Keeping Change and Adoption real: The Workshop

Based on the successful ADKAR Podcast series from Office365Distilled, this workshop by Steve Dalby and Marijn Somers (MVP) looks at the practical sides of Adoption and Change. It looks at ADKAR based practical methods of identifying the scope and depth of the change and identifying your Change Board and Management Team.

Taking this course will not only give you a new knowledge level of Adoption in your organisation but also take it to the practical level through a series of tools you can instantly use to judge the change and governance best suited to increase value of your applications. Most sessions feature interactive On-conference session to improve the takeaway value by collaborating with other members of the workshop and developing your own group ideas

Full outline available here
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“70% of Change Management Projects fail” is Fake News.

Have you ever wondered how to avoid Change-failure? This session will drive your MS Teams or M365 adoption project, providing the key steps to deliver a successful change program. You don’t need to be a Change Manager to achieve many successes.

Solid takeaways to help you define your Change Scope, RoadMap, identify the value by personae and identify the objectives that will drive your Communications and training planning.

Working through a practical model based on ADKAR we will identify the planning and delivery scopes that will ensure your new or experienced M365 users understand what is expected of them in your organisation.

Business transformation through Power Applications

In this dynamic session, Steve and Anouck ( www.FusionTalk.be ) will seamlessly integrate business strategy and technological innovation through real-world case studies. They will guide you through the process of transforming end-user requests into actionable solutions within the Power Platform ecosystem.

The session will unfold as an interactive journey, featuring brainstorming segments, requirement gathering exercises, and hands-on development of Power Platform solutions. While Steve delves into the business aspects, offering strategic insights, Anouck will provide a developer's perspective, giving you an inside look at the Power Platform's capabilities.
Interested in optimizing this process for your own business?

Join us to gain invaluable tips and tricks that will empower you to make informed decisions and drive success

Mastering the Art of technical Podcasting.

Unlock the secrets to producing a top-tier tech podcast using the full power of the Microsoft ecosystem. Whether you’re a newcomer to podcasting or a seasoned creator looking to elevate your show, this comprehensive session walks you through the entire process. Let Steve set you on the road to a prominent presence in podcasting.

Join Steve Dalby, producer and joint host of the M365Distilled and FusionTalk podcasts and YoutTube It Depends. In this session, we will understand how to conceptualise your show and create captivating content with engaging narratives enhanced by great storytelling.

We will discuss technology and options available to create the perfect Podcast.

Unlock Copilot with Sensitivity Labels security and enhance Copilot Compliance and Auditing

This session will explore why traditional SharePoint security models fall short in today’s AI-driven landscape. We'll also discuss how sensitivity labels offer greater flexibility, control, and seamless integration with Microsoft Copilot, ensuring the best Co-Pilot results when prompts are pointed at enterprise-wide content. Including strengthening compliance by enforcing data governance policies and providing enhanced audibility, giving you full visibility into Copilot’s data interactions and outputs.

We will look at Copilot’s data usage through auditing techniques, ensuring complete visibility and regulatory compliance. The session will cover key compliance features and practical tools for monitoring and securing AI-generated content. Attendees will walk away with a detailed cheat sheet of auditing scripts and compliance reporting tips, ready to apply immediately to their SharePoint and Copilot environments.

AI Doesn’t Care. And That’s Why We Must.

AI is fast, accurate, and relentless — but it has no values, no intent, and no understanding of meaning. This keynote challenges organisations to stop fearing AI and start owning it, identifying how small, human-led changes create outsized impact when technology is used deliberately rather than blindly.

Adoption is key and like many industrial Revolutions how your you approach this will determine the value your organisation recieved from the change.

This is a 30-45 minute Keynote, looking at the way IT needs to work with the business to make AI a success. It is NOT technical and designed to help people select the topics available in the day ahead

Govern the Agent by Its Most Powerful Skill

Every new skill deserves its own governance question.

As Microsoft 365 Copilot agents gain new skills, they also introduce new governance challenges. This session presents the Agent Governance Chain, a simple framework where each new skill adds just one new governance question.

Using a practical customer support agent, you'll learn where to apply the right controls as capabilities grow. You'll leave with a practical governance framework, a seven-stage capability model, and a repeatable approach that scales from simple personal agents to enterprise business-critical solutions.

This is a Session, identifying what and where the controls are for governing different aspects of an agents capability

Building an AI Playbook: The Essential Policies

Successful AI governance does not begin with technology—it begins with policies agreed with the business. Those policies define how AI should be used, where the boundaries lie and how governance can protect the organisation without preventing innovation.

Defining Frontier AI as the baseline for building an organisation-wide AI strategy and driving Adoption. This session explores the essential policies every organisation should have in its AI playbook. You will leave with a practical policy framework that you can take back to your organisation to start the right conversations, establish effective governance and prepare the business to adopt AI at scale.

This session is a purposely created none technical session to balance out the any technical sessions that are driven to the business by the policies they understand. Any AI solution needs adoption against a set of Approved company policies.

Govern the Agent by Its Most Powerful Skill

As Microsoft 365 Copilot agents gain new skills, they also introduce new governance challenges. This session presents the Agent Governance Chain, a simple framework where each new skill adds just one new governance question.

Using a practical customer support agent, you'll learn how to apply the right controls as capabilities grow. You'll leave with a practical governance framework, a seven-stage capability model, and a repeatable approach that scales from simple personal agents to enterprise business-critical solutions.

In a 50 inute session we dont have time to demo every adin site and pages needed to be configured for a long AI Governance-Chain. The places are identified. Full confirguration is included in the workshop version.

Govern the Agent by Its Most Powerful Skill: A Practical Governance Workshop

As Microsoft 365 Copilot agents gain new skills, they also introduce new governance challenges. This full-day workshop turns the Agent Governance Chain into a practical implementation exercise, showing how governance is configured across the Microsoft administration landscape.

Using a complex customer support agent that progresses through all seven stages of the chain, participants will examine how instructions, knowledge, identity, tools, external services, actions and automation change the agent’s risk profile. Each stage introduces a new governance question and a corresponding set of controls that must be implemented.

The workshop will demonstrate where those controls are configured across Microsoft Copilot Studio, the Microsoft 365 admin centre, the Power Platform admin centre, Microsoft Entra, SharePoint and Microsoft Purview. Participants will follow the agent from its initial configuration through to a business-critical solution that can access organisational data, connect to business systems, perform actions and operate automatically.

Throughout the day, participants will learn how to identify the relevant administration areas, assign ownership, apply proportionate controls and establish monitoring for each stage of the Governance Chain. The focus is not simply on reviewing settings, but on understanding why each control is required and how it responds to the capabilities the agent has been given.

This is available as a Session with no demonstrations to indentify the areas of important for AI governance