Maturing your employee experience with Microsoft Viva

Employee Experience is the current buzz word, especially in the Microsoft space.
What is Employee Experience. In this session we consider both the business and Microsoft Viva point of view, discerning hype from reality and aspirations from practice.

This session explores
- What employee experience is in the real world.
- What the Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 has to say about it.
- The areas Microsoft Viva addresses (and doesn't).
- A set of tips to improve your employee experience maturity with Microsoft Viva, around:
○ Onboarding
○ Enhancing your team (sentiment, activity, collaboration patterns)
○ Upskilling - Viva Learning
○ Viva Goals
Actionable takeaways; for the attendees to take back to their organisation the next week

Get stuff done, the ultimate guide to Task Management in Microsoft 365 to make you and your teams su

In this session, the modern challenges that people face with managing their workloads will be discussed.
Simon will introduce some ways that he has learned to help him keep a level of control over what needs to be done.

Next, the session will discuss the exciting new landscape in Microsoft 365 Task Management. It will explore the services available in Microsoft 365 that enable you to keep track of what you must do to manage yourself and your team. The result will improve your well-being and productivity.

The session discusses the following:
- Challenges
- Task management and productivity concepts.
- Microsoft Planner
- Microsoft Teams.
- Microsoft One Note
- Microsoft Outlook

The session has lots of demos to help explain and show how to solve these challenges and how you can use Microsoft 365 to help you keep control.

This session takes you through the Microsoft 365 services that help you manage your tasks, lead your team, and help you get stuff done.

Custom Copilots in Microsoft 365 - The Options

The Microsoft Copilots are hot stuff right now! In particular, Copilot for Microsoft 365. However, the real value is delivering Custom Copilots that provide specific workplace capabilities, hooking into work systems and more.

There are lots of options but how do you know which one to go for?
In this talk, we discuss the terminology, disseminate the options, be brutally honest about what is working and what is not right now, and talk about the pros and cons of each.

There will be some demos and hopefully, I can fit in all in time for questions too!

Unlock the true power of Generative AI with Agentification

This session will delve into the true power of Generative AI with Agentification using Copilot Studio and dynamic chaining.
Dynamic chaining is the capability where you describe what capabilities your Copilot has access to, and it works out how to chain them together to create magic.

The session starts with why, why should you care? What can it do? Then we will explain the concepts and talk about how to get started. We cover some gotchas, tips and tricks so you can make your Copilot deliver for your customers.

first time this has been delivered.

Help, I need to move my application to Microsoft 365 but all my data is On-Premise

This talk discusses options for building applications / displaying data within Microsoft 365 (SharePoint/Teams) when your data is held within your network (on-premises). We will discuss the options, licensing, pros, and cons, and give you some ideas on achieving this if you must solve this problem. The talk is based on a real-world implementation for an NHS (UK Healthcare) Trust in the North of the United Kingdom.

The talk is aimed at developers and solution architects. It discusses Microsoft 365 platforms, SharePoint, Teams, SharePoint Framework., Microsoft Azure and Power Platform

This talk discusses options for building Microsoft 365-based applications where the data needs to stay within your network. The session discusses licensing, pros, and cons, leaving you with approach options and guidance.

The talk is aimed at developers and solution architects. It discusses Microsoft 365 platforms, SharePoint, Teams, SharePoint Framework., Microsoft Azure and Power Platform