees with your campaigns and inspire them to take action?
- Do you struggle with creating engaging content for different channels and managing approvals?
- Do you wish you had a better way to measure the impact of your communications?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you need Viva Amplify, the app from Microsoft that helps you create and manage campaigns to inform and engage employees.
In this session, you will learn how to:
- Use Viva Amplify to plan, write, review, and post messages for Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and more from one place.
- Save time and effort by automatically reformatting your content for different channels and publishing to multiple apps at once.
- Understand how your employees react to your messages with sentiment analysis and metrics.
- Collaborate with your team and get feedback from approvers with chat and workflows.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn how Viva Amplify can help you make your messages matter.
SharePoint is a full-blooded document management system - and I can prove it!
I have been doing document management with SharePoint for the past 7 years now, and from time to time I still hear that SharePoint is not a document management system. I fully disagree! In this session, I will share my insights about 8 killer features that make SharePoint a valid document management system. Demos included!
The following document management topics are included:
• Microsoft Syntex & metadata
• Document numbering
• Commenting
• Version history and revisions
• Approvals
• External sharing
• Search
• Security & labelling
SAM to the rescue: saving your neck during Copilot adoption
Ever felt like your Copilot needs a trusty sidekick? Enter SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) – the superhero your organization needs to make the best of using Copilot! Join me to explore how SAM swoops in to save the day, ensuring your Copilot adoption journey is smooth, secure, and super effective.
Key Takeaways:
• Meet SAM and discover its amazing powers, from boosting security to keeping compliance in check.
• Dynamic Duo – SAM and Copilot: Learn how SAM teams up with Copilot to streamline deployment and management, making your AI experience seamless and productive.
• Heroic Best Practices: Get the inside scoop on maintaining and optimizing your SharePoint environment with SAM, ensuring your organization stays ahead of the curve.
• Licensing updates – SAM's new superpowers: Get to know about the new licensing model that is rolling out in January.
Whether you're just starting your SharePoint journey or looking to find new ways to make Copilot better, this session will arm you with the tools and tips you need to transform Copilot and SAM into your ultimate dynamic duo. Don't miss out on this opportunity to become the SharePoint superhero your organization needs!
Modern ways of teamwork in Teams - Best practices and tips
Are you looking for ways to improve your team's collaboration and productivity in the era of remote and hybrid work? Do you want to learn how to leverage the power of Microsoft Teams to create a more connected, engaged and efficient team? If so, join me for this session where we will explore the modern ways of teamwork in Microsoft Teams.
You will discover the best practices of using Teams in teamwork, such as
• How to organize your chat and channels,
• How to use Viva Pulse to measure and improve your team's wellbeing,
• How to use Updates app to keep everyone informed and aligned,
• How to use Loop components to co-create and co-edit content in real time,
• How to run effective team weekly meetings with interactive features.
You will also learn about other tools and tips that can enhance your team's everyday worklife and make it more fun and rewarding.
This session is designed for supervisors and team leads who want to empower their teams to work smarter and happier with Microsoft Teams. Whether your team is fully remote, hybrid or in the office, you will find valuable insights and practical guidance on how to make the most of Teams in teamwork. Don't miss this opportunity to take your team to the next level with Microsoft Teams!
Join here: https://teamsbuzz.com/room3
Hidden gems of SharePoint Premium
SharePoint Premium (ex Microsoft Syntex) is well-known for its AI document processing features, but are you familiar with the other cool features SharePoint Premium offers? You can ease your document management with multiple features like content assembly, PDF modifying features, and eSignature.
Come and join me in this demo-packed session where I showcase the lesser-known features of SharePoint Premium and lay out the examples where you can use them:
How content assembly streamlines the creation of complex documents.
How PDF modification features save time and improve collaboration.
How eSignatures enhance document approval workflows.
How to automatically add metadata and tags to your pictures to improve their findability.
And a bunch of other useful features!
You'll leave this session with practical tips for maximizing productivity using SharePoint Premium and inspiration for leveraging it creatively within your organization.
Harnessing M365 and AI for productivity, wellbeing, and digital debt reduction
According to the Work Trend Index studies, 64% of people struggle with the overwhelming inflow of data, emails, meetings, and notifications, leaving them with limited time and energy to do their jobs. The lack of innovation and breakthrough ideas is a growing concern for leaders in today's fast-paced digital landscape. How can the digital tools in M365 help us to reduce the digital debt, the inflow of data, emails, meetings, and notifications? Is AI going to save us all or do we still need to do something ourselves?
In this session, we will go through the digital tools in M365 that can help you with managing your workload, improving productivity, and reducing digital debt. We will explore the features and functionalities through demos and real life examples in Teams, Viva Insights, Outlook and To Do, and take a look on how Microsoft Copilot can automate repetitive tasks, provide intelligent suggestions, and streamline workflows, ultimately freeing up valuable time and mental energy.
From this session, you will gain insights, practical tips, and real-life examples how to navigate the information overflow challenges as a knowledge worker, optimize your productivity, and foster a healthier and more innovative digital work environment.
Fireside Chat with Two Recovering Consultants
Join us for a lively and insightful fireside chat featuring two modern work professionals and MVPs who will share their journeys from a consultancy career to transitioning into in-house roles within customer organizations.
We will explore the differences we've observed between working as consultants and as internal resources, offering personal reflections on our experiences and sharing our career stories. Additionally, we'll discuss how Microsoft's marketing strategies and social media trends influence the work and priorities of consultants and customers alike. We also reveal what we wish we had known as consultants when selling and delivering services to customers - and vice versa.
This session promises to be a thought-provoking, fun, and shameless discussion filled with personal anecdotes and practical advice. Hopefully, it will provide a deeper understanding of the different dynamics between the consultancy and customer worlds. Whether you're a consultant, a customer, contemplating a career change, or just interested in two recovering consultants babbling away, this session is for you.
Dos and don'ts when transforming your intranet to this decade
Many organisations consider their intranet to be still fresh, if it's renewed within five years. But if you look at how much communications technology and ways of working have changed during the last five years, you may want to re-evaluate the status of your intranet as well.
If 5 years ago, the basic building blocks of an intranet were IT department as the project lead, on-prem SharePoint, stock price as an RSS feed on the front page and lunch list, what are the new ones? In the modern M365 world, things are a bit different.
In this session, I will present top 5 topics that cause debate on the customer project groups and what kind of solutions we have found for them. Demos included!
SharePoint is a full-blooded document management system - and I can prove it!
The past 8 years doing document management with SharePoint have taught me that people still have the impression that SharePoint is not a proper document management system. I'm here to change that. In this session, I will share my insights through demos on all the features that make SharePoint a valid document management system.
The following document management topics are included:
- Microsoft Syntex & metadata
- Document sets
- Document numbering
- Commenting
- Version history and revisions
- Approvals
- External sharing
- Search
- Security & labelling
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Sari Soinoja
Leading modern work specialist & Microsoft MVP
Helsinki, Finland
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